* Ian Trider [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-04-05 20:58]:
BTW, essentially if the problem you are referring to is audio sync,
it is because of how the PVR-250 outputs streams -- the video and
audio are aligned with via the PTS data, essentially timestaps,
which dicates the temporal relationship
* Chad [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-03-25 10:07]:
Just from the look of it, and reading the limited specs there, it
appears to me to be software ran with a few wires running
around/through it to carry the signal. So, my guess would be that
it's something like a winmodem that is nearly completely
* Craig Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-03-25 10:06]:
I have no /dev/video0.
What exactly do you mean by that? If you do an 'ls /dev/video0' is it
non-existent? If you're saying its there's no information coming from
the port, that's not a problem.. it's supposed to be that way (at this
stage
* Craig Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-03-24 10:30]:
Does anybody with the saa1734 chipset working in xawtv have
instructions for how they set it up? I have seen numerous posts of
those who have it working in at least xawtv. Your help would be
greatly appreciated!
If you get to the point
I was just curious if anyone knows anything about how this device
works on MythTV:
http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=VS-TVUSB2800R
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For those who prefer not to use a gui interface, where are the config
files stashed? Or is the entire configuration in the mysql database?
I would like to be able to remove things when D and delete keys
don't do the trick, and I think it would also be useful to be able to
post configurations to
* Ken Schutte [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-03-20 13:59]:
Has anyone seen this problem? Any help is appreciated.
I have not (I don't have MythTV working yet). Have you gone into
alsamixer to make sure nothing is muted before running the frontend?
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* Michael S. Keller [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-03-20 16:49]:
I right-clicked on this message, to test my MUA (Thunderbird) and
chose Reply to Sender Only. Thunderbird put the list address in the
To: box and did not show the sender at all.
This just underscores the importance of being mindful
Does it make sense to you folks that watching live tv would require
encoders to be running? The following was reported by mythbackend.log
when I tried to watch live tv (at which point I had a blank screen
with audio cutting on and off.
2005-03-20 22:47:52.693 NVR: Multiple bttv errors,
Is anyone familiar with this error below:
2005-03-21 03:29:29.001 Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV
strange error flushing buffer ...
VIDIOCSYNC: Input/output error
VIDIOCSYNC: Input/output error
VIDIOCSYNC: Input/output error
VIDIOCSYNC: Input/output error
VIDIOCSYNC:
* Joseph Caputo [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-03-17 22:31]:
If you've got more than one channel configured, have you specified
an external channel-changing script? Otherwise maybe Myth is trying
to change channels via v4l on a card that doesn't have a tuner.
I wasn't even aware that this tool
* Joseph Caputo [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-03-17 22:31]:
Any messages on the terminal?
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/mythtv# mythfrontend
2005-03-19 19:33:14.238 mythfrontend version: 0.17.20050130-1 www.mythtv.org
2005-03-19 19:33:14.240 Enabled verbose msgs : important general
2005-03-19
* Brad Templeton [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-03-18 22:14]:
My own taste is that high-traffic lists should normally send replies
just to the author being replied to, you should have to explicitly
do a group reply to get the message to the whole group!
I can see where you're coming from and why
* Justin Gombos [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-03-18 22:57]:
I made the suggestion because I got the feeling that more of the
users present here are advanced, and unix saavy, and are probably
equipped with better MUAs (like mutt).
Curiosity got the best of me, and I had to do a count. Here
* Josh Burks [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-03-19 00:39]:
Whenever someone sends a message to the list, they send it to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
True.
When you click the Reply button in any MUA on that message, guess
what, you are replying to the list.
Any button simply labeled reply, and not reply
* Mark Matula [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-03-17 09:38]:
On Wed, 16 Mar 2005, Justin Gombos wrote:
The following attempts at a simple device dump fail:
sh-3.00$ cat /dev/video0 simpleTest
cat: /dev/video0: Invalid argument
sh-3.00$ dd if=/dev/video0 of=simpleTest
dd: reading
* Joseph Caputo [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-03-17 13:56]:
MPlayer supports ordinary tuner cards. Just run mplayer
tv://[channel] [options]. See the manpage for available options.
Or, you could use xawtv or another similar V4L program.
Xawtv was a great suggestion. It worked, and it's the
* Joseph Caputo [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-03-17 14:17]:
Please just try xawtv. It's *so* much easier. Also, you're going
to have issues unless you can get Xv working on your video card.
Xawtv is the only thing that works for me, and I'm glad you suggested
it. But the goal is to have MythTV
* MagicITX [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-03-17 13:56]:
I believe saa7130 is the decoder.
