Is there a place in the wiki where I can describe my setup ? Stef
You folks can all add information I can't, from your own personal experience,etc. I have no problem going through articles and updating formating to givea more fluid look to the site.
I think he meant like an
On 1/19/06, Isaac Richards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thursday 19 January 2006 21:22, Steve Adeff wrote: I just want to emphasize the fact that the official MythTV.org wiki is up at http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
The site still has a lot of room to grow, adding hardware setup,
I see that an article I wrote for
mythtv.info
got copied, modified, and addedActually, I just remembered reading awhile back that a notice was posted on mythtv.info saying that the wiki was snapshotted and older copies might end up online if edited after a certain date, so I suppose that's what
On 1/6/06, Roger Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I noticed some odd things yesterday.Myth (installed using KnoppMyth)wouldn't log into the GUI (machine is both back and front end) but Idon't remember the error, sorry.Apache wasn't running at the time,either (but now it is).
But now, no data in the
yes, you can def delete the ringbuffer file, but that won't be all of your problems. What else do you have saving on the cache drive? It says it's ~10 gigs. Are you sharing that drive with something else? That generally causes problems, as most programs don't gracefully run out of space. The only
On 1/5/06, Matt Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
hi folks,myth is running great, but the recordings look funny when played on mypvr-350 (kinda green and a little washed out).Tried copying one of thefiles to another computer and playing via mplayer on a normal (crt
monitor) xsession, and the color
ok, great, thanks.looks a ibt hairy to me, but I will give it a go.esp with regard to the first of the registers you discuss in this
thread: if I don't want to mess with the screen position (yet) do I justrecet the last digit of the register?I don't read hex and actuallyhave almost no idea what
find register 006C, you follow the 0060 line across until it hits the 0C column, you see that fe is the value it holds.
I mean in my register map you see that fe is the value it holds. Your results may vary.
ivtvctl -j reg=0x6c,val=0xFE -d/dev/video0 (replace val with the value you want to set it
On 1/5/06, Steve Adeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thursday 05 January 2006 17:11, Jay Ung wrote: I was wondering if it iis possible to transcode .nuv to avi on a machine that is not a mythtv machine using nuvexport.I am a total noob when it comes to transcoding.I would love to use my home server
On 1/3/06, Kirk Grell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I can get directv.pl to change channels on the commandline, but it doesn't work within MythTV.The errorfrom mythbackend appears to be:...2006-01-02 19:36:43.447 ret_pid(0) child(17816)status(0x0)
Error excessive retries2006-01-02 19:36:44.451
to connect at the higher speed with flow control. Here is the writeup I did on it:
http://mythtv.info/moin.cgi/DirecTV_20D11_20USB_20Control?action="">
- Jeff Simpson(This is mostly for the benefit of the mailing list archive since a few of you have asked about it - I said
I'd post again
On 12/30/05, Brian Wallen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yesterday I just got directv in my house.I have a couple of d11 receiverswith usb ports in the back.The usb port is the regular rectangular typelike the ones in the back of a computer.Is it possible to have a cable
that has two rectangular ends
On 12/30/05, Brian Wallen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ok, I've read the guide you wrote up on mythtv.info.My problem is, I can'tenvision how this works.First off, what is the difference between a nullmodem cable and a serial cable, and when I'm looking at one, how can I tell
which kind it is?The
On 12/30/05, Buechler, Mark R [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Question, once you have a connection, how do you plan to control the box? Idon't believe the USB ports on DTV receivers are active by default.
Mine was. I'm using that receiver with myth right now, and so far it's been working fine.
