Re: [mythtv-users] Line of garbage at top of screen
On 30/01/06, David Abrahams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I watch recorded material on OS X there's what looks like a one (source) pixel line of seemingly random black and white pixels. The source material is fine; I don't see the garbage when I play it in VLC. Does anyone know where this comes from or what can be done about it? (Trac is down or I'd have made a ticket) It's teletext data (VBI I think is the proper name), streaming of text data within the video signal. It was designed to be hidden in the bit of the picture you couldn't see on an analog television. AFAIK the only way to get rid of it is to tweak your overscan settings so that the top few pixels aren't visible. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] VCR Manual Record
On 26/01/06, Nathan Allen Stratton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 26 Jan 2006, Michael T. Dean wrote: Set your input to start on channel 1000. Same problme, the issue I think is that it is trying to change the channel, but it is a VCR on that input, there is no channel to change to. Mythtv is probably expecting to change channel via a channel change script, as it would do if it was controlling an external Set Top Box. I think the standard procedure in your case.is to give it a dummy script script, that always returns success. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] analog video camera and Mythtv?
trouble is - when it was done, the recorded program didn't show up in the recorded programs part of the GUI. I can't find where the file was recorded to - I did a search on the hard drive (recorded on 1/12/06) find / | grep *20060112* and it came up blank. Does grep work with wildcards? I'd have done: find / -name *20060112* -print The directory for recordings in specified during mythtvsetup (the backend setup) I think by default it's called /store, but that probably depends what package you installed from. If your file did get recorded, but isn't showing up, then that's probably something to do with recording groups. Manual recording with mythtv is a bit of a palaver. You might find the following command easier. It's what I use for recording from my VCR, using my PVR 350. dd if=/dev/video0 of=~/myfile.mpg bs=64k just CTRL-C when you've finished. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Unusual hard drive activity w/ livetv
On 24/01/06, Jason Richardson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: whenever I watch live tv, the hard drive goes nuts, and continues doing so until live tv is stopped. it plays/pauses etc and works just fine, but the noise that the drive makes is quite annoying. You've probably already done this but ... Have you looked at your system logfiles? mythbackend.log, mythfrontend.log and /var/log/messages spring to mind. Apart from giving a clue to what's going on, writing to the log itself causes disk activity. On my system, mythmusic was creating a racket on the disk, which turned out to be lcdproc writing copious error messages to /var/log/messages. Just look for files on /var growing large very quickly. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] analog video camera and Mythtv?
On 25/01/06, Roger Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David Watkins wrote: trouble is - when it was done, the recorded program didn't show up in the recorded programs part of the GUI. I can't find where the file was recorded to - I did a search on the hard drive (recorded on 1/12/06) find / | grep *20060112* and it came up blank. Does grep work with wildcards? I'd have done: find / -name *20060112* -print The directory for recordings in specified during mythtvsetup (the backend setup) I think by default it's called /store, but that probably depends what package you installed from. If your file did get recorded, but isn't showing up, then that's probably something to do with recording groups. Manual recording with mythtv is a bit of a palaver. You might find the following command easier. It's what I use for recording from my VCR, using my PVR 350. dd if=/dev/video0 of=~/myfile.mpg bs=64k just CTRL-C when you've finished. When I used your command, it recorded live TV, not from the s-video connector (where my camera is connected to) I'm sure I need to use a different command, but don't know what that'd be. Hmm that's interesting - so I'm wondering if I've actually got my VCR connected via the RF lead to the tuner input at the moment? I definately have used the S-Video input in the past though, because I had to connect the audio in separately. I suggest looking to see what other /dev/video devices exist on your system, and trying them in place of /dev/video0. I think one of the setup pages of mythtvsetup shows you which input is on which device. I'm afraid I don't know enough of the theory to suggest a more scientific approach. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] streaming to windows (directly through myth)
On 17/01/06, Andy Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/17/06, Adam Propeck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: DSMYTH. Google it or look at sourceforge specifically. It sets up the Myth:// and Mythlive:// and all that stuff. ok, I should probably clarify myself. I have DSMyth installed. The problems I was talking about come from when, after ds 'sets up' the myth:// and mythlive:// uri's, wmp/vlc/media player of choice is launched with the uri as an argument (at least I assume this is what happens). No player knows how to handle the myth:// protocol, for instance WMP gives this error: The selected file has a scheme that is not recognized by Windows Media Player, but the Player may still be able to play it... If it continue to attempt to play it it says Windows Media Player encountered an unknown error So my question remains the same as before. vlc worked for me - At least mostly it does: Sometimes I get no sound - which I assume is related to the recording. All recodings are made using a Nova-T card and all have sound when played back through mythtv. Some recordings just have no sound when played back with vlc, and changing the audio track doesn't help. Sometimes vlc won't open any files at all. This problem comes and goes. Clicking the link in mythweb opens vlc which briefly shows the correct filename in the status bar, but it never plays the video nor displays any sort of error. When it's in this mood I'm unable to play any files. On another day it will work perfectly. I have two windows machines - a desktop and a laptop and both exhibit the same behaviour. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] mythgallery
On 23/01/06, Jad Saklawi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I am currently using mythtvgallery. How to access the menu using the keyboard ? I have no remote control. Well it's pretty dangerous doing this without having a system to check it on but anyway: I'm pretty sure it's the 'M' key - the same key as brings up the menu when watching mythtv. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Questionaire: What do you have your case powerbutton do?
You must not have small children. My power and reset button just make a clicking sound - cause I disconnected the wires to it! Even my littlest figured out how to hold the button for 4 seconds to power it off. It turns on by IR remote, and shuts down cleanly by IR remote. If I have to force it off, I pull the plug. Well my small[ish] children show no inclination to turn off anything [lights, taps, televisions ...] so I havent' had to worry about the power-button on my myth box, which does a contolled shutdown of the machine. I'd like to know how you turn your myth box on using the IR remote though. I'm using the IR receiver that came with my Hauppauge Nova-t and IFAIK I can't use this for powering up [I'd be happy to be proved wrong]. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Hauppauge PVR Questions
- Out of the box, the picture quality from my PVR-150 system doesn't equal broadcast quality (of my SD analog cable system) for fast moving TV, most notably sports. Emphasis on out of the box, since I've done almost nothing to try to improve the quality. Could this be due to your output method, rather than the capture? I've noticed it too since I stopped using my PVR350 for output and started using an nVidia card. Changing the de-interlace algorithm improved things to the point where I hardly notice it now, but it's still there. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Workaround for WM Focus Issues
If anyone knows of a solution to the problem or a less ugly workaround, please let me know. I found a fix digging around the net. There's a section of Xine source code that sets the focus to the root window upon exit (event.c line 1814-1819). The attached patch comments out that section. Apply to xine-ui-0.99 and recompile. This fixed it for me! For the archives... I can confirm that this fix works (finally got around to testing it) and, as pointed out by Petr Stehlik in another thread, it's already applied to xine-ui 0.99.4 and above. So the easiest fix is to upgrade xine. Well if you're using KDE then Jarod Wilson has a suggestion in his excellent howto http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/ something to do with the 'focus follows mouse' KDE setting. Now I'm using the ratpoison window manager with mythtv and Xine, and have never had a problem with window focus. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Questionaire: What do you have your casepowerbutton do?
I have an IR keyboard. The BIOS is configured to power-on with any key-press. I programmed my remote to send the key-presses from my keyboard. That's also how I send all other commands. I don't use LIRC at all on the front end. My keyboard is always put away and I only need it if I'm working on that computer for some other purpose. That's a neat idea. Was it hard to find a keyboard and remote that share the same protocol? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Can MythTV ignore the keyboard and only use a remote?
My ultimate goal is to have PVR functionality that is completely independent of what I am doing on the PC. For this to work I need, (1)live TV functionality to take minimal processor load, and (2)MythTV to only use the remote control for input and completely ignore the system's keyboard and mouse. No problem. That's how I use mine - no monitor, keyboard or mouse. Myth (particularly the PVR parts of it) are easy to use with only a remote. For maintenance I'd say you'd want the ability to remotely log in to it from another machine over the network though, using ssh or vnc for example. Otherwise you'll be lugging a monitor and keyboard around every few weeks. In any case, the mythweb interface to the PVR is particularly cool. Happy Myth-ing ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Australian DVB-T resolution
On 10/01/06, Phill Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As you can see below (in Canberra) most SD is 720x576 but WIN is 704x, SBS EPG is 480x, one Prime is 544x... it seems to vary. Thanks. How did you get that log? I'd like to do that too. Looks like tzap output to me? Part of dvb-utils. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Australian DVB-T resolution
On 10/01/06, David Watkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/01/06, Phill Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As you can see below (in Canberra) most SD is 720x576 but WIN is 704x, SBS EPG is 480x, one Prime is 544x... it seems to vary. Thanks. How did you get that log? I'd like to do that too. Looks like tzap output to me? Part of dvb-utils. actually I think it's the scan programme that generates the file - till part of dvb-utils though. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Fail to tune channels in UK using Rowridgetransmitter
On 08/01/06, Myth TV [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Message Received: Jan 08 2006, 11:00 AM From: Steve Daniels [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Discussion about mythtv mythtv-users@mythtv.org Cc: Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Fail to tune channels in UK using Rowridgetransmitter - Original Message - From: Myth TV [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: mythtv-users mythtv-users@mythtv.org Sent: Sunday, January 08, 2006 9:33 AM Subject: [mythtv-users] Fail to tune channels in UK using Rowridgetransmitter However I am unable to tune it to any channel at all. I have checked the card and reception using the dvb-utils and dvbstream. I have managed to get all 85 Freeview channels information using the command :- # scan -u /usr/share/doc/dvb-utils/examples/scan/dvb-t/uk-Rowridge .tzap/channels.conf and example of the BBC1 channel information I got is in the attached file. I am then able to use the following commands to watch BBC1 channel using the dvbstream :- # tzap -r BBC ONE # dvbstream -o -ps 600 601 -qam 16 -cr 3_4 | xine stdin://mpeg2 When trying to tune to BBC1 using the frequency tested under tzap/dvbsteam of 48980 I still get nothing. I get the same if I try to use the Full Scan option. Can someone please help me with the tuning of my card. I assume your running the latest *stable* mythtv. When you say When trying to tune to BBC1 using the frequency tested under tzap/dvbsteam of 48980 I still get nothing Where did you put this frequency? From looking at your attachments, if you didn't do so already you want to create a new transport with the following details: Standard: DVB Frequency: 48980 Bandwidth: 8 MHz Inversion: Auto Constellation: QAM 16 LP Coderate: Auto (I never bothered figuring out which was which out of these two so just left em at auto) HP Coderate: Auto Trans. Mode: 2K Gaurd Interval: 1/32 Hierachy: None YMMV But I had to set up ALL of my 6 transports for WinterHill manually. The above will only give you BBC channels if the scan works. HTH Steve [ (no name for attachment) (0.2 Kb) ] Steve, Thanks for the pointers. I was using the default 'auto' for the other parameters apart from the frequency setting. Now reset all according to the channels.conf generated from the tzap I am able to see that scanning for all channels does return all the desired channels. However I am still not able to watch tv. The front end reported that it took long to be allowed to read ... whilst the backend log reported that it could not find tuning parameters for transport 0. In my mythtv-setup I did not have a transport 0 I have set up transport for each of the frequency deleted in my channels.conf. e.g. 48980 51380 530167000 54580 562166670 570166670 Please see attached files showing the frontend and backend outputs. Is there something else I should be setting that I am not aware of ? I've seen that No PIDS set message from time to time when I've been fiddling with my channel setup. I think it's related to the starting channel - ie the channel that mythtv initially tunes to. As I understand, if this channel is incorrectly setup, or not broadcasting at the time, then mythtv fails rather ungraciously. You can fiddle around with the starting channel using the channel editor but I've never been very successful with making this work - for some reason the change doesn't alway stick. My advice would be to delete all your channels (by letting mythtvsetup remove them as it starts) and redoing the auto scan. BTW you can get the exact parameters for your transmitter for the autoscan from the channels.conf file the tzap produced just look across the row for BBC1. I only had to do a single scan for the Crystal Palace transmitter, to get all available channels, and More4 and ITV4 added themselves automatically,without scanning, when they came online. YMMV. Hope this helps. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Strange behavior with LIRC for pause button
