Re: [mythtv-users] How to boost niceness of both front and backends?

HI! William wrote: My myth machine also serves are my mail filter and I have noticed that when fetchmail receives mail it causes livetv to pause briefly. Is there a way to boost the niceness of both the front and backends? Or to make fetchmail/spamassassin/clamav behave better on disk i/o? I

Re: [mythtv-users] lm_sensors and MythTV

HI! Brian Wood wrote: Looks very interesting, but it would still seem to depend on getting lm_sensors and ivtv to cooperate. The folks getting this working may not have been using ivtv, or may have been using mobos with ISA sensor access. OTOH it probably can be made to work with ivtv

Re: [mythtv-users] New IVTV 4.1 Stable issues

HI! Jeff volckaert wrote: I was having a problem with periodic clipping of long shows. A 2 hour movie might cut out at 50 minutes for some reason. Hopefully the new driver will fix it. If not, then it might be a myth issue. This might be a problem with signal strength. However, the 0.4.x

Re: [mythtv-users] Better think twice before choosing an FS especially for LVM

HI! I have 2 drives: 160 GB + 120 GB. LVM with XFS. If one of my drives starts failing (using SMART monitoring), I just add a new drive (probably 250 GB) and let LVM shuffle all blocks from the failing drive to the new drive. If the new drive is bigger than the failing drive, I extend LVM

Re: [mythtv-users] Archiving Shows to DVD

HI! Martin Bene wrote: I have PAL and I always convert audio to AC3, because my Toshiba DVD player requires some switching in the menu, if I want to hear MPEG audio. So, converting to AC3 should not be restricted to NTSC. Wierd. Any PAL DVD Player is required to support mpeg2 audio and it

Re: [mythtv-users] Archiving Shows to DVD

HI! Martin Bene wrote: As promised earlier, a new release of MythBurn is available that lets you recode audio to ac3 format if - video format is ntsc - there's no ac3 audio stream in the original file - the option to recode mpeg2 to ac3 is set - you've got ffmpeg and a decoder for mpeg2

Re: [mythtv-users] HowTo fix broken MPEG2 recording with ProjectX?

HI! Cory Papenfuss wrote: Do not touch the MPEG file before you pass it to ProjectX as this is I didn't. Original .nuv is OK. After demuxing this with ProjectX default settings and muxing again with mplex, audio is off sync. I don't know that I've heard of anyone with sync problems

Re: [mythtv-users] HowTo fix broken MPEG2 recording with ProjectX?

HI! Nick wrote: Every now and then, someone writes here, that he fixed a broken recording (with distortion, and therefore out of sync after cutting with avidemux) with ProjectX. But how? I loaded such a recording into ProjectX and demuxed it. Then multiplex with mplex and audio if out of

[mythtv-users] HowTo fix broken MPEG2 recording with ProjectX?

HI! Every now and then, someone writes here, that he fixed a broken recording (with distortion, and therefore out of sync after cutting with avidemux) with ProjectX. But how? I loaded such a recording into ProjectX and demuxed it. Then multiplex with mplex and audio if out of sync. Any

[mythtv-users] Connection to backend stalls after being idle some time

HI! If I leave my remote frontend running for some hours idle, then it happens sometimes, that starting playback of a prerecorded show takes 30s until playback actually starts (black screen in the meantime). There is nothing in mythbackend.log or mythfrontend console and nothing in

Re: [mythtv-users] frontend CRASH / live TV version # oddness

HI! mark wrote: This TV lockup / blank screen only happens when I run the 770 kernel. 766 works fine. Others had issues with 770 on FC3? No, works fine here. Thomas ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org

[mythtv-users] CommFlagging on another machine possible?

HI! Can I run commflagging of a show on another machine than the backend, that recorded the show? If yes, is that also true for realtime commflagging? Why would I want to do this? Because I have another machine, that has more horse power than my backend. Thomas

[mythtv-users] MythMusic shows no length for MP3s

HI! I have encoded some MP3s with lame 3.96.1 and constant bitrate 192 KBit. MythMusic 0.18 plays them well, but shows no track length for them (00:00). Any hints? Thanks! Thomas ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org

Re: [mythtv-users] MythMusic shows no length for MP3s

On 5/6/05, Thomas Börkel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: HI! I have encoded some MP3s with lame 3.96.1 and constant bitrate 192 KBit. MythMusic 0.18 plays them well, but shows no track length for them (00:00). Any hints? Thanks! Thomas ___ mythtv-users mailing

