[mythtv-users] Zap2it problems
Is anyone else having problems with Zap2it? I'm getting 500 internal service error. I tried to log into labs.zap2it.com to see if I accidentally let my subscription lapse, and I'm getting page not found after entering my log in info. Someone had mentioned in November they had to rebuild myth after upgrading gcc, so I tried that, but no change. Anyone else having any issues? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Zap2it problems
On 12/28/05, MagicITX [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm seeing the same thing. I would say the site is screwed up. Other pages give Oracle errors.On 12/28/05, Ryan Steffes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Is anyone else having problems with Zap2it? I'm getting 500 internal service error. I tried to log into labs.zap2it.com to see if I accidentally let my subscription lapse, and I'm getting page not found after entering my log in info. Someone had mentioned in November they had to rebuild myth after upgrading gcc, so I tried that, but no change. Anyone else having any issues? ___mythtv-users mailing listmythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users I sent them an email, and they seemed to have fixed something. I'm still not getting any listings though, which makes me sad. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Samba 3 better than NFS 3 for recording over Ethernet
On 12/29/05, Greg Oliver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jumbo frames are your friendOn Wed, 2005-12-28 at 21:29 -0800, Jonathan Tidmore wrote: On 12/28/05, Mike Frisch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The tcp option may not be necessary but I haven't taken the time to benchmark between TCP and UDP. For gigabit ethernet, the nfs people recommend TCP. From the man page for nfs (5): WARNINGS Using NFS over UDP on high-speed links such as Gigabit can cause silent data corruption.Theproblemcanbetriggered at high loads, and is caused by problems in IP fragment reassembly. NFSread and writes typically transmit UDP packets of 4 Kilobytes or more, which have to be brokenupintoseveralfragmentsinordertobe sent over the Ethernet link, which limits packets to 1500 bytes bydefault. This process happens at the IP network layer and is called fragmentation. They go into greater detail about this issue.For info use 'man 5 nfs' -J ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users Hmm, I wonder if this may be related to why nfs apparently locks my machine in heavy use. It started when I switched to gigabit nics and I was blaming the cards, until I realized I could do high data transfers with the computer as long as I don't use nfs. Ryan ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Occasional hard freezes
On 11/1/05, Julian Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ryan Steffes wrote Changing to acpi=off did not fix the problem. I'm a little concerned with whether it's really off though, it seems to turn on local apic before reading the kernel options: You will also need to clear the ECSD memory in the BIOS to make itreassign the IRQs.It's either labelled reset ECSD (or ESCD, mymemory is crap) or something like clear NVRAM.If there's nothing like that then you may need to clear the whole BIOS settings with themobo jumper.What sound card are you using in the system?SBLive cards have knownproblems.___ I will try that, I've had it running well for a couple days now by not transfering data as much as I was doing (doing all my transcoding on the backend machine). I've been in the process of backing up all my dvds onto my drive, so it's really putting a crimp in my plans to only have one machine working on them at once. The NIC is looking very suspect at the moment, which is a pity since I specifically bought this board for the onboard gigabit nic and the onboard optical s/pdif out. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Occasional hard freezes
I've tried seperating the drives onto different IDE channels, without success. I'm wondering if there's a problem with the onboard gigabit NIC itself. Does anyone have a system working properly with a MSI K7N2 Delta 2, with digital audio and gigabit nic working? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Transcode (ripping) issue
On 10/31/05, David Barkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Interesting issue when ripping a DVD. I ripped Troy recently then watched it to see how it turned out and the words, like the movie title and credits and the story they display before the movie starts are all in another language, the title is something like TROIE, definitely not TROY like usual. Just to be clear, I'm not talking about subtitles. The language throughout the movie is english. Anyone else seen anything like this? Anyone else rip Troy with better results? Thanks David Barkman ___mythtv-users mailing listmythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users I'd say you got one of the many DVD's that defaults to French for the Canadian audience. (They've got some bizarre restriction in Quebec, I think, that requires French to be promoted or something like that). It sounds like it has an alternative intro and outro (?) in French that you accidentally ripped instead. Did you rip through mtd? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] partitioning for second hard drive???
On 10/31/05, Nada De nada [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I am trying to increas my video storage capcity. Iattached a new hard drive.. and I would like to knowif there is an easy way to set up Fedora and partitionthe new hard drive...also once I do that.. how can I link my video partition dev/hda5 (jfs format) to thenew drive Thanks When you say set up Fedora, do you mean have Fedora recognize the drive, or that it's not installed at all? It should recognize it as soon as you boot up. I'm not sure if Fedora has a friendly tool for disk partitions, but fdisk isn't terrible if you read a little. Do you want to combine the two drives into one larger partition, or do you want to replace the partition you have with the new drive, and use your old partition for something else? If you want to combine the drives (Say, you have 50GB now on /dev/hda5 and you have 250GB on /dev/hdb and you want to have 300GB on /mnt/video) you should look into LVM, which is surprisingly easy to set up. I believe you can grow and shrink jfs. If you want to replace it, it's easier. Here are the general steps, use man for exact parameters: 1) Use fdisk to create one large primary partition on your new drive (probably /dev/hdb if it's on the same cable as your original drive) 2) Set the type of the new partion to 83 Linux 3) Write and close fdisk 4) Make the file system on the new partition: mkfs.jfs /dev/hdb1 5) Mount the file system in a temporary place: mkdir /mnt/newDriveTemp/ mount -t jfs /dev/hdb1 /mnt/newDriveTemp 6) Copy everything over (there may be better ways to do this part): cp -a /mnt/video /mnt/newDriveTemp7) Modify fstab and replace the reference to /dev/hda5 with /dev/hdb1 8) Depending on whether the file system is in use (if /dev/hda5 is your /home for example) you may need to reboot instead of just unmount /mnt/newDriveTemp and /mnt/video and mount your new partition in it's place. Ryan ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] OT: unplugging the fan of the grafic card
On 10/31/05, Devan Lippman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/13/05, Yann Lehmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am planning to build a MythTV system, and would like to install aNVidia grafic card for software decoding of the recorded shows. The newer cards almost always have active coolers (with fan). Doessoftware decoding use the heat producing features of the gpu, and ifnot, can I just unplug the fan to get a silent system ? Thank'sYann FWIW I have a GeForce2 that I unplugged the fan on, but that was only because the bearings seized. Haven't had a problem over the past few years. All features will produce heat, but most generic rendering of images isn't going to be terrible for it. I don't know of anyway to underclock your video card for Linux, but if you could it'd help. If you keep relatively good airflow in your case and don't drive your card too hard with games or such, you very likely will be alright. You card will most likely not live as long as it otherwise would, but many people, like the above, haven't had any problems. I recently unplugged mine after looking at Zalman's passive coolers. I have a Zalman on my gaming machine and am very satisfied with its performance, but for me it was simple math. If my card happens to burn out, a GeForce MX4000 is $30, and so is the Zalman cooler. Obviously, if I needed more than s-video out, that could change. Your math may vary. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Occasional hard freezes
On 10/28/05, Michael T. Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ryan Steffes wrote:On 10/28/05, Julian Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Ryan Steffes wrote:I thought I had finally gotten this fixed with the kernel option
nolapic, but it happened to me again. I am experiencing hard lock upsthat seem to be related to high data throughput, but aren't consistentenough for me to track down. When it freezes, only hitting the reset
or power button fixes it.I have an MSI K7N2 Delta 2 motherboard with an AMD Barton 2500+ init. It has a nforce northbridge. I am passing the kernel acpi=no
noapic nolapic. I'm running 2.6.11-6mdk. I have one PVR 150. I havetwo hard drives, running LVM to make one video share. I'm runningivtv 0.3.9What happens is a hard lock up. It generally happens when I'm
exercising the ethernet hard.This exact same thing was happening to me too with my KT6 Delta.[snip]Can anyone give any advice on where to go from here?
Sure. The problem is almost certainly to do with interrupt sharing. Inmy case it was a problem with the ACPI steering assigning too manydevices the same IRQ. I ended up fixing it by disabling unnecessary
onboard hardware (eg I don't need 8 USB controllers or onboard sound),using acpi=off (is that different to your acpi=no ?) and re-positioningAccording to proc/interrupts, there shouldn't be a sharing problem. However,
I'm unsure if there is a difference between acpi=no and acpi=off. I'll tryoff and see if I can pound away on the NIC and the hard drive and see whathappens.vi /usr/src/linux-`uname -r`/Documentation/kernel-
parameters.txt/acpiacpi=
[HW,ACPI] Advanced Configuration and Power InterfaceFormat:
{ force | off | ht | strict }force
-- enable ACPI if default was offoff
-- disable ACPI if default was onnoirq
-- do not use ACPI for IRQ routinght
-- run only enough ACPI to enable Hyper Threadingstrict
--Be less tolerant of platforms thatare notstrictly
ACPI specification compliant.I think you were trying for acpi=noirq noapic nolapic.And, itwouldn't hurt to throw in a pci=noacpi for good measure.Most of the'net gets these parameters wrong, though, so I realize you saw someone
else recommend this...Note, also, that acpi=off would give you the same IRQ-related resultsas acpi=noirq (and disable the rest of ACPI, also).
Changing to acpi=off did not fix the problem. I'm a little concerned
with whether it's really off though, it seems to turn on local apic
before reading the kernel options:
Oct 29 08:56:54 mythtv kernel: Found and enabled local APIC!
Oct 29 08:56:54 mythtv kernel: Initializing CPU#0
Oct 29 08:56:54 mythtv kernel: Kernel command line: auto
BOOT_IMAGE=MythTV ro root=341 acpi=off noapic nolapic resume=/dev/hdb3
splash=silent
Oct 29 08:56:54 mythtv kernel: bootsplash: silent mode.
Later, it does say:
Oct 29 08:56:54 mythtv kernel: PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfbe50, last bus=2
Oct 29 08:56:54 mythtv kernel: PCI: Using configuration type 1
Oct 29 08:56:54 mythtv kernel: mtrr: v2.0 (20020519)
Oct 29 08:56:54 mythtv kernel: ACPI: Subsystem revision 20050211
Oct 29 08:56:54 mythtv kernel: ACPI: Interpreter disabled.
Oct 29 08:56:54 mythtv kernel: Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
Oct 29 08:56:54 mythtv kernel: pnp: PnP ACPI: disabled
Oct 29 08:56:54 mythtv kernel: PnPBIOS: Disabled
Oct 29 08:56:54 mythtv kernel: PCI: Probing PCI hardware
Oct 29 08:56:54 mythtv kernel: PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
Oct 29 08:56:54 mythtv kernel: PCI: Using IRQ router default [10de/01e0] at :00:00.0
but it doesn't say anything about local apic again. How can I check that it's really disabled?