On 05/01/06, John Biundo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paul Harrison wrote: One thing that it might be worth checking is your lircrc file used by myth. You can usually find it in ~/.mythtv/lircrc. Look for the key that you use for pause. Mine looks like this: # Pause begin prog = mythtv button = PAUSE repeat = 3 config = P end and try different values for the 'repeat' setting and see if it makes any difference. Paul Paul, thanks for the suggestion. As I mentioned, I've tried values of 0,1,2,3 and 10 for repeat. None seem to affect the behavior. I restarted lircd between changes. and are you sure that the lircrc file that you are editing is the one that mythtv is using? It's possible you have multiple versions and mythtv is using a different one. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Using MythTV as a non-TV recording device
On 22/12/05, Ryan Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The place of my employment currently has a setup where presentations are shot with a camera, and then currently recorded onto a VCR, and then captured from that tape onto a Computer for DVD. Currently, this takes us too much time and effort, and we'd like to go directly from camera to MPEG-2, and then record that with external software (doesn't have to be on the mythbox). We have a Hauppage PVR-250 which has an mpeg-2 encoder lying around, so we're thinking of dropping that into a box along with mythtv. Then, the files would be accessed over the local network for burning with Adobe Premiere. I'm not going to be recording TV with this at all, just programming a record button onto our AMX system and hooking it up to the computers serial port. How should I go around this? Is mythtv even the right choice? Well if that's all you want to do then mythtv is probably a bit over the top, particularly since manual recording is a bit fiddly in 0.18.1. Once you've got the ivtv drivers working then the following command works very nicely for creating mpeg files that can be converted to DVD. dd if=/dev/video0 of=~/yourfile.mpg bs=64k ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] new myth hardware
The tuners in the Hauppage PVR series are analog tuners -- they convert analog NTSC or PAL (etc) signals into MPEG2. To give them a signal to record, your source needs to be a clean analog signal, either from the antenna or cable, or from a converter box. The PVR tuners can also capture and encode composite and S-Video signals. Basically pre-tuned analog signals carrying a single channel. Essentially these inputs bypass the tuners, and feed the encoders directly. On the PVR-500 each encoder can be fed from one of the coax, composite or s-video inputs. On the standard backplate there is a coax input that feeds both tuners and one s-video and one composite input that go to one encoder each. You'd hope that these go to separate encoders, meaning you could capture s-video and composite inputs simultaneously but I don't know; they might go to the same one meaning you could only use one or the other. A separate adaptor exists, providing connections to the other composite and s-video inputs allowing the full options on both encoders to be used. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Help getting KWorld/VStream XPert DVB-T to work
On 21/12/05, Joacim J [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks anyway ;-) Do you have any idea about the questions I wrote: I don't have the /dev/dvb/... or the adapter/frontend aren't registered...is it because the /dev/dvb/...isn't created?? When/Where are /dev/dvb/... created? I missed the beginning of this thread, but have you looked at which dvb modules are being loaded? /sbin/lsmod For my Nova-t card I had to manually modprobe cx88_dvb (I think that's the correct name) because the wrong [blackbird] module was being automatically loaded. It was the /sbin/modprobe cx88_dvb command that created the /dev/dvb/adapter stuff ( look in dmesg for errors / success messages) I'm not saying that this is the module for you (though it's worth a try) but you need to find out which module it is you need, and check that it is being loaded. HTH ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Help getting KWorld/VStream XPert DVB-T to work
On 21/12/05, Joacim J [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/21/05, David Watkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 21/12/05, Joacim J [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks anyway ;-) Do you have any idea about the questions I wrote: I don't have the /dev/dvb/... or the adapter/frontend aren't registered...is it because the /dev/dvb/...isn't created?? When/Where are /dev/dvb/... created? I missed the beginning of this thread, but have you looked at which dvb modules are being loaded? /sbin/lsmod For my Nova-t card I had to manually modprobe cx88_dvb (I think that's the correct name) because the wrong [blackbird] module was being automatically loaded. It was the /sbin/modprobe cx88_dvb command that created the /dev/dvb/adapter stuff ( look in dmesg for errors / success messages) I'm not saying that this is the module for you (though it's worth a try) but you need to find out which module it is you need, and check that it is being loaded. HTH David, Here I got something interesting. 1. Fresh booted machine and the dmesg is not showing any DVB info 2. Result of /sbin/lsmod command is below 3. Executed /sbin/modprobe cx88_dvb 4. dmesg now show som interesting output, see below at the end. And I get: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# ls -al /dev/dvb/adapter0/ total 0 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root120 Dec 21 12:26 . drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 60 Dec 21 12:26 .. crw-rw 1 root root 212, 4 Dec 21 12:26 demux0 crw-rw 1 root root 212, 5 Dec 21 12:26 dvr0 crw-rw 1 root root 212, 3 Dec 21 12:26 frontend0 crw-rw 1 root root 212, 7 Dec 21 12:26 net0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# Now, how can I make persistent? I mean so the module 'cx88_dvb' is loaded every time. Well for me, all I had to do was prevent the cx88_blackbird module loading, and then my system automatically loaded the cx88_dvb instead. I notice that you've also got the blackbird module in there so maybe that would work for you too. As you've found out loading the cx88_dvb on top doesn't seem to cause any problems so you can just force it to load. As for how to do either of the above, I'm afraid I'd have to look up the way I did it tonight and I suspect it's distribution dependent anyway. I'm running Fedora Core 3, so if you don't get any joy before I get home tonight I can let you know my solution. Post back with the flavour of linux that you are using, and I suspect someone else here will be able to help you. In the meantime you could look at using /etc/modprobe.conf or rc.local or rc.sysinit (as described in Jarod Wilson's guide to mythtv on Fedora) ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Help getting KWorld/VStream XPert DVB-T to work
On 21/12/05, Joacim J [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have tested to enter the MythTV setup (as mythtv user) but when trying to add the TV card I get permission denied on the card and when looking at the /dev/dvb/* it's owned by root.root. How can I make mythtv.mythtv to get permission on that resource? as Phill said, earlier on in this thread, create a file called 20-dvb.permissions in /etc/udev/permissions.d containing the single line dvb/adapter[0-3]*/*:root:mythtv:0666 ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Help getting KWorld/VStream XPert DVB-T to work
On 21/12/05, Joacim J [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/21/05, David Watkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 21/12/05, Joacim J [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/21/05, David Watkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 21/12/05, Joacim J [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks anyway ;-) Do you have any idea about the questions I wrote: I don't have the /dev/dvb/... or the adapter/frontend aren't registered...is it because the /dev/dvb/...isn't created?? When/Where are /dev/dvb/... created? I missed the beginning of this thread, but have you looked at which dvb modules are being loaded? /sbin/lsmod For my Nova-t card I had to manually modprobe cx88_dvb (I think that's the correct name) because the wrong [blackbird] module was being automatically loaded. It was the /sbin/modprobe cx88_dvb command that created the /dev/dvb/adapter stuff ( look in dmesg for errors / success messages) I'm not saying that this is the module for you (though it's worth a try) but you need to find out which module it is you need, and check that it is being loaded. HTH David, Here I got something interesting. 1. Fresh booted machine and the dmesg is not showing any DVB info 2. Result of /sbin/lsmod command is below 3. Executed /sbin/modprobe cx88_dvb 4. dmesg now show som interesting output, see below at the end. And I get: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# ls -al /dev/dvb/adapter0/ total 0 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root120 Dec 21 12:26 . drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 60 Dec 21 12:26 .. crw-rw 1 root root 212, 4 Dec 21 12:26 demux0 crw-rw 1 root root 212, 5 Dec 21 12:26 dvr0 crw-rw 1 root root 212, 3 Dec 21 12:26 frontend0 crw-rw 1 root root 212, 7 Dec 21 12:26 net0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# Now, how can I make persistent? I mean so the module 'cx88_dvb' is loaded every time. Well for me, all I had to do was prevent the cx88_blackbird module loading, and then my system automatically loaded the cx88_dvb instead. I notice that you've also got the blackbird module in there so maybe that would work for you too. As you've found out loading the cx88_dvb on top doesn't seem to cause any problems so you can just force it to load. As for how to do either of the above, I'm afraid I'd have to look up the way I did it tonight and I suspect it's distribution dependent anyway. I'm running Fedora Core 3, so if you don't get any joy before I get home tonight I can let you know my solution. Post back with the flavour of linux that you are using, and I suspect someone else here will be able to help you. In the meantime you could look at using /etc/modprobe.conf or rc.local or rc.sysinit (as described in Jarod Wilson's guide to mythtv on Fedora) ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users I have Fedora Core 4 with kernel 2.6.14-1.1653_FC4. I have tried to add the following in /etc/rc.d/rc.local /sbin/modprobe --remove cx88_blackbird /sbin/modeprobe cx88_dvb It seems that the cx88_dvb module is loaded and blackbird is not, at boot time. Is this the correct way of doing this?? Earlier I did som testing with dvbscan, tzap and dvbstream and I get some result that I haven't got before but no picture. When running dvbstream with command: ./dvbstream -o -ps -qam 64 -cr 2_3 1018 1010 | mplayer - it says: Reading from stdin... and nothing happens If I have started tzap SVT1 before (that puts out some data every second that says FE_HAS_LOCK) and then run dvbstream with: ./dvbstream -o -ps -qam 64 -cr 2_3 1018 1010 | mplayer - it also says: Audiostream: Layer: 2 BRate: 256 kb/s Freq: 48 kHz but no mplayer appears. Hmm, sounds like you're close. Are you sure mplayer is installed properly. It might be worth skipping the mplayer stage and trying to do a channel scan in mythtv? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] newbie needin help with PVR-350
On 20/12/05, Jason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hey folks, just set up a new myth box on a PII Celeron 400Mhz box with 512Megs of memory. mythtv ~ # uname -a Linux mythtv 2.6.14-gentoo-r4 #3 PREEMPT Thu Dec 15 17:57:43 EST 2005 i686 Celeron (Mendocino) Genui neIntel GNU/Linux Ive got: mythtv-0.18.1-r1 and ivtv-0.4.0-r2 installed. The gui menu comes up fine, but when I watch tv, the cpu utilzation for mythfrontend goes up to 70-80%, and the actual video on the TV is choppy every second or so. Ive got xorg-x11-6.8.2-r6 with the ivtvdev_drv for the tv-out. not sure how relevant it is, but here some snippets from my xorg log (**) |--Screen Screen0 (0) (**) | |--Monitor NTSC Monitor (**) | |--Device Hauppauge PVR 350 iTVC15 Framebuffer (**) |--Input Device Mouse0 (**) |--Input Device Keyboard0 (II) LoadModule: dri (II) Loading /usr/lib/modules/extensions/libdri.a (II) Module dri: vendor=X.Org Foundation compiled for 6.8.2, module version = 1.0.0 ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 0.2 (II) Loading sub module drm (II) LoadModule: drm (II) Loading /usr/lib/modules/linux/libdrm.a (II) Module drm: vendor=X.Org Foundation compiled for 6.8.2, module version = 1.0.0 ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 0.2 (II) Loading extension XFree86-DRI (II) LoadModule: dbe (II) Loading /usr/lib/modules/extensions/libdbe.a (II) Module dbe: vendor=X.Org Foundation compiled for 6.8.2, module version = 1.0.0 Module class: X.Org Server Extension ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 0.2 (II) Loading extension DOUBLE-BUFFER (II) LoadModule: record (II) Loading /usr/lib/modules/extensions/librecord.a (II) Module record: vendor=X.Org Foundation compiled for 6.8.2, module version = 1.13.0 Module class: X.Org Server Extension ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 0.2 (II) Loading extension RECORD (II) LoadModule: xtrap (II) Loading /usr/lib/modules/extensions/libxtrap.a (II) Module xtrap: vendor=X.Org Foundation compiled for 6.8.2, module version = 1.0.0 Module class: X.Org Server Extension ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 0.2 (II) Loading extension DEC-XTRAP (II) LoadModule: glx (II) Loading /usr/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.a (II) Module glx: vendor=X.Org Foundation compiled for 6.8.2, module version = 1.0.0 ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 0.2 (II) Loading sub module GLcore (II) LoadModule: GLcore (II) Loading /usr/lib/modules/extensions/libGLcore.a (II) Module GLcore: vendor=X.Org Foundation compiled for 6.8.2, module version = 1.0.0 ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 0.2 (II) Loading extension GLX (II) LoadModule: type1 (II) Loading /usr/lib/modules/fonts/libtype1.a (II) Module type1: vendor=X.Org Foundation compiled for 6.8.2, module version = 1.0.2 Module class: X.Org Font Renderer ABI class: X.Org Font Renderer, version 0.4 (II) Loading font Type1 (II) Loading font CID (II) LoadModule: freetype (II) Loading /usr/lib/modules/fonts/libfreetype.so (II) Module freetype: vendor=X.Org Foundation the After X-TT Project compiled for 6.8.2, module version = 2.1.0 Module class: X.Org Font Renderer ABI class: X.Org Font Renderer, version 0.4 (II) Loading font FreeType (II) LoadModule: ivtvdev (II) Loading /usr/lib/modules/drivers/ivtvdev_drv.o (II) Module ivtv: vendor=The XFree86 Project compiled for 4.3.0, module version = 0.10.6 ABI class: XFree86 Video Driver, version 0.6 (II) LoadModule: mouse (II) Loading /usr/lib/modules/input/mouse_drv.o (II) Module mouse: vendor=X.Org Foundation compiled for 6.8.2, module version = 1.0.0 Module class: X.Org XInput Driver ABI class: X.Org XInput driver, version 0.4 (II) LoadModule: kbd (II) Loading /usr/lib/modules/input/kbd_drv.o (II) Module kbd: vendor=X.Org Foundation compiled for 6.8.2, module version = 1.0.0 Module class: X.Org XInput Driver ABI class: X.Org XInput driver, version 0.4 (II) IVTVDEV_TST: driver for framebuffer: PVR-350 (II) Primary Device is: PCI 01:00:0 (--) Chipset PVR-350 found (II) IVTVDEV_TST(0)using /dev/fb0 (EE) IVTVDEV_TST(0)Framebuffer id from dev /dev/fb0is 0 (EE) IVTVDEV_TST(0)open /dev/video48 returned 6 (EE) IVTVDEV_TST(0)get_fb returned 0 fbid 0 (**) IVTVDEV_TST(0)Depth 24, (**) framebuffer bpp 32 (==) IVTVDEV_TST(0)RGB weight 888 (==) IVTVDEV_TST(0)Default visual is TrueColor (==) IVTVDEV_TST(0)Using gamma correction (1.0, 1.0, 1.0) (II) IVTVDEV_TST(0)Hardware: iTVC15 TV out (vidmem: 2025k) (**) IVTVDEV_TST(0)Option ivtv /dev/fb0 (II) IVTVDEV_TST(0)Checking Modes against framebuffer device... (II) IVTVDEV_TST(0) mode 720x480 ok (II) IVTVDEV_TST(0)Checking Modes against monitor... (--) IVTVDEV_TST(0)Virtual size is 720x480 (pitch 720) (**) IVTVDEV_TST(0) Mode 720x480: 34.6 MHz
Re: [mythtv-users] DvbScan -- HELP!!!!
