Re: [mythtv-users] xbox Mythtv twinhan or Haupage remote?
I assume you are using the xbox dvd kit and the supplied IR receiver that sticks into a controller port? I think you might be able to use other remotes that use the same kind of codes... RC5 maybe? You should look around the xbox wiki's (both old and new) for more info on that. Another possibility is to use another USB IR receiver connected via an XBOX/usb cable. (I think they sell lirc compatible USB IR receivers, but I don't have a link for you.) The IR receiver you would probably need to purchase, the cable you can make quite easily. The other option is to live with the xbox remote. It isn't overflowing with buttons but I find it pretty serviceable. I wish it had a power button though... I would like to be able to shut it off without backing out to the shutdown menu. On Tue, 2005-02-15 at 12:26 -0700, Greg Miller wrote: Hi, I am running an xbox front end and would prefer a different remote. Can I just change one of the lirc files with one that is for the other remote? Has anyone else done this? Greg -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 265.8.8 - Release Date: 2/14/2005 ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users -- Aran [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Re: email list vs forum
On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 11:57:34PM -0500, Brad Benson wrote: On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 05:24:43 +0100, Robert Krig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Someone here mentioned usenet newsgroups. name some advantages of mailing list vs: newsgroup. Is there even a mythtv newsgroup at the moment? Here's a big one: I use Comcast for my internet service and they only allow a very limited amount of news activity per month and even for that I have to jump through a bunch of hoops to get a username/password to access their news server. Now I know that I Nobody is suggesting the mailing list would go away, if you have trouble getting your USENET feed. Anyway, as to the downsides, there are a few, but the upsides are many. One reason people use mailing lists is they can control who is on the list (ie. who reads it.) Not an issue here. By default newsgroups let anybody post, including spammers, and that's the only downside people have to them. You can make robot-moderated newsgroups however that limit posters the same way mailing lists do. If your USENET server is far away and slow, E-mail will be faster for you. One can also do a newsgroup that people can read, but one must still use e-mail to post. More of a pain to post to, but otherwise the best of both. Otherwise, newsreaders (especially when local as they should be) are fast and much more tailored to large threaded discussions, with many more threading features than typical mailers, killfiles etc. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Single most frustrating thing about MythTV...
On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 10:39:09PM -0600, M S wrote: the show... I would say this show right now this is taking up 70% of my storage alone. Also, every now and then I'll see a single program It's curious how our standards change. Today you can pick up disk drives amazingly cheap -- 160gb for $50 shows up every so often at Fry's/Outpost with rebate.You can get better than VHS quality in about 1gb/hour, so you can store 2 hours for 63 cents, online instead of offline. We used to spend a fair bit more than that (especially in today's dollars) for a 2 hour videotape, and we thought it not a bad deal! Sure, DVD-R is cheaper -- instead of 30 cents/gigabyte it's as low as 6 cents/GB, and also going to get cheaper, but it's offline instead of online (though not drawing power etc.) But it makes you realize that optical archiving is not as exciting as it once was. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Cannot delete non-recorded/empty programs on 0.17
On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 12:20:01AM -0500, Chris Pinkham wrote: It sounds to me like the easiest way to make the current behavior match the old behavior for recording-failed HDTV (from an interface point of view) would be to have it write a 0 byte file if the reception check fails. In 0.16, nothing would display, but the recording would be deletable and cancellable, which is at least functional. Ideally, the recording should not even show up, so if there is a problem recording, then it should be as if the recording never started. There should be nothing in the database to clean up. Again, I feel that is very far from ideal. It is never good software engineering to have a system fail invisibly. (And for most users, an item in the log file is invisibly.) Should one code it this way, I suspect we'll get frequent emails on the lists about how somebody scheduled a recording but there's nothing there. The empty file isn't great -- the best thing would be a diagnostic message or video when you try to play the missing file. Actually, if I were looking for the ideal, it would also keep trying to record over the entire period, in case the problem is temporary. The Tivo, for example, leaves an entire hour of We are unable to get a signal on this channel video on the disk. Sometimes, however, you fast forward it and you get to where the signal resumed and there is your show. It's not good to abort an entire recording just becuase there was a temporary outage at the start. Tivo is going overboard recording CBR video for the whole length, clearly one can do better than that, but you get the idea. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] XvMC and Prebuffering Pauses
On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 10:38:16PM -0700, Blammo wrote: [bold] MythTV lets you choose any form of deinterlacing you want. XvMC or not. However, chosing anything OTHER than BOB will make your life a living hell. BOB seems to be about the only deinterlacer smart enough not to go ape on progressive sourced data. [/bold] Wow. I had just assumed that the player knew to not use any deinterlace filter on a non-interlaced video! Can you confirm this? Is there some reason it would want to use the interlace filter on progressive video? I haven't been using bob because of the annoying bobbing on overlayed graphics, logos etc. Too distracting. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Question about multiplexing inputs and HDTV connection recommendation
On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 06:42:02AM +, Kevin Pratt wrote: And the second dilemma: How to connect to the display? The screen we have is a Pionneer PDP-4340HD, which has VGA, Component (Y-Pb-Pr), S-video, and composite inputs. I was originally planning DVI connection, but since that doesn't exist, that's out (the connection between the media box and the screen is DVI+HDMI, but no DVI inputs to the system). Right now I'm leaning towards VGA, based on the theory that you should connect PC components with VGA, and HT with component and and don't try to cross into foreign territory if possible, and additionally, a VGA cable is probably cheaper that a Component converter. The manual says it will accept up to 1280x768 @ 70Hz which I'm assuming will give me a pretty good HD picture. VGA _is_ a component video. However, it is RGB component video with the sync signals in external wires as well. Since your computer frame buffer is RGB and your TV's probably is as well, it's a good way to go. The thing HDTVs call component video is a different type of component video. It's called YPbPr, and it uses a different colourspace. In some ways a better one -- _if_ you were drawing from a source that wasn't already RGB. The sync signals are loaded into the Y (lunimance) cable, the Yb and Yr contain 2-axis chroma. Both are going to do you fine, though. For some bizarre reason, many TVs with VGA won't do 1080 over it, though VGA is fully capable of that. Mine won't, but will over its RGBHV 5-plug component inputs, go figure. RHBHV is effectively VGA. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] XvMC and Prebuffering Pauses
On Wednesday 16 February 2005 03:23 am, Brad Templeton wrote: On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 10:38:16PM -0700, Blammo wrote: [bold] MythTV lets you choose any form of deinterlacing you want. XvMC or not. However, chosing anything OTHER than BOB will make your life a living hell. BOB seems to be about the only deinterlacer smart enough not to go ape on progressive sourced data. [/bold] Wow. I had just assumed that the player knew to not use any deinterlace filter on a non-interlaced video! Can you confirm this? Is there some reason it would want to use the interlace filter on progressive video? I haven't been using bob because of the annoying bobbing on overlayed graphics, logos etc. Too distracting. Deinterlacing should be automatically disabled on content it knows to be progressive (720p, 480p). Isaac ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Re: email list vs forum
Hello, I agree that newsgroup is much better. I just have subscribed and got more then 100 mails in one day. Too much. Please let us know about newsgroup address. Regards, Andrei Robert Krig wrote: Someone here mentioned usenet newsgroups. I have been thinking about this as well. It seems to me that the best place for mythtv discussion would be via usenet. I cant really think of any disadvantages of communicating via newsgroup. Perhaps someone could name some advantages of mailing list vs: newsgroup. Is there even a mythtv newsgroup at the moment? By the way, one of you mentioned that gmail has a comfortable way of handling mailing lists. Can anyone recommend a linux mail reader which handles mailing lists well? ___ 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] thac's mandrake 10.1 rpms for 0.17 are out
I just tried urpmi mythtv-suite after adding thac's rpm'sbut for some reason it says libmythv isn't available I had no problem with 0.16...everything installed. Am I missing something ? - Original Message - From: Matt Vollmar [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Discussion about mythtv mythtv-users@mythtv.org Sent: Monday, February 14, 2005 3:38 PM Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] thac's mandrake 10.1 rpms for 0.17 are out Risto Treksler wrote: Hey I just noticed that it looks like thac's mandrake rpms for 0.17 are out http://rpm.nyvalls.se/10.1/RPMS/ in case anyone has been waiting -- rt ROCK ON! That is what I was waiting for. I checked last night and there was nothing. Thanks. Matt ___ 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] Feature Request: Shoutcast streams and Apple trailers like on Xbox Media center.
Wow, it can play BBC Radio? Awesome :D (I see BBC7 and BBC Radio 1 listed in one of the screen shots) Max. Here you go: http://home.kabelfoon.nl/~moongies/streamtuned.html ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Re: email list vs forum
Robert Krig wrote: Can anyone recommend a linux mail reader which handles mailing lists well? Actually, Thunderbird isn't half bad. I wish it had a 'watch thread' function, as it does with news groups. Max. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Cannot delete non-recorded/empty programs on 0.17
was a temporary outage at the start. Tivo is going overboard recording CBR video for the whole length, clearly one can do better than that, but you get the idea. Sometimes there's just something to be said about simplicity, and recording 'nothing' until the signal returns is not such a bad idea, especially if the user turns on an option to do that.. I would be alittle disappointed if my whole (insert program here) recording was missed because it was disconnected when it was starting to record... I kinda like the Tivo idea myself, provides user feedback as well as 'the least data lost' approach. -Kenneth ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Re: email list vs forum
Brad Templeton wrote: On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 11:57:34PM -0500, Brad Benson wrote: On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 05:24:43 +0100, Robert Krig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Someone here mentioned usenet newsgroups. name some advantages of mailing list vs: newsgroup. Is there even a mythtv newsgroup at the moment? Here's a big one: I use Comcast for my internet service and they only allow a very limited amount of news activity per month and even for that I have to jump through a bunch of hoops to get a username/password to access their news server. Now I know that I Nobody is suggesting the mailing list would go away, if you have trouble getting your USENET feed. Indeed. Actually, there isn't any technological reason why you can't have all three (email, news, and forum). It seems easy enough to get a news group together using gmane, if it can be shown not to have significant amounts of spam. However, I haven't seen a place that will mirror an email list in a forum - for free, that is. On the other hand, I do think the gossamer-thread archive is the best one I've seen (http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/) - yes, perhaps I haven't seen it *enough* :| Max. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Single most frustrating thing about MythTV...