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Re: [mythtv-users] Occasional hard freezes
On 10/29/05, Michael T. Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ryan Steffes wrote: Changing to acpi=off did not fix the problem. I'm a little concerned with whether it's really off though, it seems to turn on local apic before reading the kernel options: Oct 29 08:56:54 mythtv kernel: Found and enabled local APIC! Oct 29 08:56:54 mythtv kernel: Initializing CPU#0 Oct 29 08:56:54 mythtv kernel: Kernel command line: auto BOOT_IMAGE=MythTV ro root=341 acpi=off noapic nolapic resume=/dev/hdb3 splash=silent Oct 29 08:56:54 mythtv kernel: bootsplash: silent mode. Later, it does say: Oct 29 08:56:54 mythtv kernel: PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfbe50, last bus=2 Oct 29 08:56:54 mythtv kernel: PCI: Using configuration type 1 Oct 29 08:56:54 mythtv kernel: mtrr: v2.0 (20020519) Oct 29 08:56:54 mythtv kernel: ACPI: Subsystem revision 20050211 Oct 29 08:56:54 mythtv kernel: ACPI: Interpreter disabled. Oct 29 08:56:54 mythtv kernel: Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay Oct 29 08:56:54 mythtv kernel: pnp: PnP ACPI: disabled Oct 29 08:56:54 mythtv kernel: PnPBIOS: Disabled Oct 29 08:56:54 mythtv kernel: PCI: Probing PCI hardware Oct 29 08:56:54 mythtv kernel: PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00) Oct 29 08:56:54 mythtv kernel: PCI: Using IRQ router default [10de/01e0] at :00:00.0 but it doesn't say anything about local apic again.How can I check that it's really disabled?If you have a relatively nice BIOS, it will enable you to disable ACPI,LAPIC, and possibly APIC.Try that in addition to the kernel params.Mike___ mythtv-users mailing listmythtv-users@mythtv.orghttp://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users According to the BIOS, local apic is allegedly disabled. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Occasional hard freezes
I was experiencing what I thought were lockups whendeleting recorded programs, either through the interface or via MythWeb.Turns out it wasn't alockup (although the interface and/or Mythweb becamefrozen, and puTTY'ing in did not work).The freezewas temporary (lasting a few to several minutes) and related to deleting *large* files from my ext3filesystem.As far as I can tell, it's been remediedby switching to XFS for my program storage drive (onlyfive days of testing so far). These locks ups appear to be permanent, unless temporary can last several hours, over night and into the next morning. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Occasional hard freezes
I thought I had finally gotten this fixed with the kernel option nolapic, but it happened to me again. I am experiencing hard lock ups that seem to be related to high data throughput, but aren't consistent enough for me to track down. When it freezes, only hitting the reset or power button fixes it. I have an MSI K7N2 Delta 2 motherboard with an AMD Barton 2500+ in it. It has a nforce northbridge. I am passing the kernel acpi=no noapic nolapic. I'm running 2.6.11-6mdk. I have one PVR 150. I have two hard drives, running LVM to make one video share. I'm running ivtv 0.3.9 What happens is a hard lock up. It generally happens when I'm exercising the ethernet hard. Possibly related is that my nfs speed sucks, despite being gigabit on both sides. I'm not, however, pushing it insanely hard. An example would copying files to it while watching a movie. A recording might start and suddenly hard lock. It does not always require a recording to start however. There is no other computer on the network, and I have a D-Link gigabit router, but I still get frequent time outs. It's almost as though the hard drives are just completely swamped, but I can't find a reason why they should be. Sometimes even simple things like listing a directory can take quite a while. The file system is reiserfs, the first drive is a ST3200822A, the second is a ST3250823A. They aren't running particularly hot, and smartd isn't reporting bad errors. One of the disks had a few bad sectors that I had the tool replace with reserved sectors. Can anyone give any advice on where to go from here? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Slight OT: Possibly failing disk, bad sector warnings
I just recently started playing with smartctl and discovered one of my disks seems to be having problems: Oct 5 10:52:27 mythtv smartd[13917]: Device: /dev/hdb, 4 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors Oct 5 10:52:27 mythtv smartd[13917]: Device: /dev/hdb, 4 Offline uncorrectable sectors I'm trying to figure out exactly what this means. I think as far as the report goes, it means four sectors have bad blocks and the disk wants to relocate them, but hasn't yet. My question is what I need to do about it. Is it time to panic and dump the drive? It's not a particularly old drive, but I have no idea what the warrenty on it would be. I bought it OEM from newegg. If it's just a matter of relocating data, what ought I do about it? badblocks gave a dismaying list, but I don't know exactly what to do with that data. The blocks are somewhere in my LVM partition. Is this a write off the sectors kind of problem, or a pray and order a new disc kind of problem? smartctl reports overall health is still good. === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Device Model: ST3250823A Serial Number: 5ND064BR Firmware Version: 3.02 User Capacity: 250,059,350,016 bytes Device is: Not in smartctl database [for details use: -P showall] ATA Version is: 7 ATA Standard is: Exact ATA specification draft version not indicated Local Time is: Wed Oct 5 14:41:36 2005 EDT SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability. SMART support is: Enabled === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED General SMART Values: Offline data collection status: (0x82) Offline data collection activity was completed without error. Auto Offline Data Collection: Enabled. Self-test execution status: ( 249) Self-test routine in progress... 90% of test remaining. Total time to complete Offline data collection: ( 430) seconds. Offline data collection capabilities: (0x5b) SMART execute Offline immediate. Auto Offline data collection on/off support. Suspend Offline collection upon new command. Offline surface scan supported. Self-test supported. No Conveyance Self-test supported. Selective Self-test supported. SMART capabilities: (0x0003) Saves SMART data before entering power-saving mode. Supports SMART auto save timer. Error logging capability: (0x01) Error logging supported. General Purpose Logging supported. Short self-test routine recommended polling time: ( 1) minutes. Extended self-test routine recommended polling time: ( 84) minutes. SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 10 Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds: ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000f 057 052 006 Pre-fail Always - 16566 3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0003 099 098 000 Pre-fail Always - 0 4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 100 100 020 Old_age Always - 49 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 100 100 036 Pre-fail Always - 0 7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000f 039 034 030 Pre-fail Always - 44229665938597 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 099 099 000 Old_age Always - 1519 10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0013 100 100 097 Pre-fail Always - 0 12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 020 Old_age Always - 62 194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 046 060 000 Old_age Always - 46 (Lifetime Min/Max 0 /23) 195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered 0x001a 057 051 000 Old_age Always - 16566 197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 4 198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0010 100 100 000 Old_age Offline - 4 199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x003e 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0 200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate 0x 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 0 202 TA_Increase_Count 0x0032 100 253 000 Old_age Always - 0 SMART Error Log Version: 1 No Errors Logged SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1 Num Test_Description Status Remaining LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error # 1 Short offline Completed without error 00% 1517 - # 2 Extended offline Completed: read failure 90% 1414 29360139 # 3 Extended offline Completed: read failure 90% 1249 29360139 # 4 Extended offline Completed: read failure 90% 1084 29360139 # 5 Extended offline Self-test routine in progress 90% 1519 - SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 1 SPAN MIN_LBA MAX_LBA CURRENT_TEST_STATUS 1 0 0 Not_testing 2 0 0 Not_testing 3 0 0 Not_testing 4 0 0 Not_testing 5 0 0 Not_testing ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] updated parts / software list for HD Myth
Try: http://www.mythtv.info/ and http://www.gossamer-threads.com/archive/MythTV_C2/Users_F11/ And see if you can't find plenty of options already discussed. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] MythWeb Disc Usage calculation
On 9/24/05, Todd Houle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was going to pull out my 80GB drive and put in a 180 that I haveit.I don't (yet) care about losing my recorded shows so I thoughtI'd delete the recorded shows in Myth, then swap the drives.I foundthat once I deleted the recorded shows in Myth, I still had about 20GB of video still in the Myth directory! They looked like shows Ithought I deleted..Sure enough, Myth said they were gone, but therethey were...Is there a known problem where Myth doesn't delete what it thinks it does?That would account for lost disk space. -t- I started out with 150GB of disk space, but I recently increased that to 300GB.Problem is, the machine information under mythweb is still reporting the old disk limit (150), not the new limit (300).I looked throught the mysql database but was unable to find anything that suggests this number is stored in the DB. There are occasional problems with that, probably due to some sort of race condition when you delete files quickly. I've got an old script I snagged from someone that will help find those files: #!/bin/sh for i in `mysql -u mythtv --password=mythtv mythconverg -e \ 'select chanid, starttime, endtime from recorded' | perl -wne 'next if $. == 1; s/|//g; s/-//g; s/://g; @_ = split; print join( '_', $_[0], $_[1].$_[2], $_[3].$_[4]) . .nuv\n;'` \ `ls *.nuv`; do echo $i; done | sort | uniq -u | xargs du -sh | grep nuv$ It'll print a list of nuv files in the directory that aren't in the database. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Does a second frontend need a second backend too?
On 9/26/05, Blammo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/26/05, Greg Woods [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2005-09-26 at 12:48 +0100, Neil Bird wrote: You only need a backend process on machines that have tuner cards in them. If you just want to watch recordings, or watch live TV via a tuner located in another backend machine, then you don't need a local backend process.On the other hand, having a running backend process allows the machine to help transcoding and commercial flagging, which, as long as thefrontend is fast enough, can be a great thing, especially during thefall season. :)___ Is remote transcoding supposed to be working now? I've been getting errors and fails about remote transcoding being disabled and haven't cared enough to look into it. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Slightly OT: Media MVP - $40 at Radio Shack - YMMV
On 9/26/05, Erik Pettersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.byopvr.com/displayarticle461.htmlMy understanding is that it is nationwide.Although the mediaMVPisn't being discontinued I get the sense that Radio Shack is making room for the forthcoming MediaMVP wireless version.Fat Wallet Thread:http://www.fatwallet.com/forums/messageview.php?catid=18threadid=518804 Although it's probably best to run the CAT5 if you can, you can use awireless gaming adapter/wireless bridge to do the same thing.Orfirmware mod a linksys wrt54g to be an uber wireless bridge for much cheaper than those xbox wireless adapters or the like. :)E.--http://forum.byopvr.com/dvr/index.php/topic,3554.0.html -- NewBYOPVR Contest (150/MVP/fusion 5 lite up for grabs) I see there's a project on sourceforge to work with the MediaMVP and MythTV. Is anyone doing that? How well does it work? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] mythcomflag - how do I set nice level?
On 9/23/05, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/22/05, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/22/05, Robert Tsai [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 06:52:15PM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: Thanks very much. I did have it set to one job, but CPU usage was medium so I've set it to low. Additionally I saw an option to start commercial flagging when recording starts. I've disabled that also, at least as a test. Probably 70% of our recording is late night stuff so commercial flagging can get done between 3AM and 7AM and probably cause no problems at all. I think your real problem was commercial flagging when recording starts (a.k.a. real-time commercial flagging). Could be. Now that I know where the setting are I can play with that a bit. You might be OK bumping CPU usage back up to medium so that commflagging can go faster. The nicing should prevent mythcommflagging from interfering with recordings. But I don't know the details of your capture cards, maybe you need more CPU for software encoding. 3GHz P4HT but currently a UMP kernel. PVR-150 PVR-250 512MB 250GB storage over NFS in another box so good networking matters. Hi Robert, Well, last night's recordings mostly failed again:8PM - 1 30 minute show - recorded fine. Recording info says 30 minutes long10PM - 2 30 minute shows. Both failed. One is 18 minutes, the other is 19 minutes.11PM - 1 30 minute show - looks good11:30PM - 2 60 minute shows - both failed - One is 22 minutes, theother is 25 minutes12:30PM - 1 60 minute show - failed. Info says 37 minutes. Looks like I've got more problems than just the settings we playedwith yesterday. However, a question - Did I need to restart thebackend server to get those changes to take effect? I didn't do that. I'll try that this morning as a test. Here's the failure messages in dmesgivtv: ENC Stream 0 OVERFLOW #57: Stealing a Buffer, 512 currently allocatedivtv: ENC Stream 0 OVERFLOW #58: Stealing a Buffer, 512 currently allocated ivtv: ENC Stream 0 OVERFLOW #59: Stealing a Buffer, 512 currently allocatedivtv: ENC Stream 0 OVERFLOW #60: Stealing a Buffer, 512 currently allocatedivtv: ENC Stream 0 OVERFLOW #61: Stealing a Buffer, 512 currently allocated ivtv: ENC Stream 0 OVERFLOW #62: Stealing a Buffer, 512 currently allocatedivtv: ENC Stream 0 OVERFLOW #63: Stealing a Buffer, 512 currently allocated[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ You've very likely got other problems if you are having those problems with that set up. Have you checked for things like IRQ conflicts, and made sure you are using a current IVTV that's configured correctly, made sure DMA is enable on your drives, that sort of thing? With the two PVRs, your CPU really shouldn't enter much into it as far as recording goes. Your problem is likely to be elsewhere. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] mythcomflag - how do I set nice level?