On 18/12/05, Nick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 18/12/05, Michael Haan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can someone tell me where to get this for FC4? You can get dvb-apps source from here: http://www.linuxtv.org/downloads/ Not sure about RPMs... I think it's in the linuxtv-dvb-apps rpm, on the atrpms site http://atrpms.net/name/ I'm not sure though. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] KnoppMyth R5A22: Can't record or watch TV on second tuner
On 08/12/05, Brad Karal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi friends: I am using KnoppMyth R5A22 (yeah, I know-should redo with a non-SVN version.) Until I can do that, I'd like to be able to use the second tuner in the box. 1st tuner: Hauppauge PVR-150 (/dev/video0) 2nd tuner: Hauppauge PVR-150MCE (/dev/video1) I am trying to watch or record analog cable (tuner0) in each case. I've checked my mythtv-setup, and I believe it is all correctly set. I have no trouble viewing or recording from the first tuner. However, when I press Y to switch tuner cards, Myth returns to the main menu. If I do a cat /dev/video1 test.mpg and then play back the resulting file with xine, it works just fine. So I'm guessing the problem is within Myth's configuration itself. Can anyone suggest anything for this semi Linux newbie? Anything in the logs? What happens if you schedule two simultaneous recordings? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users][OT] - How grab VHS tapes?
On 07 Dec 2005 06:29:13 -0800, Jim Reith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 09:05 AM 12/7/2005, you wrote: On 12/7/05, Alessandro Boggiano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, usually if I want watch a VHS,I can use the antenna cable between the vcr and the tv (I know,the quality is bad),put channel 36 on my tv and it works! I'd like to do the same thing with my mythtv system in order to recorder the vhs tape: so I unplegged the antenna from the tv and plugged the vcr as above. Should work. I've done this with my VCR, setting myth to channel 3 in my case. Not sure what VCR picks channel 36 - does the VCR have a switch on the back to select which channel to use? (I think mine has a 3/4 switch). Since it's an Italy email address, it's probably all PAL Now the problem is that I can't find a valid channel/frequency with my PVR-150: I use ivtv-0.4.0 and the program ptune-ui.pl (I hacked the source to have a fine tune to 50) to set the channel. But I can'f find a valid frequency! I think you can use ivtvctl to manually pick an actual frequency, but I'm surprised that ptune didn't work without being hacked. Do you normally use the cable input on the PVR, or the composite/svideo? If you don't normally use the tuner, is it possible that you have it set to the wrong country frequency sets? (I am guessing that you aren't in the US based on the channel-36-VCR, since I've never heard of such a thing over here - VHF here only goes 2-13, and if you are cable-ready, chances are you don't need to use RF modulation on the antenna input) For a couple of secs I had a valid picture from the tape,but it disappared! Keep in mind that that myth has a large delay, so if you are trying things on the VCR, they take a long time to show up on the screen (same with tuning channels on the PVR - when you change the channel, it has to propogate through the card AND through the ring-buffer. Might be better to use the component or S-video inputs if possible I'd agree that that the S-Video output would be better, but if it's not available then you're stuck with composite. I ended up putting my PVR 350 into a windows machine and using the windows software that came with the card to do a channel scan. Then, the channel number that it found the VCR on goes into the frequency field on the second page of the mythtv channel setup. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Blank Recordings - please confirm
On 30/11/05, CHRIS KOTTING [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm having an issue with blank recordings, and I wanted to confirm what I'm finding by searching the archive (because I'm hoping that there is a different answer available). I have two inputs to a PVR-150 card connected, Tuner0 goes to my cable (no cable box) and the S-Video input comes from our VCR. Both are configured in mythtvsetup, each with its own channel line-up. The connection to the VCR is primarily for pulling our home videos into Myth, but I was hoping to be able to use the VCR as a second tuner, and be able to switch between two channels by using C to change inputs. (Yes, I know this would play hob with the ringbuffer, so maybe it's a silly idea.) Anyway, since I set up the S-video input, scheduled recordings have all been blank. The files are there, and I didn't see any problems in the logfiles when I looked at them. (Can't append them right now, as I'm nowhere near the machine, and have no way of ssh-ing to it.) Is it (still) true that you cannot have two different inputs configured in mythtvsetup and record reliably? I was wondering if this could be gotten around by raising the priority of Tuner0. I think your problem might be having the guide data on the SVideo input. Myth is going to think that it can use that channel for recording (maybe the blank recordings are from the VCR while it was turned off?). If you only want to capture from VCR then you're better off with no guide data and using manual recording. If you want to use your VCR as a tuner then I think you'll need a channel change script. Even if you intend to set the VCR channel manually I believe that a 'dummy' script that does nothing, but returns successfully, is needed to convince myth that it has selected the correct VCR channel. As you say, you'll also need a way to disable recording on the SVideo input when you haven't got the VCR turned on and tuned, and I don't know how to do that, but increasing the priority of the tuner over the S-Video should help. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Infra-red Remote as keyboard
David Watkins mentioned that you can use LIRC to change the keys of the remote. I think he was referring to a ATI remote which uses the ati_remote.ko kernel module. LIRC has its own kernel module for that remote. I'm not sure you can use LIRC with a usbhid device that thinks it is a keyboard. No, I'm using a nova-t card. The ir receiver plugs into the capture card and is handled by one of the cx88 modules ( I forget which exactly ), but it does end up thinking it's a keyboard. In case it helps you, this is the way my nova-t works. On loading the dvb module, a new device gets created for the remote /dev/input/event0 (if I don't have any other input devices) /dev/input/event1 (if I have a keyboard connected) etc and keypresses from both the standard keyboard and the remote control are sent to the keyboard buffer. (eg pressing the '1' on the remote control produces a '1 on the screen if I'm in a terminal window at the input prompt). So at this point the remote could be working with mythtv, all without touching lirc. However, it wasn't working for me for two reason. 1) Very few of the remote keys worked at all. eg. the remote keypresses were not mapped to valid keycodes (as defined in input.h), and pressing them just produced an error in dmesg. Of those that did work, they weren't necessarily mapped to the key that mythtv expected. 2) The key repeat rate was much too fast. ie it was almost impossible to send a single keypress, which made scrolling up and down difficult to control and pressing enter a bit of a lottery as I dived down through menu levels. I solved (1) by editing cx88_input.c and recompiling the cx88 modules (a BIG learning experience for me). and I solved (2) by running lircd and connecting it to the correct input/event device. This allows for more flexible key mapping and control of the repeat rate. So, if loading your usb module produces a /dev device, such that $cat /dev/device produces stuff on the screen when you press buttons on your remote then maybe the same approach is usefull for you. One gotcha is that if I don't have a keyboard then the ir device is on /dev/input/event0, so I configure lircd to be automatically started, attached to this device. Adding a keyboard bumps the device numbers up, with the result that neither the keyboard nor the remote work. Someone on this list kindly sent me a script that detects which device the nova-t remote is on, and starts lircd accordingly. (Search gossamer/threads/mythtv/users for 'nova-t repeat lirc') Sorry for the rambling thread - hope this helps. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] I Need some help with MYTHTV...
On 28/11/05, larry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, I am new to the list Mythtv... My setup here is Debian/Linux, kernel version 2.6.11... I have downloaded mythtv_0.18.1.orig.tar.gz... After extracting it, I then did a ./configure, now after doing that I do not see an executional file to start up mythtv... Is there something that I am missing, or have I downloaded the wrong source for debian... Maybe you missed reading the documentation. http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-5.html#ss5.4 ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Cant delete programs when HD files up
On 28/11/05, Ben Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I came back at the end of the weekend and my hard disk had filled up. When I tried to delete anything the frontend hung when I went to delete a probram and selected 'Delete it'. I ended up hading to manually delete a old program media data for free up some room. That did the trick and allowed me to delete other stuff. When I try to delete the entry from the media library relating to the manually deleted .nuv (Ime using a nava-t) file nothing happens. So I have two questions. Firstly how come I cant delete programmes when I have filled up the drive, how can I stop this happening in the future. Secondly how do I delete Media library entries which do not have any associated media (.nuv files). Not sure if there are better ways now, but it used to be you had to create a dummy file to match the database entry $touch filename and then do the delete. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Ghosted Audio
On 24/11/05, David Aquilina [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings all, I'm fairly new to MythTV and am experiencing an occasional problem with ghosting audio. When viewing some previously recorded shows, if something else is being recorded at the same time I'll hear the audio from the new recording in addition to the previously recorded show's audio. Worst yet, it's not a simple pass-through - it appears to actually be incorporated in the recording and replays exactly the same each time the recording is played. Has anyone encountered this before? Unfortunately, it's not consistent at all. It's most commonly encountered while watching a recording while something else is being recorded at the same time, however it doesn't always happen under those circumstances. It seems to always occur when I attempt to watch something as it's being recorded. No settings have been changed between shows with correct audio and shows with ghosted audio being recorded. For that matter, the system has not even been rebooted between those shows nor any of the myth components restarted. I am using: - MythTV .18 as pulled from http://svn.mythtv.org/svn/branches/release-0-18-fixes/mythtv on November 22nd - Fedora Core 4 (kernel 2.6.14-1.1637_FC4) (x86, NOT x86_64) - A WinTV bttv capture card - A Yamaha YMF724 sound card. It both records from the bttv card and outputs to the speakers. - The system is a 1.6Ghz Sempron64 with 512M memory, nForce3-based motherboard, and an 80G ATA hard drive. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. If more information is needed, please let me know and I'd be happy to provide any other details I might have missed. Well you could play with the mixer, and make sure that all unused inputs and outputs are muted, particularly the mic input which would the most prone to picking up unwanted signals. In the mixer and in mythtvsetup make sure the recording and playback gains are sensible. eg you're not recording sound at a very low level, and then playing back at a very high gain. Remove any unused external leads that might be plugged into your sound card - they can act as little aerials. Move the sound card to a slot far away from the capture card. I must admit none of the above seem very likely - you may just have faulty hardware. Hope this helps ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] LIRC with USB remote control: how?