Sure, DVD-R is cheaper -- instead of 30 cents/gigabyte it's as low as 6 cents/GB, and also going to get cheaper, but it's offline instead of online (though not drawing power etc.) But it makes you realize that optical archiving is not as exciting as it once was. Ahh, portability vs. instant online access. The age old optical vs. magnetic debate! ;) Very true though, I remember paying $250 for a 500MB hard drive back in the day, and that was an awesome sale price + rebates. I of course said I'd never fill that drive up, because I was going from a 20mb drive to 500... Yeah, even at slow modem speeds... HAHA Boy was I wrong. -Kenneth ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] The death of MythDVD? [RipGuard]
Yeah, and a few years ago Sony was going to stop the computer world from listening to audio CD's. Until the world discovered black magic...markers. http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-917908.html Sharpies: Not just good for sniffing, but for cracking anti-piracy too! -Kenneth On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 23:54:48 -0700, Blammo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-dvd15feb15,0,823039.story?coll=la-home-business Quote: Macrovision plans to unveil technology to block 97% of software used to duplicate discs. The RipGuard technology would defeat the most popular of the ripping programs, Macrovision's Gervin said, by tinkering with the format of DVDs to make it impossible to extract data quickly from the discs. The technique confounds ripping programs without damaging computers, preventing the discs from playing or reducing picture quality, he said. ___ 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] Feature Request: Shoutcast streams and Apple trailers like on Xbox Media center.
would it be possible to collect the links to the unofficial addons, on mythtv.org? Max Waterman wrote: Wow, it can play BBC Radio? Awesome :D (I see BBC7 and BBC Radio 1 listed in one of the screen shots) Max. Here you go: http://home.kabelfoon.nl/~moongies/streamtuned.html ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users -- mvh Jesper -- Be thankful you are not my student. You would not get a high grade for such a design :-) - Andy Tanenbaum to Linus, Jan 30 '92 ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Custom Job Queues from mythfrontend
On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 13:02:49 -0500 (EST), Chris Pinkham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chris Pinkham wrote: I know that custom jobs can be setup to run after a recording finishes, but is it possible to access them from mythfrontend using the 'Job Options' menu option. Currently only 'Begin Transcoding' and 'Begin Commercial Flagging' are present. Not currently. Maybe someday.. Seems to me would me useful to call things like the example myth_archive.pl script or nuvexport... Yeah, we just didn't get around to it and the menu items were added before the popup menu was rearranged a little, so it was getting kinda full. Now that there is a separate submenu for JobQueue jobs, it is fairly easy to add without cluttering up the menu. There might only be Start buttons though, since the jobqueue wouldn't know how to stop an external application unless it was written to check the jobqueue table for the stop message. Patches are welcome, otherwise you'll have to wait till someone else scratches that itch. :) I put it on my TODO but it's low on my priority list. -- Chris ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users While I don't currently have any User Jobs set up, I've been wanting to dive into the myth code a little bit and this seems like a fairly trivial task and hence, a good starting place for me. I pulled the latest cvs last night and I believe I have this working correctly. I need to do some more testing on it and create a patch, but as soon as that's done I'll post the patch. As it stands right now User Jobs will show up in the 'Job Options' menu if there is a command specified for that job (i.e., if you only specified a command for User Job 1 then User Job 1 will be in the menu, but 2, 3 and 4 will not). The menu options for User Jobs pretty much duplicate the Transcoding and Commercial Flagging menus in that if the job is already schedule the menu item will allow you to stop it, if not you can start the job from the menu. As Chris pointed out in his previous message, external programs won't be able to stop unless they're written to check the job queue table for the stop message, but I figured it's better to have it in there for now since folks could very well write apps to check for that. Brad ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Re: Single most frustrating thing about MythTV...
I absolutely agree with Matt that this is a feature desperately lacking in MythTV. I know its been brought up many times here, so obviously others thinks so too. I think the main reason that it hasn't been implemented is that the people with the skill needed to do so, think nothing of burning dvds from the command line (or installing 1Tb of online storage) -- while the people that need/want it are still struggling to understand the remote control. Anyway, don't be too hard on Matt - he's a user making a suggestion. Surely there is some value in that. I'm pretty sick of reading Well, then code it every time someone makes a reasonable suggestion for improving Myth. Besides, he preceded his message with the obligatory heaping-of-praise-upon-the-geeks, so I don't think he meant any harm. ;=) PS: I can't code it either. :-) ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] ATI 9100 Pro IGP with onboard sound
Hi Kevin, Yes I have this motherboard in my Pundit-r. I am not sure if it's exactly the same sound hardware as you have. My lspci gives me for the sound Multimedia audio controller: ATI Technologies Inc SoundMAX Integrated Di gital Audio I had no problem getting this to work. I use Slackware 10.0/10.1 with the 2.6.10 kernel. I compiled the kernel with Alsa/atiixp and the just ran alsaconf. It recongnized the driver directly and it seems to work OK. Not great - sometimes mplayer complains that the audio driver is broken. But is works good in mythtv with alsa support compiled in. What do you mean, no sound card is recongnized? Regards, Berend. Has anyone built a frontend using a motherboard based off this chipset? ALSA recognizes the sound card as an ATIIXP and while the drivers seem to load, no soundcard is recognized. Just curious if anyone has this working and might have a pointer. Kevin ___ 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: Single most frustrating thing about MythTV...
On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 02:03:54 -0800, Brad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I absolutely agree with Matt that this is a feature desperately lacking in MythTV. I know its been brought up many times here, so obviously others thinks so too. I think the main reason that it hasn't been implemented is that the people with the skill needed to do so, think nothing of burning dvds from the command line (or installing 1Tb of online storage) -- while the people that need/want it are still struggling to understand the remote control. Actually most of the devs don't archive anything last I heard. I've actually started to work on such a feature simply to satisfy the requests for it, but since *I* don't really need it it's been low on my priority list. Surely there is some value in that. I'm pretty sick of reading Well, then code it every time someone makes a reasonable suggestion for improving Myth. Besides, he preceded his message with the obligatory heaping-of-praise-upon-the-geeks, so I don't think he meant any harm. If you're sick of hearing it, then perhaps you need to stick to commercial software since that's going to be the typical response. All development in Myth is driven by the needs of the developers, if a developer wants a feeature bad enough they'll implement it, if they don't they will not. Certainly he didn't mean any harm, but you'll note that the only solution offered was for someone else to implement the feature he cared about the most, for free. While he was as blunt as that, that's what it boils down to. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Post recording transcoding and HDTV
On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 02:12:32 -0800, Todd Tidwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there anyway I could setup a custom job or is there some work around for this so that I could transcode the files down to something more manageable? Try current CVS (or wait till .18), this was just implemented within the past day or so. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Single most frustrating thing about MythTV...
On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 02:03:54 -0800, Brad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I absolutely agree with Matt that this is a feature desperately lacking in MythTV. I know its been brought up many times here, so obviously others thinks so too. I think the main reason that it hasn't been implemented is that the people with the skill needed to do so, think nothing of burning dvds from the command line (or installing 1Tb of online storage) -- while the people that need/want it are still struggling to understand the remote control. Anyway, don't be too hard on Matt - he's a user making a suggestion. Surely there is some value in that. I'm pretty sick of reading Well, then code it every time someone makes a reasonable suggestion for improving Myth. Besides, he preceded his message with the obligatory heaping-of-praise-upon-the-geeks, so I don't think he meant any harm. ;=) PS: I can't code it either. :-) ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users Yes, there is value in users making suggestions. The thing to remember is how you make those suggestions. I think the reason Matt got so many harsh responses is the way he worded his post. Specifically this part: (Sure, people can say run this command line, then do this, then that... then burn. NO! This should be an automated procedure with ease and simplicity and no commands lines. ) which seems to imply that he is well aware that there is a method to do what he wants to do, but he's not willing to put in the effort to do it until someone else puts in lots more effort to make it easy for him. You may notice that when feature requests/suggestions are made politely they are most often greeted with responses stating either why that feature hasn't been added yet, that it's already being worked on or why it's not a reasonable/feasible request. When suggestions are made in the fashion of I know it can be done now, but I refuse to figure out how and want an easier way you tend to get responses like then code it yourself. Matt - I hope I'm not coming off as a complete jerk here, but when I read your original post the tone I got from it was very whiney and really rubbed me the wrong way, apparently despite your best intentions. :) Brad ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] MythTV Nuppel (.nuv) Patch for Current Version of MPLayer?
On Tue, 15 Feb 2005, Sean G wrote: Cory, I was mucking around with the same patch last month, and found that it wasn't handling frametype T correctly. It would play one of my recordings correctly for a few seconds, then die. I turned on the debugging flags and found that when it encountered a T frame, it would not skip ahead to the next frame properly. I patched demux_nuv.c, to skip over T frames, but then came across mpeg4 decode issues. Did you get further than this ? P.S. I'm working with bt878 recorded and transcoded to mp4 files I haven't had a chance to muck with it anymore than I discussed a week or so ago. It would appear that the format of the .nuv file has changed a bit since the (rather old) patch was cooked up. Just FYI I'm using PVR-250 captures, but transcoded to MP4 with commercials cut out. MPlayer seems to play them, but when skipping it says: [mpeg4 @ 0x8625f20]warning: first frame is no keyframe ... those skips are what it chokes on with the mencoder -ovc copy as well. -Cory * * Cory Papenfuss* * Electrical Engineering candidate Ph.D. graduate student * * Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University * * ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Update on using epia m10000 for a frontend
On Wednesday 16 February 2005 03:24, Ow Mun Heng wrote: I run Linux too and I know about CVS. I was only curious because you mentioned make world which is synonoumeous (how the heck do you spell this?) with *BSD. more like with X11 than BSD -- simon ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-350 vs FX-5200 TVOut
On Tue, 15 Feb 2005, Minh Duong wrote: Does the FX5200 cards have mpeg2 hardware decoders? nVidia's site isn't clear on this. I think that some of them might, but I think it's only on the mobile versions. Anybody got any info on this? No, but XvMC is a partial MPEG2 decoder. It helps reduce CPU load when playing large MPEG2 (e.g. HDTV) streams. -Cory * * Cory Papenfuss* * Electrical Engineering candidate Ph.D. graduate student * * Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University * * ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Re: email list vs forum
threading support. I'm a 'power' Pine user myself, as I don't like to touch the mouse when in an e.mail/usenet reading app, *sniff*... I didn't think there were any of us left *sniff* :) -Cory * * Cory Papenfuss* * Electrical Engineering candidate Ph.D. graduate student * * Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University * * ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] automated nuvexport
The programmer says: soon. Please keep in mind that to a programmer, soon means sometime in the next 100 years. In other words, I have so many projects that I have no idea how long it will take me to get everything I want to working. nuvexport's commandline stuff is high on my priority list, though. -Chris I was going to ask about this. I don't know if you've folled the audio sync threads, but avidemux has issues with MPEG2 streams with errors/desyncs in them. Does your MPEG2-MPEG2 phantom-X avidemux part of nuvexport try to deal with that? The only way I've found successful is to wrap the MPEG2 as an avi (mencoder -oac copy -ovc copy). After that, rebuild the B-frames in avideumux, cut, export. Just something to think about. I know that 98% of the time, a strip of the m2v and m2a and a remux works, but every once in awhile some poor schlub (like myself) gets sync errors on a capture. With that, using avidemux bare on the .mpg will get off sync after the glitch (it only does a static A/V offset for MPEG files... not dynamic). -Cory * * Cory Papenfuss* * Electrical Engineering candidate Ph.D. graduate student * * Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University * * ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] HDTV on 0.17 - only records half the show
Eric Werness wrote: After upgrading from 0.16 to 0.17, I can't record a full show in HDTV. I have a pcHDTV 2000 on kernel 2.4.27 If I watch live TV or make a short recording, the video is fine for a few seconds, then starts dropping out, even though the reception is fine (getatsc produces a correct recording). Based on the file size and the time reported in the info when viewing in Myth, the file for a recording is exactly half as long as it should be. If I increase the HDRingbufferSize to maximum, the period of the recording that's correct increases, but the file still ends up half as big as it should be. My hunch is that this issue is somehow related to the apparent increase in btatsc: buffer overrun messages that I get in /var/log/messages. With 0.16, I would get a few of these messages, but not enough that I'd notice (no hard data). Now, I get hundreds while doing a couple of minutes of recording. I tried diffing hdtvrecorder.cpp between 0.16 and 0.17, but it looks like the file was significantly rewritten between the two, so there's no obvious help there. Anyone else seeing this? Any suggestions? Make sure your database is in good shape -- any messages from mysql in your logs? It sounds like you're having trouble getting enough data from the card, which means it's busy doing something else. If it's not CPU-bound, it might be I/O bound, maybe due to an error in the database. Otherwise: Upgrade to a 2.6 kernel? Use the latest HD-2000 driver you can? -Doug signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] mythstream
