I've been using the precompiled mythtv-suite provided by ATrpms with my
analog TV tuner.
And now I'm trying to upgrade to DVB. Now does it actually support DVB? My
mythtvsetup
channel editor does not look at all like this:
http://www.ethics-gradient.net/myth/images/chaned_dvb.jpg . Instead
Hi,
I am using an internet grabber for the SD channels but since only a few
things are actually broadcast in HD, I thought it would be better to try to
use the DVB on air guide for the HD ones.
I selected the use on air guide setting in mythtvsetup but nothing is
showing up (after watching the
Canberra is behind the other capitals with HDTV. Most of the time the
commercial stations are playing demo loops with the occasional show (maybe 5
hours per day). I can't see any way to tell what is in HD without trying to
watch it. I was hoping the OTA EPG would help with this.
Doesn't sound too
Hey, I've finally got my mythTV setup running, and it is a very cool
thing. However, I am wondering how I can convert the Nuppel Video
recordings to something QuickTime compatible, preferably H.264. Is
this possible? Can I get it to do this by default?
Don't know, but you could have a look
Hiya,
I have just about finished setting up my own MythTV PVR but for one small
niggling problem and I can't seem to be able to get round it.
The set-up uses 32-bit Kanotix (2005-03) running on an AMD 64 300+, with
MythTV 0.18.1 debs provided by http://dijkstra.csh.rit.edu/~mdz/debian.
I have
To get MythTV to not chance channels on the tuner you need to define a
script in 'mythtvsetup' for that input. This is the method that I used
when changing channels on my external cable box.
if you do not already have a script you will need to write one or ask
for help writing one =)
On 8/4/05,
Hey All
ok.. so I've been running a myth box for a couple of years now I think -
and over this time I've learnt quite a bit about how myth works and
learnt even more about linux!
over this time I've got through various pieces of kit for upgrades - new
mb, more memory, more hd etc etc..
Guys,
I am trying to install MythTV on my Xbox but have run into (another)
roadblock. I forgot to read ahead properly and instead of installing
Xebian via Dennis' scripts, I went and did it myself from the live CD.
Now, when I was looking at installing Myth, I was told (thanks Phill
;) ) that I
I never got my head around transcoding as I figured I never needed to
with the old card. now I'm recording with the 250 I figured I'd better
know more about this transcoding thing.
what is it? why does it matter? how will it affect how I use my mythbox?
is there settings I need to know
Now, when I was looking at installing Myth, I was told (thanks Phill
;) ) that I should probably use the above mentioned scripts. Looking
at the doco on the site and the actual scripts, I could probably skip
the bootstrap mode and go straight to the MythTV install but when I do
the
On 8/7/05, Phill Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Now, when I was looking at installing Myth, I was told (thanks Phill
;) ) that I should probably use the above mentioned scripts. Looking
at the doco on the site and the actual scripts, I could probably skip
the bootstrap mode and go
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:mythtv-users-
[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Eric Webb
Sent: Sunday, August 07, 2005 1:24 AM
To: mythtv-users@mythtv.org
Subject: [mythtv-users] Upcoming release?
Hi all,
Out of curiosity, when is the next release after
If you want to get technical it is already released.
I ran --version on the SVN build I did yesterday. Its at 0.19.20050712-1.
The tarballs are released when they feel its good enough.
Ooooh - so what's the new GUI like? Aren't there some sexy new GUI
features in 0.19? What do they do?
Phill Edwards wrote:
Yes you do have to select linux (or what ever you want to call it) from
the new dashboad. I modified my evolution ini file so that after boot I
just need to hit the select button once and my linux boots and starts
mythtv. You can follow this guide
On 8/7/05, Phill Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If you want to get technical it is already released.
I ran --version on the SVN build I did yesterday. Its at 0.19.20050712-1.
The tarballs are released when they feel its good enough.
Ooooh - so what's the new GUI like? Aren't there some
Phill,
When you use this script, let me know how it works for you. I had a
fair number of times where it stopped doing stuff until I hit the
return key a few times. Looking at the source, I wonder if it was
supposed to be prompting me for something :|
Now, when I run the test version, I don't
Brady wrote:
On 8/4/05, Louie Ilievski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have been trying to get MythTV to run SUID for a couple days now but it
simply refuses to. The log always shows
2005-08-04 17:38:33.495 Realtime priority would require SUID as root.