I'm using my HP Pavilion w5180.ch running SuSE 9.3. How can I configure my remote control device to work with LIRC? Linux has detect the usb device as a keyboard and mouse. You don't need lirc. You can either change MythTv key mapping to match your remote with MythWeb or modify the Linux usb keyboard table to match MythTv. But you can use lirc if you want to. For me it was the only way I found to reduce the key repeat rate to a manageable level. just start lircd with the -d device option. see here http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/142466?search_string=repeat%20remote%20lircd;#142466 ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Anable to record from other vedio source
On 24/11/05, Rama, Ganesh Koti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I have built Mythtv on Fedora core 3.Using Win Tv Express v4l card. I am able to watch tv when I give composite video input from a set top box. But not able to record the same. I am in India I don't have any kind of EPG support. So I just want to record whatever I watch on Tv. Plz help me out. Most of mythtv depends on having tv guide information in the database. As I understand it your only option in the current stable release 0.18.1 is to use 'Manual Recording' from the 'Manage Recordings' menu. You choose a channel, start time and a durations. It's a bit fiddly but it does work - I use it for recording off my VCR. I believe that the current SVN build has a one-touch recording feature which sounds like what you were hoping for. If you search the archive http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users for recording live TV you should find a fairly long discussion. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] lircd.conf
On 16/11/05, Marty Ravell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It simply means that you didn't use lircd --logfile /var/log/lircd My box is FC3 and I run this with : /sbin/service lircd start The /etc/sysconfig/lircd file had little in it apart from : # Options to lircd LIRCD_OPTIONS= Since your email I have tried various combinations of the logging argument in /etc/sysconfig/lircd but have not had any success. It always gives : unrecognized option '--logfile=/var/log/lircd' You may have used some other filename or may have completely left off the --logfile (or -L) argument or may have permissions that disallow the lircd user to create the file. Lack of a log file is never proof that something is not working (other than proof that creation of that specific log file is not working). Sounds logical. Thanks for the tip. Mike I have also tried stopping lircd with : /sbin/service lircd stop And then starting it from the command line with : /usr/sbin/lircd --logfile=/var/log/lircd This gives me an error : /usr/sbin/lircd: unrecognized option '--logfile=/var/log/lircd' Any idea why this would happen? don't put the equals sign in the command. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Watching Recordings on TV instead of PC Monitor
On 15/11/05, Curtis White [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/14/05, Curtis White [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It appears now I have hit another new problem I can't seem to figure out. I have the PVR350 card with DirecTV going to the tuner of the card. I have recorded several shows. When I go to play them back (Media Library - Watch Recordings) it plays it back to my PC monitor instead of the TV. I have the options setup under Utilities/Setup - Setup - TV Settings - Playback to use the PVR350's TV out / MPEG decoder. The device is set to /dev/video16 and I have the TV audio through PVR350 only box selected (I can use the TV remote to adjust the volume). I also have the Enable OpenGL vertical sync for timing box selected. As I understood it, that is all I needed in order to watch my recordings on the TV. But for some reason it isn't working. It is playing them on my PC monitor. When I go to Watch TV, it plays it on the TV just fine. This only happens when I want to play back my recorded shows. At one point this worked because I watched one show when I first got everything setup. But now for some reason it isn't working. I'm wondering if something kicked in when I rebooted that made it stop working. Anyone have any ideas what I can do to get it back playing on the TV screen? Nobody has any ideas? I don't even know where to start looking. I feel I've checked every possible setting I could find. I don't even know how MythTV knows where to play the recorded files. Is there someplace to tell it to use /dev/fb1 instead of /dev/fb0 when playing back recorded files? do you have the ivtv-fb module loaded? with all the correct stuff appearing in dmesg? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Help getting Video running
On 13/11/05, stevew [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Folks, I'm looking for a little help getting the final pieces running on my system. I have a Nvidia 5200, PVR350 combination. I have audio and video under mplayer, but Watch TV only has audio? I can also watch DVD's under myth with no problem. So the question is why only audio. I've attached a Logfile to this posting in the hope that it'll help. You need to be clearer about what you're using for video output, the PVR-350 or the NVidia 5200. I suspect that your success with mplayer is using the 5200, but that myth is trying to use the PVR-350, and failing for some reason. However, unless you give a bit more information I'd only be guessing. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] mythbackend cannnot autostart
On 10/11/05, 赵亚伟 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi,everyone I have installed my mythtv well ,and it runs well. But mythbackend cannot autostart. Everytime I have to command, /sbin/service mythbackend start I want it to start by itself when computer starting When my computer is starting ,I get this error: /usr/local/bin/mythbackend:error while loading shared libraries:/usr/local/lib/libmythavcodec-0.18.1.so.0:cannot restore segment prot after reloc:Permission denied. What is wrong? And how to solve. Sorry,I am a newer for linux. Yes ,I write some script in /etc/rc.d/rc.local such as /sbin/service mythbackend start But no useful. What should I do?? not sure if this is appropriate to your linux distro, but you could think about trying /sbin/chkconfig --level 345 mythbackend on which you should run as root. which will cause mythbackend to start for run levels 3, 4 and 5 not sure that this will necessarily fix your problem though, which looks like a PATH or permissions problem to me. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] TV out card for frontend
On 09/11/05, Devan Lippman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Shopping for a new tv-out for my frontend and came across this at a very reasonable price: JATON Geforce4 MX440 Video-198PCI-64TV Video Card I was thinking about it though and this probably will not do any hardware decoding for video? It does however have a PCI interface with svideo and composite outputs. From what I hear the overscan adjustments work well on the geforce 4. Can anyone think of a reason not to get this and suggest a better alternative, kepping in mind that it must be PCI? I'm using a PCI Geforce4 MX440 on my combined FE/BE. It works fine and doesn't have a fan, which is another nice thing. The nvidia driver does support hardware decoding (by enabling XvMC) with it, which significantly reduces the CPU load. However I don't use the hardware decoding because: 1) It's extremely jittery when overlaying the on screen display. 2) My AMD XP1400 (1GHz) CPU is easily capable of decoding standard definition video in software while simultaneously recording from both of my DVB cards. If you have a low powered CPU, tuner cards with software encoding, or you're looking at high definition output then you may the XvMC enabled. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] gentoo mythtv nova-t channel scan problem
On 09/11/05, Ben Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have managed to get a good picture in mplayer so I guess my dvb card is set up. When I go to scan shannels it just sits there for about a minute with 'no lock' and eventualy gives up and comes up with 'Error tuning to transport';( What parameters are you entering for the channel scan? I forget how it's done (advanced something perhaps) but before you do a scan you have to enter a bunch of parameters related to the dvb transmission from your local transmitter. These are what I used for Crystal Palace. freq 50580 B/W8MHz Inversion Auto ConstellationQAM 16 LP Coderate 3/4 HP Coderate3/4 Trans Mode 2K Guard Interval 1/32 Hierarchy None I worked these out by following this document http://www.ethics-gradient.net/myth/mythdvb.html which showed me how to use scan and tzap, from the dvb-utils package. BTW I'm using 18.1. I believe there have been lots of dvb related changes in the SVN version, so things may be different now. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] How do I edit mythvideo metadata?
On 09/11/05, Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The mythvideo metadata editing screen does not allow you to change a whole lot of stuff like plot etc. Being able to put the imdb number in is fine for a movie, but for a downloaded tv series it is no good. I just end up with a whole lot of videos named the same, no episode numbers, no summary of the episode etc. Do I have to resort to mysql? By the way does anyone have a suggestion for a good gui for mysql? If you're running a web server, then phpmyadmin is pretty easy to set up and use. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] gentoo mythtv nova-t channel scan problem
On 09/11/05, Ben Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/9/05, David Watkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 09/11/05, Ben Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have managed to get a good picture in mplayer so I guess my dvb card is set up. When I go to scan shannels it just sits there for about a minute with 'no lock' and eventualy gives up and comes up with 'Error tuning to transport';( What parameters are you entering for the channel scan? I forget how it's done (advanced something perhaps) but before you do a scan you have to enter a bunch of parameters related to the dvb transmission from your local transmitter. These are what I used for Crystal Palace. freq 50580 B/W8MHz Inversion Auto ConstellationQAM 16 LP Coderate 3/4 HP Coderate3/4 Trans Mode 2K Guard Interval 1/32 Hierarchy None I worked these out by following this document Is this defenatly nessesery? I thought leaving things as auto was OK now. I was previously using knopixmyth and it just worked. http://www.ethics-gradient.net/myth/mythdvb.html Not all the parameters are necessary. However, when I did my install the opinion on this list was that the frequency plus a couple of others were required. That was certainly my experience. I didn't work with them all at auto. I believer that some of the linux/myth bundles use the stable SVN build so maybe your knopixmyth had different scanning code. I don't really know. Will have a look at this. which showed me how to use scan and tzap, from the dvb-utils package. BTW I'm using 18.1. I believe there have been lots of dvb related changes in the SVN version, so things may be different now. I just did emerge mythtv and I think it gave me 18.1, does this make sence. Sorry - I don't know what version of myth is packaged with Gentoo. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] ATI Wonder Remote
On 09/11/05, Folashade Adeyosoye [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What am I missing, I tried following (http://www.litwiller.net/mythtv/remote.html) these instructions but for each button that I press on the remote, it repeats 4 times. For example if I hit the 3 button I get What might I be missing? users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users The remote will continually generate keycodes. However lircd should be able to convert these to single commands. You could try commenting out the repeat=5 (in lircrc) line for buttons you don't want to repeat . or maybe change it to repeat=0. I think repeat=5 means that every 5th command from the remote will get sent to the application. For most keys you probably don't want a repeat at all. For those that you do (volume, skip etc) experiment with different numbers. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Searchable index of mythtv-users?
On 08/11/05, Simon Cowell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is this list indexed somewhere that I can search in its history? http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/ ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] 'i' key doesn't work in Mythmusic playlist + other questions
On 06/11/05, ffrr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: According to the documentation... Q: How do I create a new playlist? A: Using the MythMusic Select Music menu option, setup the playlist as you normally would by adding songs or other playlists as needed. When you are ready to save the new playlist, highlight Active Play Queue at the bottom of the selection tree and hit the i key. This will pop up a menu allowing you to name and save the new playlist. You can also hit Enter to bring up the popup on the Active Play Queue. This does not work on the playlists above, as Enter is obviously bound to checking/unchecking the boxes. Any number (i.e. keypad on remote) will also bring up the menu in both cases. However, only the enter key will work. The i doesn't seem to do anything anywhere in the playlist area. Sorry can't help, except to say that it works for me. Can you jump down the list? Example, I am looking at the list of artists, and all the A s are showing. Can I jump down to those starting with 'S', or even filter the list so it only shows those starting with a certain letter? I'm running 18.1 and the number keys allow jumping down the list. I assume that it's like mobile phone text eg. '2' jumps to the 'A's and '9' to the 'W's. However I haven't checked this. It's useful though. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] 'i' key doesn't work in Mythmusic playlist + other questions
On 07/11/05, ffrr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ffrr wrote: David Watkins wrote: Can you jump down the list? Example, I am looking at the list of artists, and all the A s are showing. Can I jump down to those starting with 'S', or even filter the list so it only shows those starting with a certain letter? I'm running 18.1 and the number keys allow jumping down the list. I assume that it's like mobile phone text eg. '2' jumps to the 'A's and '9' to the 'W's. However I haven't checked this. It's useful though. ___ Thanks, I will experiment. _ Nope, it's just thoroughly weird. For example, a 1 key jumps halfway through the B section. Maybe it's just dividing the list into 10% chunks, so for example, 4 jumps to 40%. OK that figures. I thought it didn't feel quite right, but I'm not good at texting and assumed that I was getting confused. So far I've only got about 30 albums captured, so navigation isn't difficult. I can see it would get tricky with a few hundred though. btw: the number keys on the normal keyboard do this too, BUT typing a letter, say, A, does not jump anywhere. It seems mythmusic is very much oriented to being used with a simple remote, with several functions assigned to number keys. What I really want is to be able to select files as per the directory structure I keep them in. Funny, but that seems the easiest way. Have you looked at the music area of Media Setting, in the frontend setup up? I believe you can change the way listings are displayed by reordering the keywords such as /GENRE/YEAR/ARTIST/TRACK etc etc. Without knowing your directory structure I'm not sure whether this will do what you want though. D ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Slightly OT: can't get power button script to restart front end (From Jarod's guide)
On 03/11/05, Jon Kunze [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't think so, I've never had a problem with it before. I also tried copying and pasting it from Firefox on the mythbox into nano in a terminal on the mythbox, and still no luck. selinux? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] RE: nForce4 Audio on FC4, it plays some of the time....
I took your suggestions and tried messing with alsamixer while playing
something, I never heard audio no matter what I tweaked.
Probably a dumb suggestion, but you did make sure that the channels
weren't muted ('m' toggles muting on and off). It's not as obvious on
alsamixer as on some other mixer programmes and kde seems to enjoy
turning the muting on.
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Re: [mythtv-users] Page down in mythmusic?
