Re: [mythtv-users] pass info for job queue status
On 10/28/05, WiFi Fun [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am working on a myth2ipod/portable script with some great help froma few others. I need some direction as to where to look for an exampleof providing progress information so thatthe backend status onmythweb and system info can display progress. After poring through scripts, I am stumped as to where to look for doing this. It would begreat to send a percentage complete, or fps of the encoding process sothe user can monitor this. Some time again I made a few modifications to nuvexport to support updating of the status when running user jobs. I don't currently have access to those mods as the machine holding them is currently down so I can't really give many specifics at the moment. However, when you view the status of a job in mythweb and it shows percentage complete, FPS, etc what it is displaying to you is the value in the comment field of the jobqueue table in mysql. So any status information you want to pass to other apps should be inserted into mythconverg.jobqueue.comment for the job it pertains to. If the app you're writing is in C++ I believe you will find some methods to update this field in jobqueue.cpp (don't recall offhand where that file lives in the source tree). If your app isn't in C++ then you'll probably have to write your own methods to access the DB and update that field. Hope that helps, Brad Benson ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Controlling a cable box that outputs only on a single channel.
On 10/11/05, Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a strange predicament, or at least I haven't stumbled upon anyone else with it yet. I have a Scientific Atlanta 4200HD box. I am using the cable out on the back of my cable box and it goes into my second tuner card (PVR-250). Here's the problem: The cable box's cable out only broadcasts on channel 3. So when Myth has a listing for lets say... channel 5, it tunes from 3 to 5. Now it only picks up static, however for it to work, it needs to stay tuned on 3. The cable box can be on whatever channel needs to be recorded, that's whyI bought an IR Blaster, but getting that to work is a problem for later. I hope most, or at least all of this, made sense. ___ When you run mythtv-setup and configure your capture cards you need to tell myth not to change channels on the tuner that's connected to your cable box. I believe this setting is in the Input Connections section. You select Tuner0 for the 250 and tell it which source is connected to that input. There is a box towards the bottom of that screen where you can enter an external channel changer command. This is where you put the full path to the script you'll use to control the IR blaster and change channels on the cable box. Just below that there is a box labelled something like 'Preset tuner to channel'. You want to enter 3 in that box. It tells myth to set its tuner to channel 3 whenever it uses that input. Obviously, you'll also need to get the IR blaster working so myth can actually change the channel on the cable box. As another alternative, you could use composite or s-video cables to connect the cable box to the pvr-250. This would completely bypass the tuner on the 250 and prevent this problem, but you'll still need to configure the external channel changing. Hope that helps, Brad ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Audio echo/stutter
I've been having this exact same problem. I had been using ivtv version 0.3.6w successfully for some time with a PVR-350 and a PVR-500. I could only get one tuner working on the PVR-500 and finally figured out that it was bad hardware. Hauppauge replaced the 500 for me and sometime relatively shortly after replacing that card 0.3.6w stopped working for me. I don't recall now exactly what the problem was that started occurring, but I ended up upgrading to 0.3.8. I've seen the exact problem you describe below with 0.3.8, 0.3.9 (various svn revisions including at least 2745 and 2738), as well as 0.3.7 and various 0.3.7x (x = a-z) releases. I've also tried reverting to 0.3.6w which used to work, but now when I use 0.3.6w I get zero-byte files from the second tuner of the PVR-500. I searched both the mailing list and google and the best I could come up with was some info on the IOBOUND error messages that implied there may be some sort of network problem as my video storage is mounted via NFS. My NFS server is a PII 266 so I thought that maybe it doesn't have enough horsepower to do everything it needs to do. The thing that seems odd is that that file server hasn't never been a problem before and it's been serving the video storage partition for close to a year before this problem started. The file server is connected to the backend via 10/100 ethernet so it shouldn't be a bandwidth problem that's causing this. I've still using a cvs version of myth from several months after 0.18.1 was released. Haven't tried a new SVN version yet since I was thinking that my problem was ivtv related and not myth. I also saw some list traffic regarding problems with auto-expire in the latest SVN so I'm hesitant to upgrade until that gets worked out. Anyone else seeing similar problems or have any idea what the problem might be? On 10/7/05, Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Users,I just upgraded from ivtv-0.3.3 to 0.3.8 and am getting an annoying echo in theaudio of recorded programs.I can not track it down, but it *seems* to comefrom MythTV.I have a master backend with two pvr-500s and a frontened with an additional 500 for a total of 6 tuners.So this isn't an issue with line-in echo.I extracted a short clip of the audio.You can listen here:http://pics.deanandadie.net/choppy.mp2 [238K]You can find my system logs at:http://pics.deanandadie.net/ivtv.probeBackend logs during recording of an echo-y program: http://pics.deanandadie.net/recordingNothing much here.Some things I noticed.o The chop usually comes in about 20-30 minutes into a recording.o System load appears to have no effect - happened recording a single show this morning.o I did a simultaneous cat /dev/v4l/videoN of all my tuners for an hour andfound no stutter.Captures directly from the v4l device contain no echo.o The tuner does not seem to make a difference. o The echo does not happen all the time.o Sometimes I get IOBOUND messages, but it doesn't happen every time.(Seethe recording messages above.)2005-10-06 18:35:58.420 IOBOUND - blocking in ThreadedFileWriter::Write() 2005-10-06 18:36:03.208 IOBOUND - blocking in ThreadedFileWriter::Write()I'm a little lost here.Everything was working great on the previous drivers. Any suggestions?Thanks,--Dean - Unscrambler of eggs --Take your time, take your chances[3278.7 km, 273.4] Apparent Rennerian--It matters not how strait the gate / How charged with punishment the scroll I am the master of my fate / I am the captain of my soul.-- Invictus William E Henley --___mythtv-users mailing listmythtv-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: Comcast being coy?
On 10/7/05, Marc Infield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was also impressed that they only charge $5 more for their DVR, arethey any good? I hope not, by the time you add up what I haveinvested in parts for all my Myth learning it would end being DVRrentals for about 10 years. :) No, the Comcast HD-DVR is crap. My sister has one and the storage space is severely lacking. I don't recall off hand how many hours it can store, but it's not much more than 10, if that. Also, they seem to have a serious bug in them. If the DVR is powered off and it is scheduled to record a show it will actually begin the recording, but not display to the user that it is powered on and working. If you then hit the power button while it is recording it will turn on and display video so you can watch TV on the second tuner. However, the second tuner is MUTED. I have yet to find a way to get it to unmute other than turning off the DVR (which kills whatever recording was in progress) and then turning it back on. Also, it clearly has two tuners since you can record and watch at the same time, but I also haven't yet been able to get it to record two shows at once. If there's two tuners in there I see no reason why it shouldn't be able to record two shows if I'm not using either of the tuners to watch TV. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Cutoff point for upcoming recordings?
On 9/30/05, Niklas Brunlid [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any way to see, in the upcoming recordings screen in Mythfrontendor Mythweb, when the disk space will run out given the current scheduleand recording profiles? No, there's nothing like that to my knowledge. However, if Myth is set up correctly you should NEVER run out of disk space. That's what auto-expire is for. If you're like me there are some shows you record because you really want to watch them and there are other shows you record as filler (like Cops, Simpsons, Blind Date, etc). I set all those 'filler' type shows to auto-expire and the shows I really want (Modern Marvels, Law and Order, etc) to not auto-expire but to have an episode limit (i.e. no more than 6 episodes of Law and Order). Once the episode limit is reached Myth won't record any more showings of that program until an episode is deleted (or it will delete the oldes episode and replace that with the newest one, depends how you set it up). It takes a little bit of setup time up-front and a little bit of calculating how often your favorite shows are on and how much total disk space you have, but once you get it set up correctly you should never have to worry about disk space unless you start archiving large numbers of shows. Would be very nice if, like me, you went on a business trip for two weekswith no contact with your Mythbox ( i.e. sitting on a secure networksomewhere with no internet access). :)/ Niklas___mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.orghttp://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] OT: Phone Concentrator(?)
On 9/30/05, Jesse Guardiani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It would be nice if messages from mythosd would show up when you'relooking at the menus/mythmusic/mythweather/etc too. I'm not ALWAYSwatching TV, but I usually have myth ON in some form or fashion. Look into YAC and xYAC. If you search the archives for yac you should turn up a thread related to that. At least I remember seeing one here a while back. xYAC allows you to popup messages and callerid info using X and they display over anything - Myth menus, xine, mplayer, ogle, whatever. I was looking into doing this myself, but I just haven't picked up a modem with callerid yet. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Archive Searching
On 9/9/05, DSanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wouldn't a regular web forum be easier for people to find what they are looking for? Sorta like the one used by Linuxnewbie.org or linuxquestions.org? Just a thought. I'd suggest treading lightly on the topic of a web forum. Search the archives for web forum and you can probably spend several days reading all the posts in the argument of mailing list vs web forum. Pay particular attention to the ones from Isaac, who maintains the list, that say there will be no web forum, end of discussion. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Some confusion on record weekly schedules...
On 9/8/05, Alex Brekken [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now I fully understand that Myth should only record 1 of the 2 showings since they're the exact same episode, however I can't figure out why it's electing to record Monday's episode instead of Friday's since Friday is an earlier date. There's no other recording happening on Friday at the same time which would interfere. (I've got dual tuners, so that wouldn't matter anyway) What I would expect to see is that Myth would record Friday's episode, and skip Monday's with an indication on Monday's schedule of P for previously recorded. Does this seem like a problem to anyone else, or am I just misunderstaning how the behavior is supposed to work? Yes, there's a fine point of Myth's scheduler that you're missing. When attempting to determine which showing of an episode should be recorded, Myth looks at many factors (tuner priority, priority for that specific recording rule, channel priority, etc). I'm going to assume here that you've set the same priority for both of your recording rules. Since the rest of the details of those two rules are the same, then both the Friday and Monday episodes would have the exact same priority. When Myth sees two showings with the same priority, it prefers the one that matches the recording rule that was added first. Since you set up the Monday recordings prior to setting up the Friday recordings it's most likely choosing the Monday recording because that rule was entered first. Incidentally, you might want to remove one of those duplicate recording rules and set the other one to Find and record one showing of this title each week. That would allow Myth to record one episode each week and still choose between the Friday and Monday showings to avoid conflicts. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] A/V Sync issues in recorded programs from PVR-500/PVR-350
For the past several weeks I've been getting A/V sync issues in some (but not all) recordings from my myth box. It was working great for over a year with just a single 350 doing recording. I added a 500 to the system and that was also functioning well for several months. Over that time I was using various versions of the ivtv driver from 0.3.2 up through 0.3.6w. I finally settled on running 0.3.6w and that was working for about 2-3 months with no problems. Suddenly, out of the blue one day, I noticed a few recordings with A/V sync issues. It appears that, at some random point during the recording, a small piece of video is missing but the audio is fine. This causes the video to be slightly ahead of the audio (anywhere from 1 to about 2 seconds). At the time I noticed this I hadn't made any recent changes to the system. Since this started I have discovered that one of the tuners on the PVR-500 is bad. I got that card replaced by Hauppage and, as of last week, installed the replacement 500. I was hoping that maybe the bad card had something to do with the issues I'm seeing, but last night I found another recording with the exact same issue. I need to go through and check the log files when the recording is happening, but it's been difficult to determine exactly when things were recorded and on which tuner. I know I haven't provided much information as I'm not at home at the moment, but I can provide any log files that might be helpful in looking into this problem. Has anyone seen similar sync issues on recordings? Oh, these are straight MPEG2 directly from the card, no transcoding is being done, only commercial flagging. Of the 8-12 recordings a day from my myth box I tend to see this problem on anywhere from 0 to 3 or 4 of the shows. I'm now running ivtv 0.3.8 and still seeing the exact same behavior. Any insight anyone might have is greatly appreciated. Brad Benson ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Reverse Commercial Skip
On 9/7/05, Ryan Steffes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any chance anyone can recommend a simple way to reverse the commercial cutlist so I can transcode out an avi of JUST commercials? Suggestions? http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/browser/trunk/mythtv/keys.txt Look at line 149. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Media MVP Setup Guide
On 9/6/05, Josh Owen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm running FC3, but I assume these parts should still be relevant: 1.) in Fedora Core 4 there is no dhcp.conf in the /etcdirectory. If I create a new one my dhcp server will not start. Where is this file located or what am Idoing wrong here The file should be called /etc/dhcpd.conf. If you can't find that, try ls -l /etc/dhcp* and see what files show up. Failing that, stop and restart your dhcp server and look in /var/log/messages for output from the server. That might give you some hints as to where it's looking for a config file. If that still doesn't help, try 'man dhcpd' or 'man dhcp'. 2.) Fedora always sets the tftp server to be a defaultof off. Where is the file to turn the default to "on" If you installed tftp from an rpm I believe it gets set up to run under xinetd. Look in /etc/xinetd.d. There should be a file called tftp (maybe tftpd). There should be several lines in this file that set various things. One of those lines should look like this: disabled = yes Change that yes to a no and restart xinet (/etc/rc.d/init.d/xinetd restart) 3.) I have both the donble.bin and the dongle.bin.confin the /tftpboot directory so if my tftp server is running I should have to configure anything else.Correct? Correct, that should be all you need to do assuming that your DHCP and tftp servers are set up correctly. 4.) Which dongle.bin.conf way are you using NFS configuration:rdate -s 192.168.10.50mkdir /varmkdir /var/myth/mount -t nfs -onolock,rsize=4096,wsize=4096,nfsvers=3192.168.10.50:/var/myth/ /var/myth/ mvpmc -f /etc/helvR10.fnt -s 192.168.10.50-r /var/myth/video Or standard configuration:rdate -s 192.168.10.50 mvpmc -f /etc/helvR10.fnt -s 192.168.10.50 I'm using the standard configuration. My reasoning for this is that I read somewhere that mvpmc sometimes has A/V sync issues during playback and I believe it mentioned something about this being related to NFS. So I figured I'd just avoid the NFS mount and stream the video straight from the backend. I haven't been using it long enough to tell if it's having A/V sync issues or not so YMMV. Brad Benson ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] safely exposing mythweb to the net.