On 12/28/05, Wendy Seltzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Try this patch (against svn 8386). The OSD popup seems only to
allow four items (at least without digging deeper into the theme
files), but since you can use ESC to cancel, it doesn't seem much of a
loss to do away with the Cancel button from the
On 12/29/05, Wendy Seltzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 12/29/05, Jeff Simpson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 12/28/05, Wendy Seltzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Try this patch (against svn 8386). The OSD popup seems only to
allow four items (at least without digging deeper into the theme
files
On 12/29/05, Jim Duda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm currently an avid Freevo user.I just installed MythTV yesterday andstarted playing with it.Mythtv is very impressive.I have mythbackend running on one linux box, with a PVR-350 tuner card.Ihave mythfrontend installed and running on multiple linux
I was recording a news broadcast for a friend and needed to crop out just the article she was looking for. I figured I should be able to use the cutpoint editing to do that without any problems.However - The myth editing program has an intelligent feature where it determines if the point you
I had myth working perfectly fine for about a year, and just today I decided to change the input to composite to record something. Right when I switched it, it showed up black and white until I told myth to use the composite input. Now that I'm back to svideo, it's refusing to use the svideo
On 8/23/05, Blastzone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ok, next step was to build the proprietary ATI driver and see if thathelped.Nope.So I'm running the fglrx driver instead of the radeon driver in X, butno joy, still segfaulting.I did manage to figure out the security lockdown in gentoo's X
(go into
On 12/20/05, Intense Red [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
snip* In mythtv-setup I have the Capture Card Setup configured as an MPEG-2Encoder Card (PVR-250, PVR-350), using /dev/video0, and a default input ofTuner 0. That seems straightforward.* In mythtv-setup's Video sources I have my cable/zap2it set
So my initial thought was to make the family room system the backend and run all of the encoders in there. (PVR500?) The frontend in the kitchen wouldn't have an encoder. But I don't like the idea of ugly homemade IR devices or the unnecessary cost for a decent commercial IR remote receiver.
On 12/20/05, Marcus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Wednesday, December 7, 2005, 9:10:29 AM, you wrote:There are someCasey issues with the packages but, they are in the processCasey of being resolved (maintianership,Casey module-frontend/backend version mismatch).
Casey Probably should have asked what
Try ffmpeg -formats and look for mention of psp.It is one of the benefits of Gentoo! :) I ran it for a while, but after a hard
drive failure I couldn't be bothered re-installing (recompiling) it allagain. Been trying out kubuntu recently, but I'm back with Mandriva!Sure enough, the copy of ffmpeg
On 12/14/05, Isaac Richards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wednesday 14 December 2005 17:08, Dag Nygren wrote: On Wednesday 14 December 2005 16:57, Jeff Simpson wrote:If there is no reason, please consider giving us an hourly resolution
in the Keep LiveTV on disk setup. I cannot afford
If there is no reason, please consider giving us an hourly resolutionin the Keep LiveTV on disk setup. I cannot afford keeping 24G extra
free space on my disk, at least not all the time.You shouldn't need to, I'm pretty sure. The older live shows should be automaticallyset to auto-expire if more
I was under the impression that ext3 was ext2 under the skin and was2gig max.But the last time I used it was a gazillion years ago
so what do I know...;-)That would be news to me! I'm using ext3 on my LVM partition and have plenty of large files:/dev/mapper/vg-myth ext3 441G 421G 6.1G 99%
On 12/7/05, Alessandro Boggiano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi all,usually if I want watch a VHS,I can use the antenna cable between thevcr and the tv (I know,the quality is bad),put channel 36 on my tv andit works!I'd like to do the same thing with my mythtv system in order to recorder
the vhs tape:
However thanks to Andrew because the apt-get did acutally installapache2 and now I have to use it because if I start
1.3 itdownloads the text of the php page (go figure)yeah, that's a typical thing for apache to do when it doesn't have mod_php working. It does the same thing with perl if the perl
On 12/6/05, Marcus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm new to MythTV. If I use KnoppMyth do I only need a free partition? Can I specify which partition to install to?Reading the docs it seemed like it would automatically install to hda1.I want myth to co-exist on my regular desktop PC.
I'm using Debian
We had a discussion on here awhile ago about what we thought the record button should do,both in the normal case and in the case of missing guide data. I just thought of a new featureI'd like to see, curious to hear what people think.
I was flipping channels last night and came across a program
We had a discussion on here awhile ago about what we thought the record button should do,
both in the normal case and in the case of missing guide data. I just thought of a new feature
I'd like to see, curious to hear what people think.
I was flipping channels last night and came across a program
On 12/2/05, Jeff Simpson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
We had a discussion on here awhile ago about what we thought the record button should do,both in the normal case and in the case of missing guide data. I just thought of a new featureI'd like to see, curious to hear what people think.
... snip
On 12/2/05, Brad DerManouelian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I don't think this would be all that necessary once the LiveTV Recordis changed such that hitting record will record the entire program(pulling from buffer as needed). Why would you want to Record a latershowing if you've got it right now?
