Like a lot of other people I've been having plenty of
trouble getting this to work. After weeks of banging
my head against my desk, I've finally patched together
a solution from other peoples suggestions.
I've set everything up pretty much according to
Jarod's HOWTO. I've installed the rpm
On Sat, Jan 08, 2005 at 09:57:25PM -0800, Mike Jasper wrote:
1) I was fooling around with ALSA tonight and uninstalled the
kernel-module-alsa package. I tried reinstalling it (also the alsa-kmdl
package), but got an error like this:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
I have SPDIF passthrough running on an intel8x0 some suggestions:
1. Make friends with alsamixer,
2. I had to issue an iecset audio on to get digital audio working, it took
me ages to work that one out,
3. I have these options in my modprobe, but can't remember why :-(
options snd-intel8x0
Am Sonntag, den 09.01.2005, 00:58 +0100 schrieb Torsten Schenkel:
The framebuffer seems to be capable of scummvm output. The intro goes
fine and the first room looks nice as well with the animations etc.
I still got two problems:
1. No sound, but that's not mythgame related
This is
Nicholas,
better post ivtvt-related problems on the ivtv-users list
(ivtv-users@lists.sourceforge.net).
N.
On Sun, 9 Jan 2005 01:30:21 -0800 (PST), Nicholas Bloch
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Like a lot of other people I've been having plenty of
trouble getting this to work. After weeks of
I find that some content is wider than others. A number of ads and
stuff leave black borders left and right, but the actual program fills
the screen in 4:3 mode. I just leave it in 4:3 all the time.
I have noticed though that when you change to another mode, such as
zoom or 16:9, then the OSD
Laptop is the way to go. I think USB tuners are OK with most distros
now, and you overcome the power and heat problems. Some lappies can
be noisey though.
Dave
On Sat, 8 Jan 2005 15:11:39 -0700, nowhere [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hey Everyone!
I am considering replacing my stupid DVD player
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Tom Hughes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 10:04:41PM +, Tom Hughes wrote:
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On Sunday, 09-Jan-2005 00:41, Neil Milne wrote:
Here's all the audio configs from my xine config file:
audio.driver:alsa
audio.device.alsa_front_device:default
audio.output.speaker_arrangement:Pass Through
# cat .xine/config | grep audio. | grep -v '#'
audio.driver:alsa
You will have to uninstall the stuff you put into /usr/local/bin and
recompile into /usr/bin. The paths are all set for your code to live in
/usr/bin.
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I don't see why not. I have never tried this myself
but I would say you would just go about a regular myth
install and install mythvideo and mythmusic and
anything else you want. You wouldn't be able to use
that distro you were pointed at. You would have to
use something like xebian or gentoo
Michael Haas wrote:
No luck on ebay, either.
Yeah, i found one on ebay ;).
Have a nice day!
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Tony Howard wrote:
Has anyone gotten a Streamzap working with a recent version of lirc?
The SourceForge driver won't patch against lirc 0.7.0. I found 2 other
drivers - one here:
I'm using the sourceforge diff against 0.7.0pre4 currently. As I recall
I had to mess with the patch a little bit
Tom Hughes wrote:
The problem appears to be that the kernel now implements setuid
properly so that it changes the UID of the process rather than just
the current thread so it isn't possible to have a privileged thread
anymore.
Basically the whole scheme only worked because threads on linux
are
No video card needs to be added to the XBox (one
couldn't be anyway), but you'll definitely need
another PC as a backend.
Will the Xbox support installing a non-capture backend on the system? I
am considering using it as a standalone video player for my conversion
van...
You may be better off
Piers Kittel wrote:
Stan,
Should be. I think you need to use eject, and thta probably needs to
be run
with sudo toget the right permissions.
Cheers, but what should I be using? irxevent? And what's the correct
syntax? I looked in irxevent's man page with no avail.
irexec. I use it to map a
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Doug Larrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Tom Hughes wrote:
The problem appears to be that the kernel now implements setuid
properly so that it changes the UID of the process rather than just
the current thread so it isn't possible to have a privileged
Hello
I am having problems streaming video from my backend server to a MacOS
X frontend on a wireless network.
I have a FC2 machine running a combination frontend/backend with the
0.16 distribution from atrpms on a machine that is connected to my TV.
I can also hook my Mac up to Ethernet and
Look at http://www.gamepc.com. The notebook GPN-A64C can be configured
with a TV capture card. It has the best flat panel I have seen.