And it also requires that you access mythweb via port 5080 which may or may not be an option for some people depending on where they plan to be connecting to mythweb from (i.e. behind a firewall at work that only allows port 80 outbound). Using apache as a proxy allows you to still access mythweb on the standard port 80 which should pretty much always be accessible.On 9/2/05, Brady [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wow! Everybody loves complicated solutions!Try this one out:As root run this command on the firewall,iptables -A PREROUTING -t nat -p tcp -i inf --dport 5080 -j DNAT--to ip address:port Replacing inf with the interface, like eth0 or eth1, of the Internetcard, and ipaddress:port with the ip address and port of the mythwebserver.Then to get really secure you can setup a .htpassword and .htoptions file in the mythweb's /var/www/html directory in order to require apassword to use mythweb. This helps prevent random modification ofyour settings.I use this extensively and it works great =)It also requires much, much less overhead than running apache as a proxy. On 9/1/05, Brett Grice [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would also seriously consider using something like mod_security with apache you can find it here http://www.modsecurity.org. Also lots of info on locking down apache correctly. just my 2 cents worth Brett. --- Marty Ravell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This maybe a little O.T. but I'd like to open up MythWeb to the net as well. The issue for me however is that my Myth box sits inside my Home LAN with another Linux box being my Firewall. Now I do run my personal website on the firewall and am wondering how to go about letting Myth through when there is already a webserver on the machine that is the gateway to the internet. Would it be possible perhaps to use the firewall's Apache to talk to the Myth box for MythWeb? Does the MythWeb web server need to be on the same machine as the MythTV installation? Regards Marty ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users Send instant messages to your online friends http://au.messenger.yahoo.com ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users___mythtv-users mailing listmythtv-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 Idea - P2P Bad Idea
On 7/7/05, Matt Grommes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One of the pvrs _will_ have an integrated way to get net content, you can be sure of that. If Myth doesn't have it, it'll be one more reason for people not to use it. Perhaps you're missing a large point here. Most of the developers of Myth don't care if you use it or not. They're working on it because they want to use it or they enjoy working on it. Yes, a larger user base provides better testing and some other benefits, but remember that this is not a commercial venture. This is Isaac's pet project that has taken off into something that many people want to use. He's happy to share that with those of us who want to use it. If you'd rather use something else, knock yourself out. I'm certainly not going to lose any sleep over it and I'm sure Isaac won't either. This is exactly the kind of chilling of innovation the media companies want. They don't have to make a technology illegal if everybody pees themselves with fear when they come within arm's length of it. There's already enough legal content to make this argument invalid and there's only going to be more in the coming months/years. The argument may be invalid, but that still doesn't stop any of those media companies from bringing a lawsuit against the Myth community/developers. They don't have to prove that anything illegal was done, they just have to force the defendant to pay fees (lawyer, etc) that are more than the defendant can afford. Maybe if you provide, up-front, the massive cash reserves that would be needed to defend that court case someone will consider developing this, but I doubt it. Until then, I think it's very clear that the majority of the folks involved with Myth don't wany any parts of any P2P app associated with Myth and Isaac has certainly made his views on that topic very clear on repeated occasions. It's his project. If you want to play with it, you play by his rules. If you don't like those rules, find another project. I know some of that message sounds pretty harsh. I don't intend it to be insulting or anything like that. It's just that this P2P discussion comes up frequently enough that it's getting annoying to me. It has been repeatedly made clear that the people behind Myth don't want this in the current environment so why does this discussion keep happening? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Feature request
On 7/7/05, Robert Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I searched the archives for pre-roll and early/late bute didn't see this exact request. I know we can stop late and start early, but how about a stop early and start late? With the darn networks doing everything they can to stop us DVR'ers i don't mind if i lose the first 1-2 min of a show, but i can't schedule two shows that overlap by a min or two. If i could get the later show to wait 1-2 min before starting, that would be better. You can enter negative values into the start/stop early fields. (or start/stop late, I can't remember exactly how they're labeled). Start early by -2 minutes effectively means start late by 2 minutes. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Getting Myth to see 2 inputs as one. Kinda.
On 5/26/05, Peter Judge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Unfortunately, Comcast has a different philosophy on what they provide via
firewire. I can get the analog channels ( 80) and the HD channels (800 -
900ish) via firewire, but the rest of the digital channels (mainly the 200s)
don't play nicely. Connecting via the PVR gets me all channels, but in SD
(and with letterboxing and/or pillars) for the HD channels.
I've had Comcast service here for several years and I've never been
able to get my PVR-350 to receive any of the non-analog channels
(80). I'm subscribed to digital cable and have an STB connected to
the tv ('cause the GF hasn't fully succumbed to the power of myth
yet). Of course, the STB gets all available channels. However, I
also have the cable split and two connections going into a PVR-350 and
one input of a PVR-500. Neither the -350 nor the -500 are able to see
any channels above 80. All I get on those is static and loud noise.
Did you have to do anything special to allow your PVR card to tune the
channels above 80? I'm hoping that I'm missing something easy here
because I'd love to be able to record some of those higher channels,
but not enough to hook up an IR blaster.
Any help you can provide would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Brad Benson
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Re: [mythtv-users] High level system architecture questions
On 5/25/05, Ben Bargabus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ultimately I'd like to have a master backend and multiple slave backends in my media server room along with six DTV receivers, two 400 disc DVD changers, and a really healthy RAID box. Instead of buying multiple 400 disc DVD changers, why not put that money into disks and RAID controllers and then rip your DVD's to the hard drive? If you do that you don't have to worry about trying to pass through video from your DVD player through Myth to the TV. Just use MythVideo and all your ripped DVD's are available on demand. You could always change up what DVD's are available on disk from time to time and still pop a DVD into the drive on the frontend machine if it's not currently available. Of course, that will require a ton of disk space, but it sounds like you've already got pretty lofty goals for your network so I wouldn't think a giant LVM volume spanning RAID drives would be that big of a deal and it would certainly make things easier from a usability standpoint. Just my $0.02. Brad Benson ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Using MythTV for viewing both TV recordings and video's in seperate directories?
On 5/8/05, Chad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I did that, but in order to view the videos by clicking the file links was to create the video_dir symlink in the /mythweb directory. This symlink must point to the directory containing the video files in order for it to work properly. The same is so for the recordings directory. The recordings will not play if the video_dir symlink is not pointing to the directory holding the recordings. It seems to work one way or the other, I am hoping for a way to have it do both simultaneously. I recall going through this myself a while back. I just checked my mythweb directory and I have a symlink named video_dir that points to myth's recordings directory and a different symlink named video_url that points to the mythvideo directory. Then again, I'm running cvs from a few weeks ago, not the release version of 0.18. Brad ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Broadcast flag (tell me why myth users should care technically?)
On 5/8/05, Endaf Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you Joe for your comments. Very simply: If the Broadcast flag becomes law, all ATSC recording devices with Linux drivers will no longer be sold. Your hardware selection will GO AWAY. That's why it is important, even to Canadians. The point I'm trying to say here is that, irregardless if our ATSC/DVB PCI card vendors honor the BF (Broadcast Flag) or not, does it really matter? What would be the tangible difference it bit streams coming out of the cards? Are they not simply passing the stream down to the OS and isn't it the OS (or perhaps the player) that needs to honor/control the BF legislation requirements instead? Is there a whole other aspect of the BF concept that isn't being talked about? Is the problem really going to be the application (storage and playback as in MythTV) that needs to be BF compliant and not the hardware? I think you're missing the point of the BF requirements. You're right that it won't matter if the ATSC/DVB cards honor the BF. However, the reason it won't matter is that, in order to honor the BF, the tuner that decodes the broadcast stream will not be able to pass that stream to an unsecure device or via an unsecure transport. A computer running Linux that allows you to save the stream to the HD, re-encode, etc is considered unsecure by the legislation. In addition, pretty much any computer's bus is also considered unsecure because you can take the data off of it. So, it would be illegal to manufacture or sell a PCI card that decodes the ATSC stream because the decoded stream would then be output to the PCI bus which qualifies as an unsecure transport medium. Hence, BF = no PCI decoders available to anyone in the US. Whether or not the honoring of the BF would be in software or hardware is completely irrelevant because you won't be able to get the hardware you would need to decode the signal. In other words, if there were no BF in the works, but every company that manufactures ATSC/DVB capture cards suddenly stopped making/selling them we'd be in the exact same boat as if the BF legislation passed. The ultimate problem for us is that we need access to the hardware that decodes the signal and the BF would make it illegal to make or sell that hardware for use in a standard computer. No decoder = no picture, however you slice it. Brad ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Recording Sporting Events to the real end
On 4/21/05, Matthew K. Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 4/21/05, Preston Crow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have an idea for recording sporting events that may not end on schedule: Have Myth check the score at some web site to determine whether the game has actually ended. Then Myth could automatically extend the recording for baseball games that run late. Interesting idea... How would you know that the game was over based on the score? Easy. Most any place that shows you the score also shows you the current inning. When the game is over the inning is usually reported as F (for final score). If the inning is reported as F then you know the game is over. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Can't start mythfrontend due to missing theme
On 4/16/05, Sasha Z [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've installed the mythtv themes tarball, and confirm that all the themes exist in /usr/share/mythtv/themes. I have: G.A.N.T. Minimalist-wide Titivillus-OSD blueosd default oldosd IuliusTitivillus blueclassic defaultosd Yet, when I try to start mythfrontend, I get this: Could not find theme: Iulius Couldn't find theme Iulius What's wrong? How can I change the theme back to blue from mysql? Did you install mythtv from rpm or from the source (tarball/cvs)? If you installed from a tarball or latest cvs then chances are that myth is looking in /usr/local/share/mythtv/themes for theme info and it's not finding anything. Try making a symlink from /usr/share/mythtv to /usr/local/share/mythtv (or just copying all the files over to /usr/local/share/mythtv) and see if that doesn't fix things up for you. Brad ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Migrating mysql to another server
On 4/13/05, Minh Duong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First how do I copy/restore my current data? http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-21.html#ss21.5 and there's all kinds of other good helpful info at http://www.mythtv.org Second, is it a good idea to use another machine? Thanks. No idea, I've never tried it. Did you search the mailing list archives? I'm pretty sure I've seen this discussed in the past. Brad ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] nuvexport cli options
As for the quiet stuff, I'd much rather just overload print so that
you don't have to add if (arg('quiet')) or something like that to
every place the code prints a report. But at that point, it might be
better to have --quiet for hiding only the progress indicator, and
--very-quiet for hiding everything except for STDERR.
Good idea. Which got me thinking that my main goal with the quiet
flag would be to allow nuvexport to run fully automated as a user job
from within myth. Along those lines, what do you think about
overloading print to update the job queue status field in mysql if the
proc is run from the job queue? This way we'll have normal output,
--quiet to hide the progress indicator, --very-quiet to hide
everything (for normal script usage) and --jobqueue (or whatever)
which would output errors and normal progress (starting encoder,
encode complete, etc) to stdout and the job queue status field, but
instead of a progress indicator on screen it would update the job
queue status field with the completion percentage every 5% (or
whatever).
I've been looking into overloading print just for the --quiet flag and
I've been having some problems. My perl is a little rusty, but I
thought I'd throw this idea out there and see what people think of it
while I brush up on the skills I need to implement it.
Brad
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Re: [mythtv-users] nuvexport cli options
On Apr 2, 2005 2:56 AM, Chris Petersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I just saw a post from Chris Peterson saying he's been doing work on
nuvexport lately. I've made a few changes myself to allow nuvexport
to be run from the job queue as a user job.
Cool, want to send a patch?
Sure, it's attached. :) This patch adds a --quiet flag which should
suppress printing of normal output, but still allow errors to be
printed. I didn't make any changes in ui.pm so --quiet should still
work correctly in interactive mode (i.e. you should see prompts for
confirmation/entering of values, but no output after that except for
errors), although I'm not sure why you'd want to use it for that mode.
I tested cli-only mode for xvid, divx and dvd output using ffmpeg and
transcode and all seemed to be well. I am currently running a job
from the myth job queue using my patched version and will let you know
how that run turns out although I expect it to run with no problems.
This patch also includes some changes to export/ffmpeg/DVD.pm to check
the $is_cli flag and not prompt the user for confirmation of values if
$is_cli is set.