How can I install it? I can't d/l the s/w from the web site below, and the rpms I can find seem to require downgrading many other packages... Max. Jesper Rasmussen wrote: would it be possible to collect the links to the unofficial addons, on mythtv.org? Max Waterman wrote: Wow, it can play BBC Radio? Awesome :D (I see BBC7 and BBC Radio 1 listed in one of the screen shots) Max. Here you go: http://home.kabelfoon.nl/~moongies/streamtuned.html ___ 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] PVR-350 vs FX-5200 TVOut
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 2/16/2005 7:47:21 AM [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2/16/2005 6:08:56 AM On Tue, 15 Feb 2005, Minh Duong wrote: Does the FX5200 cards have mpeg2 hardware decoders? nVidia's site isn't clear on this. I think that some of them might, but I think it's only on the mobile versions. Anybody got any info on this? No, but XvMC is a partial MPEG2 decoder. It helps reduce CPU load when playing large MPEG2 (e.g. HDTV) streams. -Cory Actually, the 5200 *does* have an mpeg-2 decoder on the card. This was confirmed by a couple users onthis list a few months ago. Also, nVidia has stated that the FX series cards are equipped with mpeg-2 decoders. I believe the drivers take advantage of that as well. Paul ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-350 vs FX-5200 TVOut
I've spent literally years trying to get the g400 to look picture perfect under framebuffer/X/matroxset and have never succeeded. If you know anything more, I would love to hear about it. TVout solutions are a wildcard with any card. Most suck and are unknown as far as how they operate internally. Do you have a modeline that sets a proper ntsc resolution and timing? 720/640x480 @ 59.9 cycles/s? Yes, but proper ntsc resolution is not 59.9 Hz... it's 29.97Hz, interlaced. I use this: ModeLine coryntsci 14.3 720 760 824 910 480 484 492 525 interlace ... with a homebrew circuit to modulate RGB from the VGA at this proper frequency into NTSC Y/C and Composite. It is *NOT* a rate/scanline converter which is what almost all tvout cards use. If you use that modeline on a VGA monitor, it won't like it. I'm not sure what you mean by this. What interlacing? All I want mythtv to do is record a signal (interlaced since it's standard NTSC) and play it back exactly as it would have been sent to the TV directly; so that means recorded interlaced and played back, interlaced. Now that may (or most likely) mean packing two interlaced fields into a frame, but the video card should display the fields interlaced, one after the other. Which it can, but unless you are using production-quality hardware with video genlocking, what you record will not be exactly synced with what you get out. Any pointers on how to set configure all of this (the tv-out part for the g400) because after many years of searching, I just have not been able to find anything suitable. It's a lot more complicated than most people realize. Everyone wants a standards compliant NTSC modeline for their XYZ-brand card. Trouble is the one common component in all of them (the tvout scanline converter chip) is the *ONLY* part that is responsible for generating standards-compliant output. There's typically little or no control over that and any modeline tweakings are masked by its operation. Get thee to google for g400 tvout setup. -Cory * * Cory Papenfuss* * Electrical Engineering candidate Ph.D. graduate student * * Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University * * ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Custom Job Queues from mythfrontend
While I don't currently have any User Jobs set up, I've been wanting to dive into the myth code a little bit and this seems like a fairly trivial task and hence, a good starting place for me. I pulled the latest cvs last night and I believe I have this working correctly. I need to do some more testing on it and create a patch, but as soon as that's done I'll post the patch. As it stands right now User Jobs will show up in the 'Job Options' menu if there is a command specified for that job (i.e., if you only specified a command for User Job 1 then User Job 1 will be in the menu, but 2, 3 and 4 will not). The menu options for User Jobs pretty much duplicate the Transcoding and Commercial Flagging menus in that if the job is already schedule the menu item will allow you to stop it, if not you can start the job from the menu. As Chris pointed out in his previous message, external programs won't be able to stop unless they're written to check the job queue table for the stop message, but I figured it's better to have it in there for now since folks could very well write apps to check for that. Brad Thanks Brad... The modifications you made will work fine for me as all I wanted was some way to easily start a custom job... Greg ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Recordings from 0.17 require more CPU?
Hi everybody, I just upgraded yesterday to 0.17 using the debian packages, and things seemed to go well until I sat down with my wife last night to watch some shows. My frontend is a nice and slow little Celeron 433 with a TNT2 being fed to a scan converter. I record at 480w X 320H and a bit rate of 2500 (max 4500) with a pvr250 on a separate backend. The stream type is DVD-Special 2. I don't transcode. I haven't changed these settings in several months. Now I'm finding that the shows that I recorded before the upgrade still play fine without any hickups, but the shows that I recorded after the upgrade of little pauses several times a minute. It seems like the recordings made under 0.17 require more CPU to play back. Does anyone know why this would be so? Is there anything that I can do besides lower the bitrate some more? Mark ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] Hauppauge PVR-250 IR dongle
I found it to be a bad lirc.conffor the wrong remote. Try the black/grey or the grey... Jarrod can help. http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/fcmyth.php -r -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Josh Burks Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2005 11:48 PM To: Mythtv Users Subject: [mythtv-users] Hauppauge PVR-250 IR dongle Hello list, I recently had to send my older PVR-250 back to Hauppauge, and they sent me a new one. The card I had was a Rev. 1 card (it is larger, with a black heatsink on the iTVC15 chip). It came with the sorry solid black remote. The card Hauppauge sent back appears to be a newer, smaller card with no heatsink, a iTVC16 chip instead, a Rev. 3 maybe?? They sent the board only, no accessories. I can't get the remote to work now. irw reports nothing when I press a key. I'm using the lircd.conf file from Jarod's site. I popped in my test WinXP drive, installed to newest drivers for the card, and no remote in WinXP either. I even restarted lircd using my Radio Shack remote conf (remote and conf same as Jarod's guide), and nothing there either! Are the IR dongles from older Hauppauge cards compatible with newer cards? Don't some of the new dongle's have transmitters and receivers (I think the PVR-150 does)? Thoughts? Experiences? Josh ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] UK - Controlling Sky boxes
Around about 15/02/05 15:04, Simon Kenyon typed ... i believe you are using my version of the software for the redremote the Makefile documents the various timeouts sorry if this caused you problems Yep, but don't apologise, it's my fault for not bothering to look at the code :) That did the trick; I'm flummoxed as to how you can make it work with a 1-second final delay though! I've a 2 s. final delay, plus 20 ms. nanosleep() power-up delay (instead of sleep(1)), and channel change is now /smooth/. With a 'mutex'd wrapper script that does channel Sky sleep channelagainifnotcalledsince (allows repeated cslls to change channel without interferences, and copes with having to possibly turn the box on) it's all working a dream. I may tinker with making it a single perl script (parsing, delays serial control build in) with proper 'flock'ing, but as they say: if it ain't broke ... If anyone's interested in my wrapper, email me. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# rm -f .signature [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# ls -l .signature ls: .signature: No such file or directory [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# exit ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] I think mythweb 0.17 is killing mythbackend
Since upgrading to 0.17 last W/E [ATrpms], mythbackend has died without logs twice. Both times, I'd been fiddling around in mythweb looking at recorded items schedules shortly beforehand. *May* not be related, just very suspicious. I'll check over the W/E when I'm not worried about losing the backend to see if I can trigger it, but in the meantime, anyone else seen anything like this recently? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# rm -f .signature [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# ls -l .signature ls: .signature: No such file or directory [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# exit ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] mythstream
Yeah, that's the URL that doesn't work (for me). Max. Frank Muenchow wrote: Max Waterman schrieb: How can I install it? I can't d/l the s/w from the web site below http://ircm.homelinux.org/cgi/lookup.php?context=homepagecommand=getURLparameter=mythstream-v0.16_3 ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Re: thac's mandrake 10.1 rpms for 0.17 are out
Adam Prentice wrote: I just tried urpmi mythtv-suite after adding thac's rpm'sbut for some reason it says libmythv isn't available I had no problem with 0.16...everything installed. Am I missing something ? I think this is fixed now (make sure to run urpmi.update -a first) Bolek ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] mythstream
I'm not surprised. You get used to it in China :| Max. Ryszard wrote: i just downloaded it..?! On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 19:52:20 +0800, Max Waterman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can I install it? I can't d/l the s/w from the web site below, and the rpms I can find seem to require downgrading many other packages... Max. Jesper Rasmussen wrote: would it be possible to collect the links to the unofficial addons, on mythtv.org? Max Waterman wrote: Wow, it can play BBC Radio? Awesome :D (I see BBC7 and BBC Radio 1 listed in one of the screen shots) Max. Here you go: http://home.kabelfoon.nl/~moongies/streamtuned.html ___ 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] PVR-350 vs FX-5200 TVOut
On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 07:31:54 -0500, Brian J. Murrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah. OSD. On-screen-display. Perhaps you thought that by OSD I only meant the few overlays that pop-up over playing video. No. By OSD I mean the whole On-screen-display. So rather than follow established terminology you invent your own and expect everyone else to follow along? Pretty much everyone understand that an OSD refers to UI that's overlayed on the video rather than generic GUIs, except those that need to justify the fact that they've been talking out their ass. Exactly. I never said that the OSD needed to know about vsync. I said video playback needed to know about vsync. The OSD still needs to be able to display in a manner that is compatible with the video card's TV-Out mode, and for the G400, the only true replication of video broadcast display I have seen available is with DirectFB, which means that if you want to use DirectFB's CRTC2 TV-out for video display you also have to use that for the OSD display since using the X11/framebuffer TV-out (i.e. using the matroxfb_maven kernel module and matroxset) is mutually exclusive with using DirectFB. You can get quality thats indistinguishable from broadcast using nVidia cards. Please, get a clue before spouting off extremely inaccurate comments. No Isaac, my comments are not extremely inaccurate. You've made several statements about what is and is not possible that were flat out wrong. You tried to portray yourself as an expert when it's pretty clear that you have even done the basic homework. You've made claims about MythTV without even having a CLUE about how it's implemented. So yeah I think Isaac was pretty much spot on. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] 0.17 backend segfaults
On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 11:24:44AM +0200, Antti Siiskonen wrote: On Sun, Feb 13, 2005 at 04:07:48PM -0500, Chris Pinkham wrote: bt isn't enough because it doesn't show all threads. Look at the HOWTO for necessary steps to get a good backtrace. Ok, new quite lengthy trace attached. While I have basic understanding I compiled libmysqlclient with debug symbols on and did some more digging with various debugging tools and google and to me it seems that someone is calling free() twice. Mythbackend is too large to be debugged with njamd or most tools so I can't find the real reason for this segfault. Any help still appreciated. -- //Antti ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-350 vs FX-5200 TVOut
On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 07:59 -0500, Cory Papenfuss wrote: TVout solutions are a wildcard with any card. Most suck and are unknown as far as how they operate internally. That is true, for most, but not for the g400 -- with DirectFB. I understand what you are saying about the unknown (rather undocumented) internal operations, but one of the DirectFB developers did some great work for the g400 and utilized it's tv-encoder as it is supposed to be, producing a perfectly timed, interlaced, overscanned output that looks _exactly_ like TV. No tearing, no interlacing artifacts -- none of that. ModeLine coryntsci 14.3 720 760 824 910 480 484 492 525 interlace I will try that. But I have found that one modeline for one brand of video card just does not work with other video cards, so unless this is for a g400 specifically, I won't get my hopes up. Which it can, but unless you are using production-quality hardware with video genlocking, what you record will not be exactly synced with what you get out. But you can. I have done so for years using another PVR application that could utilize DirectFB and g400 in tv-out mode. Encoding artifacts aside, it was TV-picture perfect. You could flip between tv and the signal going through the g400 and they were identical in smoothness and picture size. Get thee to google for g400 tvout setup. Been there, done that. Nobody seems to want (or able to achieve) picture perfect output. There seems to be a lot of satisfaction with taking an ntsc signal and displaying it scaled to 800x600 on the framebuffer. That seems to be the state of the art with x11/framebuffer/matroxset. Sad thing is that it can look so much better. If anyone with a g400 is interested in seeing how good it can be, you need directfb and mplayer with the dfbmga video out driver. Use some source material that is suitable -- must be 480 lines, the more motion the better (to see the interlacing artifacts of X/framebuffer) but even just a ticker is sufficient to see it. Compare that with the mplayer on X/framebuffer with matroxset hacks. You will see what I mean. b. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-350 vs FX-5200 TVOut
On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 08:28 -0500, Donavan Stanley wrote: So rather than follow established terminology Established where? Here? I guess I have not been hanging out here long enough to know that while the world of set-top-boxes calls the display that it shows on the TV the OSD, myth folks use that to mean only the video overlayed portion of the display. But let's just move on OK? I will stand corrected and from now on I will only use OSD to mean the video overlayed portion if that is what we call it here. Just so I get my terms correct. what shall I call the rest of the graphical display? Can we move on and stop arguing about syntax now? There is so much more we can accomplish if we can decide to be grown up and not bicker about the small things. you invent your own and expect everyone else to follow along? But I didn't invent it. OSD means On Screen Display. Pretty much everyone understand that an OSD refers to UI that's overlayed on the video rather than generic GUIs, except those that need to justify the fact that they've been talking out their ass. So now you are going to tell me what I meant by OSD? You can't just take my word for it that I mean the whole graphical On Screen Display? You can get quality thats indistinguishable from broadcast using nVidia cards. You can with Matrox g4*0 cards too. b. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Single most frustrating thing aboutMythTV...