The Philips saa7130 is the chip on the capture card, and I don't
believe it's a decoder or encoder. It's simply an A/D converter as
far as I know. It's on an AverMedia DVD EZMaker card, which is simply
a frame
* Joseph Caputo [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-03-17 14:59]:
I doubt you'll be able to watch LiveTV on a PII-400 or whatever it
is you have. That's a pretty lightweight box to try and serve as a
combined backend/frontend IMHO, even *with* Xv.
Yeah I know.. it's just so I can get a good idea of
* Joseph Caputo [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-03-17 14:38]:
Try specifying a channel, as in mplayer tv://3
That doesn't change things. The following commands all cause a green
box to be displayed:
mplayer tv://
mplayer tv://3
mplayer tv://3 driver=v4l2
mplayer tv:// driver=v4l2
mplayer
* Joseph Caputo [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-03-17 14:59]:
Could you please post the output of the following commands (might need
to be root):
grep -i -e tv -e tuner -e msp /var/log/messages
This is a huge amount of data, so I just captured the tv messages
here. The original output was
* Joseph Caputo [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-03-17 17:41]:
When you configure your card, what are you setting up as your video
source, and are you binding it to the Composite1 input?
For the 'Capture Card Setup', I have the following attributes set for
exactly one capture card:
Card Type:
I just got live tv to work, for about five seconds. When choosing
'watch tv', it was blank, then gave the no /dev/dsp device error
asking me if I want to continue w/out sound. I answered yes, and got
some choppy video for a few seconds, then it went blank again.
That only happened once. Other
* John Andersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-03-16 14:35]:
Wrong inputs selected in the tv setup?
I'm not sure how to check for that. I went into:
Utilities / Setup :: Setup :: TV Settings
Is that the correct path?
From there I went into all the branches (General, Program Guide,
Playback,
I get this error on boot:
Can't open /sys/bus/pci/devices
Yet when I go there, and do an ls, I get a listing similar to that of
lspci, which includes my capture card. I don't know why knoppmyth
would report this error when the directory is existent and
accessible. The directory has global
* Nicholas McCoy [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-03-16 15:56]:
Try running mythtv-setup and check the settings in there.
That seems to have taken me to the right place, but another problem
emerged. There were no capture cards listed, so I added a video4linux
card (and guessed that it's on /dev/video0
When configuring a capture card, how do I know what device it's mapped
to?
What is a VBI device? The configuration tool wants to default this to
/dev/vbi.
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* Mark Matula [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-03-16 16:37]:
The error isn't telling you anout mysql, it's telling you about the
conenction (or lack thereof) to the myth backend server. So what
you should do, instead, is /etc/init.d/mythbackend start. But
something tells me it doesn't like one of
* John P.Hoke [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-03-16 16:58]:
Hi, I am new on this list and I hope I am not breaking any netiquite
here... but ...
That sounds like mythbackend is not running, not the mySQL
server. The Master Backend Server is mythbackend
Try opening a console and typing
The following attempts at a simple device dump fail:
sh-3.00$ cat /dev/video0 simpleTest
cat: /dev/video0: Invalid argument
sh-3.00$ dd if=/dev/video0 of=simpleTest
dd: reading `/dev/video0': Invalid argument
0+0 records in
0+0 records out
0 bytes transferred in 0.002232
* Tom Lichti [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-03-16 17:39]:
I get the same message, but everything works, and I never bothered
investigating it, as it didn't appear to be an issue. I also get
messages about ixchrom (or something to that effect) failing, not
sure what that is about, but againg, it
For those who have an ordinary frame grabber, with no hardware codec,
what raw format is typically returned from the capture card? AVI?
In my case, I have an AverMedia DVD EZMaker (based off the Philips
saa7130 chip). Should I be able to pipe the signal from this card
into mplayer (using
* hondaman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-03-04 14:14]:
Ok, I went into Manage Recordings which is under Watch TV and I
cant find, anywhere, something that is recorded, or is being
recorded.
I've discovered that this error appears in cases where there is no
capture card listed in the configuration.
* Justin Gombos [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-03-16 19:23]:
The mplayer test I've seen folks use to test also fails:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/mythtv# mplayer /dev/video0
MPlayer 1.0pre5-3.3.4 (C) 2000-2004 MPlayer Team
I got a slightly better failure with the following:
# mplayer tv:// -tv
* Justin Gombos [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-03-16 20:05]:
For those who have an ordinary frame grabber, with no hardware
codec, what raw format is typically returned from the capture card?
AVI?
To answer my own question, it seems YV12 is designated as the raw
uncompressed format. But I don't get
* Wendy Seltzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-03-16 19:24]:
please contact me offlist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I just noticed this list is malconfigured, and munges the reply-to
headers that users set. Reply-To headers indicate where *private*
replies should go, and should almost never be directed at the
* Alexander Varakin [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-03-16 23:03]:
But I would suggest to use myth for recording. With myth you can
record into mpeg4 at high bit rate and then reencode into something
better using mencoder.
