[mythtv-users] Monitor CD/DVD with Fedora?
Has anyone managed to get fedora to play nice with Myth's monitor CD/DVD functionality? I've got myth setup up to do that, specifically for DVD's to bring up the menu. No matter what I try it doesn't seem to work though. I've edited /etc/fstab so that my dvd-rom shows up as: /dev/hdc/media/cdrom ufs,iso9660 exec,ro,noauto,user 0 0 That seems to work so that HAL (fstab-sync) doesn't re-write /etc/fstab. Myth just ignores it though. If I use anything besides /dev/hdc (say /dev/dvd, a symlink to /dev/hdc) fstab-sync removes all dvd-rom related entries and adds it's own again. Is there some specific device or mount point I need to have in fstab for Myth? How do I work around HAL to do that? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Video Card Suggestions Please
While this may seem like overkill for myth there is an AOpen GeForce 6600 card with 256MB of RAM on it. The big advantage of that much vram is that if you decide to repurpose that machine, it will be set for anything else. the link to the newegg page is: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16814135183 It runs $105. The other advantage is that if certain video filters are written to take advantage of the memory on your video card, you will have the extra ram available. i'm not sure which ones do that yet, but it is apparently on the roadmap for some projects. Ali On 10/27/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Im building a new machine (My P2 firewall has been having problems and Im moving everything up one step/machine). In any case the new machine will be a P4/3.2GHz on an Intel 945 series motherboard. (1) Im going to assume the video on the motherboard is not going to be acceptable for MythTV. (2) My previous experience is with AGP based boards (I have a GeforceFX 5200 on my other MythTV machine) but the 945 has PCIE. What card(s) should I be looking at with this interface? Thanks in advance -- Reg.Clemens [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Video Card Suggestions Please
In any case the new machine will be a P4/3.2GHz on an Intel 945 series motherboard. Why? AMD64 is better in every way. You're crazy to buy Intel for anything other then their M series these days... Plus AMD chipsets/motherboards are better. Until Intel comes out with a decent competive product again It's really a no brainer. AMD64 3200 (or higher) and Nforce 4 based motherboard is a good combo for your price range. (1) Im going to assume the video on the motherboard is not going to be acceptable for MythTV. Onboard video is always junk... Intel boards in particular. It may or may not work with Linux/Myth but it's not worth the time and effort. (2) My previous experience is with AGP based boards (I have a GeforceFX 5200 on my other MythTV machine) but the 945 has PCIE. PCI-e x16 works fine with Linux. What card(s) should I be looking at with this interface? Nvidia only... The 6200 is the cheapest PCI-e x16 you can get without a fan (you don't want a fan if this is a frontend!) at ~$55. Any decent brand should work. My master backend (part time frontend) is also my primary network server ( mail,openvpn,samba,dhcp/dns,firewall,etc,etc too). I've got a 3200+ /w an Nforce4 board, 2GB of memory, 1TB in hardware RAID 5 (~730GB actual), and a PCI-e x16 Nvidia 6200. Doing commercial flagging and recording 4 shows at once (PVR500,2xPVR250 in mulitple systems all accessing the same NFS share) I rarely see above 50% CPU usage or 800MB of actual memory used. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Can't build lirc modules under FC4 - wrong format
Around about 27/10/05 22:42, Paul Barker typed ... Try modinfo on the module. I guess that you didn't get any errors during the build ? Also look in dmesg after the insmod. If you could post the full error that may help. It's possible it's not an error from insmod but from the module itself. Ta; here's the output (no compilation errors I noticed): $ modinfo lirc_igorplugusb.ko filename: lirc_igorplugusb.ko vermagic: 2.6.13-1.1526_FC4 686 REGPARM 4KSTACKS gcc-4.0 description:USB remote driver for LIRC author: Jan M. Hochstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] license:GPL vermagic: 2.6.13-1.1526_FC4 686 REGPARM 4KSTACKS gcc-4.0 depends: alias: usb:v03EBp0002d*dc*dsc*dp*ic*isc*ip* srcversion: 9757FA0271889876AAE7435 I think that's the kiddie right there; I'm running 2.6.13-1.1526_FC4smp (and this is what the RPM lirc modules report). I'll have another look over the W/E and see if I can force it to build the smp variant. Dunno why it's not picking up `uname -r` for that (it does for the includes, etc.) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# rm -f .signature [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# ls -l .signature ls: .signature: No such file or directory [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# exit ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Wholesale changing of channel numbers - how and where? [UK Sky changes]
Around about 27/10/05 09:31, Neil Bird typed ... Sky in the UK are going to, on (I believe) Tues. 22 Nov. this year completely re-organise nearly all of their channels' numbers. For ref., this is actually scheduled for 29 Nov. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# rm -f .signature [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# ls -l .signature ls: .signature: No such file or directory [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# exit ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Growing channel list