Brad
diff -ru nuvexport-0.2/export/ffmpeg/ASF.pm nuvexport-0.2.patched/export/ffmpeg/ASF.pm
--- nuvexport-0.2/export/ffmpeg/ASF.pm 2005-03-16 01:46:35.0 -0500
+++ nuvexport-0.2.patched/export/ffmpeg/ASF.pm 2005-04-02 14:48:29.0 -0500
@@ -125,7 +125,7 @@
my $path_bak = $self-{'path'};
$self-{'path'} = '/dev/null';
# First pass
-print First pass...\n;
+print First pass...\n unless $QUIET;
$self-{'ffmpeg_xtra'} = ' -vcodec msmpeg4'
. ' -b ' . $self-{'v_bitrate'}
. ' -minrate 32 -maxrate '.(2*$self-{'v_bitrate'}).' -bt 32'
@@ -137,7 +137,7 @@
# Restore the path
$self-{'path'} = $path_bak;
# Second pass
-print Final pass...\n;
+print Final pass...\n unless $QUIET;
$self-{'ffmpeg_xtra'} = ' -vcodec msmpeg4'
. ' -b ' . $self-{'v_bitrate'}
. ' -minrate 32 -maxrate '.(2*$self-{'v_bitrate'}).' -bt 32'
diff -ru nuvexport-0.2/export/ffmpeg/DivX.pm nuvexport-0.2.patched/export/ffmpeg/DivX.pm
--- nuvexport-0.2/export/ffmpeg/DivX.pm 2005-03-16 11:40:49.0 -0500
+++ nuvexport-0.2.patched/export/ffmpeg/DivX.pm 2005-04-02 14:48:18.0 -0500
@@ -127,7 +127,7 @@
my $path_bak = $self-{'path'};
$self-{'path'} = '/dev/null';
# First pass
-print First pass...\n;
+print First pass...\n unless $QUIET;
$self-{'ffmpeg_xtra'} = ' -vcodec mpeg4'
. ' -b ' . $self-{'v_bitrate'}
. ' -minrate 32 -maxrate '.(2*$self-{'v_bitrate'}).' -bt 32'
@@ -140,7 +140,7 @@
# Restore the path
$self-{'path'} = $path_bak;
# Second pass
-print Final pass...\n;
+print Final pass...\n unless $QUIET;
$self-{'ffmpeg_xtra'} = ' -vcodec mpeg4'
. ' -b ' . $self-{'v_bitrate'}
. ' -minrate 32 -maxrate '.(2*$self-{'v_bitrate'}).' -bt 32'
diff -ru nuvexport-0.2/export/ffmpeg/DVD.pm nuvexport-0.2.patched/export/ffmpeg/DVD.pm
--- nuvexport-0.2/export/ffmpeg/DVD.pm 2005-03-08 02:36:48.0 -0500
+++ nuvexport-0.2.patched/export/ffmpeg/DVD.pm 2005-04-02 14:07:15.0 -0500
@@ -70,15 +70,23 @@
my $self = shift;
# Load the parent module's settings
$self-SUPER::gather_settings();
+
# Audio Bitrate
while (1) {
-my $a_bitrate = query_text('Audio bitrate?',
- 'int',
- $self-val('a_bitrate'));
+my $a_bitrate;
+if ($is_cli) {
+$a_bitrate = $self-val('a_bitrate');
+} else {
+$a_bitrate = query_text('Audio bitrate?',
+ 'int',
+ $self-val('a_bitrate'));
+}
if ($a_bitrate 64) {
+die Too low; please choose a bitrate between 64 and 384. if $is_cli;
print Too low; please choose a bitrate between 64 and 384.\n;
}
elsif ($a_bitrate 384) {
+die Too high; please choose a bitrate between 64 and 384. if $is_cli;
print Too high; please choose a bitrate between 64 and 384.\n;
}
else {
@@ -93,13 +101,20 @@
$self-{'v_bitrate'} = $max_v_bitrate;
}
while (1) {
-my $v_bitrate = query_text('Maximum video bitrate for VBR?',
- 'int',
-
[mythtv-users] nuvexport cli options
I just saw a post from Chris Peterson saying he's been doing work on nuvexport lately. I've made a few changes myself to allow nuvexport to be run from the job queue as a user job. Chris, if you see this, are you working on full cli support at all? I noticed that it's been implemented for quite a few of the export options, but not yet for DVD export using either transcode or ffmpeg. Of course, that's the one that I need so I went ahead and made a few changes to allow cli-only usage for ffmeg or transode output to DVD format. The one thing that I haven't got yet is a quiet mode to stop output of anything other than errors. (I ran a nuvexport from the job queue yesterday and ended up with an 18MB mythbackend log file from all the 'frames processed' output from nuvexport). The only code download I could find for nuvexport was the tarball of the 'latest' code and I have no idea how often that changes so I didn't want to submit a patch just yet for fear that the code has already changed and the patch won't apply right. This is definitely something I'd like to implement and I'm sure I've seen some interest in an automated nuvexport from other folks on the list. Please let me know if patches are being accepted for nuvexport and if this is something that's already being implemented or if I should continue work on this. Brad ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Motherboard Recomendation
On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 13:53:37 -0600, Matt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: this is the board I use. No complaints. I think what it comes down to is tons of people like the nForce2 chipset :) On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 13:06:42 -0600, Dan Littlejohn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wish I had known about the S/PDIF bracket for the 7NIF2 and MSI boards. I picked the Abit AN7 for the S/PDIF (and it uses the slightly better audio codec, Realtek ALC658 compared to the RealtekALC650) and picked up a FX5200 video card. Dan On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 10:35:41 -0800, Rei Toi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark Gardner wrote: I've skimmed the archives and havnt' found an answer to my liking... so here's the question I'm planning on building a myth Frontend/Backend box with some hardware i have around AMD 1200 Duron (could be Athlon if I need the power) PVR 350 512 DDR Will build either on SUSE 9.3 ( I work for novell ) or Fedora Core What i'm looking for is a motherboard that won't break the bank, but just works. I had one with a VIA chipset that had a bunch of DMA errors :( But have had many good reports with nForce chipsets. Preferably the onboard sound should work Onboard video a plus but not required... Thanks in Advance. Hi Mark, I use the MSI K7N2GM2-LSR motherboard which is currently $61.50 at Newegg: http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=13-130-477depa=0 It has the nForce2 chipset and comes with the TV-out bracket (s-video composite). You can use the bios to reconfigure the 3 audio jacks (Line-in, Line-out, Mic.) to be 4 or 6 channel audio; if your surround sound system requires this. (I haven't tried it; you *may* need to use their MS Windows utilities to configure this particular option.) The board doesn't come with an S/PDIF bracket, but you can buy one (RCA optical fiber) at CensusPC for $12.00: http://www.censuspc.com/cart/product.php?productid=182cat=46page=2 Installing FC3 was fine, everything just worked. Also, installing Myth in accordance with Jarod's guide worked out very well. I also have a PVR-350 and have tried both it's TV-out and the on-board nForce TV-out. I like the PVR-350's TV output much better (on my standard def TV the picture quality is higher) but I have to admit that I didn't try too hard to see if I could tweak the nVidia video quality. Having said that, X looks worse on the PVR-350 vs. the on-board nForce TV-out... I use the PVR-350's TV-out anyway though, as my box is 100% dedicated to TV watching so I don't play games, etc. with this unit. HTH -Rei. ___ 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 I'm also using the Chaintech 7NIF2 mobo and it's been great for me with two minor exceptions. The lack of spdif output is slightly annoying (although I have a separate soundcard with spdif so not that big a deal for me). The other problem is really driving me nuts. I can't for the life of me get the temp sensors on the 7NIF2 to report correct temperatures. I've tried various versions of i2c and lm_sensors as well as following various sets of instructions found via google. No matter what I do the CPU temp fluctuates wildly from -14C to 80C. Obviously my CPU is not running at -14C, let alone jumping to 34C a second or two later. In all my attempts to correct this sensor error, the most I've been able to do is totally hose my ivtv drivers (requiring about 4 hours of tinkering to get it back) while still getting bad temp readings. If you're planning to monitor the temp in your system I'd consider looking at a different board unless anyone else here has some suggestions for making it work. If you don't care about the temp sensors I'd highly recommend this board. Brad ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Power to the Masses (CPU Power that is) - LONG!!
On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 12:50:54 -0800, Richard J. Sears [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here is the plan for the backend: HD-3000 HDTV PCI Card Hauppauge WinTV PVR-350 (someone said you cannot watch DVD's with this card, has that been corrected, or should I stick with the 250..?) As pretty much everyone else mentioned, you only need the 350 if you have a combined frontend/backend system. For any encoders in the backend I'd stick with the 250 (or possibly a 150 or 500 as they are much cheaper and the ivtv developers seem to be very close to supporting the 150 quite well). That being said, you may want to be careful about how many tuners you put into your backend. I don't have any specifics on this, but I know I've seen posts from people talking about bottlenecks on the PCI bus when too many tuners are active in the same system. There are several people on the list that have master backend/multiple frontend systems and they seem to like a few tuners in the backend and a single tuner in some of the frontends. Considering that all of the PVR-xxx cards do hardware encoding it's not going to cost you much, if any, CPU on the frontends to do capture there and it might save you a lot of headache trying to work out bottlenecks on the backend machine. I currently use a pvr-350 in a combined frontend/backend machine (athlon 1400+) and the TV-out quality is amazing. However, I am unable to use mythgame because the -350 tv-out doesn't support any kind of hardware acceleration and I sometimes have trouble with dvd playback for the same reason. If you're planning to playback dvd's on your frontend systems I'd highly recommend avoiding the -350 and going with an nvidia card (a lot of people seem to recommend the FX5200 or FX440). Do I need a real good video card for this system since it will not be hooked to a TV at all...? Nope, any card will do for setup and you probably don't even need a monitor at all once the system is up and running. In fact, my combined FE/BE system only uses the -350 tv-out and that doesn't even display anything until X starts and fires up mythfrontend. Do I need a decent sound card to capture the sound, or will the ivtv driver work for both the 250/350 and the HD-3000 Definitely not for the -250, but I have no idea on the HD-3000 (I don't get HD programming yet). How powerful of a CPU do I need to handle the HDTV stuff. I realize that the 350 has a builtin hardware mpeg encoder/decoder, but I am not sure about the HDTV side of the house. Pretty much anything will do in the backend as it's just writing data directly to disk. However, your frontend machines will need to be pretty powerful as they need to decode the HD stream and display it. I believe I saw somewhere that someone has an athlon 2700+ (or something close to that) and it's ALMOST fast enough to do live tv in HD. Do I need a separate tuner card in the backend system for each frontend system in order for them to watch separate 'live' channels..? SO if I had 3 frontend systems that wanted to watch different 'live' channels, I would need 3 x PVR-350's..? Again, you won't need the -350, but yes, you will need a separate tuner for each concurrent channel being watched (this includes live TV on all backends as well as any current recordings). As I mentioned earlier, you may want to look into placing a tuner in several of your frontends (effectively making them slave backends also). This will offload some of the burden from the master backend as well as providing a local tuner for live TV on those frontend systems. Also, keep in mind that if you have 3 pvr-xxx cards and a single HD card you will be able to watch live SD tv on 3 frontends (as long as nothing is being recorded), but you will only be able to watch HD on a single frontend at any given time (unless you're recording an HD program in which case you won't be able to watch live HD tv at all until the recording is complete). So, if you want to be able to watch live SD or HD tv on all 3 frontends at any given time you'll need at least 3 pvr-xxx cards and at least 3 HD encoders as well. On the frontend, I assume that I need 1) Hard Drive 2) Good Video Card 3) Good Sound Card The hard drive does not have to be that big because its only going to run the front end application correct..? No need for mysql, and all the extra stuff that had to been installed in the backend, or am I incorrect here..? Exactly correct. I have a single 8GB hard drive in my combined FE/BE system (the drives for storage are mounted from my NFS server in the back room). If you plan to hook the frontend systems to a home theater receiver you should look into a sound card that has spdif optical output. I believe many people here have sung the praises of the Turtle Beach Riviera card. (I personally use a Zoltrix Nightingale card, but you'll probably be hard pressed to find one of those still for sale). On the video card, I was told to use a card that
Re: [mythtv-users] FAO Myth distro package maintainers.