[mythtv-users] Bob + OpenGL sync: Still some ghosting for small fast moving objects

HI! I am using Myth 0.18, Bob Deint., OpenGL Sync, Video as Timebase, NVidia 6629, but I still have some ghosting effects when small objects are moving fast. For example in car racing, but not in all cases, seems to be dependant on the moving direction. Scrolling text is OK though. Anyone has

Re: [mythtv-users] Bob + OpenGL sync: Still some ghosting for small fast moving objects

HI! Sasha Z wrote: You may be seeing the ghosting due to the long P discharge time of the CRT itself. Television phosphors take longer to bleed down than computer monitors do. How does it look when you watch it live without mythtv at all? I did not notice this effect on normal TV looking yet. But

[mythtv-users] Backend/MythWeb error: unknown socket

HI! I found this in my mythbackend.log (0.18): 2005-04-27 09:24:11.812 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback 2005-04-27 09:24:11.812 adding: backend as a client (events: 0) 2005-04-27 09:24:11.835 Reschedule requested for id -1. 2005-04-27 09:24:11.947 unknown socket 2005-04-27 09:24:12.872

Re: [mythtv-users] Backend/MythWeb error: unknown socket (actually from mythfilldatabase)

Just discovered, that this was not MythWeb, but mythfilldatabase. Thomas Börkel wrote: HI! I found this in my mythbackend.log (0.18): 2005-04-27 09:24:11.812 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback 2005-04-27 09:24:11.812 adding: backend as a client (events: 0) 2005-04-27 09:24:11.835 Reschedule

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Priorities screen messed up in 0.18

HI! Axel Thimm wrote: I don't think so, the themes ATrpms packages are for 0.18, not 0.16. And as I understand Bruce that would already have bitten 0.17 users, and there weren't any reports on that. I think, this column is new in 0.18, not 0.17. Not only mythtv-theme-Titivillus-0.20040807-4.at

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Priorities screen messed up in 0.18

HI! Axel Thimm wrote: I don't think so, the themes ATrpms packages are for 0.18, not 0.16. And as I understand Bruce that would already have bitten 0.17 users, and there weren't any reports on that. I think, this column is new in 0.18, not 0.17. Not only mythtv-theme-Titivillus-0.20040807-4.at

Re: [mythtv-users] HowTo delete a recording group?

HI! Timothy G. Schaefer wrote: From my messing around, I think the list of groups comes from a query to either the 'record' or 'recorded' table that finds all distinct entries for recgroup in all of the rows. To answer your question to get rid of it, you may just have to move all of your

Re: [mythtv-users] HowTo delete a recording group?

HI! Kevin Kuphal wrote: I have a recording group named . How/where can I delete that? You probably have recordings in that group. The easiest way I can think of is to press MENU in Watch Recordings, select to show titles are Recording groups, find the shows in that recording group, press MENU

Re: [mythtv-users] HowTo delete a recording group? SOLVED

HI! Using mysqlcc I saw, that there are really recordings with recgroup = '', despite the fact that mythfrontend did display no recordings, when choosing that group. After I changed the group from '' to 'Default', the '' group vanished from the select box. Thanks for all help! Thomas Thomas

Re: [mythtv-users] Time stretch bug in 0.18

HI! Chris Pinkham wrote: When I set time stretch to 1.1, then the checkmark in the OSD menu is on 1.2. If I set it to 1.2, then the checkmark is on 1.3. For the other settings, it's ok. If you're compiling from source, can you try a simple 1-line fix? Sorry, using atrpms. Thomas

[mythtv-users] Priorities screen messed up in 0.18

HI! Just upgraded from 0.16 to 0.18 on FC3 with atrpms packages. The Priorities screen (listing of all recording schedules) is messed up. I see only one character for each schedule and the priority column is also corrupted. I tried with QT 3.3.3 and 3.3.4. Any hints? Thanks! Thomas

Re: [mythtv-users] Priorities screen messed up in 0.18

HI! Bruce Markey wrote: Just upgraded from 0.16 to 0.18 on FC3 with atrpms packages. The Priorities screen (listing of all recording schedules) is messed up. I see only one character for each schedule and the priority column is also corrupted. I tried with QT 3.3.3 and 3.3.4. Any hints? You are

