Brad DerManouelian wrote:
My point is that RAID 5 is *MUCH* slower than just about any other RAID
config and you should expect your max speed to be half of your fastest
drive.
That's not necessarily true.
Raw disk (Slower machine, but same disk):
/dev/sda:
Timing cached reads: 1096
Allan Stirling wrote:
Brad DerManouelian wrote:
My point is that RAID 5 is *MUCH* slower than just about any other
RAID config and you should expect your max speed to be half of your
fastest drive.
That's not necessarily true.
And of course I go on to give read stats ;)
time dd
Petr Stehlik wrote:
Hi,
when I scan the channels first time (=to an empty database) I get a
number of channels - say 300. But if I rescan it immediately I get some
30 more. And third rescan adds another 30. With a lot of patience I can
get up to 400 channels. The DVB-S timeouts are set to 60+
Buzz wrote:
I've had a few people tell me Q6 is too biased, so please answer 'other: no
change' or similar if you find any of the other answers unacceptable. I
will take this into consideration prior to posting the summary.
Oh, and please ignore the minor typo in Q5. :-)
I can't
David Watkins wrote:
I have my DVB-S card running fine with Gentoo on the Astra 28 Degrees
(UK Sky Sat) and have scanned in the channels fine. I only want the free
channels.
I can watch for example CNN which shows as channel 7140.
I have ran mythfilldatabase but the EPG does not line up.
If
Thomas Kuster wrote:
hello
Am Freitag, 26. August 2005 00.15 schrieb Allan Stirling:
Your Via C3 is not PPro compatible, and needs to be compiled for
specifically.
Change -march=pentiumpro to -march=i586 in settings.pro - However, this
*should* be automatic with any recent version of Myth
Thomas Kuster wrote:
hello
i run mythtv without any problem, but the mythplugins don't run. if i start
mythgallery, mythmusic, mythweather the plugin and the frontend crash, last
message in the xterm is:
Ungültiger Maschinenbefehl (unknown machine command?)
mythgallery crash when i will look a
Mark Kendall wrote:
I'm thinking about adding a satellite feed to my existing terrestrial
based setup. From memory, the bitrate for BBC1/2 is around 3-4Mbs on
Freeview - does anyone know what the equivalent bitrate is for the
BBC's satellite (Astra2D) feed? i.e. will I get better picture
mythtv guy wrote:
Allan,
Your solution interests me as it is what I would have
liked to do in the first place. You have inspired me
to try it myself - I am driving the serial port DTR
through a voltage divider into a CMOS inverter to give
me a 5v inverted signal which i can feed into the box
mythtv guy wrote:
--- Allan Stirling [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
mythtv guy wrote:
Allan,
Your solution interests me as it is what I would
have
liked to do in the first place. You have inspired
me
to try it myself - I am driving the serial port
DTR
through a voltage divider
Andrew Chuah wrote:
Hi Chad,
Try editing theme.xml in /usr/local/share/mythtv/themes/theme (or
/usr/share/... depending on your installation)
-hachuah
On 7/19/05, ffrr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Chad wrote:
Hello!
I am using G.A.N.T. on one of my frontends. It's a Samsung DLP HDTV
Milos Prudek wrote:
I live in a country where no listings are available. No EPG, none
planned. Czech republic.
How should I set up mythtv-setup for such country?
In mythtv-setup / Video Source Setup, XMLTV listings grabber, I must
choose something. There is no option no grabbing. What should
Johan Reinalda wrote:
Allan,
thanks for the feedback. I had not carefully looked at the nexus-s
hardware, and now see indeed the mpeg2 decoder; as I play via an fx5200
card, I won't need this and anyway, it doesn't look like it's supported
as a fb-device like the pvr-350.
When you say
Johan Reinalda wrote:
All,
I am looking at replacing my external DVB-S/FTA receiver with a dvb-s
card in my myth box.
As there is roughly US$100 difference in cost between the high-end
Nexus-s with hardware mpg2, and the low-end Twinhan/Skystar cards, I
would like to know what the CPU load
Einar Bjarni Halldórsson wrote:
Hi,
I've got problems using my cards CI module. Whenever I switch to an
encrypted channel in Myth it spews out this immortal error in the logs
CAM doesn't support link layer interface, Caps.slot_type=1. Now, my
question is this: What's the link layer and why
Kelly wrote:
Think I've found a source of my constant crashing. I have a Maxtor
SATA 250GB drive. I started poking around google and came up with the
hdparm test. I ran it and got
Timing cached reads: 816 MB in 2.01 seconds
A respectable IDE drive and do 3000mb in 2.00 seconds.
So my
Greg wrote:
Ummm... No. You're reading the results wrongly, I'm afraid :)
I would seriously doubt you'd see 1.5Gb / sec outside the datacentre.
150Mb / sec... _maybe_.
Cached reads are just that - It reads the same sector over and over.