On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 09:40:57 +, David [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been thinking about Myth's stability. Generally the releases are pretty good (!) :) However, occasionally things happen (0.15.1, the nfs file close problem in 0.16, the ww.weather.com issue) ie right now I'd like to see 0.17.1 include a fix for the weather problem rather than wait until 0.18 (or hacking hosts/xml) (Well, truth be told, I'm still on 0.16 so I'd have have liked an nfs-close patch release...) The problem with this is that the fix for weather is mixed in with a load of other CVS changes so it's hard to create a 0.17.1 I was wondering whether a leaf could be taken out of the linux kernel's recent 'stable' approach? Essentially gather a set of patches together that all the maintainers can use to release 'stable' upgrades? All distro packagers could submit/veto patches... that kind of thing. These patches would offer no new features but would fix simple bugs. In general they'd have been applied to CVS. Maybe not all bugs - some would be too intrusive, the fix may be CVS only etc etc. The objective being that an 'upgrade' to one of these point/patch releases would be a very safe, 5 minute job with (almost!) zero risk of screwing up. Any patch that doesn't meet these criteria could be vetoed. Users could then safely be told to upgrade to a point/patch release whenever a new one was released (hey, by version 0.20, maybe that could be (semi-)automatic a la MS automatic updates) I was also wondering whether this should be agreed amongst the distro maintainers (it'd be nice if all of them using the same subversion were based on at least the same source code) Also, I'd stress that (unless they want it to be) this would not be an official developer supported thing - more a package maintainer applying a bug for his customers - essentially the same as Debian does in applying patches to the package and then forwarding them upstream. Maybe it would be worth considering a myth-packagers mail list to promote some consistency amongst the packages? David PS Although I used 0.17.1 as an example, I think that Isaac 'owns' that numbering format - I'd suggest a suffix -p1, -p2 etc But I'd like all the distros to mean the same thing. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users Actually, there has been a discussion going on in the -dev list about this for the past few days. It has finally been determined that, starting with the 0.18 release, a stable branch of the cvs tree will be maintained (for only the latest release) for the express purpose of allowing bugfixes (but no new features) to be rolled into point releases so that users will be able to upgrade after a release without having to use current cvs or wait for the next full release. Thanks go out to Jarod Wilson for volunteering to maintain the stable branch and making this possible. Brad ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] (no subject)
On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 10:06:57 -0800, Don [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Can someone please help me with this.
All I need mysql for is to run mythtv.
To use SET PASSWORD on Unix, do this:
shell mysql -u root
mysql SET PASSWORD FOR ''@'localhost' = PASSWORD('newpwd');
mysql SET PASSWORD FOR ''@'host_name' = PASSWORD('newpwd');
In the second SET PASSWORD statement, replace host_name with the name of
the server host. This is the name that is specified in the Host column
of the non-localhost record for root in the user table. If you don't
know what hostname this is, issue the following statement before using
SET PASSWORD:
mysql SELECT Host, User FROM mysql.user;
Look for the record that has root in the User column and something other
than localhost in the Host column. Then use that Host value in the
second SET PASSWORD statement.
mysql SELECT Host, User FROM mysql.user;
+---++
| Host | User |
+---++
| % | mythtv |
| localhost ||
| localhost | root |
+---++
There is no 'root' with something else for a host.
How do I solve this?
dlw
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Most likely you can find out the hostname by executing 'hostname'
(without the quotes) from the command line on the machine that is
running mysql.
Also, in the future you should NEVER send a post to the list with no
subject line. It just so happens that I'm bored at the moment and was
curious what was in your post, but nine times out of ten no one is
going to read the post, let alone replay to it, if you don't include a
subject line giving at least a vague idea of what your question is.
Brad
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Re: [mythtv-users] Hauppauge WINTV-PVR-500MCE
On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 15:40:15 -0800, Jarod Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 10 March 2005 13:34, Brad Benson wrote: Also, a single 500 will work with 2 250s in the same backend in harmony? I'm not aware of any reason why it wouldn't, but I haven't yet grouped my 150 or 500 with other ivtv cards (besides each other, which works fine). I'll be able to test this in a few weeks when my new 500 gets here. :) I'll try to beat you to it. My PVR-250 is sitting on my desk right now, completely unused at the moment, along with a pair of M179s... Jarod, any luck (or even time to try) running the 250 alongside the 500? I'm still waiting for my 500 to ship so I'm not able to do any testing yet. Also, as an aside, I downloaded the latest ivtv-0.3 driver and am not able to compile it on my system running FC1 on 2.4.22-1.2199.nptl_52.rhfc1.at kernel from atrpms. I know I need to pose this question on the ivtv list, but I thought someone might know offhand why that driver wouldn't compile. I'm betting there's something (module, patch, etc) that's not included in that kernel that I need. I know I need to upgrade my FC1 box to FC3, but I've been putting that off until I absolutely have to. Of course, if I need FC3 to install the latest ivtv drivers then I guess it's time to do that. Brad ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] how to select from multiple input sources?
On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 21:20:10 -0800, MagicITX [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any way to specify the default capture card when mythfrontend start up? A command line parameter perhaps? Or if one capture card is busy with one mythfrontend instances will a second mythfrontend instance automatically use the second capture card? My understanding is that when Live TV is selected Myth grabs the first input device it can find that is not currently in use. I believe by default it starts at device 0 and works its way to the higher numbered devices until one is found. There is also a setting somewhere (mythtvsetup?) where you can enable some additional 'intelligence' in the selection of the default device for live tv. Brad ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] OT: 160 gig WD - $40
On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 16:09:00 -0500, Jeff Simpson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 16:02:01 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use 4 IDE drives on the motherboard's (2) IDE controllers. Using them as a stripe set in their master-slave configuration is fine, even for my VideoToaster which does uncompressed D1 NTSC/PAL video. I don't quite think it is as fast as 60 MB/s, but if I remember right the test utility reported an average of ~52 MB/s... until about 40% of drives were used then it quickly dropped down to ~26-22 MB/s. I'm still wondering how USB 2.0 would do... yes it'd be a permanent connection, and cheaper than SCSI, and possibly cheaper than SATA, especially since I have no open PCI slots, but available USB 2.0 ports. With a lack of PCI slots and IDE channels, USB seems like the next available option. I personally would have opted for an external NFS server before paying for external drives, however. Gigabit or even 100 meg ethernet should be reasonably fast for video, especially if it's dedicated and on a switch, and you can get an NFS server running on a pretty low-end system (assuming it supports large drive capacities, of course). Plus it gives you future expandability (and you can seperate your frontend/backend like that as well) This is, in fact, exactly what I ended up doing with my Myth system. My master backend/frontend system is in the living room, but it only contains a single 8GB drive for the OS. All myth data is stored on the NFS server in the closet in the back room - connected via 100MB switched ethernet. I've had it running like this for about 3 months now and I have yet to see a single problem. Oh, the NFS server is a PII 266 with 192MB of RAM. I did have to install an additional IDE controller in order to support the dual 160GB drives in there as the motherboard was too old to support drives that big, but that controller only cost me $25. Brad ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] SPDIF output works for MythMusic, but not MythTV
On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 14:48:15 -0600, Andrew Close [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: you can buy a male to male stereo patch cable and plug one end into the output of your pvr-350 and the other into the input of your sound card. when you listen to music it will be the same as usual. when you watch tv you should now get sound out of the SPDIF port. not pretty, but it should work. I've got a related problem and it's been driving me nuts for quite a while now. I have a pvr350 and a zoltrix nightingale soundcard (c-media CM8738 using cmpci kernel module). I have the 350 audio outputs linked into the line in of the soundcard and both spdif optical and stereo rca connections from the soundcard outputs to my receiver's inputs. I've tried the instructions in the DigitalSoundHowTo on mythtv.info that say to set Analog to IEC958 Output to on in alsamxer. The problem is that alsamixer has a setting labeled just IEC958 Output which seems to have no effect whether it is on or off. There is another setting labeled IEC958 Loop. My understanding of this setting is that it pipes the analog input back out through the spdif output. However, when I enable this setting I am very clearly getting analog audio coming into the receiver, but sound works for all parts of myth. (I know this because I can disconnect the spdif cable and still get sound, but when I disconnect the analog cables sound goes away.) When I disable this setting I get audio over the spdif connector for MythMusic, MythVideo, MythDVD, etc. Everything EXCEPT tv. The only way I've found so far to get sound from tv over the spdif connector is to use the instructions from the DigitalSoundHowTo for Via sound chips. The problem there is that the only way to get that to work is to issue this command from the command line: arecord -D hw:0,0 -fdat | aplay -D mixed-digital This works perfectly for outputting tv audio over the spdif connector, but there is no way to automatically execute that command every time myth plays a recording and if I leave that command running all the time I get double audio from all other parts of myth (music, video, etc). Has anyone else had a similar problem? Is anyone else using a cmpci sound device succesfully using spdif output for all parts of myth? The sound quality I get over spdif is obviously much better than the analog connections, but right now I'm stuck using analog for everything in order to avoid having to switch audio inputs when using different parts of myth (because that's too much for the GF to handle ;). Thanks, Brad ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Re: MythWeather Animated Maps Cannot Download?
On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 01:59:57 -0500, Maverick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can we get these changes committed to CVS? I just requested to join mythtv-dev, so if it doesn't happen before they approve my addition, I'll submit a proper patch. -Kenneth ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users I've just submitted a patch to mythtv-dev which adds a few new entries in the db for weather data URL's. This would allow us to quickly and easily adapt to changes in weather data sources as long as the data format remains unchanged. Obviously, using this patch would still require a recompile of mythweather right now, but any future changes could be handled by simply changing a setting in the db. There are hardcoded default values that reflect the currently working URL's so you don't need to make any db changes right now, only if the URL's change again in the future. I've attached my patch to this post as well in case some of the folks on the -users list may find it useful to fix the immediate mythweather problems. Brad mythweather_server_config.patch Description: Binary data ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] HELP settings table got hosed
On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 17:30:43 -0400, Mark J. Small [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I recently had a messy incident on my mythtv backend after my hard disk filled up. Now somehow my settings table has gotten completely hosed. When I look at the database with mysql-query-browser, it can not fetch the columns for the table settings. When I try to run mythfrontend, I get this: 2005-03-14 17:30:00.043 Told to create a NEW database schema, but the database already has 55 tables. If you are sure this is a good mythtv database, verify that the settings table has the DBSchemaVer variable. 2005-03-14 17:30:00.043 Couldn't upgrade database to new schema, exiting. I have a backup from just before I upgraded to 0.17. What can I do? Mark ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users My first suggestion would be to make a back up of your current db then drop the mythconverg database and run mythtvsetup. You'll probably want to tell mythtvsetup to clear all settings for tuners and channels. I believe that running mythtvsetup should setup the mythconverg database for you. If not then it should get setup the first time you start the backend or frontend. Of course, any settings you've changed recently will have to be changed back as all the default settings will be inserted when the db is recreated. As long as you make a backup of your current db before you do this you can always roll it back to your currently hosed version and try some other method if this doesn't work, but I expect this should get you fixed up and ready to run again. Brad ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Mythweather quit working?
On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 02:25:46 -0600, Matt S. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone else experiencing this? When I try to launch it, it times out. When I look at the command line it complains about not being able to contact the weather.com site. When I try to manually enter the URL it lists, it won't work either. Anyone else seing this issue? Thanks! Matt ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users Someone else reported this earlier today and included a patch to fix mythweather 0.17. It appears that mythweather is hardcoded to retrieve weather data from w3.weather.com and weather.com changed their DNS entries so that w3.weather.com no longer resolves. You can either apply the patch included in this conversation: http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/117858 or just go through mythweather.cpp and change all occurrences of w3.weather.com to www.weather.com. After making the change you will need to recompile and reinstall mythweather for the changes to take effect. Brad ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Hauppauge WINTV-PVR-500MCE
Also, a single 500 will work with 2 250s in the same backend in harmony? I'm not aware of any reason why it wouldn't, but I haven't yet grouped my 150 or 500 with other ivtv cards (besides each other, which works fine). I'll be able to test this in a few weeks when my new 500 gets here. :) I've currently got a single 350 doing encode and decode on my MBE/FE system. When the 500 gets here I'll be putting that in the same system with the 350 and I'll report back with any problems. Thanks for your hard work on this Jarod! I've really been wanting to add a new tuner and 2 is always better than 1 (as long as the 2 actually work ;) ). Since I only have 1 PCI slot left I was really hoping the 500 would get some working drivers. Brad ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Hauppauge WINTV-PVR-500MCE
On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 15:40:15 -0800, Jarod Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've currently got a single 350 doing encode and decode on my MBE/FE system. When the 500 gets here I'll be putting that in the same system with the 350 and I'll report back with any problems. One more thing to note about the 150 and 500 coexisting with a 350 and/or 250... At the moment, scaling the video down to anything less than full-resolution (720x480 NTSC, 720x576 PAL) at encoding time is not yet possible on the 150 and 500, so your recording profiles will have to all use 720x480 for the moment. I believe scaling is one of the next things on the list to tackle... Not a problem really. I've been recording at 720x480 for ease of converting to DVD, but just today I switched that down to 352x480 since I get pretty much the same quality video and save some space. But hey, I've been getting 720x480 so why not go back to it if I can record 3 shows simultaneously rather than just 1? Thanks for your hard work on this Jarod! The bigger thanks go to a number of folks on the ivtv list, the tveeprom and tuner stuff I did was pretty trivial compared to the work they did on the cx25840 component. But I'll take what I can get. ;-) Well then, thanks to all those folks as well. :) But I don't think I ever sent out a big thank you for the FC install guide without which I would've spent MUCH more time getting my first box up and running. When I told my GF that I was building a tivo she looked at me like I had two heads and she was still perturbed with the amount of time I spent on it. Without your guide I probably wouldn't have a GF anymore. :) I've really been wanting to add a new tuner and 2 is always better than 1 (as long as the 2 actually work ;) ). Since I only have 1 PCI slot left I was really hoping the 500 would get some working drivers. For the most part, my analog tuners do next to nothing anymore. I've got a pcHDTV HD-2000 capture OTA HD, cable HD coming off my cable box via FireWire, and an Air2PC card I'm still working on (can't seem to get anything off cable at the moment, may just move it to OTA as well). Getting my 150 and 500 working has mostly been just for fun! :-) I'm glad you had fun doing it (although that's why we all do it, right?). I don't yet have an HDTV so the HD stuff is just pie in the sky for me at this point. I'm happy to not have to miss the new South Park on Wednesday because the GF wants to make sure we get the new episode of Newlyweds on MTV. God forbid I'd just watch South Park when it's on live TV. Live TV? What's that? ;) Brad ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Re: mythtv backend on a headless fileserver
On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 18:01:49 -0800, Jarod Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ssh w/X11 forwarding works just fine for me. Enable X11-forwarding in the backend's sshd config file, then: ssh -X [EMAIL PROTECTED] Not sure what else might need doing, this works out of the box on FC3 (X11-forwarding is already enabled in FC3's sshd, but the -X is needed to tell the client to enable X11-forwarding also). If you don't already have it, create ~/.ssh/config on the client machine. Then add this: Host * ForwardX11 yes This will automatically enable X11 forwarding for any machine you log into. Of course, it's much safer to add, say: Host mymythbackend ForwardX11 yes That way you only explicitly allow X forwarding for the machine named mymythbackend. All other machines you log into will not allow X forwarding unless you include -X on the command line. You can add as many Host entries as you like, but keep in the mind that the first entry in the file takes precedence so make sure any 'Host *' entry is the last one in the file. If 'Host *' is the first entry in the config file my understanding is that it will override any other settings you have in there. Brad ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] can this list go on gmane?