I've always had this working in the past,
I have been trying to get mythFM working under FC4 kernel
version-2.6.12-1.1398_FC4 with MythTV-0.18.1 installed following Jarods
guide so it was setup using RPMs.
I installed the libmyth-devel and libsndfile-devel packages as well as
the other pre-requisites and am now getting this error:
Hey,
I thought I'd give 1.32 a go as whatever the other script I'm using
hasn't worked for a week (I've long since given up trying to keep
track of what's out there :), so I generated a config file for
Brisbane, and it works fine with slow = 0. However with slow 1 (after
deleting the cached.pl
I have also battled this problem in suse 9.3. Many Fedora core people
have also complained about it. The only solution I found was as root
type 'visudo'. This is a special (error checking) instance of vi that
allows editing of the sudo file. The following text helped me run
mythfrontend with
On Sat, Aug 06, 2005 at 04:23:28PM -0500, Javier Perez wrote:
On 8/6/05, Michael.S.G. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Whenever I try to rip a cd, Mythfrontend crashes.
I can't even get the CD contents!
Using FC4 and latest ATrpm's. (Installed system on friday)
Mention of a possible
Approximately every week I do an apt-get update and apt-get
dist-upgrade. After the last of these mythtv could no longer access the
backend server. I found out that the upgrade had changed my directories
from /var/lib/mythtv to /mnt/store, and that I had to alter permissions
in
I just switched over from 0.18.1 atrpms mythtv to building from the
latest svn (changeset 6995, I was hoping to play with the new internal
dvd player).
Mythfrontend now pegs my CPU when playing 720p recordings and I get
frame drops on 1080i recordings.
I've got a 3Ghz Prescott, and under
[EMAIL PROTECTED] .xmltv $ ./tv_grab_au
grabbing 5 days into /tmp/tv_grab_au/guide.xml
Use of uninitialized value in split at ./tv_grab_au line 440, line 1.
Use of uninitialized value in string eq at ./tv_grab_au line 444, line 1.
channel mismatch for 'Jay Jay the Jet Plane' (pid = 12449372)
Phill Edwards wrote:
Michael - thanks on behalf of Aussie MythTV users for this script and
for updating it to cope with the recent changes. I've been using your
script for a while and I think it's the best one of the different ones
going around.
Not sure if you saw the discussion last week of
On 8/7/05, David Asher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I just switched over from 0.18.1 atrpms mythtv to building from the
latest svn (changeset 6995, I was hoping to play with the new internal
dvd player).
Mythfrontend now pegs my CPU when playing 720p recordings and I get
frame drops on 1080i
Richard Bronosky wrote:
Anyone doing AM recording? I don't care for anything on FM.
I don't think there exists much in the way of AM radio tuners for
computers... I'd think the interior of a computer case would present too
much interference to get any kind of decent AM reception. Maybe
Hi,
The remote control that came with my PVR-350 has 4 buttons along the
top, one for TV, Videos, Music, and Pictures
(http://hauppauge.com/images/pvr-150_w_remote_large.jpg)
Is there any way to set it up so that clicking the TV button will
launch Live TV, the Pictures Button will launch
On 8/7/05, Donavan Stanley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 8/7/05, Phill Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If you want to get technical it is already released.
I ran --version on the SVN build I did yesterday. Its at 0.19.20050712-1.
The tarballs are released when they feel its good enough.
On 8/7/05, David Whyte [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Are you saying 0.19 is a while off and will include MythUI
Yes
Also, is there a way to see MythUI without having to compile the whole
of MythTV?
Not really no. Technically you don't really need to compile ALL of
myth, but you do need a good
Hi *
I'm trying to install latest unichrome drivers on my KnoppMyth R5A16.
I downloaded latest Unichrome drivers from http://myth.ivor.org/unichrome/
I follow steps in README file:
The 30 second unichrome install guide.
1. Build drm (for 2.6 kernel)
(Clearly here replace
On 8/7/05, Warpme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I suspect, some source files are missing on my HDD - can somebody point
me what is missing, and where I can find it ?
You need the source for X.