Laptop is the way to go. I think USB tuners are OK with most distros
now, and you overcome the power and heat problems. Some lappies can
be noisey though.
On Sat, 08 Jan 2005 19:54:49 -0600, Robert Denier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Well if its similar to setting up the nforce II board I have for digital
output (It uses the same driver) then i'd try something like
mplayer -ao alsa1x:spdif filename.mp3
Just a note (I went through this yesterday)
Hi, all.
I recently bought an HP eVectra on eBay for $90 for my second
front-end. I figured this would be a very cheap solution - cheaper
than my XBox front-end. It's a P3-933MHz with 128 Megs of RAM, and a
20 GB hard drive.
It's not something I would use as a general purpose computer because
Hello!
I can not get mythfilldatabase to update changes in scheduling. I am using
tv_grab_se_swedb And when using --update i get stuff like below:
(Also, is --refresh-today and --refresh-second valid for this grabber?)
Basically, how can i rewrite the program guide, with the update data, and
Does anybody get this warning in their X log (XFree86.0.log):
(WW) VESA Framebuffer: More than one matching Device section found:
I've looked at XF86Config and don't see any duplicate entries. Also, it
seems to happen whether I have the pvr-350 tv-out setups in XF86Config
or not. Thanks for
Thanks Dave,
Only problem is cost. Laptops are expensive. I was hoping to put
together a much much cheaper system (Xbox or perhaps a Via system). I
already have a 20inch flat panel TV mounted in the raised roof, and
cabinets on the left and right to fit A/V/Game stuff in. If the Xbox is
capable
When MythTV box is not in use, I would like to save some power.
Is there an ability to suspend ( sleep ) FC3?
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I've got an Epia MKII-10k running FC2 as my Myth frontend. Whenever I try to do
a big data transfer (like SCP) the entire system hard crashes after about 2
seconds of data transfer. However, this only seems to happen when transferring
across the local network. I can use wget to download files
Axel Thimm wrote:
On Sat, Jan 08, 2005 at 09:57:25PM -0800, Mike Jasper wrote:
1) I was fooling around with ALSA tonight and uninstalled the
kernel-module-alsa package. I tried reinstalling it (also the alsa-kmdl
package), but got an error like this:
The following packages have unmet
On Sat, 8 Jan 2005, George Lopez wrote:
I am having the exact same problem. The mail list is
not very informative on this. I tried to skip and
continue with the install process but got stuck at the
ivtv portion. Now I can't really do anything.
see the steps and output below:
[EMAIL
I just got a 350 it has a new remote a A415. The lirc.conf file seems
okay, but I was wondering if anyone had the mythtv lirc map file for
this remote? If not I will post one in a few days, but figured I would
check first.
Thanks, Tim
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export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.1
rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__*
rpm --rebuilddb
apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
export -n LD_ASSUME_KERNEL
I read the bug report but it doesn't solve it for me either.
If I run the export, then rpm works ok. The apt-get's only updated
one package - tk.
The eVectra has 128 megs of memory. My XBox only has 64. Now, I know
the XBox has shared video memory - does that mean it uses main
memory? The eVectra uses Intel 810E integrated graphics with Direct
AGP and Dynamic Video Memory - I'm not sure if that's the same thing
or not.
It seems
You could probably run the backend and the frontend on
the Xbox, but for most purposes, it's just not
practical.
Here are the problems with the XBox as an all-in-one
solution:
1. CPU speed. It's only a 733MHz machine, it'll never
handle both full frontend and backend duties.
Watching LiveTV had
Micah Wedemeyer wrote:
I've got an Epia MKII-10k running FC2 as my Myth frontend. Whenever I try to do
a big data transfer (like SCP) the entire system hard crashes after about 2
seconds of data transfer. However, this only seems to happen when transferring
across the local network. I can use
I upgraded to FC2 a while back and the new nvidia drivers and with the
new drivers, I have a black border around the visible screen (analog
s-video out). I am using the on board GF4 and and tvout function of the
MSI mainboard I have. These borders are present outside of myth in X,
in myth on the
Same problem here. I think it has more to do with OSX + MythTV than the
network, but I have no idea how to fix it. That being said, I've found
that disabling other network programs (ssh, fire, web browser, etc.)
helps considerably.
Also, on my iBook (1.2ghz + 1g RAM), MythTV runs 60%+ and
Axel Thimm wrote:
On Sat, Jan 08, 2005 at 09:57:25PM -0800, Mike Jasper wrote:
1) I was fooling around with ALSA tonight and uninstalled the
kernel-module-alsa package. I tried reinstalling it (also the alsa-kmdl
package), but got an error like this:
The following packages have unmet
Hi,
I have blown away my FC1 install and am starting fresh with FC3 using
Jarod's guide. I am unable to install a working Nvidia module, though.