[mythtv-users] Time stretch bug in 0.18

HI! When I set time stretch to 1.1, then the checkmark in the OSD menu is on 1.2. If I set it to 1.2, then the checkmark is on 1.3. For the other settings, it's ok. Thomas ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Priorities screen messed up in 0.18

HI! Axel Thimm wrote: Just upgraded from 0.16 to 0.18 on FC3 with atrpms packages. The Priorities screen (listing of all recording schedules) is messed up. I see only one character for each schedule and the priority column is also corrupted. I tried with QT 3.3.3 and 3.3.4. Any hints? You are

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: HDTV performance in 0.18

HI! Axel Thimm wrote: Does anyone know how the ATRpms are compiled, in this respect? Depends on the distribution, for FC3 they are tuned for pentium4. But they still run OK on pentium3? Thomas ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org

Re: [mythtv-users] VNC launches second mythfrontend

HI! Allan Risk wrote: I've found that if I run vncserver that a second mythfrontend is running as shown by 'ps -A'. This second mythfrontend can be independently closed from the vnc client and the one on the console remains. The vnc session that appears on the remote client is otherwise

Re: [mythtv-users] XvMC on a nVidia MX440

HI! Will Dormann wrote: But if your system is working with XV, *why* are you looking to switch to XvMC? Didn't someone (you?) say, that bob deint looks better with XVMC? Thomas ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org

Re: [mythtv-users] XvMC on a nVidia MX440

HI! Will Dormann wrote: Didn't someone (you?) say, that bob deint looks better with XVMC? With MythTV 0.16, absolutely. Bob deint appeared to be broken with this version and XV. But I have since said that XV looks just as nice with the latest CVS versions. I'm currently running a CVS from

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: new myth on atrpms

HI! Jarod Wilson wrote: XvMC with 7174 works now. (Defining works rather loosely -- still not as stable as plain Xv). Does it work better (aka stable) with 6629? Thomas ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org

Re: [mythtv-users] MythMusic skipping on OGG files

HI! James Smith wrote: I've just got MythTV installed happily, and am very pleased so far. I'm having a problem with MythMusic though - it seems to be reporting track lengths wrong (generally 20 seconds or so too long), and often skips ahead a few seconds at random while playing. Most of my music

Re: [mythtv-users] How I got great quality TV-out on my nVidia MX4000

HI! Stephen Williams wrote: Of course, the way to get 'optimal' TV-out from your Nvidia (or other) card is not to use it's TV-out facilities at all and build a VGA - SCART converter for SDTVs (see http://www.sput.nl/hardware/tv-x.html for example). This is only true of home-built converters,

Re: [mythtv-users] How I got great quality TV-out on my nVidia MX4000

HI! Cory Papenfuss wrote: I've mentioned what I did in the past, starting with http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/45910#45910 Basically built up the circuit in the AD724 datasheet. It's a surface-mount chip, and circuit layout is a little important (a few MHz bandwidth video

Re: [mythtv-users] MythViewer 0.01 available

HI! Grant Edwards wrote: MythViewer is a little program [about 300 lines of Python] that I wrote to browse/view/delete MythTV programs. I've made it available at http://www.visi.com/~grante/mythviewer. Hm, isn't Python platform neutral? Would this be working on Windows? Thomas

Re: [mythtv-users] How I got great quality TV-out on my nVidia MX4000

HI! Will Dormann wrote: Will Dormann wrote: While the combination of settings I originally posted does give excellent results, I've recently discovered that that particular combination does not actually do Bob Deinterlacing. Ok, I'm very close to getting this right! For those of you running

Re: [mythtv-users] LIRC problems....Aargh!

HI! Christopher Robbins wrote: ActuallyI´m running SuSE 9.2 Professional. I´ve got the most experience with it, and it wasn´t too hard. But there wasn´t much documentation for SuSE/Myth, so I wrote a howto here - http://www.homerengineeringcorp.net/mythtv/myth.html BTW, there are RPMs for

[mythtv-users] Fontsize problem in Myth menus with FC3

HI! I am running mythfrontend 0.16 on FC1 (connected to TV) and FC3 (connected to monitor). Both running in 800x600. Both have the same font settings and theme in MythTV. On FC1, the menu font size if perfect. It's big, but not too big and the character portion under the line (like in chars g,