On 02/11/05, Carl Fongheiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/1/05, Grant Emsley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any key that does page down in mythmusic? I have mostly singles, and have a giant directory of MP3s...scrolling with the remote is far too slow. Even scrolling with the keyboard, which has a much faster repeat rate takes forever. .. and I think the number keys work like mobile phone text. eg 3 goes down to the D's. But I might have made that up! ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] DVB scans
On 02/11/05, Frank Simorjay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After laborious efforts I have put together a frequency list of channels that seem to work. However the format of the channels.conf file works with azap, but nothing else. I'd like to get the data imported into channel info of myth, I see that a script exists for importing channels.conf file that have tzap format, but no docs on how to format my data to get to work. Currently I my file format: Channel:Freq:QAM_256:0:0 tzap has extra feilds that I can't fake (I think) or at least I'm not sure how to collect the info to make my config file work. here us a azap file format I found channel:freq:INVERSION_AUTO:BANDWIDTH_7_MHZ:FEC_3_4:FEC_1_2: QAM_64:TRANSMISSION_MODE_8K:GUARD_INTERVAL_1_16:HIERARCHY_NONE: 2307:0:544 not sure what inversion,bandwidth,fec,transmit mode,hirarchy,or the third numeric value at the end are. Why don't you just do a myth channel scan? In the Channel Setup Page of mythtvsetup is a scan button which, if your dvb card is currectly installed ( and I think you have to make sure mythbackend is not running) will be enabled. Pick a channel from your tzap channels.conf file and type them into the advanced options and myth should scan for all the available channels - worked well for me. Otherwise I believe that there's a zap2myth script that does what I think you as for, but I've never used it. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] frontend segmentation fault
On 30/10/05, Robert Callicotte [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings, I recently re-installed mythtv from the RPMS located at ATRPMS and made it through the setup process. After running mythfilldatabase and mythbackend fo the first time I ran mythfrontend. Here is a excerpt of that run error message... Conflict in /usr/lib/kde3/plugins/styles/highcolor.so: Plugin uses incompatible Qt library! expected build key x86_64 Linux g++-4.* full-config, got i686 Linux g++-4.* full-config. Conflict in /usr/lib/kde3/plugins/styles/highcontrast.so: Plugin uses incompatible Qt library! expected build key x86_64 Linux g++-4.* full-config, got i686 Linux g++-4.* full-config. Conflict in /usr/lib/kde3/plugins/styles/keramik.so: Plugin uses incompatible Qt library! expected build key x86_64 Linux g++-4.* full-config, got i686 Linux g++-4.* full-config. Conflict in /usr/lib/kde3/plugins/styles/kthemestyle.so: Plugin uses incompatible Qt library! expected build key x86_64 Linux g++-4.* full-config, got i686 Linux g++-4.* full-config. Conflict in /usr/lib/kde3/plugins/styles/light.so: Plugin uses incompatible Qt library! expected build key x86_64 Linux g++-4.* full-config, got i686 Linux g++-4.* full-config. Conflict in /usr/lib/kde3/plugins/styles/plastik.so: Plugin uses incompatible Qt library! expected build key x86_64 Linux g++-4.* full-config, got i686 Linux g++-4.* full-config. Conflict in /usr/lib/qt-3.3/plugins/styles/bluecurve.so: Plugin uses incompatible Qt library! expected build key x86_64 Linux g++-4.* full-config, got i686 Linux g++-4.* full-config. 2005-10-29 02:34:09.980 Switching to square mode (G.A.N.T.) Corrupt JPEG data: bad Huffman code 2005-10-29 02:34:10.286 Registering Internal as a media playback plugin. Could someone please help?? Just a hunch but I'd say you had incompatible Qt libraries. namely some X86_64 stuff and some i686. atrpms contains separate packages for each CPU architecture. Generally you need to make sure that the ones you install match that of your computer. Do you know: Your CPU type? (AMD 64, Pentium ? etc etc) Which versions of which mythtv packages and plugins you installed? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Killing all known channels, dead
On 31/10/05, Jo Shields [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: DVB-T, rather handily, automatically adds new channels when they appear. This happens both with my set-top boxes, and with Myth. However, there's a tendancy to re-add channels I went to the effort of deleting - I don't want QVC, I don't want scrambled Cartoon Network, and I'm not really after Television X either. Is there a way to make removed DVB channels stay removed, rather than coming back from the grave like a plague of zombies? I removed the 'visible' flag and deleted the channel number from the database. I used phpadmin, but I think you can do this via mythtvsetup. I must admit I didn't really know what I was doing, but it worked for me. Good Luck. D ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] What does make install actually do
On 28/10/05, R. Geoffrey Newbury [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 27 Oct 2005 21:58:20 +1000, Phill Edwards wrote: I've noticed that make install puts the binaries into /usr/local/, whereas the rpm binaries are currently in /usr/local/bin, so am I correct in thinking that nothing would get overwritten and I manually move files or adjust the order of the path to enable the compiled versions? I think there's a file called settings.pro (from memory) which lets you override the target dir for install so you could use that to get make install to install to the current location. I don't know what the consequences of having simultaneous RPM and CVS installs, but it sounds like the sort of thing that could turn ugly. Better to use the --prefix=DIR setting in configure before 'make'ing the compile. Either run ./configure --help or open it in an editor to see all of the available switches and their defaults. 'prefix' is usually set to /usr/local which means that the binaries will end up in /usr/local/bin and the libs in /usr/local/lib etc. Using --prefix=/usr will move everything 'up' one level. If you install a new version into /usr and the old is in /usr/local then which one gets called would depend upon the ordering of your $PATH variable. Given the nature of linux, I suspect however, that each version, if called directly would run quite happily because each would look for its own libraries in its own path (ie: the old one would always look in /usr/local/lib while the new one would only look to /usr/lib) This would be fine until they start looking at the same database... and possibly using different schemas. Unless you wish to live dangerously, it would be best practice to rpm -e the original version before 'make install' of the new *if they are going into different places. If the same, then the new will over-write the old. Well thanks for all the advice. You've convinced me that I should delete the rpms, so it's off to start doing some serious backing-up!. Thanks again, D ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] What does make install actually do
I've compiled a few frontends from source, but my backend (18.1) was built using rpms. I'd now like to compile mythtv for the backend. I'm reasonably comfortable with doing the build, and I've read the upgradetoCVShowto (although I'll be using the 18.1 tarball), but I'm still a bit unclear on the best way to install the files, without breaking anything that I've already got. I've noticed that make install puts the binaries into /usr/local/, whereas the rpm binaries are currently in /usr/local/bin, so am I correct in thinking that nothing would get overwritten and I manually move files or adjust the order of the path to enable the compiled versions? What about other files ( libs, configs, scripts?, stuff in ~mythtv/.mythtv/ etc). Does any of that get overwritten. Lots of people must have done this - what are the gotchas? Thanks in Advance. David ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] What does make install actually do
On 27/10/05, Phill Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've noticed that make install puts the binaries into /usr/local/, whereas the rpm binaries are currently in /usr/local/bin, so am I correct in thinking that nothing would get overwritten and I manually move files or adjust the order of the path to enable the compiled versions? I think there's a file called settings.pro (from memory) which lets you override the target dir for install so you could use that to get make install to install to the current location. I don't know what the consequences of having simultaneous RPM and CVS installs, but it sounds like the sort of thing that could turn ugly. It does doesn't it. I don't really want to keep the rpm setup, just move between the two in a controlled way. I guess what you're saying is I should uninstall the rpms first? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Some Quick Questions about MythTV
On 25/10/05, Scot L. Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 16:25, Steve Adeff wrote: On Tuesday 25 October 2005 15:42, Scot L. Harris wrote: On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 15:18, Joshua Lewis wrote: I am seriously considering the MythTV as an alternative to having 5 satellite receivers and DVD players and computers and stuff in my house. I want desperately to consolidate my house. Have read that many people utilize X-Box systems as frontend systems. These connect to the backend system to pull recordings. Not sure if there are any limitations on such an X-Box frontend. I've been looking at putting together a diskless frontend system using small form factor motherboard but have not spent enough time to pick out the right mother board yet. the Xbox can not handle raw HD MPEG-TS streams. But for standard definition TV I've found it to be perfect. It is also able to handle what are termed hr.hdtv XviD encodes. Which is a 1/2 res full AC3 audio encode of HDTV shows. They're popular in the scene and a great way to archive HDTV shows in a small file size with near equal quality. as for other options, there is a device called Roku, which can handle HDTV MPEG2 streams and standard def. TV. The MythTV build for it is still in inafancy though, but it promises to be a great, cheap frontend ($300). Been sorting through the options available using one of the EPIA boards. Trying to find one that has s-video output and mpeg2 decoding that can handle shows recorded using PVR cards. I'm also going to add that there are some recent posts concerning LVM's and RAID that you'll want to search gossamer for. You look to be building a rather large file server into your backend, and at this point these are your best bets. I'm trying to see if the dev's will entertain the idea of having more than one recordings directory that would allow for all this to be much easier. My main backend system had four 300GB drives with one LVM group setup as a 1TB file system which I use for recordings. At this point I did not bother with raid. If a drive fails I lose the recordings. Yes, and I've always assumed the whole group would be lost, or is there a way to recover files from the disks that haven't failed? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Upgraded Mandriva to 2006 - problems with mysql and myth
On 26/10/05, ffrr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The upgrade from 2005LE to 2006 was fairly smooth, and nearly everything works - except mythtv The problem seems to be something to do with mysql permissions and/or host names. The back end dies as follows... 2005-10-26 17:59:40.637 New DB connection, total: 2 2005-10-26 17:59:41.079 mythbackend: MythBackend started as master server 2005-10-26 17:59:41.334 DVB#0 DVB SI Table Parser Started 2005-10-26 17:59:41.822 DVB#0 Using DVB card 0, with frontend DST DVB-T. 2005-10-26 17:59:41.953 New DB connection, total: 3 2005-10-26 17:59:43.574 DVB#0 DVB signal 6200 | snr 5000 | ber 811e058 | unc b7811134 2005-10-26 17:59:43.578 DVB#0 Status: LOCK. 2005-10-26 17:59:43.579 DVB#0 Multiplex Locked 2005-10-26 17:59:44.331 DVB#0 Successfully tuned to channel 1601. 2005-10-26 17:59:44.604 New DB scheduler connection 2005-10-26 17:59:45.557 mythbackend version: 0.18.20050523-1 www.mythtv.org 2005-10-26 17:59:45.850 Enabled verbose msgs : important general 2005-10-26 17:59:45.999 AutoExpire: Found 1 recorders w/max rate of 138 MiB/min 2005-10-26 17:59:46.040 AutoExpire: space: 2.0 GB w/freq: 10 min 2005-10-26 17:59:47.561 Reschedule requested for id -1. 2005-10-26 17:59:47.706 Scheduled 15 items in 0.1 = 0.07 match + 0.07 place 2005-10-26 17:59:47.712 scheduler: Scheduled items 2005-10-26 17:59:47.719 Seem to be woken up by USER 2005-10-26 17:59:55.560 mythbackend: Running housekeeping thread 2005-10-26 18:07:01.336 New DB connection, total: 1 No setting found for this machine's BackendServerIP. Please run setup on this machine and modify the first page of the general settings. Well the problem appears to be here. Have you set an IP address on the backend? Database connection looks OK to me, unless you're connecting to the wrong database? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Problem with tuning DVB card - tzap, mplayer ok mythtv not
On 24/10/05, Simon Allcorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi David, Thanks for the response, I think you may have hit the nail on the head ! I got these from tzap and, as I say, they worked for me. How did you get tzap to do this ? I can't see an option for this ! Can't see a version number in tzap either (downloaded 20th April I think). Can you post the full output of tzap showing you this config ? thanks Simon, Actually I mis-remembered. The file is used by tzap but generated by scan. This was the command I used to generate the channels.conf for tzap. # ./scan dvb-t/uk-CrystalPalace channels.conf (IIRC scan, tzap and uk-CrystalPalace were included in the dvb-utils package) Though I guess you must already have this working Can anyone tell me where mythtv stores this dvb tuning information ? I presume in the database although I'm not sure. I think it may be highly possible that the config that mythtv is looking at may be different to that which tzap is using. You're right, that channels.conf is not used by mythtv, which holds its channel parameters in the database. I think there used to be a utility which sucked the channels.conf file the database, but I used mythtv's channel scan which worked a treat. I took the first line from the tzap channels.conf (which happened to be BBC1) and copied those parameters(the ones I posted earlier) into myth's scan dialog. It scanned all the muliplexes and channels (I don't know how) and populated the database. If you get stuck, I'm pretty sure that this is the guide I was following http://www.ethics-gradient.net/myth/mythdvb.html (thanks Martin) ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Problem with tuning DVB card - tzap, mplayer ok mythtv not
On 23/10/05, Simon Allcorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm having trouble to get myth-tv to tune into a transport stream with my DVB card (nova-t). If I use mythtv-setup and select Channel editor/Scan for channels/Full scan I get the following: ... 2005-10-23 14:39:07.661 DVB#0 DVB SI Table Parser Started 2005-10-23 14:39:07.662 DVB#0 Using DVB card 0, with frontend LSI L64781 DVB-T. 2005-10-23 14:39:07.686 DVB#0 DVB Signal Monitor Starting 2005-10-23 14:39:08.728 DVB#0 DVB signal f0f | snr 0 | ber | unc0 ... 2005-10-23 14:39:40.498 DVB#0 DVB signal e0e | snr 0 | ber | unc0 2005-10-23 14:39:41.477 DVB#0 DVB signal f0f | snr 0 | ber | unc0 2005-10-23 14:39:42.097 DVB#0 WARNING - Status: NO LOCK! Which suggests that the signal strength is too weak, however both mplayer and tzap tune and work fine - for every transport ! (see below) So I'm a little stumpped - I Can use my DVB card for all channels / transports but myth-tv can't ! help ! - has anyone got any idea what's happening here ? Cheers I've no idea what your problem is but I'm using a nova-t on the Crystal Palace transmitter so you could check that you're using the same mythtv scan parameters that worked for me. I used: freq 50580 B/W8MHz Inversion Auto ConstellationQAM 16 LP Coderate 3/4 HP Coderate3/4 Trans Mode 2K Guard Interval 1/32 Hierarchy None I got these from tzap and, as I say, they worked for me. Good Luck. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] required XvMC?
On 22/10/05, Michael T. Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Derek Meek wrote: Dan Brow wrote: Do you really need XvMC for most systems? I'm building a few myth boxes If you're using a hardware based capture card ( PVR x50 or dvb-x) and outputting at standard definition then you probably don't need XvMC for any processor above 1GHz. I'm using two nova-t cards and a Geforce MX440 and can happily record from both cards and watch a recording on my AMD XP1400 (1.05GHZ clock). Software encoding and HD output obviously leave less spare CPU power so are more likely to require XvMC, but I've no experience of these. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] mythtv supoprt for lcdproc/other lcds
On 20/10/05, Neil Bird [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Around about 19/10/05 14:25, David Watkins typed ... I just bought a Matrix Orbital MX630 http://www.kustompcs.co.uk/acatalog/info_2954.html It's a USB device and, with an optional cable, plugs into the motherboard USB header. So the install was pretty neat. I saw these, and for all they look pretty, it's a bit steep. Plus I don't want it in my case, so it's a bit bulky for my needs. I'm think going to try an 'Igor' USB one, which would be around €25-30 + P+P (actually about £20-30 in total). Prob. safer to go for the cheaper (2-line) one as no-one's mentioned a 4-line one having any use made of it by Myth. Browsing SVN, there seems to be some activity around the LCD functionality. Creating a server program, similar to mythtvosd, for one. It might be worth having a look to see if there's anything else you fancy in the pipeline that would make use of a four-line display. 2x20 is a bit meagre! ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] 'Scan channels(s)' button can not be pressed.
