I'm trying (and failing) to run mythfilldatabase to update my
listings. I think this may be the same issue as decribed last week by
Bruce Markey over in the dev list at
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/dev/169821
If I save post file, and run the same wget command that
John Biundo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Andrew Gallatin wrote:
If I save post file, and run the same wget command that
mythfilldatabase does, I see that the data I get back
has valid station,lineup,and schedules data. However,
it seems to be missing programs and everything after
Andrew Gallatin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm trying (and failing) to run mythfilldatabase to update my
listings. I think this may be the same issue as decribed last week by
Bruce Markey over in the dev list at
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/dev/169821
As an update, it just
I've been using nuvexport to transcode some of my HD programs.
I have to use the -mencoder option to nuvexport, otherwise
mythtranscode seems to leak memory like a seive. Unfortunately,
nuvexport does not have an easy way to export to dvd when using
the -mencoder flag.
I've gotten the
Byron Poland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 10/24/05, Boleslaw Ciesielski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 11:38:55AM -0400, Andrew Gallatin wrote:
I've gotten the following mencoder commandline to convert to pure
mpeg2, but I'm at a loss how to make it scale its output
Tom Dombrosky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Good discussion. I just got the Lite and I got it to work with the same
config (2.6.13 and CVS v4l and dvb-kernel). I too have a few issues on the
high frequency channels (cable box doesn't have problems), but I think it's
because it's split too many
My mythtv box has been locking up occasionally. It has always been a
little bit flakey due to the crappy windows driver for my marvell
based wireless card. To increase stability, I've recently taken to
not loading ndiswrapper by default. Unfortunately, I'm still seeing
lockups. I can't say the
I recently upgraded my mythtv box and added a second HDTV tuner card,
along the way, I updated to a SVN version from early September (how do
I find the exact SVN number anyway?). I've noticed that when recording
from both sources, I'm getting recordings with slight pauses in them.
The video will
Robert Tsai [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 02:22:05PM -0400, Andrew Gallatin wrote:
I recently upgraded my mythtv box and added a second HDTV tuner
card, along the way, I updated to a SVN version from early September
(how do I find the exact SVN number anyway?). I've
Brandon Stoll [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Earlier today I picked up an indoor antenna and to my surprise
nearly every channel came in with pretty bad reception- which was
better then I expected. So, I'd like to try an outdoor antenna but I
have a huge problem: I'm on the second floor of a
Bill Omer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
P4 1.8Ghz
Your CPU seems a little slow to do a good job playing HDTV unless you
use XvMC. XvMC has been rather touchy for me (from 0.17, and through
fairly recent SVNs) and I find myth to be much more stable with
XvMC turned off. Since I have a 3Ghz P4, I
Paul B. Henson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Supposedly (I say with a few grains of salt after over six months of
waiting ;) ), my AIR2PC cards are supposed to ship today or tomorrow.
I was waiting too, but finally gave up after Aug 30 was pushed to Sept
15th. Maybe I gave up too soon, but the
Brian Merrill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Nick wrote:
On 15/09/05, Brian Merrill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
snip
Mine works, and looks just like the snipped version (with localization
differences):
mysql select chanid,channum,freqid,mplexid,serviceid from channel;
Andrew Gallatin writes:
Is it possible that the QAM channel scan itself does not work, and I
need to do everything by hand? I saw a patch go by which allowed
Mythtv to import a channels.conf file.
Just to follow up, I got recording working on the fusion by upgrading
to this past week's
I've upgraded to a recent subversion for the DVB features, but
I'm having some severe problems which I think are audio related.
I'm using alsa:spdif and both extra audio buffering and aggressive
audio buffering (both turned on after seeing these problems).
I'm seeing the problems mostly on a 720p
Brian Long [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Drew,
Would a product like this work?
http://www.twinhan.com/product_cable_2.asp
It appears you could insert the Time Warner smart card into this card
and it would descramble the appropriate channels (assuming Time Warner
uses this type of smart card).