On 12/1/05, Joey Moe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I had a successful mythbox install( using theSlackware 9.1 instructions ) which was hacked a coupleof moths ago. I decided to rebuild, so I updated themainboard, processor, and memory.The system now has a AMD 2600 Processor, 1 GB of RAM,
2 -300Gb
I am upgrading the processor in my myth/desktop box from an AthlonXP 1600 to a 3000 (because it's the fastest processor my board can support and I was going to buy another 1600 for somebody else but opted to trade mine up and give them my old one instead).
I need to get a new fan because the one I
Now, in retrospect, a hospital could easily absorb the cost of thissetup, so picture this in a Dorm setting with starving students
wanting this setup.They could still probably get the initial cost ofa couple (say 8-9?) backends that each have 6 pci's full of PVR-500's,and 2 or 3 rigs that are just
On 12/1/05, Steve Adeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Odd question but to any fans of Numb3rs:I'm trying to find the wall paper Charlie Eppes uses on his powerbook. Fromwhat I can tell its similar to the graphic used for the intro/outro cuts.If anyone knows anything I'd appreciate the lead!
(and yes,
On 11/30/05, Robert La Ferla [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am thinking about switching from cable to satellite and I have a fewquestions.For specific reasons, I am interested in Dish Network only.Is there a tuner card that will allow me to use MythTV with Dish Network
(preferred) or do I have to use
On 11/30/05, Steve Malenfant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Just came back from vacation and I found out that all my recording failed...Few problems that would be nice to be resolved :1 - Don't record or mark the recording as bad when you can't open thecapture device (dvb here...)
That would be nice if
oNo video.For example, one of the local PBS affiliates -frequently- airs totally black video in place of a show.(This
probably happens once a month, usually in the dead of night when nobody at the station is awake.)They'll air the promo, then cut to black, and then at the end of the hour, the
I have serious thoought of buying one of those expensive boxes with abuilt in touchscreen. This is mainly because I find it annoying to have
to light up my projector when I only want to start a music track. Ithink it would be really cool if all the standard Myth display could bepresented on the
To navigate using the keyboard is of course my second option but itisn't quite as cool as navigating with a touch screen.
I didn't know that it was possible to tweak the Myth GUI to oprerate ontwo separate screen as you describe. Are there any HOWTO available thatdescribes how to set that up?I can
ivtv0: Failed to load module tunerivtv0: Failed to load module saa7115ivtv0: Failed to load module saa7127
ivtv0: Failed to load module msp3400ivtv0: Failed to load module tda9887You have to install ivtv (for the kernel you're currently using) to useit...Or, perhaps someone forgot a depmod -ae
in
On 11/29/05, Jeff Simpson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
ivtv0: Failed to load module tunerivtv0: Failed to load module saa7115
ivtv0: Failed to load module saa7127
ivtv0: Failed to load module msp3400ivtv0: Failed to load module tda9887You have to install ivtv (for the kernel you're currently using
On 11/29/05, Ben Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Have found a few references to commercial flagging and its got meinterested.I cant however find mutch info on it.I guess my firstquestion is how well douse it work and also how doues it work but ageneral page on it world be good.
The term
I reinstalled ivtv and ran modules-update. I can modprobe saa7115, saa7127,msp3400, and tda9887 by hand. If I do that I can cat /dev/video0
test.mpeg If I run test.mpeg in mplayer I get a screen filled with snow.
A screen filled with snow is perfect! Much better than getting nothing. It means
On 11/18/05, Michael Cheshire (Mailing Lists) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Howdy,Just a (possibly) really dumb question - does mythtv play DivX/XviD straightof DVD/CD?How do you set this up?
If you want a really easy way to play DivX right off a dvd, get a
Phillips DVP642 DVD Player. Around $50
Interestingly the author of the article on Mythtv in the latest LinuxJournal considers gentoo to be the easiest distro to get myth running
on.
That I believe. While gentoo is a difficult operating system, it's easier to get myth working because
of how difficult it is to find binaries of myth,
On 11/22/05, Brad DerManouelian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thanks for the responses. Will I be able to use PIP with the 350 and
the 500 together through the 350's TV-out? I think that will seal the
deal for me.