On Fri, 28 Oct 2005 12:00:05 +1300 (NZDT) Robin Gilks wrote: Greetings Had a bit of a surprise when I looked at the mythweb channel editor... It looks like every time I run mythfilldatabase I get an extra bunch of channels added. Is this because I haven't bothered adding a xmltv reference on some channels as I don't subscribe to them but my xmltv list has them? although I'm seeing channels that I have got set up correctly being duplicated as well. I think I'm up to about 800 extra (duplicated) channels now :-(( Running SVN as follows: URL: http://cvs.mythtv.org/svn/trunk/mythtv Repository UUID: 7dbf422c-18fa-0310-86e9-fd20926502f2 Revision: 7535 xmltv data is fed manually using /usr/local/bin/mythfilldatabase --file 1 -1 /tmp/epg/latest.xml /usr/local/bin/mythfilldatabase --file 2 -1 /tmp/epg/latest.xml to feed my two video sources Robin, where are the latest.xml listings coming from. Using mr.geek.nz I get some strange channels added (although I don't think I am up to 800 yet!) I lied - I've just dumped the mytheb channel page of 20990 lines and at 17 lines per channel (with headers etc) I get 1246 channels where I should only have about 30. These channels have been allocated incrementing callsigns, on video source 1 they start at 1000 and for source 2 they start at 2000 (which seems normal). I'm now up to 1797 and 2554 (which isn't). The xml data is from mr.geek and is updating existing channels OK, its just creating all these extra ones. Guess I'll have to ty running mythfilldatabase manually so I can post the messages it generates. I can then sed/awk the rubbish out of the xml file. Further investigation shows that it IS the xml file I'm downloading. Most of the extra channels are the ones I didn't bother to put the xmltv data in for since I don't subscribe to them, the other extra channels are due to an occation change in spelling - 'E' is sometimes 'E!' etc. Is there a simple way to delete all entries in the channel table that have a null channum field? (I know nothing about mysql). Cheers -- Robin Gilks ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Nvidia drivers and 1920x1080i?
Seth Heckard wrote: Is 1920x1080 known to work with any Nvidia drivers over DVI? I've tried driver version 7676 with a FX5200 card and all I can get is a very messed-up screen. I tried both interlaced and progressive with the same results. If anybody has a modeline that works, I'd appreciate it. Also, if this doesn't work, and I'm forced to use 960x540, Myth should scale down the 1080i stream to 540p, correct? Because that's not happening for me now, although I haven't looked much into it. 1080i on my nVidia card (FX5200, connected via VGA-Component converter) worked for exactly *one* driver release for me, the first one with interlace support (I forget what number). But it doesn't matter; I use 960x540 as the GUI size and 1920x540 for video, using the controls set up to allow exactly this. Go search at Gossamer Threads for 1920x540 and I bet you'll get a bunch of details. -Doug signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] mac osx frontend and mysql
On 10/27/05, Paul McKellar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: do i need to install mysql on my mac before i can use the frontend?iget this message2005-10-26 22:29: 39.934 Database not open while trying to save setting: Language2005-10-26 22:29:39.936 Unable to connect to database!2005-10-26 22:29:39.936 Driver error was [1/2003]:QMYSQL3: Unable to connectDatabase error was: Can't connect to MySQL server on '192.168.1.5' (61)2005-10-26 22:29:41.905 Unable to connect to database!2005-10-26 22:29:41.906 Driver error was [1/2003]:QMYSQL3: Unable to connect Database error was:Can't connect to MySQL server on '192.168.1.5' (61)2005-10-26 22:29:41.906 Failed to init MythContext, exiting.I can't find anything in the stuff about mythcontext either.So is mysql compiled in?I get teh same error no matter whoes build i use.Paul___mythtv-users mailing listmythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users Checkif the contents of these files are correct. If the file is missing, you wont need to create it. ~/.mythtv/mysql.txt /root/.mythtv/mysql.txt /.mythtv/mysql.txt -- Roald Martin Amundsen ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Re: (slightly OT) improving wireless connections
Thanks to everyone who replied about my question of increasing my wireless signal. Many of the suggestions mentioned buying a detachable antennas to increase the strength, but as Lee Koloszyc pointed out, the Sveasoft firmware on the Linksys lets you adjust the transmit strength above the factory default. The range is 0-84mw and the default is a measly 28, so I've set it to 84 and have had MUCH improved results, where I can actually watch TV from my remote FE. Thanks again for all the responses! Back to being a happy Mythtv user again, --nelson ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Multi-card setup with only two cards allowed to record