Look at mythburn on sourceforge. It was written by/for knoppmyth but the scripts are available modified for Fedora Core. Creates a DVD with menues and chapters (based on myth cut-list or even spacing). Just a few reasons why... There's a series or two out there that I'd like to archive instead of waiting 3 years for the $100 DVD set to come out. Another reason I'd like to see this feature is because I record a cooking show which I think is GREAT. I'd like to start a library of all the episodes of this show based on the topic/food of the show... I would say this show right now this is taking up 70% of my storage alone. Also, every now and then I'll see a single program that is relavent in some way that I want to keep it for reference, or might want to show a friend that might not have seen it or have access to see it. I do appreciate the replies. I can be happy enough, for now, with the features nuvexport can offer and I'll use OSX to do the actuall DVD authoring for now. Like I said already, I do appreciate Myth and I appreciate Isaac for sharing his project with the world and continuing to develope it as well as let others develop plug-ins for it. Anyway, I don't mean to cause a ripple in the water, but I just wanted to see some clear information on why this hasn't been seriously considered up to this point. Thanks again fellow mythers! Myth on Wayne... Myth on Garth! =D Matt On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 21:58:51 -0500, Brad Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 20:40:43 -0600, M S [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: yea yea... If I could I would, unfortunantly, I'm a user not a developer. I only know enough to get mysel out of trouble when it comes to linux, not how to create trouble. Like I said, I love myth, I just don't understand why this hasn't been considered a priority. I know the question has been asked 1000 times, but I've never seen a developer take it seriously as of yet. On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 21:00:43 -0500, sdk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 19:53:47 -0600, M S [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First off... this is not meant to be a flame war and let me say I LOVE both the concept of MythTV as well as it's functionality. I think the biggest thing missing from MythTV is a built in function for archiving shows to DVD. The closest thing I've come to is MythBurn, and even for all it offers, it's still lacking some key features such as: 1) True integration 2) Lack of using cutlists (even though someone has wrote a patch to do this, it isn't fullproof) 3) Doesn't convert the mp2 audio into the DVD standard of AC3 audio 4) Only supposidly works with MPEG2 clips (pvr-x50s) 5) and more I have 176GB available for myth recordings and every day I'm having to delete a show just to continue to use myth. I want to archive a large percentage of my movies to DVD. Sure, people can say run this command line, then do this, then that... then burn. NO! This should be an automated procedure with ease and simplicity and no commands lines. It should be able to take a recording, use the cutlists to remove commercials, build indexes, and make interactive menus. It should also not involve having to do somethings on one machine, then copying to finish off processing on another with the exception of possibly saving an iso that can be burned on another machine which has a burner. How come this hasn't been a priority for someone to develop an integrated plugin for myth? I've been told other PVRs have this functionality. Anyway, again, I don't mean to sound harsh, but this one thing is severly limiting what I can do with mythtv. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users Ok. Let us know when you have coded that functionality into myth. Thanks, Steve ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users I'm guessing that's because, while it is not currently integrated into the myth interface as such, there are a variety of ways that users can export myth recordings to DVD-compliant format (nuvexport comes to mind) and then burn them to DVD. I'm positive that all of the developers are able to do this without having to integrate it into the myth interface so they probably don't feel that it's a very high priority. Remember that while other PVR's may offer this functionality, most, if not all, of those PVR's are commercial systems for sale to make a profit. Myth is not such a system. It was created by Isaac so he could have a system that does what he wants the way he wants it. Other users and developers have chipped in to add
Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-350 vs FX-5200 TVOut
Brian J. Murrell wrote: snip ModeLine coryntsci 14.3 720 760 824 910 480 484 492 525 interlace I will try that. But I have found that one modeline for one brand of video card just does not work with other video cards, so unless this is for a g400 specifically, I won't get my hopes up. Ummmthe modeline is only specific to the monitor being driven, *not* the video card. In other words, the values in the modeline are determined by the requirements and/or limits of the monitor. It's the job of the video card driver to convert the modeline information into the specific information for the video card. While it is true that a modeline may work with one video card and not another that has nothing to do with the modeline itself and has everything to do with video card and driver capabilities. Probably the biggest video card/driver incompatability with the modeline Cory gave you is whether or not the card/driver can do interlaced modes or not. Other than that, I can't imagine a card that can't generate the relatively slow timings from *any* NTSC or PAL modeline. snip -- Michael J. Lynch What if the hokey pokey IS what it's all about -- author unknown ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-350 vs FX-5200 TVOut
Cory Papenfuss wrote: TVout solutions are a wildcard with any card. Most suck and are unknown as far as how they operate internally. I just recently found out that the TV-out of SiS chipsets (many, many HTPC barebones use them) are not capable of outputting interlaced material. Quite an important thing if you want picture perfect I'd say. I am trying to get the modeline right ... with a homebrew circuit to modulate RGB from the VGA at this proper frequency into NTSC Y/C and Composite. It is *NOT* a rate/scanline converter which is what almost all tvout cards use. If you use that modeline on a VGA monitor, it won't like it. I'm not sure what you mean by this. What interlacing? All I want mythtv to do is record a signal (interlaced since it's standard NTSC) and play it back exactly as it would have been sent to the TV directly; so that means recorded interlaced and played back, interlaced. Now that may (or most likely) mean packing two interlaced fields into a frame, but the video card should display the fields interlaced, one after the other. Which it can, but unless you are using production-quality hardware with video genlocking, what you record will not be exactly synced with what you get out. I am trying to get the modeline right for my TV set so that I can start using my homebrew VGA to RGB converter. I made it because CRT-1 output (ie. the VGA connector) IS capable of outputting interlaced material. It seems that all you nVidia owners forget that their vsync is controlled by OpenGL, which in fact is not supported on every video card in Linux. Oh and deinterlacing using bobdeint sucks donkey balls without vsync. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-350 vs FX-5200 TVOut
So what chipsets/cards do ouput interlaced? Greg ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-350 vs FX-5200 TVOut
Actually, the 5200 *does* have an mpeg-2 decoder on the card. This was confirmed by a couple users onthis list a few months ago. Also, nVidia has stated that the FX series cards are equipped with mpeg-2 decoders. I believe the drivers take advantage of that as well. OK... I learn something new everyday. Can it do HD-res decoding? -Cory * * Cory Papenfuss* * Electrical Engineering candidate Ph.D. graduate student * * Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University * * ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Please reply - Should I de-interlace before encoding to MPEG2 for burning on DVD?
Hi, I had asked this question about 2-3 months ago and got no reply that time. I am still anxious to know about the answer to increase my knowledge. I record programs using MythTV (0.17) + PVR 350. I then encode with mencoder (part of MPlayer). When I encode the programs without de-interlacing, the size of the file is larger than the one encoded with de-interlacing enabled in mencoder. I wish to know that will the files encoded with deinterlacing on be able to be viewed on stand-alone DVD players? Regards from VJ ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] I think mythweb 0.17 is killing mythbackend
Neil Bird wrote: Since upgrading to 0.17 last W/E [ATrpms], mythbackend has died without logs twice. Both times, I'd been fiddling around in mythweb looking at recorded items schedules shortly beforehand. *May* not be related, just very suspicious. I'll check over the W/E when I'm not worried about losing the backend to see if I can trigger it, but in the meantime, anyone else seen anything like this recently? What else have you changed recently? Ever since I upgraded to kernel 2.6.10, I've been having crash problems with the backend. This includes .16 and .17. I can actually usually repeat it by just flagging commercials on a show. Mythweb tends to crash it quite a bit too. Sometimes a frontend will crash it. Someone wrote somewhere on this list that 2.6.10 has a bug in it. I don't know, I just know that this is rather frustating. Matt ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-350 vs FX-5200 TVOut
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 2/16/2005 9:12:54 AM Actually, the 5200 *does* have an mpeg-2 decoder on the card. This was confirmed by a couple users onthis list a few months ago. Also, nVidia has stated that the FX series cards are equipped with mpeg-2 decoders. I believe the drivers take advantage of that as well. OK... I learn something new everyday. Can it do HD-res decoding? -Cory Not sure, but I'll post to the list when I get enough fundage together to purchase an air2pc card and an HDTV Ready monitor. ...now if I could just find some more stuff to ebay... ;-) Paul ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Problem- Unable to find mythcommflag
Well - That's the thread i read, but i thought (think) if ! strstr $PATH /usr/local/bin ; then PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin fi ... means that if the path DOESN'T include /usr/local/bin that it should add it... ??? I DO have /usr/local/bin in my path. And i'm not at my Myth box right now to try it. :-( Paul K On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 08:57:06 -0500, David George [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2/16/2005 7:49 AM, Paul K wrote: Building from scratch (almost) - Slackware 10.1, MythTV 0.17, but keeping database from 0.15.1 I now get the error that has been noted on this list already (But I didn't see an answer): ERROR: Unable to find mythcommflag http://gossamer-threads.com/lists/engine?list=mythtvdo=search_resultssearch_forum=allsearch_string=unable+to+find+mythcommflagsearch_type=AND Am i missing something? Only thing you missed was searching the archives before posting ;-) -- David ___ 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] UK - Controlling Sky boxes
On Wednesday 16 February 2005 13:09, Neil Bird wrote: Around about 15/02/05 15:04, Simon Kenyon typed ... i believe you are using my version of the software for the redremote the Makefile documents the various timeouts sorry if this caused you problems Yep, but don't apologise, it's my fault for not bothering to look at the code :) That did the trick; I'm flummoxed as to how you can make it work with a 1-second final delay though! well it doesn't work every time - so there you go! post your wrapper and i'll give it a whirl also, post your changes to use nanosleep() -- simon ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Hauppauge PVR-250 IR dongle
I would suggest posting a comment for help in either the hauppauge help forums or calling their customer support. If it was a warranty or paid repair issue, they should send you a new IR receiver if there is an incompatibility. On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 22:47:36 -0600, Josh Burks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello list, I recently had to send my older PVR-250 back to Hauppauge, and they sent me a new one. The card I had was a Rev. 1 card (it is larger, with a black heatsink on the iTVC15 chip). It came with the sorry solid black remote. The card Hauppauge sent back appears to be a newer, smaller card with no heatsink, a iTVC16 chip instead, a Rev. 3 maybe?? They sent the board only, no accessories. I can't get the remote to work now. irw reports nothing when I press a key. I'm using the lircd.conf file from Jarod's site. I popped in my test WinXP drive, installed to newest drivers for the card, and no remote in WinXP either. I even restarted lircd using my Radio Shack remote conf (remote and conf same as Jarod's guide), and nothing there either! Are the IR dongles from older Hauppauge cards compatible with newer cards? Don't some of the new dongle's have transmitters and receivers (I think the PVR-150 does)? Thoughts? Experiences? Josh ___ 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] PVR-350 vs FX-5200 TVOut
Brian J. Murrell wrote: On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 08:28 -0500, Donavan Stanley wrote: So rather than follow established terminology you invent your own and expect everyone else to follow along? Pretty much everyone understand that an OSD refers to UI that's overlayed on the video rather than generic GUIs, except those that need to justify the fact that they've been talking out their ass. Just to defend against your claims that "my" definition of OSD is out of my ass and contrary to what "everyone" thinks it is would a definition from the wikipedia be good enough for you? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On-screen_display Or perhaps they are talking out of their ass too? Seems that people in this forum posting (3rd one down specifically) http://forums.sage.tv/forums/showthread.php?s=fefe6362a1567350a062a780e7293b72p=86769#post86769 don't count in your survey of "everyone" above either. So my use of OSD is not really "so wrong" and your definition of "everyone" is not so much really _every_ one. b. Stop wining dude, if you have some useful input then post it. But don't go scrutinizing people's interpretations of concepts or forcing your interpretation on others. Better use common sense and unambiguous terminology to express your meanings instead. In my opinion, this list is ment to be informative and inspiring towards new developments. -- Jeroen ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-350 vs FX-5200 TVOut