I could be wrong, but my answer to that would be yes and no. While it
is technically
On 11/21/05, Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, 21 Nov 2005 12:36:28 -0500Steve Adeff wrote: On Monday 21 November 2005 12:21, Doug Hall wrote: Is there a common web site which gives links to MythTV boxes that people have built (in-depth blogs, etc. Not just a summary of the
hardware)?
My first thought was that I have a bad power supply.But with theblinking light, I thought perhaps something was telling the PSU to
shut down.I checked the CPU heatsink and fan, and everything seemsto be working.I would greatly appreciate any suggestions.I figure I'll probablycannibalize another
I just got an email from Tom at Zap2It, after he found this thread. Apparently they DO have a method
for requesting a time to download the next days programming:
- Jeff
>From The Email:
Actually, we already did this. In fact, we've had it from day 1 in
DataDirect. It's the acknowledge() method
On 11/18/05, Franco [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thank you for all the answers.I see some confusion so I'll clarify my setup:I have a DLP projector with VGA, S-video and videocompositeinputs (BENQ PB6100).Previous discusion held on this mailing list suggested that
I had to use the VGA input to get the
An even better solution would be to do exactly what VCRs have done forthe last 10 years - the record button activates OTR for 30 minutes,
and each additional press adds another 30 minutes up to some maximumvalue, at which it resets to 30 minutes.A different key could be usedto stop the recording,
How do I select the input that is acquired by the PVR 350 ?I remember thare was a handy .pl program in the ivtv directory
but it's not there any more :-(Is there a way to do it from within myth?
hit C from within myth
or use the command ivtvctl (I forget the parameters, but the help for
that
Since he's using VGA for Myth, he doesn't even need the S-Videoswitch--just a long S-Video cable.BTW, a good S-Video cable can go 50'
(16m) without any problems.However, I definitely agree that taking the PS2 through the encoder cardis a waste.Even if you get passthrough working in ivtv, you'll
On 11/15/05, Brent Backstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Trying to put together a myth installation and ran into
a snag.
testing by doing
dd if=/dev/video of=/dev/video16 bs=64k
I get sound out of the PVR-350 outputs, but no output from the
composite video?
Try using ivtvctl to pick
On 11/16/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I
downloaded the manual. It's a .doc but OOo2.0 opens it fine. The
bundled WinApp is called WinTVR3. The screenshots refer to a Conexant
2388xTF. The manual says The New Hardware Wizard will...detect the
"Conexant 23880 Video Capture (NTSC)"
Found drivers and documentation for the card at
http://fmi.compusa.com/driver.asp?SKU=333088
This gentoo page has a good description on how to set up conexant tv tuners:
- http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Setup_MythTV
The file that it references as a list of BTTV cards is here (and doesn't list that
On 11/15/05, Michael T. Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Marshall Crocker wrote: I saw that too when I did my survey last month.I said I would change the update time from the morning hours to 9am - Midnight but never did.If everyone who does this survey changes then they'll end up
with everyone
12G per hour? 4G per 20 minutes?
Holie!
Sounds like uncompressed recording... $20 seems like a good deal, but
you're better off springing a little more for a 150, in my opinion.
Save yourself the hassle in the long run.
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On 11/15/05, Paul V. Gratz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You could always buy it, see if it works with linux and if not return it.Worst case you are out $20 if they wont let you return it...Paul
Worst case is you spend $20 on it, and then spend 3 weeks tinkering around trying to make it work, only
to
to allow it to work at 115200 with hardward flow
control, but it seems to be partially working now (power on/off, osd
on/off, channel changing all work). I'll post a copy of the script once
I clean it up some more
- JeffOn 11/8/05, Chad Jannusch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 11/7/05, Jeff Simpson
I just completed my switch to DirecTV, but some channels seem to be missing.
- They work fine on the actual satellite box
- labs.zap2it.com list them as set to download
- myth's database doesn't contain them.