Hi All, I've been looking around and can't seem to find the info i'm looking for so maybe someone can help. I have a server setup with the mythtv backend and have 2 pvr-250 cards in it; I also have two separate frontend units each with a wintv-go card in them. What i want to do is to have recordings only occur on the two pvr-250 cards in the server, I want the two cards in the frontends to be used as a local tuner for that frontend only. Does that make sense? The reasoning behind this is because if the cards in the frontends start recording then the frontend becomes really slow and sometimes locks-up. So i only want the cards in the server to do the recording, and the cards in the frontends for tv viewing only for that specific frontend. Is this possible? Thanks in advance for any help you guys could offer! Will ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] PVR-350 sound loop into soundcard
Hey I have an audio question - with all the hundreds of cables i have lying around here, I haven't found one yet that will take the PVR-350 TV out L/R RCA audio and allow me to feed them back into my sound card's 'Line In'. The cable that i thought for sure would work is a spare computer speaker cable for old stereo sound cards that just have L/R. its a small jack on one end that plugs into the speaker plug on the soundcard, with two RCA's on the other end to plug into the L/R speaker. I figured if it works to go 'out' it would also work to come back in?? I have a SB Audigy sound card, and in alsamixer, turned Line in up to max, Mic in (just in case) up to max , (and actually every other control there just to be sure) and i still don't get any sound coming out of my computer speakers. The only thing I can think of, is maybe the line is is mono and the stereo jack isn't making connections in the right place? I'm pretty sure its stereo though, so has anyone else had any luck feeding the sound from the 350 TV out back into their sound card? (i know that there's sound coming out, because i can plug the RCA jacks directly into the back of my TV and the sound works fine... but I'd really prefer the sound to go through the computer speakers so the volume can be controlled with myth (not to mention, my computer speakers blow the TV speakers away any day). Thanks, James -- James Grant Lightbox Technologies Inc. http://www.lightbox.org 613-294-3670 ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Multi-card setup with only two cards allowed to record
I've been looking around and can't seem to find the info i'm looking for so maybe someone can help. I have a server setup with the mythtv backend and have 2 pvr-250 cards in it; I also have two separate frontend units each with a wintv-go card in them. What i want to do is to have recordings only occur on the two pvr-250 cards in the server, I want the two cards in the frontends to be used as a local tuner for that frontend only. Does that make sense? The reasoning behind this is because if the cards in the frontends start recording then the frontend becomes really slow and sometimes locks-up. So i only want the cards in the server to do the recording, and the cards in the frontends for tv viewing only for that specific frontend. Is this possible? Thanks in advance for any help you guys could offer! I could be wrong on this, but I think tuner cards are a backend function (even for Live TV), not a frontend one, so I don't think you can do what you're proposing. If you want extra tuner cards I think they all have to go in the backend. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-350 sound loop into soundcard
At 09:19 AM 10/28/2005, you wrote: Hey I have an audio question - with all the hundreds of cables i have lying around here, I haven't found one yet that will take the PVR-350 TV out L/R RCA audio and allow me to feed them back into my sound card's 'Line In'. The cable that i thought for sure would work is a spare computer speaker cable for old stereo sound cards that just have L/R. its a small jack on one end that plugs into the speaker plug on the soundcard, with two RCA's on the other end to plug into the L/R speaker. I figured if it works to go 'out' it would also work to come back in?? I have a SB Audigy sound card, and in alsamixer, turned Line in up to max, Mic in (just in case) up to max , (and actually every other control there just to be sure) and i still don't get any sound coming out of my computer speakers. The only thing I can think of, is maybe the line is is mono and the stereo jack isn't making connections in the right place? I'm pretty sure its stereo though, so has anyone else had any luck feeding the sound from the 350 TV out back into their sound card? (i know that there's sound coming out, because i can plug the RCA jacks directly into the back of my TV and the sound works fine... but I'd really prefer the sound to go through the computer speakers so the volume can be controlled with myth (not to mention, my computer speakers blow the TV speakers away any day). Thanks, James I got a Y cable at Radio Shack for about $7 and it worked fine. Check your settings on the sound side and make sure you don't have something muted. That seems to be the most likely problem ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Multi-card setup with only two cards allowed to record