They do not appear to be.ivtv0 = 22ivtv1 = 17eth0 = 20 However ivtv1 is sharing with some part fo the chipset:dragonfly ~ # cat /proc/interrupts CPU00: 14871236IO-APIC-edgetimer1:23821IO-APIC-edgei80429:0 IO-APIC-levelacpi 12: 308115IO-APIC-edgei8042 14: 187334IO-APIC-edgeide0 15: 49IO-APIC-edgeide1 16: 485287 IO-APIC-leveluhci_hcd:usb2, uhci_hcd:usb5,[EMAIL PROTECTED]::00:02.0 17:57811 IO-APIC-levelivtv1, Intel ICH5 18:109 IO-APIC-leveluhci_hcd:usb4 19:174 IO-APIC-leveluhci_hcd:usb3 20:8034881 IO-APIC-leveleth0 22:38977 IO-APIC-levelivtv0 23:4 IO-APIC-levelehci_hcd:usb1 NMI:0LOC: 14872124ERR:0MIS:0dragonfly ~ # I was having a very similiar problem, which is why I asked. For me, it wasn't just failing though it was resulting in lock ups. The solution was to turn off APIC in the BIOS and it's been hunky dory since. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Re: Random front end lockups
I may have found the problem, does this mean my video card and the recording card are sharing interrupts? [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# cat /proc/pci PCI devices found: Bus 0, device 0, function 0: Class 0600: PCI device 10de:01e0 (rev 193). Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xdc00 [0xdfff]. Bus 0, device 0, function 1: Class 0500: PCI device 10de:01eb (rev 193). Bus 0, device 0, function 2: Class 0500: PCI device 10de:01ee (rev 193). Bus 0, device 0, function 3: Class 0500: PCI device 10de:01ed (rev 193). Bus 0, device 0, function 4: Class 0500: PCI device 10de:01ec (rev 193). Bus 0, device 0, function 5: Class 0500: PCI device 10de:01ef (rev 193). Bus 0, device 1, function 0: Class 0601: PCI device 10de:0080 (rev 163). Bus 0, device 1, function 1: Class 0c05: PCI device 10de:0084 (rev 161). IRQ 9. Master Capable. No bursts. Min Gnt=3.Max Lat=1. I/O at 0xe400 [0xe41f]. Bus 0, device 2, function 0: Class 0c03: PCI device 10de:0087 (rev 161). IRQ 11. Master Capable. No bursts. Min Gnt=3.Max Lat=1. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe2001000 [0xe2001fff]. Bus 0, device 2, function 1: Class 0c03: PCI device 10de:0087 (rev 161). IRQ 5. Master Capable. No bursts. Min Gnt=3.Max Lat=1. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe2002000 [0xe2002fff]. Bus 0, device 2, function 2: Class 0c03: PCI device 10de:0088 (rev 162). IRQ 10. Master Capable. No bursts. Min Gnt=3.Max Lat=1. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe2003000 [0xe20030ff]. Bus 0, device 4, function 0: Class 0680: PCI device 10de:008c (rev 163). IRQ 10. Master Capable. No bursts. Min Gnt=1.Max Lat=20. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe200 [0xe2000fff]. I/O at 0xe000 [0xe007]. Bus 0, device 6, function 0: Class 0401: PCI device 10de:008a (rev 161). IRQ 9. Master Capable. No bursts. Min Gnt=2.Max Lat=5. I/O at 0xd800 [0xd8ff]. I/O at 0xdc00 [0xdc7f]. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe2004000 [0xe2004fff]. Bus 0, device 8, function 0: Class 0604: PCI device 10de:008b (rev 163). Master Capable. No bursts. Min Gnt=2. Bus 0, device 9, function 0: Class 0101: PCI device 10de:0085 (rev 163). Master Capable. No bursts. Min Gnt=3.Max Lat=1. I/O at 0xf000 [0xf00f]. Bus 0, device 11, function 0: Class 0101: PCI device 10de:008e (rev 163). IRQ 11. Master Capable. No bursts. Min Gnt=3.Max Lat=1. I/O at 0x9f0 [0x9f7]. I/O at 0xbf0 [0xbf3]. I/O at 0x970 [0x977]. I/O at 0xb70 [0xb73]. I/O at 0xd000 [0xd00f]. I/O at 0xd400 [0xd47f]. Bus 0, device 30, function 0: Class 0604: PCI device 10de:01e8 (rev 193). Master Capable. Latency=32. Min Gnt=10. Bus 2, device 8, function 0: Class 0400: PCI device :0016 (rev 1). IRQ 5. Master Capable. Latency=64. Min Gnt=128.Max Lat=8. Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xd800 [0xdbff]. Bus 1, device 0, function 0: Class 0300: PCI device 10de:0281 (rev 161). IRQ 5. Master Capable. Latency=248. Min Gnt=5.Max Lat=1. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe000 [0xe0ff]. Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xd000 [0xd7ff]. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# cat /proc/pci|grep multi -i [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# lsp lspci lspcidrake lspgpot [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# lspci lspci lspcidrake [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 AGP (different version?) (rev c1) 00:00.1 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 1 (rev c1) 00:00.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 4 (rev c1) 00:00.3 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 3 (rev c1) 00:00.4 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 2 (rev c1) 00:00.5 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 5 (rev c1) 00:01.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 0080 (rev a3) 00:01.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation MCP2A SMBus (rev a1) 00:02.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP2A USB Controller (rev a1) 00:02.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP2A USB Controller (rev a1) 00:02.2 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP2A USB Controller (rev a2) 00:04.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP2A Ethernet Controller (rev a3) 00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation MCP2S AC'97 Audio Controller (rev a1) 00:08.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP2A PCI Bridge (rev a3) 00:09.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP2A IDE (rev a3) 00:0b.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Serial ATA Controller (rev a3) 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 AGP (rev c1) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV28 [GeForce4 Ti 4200 AGP 8x] (rev a1) 02:08.0 Multimedia video controller: Internext Compression Inc iTVC16 (CX23416) MPEG-2 Encoder (rev 01) [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# cat /proc/interrupts CPU0 0: 48325963 IO-APIC-edge timer 1: 15 IO-APIC-edge i8042 2: 0 XT-PIC cascade 4: 10157 IO-APIC-edge lirc_serial 5: 631642 IO-APIC-edge ohci_hcd, ivtv0, nvidia 8: 1 IO-APIC-edge rtc 9: 128306 IO-APIC-edge NVidia CK8 10: 7862601 IO-APIC-edge ehci_hcd, eth0 11: 0 IO-APIC-edge ohci_hcd, libata 12: 111
[mythtv-users] Re: Random front end lockups
Pretty sure lscpi answered that question for me, except the part about What do I do about it 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV28 [GeForce4 Ti 4200 AGP 8x] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA]) Subsystem: CardExpert Technology: Unknown device 0404 Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 248, IRQ 5 Memory at e000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) Memory at d000 (32-bit, prefetchable) Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 2 Capabilities: [44] AGP version 3.0 02:08.0 Multimedia video controller: Internext Compression Inc iTVC16 (CX23416) MPEG-2 Encoder (rev 01) Subsystem: Hauppauge computer works Inc.: Unknown device 8801 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 5 Memory at d800 (32-bit, prefetchable) Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2 ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Increase autorepeat rate - how ?
On 9/10/05, Warpme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi *Simple question: how can I increase autorepeat rate when I use remote ?Currently, i.e when I'm going through long list of entries, I have to doall the time push-release, push-release,... button on remote for i.e.walking on list.Autorepeat rate is approx 1 cmd. per 3-4secI need 2-4 cmds per 1 sec: I simply want to press and hold button onremote - Myth should automatically scroll list...How I can do that ? --cYa, 3.14iotr/2Nie ma złych systemów operacyjnych. Może tylko brakować alkoholu !!!W takiej sytuacji dobry programista wiesza się wraz z programem ;-PHiroshima'45; Czernobyl'86; Windows'95 In your lircrc, reduce the number at repeat = IE: begin prog = mythtv button = chandown repeat = 3 config = Page Down end The first signal caught causes the next two to be ignored. If you changed it to begin prog = mythtv button = chandown repeat = 1 config = Page Down end Every signal caught would be processed, which is very likely too sensitive to use. Play with it, see what works for you. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Audio in dvd rips
This is just something confusing me that problem indicates I'm not sure how it really works. I'm in the process of ripping all my vhs and dvds so I can store them away and just use the ripped version. I'm trying to preserve the AC3 sound for playback over my newly working (and at the time of this writing, one of the ONLY parts of my system working) digital sound. What's getting me is I'm ripping a dvd and dumping the audio track as is, and the file command reports: file frameno.avi: frameno.avi: ATSC A/52 aka AC-3 aka Dolby Digital stream, 48 kHz,, complete main (CM) 3 front/2 rear, LFE on,, 384 kbit/s reserved Dolby Surround mode but once I encode the video to go with it, file reports stereo sound: file Golden_Eye_Bond.avi: dvd_vobs/GOLDEYEX1-1.avi: RIFF (little-endian) data, AVI, 720 x 480, ~30 fps, video: XviD, audio: Dolby AC3 (stereo, 48000 Hz) I do have other avi's that report as RIFF (little-endian) data, AVI, 720 x 304, 25.00 fps, video: XviD, audio: Dolby AC3 (5 channels, 48000 Hz) So it's just bugging me. I don't want to rip all my dvd's wrong, and then have to go back and rip the sound different to have it sound right through the stereo. Any one know what's going on with that? Ryan ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Mandriva and PVR150 - Hardware upgrade/system reinstall results in no output
Everything I do to upgrade my MythTV machine always comes back to bite me in the butt. I upgraded my motherboard to one with on board S/PDIF out and a gigabite ethernet nic. In the process I managed to hose my linux install and had to reinstall everything. Fortunately I only hosed the /usr/ and / partitions, so all my old video is intact. However, now I can't get my PVR150 to work. It appears to load just fine, but cat /dev/video0 just does absolutely nothing. I've attached my dmesg output, and emailed the ivtv but haven't gotten a response yet. Searching for this issue seems to give a few hits of people with the same problem, but no one apparently resolving it. I'm using the recommended firmware. Using 2.6.11-6mdk kernel and I've renamed what I believe are the conflicting files: [EMAIL PROTECTED] driver]# ls /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/media/video/*.bak /lib/modules/2.6.11-6mdk/kernel/drivers/media/video/msp3400.ko.gz.bak /lib/modules/2.6.11-6mdk/kernel/drivers/media/video/tda9887.ko.gz.bak /lib/modules/2.6.11-6mdk/kernel/drivers/media/video/tuner.ko.gz.bak /lib/modules/2.6.11-6mdk/kernel/drivers/media/video/tveeprom.ko.gz.bak I've tried 0.3.5t, 0.3.8, and the latest svn 0.3.9 Is anyone else using this combination? Did you have to do anything special to get it to work? Hardware-wise, only the motherboard changed. I'm at the begging/bribing stage. Help! Ryan ivtv: START INIT IVTV ivtv: version 0.3.9 (development svn snapshot revision 2682) loading ivtv: Linux version: 2.6.11-6mdk 686 gcc-3.4 ivtv: In case of problems please include the debug info ivtv: between the START INIT IVTV and END INIT IVTV lines when ivtv: mailing the ivtv-devel mailinglist. ivtv info: Scanning PCI bus.. ivtv info: Found card #0 ivtv: Autodetected WinTV PVR 150 card (iTVC16 based) ivtv info: base addr: 0xd800 ivtv info: Enabling pci device ivtv info: Attempting to enable Bus Mastering ivtv info: Bus Mastering Enabled. ivtv info: 22 (rev 1) at 02:07.0, irq: 19, latency: 64, memory: 0xd800 ivtv info: attempting ioremap at 0xd800 len 0x0080 ivtv info: attempting ioremap at 0xd900 len 0x0080 ivtv info: attempting ioremap at 0xda00 len 0x0001 ivtv info: activating i2c... ivtv i2c: i2c init ivtv i2c: setting scl and sda to 1 tda9885/6/7: chip found @ 0x86 ivtv i2c: i2c client attach ivtv: i2c attach to card #0 ok [client=tda9887, addr=43] tveeprom: Hauppauge: model = 26552, rev = B268, serial# = 7827197 tveeprom: tuner = LG TAPE H001F MK3 (idx = 68, type = 47) tveeprom: tuner fmt = NTSC(M) (eeprom = 0x08, v4l2 = 0x1000) tveeprom: audio processor = CX25843 (type = 25) tveeprom: decoder processor = CX25843 (type = 1e) ivtv i2c: i2c client attach ivtv: i2c attach to card #0 ok [client=tveeprom[50], addr=50] cx25840: loading /lib/modules/HcwMakoA.ROM ivtv i2c: i2c client attach ivtv: i2c attach to card #0 ok [client=cx25840, addr=44] ivtv i2c: i2c client attach ivtv: i2c attach to card #0 ok [client=wm8775, addr=1b] tuner: chip found at addr 0xc2 i2c-bus ivtv i2c driver #0 ivtv i2c: i2c client attach ivtv: i2c attach to card #0 ok [client=(tuner unset), addr=61] tuner: type set to 47 (LG NTSC (TAPE series)) by insmod option tuner: The type=n insmod option will go away soon. tuner: Please use the tuner=n option provided by tuner: tv aard core driver (bttv, saa7134, ...) instead. ivtv info: Active card count: 1. ivtv info: Loaded module tveeprom ivtv i2c: call_i2c_client ivtv i2c: skipping client 0, addr 0x43 ivtv i2c: using client 1, addr 0x50 ivtv info: NTSC tuner detected ivtv info: Loaded module tuner ivtv info: Loaded module cx25840 ivtv i2c: call_i2c_client ivtv i2c: skipping client 0, addr 0x43 ivtv i2c: skipping client 1, addr 0x50 ivtv i2c: using client 2, addr 0x44 ivtv info: Loaded module wm8775 ivtv info: Loaded module tda9887 ivtv info: Stopping VDM ivtv info: Stopping AO ivtv info: pinging (?) APU ivtv info: Stopping VPU ivtv info: Resetting Hw Blocks ivtv info: Stopping SPU ivtv info: Sleeping for 10ms ivtv info: init Encoder SDRAM pre-charge ivtv info: init Encoder SDRAM refresh to 1us ivtv info: init Decoder SDRAM pre-charge ivtv info: init Decoder SDRAM refresh to 1us ivtv info: Sleeping for 600ms (600 recommended) ivtv info: Card ready for firmware! ivtv info: Loading encoder image ivtv: loading /lib/modules/ivtv-fw-enc.bin ivtv info: Sleeping for 100 ms ivtv info: Sleeping for 100 ms ivtv info: GPIO INIT ivtv info: About to search for mailboxes ivtv info: Searching for encoder mailbox ivtv info: match: 0x34567812 at 0xd8e80104. match: 1 ivtv info: match: 0x56781234 at 0xd8e80108. match: 2 ivtv info: match: 0x78123456 at 0xd8e8010c. match: 3 ivtv info: found encoder mailbox! ivtv info: Searching for decoder mailbox ivtv info: match: 0x34567812 at 0xd9700104. match: 1 ivtv info: match: 0x56781234 at 0xd9700108. match: 2 ivtv info: match: 0x78123456 at 0xd970010c. match: 3 ivtv info: found decoder mailbox! ivtv info: Getting
Re: [mythtv-users] Server Settings Recovery
On 9/15/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Right... I'm sorry... I meant MythTV, but I said TiVo... (Like Kleenex for Tissue)That should have gone: Hey, I just moved my MythTV box into my dorm with me and now that I'm hosting the backend on a network on a static IP I changed the IPaddress from 127.0.0.1 on the setup, but then it lost all of my configuration settings.Is there a way to recover these settings? Thanks! KG___ mythtv-users mailing listmythtv-users@mythtv.orghttp://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users For mysql : http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/grant.html Database level Database privileges apply to all objects in a given database. These privileges are stored in the mysql.db and mysql.host tables. GRANT ALL ON db_name.* and REVOKE ALL ON db_name.* grant and revoke only database privileges. EG: GRANT ALL on mythconverg TO 'mythtv'@'192.168.%' IDENTIFIED BY mythtv Also, did you update your /etc/hosts? That could fix it right up by telling it that your machine name is the same on 192.168.0.100 as 127.0.0.1 IE: 127.0.0.1 localhost 192.168.0.100 mythtv If neither of those fix it, try this: http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO.html#toc22.15 ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Mandriva and PVR150 - Hardware upgrade/system reinstall results in no output
On 9/15/05, Brian J. Murrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2005-09-15 at 15:32 -0400, Ryan Steffes wrote: Everything I do to upgrade my MythTV machine always comes back to bite me in the butt.I upgraded my motherboard to one with on board S/PDIF out and a gigabite ethernet nic.In the process I managed to hose my linux install and had to reinstall everything.Fortunately I only hosed the /usr/ and / partitions, so all my old video is intact. However, now I can't get my PVR150 to work.It appears to load just fine, but cat /dev/video0 just does absolutely nothing.I've attached my dmesg output, and emailed the ivtv but haven't gotten a response yet.Searching for this issue seems to give a few hits of people with the same problem, but no one apparently resolving it.I'm using the recommended firmware. Using 2.6.11-6mdk kernelWhy don't you just use Thac's (or the contrib's) mm kernel and put yourself out of the pain.b.--My other computer is your Microsoft Windows server.Brian J. Murrell Because I didn't know about it? What's the difference in Thac's kernel versus the standard one? I was running just fine off one I compiled from source a while back, same version incidentally, until I decided I really wanted digital sound, and destroyed everything else in the process. Sidenote: The digital sound in DVD's work's wonderfully. Yeah me :/ ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Mandriva and PVR150 - Hardware upgrade/system reinstall results in no output
On 9/15/05, Brian J. Murrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2005-09-15 at 15:45 -0400, Ryan Steffes wrote: Because I didn't know about it?Ahhh.I just figured anyone using Mandrake and Myth used Thac's rpms(both kernel-mm and myth) What's the difference in Thac's kernel versus the standard one?It's multi-media focus.It has the lowlat patches and all that goo aswell as a number of A/V audio drivers, ivtv being one of them. I was running just fine off one I compiled from source a while back, If you like that headache.I'd sooner rpm -ivh thandownload/unpack/configure/make/make install/debug and so on.Ifsomebody has already done the work, I may as well leverage off of it.b.-- My other computer is your Microsoft Windows server.Brian J. Murrell-BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux)iD8DBQBDKdQ2l3EQlGLyuXARAs++AJ9PhvQ0MnsXjjXpJwG/LhuX2BjgcwCeOjGN n3Wix/uEewkrRrkpdtw73uM==bVHM-END PGP SIGNATURE-___mythtv-users mailing listmythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users I'll give his kernel-mm a shot, can't hurt anything. Otherwise, I'm going to have to start thinking of bribes! ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Better think twice before choosing an FS especially for LVM
Ok, makes sense. I've used both RAID and LVM (sometimes together) I amjust more comfortable with RAID, even though it does limit some things. And yes, lets not turn this into a vi vs. emacs thread... :) Well of course not, because VI is a excellent text editor, and emacs is an OS. It wouldn't even make sense to compare them... ___ 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 9/14/05, A JM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since the directory on the BE that holds the movie posters is hidden and in the directory '/root/.mythtv/mythvideo' how do I get the front end to read this directory? Can I create a link that the front end can read? Thanks for any help you guys can give me. AJM, Besides setting the poster directory to something shared on an NFS mount in the setup? ___ 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 9/14/05, A JM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, I tried that but the error I see on the FE is referring to '/root/.mythtv/mythvideo' which is not what I set in the path for the posters on the FE? On 9/14/05, Ryan Steffes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/14/05, A JM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since the directory on the BE that holds the movie posters is hidden and in the directory '/root/.mythtv/mythvideo' how do I get the front end to read this directory? Can I create a link that the front end can read? Thanks for any help you guys can give me. AJM, Besides setting the poster directory to something shared on an NFS mount in the setup? I'm assuming here that the backend and the frontend are on seperate machines, and that the backend and the frontend have at least one nfs share both can write to. What does it say in the setting for the movie poster location? Is location on the nfs share? Also, what user does your mythtv run as? Does it run as root? My understanding was that the frontend would be the one running the script to retrieve posters, but I could be wrong. Does the directory exists that the frontend has in the setting box? As a last resort, try creating a symlink in the place the frontend has in the setting as follows, from the backend computer, assuming that the directory /mnt/MythVideo/ is on the nfs share and can be seen by both. As root: ln -s /root/.mythtv/mythvideo /mnt/MythVideo/posters chmod a+x ~ chmod a+x ~/.mythtv/ chmod a+rwx ~/.mythtv/mythvideo chmod a+rwx /mnt/MythVideo/posters Not sure if nfs will allow you to follow the symlink like that. If you can see in the directory and see the posters now, just set /mnt/MythVideo/posters in the frontend and try it that way. ___ 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 9/14/05, A JM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm assuming here that the backend and the frontend are on seperate machines Correct. and that the backend and the frontend have at least one nfs share both can write to. Correct. However /root/.mythtv/mythvideo is not one of them. It has not been set up in the exports file. What does it say in the setting for the movie poster location? On both locations '/root/.mythtv/mythvideo' Is location on the nfs share? Yes, but it's a hidden directory. Also, what user does your mythtv run as? MythTv Does the directory exists that the frontend has in the setting box? I'm not sure as it's hidden andthis is an Xbox FE? What happens if you change root to mythtv, as in /home/mythtv/.mythtv/posters/ in the settings? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Non-recording master backend
On 9/7/05, Robin Gilks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings allI'd like to shift the capture card from my heavy/noisy server backend tothe frontend which is an EPIA running diskless with nfs mounts back to theserver (this avoids long cable runs).This means I'll have to run the backend code on the EPIA for the capture but I want to keep the mysql, commercial cutting and transcoding on theserver (its got 5 times the grunt after all!!).Is this possible and if so, how do I set up please? Off the top of my head, I'd say you want to set the backend up as a slave, set the IP for the current backend as master, mount your nfs properly and set up the proper directory structure, put the cards in the front end and configure them, and make sure the boxes are checked correct to not allow any transcoding or commercial cutting jobs to run on that slave. My question is why you'd want to do that? Ryan ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV is already using all available inputs
On 9/7/05, David Buttrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For the last 2 days, when I try to start the mythfrontend, and watchlive tv, I get the message:MythTV is already using all available inputs for recording.I look in the recording schedule, and there is nothing scheduled. Plus, I cannot schedule anything from the program guide.Can anyone tell me what needs to be done to fix this problem?I've tried:* restarting the backend* stop the backend, rmmod ivtv, then modprobe ivtv, and then restart the backend.* rebuilding from mythtv-setupCoudl this be somekind of database permissions problem? everythingelse works, and I used the included SQL to setup the databasepermissions...Anyhelp is greatly appreciated. What does Tuner Status show in the information center? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Automatic transcoding
On 9/5/05, Moasat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My auto transcoding has been failing more often than not for the past fewmonths.As I've been swapping my master and slave backends (andreinstalling Linux on the slave-now-master), I assumed it was some setting or another that I overlooked.I've gone back through them all to make sureeverything is set the way I think they should be set but it is still failingat least half of the time.What bugs me is that there's no indication as to why it failed. I tried the manual version on the command line of a recording thatpreviously failed and it finished ok so there was no indication as to whythe autotranscode failed.Is there a command-line switch or something I can use to get more information as to why the auto transcode is failing? You could try setting your debug level in the backend to verbose (-v) and if that doesn't give you any clues, try -v all. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Reverse Commercial Skip