On 18/10/05, Ben Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have kaffeine wrking fine but when I run mythtv-setup and go into 'Channel Editor' the 'Scan Channel(s)' button and the Advanced' button can not be navigated to and pressed. I have put BBC ONE in and its correct frequency. Any ideas? Well you've obviously got your dvb card working properly, so it looks like a myth configuration problem. A few things to try. 1. Rerun mythtvsetup, delete capture cards and channels and run through all the screens again, starting at the top. Maybe there was something you missed. In the Capture Card screen did dvb0 show up, when you selected dvb as the card type? 2. Check that mythbackend is not running when you configure the capture card, or try and run the channel scan. 3. As an experiment, try running mythtvsetup as root. If the channel scan button lights up, thats a clue that you've got permission problems on your dvb devices. Don't carry on with the setup though. Back out, fix the permissions, and run mythtvsetup again as your mythtv user. I suspect that you've tried all of the above, but I can't think of anything else obvious. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] mythtv supoprt for lcdproc/other lcds
On 19/10/05, Neil Bird [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I asked a short while back about using a small USB LCD display with Myth, and got a couple of hints as to what I might look for. However, I remain unsure as to what support there actually is in Myth for driving these things. Am I limited to lcdproc, which seems to be unmaintained (since early 2004)? I came across a command line util. which would do for /me/, but of course I need to get a hold of the info. in the first place. The main thing I want it for is to display track data in MythMusic; will I be able to do that? These things aren't cheap (well, not the branded ones) and I'm loathe to splash out until I'm fairly certain it's going to be useful. I just bought a Matrix Orbital MX630 http://www.kustompcs.co.uk/acatalog/info_2954.html It's a USB device and, with an optional cable, plugs into the motherboard USB header. So the install was pretty neat. lcdproc wasn't a limitation for me - it includes a Matrix Orbital driver and pretty much just worked. I'm running Myth 18.1 and the frontend supports the display as follows: When doing nothing else It shows the time. When watching a recording it shows the channel on the top line and the programme title scrolls along the bottom line. When navigating the menus it shows the current menu option. When playing music it displays the artist and track title for a short while (5s by default but you can make it longer I think) and then reverts to the time display. I haven't noticed any of the other plugins displaying anything, but I hardly ever use them, so they may. I'm running a combined FE/BE and AFAICT the backend doesn't display anything. It would be usefull if it could show tuner status for example. My reasons for buying it were to see if I could use mythmusic without turning on my TV, which I can just about do - at least to select an album or a playlist - and to display the temperature inside the mythbox, but I haven't got around to setting this up yet. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] 'Scan channels(s)' button can not be pressed.
On 19/10/05, Ben Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/19/05, David Watkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 18/10/05, Ben Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have kaffeine wrking fine but when I run mythtv-setup and go into 'Channel Editor' the 'Scan Channel(s)' button and the Advanced' button can not be navigated to and pressed. I have put BBC ONE in and its correct frequency. Any ideas? Well you've obviously got your dvb card working properly, so it looks like a myth configuration problem. A few things to try. 1. Rerun mythtvsetup, delete capture cards and channels and run through all the screens again, starting at the top. Maybe there was something you missed. In the Capture Card screen did dvb0 show up, when you selected dvb as the card type? The card type is 'Standard V4L capture card' and can not be changed. What should dvd0 show up next to, I have viewo devide /dev/video0. shuld this be /dev/dvb0? Is this still the nova-t card that you mentioned in an earlier post? I'm pretty sure V4L is wrong for this. As I recall I V4L was the default, but I was able to scroll through other options and select dvb. At this point other parts of the window light up, and I was able to select dvb0 as a particular card. Try deleting all cards and adding it again. 2. Check that mythbackend is not running when you configure the capture card, or try and run the channel scan. Is there a channel scan someware as well as 'Scan channel(s)'? sa I said I can not navigete to/press this. I think it's the greyed out one you need. When you get the card detected right it will un-grey itself. 3. As an experiment, try running mythtvsetup as root. If the channel scan button lights up, thats a clue that you've got permission problems on your dvb devices. Don't carry on with the setup though. Back out, fix the permissions, and run mythtvsetup again as your mythtv user. What I dont quite understand is why I have ot select a video source if I am getting my istings over dvb? I A Perhaps you don't - I'm getting some of my guide from the radio times grabber. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] 'Scan channels(s)' button can not be pressed.
On 19/10/05, Ben Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/19/05, David Watkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... The card type is 'Standard V4L capture card' and can not be changed. What should dvd0 show up next to, I have viewo devide /dev/video0. shuld this be /dev/dvb0? Is this still the nova-t card that you mentioned in an earlier post? I'm pretty sure V4L is wrong for this. As I recall I V4L was the default, but I was able to scroll through other options and select dvb. At this point other parts of the window light up, and I was able to select dvb0 as a particular card. Try deleting all cards and adding it again. retried lots of times. Am i missing some packages? I don't know. Can you see PVR-150, 250, 350 as an option? Not that they're any good to you, but I don't understand why you should be stuck with V4L. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] The Race to Change the Channel
On 18/10/05, W.Kenworthy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The alternative view: in Australia (Perth) the program info is lousy, missing or plain wrong. Channel surfing is where its at (we only have a small handful of channels - not counting the dups), and the delays are a real pain, as is the OSD jitter which seems endemic, and the lockups, ... mythtv is a From what I've read, OSD jitter is more common in PAL land (where I guess you are) than under NTSC If I'm not using XvMC then I can get rid or the jitter by using 'kerneldeint' de-interlacing instead of 'Bob'. If I'm using XvMC then jitter isn't a strong enough word for what happens when the OSD comes up. The whole picure goes berserk! ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Re: lircd starts fine, but crashes as soon as something tries to use it
On 18/10/05, Jon Kunze [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, here's what happens when i try to reinstall lirc [EMAIL PROTECTED] mythtv]# yum install ivtv-kmdl-$KVER Setting up Install Process Setting up repositories atrpms100% |=| 951 B00:00 freshrpms 100% |=| 951 B00:00 extras100% |=| 1.1 kB00:00 updates-released 100% |=| 951 B00:00 base 100% |=| 1.1 kB00:00 Reading repository metadata in from local files primary.xml.gz100% |=| 346 kB00:00 updates-re: ## 992/992 Added 50 new packages, deleted 25 old in 1.55 seconds Parsing package install arguments No Match for argument: ivtv-kmdl-2.6.12-1.1447_FC4 Nothing to do [EMAIL PROTECTED] mythtv]# Any idea why this is happening? It worked fine a few weeks ago when I rebooted last. If you want lirc why are you trying to install an ivtv kernel module? As for the error - maybe that kernel module has been replaced with a later version, on the atrpms site? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Slightly OT: Recording AV inputs on a DVB-T card
On 15/10/05, David Whyte [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/16/05, David Whyte [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know the avermedia cards have a video AV slot, but was wondering how I could record that to my PC. How do I get the sound in, and how does it all come to be synchronised. Just to correct myself, the 771's have an SVideo in connection =D The Hauppauge PVR350 has an S-Video input and also an audio-in socket. I've successfully captured VHS videos using these two inputs. Sound and Picture get synchronised into the mpeg2 file. Unless your 771's also have an audio input then you're going to have to record sound and picture separately and combine them. Do-able, I'd have thought but maybe not worth the effort! (Look at the myth documentation for creating a DVD from PVR350 captures, which involve separating the audio and video streams, and then recombining them using mplex - the recombining bit might be one way of doing what you want). ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Building channels.conf for Exeter/Beacon Hill, UK
On 18/10/05, Ben Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, got fairly far setting up my MythTV box. How to I find out what transmitter I am using, I think it is Beacon Hill that is in Exmouth bot not certain, how can I find out? The other thing is I then need to find out the frequency. I found this whitch may be relevent:- This lets you type in your postcode to find your local transmitter http://www.wolfbane.com/cgi-bin/tvd.exe? and this one has a full listing of transmitter data, which includes QAM values and other stuff you need for the channel scan. http://www.wolfbane.com/ukdtt.htm Not sure if you can work out the frequency from it though? I used tzap, which did its own scan and created a conf file with the frequencies in. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Re: lircd starts fine, but crashes as soon as something tries to use it
On 18/10/05, Jon Kunze [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry about that, I was trying a few different things, and copied the wrong command. As for the kernel idea, I thought of that late last night as well. Does anyone know if the FC4 kernel modules have been updated? If so, what do I need to do, just update my kernel and then the modules? A quick browse on www.atrpms.net shows that the current lirc-kmdl's are for: 2.6.13-1.1526 so yes, if you want to install this, you would need to upgrade your kernel and all your other kernel modules to the same version. Might be worth doing a yum info on each package first, just to make sure that they are all available. Whether this is the right thing to do or not though depends on what you are trying to achieve. Hope this helps. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Building channels.conf for Exeter/Beacon Hill, UK
In mythtv-setup my channel scan is 'grayed out'. Do I need to enter the channels from above someware? I think that means that your dvb card is not available. What happened when you set up the card? Did it let you select dvb0? Make sure mythbackend is not running when you run mythtvsetup as it can 'grab' the card. scan channels.conf You then used channels.conf with tzap. How do you use tzap without a channels.conf? I think tzap creates a file called channels.conf, but it's not necessarily the same file that mythtv refers to. It does contain the data that the mythtv channel scan uses though. Look in here: http://www.ethics-gradient.net/myth/mythdvb.html (search for tzap) Yes, looked at that. Think is I dont have tzap as I did not build from source. I'm sure if you Google your transmitter name with dvb and frequency you'll be able to find it out. Thisg is I am not totaly sure wether Ubuntu distro have MythTV compiled with dvb-t support;( Hmm that would be a shame. What version of the kernel do you have? uname -r Otherwise you probably need to seek help from people who use Ubuntu. I've only ever set up on Fedora. From your modules and dmesg output though it looked to me that you card was being detected. Just something strange about the devices. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Initial FC4 Setup for MythTV
On 17/10/05, David Barkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm working on the initial portion of my MythTV install, following Jarod's doc (great doc btw!). In step 5, I ran the Yum upgrade, set the KVER variable and rebooted. I then ran step 6, adding the third-party repos, and decided to run yum upgrade again. When I do, most of the rpms from nrpms give error messages about packages not being signed or missing public keys for certian packages. I've found that if I install the offending package from the source website and I can get past the error, but then why use Yum in the first place. Should I not run yum upgrade again at this point? If I don't, wont I be running at some other point in the future and cause the same problems again? Thanks David You need to install a GPG key for each repo. Google 'atrpms GPG' and 'Fedora GPG' and you should find what you want. You just need to download a text file with the key in it, and then type: rpm --import file Good Luck ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Ubuntu Breezy install with Nova-T DVB card.
On 17/10/05, Ben Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am in the process of setting up a mythtv box. Have been looking through various howtos but am not sure what modules I need to modprobe. with my Hauppauge Nova-t (which looks to be the same model as yours) all I needed to modprobe was dvb-cx88 - and I think I only needed to modprobe that because autodetect was loading dvb-blackbird by mistake. If you need to know which dvb modules actually get loaded, I'd have to look tonight. However, from your dmesg output, it looks to me like you've already got what you need. Have you got the /dev/adapter0 devices? lspci:- :02:09.0 Multimedia video controller: Conexant Winfast TV2000 XP (rev 05) :02:09.2 Multimedia controller: Conexant: Unknown device 8802 (rev 05) :02:09.4 Multimedia controller: Conexant: Unknown device 8804 (rev 05) uname-a:- Linux pilger 2.6.12-9-386 #1 Mon Oct 10 13:14:36 BST 2005 i686 GNU/Linux dmsg | grep DVB:- grep DVB [4294695.504000] cx88[0]: subsystem: 0070:9002, board: Hauppauge Nova-T DVB-T [card=18,autodetected] [4294695.91] DVB: registering new adapter (cx88[0]). [4294695.91] DVB: registering frontend 0 (Hauppauge Nova-T DVB-T)... Ben -- Ben Edwards - Bristol, UK, England WARNING:This email contained partisan views - dont ever accuse me of using the veneer of objectivity If you have a problem emailing me use http://www.gurtlush.org.uk/profiles.php?uid=4 (email address this email is sent from may be defunct) ___ 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] Ubuntu Breezy install with Nova-T DVB card.