Brian Long [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, 2005-09-06 at 10:39 -0400, Andrew Gallatin wrote:
I'm trying to setup my new Fusion HDTV5 Gold to use QAM256 from my
local (US) cable company. The Fusion card itself works amazingly
well, but Mythtv's setup has me confused. I'm running Mythtv
I'm trying to setup my new Fusion HDTV5 Gold to use QAM256 from my
local (US) cable company. The Fusion card itself works amazingly
well, but Mythtv's setup has me confused. I'm running Mythtv from
earlier this year, shortly before the subversion conversion.
I have done a channel scan, and it
Michael Haan writes:
How do I figure out if I've got a mismatch, and how do I fix it?
I just tested and I can *definitely* tune HD using DVB/QAM with this
card. I'm so close, I just need to get myth on board.
Yeah, that's the *EXACT* same thing that happened to me when I got my
At least for US users, channel numbering for DVB boards is pretty
confusing. I was hoping for some info on what the current
best practice is for setting up DVB channels.
When you do a channel scan, mythtv picks up a channel number from the
DVB broadcast. For example, in my area, fox HDTV is
Michael Haan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So I think that means the card is working. But when I try to add a
new card in mythtv-setup I select card type = DVB, and I get:
DVB Card number: 0
Card Name: Could not get card info for card #0!
Card Type: Invalid argument
Byron Poland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
For the past couple of weeks I've been recording some shows off my
local CBS affiliate in HD vi a air2pc, a hd3000 and firewire. In all
cases at somepoint during playback of the recording, I loose sound.
Usually what happens, is playback freezes, exits,
I have a DVD that I'm trying to view, but it is either scratched or
has some bad sectors on it. The disk in question is one disk in a
full-season of a TV series, with 4 episodes on each side of the disk.
I can't rip it in Myth, it locks up my cheap standalone DVD player,
and my powerbook also
Eyal Lebedinsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
0.17 on Debian testing.
I have now had this happen a few times. I watch a DVB channel.
A burst of noise is visible as some large pixels, as well as
some audio chirps. The sound then disappears. I have to stop
watching and then start again in order
cythraul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
I've seen a similar behaviour on my DVB-S recordings. Changing the
use video as time base (or something familiar) in payback settings
solved this.
I tried this, but it seems to cause strange stuttering effects in the
playback, both with and without
James Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Andrew Gallatin wrote:
Andy Rabin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've been seeing this as well. I did a search on the forum, and found
similar problems that seemed to be fixed by doing an error check on
the mythconverg database, and then re-commercial
Andrew Gallatin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Peter Valdemar Morch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I can only repeat that it sure sounds to me like a hardware or
DVD-burner-driver problem. But of course what you choose to spend your
time on is up to you. And I might be wrong! :-D
I think I'll
Joe Barnhart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I know that 720p content looks pretty marginal at
times on my set, and I think it is because the nvidia
video card (and its driver) does the scaling and does
a poor job of it.
Is myth currently able to automatically switch the video mode via xrandr?
Eg,
Norman Lyon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm thinking that the problems I'm having with my playback skipping a little
(maybe a quarter of a second) every few minutes may have something to do with
lack of ACPI/how my IRQs are used. It looks like EVERYTHING except the
onboard
IDE shares IRQs, 3,
Peter Valdemar Morch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Andrew Gallatin gallatin-at-cs.duke.edu |Lists| wrote:
Xine does work though, exactly once per insertion of a DVD. If I try
to use it a second time, it doesn't work.I don't think dd has a
chance to work, since there was no dvdcss auth done
Peter Valdemar Morch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Andrew Gallatin gallatin-at-cs.duke.edu |Lists| wrote:
I just tried to dd the raw device, and that seemed to wedge the box
solid.
Ok, if dd won't do it, then I don't think you'll have a chance in hell
to get xine or mplayer to work
Andy Rabin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've been seeing this as well. I did a search on the forum, and found
similar problems that seemed to be fixed by doing an error check on
the mythconverg database, and then re-commercial flagging the shows.