Any chance anyone can recommend a simple way to reverse the commercial cutlist so I can transcode out an avi of JUST commercials? I have a friend that's in a new VISA commercial feature a lady pushing a big cart full of packages. I have no idea when it airs, so my current plan is to just set it to record several hours of primetime each nice and skim all the commercials. I can turn off commercial skip, and use the jump points, but it'd be alot easier to have it transcode out the shows I don't watch anyway. Suggestions? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Reverse Commercial Skip
On 9/7/05, Brad Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/7/05, Ryan Steffes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any chance anyone can recommend a simple way to reverse the commercial cutlist so I can transcode out an avi of JUST commercials? Suggestions? http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/browser/trunk/mythtv/keys.txt Look at line 149. ___mythtv-users mailing listmythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users Thanks! That's a new one on me! ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] OT: Probably dumb question about digital sound out
Digital audio is digital audio, correct? As in the the sound in the source defines the number of channels, not the hardware? I'm finally getting the stereo I want (I love my wife, best birthday present ever!) with digital in and all that, but my computer doesn't have digital out. I've had some motherboard wonkiness anyway, so I was considering just replacing the motherboard and getting one with digital out and a gigabit ethernet port, such as the ASUS A7N8X-E Deluxe. The motherboard advertises as 6 Channels which I assume they mean 5.1. My stereo is going to be 7.1, but the digital out on the motherboard will do just fine, right? There's not a difference on the digital side because it's a straight pass through, correct? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Transcoding DVD that myth couldn't rip
On 9/3/05, Greg Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ryan Steffes wrote: If the program you used makes a clean dvd copy, you'll need to cat the vob files together before you can use my script.Let me know if it's helpful.Looks like exactly what I needed - I had to fix it up a bit - there were missing ;'s in the argument parsing case (no biggie, just wouldn't letme force a language) Sorry bout that, I actually added that in right before I sent it, because I figured it was something people would need if they wanted to use it. For anyone else, this is the correction to the script previously sent: 26,27c26,27 t) FORCE_TRACK=-aid=$OPTARG; l) FORCE_LANG=-alang=$OPTARG; --- t) FORCE_TRACK=-aid=$OPTARG;; l) FORCE_LANG=-alang=$OPTARG;; ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Mythweb overloads MythBackend causes lock
Often, when I go to the Recorded Programs page on Mythweb, it seems to overload the backend and cause a crash. The log isn't particularly descriptive: 2005-09-02 13:28:51.345 Unknown command: QUERY_FREESPACE 2005-09-02 13:29:18.796 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback 2005-09-02 13:29:18.802 adding: happytrout as a client (events: 0) 2005-09-02 13:29:22.234 Unknown command: QUERY_FREESPACE 2005-09-02 13:30:48.067 Connecting to backend server: 192.168.0.100:6543 (try 1 of 5) 2005-09-02 13:30:48.101 Using protocol version 17 2005-09-02 13:30:48.106 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback 2005-09-02 13:30:48.107 adding: mythtv as a client (events: 0) 2005-09-02 13:32:14.339 New DB connection, total: 1 What options should I turn on to get a more useful log of what's happening when I go to that page on Mythweb? Besides setting a program name, is there a way to limit the number of enteries recorded programs returns? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Re: stumped audio waiting for buffer to fill
On 8/29/05, Joe Garcia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From what I am reading below it looks like your suggesting that theit's the capture audio buffer... wouldn't this be comming from thepvr-150?The only soundcard that I have setup is the SB.Do I need to setup the pvr-150 as an alsa controled audio input and if so how do I dothat?Well audio works just fine out of mythtv... and there isn't much audioto configure inside of mythtv-setup.I don't see any options in mythfrontend to set up any audio.What should I use as a guide to verifying my audio config?If it I had a similiar problem that was either caused by ivtv being incorrectly configured, or not loading properly, or something like that. The machine seemed to be crashing on the front end, but I could still log in just fine from ssh. dmesg had some revealing errors in (I'm going off month old memories, but I'm pretty sure that's what I did). Can you check your dmesg right after a crash? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] PAL vs NTSC for dvd rips
I was looking at some of my videos that I ripped with various tools, and I realized some of them at 25fps and some are at 23.93fps. I'm assuming this means some are PAL and some are NTSC. Does it matter? If I have no intention of burning them as video, is there any point to converting them with different fps or reripping them? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Fast Fowarding Lines in captured video?
Or direct links to the 2: http://curvins.com/myth/ffwd-lines-5MB.avihttp://curvins.com/myth/ffwd-lines-end-5MB.aviIf anyone can offer any feedback, it would be much appreciated.I have ruled out a single channel, the clip is from DragonBall Z (mybrother loves the show :) ) recorded from Cartoon Network.So it'sSpikeTV and Cartoon Network so far, I don't record much else, but itwould seem to not be a channel issue at this point. Have you tried fine tuning the channels? Are you getting any errors in dmesg from the video driver or in the backend logs? It almost looks like you are losing the channel lock. Ryan ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Cables and more space...ideas?
On 8/16/05, gLaNDix (Jesse Kaufman) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ryan Steffes wrote: Questions to ask yourself: What parts of the movie are the most important to you?The movie itself and one AC3 audio track Do you need subtitles, multiple languages? nope, neither Do you have a full multichannel stereo set up or are you willing to compress the audio?5.1 DD/DTS receiver, so keeping DD audio is a must ... don't care aboutcommentary, mult languages, etc Are you extremely sensitive to audio distortion?fairly, but the biggest thing for me is keeping 5.1 ... there just is nocomparison between a 5.1 movie vs a 2-channel rip of the same movie ... A value of 800 for the bitrate will give you results around 700MB for a full DVD depending on your audio settings.Values around 1500 give bigger files, but are very nice looking.the result i'd like to come up with is a rip of a DVD with the same video and audio quality as the source, just without the extra crap ...when myth rips a dvd to file using the perfect method, does it stripout everything except the main audio and video or are subtitles, mult languages, etc still in there?thanks!-g- >From looking at the source, it looks like a perfect rip just dumps the vob you select into a file. It should have all the audio and video information available, it largely just changes the extension from VOB and mpg. Just removing the extra audio isn't going to save you very much space. Your files are still going to be multigigabyte. You should really consider sitting down some afternoon and playing with mencoder's multipass variable bitrate settings in xvid, and seeing if you can find something acceptable smaller, otherwise, there's really no point in bothering at all. I haven't tested it myself, but this should work: tcextract -i movie.mpg -t vdr -x mpeg2 movie.m2v tcextract -i movie.mpg -a 128 -x ac3 -t vob movie.ac3 mplex -f 8 -o movie2.mpg movie.m2v movie.ac3 It's just might not be worth the effort. Of course, there could be a key detail in the DVDReading that I missed and you could end up with the exact same result as you started with. You'll have to have someone smarter than me tell you that, --Ryan ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Cables and more space...ideas?
mplayer dvd://1 -aid 128 -dumpstream -dumpfile video.mpg I thought that that would work, but I wasn't 100% positive it was okay to just change vob/mpg so I didn't mention. I use that method, without specifying tracks, to avoid certain DVD copying *ahem* problems *ahem*. Ryan ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Language on ripped dvd -- transcode -a switch
On 8/16/05, Allan Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just to make sure I wasn't crazy I just ran mplayer from the command line with the following command: mplayer -ao null -vo null -v BAD\ BOYS\ II.vob and it saw what looks like to me 3 audio channels. Searching demuxer type for filename BAD BOYS II.vob ext: .vob Trying demuxer 2 based on filename extension system stream synced at 0xD (0)! == Found video stream: 0 == Found audio stream: 129 == Found audio stream: 128 MPEG Stream reached EOF ds_fill_buffer: EOF reached (stream: video) MPEG-PS file format detected. Any ideas?On 8/15/05, Allan Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am confused I was just doing some reading on transcode to see why the developers chose it over mencoder and came across the flag that selects the audio track to record. Below is an example of using transcode from the command line: transcode -i /space/tng-biggoodbye/vob/004 -w 4357,250,100 -a 1 -b 128,0,0 -s 3.311 -V -f 25 -B 12,10,8 -R 1 -x vob,null -o /dev/null -y xvidcvs,null Next is a copy of the audio track that is being used: -a 1 selects audio track number 1 (starting with 0). Is it possible that it is just grabbing the wrong audio track? I am thinking no because although Ryan you said that once you rip a movie you are stuck with that audio track, when I run the vob file from the command line using mplayer I can see where it has 3 audio tracks 0, 129, and 128. I am guessing that it is choosing 129 b/c it is in front of the 128 and the -aid 128 flag would fix this but it didn't. Any ideas I refuse to give up. I was able to rip about 70% of my movie collection and I would love to get the rest without having to do it by hand and if other people are having this problem maybe we can narrow it down to help the developers on this. Are they doing much work on this part of Myth? It seems kinda stable compared to other parts. Thanks for all the help so far and anyone else chime in if you have any ideas, at this point anything is helpful. Allan I should rephrase, once you transcode, you are stuck with that audio track unless you use a format like OGG that can allow multiple tracks. The VOB file is a container that is in (I think), the MPEG2/PS codec for region 1 dvds. There are other DVD formats, however. When you rip the vob, you get all the other languages, and DVD perfect video, but you also get a 4-6GB file. You lose the languages, however, when you convert to a smaller file, and from that point on there's nothing you can do about it. ** This is the part I could be totally wrong on and am just going off observation ** It appears that the -a switch to transcode tells transcode to use the default audio track. It does not appear to be language specific. If the audio track happens to be the same language, and the language you want, you are good to go. However, there are DVDs where the default language is the director's commentary, and of course others that default to other languages. The most frustrating being those that appear to have the default language change between chapters. It is possible that that you can set -a to the language track and fix this problem. I honestly don't know. I believe that mtd.log will contain the transcode line that it ran, you could try running it manually setting -a 128 and see if that works. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Cables and more space...ideas?