I tried 6629 and the module was loaded successfully, but the system
just hangs at the Nvidia splash screen on bootup. I then removed all
traces of
On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 12:25:07PM -0600, John Williams wrote:
David,
I'm not an expert, but I have heard of these shared memory PCs having
a setting for the video memory allocation in the BIOS. Your dynamic
memory setting may be 16 MB in the BIOS and this would be pretty
restrictive. Get
Try typing nvidia-settings on the commandline, its a little utility
that has overscan settings for the nvidia cards. There's a way to make
it load the settings at boot time but I can't remember what it is, I
think the steps are on Jarod's site. You need to be using the latest
nvidia drivers.
Mike Jasper wrote:
Hi,
I have blown away my FC1 install and am starting fresh with FC3 using
Jarod's guide. I am unable to install a working Nvidia module, though.
I tried 6629 and the module was loaded successfully, but the system
just hangs at the Nvidia splash screen on bootup. I then
On Thu, 06 Jan 2005 15:32:25 -0800, Chris Petersen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I made the changes and installed again. It now works (Yay!) on some
recordings
but not others. I don't know why but some of my recordings have no
resolution
and these are the ones that cause the errors now. Not
Just to clear up a few things here.
0.7 driver was broken it needs both
option fbdev /dev/fb1
option ivtv /dev/fb1
to work. This is fixed in the 0.8 driver posted to the ivtv-dev mailing
list.
I have just posted a fix the the ivtv-dev mailing list for the issue that
requires the
When trying to manually schedule a recording for a radio station I do not
have listings for, MythWeb seems to almost timeout, before giving me the
scheduling page (/mythweb/schedule_manually.php), but with the following
error at the top left of the page:
Warning at
On Saturday 08 Jan 2005 17:49, Simon Kenyon wrote:
On Saturday 08 January 2005 15:19, Sim wrote:
On Friday 07 Jan 2005 11:53, spok wrote:
1. With only 1 AGP and 1 PCI slots can I still get 2
video capture (or tuner) cards and do picture in
picture?
The answer is yes, and I've
Got it.
I updated the ui.xml file in the sleek theme to use to include the
recording_options page. I also added in the nifty color-coding of the
program guide from the blue theme.
I'm sure whoever made the themes initially will be updating them
anyway, but if anybody wants a copy of my little
I'd like to configure my mythbox to automatically turn off. Noise,
heat, and so on. I have a dedicated mythbox, and a second machine that
serves as email/web server.
I tend to use mythweb (running on the web server) to schedule shows.
Obviously, if the master backend runs on the mythbox, a
Brad Templeton wrote:
Just a wishlist feature. After giving a mythtv box to family, I
want to be able to maintain it. I can make a tunnel and run mythweb,
or even phpmyadmin.
But I don't want to run mythfrontend remotely for a couple of reasons.
A big x application can be slow over a remote
On Sat, Jan 08, 2005 at 12:25:41AM -0600, Greg Mitchell wrote:
I could see SATA and SCSI having problems coexisting, since Linux seems
to treat SATA and SCSI similarly. At least in Gentoo, my SATA drive
comes up as /dev/sd0.
Why would they have problems coexisting? You can mix USB and
Thanks. Can you account for the noob factor and tell
me what I have to put in before
`uname -a` ?
--- Hugo van der Kooij [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
On Sat, 8 Jan 2005, George Lopez wrote:
I am having the exact same problem. The mail list
is
not very informative on this. I tried to skip
On Sat, Jan 08, 2005 at 11:11:29AM -0600, Paul Miller wrote:
Does mythtv have working native lirc support?
Works for me with the 0.16 Gentoo ebuild. (Someone posted the location of
CVS ebuilds yesterday; I need to track that down to see if it'll fix the
occasional mythbackend crashes I've been
On Sun, 9 Jan 2005, George Lopez wrote:
Thanks. Can you account for the noob factor and tell
me what I have to put in before
`uname -a` ?
Just type the bleeding command on the prompt and see what you get.
Hugo.