After doing all that, my problem did not go
Keith Olsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Looking around I found a few resources for wirelss under Linux, but they seem
to refer to cards that are no longer marketed
anybody have a reccomendations for something currently available with good
support under linux?
I'm using a D-Link DWL-G510
When watching one hour HD shows recorded by my Air2PC, I've noticed
that the progress meter claims the show is 1:05:29 long. This is
off by roughly 10% from the real length of the show.
I'm hoping that this may explain why commercial skip isn't working for
me. What I'm seeing is that
Jarod Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tuesday 01 March 2005 05:41, Andrew Gallatin wrote:
I just bought an AGP 6200 that can do the same. Not that expensive. A
PCI-X 6200 is even cheaper. A 6200 alone is cheaper than another card
plus a 9A60.
Yes, the AGP variants are more
Bryan Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have another, related question:
When I use my 1080i modeline, xvidtune reports my resolution as
1920x1080. When I use my 720p or 480p modelines, instead of 1280x720
and 720x480, I get 1024x768 and 640x480 respectively.
Perhaps X is rejecting your
Jarod Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Monday 28 February 2005 17:48, Andrew Gallatin wrote:
Alternatively, the thread earlier this month suggests an Nvidia
6600GT should be able to do 1080i on its built-in component out.
But those cards all seem to have fans, and are expensive.
I just
Brad Templeton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So this leaves me with the Audio Authority 9A60. Does going out
the VGA port work around the nvidia interlace bug? I've seen
this implied, but I don't think anybody has actually come out and
said it. If this works, why are people (from the 6600GT
Bryan Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Andrew Gallatin wrote:
The VGA port will not have the interlace bug, you can make it work
using the Audio authority.
Question... What's the interlace bug? I recently got 1080i working over
DVI on my 6600GT. I have a lot of flickering that I can't
I'm looking for some basic advice from others who are running at
1080i. I've got a direct view CRT HDTV which takes DVI and component
input. I'm trying to get 1080i working from my myth box (running FC3).
I've tried the following video cards over DVI with the following results:
o Radeon
Walter Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I seem to be able to receive channels just fine, but I can't view
them. I've given up on trying to view them under mythtv for the moment
...
mplayer /dev/dvb/adaptor0/dvr0 sits there trying to fill the cache,
stuck at 0% and cat'ing the device
I just set up my Air2PC last night, and I ran into one unexpected
problem.
I have one digital station (WUNC) which is strong enough to show up
when doing the scan and get added, but it is multipathed badly enough
that the backend will get a lock, loose the lock, get the lock, loose
the lock, etc,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
A few thoughts come to mind:
- Really bad ground loops. Unplug the antenna from the card and try
lspci again.
Already tried; no joy.
- The card is unseated possibly due to the cable plulling on it. Try
reseating it.
No Joy.
-
Brad Templeton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Top can be misleading with HT. But my machine is also HT and it's only
60% idle, not 80%. And it's faster. Do you have dual channel RAM?
Can that be making this big a difference? Can your video card be that
much faster? Could Mandrake be doing
David George [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
signals would fluctuate again. So I put an Air2PC in a slave backend
and tried with those. And without moving the antennas, the signal on
the Air2PC is much better. I'm not sure you can directly compare signal
Thank you.. That is just the sort of
Cory Papenfuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Drew, and others...
The antenna, amount of cable, and amplifier will make more of a
difference in signal quality than the type of ATSC card. Period. My
first recommendation is get the antenna out of the attic. An attic is a
good place for
I've been lurking, reading the archives for a month or two now, and
I'm finally ready to start building my HD Myth box. Right now, I am
attempting to choose the HD tuner card I will use.
My current setup is a Zenith c32v37 HDTV with an integrated ATSC (and
QAM) tuner. I just put a
Speaking for myself, I've googled, and lurked for a month or so, and I
can't find anybody mentioning the relative merits of either of the two
most popular (pcHDTV, air2pc) linux supported cards in getting a
stable signal on a channel with bad multipath problems. When I said
What about the DVICO
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