On 8/16/05, gLaNDix (Jesse Kaufman) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Neil Davidson wrote: How are your DVDs stored? If they are as ISOs or the raw VOB/IFO files you could try ripping out unused audio tracks, subtitles etc.what app do you use to rip out unused audio tracks, etc from just straight VOB rips?no IFO files or anything, I just have the VOBS themself.thanks,-g- Depending on your tolerance for artifacts, sound quality, and a few other issues, DVD's can be reduced dramatically by using a more efficient codec. The recent threads on DVD languages contain discussion of this. A full high quality DVD can run up to 8GB (That I've personally seen) due to using MPEG2, multiple audio tracks, subtitles, and very high bitrates. How much of that you want to retain is up to you, but most people are quite content bringing them down considerable. Questions to ask yourself: What parts of the movie are the most important to you? Do you need subtitles, multiple languages? Do you have a full multichannel stereo set up or are you willing to compress the audio? Are you extremely sensitive to audio distortion? As an experiment to help you answer some of these questions, try this: 1) Test various audio settings, using mencoder to dump out part of the audio tracks: (Note: These assume you want the english track) (Note2: I'm taking a chunk a minute or two into the movie to give a representative sample, if you know there's a portion of sound you think you'd hear the difference on, use that instead) Digital Quality AC3 audio: mplayer MOVIE.vob -aid 128 -dumpaudio -dumpfile moviesound.ac3 -ss 200 -endpos 120 Normal audio 128 kbs: mencoder -oac mp3lame -lameopts mode=2:cbr:br=128:vol=0 \ -ovc frameno -o frameno.avi MOVIE.vob -ss 200 -endpos 120 Reduced audio 96 kbs: mencoder -oac mp3lame -lameopts mode=2:cbr:br=96:vol=0 \ -ovc frameno -o frameno.avi MOVIE.vob -ss 200 -endpos 120 Compare how they sound, and then compare the sizes, to get a rough estimate of the order of magnitude each size gives you. After that, try converting the same portion of vob to the xvid codec at different bitrates, with 2 pass encoding. (Note, this command expects you to have one of those frameno.avi audio clips in the same directory) # video track (pass: 1, bitrate: XXX)nice -n 3 mencoder -sws 2 -oac copy -ovc lavc \ -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=XXX:vhq:vpass=1 \ -ffourcc XVID -ss 200 -endpos 120 MOVIE.vob -o /dev/null # video track (pass: 2, bitrate: XXX)nice -n 3 mencoder -sws 2 -oac copy -ovc lavc \ -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=XXX:vhq:vpass=2 \ -ffourcc XVID -ss 200 -endpos 120 MOVIE.vob -o movie.avi Just put in different bitrates in the XXX spot each time. Be sure to delete the divx2pass.log file after each second run. The bitrate must match for each pass, however. A value of 800 for the bitrate will give you results around 700MB for a full DVD depending on your audio settings. Values around 1500 give bigger files, but are very nice looking. I like to use this free tool to generate my mencoder command lines: http://f0rked.com/core/simplerip --Ryan ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Language on ripped dvd
On 8/14/05, dan trevino [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2005-08-14 at 20:35 -0500, Allan Wilson wrote: Thanks for the link to the article to ripping manually. I am going to play with it to see if I can do it manually. Is anyone else having this problem or am I the only one? Since I am not finding that much about this problem I am leaning towards it being my system but I can't see where I have setup anything incorrectly. Thanks for the help.I had the same problem ripping one dvd (Bride and Prejudice...dont ask). Then tonight while watching (not ripping) Alexander from Myth, the 2ndDVD automagically started playing with French language.I was able todrop out and manually 'mplayer dvd:// -alang en ...' and everything was fine.After the it was over, I checked the 'Import DVD' option, and thedefault track shows up as 'en ac3 6ch', so I assume I woulda had thesame problem with that disc as well.My default play command is: 'mplayer dvd:// -fs -ao alsa -vo xv' dan The problem seems to be that transcode operates dumbly off audio tracks, and the default language can switch between chapters. For ripping, I don't know if there's anything you can really do about it. There doesn't currently seem to be any way to have mtd use mencoder, and I don't see anyway to set the language as opposed to the audio track for transcode. The only good solution I know is to run mencoder manually and specify the language you want via -alang or -aid. Also, if you use mplayer, using -alang or -aid may prevent the problem when you are just watching and not ripping. It certianly won't hurt anything to add it to your default command line, unless of course you are multilingual and don't always want to watch in the same language. (If you watch many foreign films, it wouldn't hurt to add in a -sid or -slang for subtitles either, just make sure you have a button on your remote set to turn them off!) -Ryan ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Language on ripped dvd
On 8/15/05, Allan Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for all the help on this Ryan. Do you know how mtd rips a movie if it doesn't use mencoder. Has anyone run in to any documentation on how Myth rips movies in detail. Any other experiences from anyone would be helpful. Allan mtd uses transcode, with various flags depending on what you select in the menu. Oddly, it gives you the option for changing the command in settings, but there doesn't seem to be switches for other commands (such as mencode) so I'm not sure the purpose of it. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Language on ripped dvd
On 8/14/05, Allan Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried the xine option and I am still getting french and director's commentary. Any other ideas from anyone?On 8/13/05, Claude Boucher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From Jarod's Tips Tricks page ( http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/tips.php):xine -pfhq --no-splash dvd://ClaudeAllan Wilson a écrit : What are you using for the xine command in the myth play movie option. Thanks Allan___mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___mythtv-users mailing listmythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users Once it has been ripped, there's nothing you can do about it. Whatever language it transcodes into the avi file is what language you are stuck with. What you could do is re-rip the sound and dump the video to a file and recombine them. The easier solution is to rerip the DVD, being careful to select the correct audio track (en ac3 6ch most likely). If it fails again, you could do it manually with mencoder from the command line or use dvdrip. Learning the command line tools gives you a few more options with fine tuning than the built in ripper does. For a basic set of commands that ought to work in many cases, try: http://f0rked.com/core/simplerip Be sure to add the -aid 128 in the extra options box if you are having trouble with the wrong language manually as well. --Ryan ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] OT (again sorry) Home theater solutions
I'm moving into a new house, and now I'll finally be able to configure my things the way I want and wire the home for sound and video. However, I'm NOT an audiophile by any stretch. Can anyone point me toward any guides to figure out how speakers work with ampls (as in what you can use with what), as well as what wiring to plan on. Basically, home theater for dummies? Thank you, Ryan ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] OT (again sorry) Home theater solutions
On 8/13/05, Korey Fort [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Check out http://www.howstuffworks.com search for surround sound or speakers you could also check out www.audioasylum.com Thanks, I actually read howstuffworks, and realized it still wasn't answering the questions I needed answered. I'm trying to figure out things like, how do you know whether the speakers you have can be powered by a given receiver, and what wires can be spliced with other wires (like running RCA audio/video through walls and such). Also, how do you get good sound going from computer to receiver, ie what's the best input/output solution? Thank you for the help though, I'll give that second link a shot, it may have more answers along the lines I'm looking for. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] OT: DVD and subtitles, recombining .sub and .idx with avi
Sorry for asking this here, but I couldn't find the answer and I figured someone would know. I'm in the process of ripping most of my dvds to avi to watch with MythVideo. I'm not sure how to handle the ones with subtitles. I've extracted the subtitles from the vob with mencoder, giving me a .sub and .idx file. I want to overlay that back into the video to encode it. The only way I can think of is to play the video with mplayer with the subtitles on and use dumpstream. Is there an easier or more proper way to do it? Thanks, Ryan ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Language on ripped dvd
On 8/12/05, Allan Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I keep getting French or Director's commentary instead of English on some of my ripped movies. When I play the dvd from the dvd drive it plays fine. I have read some other posts that recommend using the -alang en and aid 128 options and I have enabled both on my command line in the mplayer command line, but nothing seems to help. How can I trouble shoot this problem further. I tried playing the vob file with the -v option but did not see a reference to language tracks available. I see where other people are having this problem but never really see complete answers. Thanks for any help Allan ___mythtv-users mailing listmythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users When you say, from your ripped movies, do you mean from vobs or from avi's? It's necessary to use -aid 128 or -alang en during the transcoding process. If you try to do it later, and the wrong language was selected, you're stuck. -Ryan ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Max number of recordings - unexpected episode deletions
2) I have seen a few times where I have a series set to maintain 5 episodes and it has all 5. I watch one of them and delete it, then two back to back episodes of the series come on and it records both and then realizes it's over the limit then deletes the oldest of the 6. It was like when it started to record the second one it didn't realize it had already reached the limit, then later realized it was over the limit and deleted the oldest one ala complaint observation #1. Myth can be set to 'rotate content'. It has a setting to delete old and record new when the limit is reached; you may have this set. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Removable storage with MythTV
On 8/6/05, Eileen Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I've just started building my Myth system and wanted to run an idea by more experienced users to make sure I'm not crazy. Here's the story: I live out in the middle of nowhere where the only TV that exists is satellite (DirecTV, in our area). I have some family moving nearby who is going to get a system, which by default comes with FOUR set-top boxes! Four is a lot of boxes for only two people, and they have graciously offered us the use of one of the extra boxes. So I got this great idea that I'd set up a Myth system at their house, program it from my house (yeah for web interface!), and record myself some TV. My plan is to have a two or three removable hard drives (actually, just some normal drives that are easy to access) and I would swap them around to record shows. So stuff would get recorded onto driveA, then at some point I'd come by and swap it with driveB. Then recording could continue on driveB and I'd take driveA home with me and watch it there. The computer at home would also have Myth, so the file types and arrangements should still work, and I'll get to play with the game emulator, too! Does this make sense? Does it seem at all feasible? From the outside, it seems pretty simple, but those are famous last words. I would love any thoughts on this plan -- tips from anyone who has done anything similar, horror stories on why I am doomed, whatever. Thanks! Eileen Based purely on what I've seen, there's potential for this to work. MythTV seems to fail fairly gracefully if the file it's looking for isn't found. On the theme I'm using (not sure if this is true for all themes), the show name appears dimmer, but not quite greyed out if the file isn't found. I'd think to make this work somewhat efficiently, all you'd need to do is to make a dump of the recorded table, at their place and restore it when you load the hard drive at your place. Then, optionally, you could tell the backend at their place to delete all the recordings. There may be a reason why this wouldn't work, but I can't think of it off hand. -Ryan ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] CD Copy protection?
The trick of the whole situation is that the only protections that even kinda work are the ones that use bad data. However, it can't be TOO bad or you wouldn't be able to play it at all, and the amount of peopel who watch movies/listen to music on their computers is too large a segment to ignore. I recently got a copy of Hitch to take with me on vacation. My plan was to rip to my external drive, with some other movies, and stick it in a bag. We can watch it on a laptop when we get there, or pipe it through the laptop to composite-in on the TV. However, the copy I got was a used movie rental and has that Sony protection with the bad sectors. Mythtv, dvd::rip, and mencoder all freaked trying to rip it. Maybe there's a way around it with those, but I don't know. What I do know is that mplayer didn't care as much about making the file a perfect rip and played it just fine. Once I realized that, it didn't take me long to do the math and just play it to a file through mplayer and create my own nice little vob. Even the best CD copy protection isn't going to stop people from connecting line-out to line-in -- old school tape recorder style. Ditto for DVDs, it's not that hard to play your DVD out to PVR in. Standard formats just can't be protected too much or they become useless, and you aren't going to sell a new standard to people who are very happy with the old standard. No one is going to be able to force everyone to change their TV, stereo equipment, computer hardware, car stereo, radios, boomboxes, dvd players, VHS players, and put special DRM chips in everything, including ALL speakers and microphones and video cameras. That's what you'd have to do to keep any copies from being made ever. No law can protect a bad business model forever. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] CD Copy protection?