On Wed, 2 Mar 2005 15:56:04 -0600, John Goerzen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 04:14:21PM -0500, Jay R. Ashworth wrote: Allow me to head this off... An earlier attempt to mirror the lists to gmane was made; Isaac wasn't all that happy with it. It might happen again later, or not. Do you know why? I believe it had something to do with someone, at some point, submitting the list to gmane without Isaac's knowledge or consent. That resulted in large amounts of spam to list members. Hence, Isaac isn't thrilled about travelling that road again. At least that's what I recall. I'm sure if you just visited the archives at gossamer-threads and did a simple search on gmane you'd turn up plenty of good info as this has been discussed at length several times. In fact, the gmane/forum vs. mailing list discussion is probably one of the most frequent OT posts on this list. Brad ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Removing Parts of Myth
On Tue, 1 Mar 2005 16:06:53 -0500, Thom Paine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 3) Disable GNOME/KDE and use a lightweight windowmanager like fluxbox, fvwm, etc. I'd like to explore this option. I'm currently using gnome, but had heard that fluxbox was faster for something like this. I'll look into it more. Take a look at the ratpoison and blackbox window managers. I used blackbox for a long time on my mythbox as it's very lightweight, but I eventually ran into some focus problems (mplayer and xine would start up behind the myth menu window so you could never actually view movies, only hear them). When I had those problems I switched to ratpoison which is extremely lightweight and have never had another problem since. It definitely made a HUGE difference in startup time moving from KDE to ratpoison on my Athlon 1600+. Brad ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Install MAC OSX Frontend
On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 09:52:39 +0100, Lorenzo Palliser Barber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Pascal. When I install SqlServer in my Mini, following the instruccions of http://www.mythtv.info/moin.cgi/MythOnMacOsx , i do this: 6. MySQL Again, there's nothing too complicated. You only need the client library from MySQL, so these commands turn off a lot of the parts that the installation offers. curl http://mysql.mirrors.pair.com/Downloads/MySQL-4.1/mysql-4.1.9.tar.gz | tar -xz cd mysql-4.1.9 ./configure --disable-static --without-debug \ --without-server --without-geometry \ --without-extra-tools --without-docs \ --without-man --without-bench make LDFLAGS=-no-undefined -Wl,-prebind,-seg1addr,0xC200 sudo make install cd .. And the problem persist (i can´t locate the MySQL database). Redo this entire step, but remove the --without-server part from the ./configure line. Those directions are for installation of a frontend on a mac, assuming that there is a separate backend server already in place. Since you don't have a separate backend server you'll need to install the MySQL server on your mac (and adding --without-server to the ./configure line prevents installation of the server). After you have installed MySQL you'll need to follow the instructions here to configure the mythtv database: http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-6.html#ss6.2 Once that's complete you'll need to edit /usr/share/mythtv/mysql.txt to set these variables: DBHostName=127.0.0.1 DBUserName=mythtv DBPassword=mythtv DBName=mythconverg That should get your frontend up and running. Brad ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] how to decrease time needed for switch channels in live-TV ?
On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 09:31:37 +, Chris Martin Two ideas that I had on this subject: idea 1 Would it be technically possible to have an option to enable the PVR functionality only once the pause button is pressed (i.e. only create a buffer on pause)? You'd lose the ability to rewind through stuff you'd just been watching , but it might work better for some people. I'm not sure how well that would work, but the first thing that comes to mind is that if you don't create the buffer until the user presses the pause button then you absolutely can't pause on the same frame they were watching when the button was pressed (since it's already been displayed to the monitor and not written to disk). At best you could pause at the next frame, which is probably acceptable to most people, but this would really depend on the overhead required to open the new buffer file and start writing video to that file. idea 2 Is it possible to send video to the screen and also write it a file (albeit with some delay in writing it to the file)? If so you could again start watching TV straight away and then have a buffer 3 seconds behind that could be switched to once pause/rewind etc was pressed. Again there would have to be a delay for the PVR functionality and I could see problems in how to handle the transition to the buffer. Again, I'm not sure on the feasability of writing to the monitor and a buffer at the same time, but I'd expect it would be a fairly intricate task if it's even possible at all. However, the real problem, as you mentioned, would be the transition from live video to the buffer. I'm not sure it would even be possible to determine which frame in the buffer corresponds to the frame that is currently displayed on the monitor. To be honest, I don't think this feature is very high on the list for most, if not all, of the developers since, to my knowledge, the vast majority of myth users rarely, if ever, use the live tv functions. I can't remember the last time I watched live tv since I've always got a disk full of recorded shows that I can watch commercial-free. Brad ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: Non-live surfing Re: [mythtv-users] how to decrease time needed for switch channels in live-TV ?
On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 12:30:56 -0800, Brad Templeton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However, if you want to help the surfers, here is something you could code. People are making the mistake that channel surfing has to be LIVE. It might not be.So write a program that uses all available tuners to grab snippets from a set of channels -- short snippets from all channels, longer from favourite channels and even longer from adjacent channels in the surf list. Use the listings data to assure the snippit is from the same program that is on now. Do this constantly, be constantly grabbing snippets, updating them if they get too old. When the user wants to surf, surf the snippets (which always start with a key frame) When he actually changes channels move into an even more agressive snippet grabbing mode that tries to update nearby channels if it can. Use all available tuners for the given video source. In theory I think this is an excellent idea. However, the biggest problem I see is lack of sufficient tuners to support this feature. I currently have a single tuner system which means that if I'm watching live TV there is no way for me to grab snippets from another channel without changing what I'm currently watching. Even in a 2 tuner system, if you're watching live TV and there is one program being recorded you're in the same boat. Let's assume a 2 tuner system with no current recordings. One tuner would obviously be used for whatever channel the user is currently viewing. This leaves the other tuner to hop around gathering snippets from other channels. Assuming each snippet is 30 seconds long that means that you'd have to stay on each channel for at least 30 seconds or risk catching up to the snippet grabbing and being stuck with the typical black screen again. I don't know about you, but back in my channel surfing days it was rare for me to stay on any one channel for more than 5-10 seconds unless it looked interesting by that point. It seems to me that to make this a feasible option you'd need a system with at least 4 tuners per video source. At that rate, for a system than only supports analog cable, you're looking at $400+ just for tuners in the system. You might as well just go out and buy a standard TV and use that for channel surfing. Brad ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] how to decrease time needed for switch channels in live-TV ?
On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 00:15:54 -0500, Brad Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, the first thing you'd have to do, from my understanding, is remove the PVR functions from live TV watching. The reason for the delay in changing channels is the need to build up a buffer of video before displaying it to the user. When watching live tv in myth you're actually watching video that is about 3 seconds behind the real live feed because the video is recorded and you are really watching the recorded video just after it's recorded. Since myth can only buffer video as fast as it's being received you can't buffer 3 seconds of video in less than 3 seconds. One thing I forgot to mention is that, with a single tuner card, any PVR can only tune one channel at a time so if you're watching, for instance, channel 4 then that's what's getting put in the buffer. When you change to channel 5 then the system has to start buffering video on that channel. There's no way to buffer more than one channel without multiple tuners and even then it's pretty difficult. Besides, who's to say what the additional buffered channels should be? If the system is buffering channels 4, 5 and 6 on the three (hypothetical) tuners available and you jump to channel 57 you're still gonna have to wait for those 3 seconds to start buffering that channel and now you've just wasted the time/CPU/disk space that you were using to buffer channels 5 and 6. Make sense? Brad ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Front end machine 30' away from TV/stero?
I've got an old NVidia card (an Asus branded GForce2-MX400), and I've tried running the composite out from that card to the TV over a 30' coax cable with F-RCA converters on both ends -- under the assumption that the coax (RG6) cable would be better shielded than a standard RCA cable -- is this true? The resulting signal on the TV is very dirty, with distortion in the middle of the screen and bands that cycle top to bottom. Is there anything I can do (better cable, a signal amp, something else?) to get video from the server to the TV cleanly? Or am I stuck with needing a second computer for the frontend in the TV room? Based on your description of the dirty signal you're seeing on your TV it sounds very similar to the distortion I was getting at one point from a ground loop problem. My cable run was only about 6 feet, but the signal distortion was horrendous. It turned out that my backend had a three-prong grounded plug, but my tv and receiver both had two-prong ungrounded plugs. This was causing a ground loop when connecting the backend computer to the tv and stereo. I eventually solved this by picking up some 12-gauge copper wire from home depot and connecting the ground screws on the tv and stereo to the metal plate in the power outlet where the backend was plugged in. This brought the ground for all three devices into sync and removed the distortion I was seeing. Since plain copper wire is pretty cheap from home depot you may want to give this a try before changing out parts of your 30' run. If need be you can temporarily use some old speaker wire to try this out and see if it makes any difference before you go pick up new ground wire at home depot. I wouldn't leave that speaker wire in place for an extended period of time, but you should be able to use it to test. Brad ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] mythweb question
On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 19:47:58 -0500, Justin Hunt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just wondering if its possible to delete more than one show at a time with mythweb or the frontend for that matter. I don't think there's any way to delete multiple shows with mythweb, but if you're running 0.17 you can do it with the frontend. In the Watch Recordings screen highlight a recording and press 'i'. One of the options on the menu should be 'add to playlist'. Do this for each recording you wish to delete. Then hit 'm' to bring up the menu. Select 'Playlist menu' and you should have an option to delete all shows currently in the playlist. Hope that helps. Brad ___ 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 [PATCH]
On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 01:53:42 -0500 (EST), Chris Pinkham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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. If you haven't already, can you make it so that the description of the User Job shows on the popup menu and not just User Job #1, etc.. -- Chris ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users Here's an updated version of my patch that fixes the translation problems and removes a lot of the repeated code. Brad manual_user_jobs.patch Description: Binary data ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] vonage caller id
On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 23:31:37 -0500, Zachary Bedell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 First of all, if I can put in my Me Too! for the Vonage caller-id sniffer. That sounds like a useful little bit of code. I'd be happy to host the script on my site if it doesn't have anywhere else to live. On Jan 29, 2005, at 1:47 PM, James Armstrong wrote: I have the same problem with Mythnotify, it does not display while not watching tv. I have been thinking about trying to write something in the frontend that will just display a popup qt box that will do the same while in the menus. I've had good luck using xYac (which uses XOsd) to handle caller-id pop-ups. It displays over anything in X including videos in MPlayer, DVDs in Ogle, and all the various Myth plugins. In my Myth startup script, I have the following line right before the call to Mythfrontend: xyac -c yellow -f -adobe-utopia-bold-r-normal--*-400-*-*-*-*-* -s 5 That gives me a fairly large yellow pop-up that stays for 5 seconds then disappears when I get an incoming call. If you're not familiar with Yac, you can find info here: http://www.sunflowerhead.com/software/yac/ Yac is a really simple TCP protocol for caller-id announcements. Just open a connection, send a string like @CALLJohn Doe~(123)555-1234\0, then close the port. You can find xYac here: http://bah.org/tivo You can find the xosd package here: http://www.ignavus.net/software.html I've been using xYac for a long time now (longer than Myth even), and it's worked flawlessly. I use Asterisk to provide the caller-id info from another server where I have a very simple program that sends info in the Yac protocol. My YacSend program is based on elseed (the TiVo caller-id server). You can get YacSend here: http://www.thebedells.org/software/yacsend-0.6.0.tar.gz Best regards, Zac Bedell == Brought to you by MacOS, running on host Ringo Running for: 4 days, 4 hours, 32 minutes -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (Darwin) iEYEARECAAYFAkH9tLAACgkQq+EtLVpY/F7yDACgn2cFFcjyj8fmZTyCDEhL/OdF KkUAoKfV5IRszGgAhPXbYBLAjQMI3GA8 =MoPl -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users I like this method of displaying caller id info a lot and it's almost working wonderfully for me. As long as I'm not actually watching a recorded show in myth everything appears to work just great. Unfortunately, if I happen to be watching a recording when xyac receives an event my screen goes black except for the yac text on the screen. The text appears to be transparent as I can see the recording through the 'stencil' of the text, but the rest of the screen is black. After the yac timeout expires the text disappears and I'm left with a black screen. In order to see my recording again I have to stop/pause/ff/rew/play. I'm not sure if it matters, but I'm using the tv-out of a pvr-350. Come to think of it, I need to test this on my remote frontend which is displaying on a monitor using an nvidia card and see what that does. In the meantime, anyone know if/why xyac might have trouble with the pvr-350 tv-out? Brad ___ 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
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] Custom Job Queues from mythfrontend
On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 09:06:35 -0400, Greg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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 Okay folks, here's a patch to allow users to start User Jobs from the Job Options menu just like you can do with transcoding and commercial flagging. I'm pretty confident that it works 100%, but please let me know if anyone runs into any problems with it. Also, please be aware that while I am very familiar with coding in C my C++ experience is VERY limited. This is, in fact, my first ever patch to C++ code so if there's some ugly code in there or something not done correctly please feel free to point it out to me - I'd appreciate the education. :) Brad ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Myth gets mplayer key events...