Re: [mythtv-users] Shutdown function isn't working anymore

HI! Try halt -p as command. This works with 0.16 on FC2. Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All it does now is shutting down mythfrontend. In the settings i've set the 'poweroff' command. Isn't this be used ?? The strange thing is that it did work on 0.16/FC1. It perfectly shutdown the pc. I know

Re: [mythtv-users] Fontsize problem in Myth menus with FC3

HI! David Smith wrote: This has been discussed several times. Downgrade to package urw-fonts-2.1.7.noarch.rpm Search the archives at http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/ Thanks a lot! I am reading the list, but have missed that one. It works now OK. :-) Thomas

Re: [mythtv-users] FC3 mythtv had no lirc IR remote control (solution)

HI! Jarod Wilson wrote: I just did a clean install today. There are a few problems related to udev that haven't yet been properly solved, but my remote is functioning just fine, using the ATrpms lirc packages and the ATrpms Myth packages. What are the udev problems? Thomas

Re: [mythtv-users] FC3 mythtv had no lirc IR remote control (solution)

HI! Jarod Wilson wrote: On Monday 21 February 2005 05:05, Thomas Börkel wrote: Jarod Wilson wrote: I just did a clean install today. There are a few problems related to udev that haven't yet been properly solved, but my remote is functioning just fine, using the ATrpms lirc packages and the ATrpms

[mythtv-users] lircd.conf for new grey Hauppauge at serial port?

HI! Anyone having a good working (all keys, spontanous reaction to key press) lircd.conf for the (newer) bigger grey Hauppauge remote (http://hauppauge.com/images/pvr-150_w_remote_large.jpg) at the serial port (not at the PVR-350)? It does not seeem to follow the RC-5 protocol, like the old

Re: [mythtv-users] lircd.conf for new grey Hauppauge at serial port?

HI! Magnus Sandin wrote: I have created my own lircd.conf that works for me TM. I have attached it so you can try it with your remote. Please let me know if it works. Thanks, but this is for the IR receiver of the PVR-350, right? But the config is different for serial IR receivers. Thomas

Re: [mythtv-users] Myth 0.17 ATRPMS and relocation error: /usr/lib/libmyth-0.17.so.0

HI! Brad Benson wrote: On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 17:17:53 -0500, Gabe Rubin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I ran into this exact same problem. It appears to be related to the redhat-artwork package. What I had to do was remove redhat-artwork and all packages that depend on it. Then, go to www.rpmfind.net

Re: [mythtv-users] mythweb suggestion (attn: all people with mythweb cookie problems!)

HI! Chris Petersen wrote: Depending on how I acces my box it sometimes works (after messing with the default http.conf file that comes with Slackware with wich php sessions certaily won't work) but I have to redo the settings if I connect on my local network, from outside using my dyndns adres,

Re: [mythtv-users] mythweb suggestion (attn: all people with mythweb cookie problems!)

HI! Joel Anderson wrote: For me, it remembers the session only a certain time. Maybe 10 days or so. Then it creates a new session. Sessions are not being stored in /tmp, but in mythweb/php_sessions. Myth-PC is not being rebooted. Any hints for that problem? Is your browser doing some kind of

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: apt-get dist-upgrade killed my ivtv (fc1)

HI! FYI: This alias does not work for me. Check dmesg, if it ivtv found your tuners. Thomas Gabe Rubin wrote: I searched the archives and added this to my /etc/modules.conf: alias tveeprom tveeprom-ivtv now on reboot, I get this in my log at the tail end: (--) Depth 24 pixmap format is 32 bpp (EE)

Re: [mythtv-users] LIRC diagnostic advice

HI! John Williams wrote: My problem is this. I have followed Jarod's guide to setting up Myth on FC3. Every thing seems to work except my remote control is not active at startup. I followed his startup scripts he had added and I fixed this by putting this in /etc/rc.local: modprobe lirc_i2c

Re: [mythtv-users] Jittery playback on recordings

HI! Mike Garrison wrote: My mythtv box is stuttering on some scene changes of my recordings. It seems to be a playback issue with mythtv, because when I play from my windows box the problem does not happen. The same is true if i play it via mplayer on the mythtv box. I solved this by renicing X

Re: [mythtv-users] prebuffering pause related to agpgart?