Ultimately I plan to be using MythTV exclusively, but right now I'm
just
I simply want to watch live TV to verify that the frame grabber works
(Now that I've worked past the database and video issues), and I just
want to see that the hardware and driver and software are making the
hand-off okay.
When I select Watch TV, I get:
MythTV is already using all available
* hondaman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-03-04 14:14]:
Ok, I went into Manage Recordings which is under Watch TV and I
cant find, anywhere, something that is recorded, or is being
recorded.
I have almost the same issue hondaman.. with the exception that Live
TV gives me the same error everytime -
The following error scrolls past on boot:
KnoppMyth found no multimedia video cards!
That error is displayed on the screen, but is omitted from
/var/log/dmesg for some reason. However, inspection of kernel ring
buffer (dmesg) reveals the following, suggesting that the driver loads
without
* Mark Crutch [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-03-11 18:24]:
This seems to keep things threaded within the web archives, so I
presume it also keeps it together with the rest of the thread for
those people who are receiving the list as emails.
It doesn't work, because the In-Reply-To header is
After fighting with database issues on Suse 9.1, I switched to
KnoppMyth, which supposedly auto-installs all the prereqs and sets up
the database. Yet it cannot connect to the master backend
database.
I'm throwing in the towel. Looking at the archives of this list, it
appears that this tool
* Magnus Nordlander [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-03-08 13:40]:
Hi
Any other recommendations are welcome, but keep the pricetag under
$50 or so.
It appears that you've only considered internal sound cards. External
sound cards have several advantages over internal. First of all,
noise. If
* Scott Minneman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-03-05 21:13]:
Glad Knoppmyth worked for you, but it didn't for me. Neither did
FC3, Debian, or SuSE.
Just to add to that, I recommend against Suse for those who are not
familiar with mysql. Following the installation guides on Suse leads
to database
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-03-06 17:34]:
What known problems are there with Suse?
I use Suse 9.0 on my main backend and Suse 9.1 on my main frontend.
I'm running Suse Pro 9.1. After following the initial database setup
guidelines, running mythtv results in database connection
* Greg [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-03-06 21:38]:
Shouldn't have trouble from the local machine. The bit after the @
is the hostname/ip of the machine that your trying to connect from
eg localhost.
I think that's what's screwing it up. I can run mysql and access the
database directly as the
* Andy Long [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-03-06 21:40]:
Just curious... but what's with all the distro hating lately?
I don't think there's enough emotion involved to call it hating.
Some distros are just better than others for this application.
Someone started a thread earlier hating on FC3, and
* Andrew Lynch [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-03-04 08:06]:
Hi,
I just completed a project installing and successfully
running MythTV on a P2-266 and it worked great.
I am going to make a webpage documenting this install
as it was a lot of fun.
I think it's important to note that your capture
* Andrew Lynch [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-03-04 21:31]:
mindfuq at fairfieldi.com wrote
I am going to make a webpage documenting this
install
as it was a lot of fun.
I think it's important to note that your capture card
has an MPEG-2
chip. So are you using it to capture your content, or
I'm having troubles connecting to the database. If I run:
mysql -umythtv -pmythtv mythconverg
I get a prompt, and if I type 'show tables;' I get
Empty set (0.00 sec)
So it seems the database exists and I can get authenticated, but when
I run mythtv or setup, I get:
Access denied for
* Sarah Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-03-03 22:32]:
I was wondering what kind of recommendations folks had for nice
looking a/v style cases, preferably with quiet power supplies and
adequate PCI slots.
I guess I'm curious why you would build the back-end and front-end in
the same case? If
* Nathan Lutchansky [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-02-28 10:45]:
Why does the Mac version exclude DivX? It's disturbing to find
that Plextor would strip the DivX out of the Mac version, then
charge more for it.
Are you referring to the fact that the EyeTV software bundle was
sold with only
I appreciate all the responses.
The approach I'm taking is that I have a solution (P2s looking for a
home) and I'm looking for the problem. The goal was to get encoders
and decoders doing all the work, so these systems can be recycled as
PVRs.
Without giving it much thought, I figured high
The README states that XMLTV is a *required* component of MythTV. I
just went through the pains of installing that monster, then
discovered the following statement on
http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-5.html:
If you are in North America you will use the DataDirect grabber
which is
* Tim Sailer [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-02-27 23:46]:
OK, so I'm really interested in this beast. One question, for those
of you who have actually touched it under Linux. Does is also show
up as an audio device, or is a sound card required for it?
I've been looking at the same hardware, and
After reading that Tivo CPUs are around 33 MHz, I was surprised to
read on EFFs PVR Cookbook(1) that a P4 3GHz cpu is required, along
with a video card that has a hardware mpeg codec.
This is disappointing and hard to believe. Is EFF on crack? I was
hoping to recycle some old P2s by
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