Here's what I've tried:
1). mythfilldatabase --do_channel_updates
2). Deleting all
... The channels that are missing are below 70, which is also what DirecTV
designates as local channels. Could this be related?Are you sure they're selected in your DataDirect lineup?Mike
Positive. The check boxes are checked, and in the view page it shows the green checkmark icons next to the
On 11/13/05, Jeff Simpson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
... The channels that are missing are below 70, which is also what DirecTV
designates as local channels. Could this be related?Are you sure they're selected in your DataDirect lineup?Mike
Positive. The check boxes are checked, and in the view
So, presumably, you want to hook up a usb-to-serial cable from your PCserial port to the usb port of the cable box. The issue is that the
cable box expects to be the usb host and so does a PC, whereas thekeyboard is the usb client. I'm not sure how a usb-to-serial adapterpresents itself to another
After
a quick search on Google
(http://www.sbcatest.com/installers_help_d10.pdf
) , it looks like your
D11 has a USB port on the back and you can buy a USB to serial adapter
(Page 9). I'm not too sure if the included DTV channel change script
will work with the D11, but if not, I'm sure a few
I just switched from comcast cable to DirecTV (not my choice) and
I knew I would need to get an IR Blaster to change channels. I can't
find an lirc config for my stb, though:
Model (as far as I can tell) is DirecTV D11
I see that most DirecTV users have serial control - which would work
out
On 10/19/05, Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, 19 Oct 2005 13:07:59 -0700Asher Schaffer wrote: Any ideas on how to figure out how this stuff is encoded and packaged? Do you have access to any windows machine?If so you could use gspot:
http://www.headbands.com/gspot/gspot cannot figure
Not exactly a myth question...
I'm trying to get the Back/Exit button to map to the ESC key in lirc.
I've tried config = ESC, config = Escape, config = ESCAPE, config =
esc, and none seem to work. Is there a list somewhere of which keys I
can use?
Alternatively, is there another key that will
Back-Exit is just what I have, too. I looked back through my config file, looks like I forgot the prog = line. Oops! Works great now
- Jeff
On 10/10/05, Kirk Bocek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In my .mythtv/lircrc file it looks like:begin prog = mythtv button = Back-Exit config = EscendAnd is
On 10/5/05, R. Geoffrey Newbury [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, 5 Oct 2005 16:34:21 -0400, Jeff Simpson wrote:You might check out: http://groundstate.ca/c3mythtvDown a ways there is a discussion about compiling the Xv, and XVmc drivers
for a VIA motherboard... But the process will be exactly
Do you have xorg built with the 'sdk' USE flag? You should...
Yeah, it's in there.
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detected.
Thanks!!
- Jeff
On 10/6/05, Jeff Simpson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 10/5/05, R. Geoffrey Newbury [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, 5 Oct 2005 16:34:21 -0400, Jeff Simpson wrote:You might check out: http://groundstate.ca/c3mythtv
Down a ways there is a discussion about compiling the Xv
I got ivtv-fb back - turns out the ebuild is a little buggy. I got the
framebuffer device back, I had to modprobe ivtv cardtype=2 to get
ivtv-fb to load
but still no fbdev or ivtvdev_drv working in X, same error about not having a ModuleData data object
- JeffOn 10/6/05, Jeff Simpson [EMAIL
Don't Panic! ivtv is really quite easy to build and install. The xdriveris more difficult, but still
doable. Is there a howto or doc anywhere that describes or guides you through the process of enabling Xv on the 350's TV-Out?Nothing to it really. Build and install the ivtv 0.3.8
and
On 5/6/05, Phil K [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Man...I use it and seems to be working. Guess it will die soon. But great
job...if you have something working I would love to see it. I have the
mythtools however don't have that nextairdate script.
Thnx,
-Pk
-Original Message-
On 6/12/05, David Fitzgerald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm researching making my own MythTV box, and my primary motivation is
because TiVo doesn't currently support HDTV. In looking at the HDTV
cards that are supported, I find two, but am a tad confused by
something I read concerning their
Isn't MythTV already available for OSX?
http://www.mythtv.info/moin.cgi/MythOnMacOsx
From that link:
Note: this is a frontend only, not a complete MythTV installation. The
backend portion of MythTV does not run on Mac OS X and won't be ported
any time soon.
- Jeff
I know not everyone likes the idea of rebates, but here's a 160GB WD
drive for $30 for those that do. It's only available for pick-up from
CompUSA stores, so check their site for availability at your local
store first.
Great price, but these days you start running into limits on how many
drives you can put in a system, due to bays, IDE controllers and power.
(Though you can buy external usb boxes for more than the post-rebate cost
of this drive.)
I'm one of the lucky few with 4 channels of IDE (up to 8
Can anyone suggest a good player for transcoded (MPEG4) NUV files in
windows? I've tried a few and they don't seem to play the files, but
mplayer can handle them just fine (then again, mplayer handles
everything just fine). Thanks!