This means it's already in drive's read cache. So what
Jochen Kühner wrote:
I’ve heard with a Dreambox you could do Software decryption of „ORF“ in
Germany, because this Programm could
Not be ordered in Germany.
Is something like this Possible in Myth too??
No. Softcams do not work in Myth. If you buy an access card and a CAM,
however, this may
Jochen Kühner wrote:
Is there a possibility to support Softcams by mythtv??
I found a softcam plugin for vdr, is it possible to port it to myth??
How many times are you going to ask the same question?
No, there is no softcam support in Myth. If you want Myth to support
softcams, feel free
Simon Kenyon wrote:
On Monday 13 June 2005 19:37, Neil Davidson wrote:
Completely correct (much to many peoples disappointment)
The encryption mechanism Sky use is proprietary (amongst other things too
probably) so until they open it all up we'll have to live with analogue
capture.
It's not
Have a look at this.
http://www.cornelius.demon.co.uk/lirc-sky-rflink-howto.html
I've not tried it yet, but have got all the stuff and should get
around to it soon.
It works well enough - However, there were still missed channel changes
for me. How this works is it allows LIRC to output the
I'm afraid I know very little of how a CAM works inside Myth. However, I
have 2 Sky subscriptions at the moment. If I was to buy a Dragon CAM,
would these work with Myth directly?
The reason I want this is just purely picture quality. Currently, I'm
going through SVideo with a PVR-150, with
Miah Gregory wrote:
Hi,
I'm having some problems setting up mythtv to work with NTL cable in the
UK. I'm using the debian unstable packages of myth 0.17 for now, I'm
planning to build 0.18 from source once I've got the basics working.
I've got a 4001 series digital box, which I'm feeding into the
Erik Karlin wrote:
On Tue, May 10, 2005 at 03:31:35PM -0400, Nate Thompson wrote:
On 5/10/05, Donavan Stanley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Are bookmarks possible?
If your player supports them, I know Xine does.
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You wouldn't happen to know the keys to
Chris Picton wrote:
On Thu, 2005-05-05 at 03:24 -0700, Paul Bender wrote:
Paul Fielding wrote:
I've got xine configured to do DVD and Video playback. Works like a
charm. Except that when I exit xine and go back to the MythTV menus,
select buttons have disappeared. At first glance, it looks
Neil Milne wrote:
On 5/2/05, Nick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If any kind users could provide me with some *much needed* info, I'd
be most appreciative.
See my configs here:
http://www.hippoit.co.uk/mythtv/
I use the remote as a mouse and keyboard, as well as for controlling
mythtv and xine.
I've
Neale Swinnerton wrote:
Hi,
I'm running CVS from 24/04/05. I'm recording in TS mode with HW decoding.
I've got the Xtraview (v2) patch installed, which I suspect might be
causing the problem.
Any thoughts?
It's also possible that you are seeing signal dropouts. Five is on a
seperate MUX
Bryce wrote:
On Thu, April 21, 2005 4:15 pm, MagicITX said:
As another hint - Start your RAID small and grow it. Buying your disks
all at once means that they'll all tend to fail at once - Which is not a
good thing. Unfortunately, there's no easy, reliable way I've found to
extend a RAID without
Nick wrote:
On 4/21/05, Dan Polak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My PVR-350 is currently connected to cable TV on the TV Connector. I'd
also like to be able to record from my Sky Digibox. The Digibox has
RGB SCART output.
It seems best to use the S-Video input on the PVR-350 for recording
from the
MagicITX wrote:
A week or so ago there was a thread discussing RAID for MythTV. We
did a test comparing software RAID 10 and RAID 5 on a mythbackend
server. You can find the article on our site if you're interested.
Basically we found that the parity calculation for RAID 5 had a
minimal impact
Dan Polak wrote:
My PVR-350 is currently connected to cable TV on the TV Connector. I'd
also like to be able to record from my Sky Digibox. The Digibox has
RGB SCART output.
It seems best to use the S-Video input on the PVR-350 for recording
from the Digibox.
Can anyone recommend a good converter
Tomer Sivilya wrote:
Hi Guys,
I'm trying to figure out what is the difference between the PVR-150
and PVR-250 (except about $25)...
Do both of them supported by myth ? (the 250 I know is - what about the 150 ?)
Thanks for your help,
Tom.
From a user point of view, there is not much difference
Cory Papenfuss wrote:
On Wed, 13 Apr 2005, Allan Stirling wrote:
Tomer Sivilya wrote:
Hi Guys,
I'm trying to figure out what is the difference between the PVR-150
and PVR-250 (except about $25)...
Do both of them supported by myth ? (the 250 I know is - what about
the 150 ?)
Thanks for your help
Larry Symms wrote:
You might be able to fake that you have all the old recordings by
manipulating the database. Is it worth it? Probably not. You're
better off going through mythweb and setting all season 1 Battlestar's
to not record (great series BTW). You can go as far into the future as
Cory Papenfuss wrote:
It really boils down to which chip acts as the logic glue for the
PCI bus. The -150 uses the well-documented cx25840 as the PCI bus
arbitrator, with the cx23416 tacked on the general-purpose I/O pins.