That is true, for most, but not for the g400 -- with DirectFB. I understand what you are saying about the unknown (rather undocumented) internal operations, but one of the DirectFB developers did some great work for the g400 and utilized it's tv-encoder as it is supposed to be, producing a perfectly timed, interlaced, overscanned output that looks _exactly_ like TV. No tearing, no interlacing artifacts -- none of that. Some of them can suck less, and may in fact be quite good. What I am saying is that unless you run a genlocked, synchronous 29.97 resolution with a 1:1 pixel-mapped input/output characteristic (i.e. the concept of overscanned and underscanned make no sense), it is *NOT* unprocessed. Nobody without big budgets and expensive proprietary cards can accomplish that. Everything else is a matter of degree on how much fudging gets done. But you can. I have done so for years using another PVR application that could utilize DirectFB and g400 in tv-out mode. Encoding artifacts aside, it was TV-picture perfect. You could flip between tv and the signal going through the g400 and they were identical in smoothness and picture size. Sounds like the fudging was minimized with that arrangement of software. It's still being fudged, however, so it's not perfect and unadulterated, sync-issue-free playing. Get thee to google for g400 tvout setup. Been there, done that. Nobody seems to want (or able to achieve) picture perfect output. There seems to be a lot of satisfaction with taking an ntsc signal and displaying it scaled to 800x600 on the framebuffer. That seems to be the state of the art with x11/framebuffer/matroxset. Sad thing is that it can look so much better. You can't get perfect, but I agree that upscaling NTSC 480 line up to 800x600 and then having the encoder chip descale it back is rather silly. At least start with an YYYx480 resolution modeline. Other than that, I've got no MGA card that's modern enough to even do Xv. Can't help with that. -Cory * * Cory Papenfuss* * Electrical Engineering candidate Ph.D. graduate student * * Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University * * ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] ATI 9100 Pro IGP with onboard sound
Kevin Kuphal wrote: Berend van Wachem wrote: Hi Kevin, Yes I have this motherboard in my Pundit-r. I am not sure if it's exactly the same sound hardware as you have. My lspci gives me for the sound Multimedia audio controller: ATI Technologies Inc SoundMAX Integrated Di gital Audio I had no problem getting this to work. I use Slackware 10.0/10.1 with the 2.6.10 kernel. I compiled the kernel with Alsa/atiixp and the just ran alsaconf. It recongnized the driver directly and it seems to work OK. Not great - sometimes mplayer complains that the audio driver is broken. But is works good in mythtv with alsa support compiled in. What do you mean, no sound card is recongnized? I think I might have different hardware. I have this from lspci: 00:14.5 Multimedia audio controller: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 4341 alsaconf identifies it and loads the modules: [EMAIL PROTECTED] America]# lsmod Module Size Used byTainted: P snd-pcm-oss44320 0 (autoclean) snd-mixer-oss 16728 1 (autoclean) [snd-pcm-oss] snd-atiixp 12768 1 snd-ac97-codec 73208 0 [snd-atiixp] snd-pcm82592 0 [snd-pcm-oss snd-atiixp snd-ac97-codec] snd-timer 20004 0 [snd-pcm] snd49092 0 [snd-pcm-oss snd-mixer-oss snd-atiixp snd-ac97-codec snd-pcm snd-timer] soundcore 6436 4 [snd] snd-page-alloc 7912 0 [snd-mixer-oss snd-atiixp snd-pcm snd-timer snd] but there are no alsa devices listed: [EMAIL PROTECTED] America]# aplay -l aplay: device_list:200: no soundcards found... or PCM devices: [EMAIL PROTECTED] America]# aplay -L aplay: conf.c:3083: snd_config_update_free: Assertion `update-count 0 update-finfo' failed. Aborted I'm running on a Soyo P4RC350. Their website lists the Windows media drivers as C-MEDIA Audio Driver (9761) Thanks, Kevin ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users Kevin, I have the same MB and it worked with Fedora Core 3 out of the box. I can get you more details when I'm back home on Friday. I've had some other issues though, been trying to get a tv-out solution going for a while. -Bill ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Feature Request: Shoutcast streams and Apple trailers like on Xbox Media center.
i downloaded this today in an attempt to get it to run. i couldnt even get it to make. gotta say tho' i didnt try very hard (think i had some dev packages missing).. On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 21:07:44 -0800, Lonnie Borntreger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2005-02-15 at 23:49 -0500, Brad Benson wrote: Hmm, you do appear to be correct. I know I saw something for myth that would play internet radio, but I can't for the life of me remember what it was, although I'm about 99% sure that it was something unofficial. I'll have to look around a little bit and see what I can find. If I turn up anything usefull I'll post it back here. Here you go: http://home.kabelfoon.nl/~moongies/streamtuned.html ___ 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] Proxy Server
Hi All, I'm a bit of a *nix newbie and would appreciate some advice. Is there any way that I can setup Myth to connect to the net via a proxy server? For example, all the other machines on the network connect to the outside world on 192.16.0.1:4480 I'd like to be able to configure Myth (or even better, the entire KnoppMyth installation) to use the same details. Is this possible if so, does anyone have any instructions. A basic, edit this file with this will do me just fine. Thanks a stack Chris. ___ ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - all new features - even more fun! http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] MythMusic compile failure
Blammo wrote: On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 15:08:35 -0600, jmk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To answer my own post... removing mad-0.14.2b and installing libmad-0.15.1b and libid3tag-0.15.1b fixed my mythmusic compile errors. Stupid old RH9 box. Joe How about this one: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mythmusic]# ./configure ; make Creating config.h, config.pro Configuration settings: OpenGL support will not be included FFTW support will not be included SDLsupport will not be included AACsupport will not be included You did not enable OpenGL, FFTW, SDL or AAC in your first step (./configure). According to the README, they are disabled by default. cd mythmusic make -f Makefile make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/mythmusic/mythmusic' qmake -o Makefile mythmusic.pro make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/mythmusic/mythmusic' make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/mythmusic/mythmusic' g++ -c -pipe -Wall -W -O3 -march=pentiumpro -fomit-frame-pointer -D_REENTRANT -fPIC -D_GNU_SOURCE -DPREFIX=\/usr/local\ -DHAVE_MMX -DQT_NO_DEBUG -DQT_THREAD_SUPPORT -DQT_PLUGIN -DQT_SHARED -I/usr/lib/qt-3.3/mkspecs/default -I. -I../../../local/include -I../../../include/cdda -I/usr/lib/qt-3.3/include -o cddecoder.o cddecoder.cpp In file included from cddecoder.cpp:10: cddecoder.h:6:21: cdaudio.h: No such file or directory cddecoder.cpp: In member function `int CdDecoder::getNumTracks()': cddecoder.cpp:256: error: `cd_init_device' undeclared (first use this function) cddecoder.cpp:256: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in.) cddecoder.cpp:258: error: aggregate `disc_info discinfo' has incomplete type and cannot be defined cddecoder.cpp:259: error: `cd_stat' undeclared (first use this function) cddecoder.cpp:262: error: `cd_finish' undeclared (first use this function) cddecoder.cpp: In member function `int CdDecoder::getNumCDAudioTracks()': cddecoder.cpp:282: error: `cd_init_device' undeclared (first use this function) cddecoder.cpp:284: error: aggregate `disc_info discinfo' has incomplete type and cannot be defined cddecoder.cpp:285: error: `cd_stat' undeclared (first use this function) cddecoder.cpp:288: error: `cd_finish' undeclared (first use this function) cddecoder.cpp:302: error: `CDAUDIO_TRACK_AUDIO' undeclared (first use this function) cddecoder.cpp: In member function `Metadata* CdDecoder::getMetadata()': cddecoder.cpp:353: error: `cd_init_device' undeclared (first use this function) cddecoder.cpp:355: error: aggregate `disc_info discinfo' has incomplete type and cannot be defined cddecoder.cpp:356: error: `cd_stat' undeclared (first use this function) cddecoder.cpp:359: error: `cd_finish' undeclared (first use this function) cddecoder.cpp:387: error: `CDAUDIO_TRACK_AUDIO' undeclared (first use this function) cddecoder.cpp:395: error: aggregate `disc_data discdata' has incomplete type and cannot be defined cddecoder.cpp:398: error: `cddb_read_disc_data' undeclared (first use this function) cddecoder.cpp:416: error: `cddb_genre' undeclared (first use this function) cddecoder.cpp:434: error: `cddb_write_data' undeclared (first use this function) cddecoder.cpp: In member function `virtual void CdDecoder::commitMetadata(Metadata*)': cddecoder.cpp:452: error: `cd_init_device' undeclared (first use this function) cddecoder.cpp:454: error: aggregate `disc_info discinfo' has incomplete type and cannot be defined cddecoder.cpp:455: error: `cd_stat' undeclared (first use this function) cddecoder.cpp:458: error: `cd_finish' undeclared (first use this function) cddecoder.cpp:479: error: aggregate `disc_data discdata' has incomplete type and cannot be defined cddecoder.cpp:480: error: `cddb_read_disc_data' undeclared (first use this function) cddecoder.cpp:524: error: `cddb_write_data' undeclared (first use this function) ../../../include/cdda/cdda_interface.h: At global scope: ../../../include/cdda/cdda_interface.h:195: warning: 'strerror_tr' defined but not used make[1]: *** [cddecoder.o] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/mythmusic/mythmusic' make: *** [sub-mythmusic] Error 2 Everything is installed correctly, AFAICT This looks like you are missing one of the required prerequisites spelled out in the README. Did you install libcdaudio? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-350 vs FX-5200 TVOut
I just recently found out that the TV-out of SiS chipsets (many, many HTPC barebones use them) are not capable of outputting interlaced material. Quite an important thing if you want picture perfect I'd say. I am trying to get the modeline right That cannot be correct, since TVOUT is defined to be interlaced. Now, if you meant to say that it cannot play both fields of a interlaced content, I may believe that. I've got an NVidia card (MX-400) with such a horrendously crappy tvout chip on it, the most I ever see is 240 lines. The chip just plain blows chunks. For future reference, the following issues need to be taken into account (almost without exception): - The TVOut of regular VGA cards use a separate chip (or integrated into the GPU) to do the same thing as an scanline converter. Thus, they generally do temporal and spatial resampling to make the square peg of the computer-generated video fit into the round hole of an NTSC|PAL compliant video signal. - Modelines on such cards are only loosely related to the TVout video output. Tweaking things like over/underscan, interlacing, refresh rates, resolutions, etc are all filterd through the tvout chip of the above note. I am trying to get the modeline right for my TV set so that I can start using my homebrew VGA to RGB converter. I made it because CRT-1 output (ie. the VGA connector) IS capable of outputting interlaced material. It seems that all you nVidia owners forget that their vsync is controlled by OpenGL, which in fact is not supported on every video card in Linux. I'm now finally curious as to what VGA-RGB converter you are doing. VGA *is* RGB... unless it's just a cable to make it DB-15 (old-school 15-pin macintosh video connector) as opposed to H-DB-15 (15-pin VGA connector). What are you driving? -Cory * * Cory Papenfuss* * Electrical Engineering candidate Ph.D. graduate student * * Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University * * ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Proxy Server
Chris Ainslie wrote: Hi All, I'm a bit of a *nix newbie and would appreciate some advice. Is there any way that I can setup Myth to connect to the net via a proxy server? For example, all the other machines on the network connect to the outside world on 192.16.0.1:4480 I'd like to be able to configure Myth (or even better, the entire KnoppMyth installation) to use the same details. Is this possible if so, does anyone have any instructions. A basic, edit this file with this will do me just fine. If you're referring to the XMLTV/DD downloads (which is, I think, the only net access that Myth does), I believe it uses wget to do the downloading so you might try this: export http_proxy=http://192.168.10.11:8080; export ftp_proxy=http://192.168.10.11:8080; alias wget='wget --proxy-user=Wonderwall\JohnDoe --proxy-passwd=Go4It' I think that would hardcode wget to use a proxy all the time for all users (assuming you export the variables in the global login script) Kevin ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Negative ATSC signal strength
With the new-ish code that uses v4l2 to get the signal strength from a HD-3000 card, I am seeing negative signal strengths on my strongest stations (over 90 using dtvchannel). I suspect the 1.6 driver is (buggily) using a signed char to compute the signal strength at some point. I don't have time to fix it right now (out of town next week), but maybe Myth could fall back to v4l if it sees a negative signal strength? -Doug signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] mythstream
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Max Waterman Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2005 7:28 AM To: Discussion about mythtv Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] mythstream Hi, Sorry to hijack this thread but I just have a few questions. 1. How is this version of MythStream different than the project found here: http://mythstreamtv.sourceforge.net/ 2. In regards to version 0.16 of MythStream found here: http://home.kabelfoon.nl/~moongies/streamtuned.html Is the version number 0.16 just a coincidence and not meant to relate in anyway to version 0.16 of MythTV? Thanks much, Patrick. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Feature Request: Shoutcast streams and Apple trailers like on Xbox Media center.