On 8/5/05, Richard Bronosky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ryan Steffes wrote: The trick of the whole situation is that the only protections that even kinda work are the ones that use bad data. However, it can't be TOO bad or you wouldn't be able to play it at all, and the amount of peopel who watch movies/listen to music on their computers is too large a segment to ignore. I recently got a copy of Hitch to take with me on vacation. My plan was to rip to my external drive, with some other movies, and stick it in a bag. We can watch it on a laptop when we get there, or pipe it through the laptop to composite-in on the TV. However, the copy I got was a used movie rental and has that Sony protection with the bad sectors. Mythtv, dvd::rip, and mencoder all freaked trying to rip it. Maybe there's a way around it with those, but I don't know. What I do know is that mplayer didn't care as much about making the file a perfect rip and played it just fine. Once I realized that, it didn't take me long to do the math and just play it to a file through mplayer and create my own nice little vob. Even the best CD copy protection isn't going to stop people from connecting line-out to line-in -- old school tape recorder style. Ditto for DVDs, it's not that hard to play your DVD out to PVR in. Standard formats just can't be protected too much or they become useless, and you aren't going to sell a new standard to people who are very happy with the old standard. No one is going to be able to force everyone to change their TV, stereo equipment, computer hardware, car stereo, radios, boomboxes, dvd players, VHS players, and put special DRM chips in everything, including ALL speakers and microphones and video cameras. That's what you'd have to do to keep any copies from being made ever. No law can protect a bad business model forever. ___mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.orghttp://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users HDMI... all future video out will be similar to it. Shortly after HD-DVD is defacto, DVDs will no longer be made. All HD-DVD players will only output over a protected method... Analog cable too will disappear and all the new cable and satellite receivers will also use protected outputs... Then this mailing list will be discussions about the kinds of file servers, gaming boxes and home automation/video surveillance machines that people are converting their PVRs into. It's sad, but it is coming. Pessimistic? No, informed. Thank you for your time, --== R i c h a r d B r o n o s k y ==--Nearly all viruses and spyware are designed to use Microsoft internet products. Protect yourself by avoiding Internet Explorer Outlook/Outlook Express. All efforts thusfare are meeting with limited success, despite articles pushing it as the next big thing. There will just be very little change until vast majority of current products meet the end of their lifespan due to the fact they have to maintain compatability to maintain profitability. Frankly, the bulk of consumers don't care about high definition. I've seen it in all it's glory, in allegedly as good as it gets conditions, and frankly I could care less. VHS and DVD machines still cost $20 bucks, and plenty of 19 inch TV's are still being sold for $100 with good old fashion hook ups. Even more importantly, plenty of 32 inch $500 TV's are being sold without HD. That market isn't going away, so there will always be converter boxes, and you will always be able to record it. All the other talk is wishfull thinking of people who don't look at the raw economics of the situation. For a large percentage of American families, the TV is the most expensive electronic item they own. They can't just make people replace that. Maybe in other countries the numbers are different. -- Ryan ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] DVD to AVI vs NUV
It seems like every time I feel like I get a good grasp on how the bitrates and resolutions and codecs play together something comes up that confuses me. Like just about everyone, I'm trying to get the best quality for the least space, and I thought I was doing alright. My WAF doesn't tolerate graininess very well, and blockiness is a killer. I have a PVR150 that I record at 352x480 3500/ 720x480 5000/ 720x480 6000 by quality level. The HQ ones I leave alone, but the low quality ones I autotranscode to mpeg4 at 352x480 2200 with the four high quality options turned on. This seems to give good quality, with a half hour show coming in at around 700MB. Last night though, I ripped a few dvd's to take with me on a trip this weekend, and I realized that I was ripping a full 140 minute DVD to about 1GB with perfectly good quality, at only around 1000 bps VBR. If I tried to transcode my shows at that, they'd look terrible. I'm sure I'm missing a basic principle somewhere, but I can't figure out what it is. I would think changing the format would have something to do with it, from mpeg2 to mpeg4, but wouldn't that apply to the dvd as well? Double pass encoding might be part of the answer as well (I don't think myth can do that, can it?) Can someone explain this effect to me? Thanks, -- Ryan ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Nuvexport dies - no matching database entries (was Re: Remain in MPEG-2 but remove commercials?)
Lane Chris, I updated and get much further. Thanks. I think Chris presupposed my current problem. I recorded a show to test with but for some reason I'm getting no commercial flagging from MythTV this morning so I guess I don't have a cut list? Just to clarify, the cut list is what results from using Edit while watching a recording and then importing...uh.. commercialZ (Ok that's bad, but what the heck made them choose Z for import flagged commercials anyway) and saving it. You can create a cutlist manually without any commercials by going into edit mode and setting cut points. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Adding a hard drive, LVM or RAID0
On 5/19/05, Paul Pick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My plan is to make a /mnt/home2 on a new disk and copy home to home2 and then grow home2 to include the original home disk. When you create your volume group, be careful to set your physical extent size large enough so that you can fit all that disk space into a single logical volume. By default, vgcreate sets PE to 4MB, giving a max lv size of 256GB. -- We are here on Earth to fart around. Don't let anybody tell you any different! -- Kurt Vonnegut Just wanted to thank you personally for this bit of advice. None of the guides I was looking at mentioned it, and I had got as far as creating my logical partitions before I remembered it and went back and recreated the volume group. Four HOURS of copying video later, I have a nice new 400GB partition. Disk Usage: * Total Space: 404,035 MB * Space Used: 138,625 MB * Space Free: 265,410 MB Oh yeah...now to get my new PVR150 working to fill it up. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Problem upgrading to 0.18.1 from 0.18 - Stuttering
Something changed between the release versions 0.18.1 and 0.18 that causes audio and video to pause every ten seconds or so briefly. Reverting back to 0.18 immediately fixed it. Settings-wise, nothing at all changed. The only thing I can think that may be causing it is that by default 0.18 compiled with march=pentiumpro and 0.18.1 compiled with march=athlon. My system is an athlon-xp mobile 2400+ with a old Hauppauge WinTV-FM (bt848) card in it. I'm recompiling from yesterday's cvs now with pentiumpro manually set, but haven't gotten a chance to test it because my wife seems to think going to work is more important than getting the tv to work right (who can fathom the female mind). Ordinarily, I'd just stick with .18, especially since 0.16 worked well for me until a week or two ago, but I kinda jumped the gun and paid for LxM before I bothered to be sure 0.18.1 would work. Any additional things to look for that may have changed between these releases would be helpful. Thank you, Ryan ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Adding a hard drive, LVM or RAID0
I'm currently running fairly close to keeping my hard drive at maximum capacity. I've started very seriously considering adding another 160GB disk to supplement the space, but I'm a bit anxious about my options for growing the disk without losing the 180 gigs I've got sitting there now. I'm pretty sure my WAF would go to dang near zero if I lost all her stored Gilmore Girls and Judging Amy; the WAF for the mythtv box wouldn't be that good either. After searching through the archives, it looks like my main two options are converting to RAID 0 or using LVM. I have a general idea of what each does, but I don't really know much about either. Does anyone have suggestions about the best way to go about this, and which may be easier? I've got a Mandrake 10 system, if that makes a difference. Oddly, while I'm more familiar with RAID in concept, it seems LVM may be easier to convert to. Here's my understanding of what I'd need to do for LVM, which seems straight forward: LVM 1) Install LVM tools (very likely they are already available through urpmi) 2) Create a physical volume on the new hard drive 3) Create a volume group on the new hard drive 4) Create a logical volume on the new hard drive 5) Mount the new hard drive, copy the data from my video partition over 6) Unmount both the new hard drive and my old video partition, rename the logical partition to be the same as my old partition 6b) At this point, it's essentially the same as if I had just added the hard drive and copied the stuff over 7) Create a physical volume in my old video partition 8) Add the physical volume to the new volume group Is that about it? The HOWTO on software raids looked more daunting to set up than LVM. What have other people's experiences been? Thanks, Ryan ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Adding a hard drive, LVM or RAID0
On 5/19/05, Mat Mrosko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/19/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: xfs is a good choice. It is also easy to grow and handles large files ( video ) quite well. Plus, with XFS, you don't have to unmount it to grow it, or anything... and deleting multiple gig files takes only a couple seconds... -Mat ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users I was thinking of going with xfs, but the real question here is the easiest non-destructive way to concatonate the seperate hard drives. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Adding a hard drive, LVM or RAID0
On 5/19/05, Phill Wiggin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For whatever reason (random eeny-meeny-miney-mo decisionmaking), I chose reiserfs. It works fine and I've had no problems with it. Out of curiosity, what did you mean when you said: 6) Unmount both the new hard drive and my old video partition, rename the logical partition to be the same as my old partition I'm thinking you just need to change your mount in fstab /dev/VGforTV/tv /mythtv/tv reiserfs auto 0 0 or something like that... No renaming anything needed. You'll also need to be sure that lvm is activated at bootup. Manually: vgscan (scans for VGs) vgchange -a y (activates the Volume Groups and puts them in /dev) mount /dev/VGforTV/tv /myth/tv ** In my setup, /myth is on / /myth/tv is a VG /myth/video is a separate VG /dev/VGforTV/tv /mythtv/tv reiserfs auto 0 0 /dev/VGforVideo/video /mythtv/video reiserfs auto 0 0 ** I'm at work and getting ready to go home so I'm not being very complete. If any of this is confusing, I'd be happy to be more detailed. --Phill Wiggin Greg Cope wrote: Choose a file system that you can grow, otherwise you will add another volume, but the file system will still be the same size. How are you manually doing the vgscan vgchange before the fstab runs, I assume a script of some sort, but do you have it anywhere in particular? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Adding a hard drive, LVM or RAID0
On 5/19/05, Phill Wiggin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is no way to do it without destroying the data. Drive 1 = data Drive 2 = new drive Make drive 2 an lvm single drive. Move the data that you want to save to the LVM setup. Blow away the partition on Drive 1 that held the data and then add it to the LVM. Grow the Volume and you have acheived your objective. I have done this and had no problems. Mark What? Why would the data need to be destroyed? So long as there's a partition that is _only_ for data on Drive 1 (hda3, for instance) everything should be workable. (If the whole 1st drive is one big partition, you're probably out of luck.) /dev/hda1 / -- main linux /dev/hda2 swap -- swap space /dev/hda3 /myth -- Myth data Create lvm partition on Drive 2. (/dev/VGforTV/tv) Mount lvm. Move data from /myth to /dev/VGforTV/tv Unmount /dev/hda3 mkdir /myth mount /dev/VGforTV/tv /myth/tv mv /myth/tv/* /myth edit fstab to mount /dev/VGforTV/tv /myth/tv prepare /dev/hda3 for lvm unmount /myth/tv extend VGforTV onto /dev/hda3 extend VGforTV filesystem to the new limit mount /myth/tv Basically, make a new lvm drive, copy all the data on /dev/hda3 over to it, unmount /dev/hda3, make a /myth directory, mount the lvm (all previous /dev/hda3 files/directories) onto /myth/tv. The directory structure will look like: /myth/myth /myth/myth/tv /myth/myth/video So, move all that stuff back one directory so you have /myth /myth/tv /myth/video At this point, /myth, /myth/video, and all the other files are back in /myth where they belong, and /myth/tv is a mount point for /dev/VGforTV/tv. This also gives you the freedom to mount a different lvm group onto /myth/video if you want. After that, unmount /myth/tv and prepare the /dev/hda3 to become part of the VG. Extend the volume group, then extend the file system. Remount, and voila! But, if your linux install is just: /dev/hda1 -- install /dev/hda2 --swap You'll most likely have to reinstall anway. But, you can still make the LVM on Drive 2 and back up your data! (Don't forget to get backups of your mysql database!) Anyway, hope this helps. --Phill W Thanks for that, it's exactly the confirmation I was looking for. I've currently got a disk with root, swap, usr and temp, and another disk devoted to /home/ with my videos in /home/video. My plan is to make a /mnt/home2 on a new disk and copy home to home2 and then grow home2 to include the original home disk. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Problem upgrading to 0.18.1 from 0.18 - Stuttering