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On Sun, 2005-08-07 at 05:53, Craig Tinson wrote:
I never got my head around transcoding as I figured I never needed to
with the old card. now I'm recording with the 250 I figured I'd better
know more about this transcoding thing.
what is it? why does it matter? how will it affect how I
Hi *
I'm trying to install latest unichrome drivers on my KnoppMyth R5A16.
I downloaded latest Unichrome drivers from http://myth.ivor.org/unichrome/
I follow steps in README file:
The 30 second unichrome install guide.
1. Build drm (for 2.6 kernel)
(Clearly here replace
mythtvsetup 0.18.1 hangs with a screen that shows just the theme's
background graphic. Are there any debug options I can turn on to help track
down the problem?
After a year of so of using Myth on FC1 (0.16.x I think), I had a weekend of
irrationality and decided to do a clean install of FC4 and
Scot L. Harris wrote:
On Sun, 2005-08-07 at 05:53, Craig Tinson wrote:
I never got my head around transcoding as I figured I never needed to
with the old card. now I'm recording with the 250 I figured I'd better
know more about this transcoding thing.
what is it? why does it matter? how
I just get a little audio stuttering on my 3.2 prescott, but skipping forward
and back seems to fix it. Latest alsa-1.0.9b stuff. Seems like some kinda
buffer issue but I haven't found a way to fix it yet.
The only other wierdness I see is when both pcHDTV HD-3000's are recording at
the same
Possibly OT (if there's an nvidia-settings list I haven't found it yet).
I have mythtv working on a debian sarge install. Until recently I was
happily using the PVR-350 TV out, but I recently freed up a geforce 4
ti4200 and want to use its TV out for the ability to play transcoded
videos without
On Sun, 2005-08-07 at 12:12, Daniel Segel wrote:
Scot L. Harris wrote:
For the last 6 months I have been running a mythtv system using a
PVR-350 and a PVR-250. Have been using the decoder on the PVR-350 for
the output to the TV. As such I have not used any transcoding. I found
that if I
Johan,
I've made the changes and am seeing a long delay before Myth starts on
the FE and the mapping doesn't exist on the FE?
The last messages posted are:
Starting portmap daemon: portman
Mounting remote filesystem
AJM,
On 8/6/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Let's say you
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:mythtv-users-
[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Donavan Stanley
Sent: Sunday, August 07, 2005 7:42 AM
To: Discussion about mythtv
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Upcoming release?
On 8/7/05, Phill Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If
If Set Up a new MythBox with Debian
SId.
I use my harddrive with some old
recordings.
Now I have the the folowing Problem:
The old Recordings work.
New recordings: The preview video shows, but when i
press enter to view the main video, the screen gets black and nothing happens.
Also
Sorry [EMAIL PROTECTED] I didn't realize that you were the last poster.
I think I corrected the delay errror by temporarily using the BE IP in
the fstab. However I'm seeing an error in Myth when trying to launch
the video file File not found.
So how do I verify that I've set this up correctly?
Sorry [EMAIL PROTECTED] I didn't realize that you were the last poster.
I think I corrected the delay errror by temporarily using the BE IP in
the fstab. However I'm seeing an error in Myth when trying to launch
the video file File not found.
So how do I verify that I've set this up correctly?
I have come to a point where I am running out of space on my /dev/hda
due to the amount of video I have recorded (only 80 gigs). I would
like to add a new 160g HD to my system but lack the know how to add a
disk to an XFS partition in FC2. I found a good tutorial for FC3 off
of Jarod's site.
Hi,
I'm trying to setup a box using Knoppmyth and a PVR350 card.
I get picture but just static.
I've tryied the following while having LiveTV running, run ivtvctl -R,
and run scantv in parallell.
When I just run ivtvctl -R it responds with saying that frequency is set
to 0 even though I've
Hi,
I'm trying to setup a box using Knoppmyth and a PVR350 card.
I get picture but just static.
I've tryied the following while having LiveTV running, run ivtvctl -R,
and run scantv in parallell.
When I just run ivtvctl -R it responds with saying that frequency is set
to 0 even though I've
I was having the same problem with my pvr-150 and an old GeForce 2. I
think my problem was casued by the ivtv drivers though as I don't have
that problem now with newer drivers. You may want to try updating your
drivers or you could cat /dev/video0 /tmp/test.mpg and then see if
that test
Jim Reith wrote:
Hi,
I'm trying to setup a box using Knoppmyth and a PVR350 card.