- Jeff
--
email me if you want a gmail invite, I have 800
Now, however, I am unhappy with Gentoo. I have been trying for weeks
to upgrade my kernel so that I can use my new pchdtv3000 card - with
no luck.
What kernel are you currently running, what kernel are you trying to
upgrade to, and what problem does it have?
Also - are you trying to
On 5/20/05, Robert Kulagowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Can anyone suggest a good player for transcoded (MPEG4) NUV files in
windows? I've tried a few and they don't seem to play the files, but
mplayer can handle them just fine (then again, mplayer handles
everything just fine). Thanks!
On 5/20/05, EC [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Could you let me know what (if any) command line arguments you pass
to mplayer? I am very new to it ( week). It seems to play nearly
everything I throw at it except for the mpeg4 nuv files. I get:
in linux, I give it no options at all, it just
At one time, there was a difference between nuv files that were recorded
in MPEG-4 from a capture card and nuv files that were transcoded from
MPEG-2. Is that still true? Is it relevant?
yes, both true and relevant! I have no problems playing the mpeg2
(direct from hauppauge) files, but I
I think you missed my point. There are two ways to generate mpeg4 files
in Myth. You can generate them as the result of transcoding, or if you
have a raw capture card (e.g., bt878), Myth can encode it directly to
mpeg4.
I think those are actually the same. bt878 is just a raw framegrabber,
On 5/20/05, EC [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Windows, the dsMyth stuff will convert a .nuv to a .avi without
trans-coding. The resulting .avi seems fine, though I've not tried it
on a LARGE file. On linux, I'm still looking. Nuvexport is the closest
I've found, but, as mentioned, it does
On 5/20/05, Eric Jensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am a big fan of putting my TV shows on DVDs. Is there a way to have
MythTV just capture straight MPEG2 and not transcode to MPEG4? I think
MPEG2 should be good enough compression and sure would make it easier
for me to quickly author DVDs.
Should mythtranscode end up in the backend logs? Or any logs, for that
matter? I looked in /var/log/mythtv and only found mythbackend.log,
and there's nothing for it in my frontend log
- Jeff
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On 5/18/05, Romain Kang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 09:49:27AM -0400, Jeff Simpson wrote:
Should mythtranscode end up in the backend logs?
matter?
My 0.18 box (FC2 + ATrpms) certainly does:
% grep Transcod mythbackend.log
[...]
2005-05-14 15:39:48.310 Transcoding
I have it set to log to the database, is that what's causing the
transcode logs to be lost?
- Jeff
I should note that I am also looking on the backend logs section in
mythweb - I see recording and commercial flagging starting / stopping,
but no transcode log entries. Version is 0.18.1
-
PVR-350
Cons - No Hardware Acceleration, possibly slow DIVX / XVID
ATI 9200SE
Cons - A PITA to setup
I think that basically covers it.
the TVOut on the PVR looks stunning - I don't have much to compare it
to, since I haven't used a normal tvout on my myth box yet, but it
looks just as good
The mythweb backend logs actually shows you database entries, not
the /var/log/mythbackend.log file contents.
right, but those entries are in leiu of log entries, right? As in, if
mythbackend logs to the database, it doesn't also log to the file...
Currently, mythtranscode does not log its
Don't you risk database corruption doing that? The database is updated
(new tables and such might be added) during the install. If a
significant enough change is made, you might create problems you don't
want to have when the backend inserts data.
oops
probably
- Jeff
Is it possible to set up some recordings (from a PVR-350) to
automatically re-transcode, but have that setting not affect the other
recordings? Some shows I like to record and transcode so it's easy to
put them on a laptop or download them from myself, but others I like
to keep full quality and
On 5/17/05, Robert Tsai [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 06:24:30PM -0400, Jeff Simpson wrote:
Is it possible to set up some recordings (from a PVR-350) to
automatically re-transcode, but have that setting not affect the
other recordings? Some shows I like to record
While I'm asking:
What is the difference between a Recording Group, Recording Profile,
and Profile Group?
Thanks
- Jeff
On 5/17/05, Jeff Simpson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 5/17/05, Robert Tsai [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 06:24:30PM -0400, Jeff Simpson wrote
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