On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 15:16:48 -0500, Craig Partin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 12:31:22 -0700, Clint Silvester [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Magnus Ekhall wrote: I'm now using mplayer as a player in MythVideo, but I have some problems. During playback, mplayer does not respond to my keyboard. However, when the playback is finished I can see that the key-events got handled by Myth instead. Even though Myth was in the background! Anyone knows what is happening? Also, the lirc bindings to mplayer doesn't work, but that may be a different story... Cheers, Magnus ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users I think this happens when you don't have a windowmanager. Clint Silvester ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users Yes, that sounds like a window focus issue. There are many window manager discussions in the archive. The lirc problem might have to do with the location of your lircrc file. Some programs look in the home directory for a .lircrc and myth needs it in .mythtv/lircrc. I keep a copy in both locations for this reason. Or there may be an mplayer flag to specify a location, I don't remember offhand. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users mplayer is supposed to look for your lirc config file in ~/.lircrc by default, but for some reason I've had some problems with that in the past. You can always specify your lirc config file to mplayer with the command-line argument -lircconf /path/to/config/file. Also, I recently fixed a problem where Myth was working fine with lirc, but mplayer wasn't. It turned out that I had two different versions of liblirc_client.so installed on my system - one in /usr/lib and the other in /usr/local/lib. Myth was using the correct one and mplayer was using the wrong one. Try running 'locate liblirc_client' and make sure any files it finds are only in one place. Brad ___ 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...
Thats a good idea. Is there a way to play a DVD right from the drive on the backend and view it on the front end then? Or does it need to be ripped first? Yes, there is a way to do this with MythDVD. Search the archives for a post titled DVD Playback across the wire. It requires xine on the frontend where you want to view the DVD's and a custom compiled from source xine with the inclusion of cdda_server on the backend that has the DVD drive. I've set this up on my system and tested it minimally and it seems to work although I haven't yet actually watched a full DVD on the remote frontend. Brad ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Time Stretch w/ PVR-350
I just tried to give the new time stretch feature a go and it doesn't appear to function correctly on the 350's tv-out. Time stretch works like a charm on my remote frontend which is displaying on my workstation's monitor and using the workstation's speakers for sound, but when I try to time stretch the same recording on the master BE/FE the video appears to speed up correctly, but I still get the chipmunks-style audio. Both systems are using 0.17 on FC1, but the BE/FE box is using the pvr-350's tv-out for video and the audio from the 350 piped into the sound card line-in and then routed out to my HT receiver. Is this a known problem with time-stretch and the 350 output or is there some setting that I need to change? Thanks, Brad ___ 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, 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 features that they would like to see added to myth. I'd be willing to bet that the majority of features that have been added to myth are the result of a developer wanting that feature and creating support for it. If enough people want it badly enough, the feature will probably get implemented eventually. However, you'll either have to wait until one of the developers decide that they need this function or you'll have to start learning C++ and add it yourself. Yes, it's true that there is no simple, idiot-proof method to burn myth recordings to DVD, but the fact is that it is entirely possible to do this with a little effort on your part. You're basically saying that some of the developers should stop working on the features they're working on (like bug fixes, support for some of the newer HDTV cards, newer hauppauge cards, updated mythmusic interface, etc) and work on the feature you want. The way myth works is this: if you want it, code it. If you're not willing to code it then wait until someone else is. You're certainly not out of line in letting folks know that this is a feature you'd like, but the tone of your email seemed to imply that this is a feature that is seriously degrading the quality of myth for you. I don't mean this to come across as rude, but as I'm sure you'll soon hear from others, if myth doesn't do what you want it to then don't use it. We don't really care if you use it or not. If you like it, great. If you don't, we're not going to lose any sleep over it. So please, either add the feature, respectfully request that it be added to
Re: [mythtv-users] Feature Request: Shoutcast streams and Apple trailers like on Xbox Media center.
On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 04:14:50 +0100, Robert Krig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was over at a friends house the other day. He has a modded Xbox with Xbox Media Center running on it. Anyways, two features impressed me, which mythtv to my knowledge doesnt do. 1. There was the possibility to navigate and select shoutcast.com and other internet radio sites to select a stream to listen to. 2. There was also a feature so you could watch trailers from the apple quicktime trailer site. The trailer feature didnt show the apple webpage or anything, just a text list linking to the different movie trailers, upon selection, you could then choose the resolution, small, medium or Large. These two features dont seem to be too complicated and in my opinion would make a nice addition to MythTV. Just a thought at any rate. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users To my knowledge myth doesn't have anything like the Apple movie trailers section, but there is a (AFAIK unsupported) myth plugin called MythFM that plays internet radio. I don't recall the URL for it at the moment, but if you google on MythFM I'm sure you can turn it up pretty easily. Brad ___ 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 Tue, 15 Feb 2005 19:34:44 -0800, Lonnie Borntreger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2005-02-15 at 22:18 -0500, Brad Benson wrote: To my knowledge myth doesn't have anything like the Apple movie trailers section, but there is a (AFAIK unsupported) myth plugin called MythFM that plays internet radio. I don't recall the URL for it at the moment, but if you google on MythFM I'm sure you can turn it up pretty easily. According to its website, MythFM is for broadcast radio using a TV card's FM tuner, not for Internet radio. Lonnie ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users 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. Brad ___ 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 Wed, 16 Feb 2005 05:24:43 +0100, Robert Krig [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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? 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 could go through a third party news service, but for that I have to pay a monthly fee. Email is easy to setup, pretty much everyone who has internet access has it and it's free (excepting the cost of your connection and you'd need that for newsgroups anyway). Besides, it seems that an awful lot of people on this list prefer the mailing list. Plus if we add a newsgroup that's just one more thing for Isaac or someone else to have to maintain. I, for one, would prefer that the developers are able to spend their time developing myth rather than maintaining multiple sources of help to cater to the preferences of everyone who uses it. Besides, I'd be willing to bet a lot of money that if we added a newsgroup we'd start seeing posts like A newsgroup was added for those people, why can't we have a forum too 'cause that's the method I like better Brad ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] PVR 350 and digital out
On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 19:34:14 +0100, Stefan Schor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I have a PVR 350 card which I use as TV out (video and audio). Now I want to use the digital out of my main board (the digital out works fine if I use aplay e.g. aplay -D digital test.wav). Is this configuration possible with mythtv? I read something, that this configuration is not possible. That when I enable the tv-out of the PVR 350, the audio will also be send to this card. I tried some configurations on the new version of mythtv 0.17. When using ALSA: digital or ALSA:spdif as audio device, I got an error Rate does't match (requested 0Hz got 4000Hz or Rate does't match (requested 0Hz got 48000Hz. Can someone help me? Best regards, stefan ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users http://www.mythtv.info/moin.cgi/DigitalSoundHowTo ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] v.17 success stories?
Working great for me now. I had some initial troubles, but that was because I compiled from source before the 0.17 rpms were available and I forgot to remove the libmyth-0.16 rpm before installing the new version. Once the 0.17 rpms came out I removed my self-compiled version and used apt-get to install via rpms and everything's been working great ever since! Brad On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 12:09:42 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Those that are having troubles are usually more vocal, but I would like to hear from folks who are having success with v.17. I am interested in upgrading my v.16 systems, but they are working so well it makes me nervous. ---Dan ___ 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: MythTV and Commercial Skipping
On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 14:40:21 +0800, Ow Mun Heng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry--Top posting to my own thread. I just read some additional thread on the mailing list (off-line archived in my laptop) in that the flagging is done via software detection. eg: YOu detect OSD brightness changes(?) or TV station Logo? Is that right? On Tue, 2005-02-15 at 14:11, Ow Mun Heng wrote: I'm clue-less and I just read that MythTV has code which can detect commercials and perform commercial skipping? How true is this and how does it work? can anyone enlighten me? Why does it use the database for this? What sort of marker is placed/marked? Note : No I-Net access thus, can't google. -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 14:09:52 up 5:16, 3 users, load average: 0.56, 0.45, 0.36 -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 14:19:38 up 5:26, 4 users, load average: 0.42, 0.38, 0.35 ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users That is correct. Commercial flagging in myth is done via software detection. There are various methods that can be used for this and you can select which method to use on the 7th screen under Setup-Setup-TV Settings-Playback. The options are (descriptions are my current understanding, I'm not a myth developer and have never looked at the actual commercial detection code): Blank Frame Detection: determines commercial breaks by finding blank frames in the stream Blank Frame + Scene Change Detection: determines commercial breaks by finding blank frames surrounded by frames containing vastly different scenes Scene Change Detection: determines commercial breaks by detecting adjacent frames with vastly different scenes Logo Detection: determines commercial breaks by detecting station logo All: combines all of the above methods of commercial detection One question, for my sanity, before I go. If you don't have internet access to search google, how did you send emails to the mailing list? Hope that info helps you. Brad ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Myth 0.17 ATRPMS and relocation error: /usr/lib/libmyth-0.17.so.0
On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 16:57:42 -0500, Matt McArthur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The at-bleeding QT wants to remove KDE, I'm going to try XFCE, but is there a way to keep the bleeding qt from wanting to remove KDE? I ran into this exact same problem. It appears to be related to the redhat-artwork package. What I had to do was remove redhat-artwork and all packages that depend on it. Then, go to www.rpmfind.net and download the redhat-artwork rpm for Fedora Core 2 Updates and install it. Then you should be able to reinstall KDE and all the other packages that were removed with redhat-artwork. After that is complete you should be able to do a normal apt-get for the bleeding qt packages. Brad I believe Axel stated earlier in a comment to someone using Fedora Core 1, that he would have to upgrade to the bleeding version of QT to make it work On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 17:12:08 -0700, MythTV [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What QT is thie RPMs for myth compiled against on the ATRPM site. I have a RH9 box and the upgrade did not work.. I get a relocation error again mythbackend: relocation error: /usr/lib/libmyth-0.17.so.0: undefined symbol: _ZN9QGroupBox10setEnabledEb I am running QT 3.1.1 and there is not newer one other than in bleeding Jim ___ 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 ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] 0.17 upgrade - backend crashes
On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 16:00:59 -0500 (EST), Chris Pinkham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Interestingly, here's a snippet from mythbackend.log from immediately after the above select statement was run: 2005-02-12 20:34:52.770 Starting Commercial Flagging for Everybody Loves Raymond recorded from channel 1031 at Fri Feb 11 19:30:00 2005. 2005-02-12 20:34:52.910 commflag: Commercial Flagging Starting QTime::setHMS Invalid time 28:12:01.000 QDate::setYMD: Invalid date 2935-93-02 2005-02-12 20:37:49.989 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback These Invalid time/date messages are the reason that you have multiple jobs firing off I believe. I'm thinking that because of those, the jobqueue field probably isn't getting updated to say that the commercial flagging successfully started, so the jobqueue is firing off another copy. Are you sure the mythcommflag you are running is the latest version? Can you do a make distclean and remake to see if it was perhaps compiled against an old library version or something. The command line in your 'ps' output is correct, so I don't see why the flagger would be getting errors (whether the error is being generated in the flagger, jobqueue, or programinfo code). Accidentally replied off-list so I'm forwarding this message to the list this time. This was my fault, your Reply-To is set to your email address and my email program replied to you originally instead of to the list. -- Chris ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users Well, I think I've figured out and fixed the problem. It appears that when I removed the 0.16 rpms I forgot to remove libmyth. I'm betting that there were some old pieces of 0.16 lying around that were causing those problems. I've now gone through and removed all old rpms as well as manually removing all the pieces I installed from source. I then reinstalled 0.17 using Axel's new rpms and everything seems to be running along just perfectly. It's been up for about 4 hours now with no crashes, no out-of-control commflagging and the sluggishness I was seeing on the menus and during playback is now gone. I'm pretty confident that everything is good to go now, but if something else comes up I'll post back to this thread again. Thanks for your help Chris! Too bad the problem was that I'm an idiot. ;) Brad ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Myth 0.17 ATRPMS and relocation error: /usr/lib/libmyth-0.17.so.0
On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 17:17:53 -0500, Gabe Rubin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I ran into this exact same problem. It appears to be related to the redhat-artwork package. What I had to do was remove redhat-artwork and all packages that depend on it. Then, go to www.rpmfind.net and download the redhat-artwork rpm for Fedora Core 2 Updates and install it. Then you should be able to reinstall KDE and all the other packages that were removed with redhat-artwork. After that is complete you should be able to do a normal apt-get for the bleeding qt packages. Brad I have run into this problem, and have no gdm. I am not concerned about KDE as I use ratpoison, but my login is from xdm now, which does not appear to have auto-login (and I have no keyboard plugged into the box). I am curious, should I just remove redhat-artwork via apt-get remove, install from the rpm, and then reinstall gdm? I am using FC1, so do not know if that will conflict with the FC2 packages. I had the exact same problem - removing redhat-artwork wanted to remove gdm which I needed for autologin. You are correct that xdm does not support autologin. I am also running FC1 and the FC2 package for redhat-artwork doesn't seem to be causing any problems for me so far. I performed exactly the steps that you are asking about - remove redhat-artwork via apt-get, install the redhat-artwork FC2 rpm individually and then use apt-get to reinstall gdm and any other needed packages that were removed. FYI, I believe my apt-get remove of redhat-artwork also removed xine, xine-libs and mplayer so check what it's removing so you know what you need to reinstall. Also, when apt-get removes the gdm package it will save your gdm.conf as /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf.rpmsave. When you reinstall gdm make sure to copy gdm.conf.rpmsave to gdm.conf so your gdm config will remain intact. Brad ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Installing 0.16 from atrpms
On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 17:39:25 -0500, Jeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried to install MythTV 0.16 using apt-get install mythtv-suite=0.16 apt said it was installing 0.16 but when I check the installed packages with rpm I found many components are 0.17. The backend is 0.16 so I really need to find 0.16. Output from rpm -qa | grep myth mythtv-suite-0.16-46.at mythdvd-0.17-49.rhfc3.at mythtv-theme-photo-4-6.at mythtvsetup-0.17-95.rhfc3.at mythtv-themes-0.17-95.rhfc3.at mythphone-0.17-10.rhfc3.at mythtv-theme-isthmus-0.20040804-1.at libmyth-0.17-95.rhfc3.at mythtv-frontend-0.17-95.rhfc3.at mythgame-0.17-67.rhfc3.at mythvideo-0.17-65.rhfc3.at mythtv-theme-visor-0.16.2-5.at mythtv-theme-abstract-0.20040910-2.at mythmkmovie-1.0.1-3.rhfc3.at mythbrowser-0.17-32.rhfc3.at mythweather-0.17-65.rhfc3.at mythtv-theme-MediaCenter-0.17-3.at mythtv-backend-0.17-95.rhfc3.at mythnews-0.17-38.rhfc3.at mythtv-theme-gant-0.pr1-2.at mythgallery-0.17-68.rhfc3.at mythtv-theme-purplegalaxy-0.20031214-3.at mythweb-0.17-64.at [EMAIL PROTECTED] X11]# ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users I'm not sure why apt would install 0.17 rpms when you specified 0.16, but you can always remove the rpms installed by apt and then manually download and install the 0.16 packages from http://www.atrpms.net. That way you know exactly which rpms are getting installed. Brad ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Can't Compile 0.17 on Debian - /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lXext
On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 18:51:12 -0600, Lan User [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I'm having no luck compiling 0.17 on my Debian Sid box. I get this: make g++ -o settings -L/usr/share/qt3/lib -lqt -lXext -lX11 -lm /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lXext collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make: *** [settings] Error 1 I searched the archives and see some older posts about this and a suggestion to install QT from sources but I'd rather install a package if I'm missing it. If anyone could offer me some help I'd be most appreciative. Thanks, much, Patrick. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users You're missing a -devel package. Exactly which one depends on which version of Debian and X you're running. On my Fedora Core 1 boxes I had to install XFree86-devel. You can try installing that, but I'm sure it's an X-related -devel package that you're missing. Brad ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] MythVideo 0.17 - Browseable flag no longer valid?