I get picture but just static.
I've tryied the following while having LiveTV running, run ivtvctl -R,
and run scantv in parallell.
When I just run ivtvctl -R it
Title: Re: [mythtv-users] PVR 350, just
static
Jim Reith wrote:
Hi,
I'm trying to setup a box using Knoppmyth and a PVR350 card.
I get picture but just static.
I've tryied the following while having LiveTV running, run ivtvctl
-R,
and run scantv in parallell.
When I just run ivtvctl -R it
Hey All
ok.. so I've been running a myth box for a couple of years now I think -
and over this time I've learnt quite a bit about how myth works and
learnt even more about linux!
over this time I've got through various pieces of kit for upgrades - new
mb, more memory, more hd etc etc..
On 08/08/05, jacko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have come to a point where I am running out of space on my /dev/hda
due to the amount of video I have recorded (only 80 gigs). I would
like to add a new 160g HD to my system but lack the know how to add a
disk to an XFS partition in FC2. I found
Greetings:
I am interested in setting up a box with Fedora
Core 4 and MythTV, the box has 1GB RAM, two U160 SCSI HDD's, one HDD is 18GB,
and the other HDD is 73GB. I plan on doing a fresh install of both with
Fedora Core 4 and MythTV and would like to knowon what drives,what,
and whatsize
The remote control that came with my PVR-350 has 4 buttons along the top,
one for TV, Videos, Music, and Pictures
(http://hauppauge.com/images/pvr-150_w_remote_large.jpg)
Is there any way to set it up so that clicking the TV button will launch
Live TV, the Pictures Button will launch
Dont know if anyone else has answered this but:
The msn grabber gets MUCH more data than the d1 does.
When I tried d1, it didnt give episode information for example, so if you
record a tv servies then myth doesnt know enough about the episode to tell
if it has recorded that particular episode
On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 03:10:26PM +0100, Ivan A. Beveridge wrote:
On Fri, Jun 24, 2005 at 11:42:35AM -0400, Donavan Stanley wrote:
On 6/24/05, James Pattinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm tuned to channel 6301 (BBC One London) but I seem to get an audio
channel which is meant for the
Michael, could you please clarify the example duplicate config entry for me?
#''ABC ACT' = 'act.abc.gov.au'
#$duplicate = {
# 'act.abc.gov.au' = { 'ABC HD' = 'hd.abc.gov.au',
# 'ABC CHAN 22' = '22.abc.gov.au' },
# 'eastern.sbs.com.au' = {
I am trying to get my MythTV frontend remote working. I have
installed FC3 using Jarod's guide, and am able to connect to my
backend wonderfully using my keyboard. I have installed a Hauppauge
WinTV 401 into the machine in hopes of getting its IR receiver to play
with LIRC. I have installed
Felix wrote:
Dave Ansell wrote:
Hi,
My Myth box seems to have achieved a high Child Acceptance Factor
(WAF not quite so good!) but unfortunately my disk is now filling up
rapidly with cartoon shows which need to be watched repeatedly and
never deleted!
Is there a straightforward
Felix wrote:
Dave Ansell wrote:
Hi,
My Myth box seems to have achieved a high Child Acceptance
Factor (WAF not quite so good!) but unfortunately my disk is now
filling up rapidly with cartoon shows which need to be watched
repeatedly and never deleted!
Is there a straightforward way
I got it working, thanks guys for all the input. It helps if NFS is
running on the backend...
I'm also able to use mplayer which I thought was strange but I'm
running an earlier version of xebian, maybe that's it?
One other quick question if anyone is still following this thread. I
don't have
On 8/4/05, Viet My [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
* Permissions - I'm not sure (being new to Linux) what user to install
what parts under. As it is, everything is installed under Root! This is
bad.
Nice to see another sarge / myth user. :)
Have a look at
--- Phill Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Michael - thanks on behalf of Aussie MythTV users
for this script and
for updating it to cope with the recent changes.
I've been using your
script for a while and I think it's the best one of
the different ones
going around.
Seconded. Seems you
On Sun, 2005-08-07 at 17:53, Robin Gilks wrote:
I would imagine that the 878 card would record with a disk burn rate of
about 4G per hour (thats what I get) whereas the PVR card, being mpeg2
should be a quarter of that (about 1G per hour). By transcoding to mpeg4,
that can be further
I've come across two scenarios and I was wondering if others thought this
was normal, or If I maybe made a wrong choice for a setting buried deeply
somewhere.