The blackbird uses them in the other order... the 23416 is the PCI
Matt Grommes wrote:
The Tech Report just did a comparison of the PVR-150, ATI's TV Wonder
Elite, and the eVGA NVTV. The 150 came in last in picture and the eVGA
card came in first in picture quality. Does that card work in Linux?
Both my Windows MCE w/PVR-150 using friend and I (MythTV with
Will wrote:
Greg Miller wrote:
http://www.cacmedia.tv/products/sample2_4000.html
This looks like it might make a really nice front end. It is allready
running linux.
I can see this working quite easily. If you look at the spec sheet for
this models' bigger brother, the 5000 -
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
After a clean checkout of mythtv and mythdvd from cvs, compiling and
installing mythtv and mythdvd, mtd and mythfrontend report:
2005-04-06 10:31:37.034 This app was compiled against libmyth version:
0.17.20050223-1
2005-04-06 10:31:37.035 but the library is version:
Gregg Casillo wrote:
I doubt this is possible in MythTV, but if anyone knows if/how it might be
possible to capture to DV or some sort of uncompressed AVI, please let me
know.
Riiight.
DV is MPEG2.
Uncompressed video would be about 50Gb / hour.
480(x)*480(y)*30(frames/sec)*2(16 bits/pixel)
Chris Picton wrote:
Hi all
I have 'Monitor CD/DVD' enabled in my preferences, but it is not
working.
Does anyone know how to fix this/tell it what device to monitor?
Chris
You need to add the devices to your /etc/fstab, like so:
/dev/sr0/mnt/cdrom auto
Jomama wrote:
I wanted to be able to control my Myth box (Backend only) from my
living room. I cut my Happauge IR cable in half and just for giggles
and because I had 281 ft of Cat5e lying around I spliced it in the
middle.
I was so suprised when it worked.
It continues to work.
Now I have been
Mario L wrote:
RAID10 eh? Never heard of it.. maybe you mean RAID0+1
Not necessarily. http://cgi.cse.unsw.edu.au/~neilb/01093607424
Besides, raid10 is common usage.
Cheers,
Allan.
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Maverick wrote:
Thought some of you all might want to read...
http://www.sfbg.com/39/22/cover_fcc.html
The article is great - Mainly. However, opening with this quote:
'ALL I WANT is to make a high-definition copy of Buffy the Vampire
Slayer, save it on a DVD, and loan it to my friend, says
Andy Long wrote:
On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 16:09:36 +, Allan Stirling
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
REALLY gets my back up. Again. This is what the media companies are
trying to (rightly) prevent with the broadcast flag.
No, this is not rightly something that media companies should be
allowed
Matt Grommes wrote:
Yes, thank you. The willingness people have to just cave to anything the
media industry says is very disheartening. We need to have some common
sense about these things and not just allow industry to dictate the
features and uses we're allowed to have.
Following this to
Ultimately the broadcast flag will take away our VCRs. VCRs will be
phased out in favour of DVRs which, when honouring the broadcast flag,
will be less functional. No more time shifting.
I'm trying to imagine a world where a DVR without timeshifting is
anything other than a dumb cable box.
Colin Smillie wrote:
Thank you?!?!? Why, do you like being called a thief?
Allan, I think you should read the link below, its not the NYT Article...
http://advancedmediacommittee.typepad.com/emmyadvancedmedia/2005/01/mythtv_a_nonmyt.html
I did, and it still calls me and you a thief.
Quote:
So
Kevin Wentland wrote:
I have already sent my thank you email to Shelly Palmer, Chair of the
Advanced Media Committee New York Chapter of the National Academy of
Television Arts Sciences. on his recent write up about geeks and DIY
DVRs.
His email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The article.
Nick Morrott wrote:
I've been looking into this after having had it take up to 3 hours for a
complete run cycle of mythfilldatabase, providing listings for 3 sourceids
but only 15 channels. It would appear when just running 'mythfilldatabase'
from the command line that the program was looping or
Darren wrote:
On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 02:53 +, Allan Stirling wrote:
I'm now switching across to a dual Sky
(Digital satellite) Myth box, after having played with Myth for a while
as a 'test' platform.
An aside here, I noticed you talking about a dual Sky option. I am probably going
Søren Pingel Dalsgaard wrote:
Hi I now have three tuner cards in my pc and I need to figure out which is which:
vcr root # ls /dev/v4l/
radio0 radio2 vbi1 vbi5 video0 video17 video24 video32 video49
radio1 vbi0vbi2 vbi9 video1 video2 video25 video33
If you're on a reasonably
Bill Sutton wrote:
Hi again,
Wanted to post more information on the problem that I am having with my sound. I
appologize for the repeat post, but I don't know how to reply to my previous one. I get
the message listed in the Subject when I try to Watch Live TV. I'm pretty
sure that my problem
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