HI! Darren Richards wrote: I have had the same problem with 2.6.9 and FC2 (Celeron 1.3 GHz). I have come to the conclusion, that you cannot use NVidia's AGP driver, if AGPGART is compiled into the kernel (I have tried several kernel boot parameters to get rid of AGPGART unsuccessfully). So, I have

Re: [mythtv-users] prebuffering pause related to agpgart?

HI! Darren Richards wrote: I've had my mythtv setup running solidy for nearly a year now with FC1. I decided to upgrade my hard drive and the OS at the same time. I've installed FC3 with the 2.6.10-1.741_FC3 kernel. I used apt-get and Jarod's guide. With FC1, watching live TV or a recording

[mythtv-users] Apache deletes my MythWeb PHP sessions

HI! I configured the PHP session data from MythWeb to save to mythweb/php_sessions instead of /tmp. This works and the sessions remain there for several days. But suddenly (without reboot), they vanish. Apache seems to delete them! Anyone any idea, how to stop this? Using Fecora Core 1.

[mythtv-users] HowTo Dual-Head with NVidia

HI! Does anyone have a working XF86Config or xorg.conf for using the VGA-out for normal desktop and the TV-out for Myth with a NVidia card? And how do I configure Myth to go to the other display? Also, is it true that some or all of the NVidia cards do not have Xv on the 2nd head? Which ones

Re: [mythtv-users] Sound Blaster Live 24 Bit SB0410 - does it work with myth?

HI! Emory Chan wrote: Does anyone know if the Creative Labs Sound Blaster Live! 24-bit PCI Sound Card (SB0410) works with mythtv and alsa? I tried installing this card (lspci lists it as Audigy LS) recently on FC2 with Kernel 2.6.9 and newest Alsa from atrpms. No luck! There is an audigyls

Re: [mythtv-users] Unexplainable high CPU while watching MPEG2 - SOLVED (partly)

), if I could disable AGPGART in the kernel and use NVidia-AGP. But how to disable AGPGART in that kernel? I tried agpgart=no as boot parameter, but that did not help. Thanks! Thomas Thomas Börkel wrote: HI! Using NVidia 6629 TV-out with XV for playback in mythfrontend, I get: - 1% CPU

Re: [mythtv-users] Unexplainable high CPU while watching MPEG2 with NVidia TV-out

HI! Adam Felson wrote: How about reducing the resolution? Unless you have HDTV, a normal TV has only 525x525 resolution. Running at 640x480 will reduce the load 25%. I can try that, but the thing is, another computer with P-III/866 had no problems with the same resolution. Do you have either

Re: [mythtv-users] Unexplainable high CPU while watching MPEG2 with NVidia TV-out

HI! Adam Felson wrote: I can try that, but the thing is, another computer with P-III/866 had no problems with the same resolution. A PIII would definitely have to have some kind of hardware assist. I at one point played around with a 500mhz pIII and was getting less than 10 frames/second before

[mythtv-users] Unexplainable high CPU while watching MPEG2 with NVidia TV-out

HI! Using NVidia 6629 TV-out with XV for playback in mythfrontend, I get: - 1% CPU for mythfrontend - 40% CPU for X But total CPU is at 80%, causing prebuffering pause every now and then (and all the time, if I enable kernel deint in addition). Strange is, I can't see any other process with top,

Re: [mythtv-users] Unexplainable high CPU while watching MPEG2 with NVidia TV-out

HI! Doug Larrick wrote: Fecora Core 2, Kernel 2.6.9, Myth 0.16. Kernel 2.6.x has changed the way the /proc filesystem reports CPU time, such that 'top' does not see CPU time consumed by process threads of the original program. See e.g. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=222817

Re: [mythtv-users] Unexplainable high CPU while watching MPEG2 with NVidia TV-out

I should also add, that I am using onboard sound of an MSI board, if that matters. But a 1.3 GHz Celery should handle MPEG2 with no problems, right? Thomas Börkel wrote: HI! Using NVidia 6629 TV-out with XV for playback in mythfrontend, I get: - 1% CPU for mythfrontend - 40% CPU for X But total

Re: [mythtv-users] Very slight jitter on high power machine

HI! Brad Templeton wrote: I finally got things working at 1080i on my HDTV. Unfortunately, there is a slight, but annoying jitter. I've read a number of the articles on jitter but I don't seem to have the causes of that. By jitter I refer to what appear to be dropped frames, slight skips in