1) If I lower the max number of recordings, MythTV will chug along and
start deleting the oldest episodes to match the number of max
Seconded. Seems you have been scratching more than
your own itch too. Many thanks Michael.
And, err, thirded. Thankyou.
Interesting. I'm looking into this. I assume the script continues and
writes a valid xml file at the end (possibly without these two
programs?)?
I'm getting the same
To try the cuy patches for ATSC scanning (which worked great, by the way).
I checked out the same changeset for the mythplugins svn, but mythweb
complains expecting protocol version 17, even though mythbackend is
protocol 18.
Did I check out the correct changeset for mythplugins? If not,
On 8/8/05, Michael Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] .xmltv $ ./tv_grab_au
grabbing 5 days into /tmp/tv_grab_au/guide.xml
Use of uninitialized value in split at ./tv_grab_au line 440, line 1.
Use of uninitialized value in string eq at ./tv_grab_au line 444, line 1.
I ended up backing up to 6836 to try the Cuy patches for ATSC
scanning. To be safe I started with a new mysql database.
I'm now getting the CPU load I expect. I'll move forward to the latest
again soon to see if it was the database causing my performance
problems.
I haven't seen the
On 8/7/05, Timothy G. Schaefer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is anybody else seeing this? Did I miss one of the many settings? Should it
work like that? To me it seems like unless I'm running out of hard drive
space or I explicitly tell it When episode limit is full, delete old,
record new MythTV
Sammo wrote:
Michael, could you please clarify the example duplicate config entry for me?
#'ABC ACT' = 'act.abc.gov.au'
#$duplicate = {
# 'act.abc.gov.au' = { 'ABC HD' = 'hd.abc.gov.au',
# 'ABC CHAN 22' = '22.abc.gov.au' },
#
Hello,
It took me literally a week of my off time, but I've finally got
most of the components of mythtv running to my satisfaction:
Home made IR Blaster, PVR 350, 250G disk array over NFS, updated
knoppmyth ivtv drivers to 0.3.7b so I can watch DVDs on the 350's
TV out, etc...
LiveTV and
On 8/7/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 8/7/05, Timothy G. Schaefer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is anybody else seeing this? Did I miss one of the many settings? Should it
work like that? To me it seems like unless I'm running out of hard drive
space or I explicitly tell it
sendemhere wrote:
The second problem is that when I insert a CD, it doesn’t pull down
the CDDB data. Anyone know an easy way to fix this? Thanks!
Fix ~mythtv/.cdserverrc :
ACCESS=REMOTE
SERVER=cddb://freedb.freedb.org:8880/~cddb/cddb.cgi CDDB
Mike
On 8/4/05, Viet My [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
* IR Blaster - I have the Actisys 200L, but I haven't gotten it to work
yet.
.
Is anyone running a similar setup (i.e. using an Actisys 200L) to control
a DirecTV box? Should I get a different IR Blaster?
I have a DirecTV box
Phill Edwards wrote:
The remote control that came with my PVR-350 has 4 buttons along the top,
one for TV, Videos, Music, and Pictures
(http://hauppauge.com/images/pvr-150_w_remote_large.jpg)
Is there any way to set it up so that clicking the TV button will launch
Live TV, the Pictures Button
Jesse D. Guardiani wrote:
It took me literally a week of my off time, but I've finally got
most of the components of mythtv running to my satisfaction:
Home made IR Blaster, PVR 350, 250G disk array over NFS, updated
knoppmyth ivtv drivers to 0.3.7b so I can watch DVDs on the 350's
TV out,
Carl Lewis wrote:
Felix wrote:
I tried three options and all three failed in one way or another :-(
. I'll try to describe them here, and if somebody notices some
glarious goofs (or not so glarious) - I would greatly appreciate the
feedback. I am fairly new to DVD authoring, and to MythTV,
On Mon, 2005-08-08 at 00:16 -0400, Michael T. Dean wrote:
Jesse D. Guardiani wrote:
It took me literally a week of my off time, but I've finally got
most of the components of mythtv running to my satisfaction:
Home made IR Blaster, PVR 350, 250G disk array over NFS, updated
knoppmyth ivtv
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