On Wednesday 16 February 2005 9:55, Ryszard wrote: On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 21:07:44 -0800, Lonnie Borntreger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2005-02-15 at 23:49 -0500, Brad Benson wrote: Hmm, you do appear to be correct. I know I saw something for myth that would play internet radio, but I can't for the life of me remember what it was, although I'm about 99% sure that it was something unofficial. I'll have to look around a little bit and see what I can find. If I turn up anything usefull I'll post it back here. Here you go: http://home.kabelfoon.nl/~moongies/streamtuned.html i downloaded this today in an attempt to get it to run. i couldnt even get it to make. gotta say tho' i didnt try very hard (think i had some dev packages missing).. Built fine for me last night with current Myth CVS on FC1... though I have to say, the UI is quite confusing. -JAC ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Tuner selection
Is there a way to setup mythtv so that livetv is always on Tuner 0, and recorded shows are always on Tuner 1? Sorry if this is answered elsewhere but I have been unable to find it. Thanks, James ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] ATI 9100 Pro IGP with onboard sound
Hi, Kevin, I have the same MB and it worked with Fedora Core 3 out of the box. I can get you more details when I'm back home on Friday. I've had some other issues though, been trying to get a tv-out solution going for a while. Just a hint for the TV-out, don't use the latest ATI drivers, use the patched old ones (3.12) instead, then TV-out will work fine. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-350 vs FX-5200 TVOut
On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 09:52 -0500, Cory Papenfuss wrote: Some of them can suck less, and may in fact be quite good. What I am saying is that unless you run a genlocked, synchronous 29.97 resolution with a 1:1 pixel-mapped input/output characteristic So, before we get into another syntax pissing contest and i am told I am talking out of my ass again, what exactly do you mean by genlocked, synchronous 29.97 resolution with a 1:1 pixel-mapped input/output characteristic? If you mean that the signal is encoded by the video card to the television exactly as it would have been by the original broadcast, (i.e. field interlaced, correctly timed with the picture the exact same size as it would have been originally) then yes, the g400 can do that. (i.e. the concept of overscanned and underscanned make no sense), Only in as much as you see exactly the same amount of the picture coming from the recorded version of the content that you would have seen if you watched it live. For example, if I watch a capture of CNN through the g400 using x11 on the framebuffer hacked with matroxset, I see more of the picture than I would see watching live broadcast television. The ticker at the bottom has a significant amount of picture underneath it. If I watch CNN live, I don't see the picture underneath the ticker and the ticker runs pretty much (within a scanline or two) along the bottom edge of my television. If I watch that same capture through the g400 using DirectFB's TV-Out, it looks _exactly_ like it would watching it live. I see exactly the same amount of the image as I would have watching it live. it is *NOT* unprocessed. Nobody without big budgets and expensive proprietary cards can accomplish that. Everything else is a matter of degree on how much fudging gets done. As far as my eye can see (and I see a lot of the artifacts that people around me watching do not see because they don't know what to look for), it's visually unprocessed. It looks exactly like it would have looked live -- size, viewable portion, smoothness, etc. As far as how the picture looks, I can take some stills with my digicam to demonstrate what I mean if you like. You will see the difference between live and x11/framebuffer/matroxset hacked. You won't with DirectFB. You can't get perfect, But I can. When I get a moment today (i.e. get a moment when somebody is not watching something), I will do a capture and take some stills describing exactly what I am talking about above and post links to the pics here. b. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] mythstream
looks like 1. goes via a browser to stream content you've got on your sever, while 2. does internet radio. On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 09:09:42 -0600, Lan User [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Max Waterman Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2005 7:28 AM To: Discussion about mythtv Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] mythstream Hi, Sorry to hijack this thread but I just have a few questions. 1. How is this version of MythStream different than the project found here: http://mythstreamtv.sourceforge.net/ 2. In regards to version 0.16 of MythStream found here: http://home.kabelfoon.nl/~moongies/streamtuned.html Is the version number 0.16 just a coincidence and not meant to relate in anyway to version 0.16 of MythTV? Thanks much, Patrick. ___ 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] PVR-350 vs FX-5200 TVOut
On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 09:25:31 -0500, Brian J. Murrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just to defend against your claims that my definition of OSD is out of my ass and contrary to what everyone thinks it is would a definition from the wikipedia be good enough for you? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On-screen_display Or perhaps they are talking out of their ass too? That wikipedia definition applies to VCRs and the like. Were using the display was a spiffy new feature. If one to use your definition of OSD we could just shorten it to D since it's all on the screen. Why bother with the on screen portion at all? This isn't a Myth convention it's used widely by the users and developers of multimedia/HTPC apps to indicate the portions of the GUI that are overlaid on the video vs the user interface that gets displayed when no video is being played. And even it it wasn't widely used, it's STILL used in that context within Myth. Hey let's all play a fun game, let's all start calling books on paper displays and get all pissy when someone says what the fuck are you talking about?. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] ATI 9100 Pro IGP with onboard sound
Bill Smith wrote: Kevin, I have the same MB and it worked with Fedora Core 3 out of the box. I can get you more details when I'm back home on Friday. I've had some other issues though, been trying to get a tv-out solution going for a while. I'm still using RH9. I just unloaded the alsa 1.0.8 from atrpms and recompiled 1.0.7 from source and it works fine now. At least from home I can see the devices: [EMAIL PROTECTED] alsa-utils-1.0.7]# aplay -l List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices card 0: IXP [ATI IXP], device 0: ATI IXP AC97 [ATI IXP AC97] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 card 0: IXP [ATI IXP], device 1: ATI IXP IEC958 [ATI IXP IEC958 (AC97)] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 Thanks for taking time to work with me. Seems better now. Kevin ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-350 vs FX-5200 TVOut
Hey let's all play a fun game, let's all start calling books on paper displays and get all pissy when someone says what the fuck are you talking about?. roflmao... :-) chuckle, chortle and all that. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] mythstream
On Wednesday 16 February 2005 10:09, Lan User wrote: Hi, Sorry to hijack this thread but I just have a few questions. 1. How is this version of MythStream different than the project found here: http://mythstreamtv.sourceforge.net/ Did you even look at that web site? That project is an add-on to MythWeb to allow streaming of MPEG-2 recorded Myth TV content over the web using VLC. It has nothing to do with streaming internet radio. -JAC ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Re: The death of MythDVD? [RipGuard]
Macrovision plans to unveil technology to block 97% of software used to duplicate discs. Assuming it actually works, then 100% of the people will use the 3% of the software that isn't blocked. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Re: The death of MythDVD? [RipGuard]
On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 10:27:06AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Macrovision plans to unveil technology to block 97% of software used to duplicate discs. If you can write software to block it you can write software to unblock it. This is a futile arms race the that MPAA and RIAA cannot win. -- Neil Watson | Gentoo Linux Network Administrator | Uptime 34 days http://watson-wilson.ca | 2.6.10 AMD Athlon(tm) MP 2000+ x 2 ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] mythweb 0.17 and programid
In mythweb 0.17 will it save the seriesid/programid of a show in the oldrecorded table if I tell it to Never Record? Also, how about a Never Record button if a programid is present even if there is no description for the episode? -- James Orr [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-350 vs FX-5200 TVOut
On Wednesday 16 February 2005 10:03, Cory Papenfuss wrote: I've got an NVidia card (MX-400) with such a horrendously crappy tvout chip on it, the most I ever see is 240 lines. The chip just plain blows chunks. Cory, just curious, what TV encoder chip does your Nvidia card use? My old LeadTek GF4MX-420 card used an NV17 TV encoder and the output was beautiful. That card has since died and I'm now using the onboard GF4MX-440 from my Chaintech 7NIF-2 nForce2 boards, which uses an NV18 TV encoder, and, to quote you, it simply blows chunks. You're about the only other person I've ever heard speak of Nvidia TV-out that way, so I was just wondering if you also had the newer chip. -JAC ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-350 vs FX-5200 TVOut
But also, the price difference is $30 Canadian for me to get either card. The 250 is $199 at BestBuy and the 350 is $230 for me from my Dude, check out Staples. They regularly sell the 250's for $149 CDN. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-350 vs FX-5200 TVOut