Phill Edwards wrote: I've been looking around and can't seem to find the info i'm looking for so maybe someone can help. I have a server setup with the mythtv backend and have 2 pvr-250 cards in it; I also have two separate frontend units each with a wintv-go card in them. What i want to do is to have recordings only occur on the two pvr-250 cards in the server, I want the two cards in the frontends to be used as a local tuner for that frontend only. Does that make sense? The reasoning behind this is because if the cards in the frontends start recording then the frontend becomes really slow and sometimes locks-up. So i only want the cards in the server to do the recording, and the cards in the frontends for tv viewing only for that specific frontend. Is this possible? Thanks in advance for any help you guys could offer! I could be wrong on this, but I think tuner cards are a backend function (even for Live TV), not a frontend one, so I don't think you can do what you're proposing. If you want extra tuner cards I think they all have to go in the backend. ___ Any machine can run the mythbackend process and/or the mythfrontend process. If he runs this on his frontend, then it is also a backend. As for his original question, there is no way to force those cards to be reserved for LiveTV only. You can set them to be lowest priority for recordings and make sure never to schedule more than 2 recordings at a time and they effectively will not be used. Kevin ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-350 sound loop into soundcard
Im pretty sure the problem is your mixer. Use alsamixer or kmixer to set your capture device to the line-in. David - Original Message - From: Jim Reith [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Discussion about mythtv mythtv-users@mythtv.org Sent: Friday, October 28, 2005 9:25 AM Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-350 sound loop into soundcard At 09:19 AM 10/28/2005, you wrote: Hey I have an audio question - with all the hundreds of cables i have lying around here, I haven't found one yet that will take the PVR-350 TV out L/R RCA audio and allow me to feed them back into my sound card's 'Line In'. The cable that i thought for sure would work is a spare computer speaker cable for old stereo sound cards that just have L/R. its a small jack on one end that plugs into the speaker plug on the soundcard, with two RCA's on the other end to plug into the L/R speaker. I figured if it works to go 'out' it would also work to come back in?? I have a SB Audigy sound card, and in alsamixer, turned Line in up to max, Mic in (just in case) up to max , (and actually every other control there just to be sure) and i still don't get any sound coming out of my computer speakers. The only thing I can think of, is maybe the line is is mono and the stereo jack isn't making connections in the right place? I'm pretty sure its stereo though, so has anyone else had any luck feeding the sound from the 350 TV out back into their sound card? (i know that there's sound coming out, because i can plug the RCA jacks directly into the back of my TV and the sound works fine... but I'd really prefer the sound to go through the computer speakers so the volume can be controlled with myth (not to mention, my computer speakers blow the TV speakers away any day). Thanks, James I got a Y cable at Radio Shack for about $7 and it worked fine. Check your settings on the sound side and make sure you don't have something muted. That seems to be the most likely problem ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Problems with libmepg2
On Thursday 27 October 2005 21:19, Tj wrote: There seems to be some problems when using the libmpeg2 decoder (Using SVN 7609 ATM) : 1) Mythweb thumbnails are pixelated 2) Fast forwarding/rewinding live TV or recordings - picture is pixelated, last 20 lines or so of the picture are corrupted (seems to be from previous frames). 3) Watching a transcoded movie - first few frames seems to be pixelated, last 20 lines or so of the picture don't match 4) Watching live tv/recordings that has not be transcoded yet - first few frames are corrupted, but then picture turns normal again. If your FF/REV, the problems in (2) starts happening, play at normal speed and the picture is normal. I abandoned using libmpeg2 some months ago because I determined it was causing my transcoded shows to be horribly jumpy and pixellated with spotty audio (though strangely enough, using it for LiveTV was just fine). I haven't tried it since then, so that issue may have been fixed. Just thought I'd provide a data point. Only libmpeg2 exhibit the above symptoms, Standard or XvMC do not. libmepg2 installed on my system is 0.4.0b Myth uses its own copy of libmpeg2, not the one installed on your system. -JAC ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Slightly OT: Mythgame remote control panel
On Thursday 27 October 2005 23:24, Robin Gilks wrote: Greetings Rather than just go out and buy a wireless gamepad, I've decided to build a more substantial arcade control panel that I can plonk on the coffee table and bash away at (better arcade 'feel'). I reckon a nicely polished bit of remu or kauri will look good and will be good practice for my carpentry skills. I plan on hacking a wireless keyboard to do this but so far I've been unable to find a good hack. Does anyone have any recommendations for: - cheap keyboard with a good (6m plus) range - complete set of hack instructions - source of joysticks switches suitable for this scale of arcade control panel. Would a better starting place be a wireless gamepad (say a Saitek P3000) rather than a keyboard? Cheers Try googling for arcade controls and mame. There are a lot of sites dedicated to exactly this. The top suppliers of arcade controls are X-Arcade (http://www.x-arcade.com) and Ultimarc (http://www.ultimarc.com). If you're willing to drop a little coin (~$100 for a single-joystick, ~$150 for dual-joystick, from the x-arcade site), you can buy a panel pre-built, ready to install and suitable for sitting on your coffee table or installing in a bona fide arcade cabinet. -JAC ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Hauppauge PVR-250 - Silver Remote - KnoppMyth