I recently upgraded from 0.16 to 0.17 and noticed that now when I go into Watch Videos from the Media Library section of the default menus I now see every single file that is listed in the Video Manager, regardless of the browseable flag set on each one. This is annoying as I have several multi-part movies and only want the first part to be displayed in the movie list. It also appears that the various access levels in MythVideo (1-4) are no longer acknowledged either. I have several adult films in MythVideo and had them set to level 4 with a password set on that level. That way, when I first enter MythVideo it will only show normal videos and I must change to level 4 and enter the password to see the adult films. After the upgrade to 0.17 I now see every single file, regardless of access level or browseable setting. I may dig into the code sometime tomorrow as I'm sure this is a pretty minor fix. However, if anyone else is seeing this issue or has any idea how to fix it I'd love to hear from you. Brad ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] VERY minor issue in System Status-Machine Status
I've noticed that, while the total memory figure is correct for both the MythTV backend and the local frontend, the numbers reported for used memory seem to be drastically wrong. I have 472MB in both the backend and remote frontend, but when I go into System Status-Machine Status myth is reporting ~430MB used on both boxes. When I quit out of the frontend and use either top or gkrellm to check memory usage I'm seeing less than 200MB used on both servers. As I said, this is a very minor issue, but I thought I'd report it so it's at least documented. Brad ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] 0.17 upgrade - backend crashes
I upgraded from 0.16 to 0.17 late Thursday night/early Friday morning. Ever since then I've been seeing some strange behavior from the box. Firstly, as soon as I fire up the backend it spawns a mythcommflag process. This seems normal to me except that mythcommflag immediately pegs my processor at 100% while with 0.16 it seemed to hover around 60-70%. The bigger problem with mythcommflag is that it seems to continually spawn new processes until there are at least 5 or 6 of them running. Even with the processes niced to -17 it still makes the box very sluggish and the load average goes through the roof (10). In looking in the backend log it seems that the system is completing commercial flagging for a particular show and then starting to flag it again. I'm not sure why it's doing this or why that would result in multiple instances of mythcommflag instead of one ending and then another one starting. Eventually the backend dies with the following message in the log file: Waited 2 seconds for data to become available, waiting a gain... This message is repeated several times in the log and the backend is dead. When I try to restart the backend from the command line it returns me to a prompt with no output to the console or the log file and the backend never starts. I have to do a hard reboot of the box in order to get the backend started again. FYI, I'm running FC1 with kernel version 2.4.22-1.2199.nptl_52.rhfc1.at and everything has been working great on 0.16 for months. The only thing that I changed was to upgrade to 0.17. I did set -march=athlon for mythtv and all modules when I compiled since I'm running an Athlon 1600+ and I thought I could squeeze a little extra speed out of the code. I'm going to try recompiling with the default -march=pentiumpro just to see what happens, but I doubt that's going to fix the problem. If you need more info let me know and I can post logs, dmesg, etc. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Brad Benson ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] 0.17 upgrade - backend crashes
On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 21:24:30 -0500, Brad Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -- Forwarded message -- From: Brad Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2005 20:49:37 -0500 Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] 0.17 upgrade - backend crashes To: Chris Pinkham [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 20:03:46 -0500 (EST), Chris Pinkham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I upgraded from 0.16 to 0.17 late Thursday night/early Friday morning. Ever since then I've been seeing some strange behavior from the box. What's in your jobqueue table? You can also limit the number of jobs that myth will run at one time, the default is 1 I believe, so I'm not sure why it's running multiple jobs unless you bumped up the JobQueueMaxSimultaneousJobs setting. When I run setup it tells me that I already have the backend limited to 1 simultaneous job, CPU usage is set to Medium, Job Queue check frequency is set to 60 seconds, Run Jobs only on original recording host is unchecked, and I have allowed this backend to run any jobs in the queue (commflag, user 1, user 2, user 3 and user 4). Can you do a select * from jobqueue order by id; and post the output? This should indicate if there are multiple entries in the table for a single show. The code should prevent that though. Here's the output from select * from jobqueue order by id;: +++-+-+--+--+---++-++--+-+ | id | chanid | starttime | inserttime | type | cmds | flags | status | statustime | hostname | args | comment | +++-+-+--+--+---++-++--+-+ | 1 | 1030 | 2005-02-11 15:59:00 | 2005-02-11 17:03:00 |2 | 0 | 0 |272 | 2005-02-11 18:43:47 | bivomaster | | Finished, 0 break(s) found. | | 3 | 1052 | 2005-02-11 22:58:00 | 2005-02-11 23:32:00 |2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2005-02-12 20:23:05 | bivomaster | | | | 4 | 1009 | 2005-02-11 20:53:00 | 2005-02-12 16:04:35 |2 | 4 | 0 |272 | 2005-02-12 16:07:42 | bivomaster | | Finished, 0 break(s) found. | | 5 | 1024 | 2005-02-11 18:28:00 | 2005-02-12 16:06:16 |2 | 0 | 0 |272 | 2005-02-12 20:40:23 | bivomaster | | 60% Completed @ 60 fps. | | 6 | 1031 | 2005-02-11 19:30:00 | 2005-02-12 16:06:21 |2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2005-02-12 20:40:22 | bivomaster | | 80% Completed @ 60 fps. | +++-+-+--+--+---++-++--+-+ 5 rows in set (0.00 sec) Interestingly, here's a snippet from mythbackend.log from immediately after the above select statement was run: 2005-02-12 20:34:52.770 Starting Commercial Flagging for Everybody Loves Raymond recorded from channel 1031 at Fri Feb 11 19:30:00 2005. 2005-02-12 20:34:52.910 commflag: Commercial Flagging Starting QTime::setHMS Invalid time 28:12:01.000 QDate::setYMD: Invalid date 2935-93-02 2005-02-12 20:37:49.989 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback 2005-02-12 20:37:50.055 adding: bivomaster as a client (events: 0) 2005-02-12 20:37:50.249 Reloading backend settings 2005-02-12 20:37:50.370 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback 2005-02-12 20:37:50.380 adding: bivomaster as a client (events: 1) QTime::setHMS Invalid time 28:12:02.000 QDate::setYMD: Invalid date 2935-93-02 2005-02-12 20:38:53.065 Starting Commercial Flagging for Everybody Loves Raymond recorded from channel 1031 at Fri Feb 11 19:30:00 2005. QTime::setHMS Invalid time 28:12:02.000 QDate::setYMD: Invalid date 2935-93-02 2005-02-12 20:42:12.339 Waited 2 seconds for data to become available, waiting again... 2005-02-12 20:42:16.380 commflag: Last message repeated 1 times 2005-02-12 20:42:16.458 commflag: Commercial Flagging Finished 2005-02-12 20:42:16.631 Finished, 1 break(s) found. There is definitely only a single jobqueue entry for the show with a start time of 02/11/2004:19:30:00, but the log clearly shows two separate instances of commercial flagging being run for that show. Here's another sample taken from the same log file: 2005-02-12 20:42:53.525 Starting Commercial Flagging for Best Week Ever recorded from channel 1052 at Fri Feb 11 22:58:00 2005. 2005-02-12 20:42:53.596 commflag: Commercial Flagging Starting QTime::setHMS Invalid time 28:12:01.000 QDate::setYMD: Invalid date 2935-93-02 QTime::setHMS Invalid time 28:12:02.000 QDate::setYMD: Invalid date 2935-93-02 2005-02-12 20:43:53.735 Starting Commercial Flagging for Best Week Ever recorded from channel 1052 at Fri Feb 11 22:58:00 2005. QTime::setHMS Invalid time 28:12:02.000 QDate::setYMD: Invalid date 2935-93-02 Again, you can see
Re: [mythtv-users] 0.17 upgrade - backend crashes
: #654296 Stealing a Buffer, 320 currently allocated ivtv: ENC IRQ OVERFLOW: #654297 Stealing a Buffer, 320 currently allocated ivtv: ENC IRQ OVERFLOW: #654298 Stealing a Buffer, 320 currently allocated ivtv: ENC IRQ OVERFLOW: #654299 Stealing a Buffer, 320 currently allocated ivtv: ENC IRQ OVERFLOW: #654300 Stealing a Buffer, 320 currently allocated ivtv: ENC IRQ OVERFLOW: #654301 Stealing a Buffer, 320 currently allocated ivtv: ENC IRQ OVERFLOW: #654302 Stealing a Buffer, 320 currently allocated ivtv: ENC IRQ OVERFLOW: #654303 Stealing a Buffer, 320 currently allocated ivtv: ENC IRQ OVERFLOW: #654304 Stealing a Buffer, 320 currently allocated ivtv: ENC IRQ OVERFLOW: #654305 Stealing a Buffer, 320 currently allocated . . . you get the idea...up to: ivtv: ENC IRQ OVERFLOW: #654355 Stealing a Buffer, 320 currently allocated Anyone got any ideas what might be going on? If you need more info please let me know. Thanks, Brad On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 21:28:35 -0500, Brad Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 21:24:30 -0500, Brad Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -- Forwarded message -- From: Brad Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2005 20:49:37 -0500 Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] 0.17 upgrade - backend crashes To: Chris Pinkham [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 20:03:46 -0500 (EST), Chris Pinkham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I upgraded from 0.16 to 0.17 late Thursday night/early Friday morning. Ever since then I've been seeing some strange behavior from the box. What's in your jobqueue table? You can also limit the number of jobs that myth will run at one time, the default is 1 I believe, so I'm not sure why it's running multiple jobs unless you bumped up the JobQueueMaxSimultaneousJobs setting. When I run setup it tells me that I already have the backend limited to 1 simultaneous job, CPU usage is set to Medium, Job Queue check frequency is set to 60 seconds, Run Jobs only on original recording host is unchecked, and I have allowed this backend to run any jobs in the queue (commflag, user 1, user 2, user 3 and user 4). Can you do a select * from jobqueue order by id; and post the output? This should indicate if there are multiple entries in the table for a single show. The code should prevent that though. Here's the output from select * from jobqueue order by id;: +++-+-+--+--+---++-++--+-+ | id | chanid | starttime | inserttime | type | cmds | flags | status | statustime | hostname | args | comment | +++-+-+--+--+---++-++--+-+ | 1 | 1030 | 2005-02-11 15:59:00 | 2005-02-11 17:03:00 |2 | 0 | 0 |272 | 2005-02-11 18:43:47 | bivomaster | | Finished, 0 break(s) found. | | 3 | 1052 | 2005-02-11 22:58:00 | 2005-02-11 23:32:00 |2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2005-02-12 20:23:05 | bivomaster | | | | 4 | 1009 | 2005-02-11 20:53:00 | 2005-02-12 16:04:35 |2 | 4 | 0 |272 | 2005-02-12 16:07:42 | bivomaster | | Finished, 0 break(s) found. | | 5 | 1024 | 2005-02-11 18:28:00 | 2005-02-12 16:06:16 |2 | 0 | 0 |272 | 2005-02-12 20:40:23 | bivomaster | | 60% Completed @ 60 fps. | | 6 | 1031 | 2005-02-11 19:30:00 | 2005-02-12 16:06:21 |2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2005-02-12 20:40:22 | bivomaster | | 80% Completed @ 60 fps. | +++-+-+--+--+---++-++--+-+ 5 rows in set (0.00 sec) Interestingly, here's a snippet from mythbackend.log from immediately after the above select statement was run: 2005-02-12 20:34:52.770 Starting Commercial Flagging for Everybody Loves Raymond recorded from channel 1031 at Fri Feb 11 19:30:00 2005. 2005-02-12 20:34:52.910 commflag: Commercial Flagging Starting QTime::setHMS Invalid time 28:12:01.000 QDate::setYMD: Invalid date 2935-93-02 2005-02-12 20:37:49.989 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback 2005-02-12 20:37:50.055 adding: bivomaster as a client (events: 0) 2005-02-12 20:37:50.249 Reloading backend settings 2005-02-12 20:37:50.370 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback 2005-02-12 20:37:50.380 adding: bivomaster as a client (events: 1) QTime::setHMS Invalid time 28:12:02.000 QDate::setYMD: Invalid date 2935-93-02 2005-02-12 20:38:53.065 Starting Commercial Flagging for Everybody Loves Raymond recorded from channel 1031 at Fri Feb 11 19:30:00 2005. QTime::setHMS Invalid time 28:12:02.000 QDate::setYMD: Invalid date 2935-93-02 2005-02-12 20:42:12.339 Waited 2 seconds for data