Jeroen Brosens wrote: snip . I must disappoint you here; first of all I have massive respect to Thomas Winischhofer, the developer/maintainer of the X driver for SiS chipsets, he has a well documented website on which he elaboralety describes every driver option that he squeezed out of the SiS chips. In the FAQ however, I only recently stumbled upon this: * Q: Why does output of interlaced video via TV show a comb-like interlace-effect? If the source material is interlaced and the TV output is interlaced, shouldn't this match? * A: CRT2 does not support interlace. Therefore, the driver can't feed interlaced output into the video bridge (which handles TV output, be it a SiS video bridge, be it a Chrontel TV encoder). The video bridge can only convert a progressive scan (=non-interlaced) input into TV-suitable interlaced output. The driver can neither change this nor control which of the frames sent to the bridge is the even/odd field. Long story short: If you want to output interlaced material on your TV without using a software de-interlacer, you need to add a proper Modeline for interlaced PAL/NTSC timing (easily found on the internet) and an external VGA-to-TV converter connected to CRT1. Otherwise you have to use a software de-interlacer. You have to acknowledge that is is a Very Bad Thing®. What I said about the interlaced material is not entirely true, but the result is still not quite useful. Damn bastards @ SiS. Oh well. Cory, correct me if I'm wrong, but I think Jeroen has mis-interpreted the answer here. It does *not* say that TV-OUT does not do interlace mode. It says that CRT2 doesn't support feeding interlace to the the TV encoder. That has nothing to do with whether or not TV-OUT then interlaces output. -- Michael J. Lynch What if the hokey pokey IS what it's all about -- author unknown ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] error compiling 0.17 - FC3
When compiling mythtv, I am getting the follwoing error: /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lqt-mt collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[2]: *** [libmythavcodec-0.17.so.0.17.0] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/mythtv/myth1/mythtv-0.17/libs/libavcodec' make[1]: *** [sub-libavcodec] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/mythtv/myth1/mythtv-0.17/libs' make: *** [sub-libs] Error 2 I have all the 3.3.3-16 qt packages installed from atrpms.net what am I missing? Thanks Keith ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Update on using epia m10000 for a frontend
On Tue, 2005-02-15 at 18:20 -0700, Adam Felson wrote: I tried xine with -V xxmc and it works fine. Tried to compile mythtv with xvmc and the link balks that it can't find the XvMC library. Checked /usr/X11R6/lib and it's there: # ls /usr/X11R6/lib/libXvMC* /usr/X11R6/lib/libXvMC.so@/usr/X11R6/lib/libXvMC.so.1.0* /usr/X11R6/lib/libXvMCW.so.1@ /usr/X11R6/lib/libXvMC.so.1@ /usr/X11R6/lib/libXvMCW.so@ /usr/X11R6/lib/libXvMCW.so.1.0* /usr/X11R6/lib is in the ld.so.conf file so I don't know what the deal is. Some wierdness. When compiling mythtv with xvmc, I had to edit the settings.pro file to use /usr/X11R6/lib. Didn't have to for plain xv. I also had to add -lXinerama -lXxf86vm -lXxf86dga on the extra_libs line. Back to xv only for now. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users -- Adam Felson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Re: The death of MythDVD? [RipGuard]
On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 10:30:21 -0500, Neil Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 10:27:06AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Macrovision plans to unveil technology to block 97% of software used to duplicate discs. If you can write software to block it you can write software to unblock it. This is a futile arms race the that MPAA and RIAA cannot win. -- Neil Watson | Gentoo Linux Network Administrator | Uptime 34 days http://watson-wilson.ca | 2.6.10 AMD Athlon(tm) MP 2000+ x 2 ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users It seems that every few weeks there is a headline on Slashdot about a revolutionary new DRM scheme that will once and for all end media piracy. There will always be a way to circumvent the copy protection. Short of outlawing the general purpose computer, or forcing everyone to a trusted platform in which the chip will refuse to run unsigned code, no DRM will ever work. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] mythstream
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Did you even look at that web site? That project is an add-on to MythWeb to allow streaming of MPEG-2 recorded Myth TV content over the web using VLC. It has nothing to do with streaming internet radio. -JAC Yes, I did look at the website, but I just wan't understanding it, however now that you and Ryszard have graciously taken the time to explain it to me I do understand it. Thanks much, Patrick. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] mythstream
2. In regards to version 0.16 of MythStream found here: http://home.kabelfoon.nl/~moongies/streamtuned.html Is the version number 0.16 just a coincidence and not meant to relate in anyway to version 0.16 of MythTV? I don't know if it is coincidence or not, but I'm currently running MythStream 0.16 using CVS Myth, so I guess 0.17 wouldn't be a problem. Herman - Herman Kuiper - m: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - w: http://www.frontier.nl Beech Ave 162 - 1119 PS Schiphol-Rijk - t/f: 020-6589034/6142816 ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Re: The death of MythDVD? [RipGuard]
Their deal is to prevent the rapid ripping of the data. If a DVD plasyer can read it so can a computer or piece of software. Wosrt case you take as long to rip it as it would take to view it. Some people would still want to rip it. On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 10:49:18 -0500, Craig Partin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 10:30:21 -0500, Neil Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 10:27:06AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Macrovision plans to unveil technology to block 97% of software used to duplicate discs. If you can write software to block it you can write software to unblock it. This is a futile arms race the that MPAA and RIAA cannot win. -- Neil Watson | Gentoo Linux Network Administrator | Uptime 34 days http://watson-wilson.ca | 2.6.10 AMD Athlon(tm) MP 2000+ x 2 ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users It seems that every few weeks there is a headline on Slashdot about a revolutionary new DRM scheme that will once and for all end media piracy. There will always be a way to circumvent the copy protection. Short of outlawing the general purpose computer, or forcing everyone to a trusted platform in which the chip will refuse to run unsigned code, no DRM will ever work. ___ 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] Step By Step Upgrade Guide for Debian to 2.6.10 from 2.4.26 [WAS]Smack me if I'm crazy ...
Allow recorded stream to be saved in TS as well as PS mode. I gather this means that there is no planned future support for saving the stream in TS mode for the HD300 with non dvb drivers and that only PS mode will be supported for the HD3000 with the non dvb drivers. I'm a DVB guy so I don't know squat about the HD3000 but I believe the non-DVB drivers record in TS mode only, i.e. no PS possible. With the DVB driver you can do both, but if TS works for you that is preferred. Can any one point me to a good step by step guide for Debian for upgrading from 2.4.26 to 2.6.10 so that I can take advantage of the new DVB drivers so that I can use the HD3000? apt-get install kernel-image-2.6.10-something? It's probably a good idea to have a fairly recent version (Sarge) of the rest of the packages too, especially the module-init-tools and other core stuff. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Single most frustrating thing about MythTV...
On Tue, 2005-15-02 at 19:53 -0600, M S wrote: First off... this is not meant to be a flame war and let me say I LOVE both the concept of MythTV as well as it's functionality. I think the biggest thing missing from MythTV is a built in function for archiving shows to DVD. The closest thing I've come to is MythBurn, and even for all it offers, it's still lacking some key features such as: 1) True integration 2) Lack of using cutlists (even though someone has wrote a patch to do this, it isn't fullproof) 3) Doesn't convert the mp2 audio into the DVD standard of AC3 audio 4) Only supposidly works with MPEG2 clips (pvr-x50s) 5) and more I have 176GB available for myth recordings and every day I'm having to delete a show just to continue to use myth. I want to archive a large percentage of my movies to DVD. Sure, people can say run this command line, then do this, then that... then burn. NO! This should be an automated procedure with ease and simplicity and no commands lines. It should be able to take a recording, use the cutlists to remove commercials, build indexes, and make interactive menus. It should also not involve having to do somethings on one machine, then copying to finish off processing on another with the exception of possibly saving an iso that can be burned on another machine which has a burner. I think on the amount of DVD's you'd go through, you would be better off adding drives to your system to increase storage. Say you can get 2 hours of video on a DVD. But it's packed on to the myth box and it's only 400M. I would rather have 500G of storage and then delete shows if I bought the boxed set, rather than archive everything off to DVD. I regularly download with bittorrent until I get a myth box running (which is this weekends project) but if I want to watch season one of Las Vegas, I buy it to watch. It's convenient to have the files on my hard drive, but the 15G they take up right now will be freed up when I get the box set. While I know a thing or three about burning in Linux, I have never created a video or movie disc on my box. I have been using Roxio and Winders for that, for no particular reason. I also know nothing about coding, but I am getting better at writing bash scripts. If it is possible to do it all that way, you could write a script that will automagically burn the dvd with the show you specify, but I don't know if everything can be done from the command line. I certainly know that you can write the ISO from the commandline, and even build an ISO from a directory of files, but I'm pretty green when it comes to video. At the very least, you could buy a commercial PVR, hook the myth output to the input on the PVR, re-record the show on the PVR and write it to disc. I know that's not the answer you are looking for, but it's as helpful as the way you've phrased your frustration about myth. -=/Thom ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] UK - Controlling Sky boxes
Around about 16/02/05 14:34, Simon Kenyon typed ...
well it doesn't work every time - so there you go!
:-)
post your wrapper and i'll give it a whirl
also, post your changes to use nanosleep()
Here goes; cat'd over SSH and reformatted in case there's anything
odd in there :-)
Not sure the locking functions (purloined) are really as tidy as I'd
want [hence the possibility of rolling it all into one perl script using
flock()] but it seems to suffice, and be nice reliable, so for the
time being, it stays.