Hi: Just started putting this together, and I noticed that there isn't a config file or this remote... Can anyone point me on the right direction to either acquire the config file, or tell me how to create one??? Thanks Tony ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Multi-card setup with only two cards allowed to record
On Friday 28 October 2005 8:09, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I've been looking around and can't seem to find the info i'm looking for so maybe someone can help. I have a server setup with the mythtv backend and have 2 pvr-250 cards in it; I also have two separate frontend units each with a wintv-go card in them. What i want to do is to have recordings only occur on the two pvr-250 cards in the server, I want the two cards in the frontends to be used as a local tuner for that frontend only. Does that make sense? The reasoning behind this is because if the cards in the frontends start recording then the frontend becomes really slow and sometimes locks-up. So i only want the cards in the server to do the recording, and the cards in the frontends for tv viewing only for that specific frontend. Is this possible? Thanks in advance for any help you guys could offer! It sounds like the frontends are not beefy enough to handle software encoding even for recording, so LiveTV using the cards in the frontend is probably out of the question as well. However, if you're willing to give up the ability to time-shift live TV, and can live without an EPG, then you could use the frontend tuner cards as simple frame-grabbers and watch TV using xawtv (or any other TV viewing program, like tvtime). To do this, Myth doesn't need to know anything about the cards, so you need to remove their configuration with mythtv-setup. Then, all you need is to re-configure the menu item for Watch TV to launch xawtv instead of using Myth; this is done by editing the XML file for the menu. The EXEC command is what you want. (Someone may tell you to use EXECTV, but that's only necessary if Myth is configured to use the card for recording as well.) Of course, you may have to make some adjustments to your .lircrc, etc. -JAC ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Hauppauge PVR-250 - Silver Remote - KnoppMyth
Tony Pisarek wrote: Hi: Just started putting this together, and I noticed that there isn't a config file or this remote... Can anyone point me on the right direction to either acquire the config file, or tell me how to create one??? man irrecord Make your own config. Kevin ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] An LVM'd drive died! What do I do...
On Thursday 27 October 2005 16:06, Brandon Beattie wrote: On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 02:42:15PM -0500, Andrew Close wrote: On 10/27/05, Brandon Beattie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip/ Hopefully in the next few months myth will support storing to multiple directories, which would remove the need for LVM or having to worry about losing anything but what was on that drive. excellent thread! :) i had to come back to the above statement because i've seen it mentioned before and am just looking for a little clarity. storing to multiple directories - what is meant by that? do you want to store all your Lost episodes in /myth/tv/Lost, and all of your SG-1 episodes in /myth/tv/SG-1? so you have subdirectories under /myth/tv. or do you mean breaking outthe directories into their own partitions - /dev/hdb1 = /myth/tv/Lost /dev/hdb2 = /myth/tv/SG-1 you can kind of do this now, can't you? without the subdirectories - /dev/hdb1 = /myth/tv /dev/hdb2 = /myth/video etc... There have been a number of ways proposed. My current thought of the best is to allow you to create storage groups. You can add directories to a storage group and list how much space in MB (or how much to leave free on that directories partition). When you record a TV show you can have it save it to the general storage group, or have it save it to a specific one. The difficulty in any mutliple directory approach is what happens when you have 5 GB free in this directory, 20GB free in another, and 500K in another. Do we split up video streams, do we move files between them, and so on. a 4 hour HD show that's 36GB can be tricky. If you had 6 drives and anywhere from 5GB to 20GB free, which do you store to? Add in auto-expire and it gets even more tricky. Noone has felt like they know how things should be done enough to actually write it, so support has never been added. --Brandon I had a similar concept, though slightly different, i think... My idea was to have a general mythtv recordings directory, under which all harddrives would be mounted (ie /mythrec/1 /mythrec/2 /mythrec/3 etc). Have one for new recordings. The rest would be for recordings flagged for archiving of sorts. So say you want to keep every episode of a favorite show you could flag it for archiving and it would place it onto one of the other directories (Drive). If a show is flagged for archiving before its recorded it could be recorded to one of these other directories automatically, if not it would go to the general recording directory and then later moved. The other option is to just have myth look at all the drives as a general recording space and let it fill drives as it see's fit. I wouldn't bother trying to split shows across drives, if one drive has 500megs that won't fit a single recordings, chalk it up to a minor loss and move on, there's a reason you've got more than one drive. Its not as compact as an LVM but at this point probably easier to set up for most people. Does anyone know if KnopMyth supports creating LVM's? Steve ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Hauppauge PVR-250 - Silver Remote - KnoppMyth