Re: [mythtv-users] 0.17
Built and installed with no problems. Well, one minor problem. On my BE/FE box 'make install' gave me input/output errors when trying to copy images and .xml files for mythtv and all modules, but I'm pretty sure that was an NFS-related error. On my remote FE box 'make install' nicely placed everything where it needs to be. I really like the 'Previously Recorded' screen as well as the playlist options. BTW, once I add recordings to the playlist how do I tell myth whether to play them ordered or shuffled? And can I just select one of the recordings in the playlist in order to start playing the entire list? Thanks to Isaac and all others who put in work on this new release. Keep up the good work guys! On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 23:13:28 -0800, Lonnie Borntreger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2005-02-11 at 00:49 -0500, Isaac Richards wrote: The new release is up on the website now. Build went fine, but the make install did not install the following: mythbackend mythfrontend libmyth libmythtv Also, none of the .xml files were installed into /usr/local/share/mythtv (other than setup.xml). I had to manually copy those files into place. Yes, I ran make install as root. Also, a question can a mythtv 0.16 frontend connect to a 0.17 backend, or is that not safe? Lonnie Borntreger ___ 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] MPEG2-MPEG2 cut spinning
I've been having the exact same problem that you're reporting. It's not a gui problem since I actually see the avidemux gui open. After that though, it just sits there forever. Interestingly, this just started happening a few weeks ago. I was able to successfully export two different shows using mpeg2-mpeg2 cutting. After that I can only presume that I updated something to a new version and that's what broke it. Problem is, I can't figure out what that upgrade could have been. I'm running: avidemux 2.0.34-5_test2 lve-0.040322-1.1 transcode-0.6.14-15 I don't have Xvfb installed at all, but that wasn't installed when it was working before either. I've also tried downgrading avidemux to 2.0.28, but with no success. Brad Benson On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 18:06:48 +, Steve Christall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am trying to get a mpeg2 file (generated by PVR350 or Nova-T DVB) without ads! I have set my cut points and run nuvexport I select MPEG2-MPEG2 cut only and the episode it seems to start running ok and I get this output Now encoding: Krakatoa: Untitled Encode started: Mon Jan 24 17:57:14 2005 mpeg2cut v1.6 Using mode Xvfb Filename /myth/tv/2004_2005012219_2005012221.nuv OutFile /myth/Krakatoa - Untitled.mpg Last GOP index 808-26693 Cutlist 30370-53718 57420-86918 90645-114468 118920-147843 152320-175933 187767- Finding the AV Offset to use with lvemux: -21 Finding framerate: 25.000 Last Frame -319508 Indexing the file with avidemux2 Cutting out commercials with avidemux2 It just sits here spinning .. I have left it for 12 hours ... 3334 mythtv39 19 39920 10m 18m R 99.2 1.0 1156:35 avidemux2 I get these two files in the dir I run nuvexport from -bash-2.05b$ cat 1018_2005011820_20050118203000.cut ADMW0002 01 videos Name : /myth/tv/1018_2005011820_20050118203000.nuv.idx 2 segments Start : 360 Size : 19142 Ref : 0 Start : 26657 Size : 14361 Ref : 0 Audio codec : none Audio filter : audioNormalizeMode=0 audioResampleMode=0 audioDRC=0 audioShift=0 audioDelay=0 audioFreq=48000 Audio conf : audioProcessMode=0 audioMP3mode=0 audioMP3bitrate=128 -bash-2.05b$ cat 1018_2005011820_20050118203000.cut2 Start : 360 Size : 19142 Ref : 0 Start : 26657 Size : 14361 Ref : 0 What am I doing wrong? I have installed all of the dependancies. If I run nuvesxport --debug I can see what it runs mpeg2cut /myth/tv/2004_2005012219_2005012221.nuv /myth/Krakatoa.mpg 808-26693 30370-53718 57420-86918 90645-114468 118920-147843 152320-175933 187767- From mpeg2cut # Prerequisites: #avidemux2 - http://fixounet.free.fr/avidemux/ #transcode - http://zebra.fh-weingarten.de/~transcode/ #lvemux - http://lvempeg.sourceforge.net/ #Xvfb- http://www.xfree86.org/ Versions I have: Avidemux 2, v 2.0.34 transcode v0.6.14 lvemux-040322 xorg-x11-Xvfb-6.7.0-11 Help me please . I want to start archiving to DVD! Cheers Steve ___ 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] MPEG2-MPEG2 cut spinning
Well, I'm not 100% sure that avidemux is what's broken, but that is the part where it always dies. I'll have to try it again later tonight, but as I recall I'm able to manually edit programs using avidemux and everything works. It's just when I run mpeg2_cut that it fails. One thing I've noticed is that the final entry in the Cutlist that mpeg2_cut displays always starts 1 frame beyond what mpeg2_cut displays as the last frame. Here's a sample output from nuvexport using mpeg2_cut: Now encoding: The Simpsons: Bart Star Encode started: Mon Jan 24 17:14:11 2005 which: no Xvfb in (/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/home/mythtv/bin) mpeg2cut v1.6 Using mode X Filename /home/mythtv/video/recordings/1014_20050121175800_20050121183000.nuv OutFile /usr/extra/dvd/simpsons/The Simpsons - Bart Star.mpg Last GOP index 3836 Cutlist 3770-19255 23168-32152 37579-49248 57541- Finding the AV Offset to use with lvemux: -33 Finding framerate: 29.970 Last Frame 57540 Indexing the file with avidemux2 Cutting out commercials with avidemux2 You'll notice that it reports the last frame as being 57540, but the final entry in the cutlist is 57541-. I'm wondering if that's part of the problem. However, it always creates a .cut and a .cut2 file. I'm guessing that there should also be a .cut3 and .cut4 for the other two items in the cutlist. If that's the case then it's probably not even getting to the point where the 57541- would be a problem. Brad Benson On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 21:27:01 +, Steven Christall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. In my case I haven't tried to use the MPEG2-MPEG2 cut before. As far as I can tell the Xvfb allows you to run a virtual frame buffer so that you can run the program without an xwindows session. I was planning on having a go with avidemux in xwindows later tonight by itself. Is it your guess this is the part that is broken? Steve On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 15:25:58 -0500, Brad Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I've been having the exact same problem that you're reporting. It's not a gui problem since I actually see the avidemux gui open. After that though, it just sits there forever. Interestingly, this just started happening a few weeks ago. I was able to successfully export two different shows using mpeg2-mpeg2 cutting. After that I can only presume that I updated something to a new version and that's what broke it. Problem is, I can't figure out what that upgrade could have been. I'm running: avidemux 2.0.34-5_test2 lve-0.040322-1.1 transcode-0.6.14-15 I don't have Xvfb installed at all, but that wasn't installed when it was working before either. I've also tried downgrading avidemux to 2.0.28, but with no success. Brad Benson ___ 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] MPEG2-MPEG2 cut spinning
Well, I'm not sure exactly what fixed it, but it seems to be working now. I'm currently using avidemux 2.0.28-4 and transcode 0.6.12-3.1. I just successfully cut an episode of the simpsons in about 5 minutes. Brad Benson On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 17:12:28 -0500, William [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Versions I have: Avidemux 2, v 2.0.34 transcode v0.6.14 lvemux-040322 xorg-x11-Xvfb-6.7.0-11 Help me please . I want to start archiving to DVD! Cheers Steve I had to revert back to my old version of avidemux2 because the recent ones seem to be broken for our purposes. There has been a bit of discussion in the lists about this issue. I am currently running 2.0.28 with good results. ___ 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] is there an easy way to reboot in software through myth
If you're using one of the Fedora/Red Hat distros and you already have the swatch packages installed then making it run at startup is as simple as logging in to your box as root and typing /sbin/chkconfig swatch on. chkconfig is a very easy to use tool that allows you to configure which services are started and stopped in each runlevel on your box. Try /sbin/chkconfig --list to see a list of all services and their default modes in each runlevel. Brad On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 18:08:11 -0600, John Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not sure exactly what you're doing. How are you deleting these recordings exactly? Are you deleting them by hand, or something? You should be able to delete recordings under the Manage Recordings menu which deletes the files from disk and updates the mythtv database. You certainly shouldn't need to reboot afterwards. I can speak to what I've seen. If I delete a recording from the view recordings menu while a program is recording my backend crashes. If he is new enough not to know how to restart the backend then a reboot will be the only fix. Yuo can restart mythbackend using (/etc/init.d/mythbackend restart) from the command line. There is a log file monitoring tool called swatch that some people are using to monitor for the crash and restart the backend if it crashes. I haven't figured out where to put the entry to make swatch run at startup so mine isn't working. once I spend some time to figure this out I'll be better off. Right now I just am not deleting from the view recordings page, and especially during a recording. ___ 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] What happens when my cable company switches to digital?
It is most definitely possible to support any reasonable number of STB's from a single myth box. You just need to create a separate instance of lircd for each STB you need to control. That can get a bit complicated, but if you google and search the list archives I'm sure you can turn up some info on running multiple lircd's. The thing that is usually most problematic is that, most likely, all your STB's will use the same IR codes so you need to make sure that each IR blaster/STB combo is isolated from the others. Otherwise you will probably end up with recordings from incorrect channels because both STB's will change channel each time any IR blaster sends a signal. On Mon, 20 Dec 2004 13:40:12 -0800, Asher Schaffer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am using digital cable in the US. I only have one tuner card, I'm not sure how it would work with two. You would definitely need to STBs, but that is only part of the problem. You also need to control the channel on the STB. I use a serial connection to control mine, but depending on what model STB you get, and what the cable company decides, the serial port may not exist or could be disabled. If that is the case, you need to control it with an IR blaster. That should work fine for 1 tuner, but I don't know if there is a way in myth, to say use one IR blaster or serial port to control STB1 and a different one to control STB2. On Mon, 20 Dec 2004 21:43:43 +0100, Sim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Next summer my cable company are going to switch on the digital TV and then i will need to use a STB to access the new channels. As I understand it with analogue, if I have two tuner cards i can watch and record two channels at once. But if I have a STB does that produce only one channel so that having two tuners becomes meaningless (unless I get two digital decoders - which would just make everything very messy). I know you can't tell me exactly what the Belgians will get, but what is the experience of those that already use STBs to get their cable (i think that includes most Americans?) Simon ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