On 17/10/05, Ben Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/17/05, David Watkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 17/10/05, Ben Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am in the process of setting up a mythtv box. Have been looking through various howtos but am not sure what modules I need to modprobe. with my Hauppauge Nova-t (which looks to be the same model as yours) all I needed to modprobe was dvb-cx88 - and I think I only needed to modprobe that because autodetect was loading dvb-blackbird by mistake. If you need to know which dvb modules actually get loaded, I'd have to look tonight. However, from your dmesg output, it looks to me like you've already got what you need. Have you got the /dev/adapter0 devices? No, its not there, also lsmod | grep dvb:- cx88_dvb7556 0 cx8802 9604 2 cx88_blackbird,cx88_dvb mt352 6276 1 cx88_dvb or51132 9220 1 cx88_dvb video_buf_dvb 6148 1 cx88_dvb dvb_core 72104 3 budget,budget_core,video_buf_dvb cx22702 5892 1 cx88_dvb dvb_pll 4612 3 cx88_dvb,or51132,cx22702 cx88xx 50976 4 cx88_blackbird,cx88_dvb,cx8802,cx8800 video_buf 19844 6 cx88_blackbird,cx88_dvb,cx8802,video_buf_dvb,cx8800,cx88xx Ben, I'll run the same on my system this evening and post the output I get. D ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Ubuntu Breezy install with Nova-T DVB card.
On 17/10/05, Ben Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/17/05, David Watkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 17/10/05, Ben Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am in the process of setting up a mythtv box. Have been looking through various howtos but am not sure what modules I need to modprobe. with my Hauppauge Nova-t (which looks to be the same model as yours) all I needed to modprobe was dvb-cx88 - and I think I only needed to modprobe that because autodetect was loading dvb-blackbird by mistake. If you need to know which dvb modules actually get loaded, I'd have to look tonight. However, from your dmesg output, it looks to me like you've already got what you need. Have you got the /dev/adapter0 devices? No, its not there, also lsmod | grep dvb:- cx88_dvb7556 0 cx8802 9604 2 cx88_blackbird,cx88_dvb mt352 6276 1 cx88_dvb or51132 9220 1 cx88_dvb video_buf_dvb 6148 1 cx88_dvb dvb_core 72104 3 budget,budget_core,video_buf _dvb cx22702 5892 1 cx88_dvb dvb_pll 4612 3 cx88_dvb,or51132,cx22702 cx88xx 50976 4 cx88_blackbird,cx88_dvb,cx8802,cx8800 video_buf 19844 6 cx88_blackbird,cx88_dvb,cx8802,video_buf_dvb,cx8800,cx88xx Ben Ben, I've attached the output of lsmod | grep dvb on my twin Nova-T system. I'm using a 2.6.11 kernal on Fedora Core 3. For dvb devices I have /dev/adapter0 /dev/adapter1 each containing demux0 dvr0 frontend0 net0 Hope it helps. David cx88_dvb7940 14 cx8802 12292 1 cx88_dvb mt352 6916 1 cx88_dvb cx88xx 53792 3 cx8800,cx88_dvb,cx8802 or51132 9988 1 cx88_dvb video_buf_dvb 7556 1 cx88_dvb dvb_core 93480 1 video_buf_dvb video_buf 24068 5 cx8800,cx88_dvb,cx8802,cx88xx,video_buf_dvb cx22702 9476 1 cx88_dvb dvb_pll 4612 3 cx88_dvb,or51132,cx22702 ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Config files
On 13/10/05, Bill Robson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey all, Quick question. Where abouts are the settings stored for the auto-skip commercials? - Not in the menus, but which configuration file(s)? they're in the msql database called mythconverg ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV / ivtv (PVR350) Audio out
On 11/10/05, Sebastian Nerz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I have a strange problem ... Whenever I plug the Audio-Out of my PVR350 in my MIC-In I get some strange sounds - audio of I dont know what TV-Channel. That audio stays the same whatever channel I tune in .. If I send some MPEG2-Video to my TV via the PVR350, the TV gets the correct audio and video - but the Audio off still gets that strange channel. Anybody knows what this could be? thanks Sebastian Nerz Well you shouldn't be using the Mic input to your soundcard. You should be using the Line input. I guess it's possible that the much higher impedance of the Mic input means that you're getting some sort of 'pick-up' within the 350. Not whether that's very likely though - it does seem strage. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Seeking Remote Control Advice for PVR-500
On 07/10/05, Larry K [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joe, Thanks for the info. That fact that the buttons can have arbitrary names explains a lot. I'm wondering how I will know what kernel modules support this 3rd party IR receiver? The seller said it works with mythtv, so it probably does. If I hack my Hauppauge IR sensor to connect via serial port, will that work with my existing setup? I'm thinking it might. Also, you state that the EFC codes match up with what is defined in the lircd.conf. I'm not seeing that. For instance, Jarod defines the the SLEEP button with EFC code 241, but the sleep code in lircd.conf is not 240. It is: SLEEP 0x0166 I can't see how Hex. 166 matches up with Dec. 240. (x'166' is 358, as you probably know.) I have been unable to match any of the EFC codes to the codes in lircd.conf. This is particularly vexing. They don't match, or need to. 240 is the code you enter into the remote to make the button generate a particular optical code. 166 is the code that the kernel module generates when it sees the above optical signal. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Shutting down a slave backend crashes the master backend..
On 06/10/05, E Norm One [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been trying to setup a system where slave backends will be started and terminated on-demand. The Slave BackEnds are diskless and they share the main video partition with the Master BackEnd over NFS. This way i imagine that i can save the MBE from nasty ivtv hardware crashes and such (they still occur, but only once every other month when the backend is running 24-7). I've had this setup since mythtv 0.15 or so, but then i didn't shutdown the SBEs and everything worked just fine. Now when i decided to start and sutdown the SBE on demand I noticed that the MBE always will crash whenever it looses connection with a SBE!!! This is the last thing the MBE writes to the log: Slave backend: htpc-P400 no longer connected Mutex destroy failure: Device or resource busy Then it crashes. I'm running the gentoo 0.18.1-r2 mythtv installation on a 2.6.11-hardened-r15 gentoo kernel (no selinux/pax/grsec though) MBE has a bttv card and the SBE has two ivtv (250350) cards. Is there a fix for this? regards /E P.S. This is the third time i try to send this mail to the list. damn spam filters.. More likely you're configured not to receive your own posts. There's a setting on your configuation page for the mailing list. Sorry I can't help with your myth problem ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] cable box woes
On 05/10/05, Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a Scientific Atlanta Cable box that outputs cable via S-Video into my PVR-500. I'm not sure exactly where I plug it into my PVR-500 and I'm also not sure what settings need to be modified in mythtv-setup. (video0/s-video1 or 2, video1/s-video1 or2). I've tried both S-Video slots on my PVR-500 with various settings in mythtv-setup to no avail. They way it's supposed to work (AFAIK) is that lirc sends a change channel command to my cable box, the cable box switches to the specified channel, outputs via the s-video cable into my PVR-500 and myth records via the S-Video port on the 500. That's pretty much correct. The steps are: 1) You tell the mythtv frontend that you want to change channel. 2) The frontend tells the backend, which calls a channel change script, which you have provided. 3) The channel change script either uses lirc to drive an ir-blaster which mimics your remote control to change channel on the cable box or sends a code via a serial interface to the cable box (if your box has a serial input that is). 4) Assuming the channel change script completes successfully then mythtv will register the change and select guide information to match the new channel accordingly. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] cable box woes
On 06/10/05, Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wow thats sounds alot harder than it looks :( On 10/6/05, David Watkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's pretty much correct. The steps are: 1) You tell the mythtv frontend that you want to change channel. 2) The frontend tells the backend, which calls a channel change script, which you have provided. I provide this script...? Where do I get it? Also, my cable box uses cable out, so I'm going with that but in only inputs on channel 3. Meaning the tuner card needs to stay on channel 3. How do I make it do this? OK - I misunderstood you. That's not a setup I'm familiar with. If I understand you right, you're saying that when you change channel on your cable box, then a different channel comes out of the output as channel 3? In this case you shouldn't be feeding your cable output input into the S-Video input of the PVR, because S-Video doesn't support tuned signals, it's just a raw video input. So I guess you feed your cable-box output into the co-ax/cable input of the PVR and, in mythtvsetup, you just give every channel the frequency corresponding to that of channel 3. 3) The channel change script either uses lirc to drive an ir-blaster which mimics your remote control to change channel on the cable box or sends a code via a serial interface to the cable box (if your box has a serial input that is). 4) Assuming the channel change script completes successfully then mythtv will register the change and select guide information to match the new channel accordingly. How can it get new guide information if the tuner card is still on the same channel (3). Well myth will have guide information for every channel, and it will think it's changed channel but, because they all have the same frequency, it will still be on channel 3. That's where you have to run a channel change script to actually change channel on your cable box. If I were you I'd Google for the make and model of your cable box, and you'll probably find someone has been there before. I must admit I'm still not quite sure I understand your setup, so I'm guessing a bit (a lot actually). Good Luck. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Fusion DVB-t lite card
On 05/10/05, Justin Debbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, i have read many different threads on the subject and have come back to the same problem - i cannot get the card to work no matter what i try. Basically dvb-t lite cards are supposed to autodetect since 2.6.9. Not a problem mine does do that, but why doesn't it get detected when i run myttv-setup? As far as i know permissions have been given to adapter0 Make sure you're not running mythbackend at the time. I believe that it can grab the card, so that mythtv-setup can't see it. Hope this helps. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Wireless or 10/100 BaseT?
On 05/10/05, James Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When using a seperate back/front end for mythtv, is it possible to have these running across a reasonable wireless connection? I'm talking about watching an averagely encoded file. If not, could I use an old 10baseT ethernet card, or do I have to order a new 100mbps one? In my experience 10bast T was fine for watching - a bit painful when copying video files between machines though. Haven't tried wireless yet. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-150/mythtv setup
On 05/10/05, paulg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been following Jarod's fine HowTo to get mythtv working with my Hauppauge WinTV-PRV 150 on FC4. I've watched and listened to captured tv with cat and mplayer combination so I believe the card and sound are working. Irc isn't yet but mythtv just goes to a black screen when I try to watch tv. Below are the error messages and the dmseg log. I guess it's likely I did something wrong in the mythtv setup. Any suggestions? You didn't mention configuring channels. Have you done this? You might think you'd be able to manually step through the PVR-150's channels, but you can't. You have to have channels set up in the mythtv database before you can Watch TV. I'm just guessing, so apologies if you have done this already. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Ripped DVD's to 350 HW
On 04/10/05, Marty Ravell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone tell me if it is possible to rip a DVD and then encode it in such a way that I can watch it through the hardware decoder on my PVR 350? I have played around at getting the new ivtv drivers to work but the video quality on playback has not been good enough for me to switch to using these. The system seems to be able to successfully RIP DVDs but when I try to view them in 'Watch Videos' all I get is a brief Loading… appear on the screen and then it goes back to the page showing the image, description, runtime etc. One way is to rip to MPEG2 and then use 'Internal' as your mythvideo player (in the front end setup for mythvideo). ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] lirc_i2c problem
On 04/10/05, Tyler Bartel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been figting with a problem all evening that I am hopng someone can help me with: Machine: Intel 1.8Ghz / 512RAM Running 2.6.13-1.1526_FC4 Hauppage WinTV PVR-150 I have been following Jaron Wilsons Howto on getting MythTV running and I have hit a stumbling block at Lirc... When I ran: # yum install lirc-kmdl-$KVER I got: No Match for arguement: lirc-kmdl-2.6.13-1.1526_FC4 So I ran # yum install lirc And that installed successfully The problem is that when I continue on to load the lirc module with: # depmod -a # modprobe lirc_i2c I get : FATAL: Module lirc_i2c not found. I tested the ivtv firmware in Myth and I get a nice quality sound and video but I am stuck at this Lirc problem. Any help would be appreciated. You need that kmdl file as well. Looking at the atrpms site, this looks as if it's the one you need. lirc-kmdl-2.6.13-1.1526_FC4-0.7.2-49.rhfc4.at.i686.rpm Not sure why yum couldn't find it though. You need to make sure the kernel version matches (which it does) also that the architecture matches your kernel (you don't want smp if you haven't got multiple processors or _64 if you havent' got 64 bit). I'm not quite sure about the subtleties of i586 and i686. If you think the above file is correct, you could try downloading it directly and installing it using rpm. go to the directory you downloaded the file to and type: #rpm -uvh lirc-kmdl-2.6.13-1.1526_FC4-0.7.2-49.rhfc4.at.i686.rpm Hope this helps. Kernel modules are the only bit of the atrpms site that I still have trouble with. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] unable to recognize channel
On 04/10/05, Ricardo Kleemann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I have mythtv 0.18.1 installed and working fine on a Fedora 4 system, with PVR-150MCE and a GeForce4 MX440 setup. I don't really need to change channels in the sense that I expect the tuner to tune away, because I simply have a S-Video input into the PVR-150, so the video will always correspond to the input video source. However, I do need to tune in the sense that I want the program information to match what I'm watching, so that when I record, it'll have the appropriate program info. So what I have is a video source hooked up to Data Direct, and it grabs DISH network info. My S-Video input is the S-Video output from a DISH receiver. The problem I'm having is that if I bring up the guide (say by pressing S), I can go to whatever channel I want, say channel 596 on DISH, and the guide properly shows the programs and info for that channel. However, if I select that channel, the tune doesn't happen. It's as if channel 596 were invalid, so it simply stays on the current channel. Let's say that mythtv starts up at channel 100, if I simulate going to 596 (either by typing in 596, or by going into the guide and selecting 596), mythtv pretty much rejects it, and goes back to channel 100. I tried altering my config so that the default channel is 596 (or some other channel), but watch tv always defaults to 100 and I guess rejects the other channel. So I can never have the program info in synch with what is actually playing. How can I fix this? I know that the Data Direct info is being picked up because the tv guide has the whole lineup and shows the various channels... but if I try to tune to that channel, it fails. Again, I'm not really trying to tune, but I just want to be able to ensure that whatever I'm watching is reflected on the current program information. What am I missing? thanks Ricardo I seem to remember a similar thread from a while back. I think the trick was to provide a dummy channel change script (such as you'd use to drive an ir-blaster) to make mythtv think it had successfully changed channel on your dish box. Otherwise mythtv thinks the channel change has failed so stays where it is. Hope this helps ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Australian channel scan
On 03/10/05, Jim Householder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I'm making some progress with mythtv. Using the excellent guidance at http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/fcmyth.php I have 0.18.1-114 running on FC4. Hardware: V-Stream DTV DVB-T, 2.4GHz P4, 1GB ram I can watch the composite input from a VCR ok, but no digital yet. I adjusted the permissions on /dev/dvb so the card can be seen and identified ok, and the channel scan button is now active in the channel editor. I'm stuck here. I have no idea how to set up the scan parameters. I suspect 'auto' is sufficient for most. All I get is 'no lock'. I've tried 571625000 for channel 34 (SBS in my area) and 52000 (start of the UHF band). What frequency should I use? I seem to recall that, in the UK, there is at least one other parameter, apart from the frequency, that has to be entered explicitly. I used the tzap utility, part of the dvb-utils package, to generate all the parameters for me, which I then entered into the mythtv channel scan window. Hope this helps. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] LVM Issue with zero-length files
On 28/09/05, Larry K [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Calling all LVM experts!! Up until recently, I had been running LVM with only a single physical volume. I probably have 100GB of data files in the volume, waiting to be watched. So, Myth was running fine and all was well, except I had a 150GB partition just laying around, not in use. So, I decided to extend my volume group and add this 150GB to it, like so: Using fdisk, deleted /dev/hda4 partition Using fdisk, created /dev/hda4 as LVM Created physical volume: pvcreate /dev/hda4 Extended volume group: vgextend vg /dev/hda4 Ran vgdisplay to see amount of free space that needs to be extended (18214) unmount the volume group: umount /dev/vg/video extend: lvextend -l +18214 /dev/vg/video mount /dev/vg/video grow the xfs file system: xfs_grow /dev/vg/video Remove /video from /etc/fstab Now, df -k shows the new space: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# df -k Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda2 10080520 2938120 6630332 31% / /dev/hda1 101086 16752 79115 18% /boot none257908 0257908 0% /dev/shm /dev/mapper/vg-video 442105856 113816336 328289520 26% /video2 Everything appeared to be OK. I now had a 450GB partition for myth, instead of 300GB. However, I soon discovered that new files are written with a length of zero (empty files). Doh! The mythfrontend was able to play back the existing files that were in the VG, but if I tried to delete a file, the frontend would hang. That's when I knew I had a problem for sure. You did use mythtvsetup to tell myth to use /video2 instead of /video, and make sure the permissions were correct, didn't you? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] OT: Dead(?) vertical line on LCD
Also the pixels aren't really dead -- they show color, just a different color than the pixels to the right and left. When that part of the screen is certain colors (green, red, black), there is no noticable problem, but when that bit is blue (other than default), white, or other lilght color, the line is clearly visible. Are you sure that line really changes colour? The eye/brain plays a lot of tricks when two colour's are side by side, and one of them changes. Have you ever see that tile pattern where most people see about 8 colours when in fact there are only three? Hope you find a way to fix it, but it sounds a bit terminal to me. D ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Network protocol problem: what does this mean?