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Mike Jasper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Mike,
I feel for you! I just want you to know that you're not the only one
with this problem recently. I did an apt-get dist-upgrade on Friday
that completely blew away the FC1 installation on my laptop. It
destroyed the rpm databases, removed
Hi
I am having problems trying get mythtv to view a missing channel. I have
configured mythtv with New Zealand settings and I am finding that I
can't change channel to one of the channels. This occurs in both
Watching TV mode and program recording. When I change channel it
pauses before
On Sun, 2005-01-09 at 10:33 -0800, Joe Votour wrote:
You could probably run the backend and the frontend on
the Xbox, but for most purposes, it's just not
practical.
Also, depending on the hardware revision of the XBox
that you get, you might get a noisy fan... I've found
a way to fix
See below. Not very informative to my eyes
[EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# `uname -a`
bash: Linux: command not found
--- Hugo van der Kooij [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
On Sun, 9 Jan 2005, George Lopez wrote:
Thanks. Can you account for the noob factor and
tell
me what I have to put in before
GG, I have got as far as you have editing the settings file shows my
tivo with its ip. I dont see any shows if I select it and if I hit
enter again it seg faults. I have a hard time reading the code in the
module but fron what I can tell it doesnt use
mplayer tivo://192.168.1.102/list to get
See below. Not very informative to my eyes
[EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# `uname -a`
bash: Linux: command not found
--- Hugo van der Kooij [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
On Sun, 9 Jan 2005, George Lopez wrote:
Thanks. Can you account for the noob factor and
tell
me what I have to
I'm about ready to order some hardware for my first myth box and I want
to run the setup past the list to see if it seems sensible. First let me
list my requirements:
1) Must be pretty quiet, and quite cool. It'll be in an enclosed
(glass-front) cabinet under the TV, so circulation isn't great.
2)
On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 01:39:20PM -0800, Bruce Markey wrote:
a) Command line options on mythfrontend to say which backend to talk
to, or perhaps more simply, which mysql.txt file to use to say which
The files is searched for in . , $HOME/.mythtv/ then
/usr/local/share/mythtv or
On Sun, 2005-01-09 at 20:05 -0500, Peter Kahle wrote:
I'm about ready to order some hardware for my first myth box and I want
to run the setup past the list to see if it seems sensible. First let me
snip
Now, on to the hardware I want to use:
Forgot to mention. I already have MySQL running on
Duh, I am certainly showing my noob-ness
[EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# uname -a
Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.9-1.11_FC2 #1 Sun Jan
2 15:49:30 EST 2005 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
[EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# apt-get install
kernel#2.6.8-1.521
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Are there any USB capture devices that anyone would say work very well
with Myth? I'm playing with a notebook that has plenty of power to spare,
and figured it would be a fun experiment.
Tim
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I'm not so much interesting in using MythTV for watching/recording
TV as I am for using it as a music and video jukebox.
I've pretty much got the music setup: I ripped all my CDs to MP3,
set the ID3 tags, created playlists and installed MythMusic.
Now I'm wondering how to do the same thing with
Matt Garman wrote:
I'm not so much interesting in using MythTV for watching/recording
TV as I am for using it as a music and video jukebox.
I've pretty much got the music setup: I ripped all my CDs to MP3,
set the ID3 tags, created playlists and installed MythMusic.
Now I'm wondering how to do the
I won't say that any of these cards work very well
as I have never tried any of them myself. I have a
usb device that I would like to try to get to work
with this package because it has all the chips that
are supported by this project but it isn't in it's
supported list and I don't know all the
I'm having a problem with mythfrontend freezing, well, actually it locks
up the entire computer. It can play live TV for 30 to 120 minutes
before it freezes. The same thing happens with recorded movies. It
seems to be memory related.
I ran the K performance monitor. Results are:
- the machine
On Sun, 2005-01-09 at 08:14 -0600, Kevin Kuphal wrote:
Tony Howard wrote:
Has anyone gotten a Streamzap working with a recent version of lirc?
The SourceForge driver won't patch against lirc 0.7.0. I found 2 other
drivers - one here:
I'm using the sourceforge diff against 0.7.0pre4
I haven't seen a post about this, so I thought it might interest people. I
just noticed this mag on the newsstand and there is a fairly lengthy article
about MythTV. From skimming it it appears they have made some factual
errors, but it appears to be generally positive.
Hi -
I have built my system from scratch based on Jarrod's
guide as of 1/9/2005. I have a Hauppauge 350 and I am
able to get the video signal alone to both input and
output to the TV, but I have not yet been successful
at getting X to go across the fb.
I followed Jarrod's directions and created
On Sunday 09 January 2005 1:06 pm, Tim Knight wrote:
I just got a 350 it has a new remote a A415. The lirc.conf file seems
okay, but I was wondering if anyone had the mythtv lirc map file for
this remote? If not I will post one in a few days, but figured I would
check first.