On 5/19/05, Blair Preston [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Same kinds of issues here. But march=pentium4 is how mine compiled,.. same settings I used with .18 Ryan Steffes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Something changed between the release versions 0.18.1 and 0.18 that causes audio and video to pause every ten seconds or so briefly. Reverting back to 0.18 immediately fixed it. Settings-wise, nothing at all changed. The only thing I can think that may be causing it is that by default 0.18 compiled with march=pentiumpro and 0.18.1 compiled with march=athlon. My system is an athlon-xp mobile 2400+ with a old Hauppauge WinTV-FM (bt848) card in it. I'm recompiling from yesterday's cvs now with pentiumpro manually set, but haven't gotten a chance to test it because my wife seems to think going to work is more important than getting the tv to work right (who can fathom the female mind). Ordinarily, I'd just stick with .18, especially since 0.16 worked well for me until a week or two ago, but I kinda jumped the gun and paid for LxM before I bothered to be sure 0.18.1 would work. Any additional things to look for that may have changed between these releases would be helpful. Thank you, Ryan ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users Recompiling as pentiumpro does seem to have fixed this. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Pixelation during fastforward
On 4/26/05, Stuart Morgan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 25 Apr 2005 21:52, Ryan Steffes wrote: Since upgrading to .18 fastforwarding results in large blocky pixelation that doesn't clear up until the fast fowarding stops. The progress indicator moves normally, but it's pretty useless for seeking. I've got a happuage WinTV card with mpeg4 encoding. Any clues what this may be/settings I need to check? Well I cured this problem by using ffmpeg instead of libmpeg2 - but obviously this only applies to mpeg2 recordings. Still if you have the libmpeg2 option selected, try without - I suspect that that you may be recording in mpeg2 not mpeg4 (especially if it is a DVB card, Nova-T for example). -- Stuart Morgan The libmpeg2 box isn't checked. I don't have a hardware encoder, I use the software transcoding as mpeg4, so I could be way off base. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Jumping to end of show
I've had a problem where occasionally my front end crashes and after that the show I was watching will cause the show to play normally when I'm just watching it, but trying to jump forward will cause the show to jump almost to the end and refuse to rewind passed that point. An example DB entry of an effected show is: | 1003 | 2005-04-27 22:00:00 | 2005-04-27 23:00:00 | CSI: NY | Supply and Demand | The team finds traces of unprocessed heroin in the ransacked apartment of a college student who was beaten and shot; Stella's aggressive interrogation tactics with a witness jeopardize her badge. | Crime drama | mythtv | NULL | 0 | NULL| 0 | 1 | | 13 | SH679714 | EP6797140020 | 20050430234248 | 1633570063 | 0 | 0 | 2005-04-27 |0 | 0 | 0 | The recordedmarkup table has over a thousand entries along the lines of: | 1003 | 2005-04-27 22:00:00 | 1287 | 1577235305 |7 | | 1003 | 2005-04-27 22:00:00 | 1288 | 1577661352 |7 | | 1003 | 2005-04-27 22:00:00 | 1289 | 1578066384 |7 | | 1003 | 2005-04-27 22:00:00 | 1290 | 1578470329 |7 | | 1003 | 2005-04-27 22:00:00 | 1291 | 1578881568 |7 | | 1003 | 2005-04-27 22:00:00 | 1292 | 1579327203 |7 | | 1003 | 2005-04-27 22:00:00 | 1293 | 1579778680 |7 | | 1003 | 2005-04-27 22:00:00 | 1294 | 1580179731 |7 | | 1003 | 2005-04-27 22:00:00 | 1295 | 158059 |7 | | 1003 | 2005-04-27 22:00:00 | 1296 | 1580989157 |7 | | 1003 | 2005-04-27 22:00:00 | 1297 | 1581415809 |7 | | 1003 | 2005-04-27 22:00:00 | 1298 | 1581816456 |7 | | 1003 | 2005-04-27 22:00:00 | 1299 | 1582226566 |7 | | 1003 | 2005-04-27 22:00:00 | 1300 | 1582627496 |7 | | 1003 | 2005-04-27 22:00:00 | 1301 | 1583027556 |7 | | 1003 | 2005-04-27 22:00:00 | 1302 | 1583430414 |7 | | 1003 | 2005-04-27 22:00:00 | 1303 | 1583840289 |7 | I tried running: mythcommflag --rebuild -c 1003 -s 2005-04-27 22:00:00 The result hasn't changed and it jumps to the same spot every time. Any help would be appreciated, Ryan ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Pixelation during fastforward
Since upgrading to .18 fastforwarding results in large blocky pixelation that doesn't clear up until the fast fowarding stops. The progress indicator moves normally, but it's pretty useless for seeking. I've got a happuage WinTV card with mpeg4 encoding. Any clues what this may be/settings I need to check? Thanks, Ryan Steffes ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] MythWeb
On 4/25/05, Devan Lippman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 4/25/05, Jim Turpin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I see some errors floating about but none of them seem related to the problem I'm having. When I open up myth web I get the following error: User Notice at /var/www/html/includes/mythbackend.php, line 156: Incompatible protocol version (mythweb=14, backend=15) just touching on the obvious If it gets this message it would seem to me that it is connecting to the backend and recieving that the protocal version is 15, but its also saying the the scripts are expecting version 14 which would say to me that the scripts are older than you think. Maybe try reinstalling them? That is correct, it means the mythweb being used isn't as up to date as the backend. Off hand I'd look to see if the mythweb rpm didn't install it in a slightly different location than it was previously installed. Check /var/www/html/ and see if perhaps the latest version actually installed to /var/www/html/mythweb/ or something like that. Other than that, try removing the mythweb rpm and reinstalling. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Whats the most stable system at the monent?
On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 11:16:55 -0800 (PST), Poul Petersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Question: Whats the most stable system at the monent? Answer: The one that doesn't crash But seriously, there is a bit of voodoo magic in all of this. I had a RedHat 9 box with a bttv/btaudio capture card that couldn't stay up for more than 6 days without an Oops. I eventually replaced *everything* except for the capture cards (MB, Ram, HD) and upgraded to FC1 and now it's fine. I've got other RedHat 9 servers (NFS, etc) that *never* crash. I've even got another RH9 box with software capture cards that crashes every now and then, but much less often than every 6 days. There are too many factors to boil it down to a stable system at the moment. General sysadmin state machine applies: 1) Is it working? YES - STOP NO - #2 2) Change something - 1 :) -poul You forgot secret step 1b) Is there something you REALLY want to watch on? My Mandrake 10.0 ran steady for a couple months once I quit fiddling with it and left it alone, the new season of Monk starts tonight so, of course, my capture card seems to have died. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] is there an easy way to reboot in software through myth
But I think that you should be more concerned about the underlying issue: mythbackend should NOT crash like that.. -- Ian Trider [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users I've had that same problem. My nagging feeling is it has to do with file permissions, but I can't come up with a way to test that. I now run mythbackend as root and it seems to have less problems with it, but I've been having so many other problems it's hard to tell. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Sounds problems: Testing CD1 in
I'm looking for a way to test the line in (labeled CD1, but I don't think it matters) on my motherboard. I'm having trouble determining if my sound problems are caused by the motherboard, the capture card, or the configuration. The basic ghist of my problem is that my machine just suddenly stoppped recording sound. I put the capture card in my Windows box and sound seemed to work (I'm going to redo this test to see if it's like an intermittent thing). When I plugged a CD player into that slot it seemed to work, but I'm not sure if the CD drive is playing over the IDE bus or through the line in. I was thinking that it's through line in because using aumix to drop the volume on CD did lower the volume on the CD. I used xmms to play the CD though and it was very jumpy; I don't know if this indicates a problem. Basically, I'm trying to figure out how to devise a test for each component to narrow down where my trouble is coming from, and I don't know a way to isolate the line-in on the motherboard. It does fail the xawtv test suggested in the Doc, but I don't know what to do with that information to figure out WHY. Thanks, Ryan ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Backend crashes after a few minutes of running
On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 12:12:49 -0500, Jon Kunze [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been running a successful FC2 install of Myth for about 4 months now. Just recently, the backend has been crashing just a few minutes after restarting the service. Where is the best place to look for clues as to why the backend is crashing so frequently? I'm figuring it is due to some change that I have made in the recent weeks that is causing it, but I don't know where to start looking for clues. This system ran flawlessly for about 3 months before I started having any problems with it. Thank in advance. Jon Kunze Anything interesting in your log? Also check your syslog for ntpd time syncs, those use to be able to crash the system, but I don't know if they still do. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Re:Multiple frontends watching the same backend program.
On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 16:55:01 +, Adam Auden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 09:17:49 -0700, Alexander Petkov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Assuming that you want 2 or 3 different frontends to watch live tv, the answer is yes. You need to have 2 or 3 tuner cards installed, respectively. I believe that's where your limitation lies--the dish network (satelite, correct?). You will need to have 2 sat. receivers in order to change channels independently (was it a 2-LBN dish?). If you have 1 sat. receiver, woulnd't all frontends watch the same channel? Would it be possible for multiple frontends to stream the same live feed, or indeed record a program and watch it remotely at the same time? Surely you need only as many capture cards as *different* live feeds required? A. You'd think, but my understand is that that is not the way it works. I'd like to know how much work would be involved in lying to the user, which would solve this. Live TV is treated entirely seperately from recorded television. In my mind, what I'd like it to do when I select live tv when the tuner is already in use is to inform me what's going on, then take me directly to the recording in progress. I'm thinking of it as the satellite box my Dad used to have, where you could change the channel from any tv, but everyone got the same show. What I believe will happen now is that the second person will get the tuner already in use. What I think we're asking for is that the second person gets whatever the first person is getting. I don't know on which side the pause buffers and whatnot are currently on (whether the frontend does the buffering or the backend). ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Every was fine, now no sound
On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 19:31:10 -0500, John Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are any of your partitions full? df -h Regards, JJ On 13-Jan-2005, at 19:19, Ryan Steffes wrote: All of the sudden yesterday my myth machine locked tight and had to be rebooted. When it rebooted, X wouldn't start, complaining of failing to load the nvidia module and no screens. I had no idea what caused it, so as a first step I installed the latest NVIDIA drivers. That seemed to work. However, since them, my sound won't record either, with no apparent error messages. Doing an aplay /dev/dsp gives: Playing raw data '/dev/sound/dsp' : Unsigned 8 bit, Rate 8000 Hz, Mono underrun!!! (at least 10.234 ms long) underrun!!! (at least 11.397 ms long) underrun!!! (at least 11.496 ms long) underrun!!! (at least 11.311 ms long) underrun!!! (at least 11.503 ms long) underrun!!! (at least 11.500 ms long) underrun!!! (at least 11.497 ms long) underrun!!! (at least 11.500 ms long) underrun!!! (at least 11.478 ms long) with a little popping noise to the speakers. Nothing's changed, at least not intentionally! Anyone have a clue what the problem could be? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users No partitions are full, and I've tested the card on my windows machine and the sound works fine there. Can anyone suggest a way to test the line in on the motherboard? The card is a hauppauge WinTV-FM with the old chipset plugged into the line in on my mobo. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Every was fine, now no sound
All of the sudden yesterday my myth machine locked tight and had to be rebooted. When it rebooted, X wouldn't start, complaining of failing to load the nvidia module and no screens. I had no idea what caused it, so as a first step I installed the latest NVIDIA drivers. That seemed to work. However, since them, my sound won't record either, with no apparent error messages. Doing an aplay /dev/dsp gives: Playing raw data '/dev/sound/dsp' : Unsigned 8 bit, Rate 8000 Hz, Mono underrun!!! (at least 10.234 ms long) underrun!!! (at least 11.397 ms long) underrun!!! (at least 11.496 ms long) underrun!!! (at least 11.311 ms long) underrun!!! (at least 11.503 ms long) underrun!!! (at least 11.500 ms long) underrun!!! (at least 11.497 ms long) underrun!!! (at least 11.500 ms long) underrun!!! (at least 11.478 ms long) with a little popping noise to the speakers. Nothing's changed, at least not intentionally! Anyone have a clue what the problem could be? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