The server uses network protocol version 14, but this client only understands version 15. Make sure you are running compatible versions of the backend and frontend. Have any of you seen this? What is it referring to. I think that both versions of mythtv are 0.18. I think the frontend version of mySQL is newer but would that matter? What IS the network protocol version 14 or 15 that it is referring to and what can I do about it. Well I saw it when I had 0.17 on my backend and 0.18 on a frontend - so I'd make sure that they really are both running 0.18 ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] (no subject)
On 26/09/05, Ben Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm new to this list but have thinking about building a MythTV box of a year or so. I've now started ordering bits (well a antec overture II case) and am planning on using a Hauppauge WinTV NOVA-t freeview PCI card and Ubuntu/512MB memory. As you can probably imagine, I have a few questions. Firstly what processor should I get. I had a AMD Sempron 3000+ to 3400+ in mind. What I was hoping on being able to do is allow the TV card to do the recording and have enough oomth in the CPU to be able to decode/play at the same time as recording or do I need two TV cards to do this. A single TV card will allow you to record while watching the programme being recorded (with rewind, pause etc) or to watch any previously made recording. What you won't be able to do is watch any other live channel (because the tuner card will be locked to the channel being recorded). As far as CPU oomph goes. I have two Nova-t PCI cards in my box and am able to record two channels while also watching, and I'm using an AMD XP1400 CPU (1GHz Clock) so I don't think you'd have any problems with any of today's CPUs. Being able to play and record at the same time is very important to me. How do I wire things up to record/play at the same time. If I had two cards would I have one wired to record an the other to play and do they have to be the same cards? The NOVA-t PCI card writes the incoming mpeg stream to a file on your hard disk. Multiple cards allow you to stream several channels to disk simultaneously (1 per card) Watching the programme requires a graphics card with TV out capability and a sound card connected to amp/speakers. MythTV playback simply streams one of the files on disk to the sound/video out. Is the 'Hauppauge WinTV NOVA-t PCI card' a good choice or are there other freeview cards I should consider (freeview is the relatively new free to view TV service here in the UK). I am assuming here that I should go for a internal PCI card because I am not sure about compatibility with external USB cards although having a external card is better from the point of you of interference. I've never used a USB card, but the PCI cards were certainly easy to setup. All I had to do was. modprobe dvb-cx88 Everything else could be done from with Myth Good Luck ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] (no subject)
Now I get it ;) So it is a graphics card with TV out connected to the TV, I guess the TV outs on the TV cards are all daisy chained into the Graphics card (with TV in/out). I did not realise I would need a graphics card with TV out as well as the freeview cards. I thought the TV out on the freeview card was used to connect to the TV. What TV out graphics card do you recommend? Hhmm. I'm not sure we're quite there yet. There's no daisy chaining involved. I can't even remember a TV out on the Nova-t card. If there is one then I think it's just a feed through of the input single - to allow you to feed the input into a second card. No, the signal gets from your NOVA-t card to the graphics card via your hard disk. Step 1 Nova-T card creates a file on your hard disk. Step 2 Play file using MythTV or other media playing software. As regards choice of graphics card - Most people seem to be using nVidia cards which, AFAIK all have S-Video outputs on them. I'm using a MX440 which is fanless (quieter), 5200s also seem popular. If you don't want to go gaming then you don't need a particularly recent card Hope this helps. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] DVB Static sound
On 26/09/05, Dave Oxley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I have a MythTV box (Gentoo Linux) that has 2 DVB cards in it. The audio from the DVB-S card is fine, but the DVB-T gives static (video is fine on both). What makes this stranger is that I have a frontend on my laptop (FC3) that connects to the MythTV box and the audio is fine from the DVB-T card on this. My guess is that your DVB card is recording several soundtracks, including at least one that is blank. For some reason your local frontend is selecting the blank one by default, while the remote frontend manages to find the correct one. You could try cycling through the available soundtracks on the mythfronend to see if this is the case (can't remember the key to press offhand). I had problems with losing sound, or getting wrong soundtrack. Switching from PS to TS recording fixed this for me. In mythtvsetup I think. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] program remote's power key to stop mythfrontend?
On 22/09/05, Brian J. Murrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 19:03 -0700, Mark Kundinger wrote: You can have a shell script that responds to the power key and kills the frontend: Yeah. I have something similar. Killing off mythfrontend just so coarse. AFAIK there's no reason why killing the frontend should prevent it making a graceful exit. I thought that was what kill -9 was for. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] frontend crash during UK dvb-t playback - only at adverts
On 20/09/05, Alan Bates [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi all – I now have a stable dvb-t myth setup running on an up-to-date fedora core system, using the hauppage nova-t. only major problem thus far is: watching certain UK channels, the frontend crashes when the commercial break begins – happens both with recordings and livetv. channels identified so far are channel4, e4/e4+1 and abc1. I suspect the reason is that these channels broadcast in a variety of aspect ratios, and switch over at the start of the adverts, causing a break in the signal of some kind – i.e. main broadcast is in 16:9, channel ident may be in low-res 4:3, followed by ad in 16:9. this often causes a broken keyframe (?) which the system struggles to recover from, manifesting itself in a green frame, a period of scrambled or non-existent audio, and quite often, the complete and sudden death of the frontend. rest of the programme and other channels are fine. anyone else seeing this behaviour or anything similar? let me know if there's any debug info that'd help… I get the green frame and a bit of picture breakup, but no frontend crash. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] mythTV settings from the command line?
Specifically, I am trying to figure out how to change settings concerned with commercial detection and deletion, automatic transcoding after recording and perhaps video card settings. (I have a Hauppauge PVR-150 and thought I read somewhere it could record directly to MPEG4 rather than MPEG2.) I'm pretty sure it can't. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Problems with Myth_Music
On 16/09/05, Javier Perez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi How come I can Rip a CD with Grip but I cannot do it from within MythCD. Mythfrontend crashes as soon as I just try to do it. Has this problem been solved? It did not look like it from googling around. Also, How can I just play a CD? Thereis the option to play a DVD and play a VCD, but not play a CD. Did I miss something somewhere? Well I managed to rip my first CD last night so maybe my experience might help, although I don't yet understand the implications. The option to rip a CD appears on two different menus on my 0.18.1 setup. If I remember right you can select Optical Disks on the main menu and then Rip CD. If I do this then the CDDB lookup doesn't work and all I see are the track lengths. Attempting to rip the CD causes the frontend to hang, (maybe because there is no title or track names ?) However, i discovered last night that there is a Rip CD option under the frontend setup menus as well. Select Setup from the Main Menu and then go to mythmusic I think, and there's a rip CD option there too( I could be wrong about the exact location but it's there somewhere, with the scan for music option) Once I select this menu then the CDDB lookup magically works and I successfully ripped the CD (once I'd given user mythtv permission to write to the mythmusic directory). Hope this helps. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] HDTV MythTV parts list
No tearing, performance is exactly the same as with older hardware, and there's no colorkey to show up at odd times. =) Is this the bright green, blocky flash that I sometimes see on scene changes with my GeForce MX440? If so, are there any tips on minimising or removing it? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] How to fix Movie posters on FE
On 15/09/05, PAUL WILLIAMSON [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You shouldn't be running MythTV as root. There is no reason for /home/.mythtv to exist because you installed MythTV as root. Bad thing. In general, it's not good to installing anything as root because you're lazy. Sorry, that's what you said... What do you mean by install as root? I'm sure I got an error when I tried to install (using rpm) as anything other than root. So what I did was: create the mythtv account install the mythtv rpms as root ran mythtvsetup as user mythtv ren mythfilldatabase as user mythtv Now I'm starting mythbackend as a service (which I presume means it's running as root). And I'm starting mythfrontend as user mythtv. Is this right? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] How to fix Movie posters on FE
On 15/09/05, PAUL WILLIAMSON [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 09/15/05 7:32 AM On 15/09/05, PAUL WILLIAMSON [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You shouldn't be running MythTV as root. There is no reason for /home/.mythtv to exist because you installed MythTV as root. Bad thing. In general, it's not good to installing anything as root because you're lazy. Sorry, that's what you said... What do you mean by install as root? I really mean run as root. Sorry for the confusion. I meant running as root. I'm sure I got an error when I tried to install (using rpm) as anything other than root. Yep. I think root is the only one who can make modifications to the rpm database, which is what happens when you install an application. So what I did was: create the mythtv account install the mythtv rpms as root ran mythtvsetup as user mythtv ren mythfilldatabase as user mythtv You should also have (if necessary) done a chown -R mythtv ~mythtv somewhere in there. I can't remember what the ownership is, but something tells me it's root. Now I'm starting mythbackend as a service (which I presume means it's running as root). Not necessarily. It all depends on your startup script. If you followed Jarod's guide, he is very clear on what to do as the myth uiser, and what to do as root. Step 14, configuring automatic startup, shows how to enable mythbackend to start up automatically as your mythtv user. If you did that step as root, then yes, you're running mythbackend as root. To make sure, just do a 'ps -ef|grep mythbackend' and it will show you who the process is owned by. All mine are owned by mythuser. And I'm starting mythfrontend as user mythtv. Is this right? It sounds like you may be about half right... Paul Yes I think I must have slipped up somewhere, because I'm pretty sure that mythbackend is running as root. I'll look when I get home tonight. Sadly for me Jarod's ability to write the guide seems to be better than my ability to follow it :-( because it wouldn't be the first mistake I've made through not reading it carefully enough. Thanks for the reply. D ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