Thanks, Tim
On Sunday 09 January 2005 2:38 pm, Robin Smith wrote:
Try typing nvidia-settings on the commandline, its a little utility
that has overscan settings for the nvidia cards. There's a way to make
it load the settings at boot time but I can't remember what it is, I
think the steps are on Jarod's
Tony Howard wrote:
On Sun, 2005-01-09 at 08:14 -0600, Kevin Kuphal wrote:
Tony Howard wrote:
Has anyone gotten a Streamzap working with a recent version of lirc?
The SourceForge driver won't patch against lirc 0.7.0. I found 2 other
drivers - one here:
I'm using the sourceforge
On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 08:30:41PM -0600, Kevin Kuphal wrote:
MythVideo can play the VOB files and, well, anything that mplayer,
xine, or any other external player can play because it just
executes a command-line to play each file. What I've done is add
the .VOB extension to MythVideo in the
i mentioned earlier that i had a backend machine with an i810 board
and a 700 mhz celeron. i initially had knoppmyth r4v4 installed and
it performed much better than fc2 which it has now. i changed so i
could do some cross-compiling for the mvpmc project for the hauppauge
mediamvp. the mediamvp
Duh, I am certainly showing my noob-ness
[EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# uname -a
Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.9-1.11_FC2 #1 Sun Jan
2 15:49:30 EST 2005 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
[EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# apt-get install
kernel#2.6.8-1.521
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency
On Sunday 09 January 2005 11:11 pm, Doug Larrick wrote:
Don Brett wrote:
Most of my experience says this is a memory leak. Anyone have an idea
of what to do? Thanks,
Valgrind?
And even before using something like valgrind, maybe looking at top or ps or
whatnot to see if the backend or
Brad Templeton wrote:
Right, but how do you get it to connect to the database server on
other than port 3306? Is there an undocumented field in mysql.txt
to set that?
Not the application's business. That is the mysql server and
client libraries. The my.cnf files (usually /etc/mysql/my.cnf )
has a
This is exactly how I have MythVideo setup. Don't dump the raw dvd's
but rip and re-encode them to xvid or divx .avi's (or any other codec
and container combination you prefer) with the appropriate filename.
All my files and folders are located in a single movies directory.
You can manage how
I'm running mythtv 0.16 on fc3 installed with Jarod's Guide. My
videos are on a windows share and are mounted via Samba. Whenever I
tried to watch something, I was having major skipping/buffer issues.
I knew it wasn't a network issue because I could watch these files
from other windows machines
On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 08:26:53PM -0800, Bruce Markey wrote:
Remember that when connecting to a remote database over an ssh tunnel,
you will not be on port 3306. Well, not if that port is already in
use on your own system, which it is.
Not sure what you mean. A listener on foo:3306 is
On Sunday 09 January 2005 11:57 pm, Brad Templeton wrote:
Right now mythtv is not mature enough to give to people who are
not sophisticated computer users. They need help administering it
from somebody else, and that's why this is a useful feature.
Don't see you doing terribly much to help
Phil Bridges wrote:
Please note that Jarod's FC2 guide is no longer being updated, as he has
moved to updating the FC3. A newer kernel has been added to ATrpms since
Jarod published his guide - 2.6.9xx, which you already have installed. If
you've done an ap-get update apt-get dist-upgrade, you
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Sent: Sunday, January 09, 2005 8:21 PM
To: mythtv-users@mythtv.org
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Another black border question
On Sunday 09 January 2005 2:38 pm, Robin
On Sun, 9 Jan 2005, Jim Gifford wrote:
I have a question about that myself, When I tried to use the 2.6.9 on
FC2, everything bombed, lockup's and such. I've had a better luck on
2.6.8 then 2.6.9 on FC2, FC3 has a lot of issues. I wish atrpms would
leave the 2.6.8 stuff online. But this is
Weird Problem.
Setup:
Abit motherboard via chipset
PVR 350
FC2 by Jarods Guide
If i use
cat /dev/video0 /tmp/test_capture.mpg
the resulting file plays fine on another computer. however when I try
to use mplayer i get the following output.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# /usr/bin/mplayer /dev/video0
I'd like to upgrade to FC3, per Jarod's instructions
(http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/fcmyth.php#apt). When I enter:
apt-get install kernel=2.6.9-1.724_FC3
I get an error:
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
E: Version ='2.6.9-1.724_FC3' for 'kernel' was not found
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