--
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# rm -f .signature
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# ls -l .signature
ls: .signature: No such file or directory
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# exit
#include unistd.h
#include stdio.h /* Standard input/output definitions */
#include string.h /* String function definitions */
#include unistd.h /* UNIX standard function definitions */
#include fcntl.h /* File control definitions */
#include errno.h /* Error number definitions */
#include asm/ioctls.h
#include asm/termios.h/* POSIX terminal control definitions */
#include time.h
#ifndef COM_PORT
# define COM_PORT /dev/ttyS0
#endif
#ifndef WAIT_TIME
# define WAIT_TIME 2
#endif
#ifndef DEBUG
# define DEBUG 0
#endif
static int debug = DEBUG;
/* the RTS line is actually the DTR line in linux */
#ifdef linux
# define BIT_TO_TWIDDLE TIOCM_DTR
#else
# define BIT_TO_TWIDDLE TIOCM_RTS
#endif
/*
* open_port() - Open serial port
* returns the file descriptor on success or -1 on error
*/
int open_port(char *com_port)
{
int fd; /* file descriptor for the port */
struct termios options;
fd = open (com_port, O_WRONLY | O_NOCTTY | O_NDELAY);
if (fd == -1)
{
/* Could not open the port. */
perror (open_port(): unable to open com port);
exit (-1);
}
else
{
fcntl (fd, F_SETFL, 0);
}
/* get the current options for the port */
tcgetattr (fd, options);
/* Set the baud rates to 9600 */
cfsetispeed (options, B9600);
cfsetospeed (options, B9600);
/* enable the receiver and set local mode */
options.c_cflag |= (CLOCAL);
options.c_cflag = ~PARENB;
options.c_cflag = ~CSTOPB;
options.c_cflag = ~CSIZE;
options.c_cflag |= CS8;
options.c_cflag = ~CREAD;
options.c_cflag = ~CRTSCTS;
options.c_iflag = ~(IXON | IXOFF | IXANY);
/* set the new options for the port */
tcsetattr (fd, TCSANOW, options);
return (fd);
}
void set_rts(int fd)
{
int status;
int bitset = BIT_TO_TWIDDLE;
ioctl (fd, TIOCMGET, status);
if (debug)
{
if (status bitset)
{
printf(RTS bit is set\n);
}
else
{
printf(RTS bit is unset\n);
}
}
status |= bitset;
ioctl (fd, TIOCMSET, status);
ioctl (fd, TIOCMGET, status);
if (status bitset)
{
if (debug) printf(RTS bit set ok\n);
}
else
{
perror(set_rts(): failed to set RTS bit);
exit(-1);
}
}
int main (int argc, char **argv)
{
int fd;
char *com_port = COM_PORT;
int n;
char *data;
int wait_time = WAIT_TIME;
if (argc == 1 || argc 4)
{
printf(usage: digibox codestring [waittime [device]]\n);
return -1;
}
data = argv[1];
if (argc 2)
wait_time = atoi(argv[2]);
if (argc 3)
com_port = argv[3];
if (debug) printf(opening port for %s and setting RTS\n, com_port);
fd = open_port(com_port);
set_rts (fd);
/* needed to power up the IR system */
{
int done = 0;
struct timespec poweruptime;
poweruptime.tv_sec = 0;
poweruptime.tv_nsec = 2000;
while (!done)
{
int status = nanosleep(poweruptime,poweruptime);
if (status == 0)
{
done = 1;
}
else if (status == -1)
{
if (errno != EINTR)
{
sleep(1);
done = 1;
}
}
}
}
if (debug) printf(writing data (\%s\) now\n,data);
n = write (fd, data, strlen (data));
if (n 0)
{
perror(main(): write failed);
exit(-1);
}
if (debug) printf(data written\n);
tcdrain (fd);
if (wait_time 0)
{
if (debug) printf(sleeping for %d seconds\n,wait_time);
sleep (wait_time);
}
if (debug) printf(start close\n);
close (fd);
if (debug) printf(finished\n);
return 0;
}
# irfunctions from skychannel.tar.bz2
# http://www.nexusuk.org/projects/mythtv/lirc/
lockir() {
declare -i count=0
while [ $count -lt 10 ]; do
if mktemp /tmp/irlock 21 /dev/null; then
echo $$ /tmp/irlock
return 0
fi
if ! kill -0 `cat /tmp/irlock` 21 /dev/null; then
rm /tmp/irlock
if mktemp /tmp/irlock 21 /dev/null; then
echo $$ /tmp/irlock
return 0
fi
fi
sleep 1
count=$count+1
Re: [mythtv-users] HDTV on 0.17 - only records half the show
Doug Larrick wrote: Make sure your database is in good shape -- any messages from mysql in your logs? It sounds like you're having trouble getting enough data from the card, which means it's busy doing something else. If it's not CPU-bound, it might be I/O bound, maybe due to an error in the database. There don't seem to be any record-time messages in the mysqld log - just one message from when I rebooted about not being able to initialize InnoDB. Since both 0.16 and getatsc can record, I don't think it's raw bandwidth. If it were just random stuttering, I'd be more likely to look for perf issues, but it records half of the show, which sounds to me like a different issue. Otherwise: Upgrade to a 2.6 kernel? Use the latest HD-2000 driver you can? When I rebuilt my system around when 0.16 came out, I tried 2.6 with very little success (all videos playback stuttered - no obvious reason why). Changing the driver is my last resort given how much trouble I've had with it in the past, but I may have to try that if nothing else comes up... Thanks, ~Eric ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-350 vs FX-5200 TVOut
On Wed, 2005-16-02 at 11:40 -0400, Greg Estabrooks wrote: But also, the price difference is $30 Canadian for me to get either card. The 250 is $199 at BestBuy and the 350 is $230 for me from my Dude, check out Staples. They regularly sell the 250's for $149 CDN. Sweet. I'll grab one of them as well. I think I still want the 350. BestBuy was the only place I've seen them so far. -=/Thom ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-350 vs FX-5200 TVOut
Michael J. Lynch wrote: Jeroen Brosens wrote: snip I must disappoint you here; first of all I have massive respect to Thomas Winischhofer, the developer/maintainer of the X driver for SiS chipsets, he has a well documented website on which he elaboralety describes every driver option that he squeezed out of the SiS chips. In the FAQ however, I only recently stumbled upon this: * Q: Why does output of interlaced video via TV show a comb-like interlace-effect? If the source material is interlaced and the TV output is interlaced, shouldn't this match? * A: CRT2 does not support interlace. Therefore, the driver can't feed interlaced output into the video bridge (which handles TV output, be it a SiS video bridge, be it a Chrontel TV encoder). The video bridge can only convert a progressive scan (=non-interlaced) input into TV-suitable interlaced output. The driver can neither change this nor control which of the frames sent to the bridge is the even/odd field. Long story short: If you want to output interlaced material on your TV without using a software de-interlacer, you need to add a proper Modeline for interlaced PAL/NTSC timing (easily found on the internet) and an external VGA-to-TV converter connected to CRT1. Otherwise you have to use a software de-interlacer. You have to acknowledge that is is a Very Bad Thing®. What I said about the interlaced material is not entirely true, but the result is still not quite useful. Damn bastards @ SiS. Oh well. Cory, correct me if I'm wrong, but I think Jeroen has mis-interpreted the answer here. It does *not* say that TV-OUT does not do interlace mode. It says that CRT2 doesn't support feeding interlace to the the TV encoder. That has nothing to do with whether or not TV-OUT then interlaces output. OK true; of course everything coming out of a TV-out is interlaced, nothing doubtful there. But it seems it can't tell field sync etc. from the signal that is being fed to the video bridge. And therefore I must either use the bob deinterlacer (others suck because they don't give full frame rate) but it, well, bobs (vertical jitter due to goin out of vsync every now and then). Maybe when my VGA-SCART cable works with X everything is sorted, but I will have to find a proper modeline for that. -- Jeroen ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Hauppauge 250/350 Output
I am new to this list, and I'm about to build my first computer, so bear with me. I'm looking to get a Hauppauge 250 or 350 (provided I can get my hands on one of them). Just a couple of questions. First, what is the difference in these cards? I see that the 350 is more expensive, but I can't tell why. Second, if I buy one of these cards, do I also need a video card? I'd like to hook this up to my TV (which doesn't have s-video input), or maybe a monitor, and I'm hoping I can do that directly from the Hauppage, and not have to buy a video card in addition. Thanks for the help! ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Queue commercial flagging on old recordings using .17
I had automatic commercial detection turned off under .16 because it seemed to lock up my system. Now that I've upgraded successfully to .17 it seems to be working much better. Is there an easy way for me to queue commercial flagging for all my older recordings? Thanks, Sherm ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Single most frustrating thing aboutMythTV...
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 2/16/2005 10:26:59 AM On Tue, 2005-15-02 at 19:53 -0600, M S wrote: snippety snip Say you can get 2 hours of video on a DVD. But it's packed on to the myth box and it's only 400M. Ok, great. How much easier is it to bring one of those little nylon totes on a trip with a portable DVD player, vs. your mythtv setup? I have a situation where I'll be on a bus with 40 high school kids for a minimum of 20 hours next week. The bus has a DVD player. I'd love to burn a bunch of the TV shows I've recorded (The OC, Adult Swim cartoons, Simpsons) out to DVDs, and carry them on to the bus in my little nylon pouch. Instead, I'm lugging only movies. Being able to mix it up with some TV shows that I know the kids like would be awesome. I would rather have 500G of storage and then delete shows if I bought the boxed set, rather than archive everything off to DVD. I agree there...but, I'd keep the shows on the myth box. I regularly download with bittorrent until I get a myth box running (which is this weekends project) but if I want to watch season one of Las Vegas, I buy it to watch. It's convenient to have the files on my hard drive, but the 15G they take up right now will be freed up when I get the box set. Not for me...I'd rip the DVDs and make them available for me in my family room where I don't have a DVD player, but I do have a mythtv frontend... snipped irrelevant content If it is possible to do it all that way, you could write a script that will automagically burn the dvd with the show you specify, but I don't know if everything can be done from the command line. I certainly know that you can write the ISO from the commandline, and even build an ISO from a directory of files, but I'm pretty green when it comes to video. If someone writes a burning script from scratch, you can build in any kind of menu development in the command line you want. At the very least, you could buy a commercial PVR, hook the myth output to the input on the PVR, re-record the show on the PVR and write it to disc. I know that's not the answer you are looking for, but it's as helpful as the way you've phrased your frustration about myth. I'd rather give the money I would have spent on a commercial, non-expandable, closed source PVR to the developers here, in the community I enjoy being a part of. Paul ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Queue commercial flagging on old recordings using .17
You can run mythcommflag from the command line. It will automatically flag all the shows not marked as previously flagged. On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 10:08:30 -0600 (CST), Kelly Reed Schuerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I had automatic commercial detection turned off under .16 because it seemed to lock up my system. Now that I've upgraded successfully to .17 it seems to be working much better. Is there an easy way for me to queue commercial flagging for all my older recordings? Thanks, Sherm ___ 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] Problem- Unable to find mythcommflag
OK. I think I see what you mean. I'll have to check that out. Thanks. I have mythbackend run from my rc.local which is that last thing to run at boot time but before X starts. And I'm thinking the path is set before rc.local runs... Or maybe you mean there is a variable in mythbackend that needs to specify /usr/local/bin ?? Sorry for the molasses. I'll catch up someday!... PK On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 10:30:53 -0500, David George [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2/16/2005 9:32 AM, Paul K wrote: Well - That's the thread i read, but i thought (think) if ! strstr $PATH /usr/local/bin ; then PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin fi ... means that if the path DOESN'T include /usr/local/bin that it should add it... ??? Correct. I DO have /usr/local/bin in my path. And i'm not at my Myth box right now to try it. :-( You have it in your path, but does backend when it is running have it in its path? If you are starting backend from a startup script it may not. You can check this, but adding an echo $PATH in your backend script. I found this is now needed with FC2 as of a couple of weeks ago. Not sure about other distros. -- David ___ 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] PVR-350 vs FX-5200 TVOut
Tom Hughes wrote: snip Well I've got a Leadtek Winfast A180BT GeForce MX4000 which is NV18 and the TV encoder on that certainly blows chunks. I'm using a sync converter on the VGA output to drive a RGB input on the TV now so I don't care, but when I tried the S-Video output it was horrible. Tom Tom, I just finished my vga2scart cable, from the circuit as explained on the site that is linked on the mythtv page of your website (http://www.nexusuk.org/projects/vga2scart/). Now I have to find the modeline to get a nice image; are you a PAL user, and if yes, could you explain what you did to get it working correctly? My tv image is now scrolling up/down and skewing a bit too. It definately needs the proper tuning, but what could be the best way to do it? Many thanks, -- Jeroen ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Hauppauge 250/350 Output
First, what is the difference in these cards? Both have hardware encoding, the 350 has the addition of mpeg decoding and video out. if I buy one of these cards, do I also need a video card? If you get the 250, yes, you'll need a way to get the picture to a tv or monitor. The 350 has tv-out onboard. -- Travis ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Hauppauge 250/350 Output
I have the 350. The 250 has the encoder only (Input), 350 has both encoder and s decoder to output to TV. But you might need a video card, too. At least temporarily to setup everything. Once setup is complete, you could remove the video card. It's been awhile, but depending on where you're at, I got mine at newegg.com. Out of California, I believe. Paul On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 11:06:54 -0500, Britt McEachern [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am new to this list, and I'm about to build my first computer, so bear with me. I'm looking to get a Hauppauge 250 or 350 (provided I can get my hands on one of them). Just a couple of questions. First, what is the difference in these cards? I see that the 350 is more expensive, but I can't tell why. Second, if I buy one of these cards, do I also need a video card? I'd like to hook this up to my TV (which doesn't have s-video input), or maybe a monitor, and I'm hoping I can do that directly from the Hauppage, and not have to buy a video card in addition. Thanks for the help! ___ 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] Queue commercial flagging on old recordings using .17
Craig Partin wrote: You can run mythcommflag from the command line. It will automatically flag all the shows not marked as previously flagged. And you can also run with --force and other options to rescan all your shows if you wanted to take advantage of the new All detection method if it worked better than previous detections for you. Kevin ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