On Fri, 2005-10-28 at 08:53 -0500, Kevin Kuphal wrote: Tony Pisarek wrote: Hi: Just started putting this together, and I noticed that there isn't a config file or this remote... Can anyone point me on the right direction to either acquire the config file, or tell me how to create one??? man irrecord Make your own config. Kevin ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users Thanks! Tony ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Multi-card setup with only two cards allowed to record
Joseph A. Caputo wrote: On Friday 28 October 2005 8:09, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I've been looking around and can't seem to find the info i'm looking for so maybe someone can help. I have a server setup with the mythtv backend and have 2 pvr-250 cards in it; I also have two separate frontend units each with a wintv-go card in them. What i want to do is to have recordings only occur on the two pvr-250 cards in the server, I want the two cards in the frontends to be used as a local tuner for that frontend only. Does that make sense? The reasoning behind this is because if the cards in the frontends start recording then the frontend becomes really slow and sometimes locks-up. So i only want the cards in the server to do the recording, and the cards in the frontends for tv viewing only for that specific frontend. Is this possible? Thanks in advance for any help you guys could offer! It sounds like the frontends are not beefy enough to handle software encoding even for recording, so LiveTV using the cards in the frontend is probably out of the question as well. As I'm thinking about it, another option would be to swap. Put the PVR-250s into the frontends where hardware encoding can happen and move the BTTV cards into the backend which may have the juice to do dual recordings (my athlon 2000 can do it). Kevin ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] An LVM'd drive died! What do I do...
On 10/28/05, Steve Adeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip/ I had a similar concept, though slightly different, i think... My idea was to have a general mythtv recordings directory, under which all harddrives would be mounted (ie /mythrec/1 /mythrec/2 /mythrec/3 etc). Have one for new recordings. The rest would be for recordings flagged for archiving of sorts. So say you want to keep every episode of a favorite show you could flag it for archiving and it would place it onto one of the other directories (Drive). If a show is flagged for archiving before its recorded it could be recorded to one of these other directories automatically, if not it would go to the general recording directory and then later moved. The other option is to just have myth look at all the drives as a general recording space and let it fill drives as it see's fit. I wouldn't bother trying to split shows across drives, if one drive has 500megs that won't fit a single recordings, chalk it up to a minor loss and move on, there's a reason you've got more than one drive. Its not as compact as an LVM but at this point probably easier to set up for most people. Does anyone know if KnopMyth supports creating LVM's? yessiree it does :) http://knoppmythwiki.org/index.php?page=LvmHowTo ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Occasional hard freezes
I was experiencing what I thought were lockups whendeleting recorded programs, either through the interface or via MythWeb.Turns out it wasn't alockup (although the interface and/or Mythweb becamefrozen, and puTTY'ing in did not work).The freezewas temporary (lasting a few to several minutes) and related to deleting *large* files from my ext3filesystem.As far as I can tell, it's been remediedby switching to XFS for my program storage drive (onlyfive days of testing so far). These locks ups appear to be permanent, unless temporary can last several hours, over night and into the next morning. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Occasional hard freezes
On 10/27/05, Steve Pugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Ryan Steffes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I thought I had finally gotten this fixed with the kernel option nolapic, but it happened to me again. I am experiencing hard lock ups that seem to be related to high data throughput, but aren't consistent enough for me to track down. When it freezes, only hitting the reset or power button fixes it. Hi Ryan,I'm wondering if your situation might be similar tomine but you've certainly checked more possibletroublespots than I did, I just got lucky with thetiming of my request ;-)I was experiencing what I thought were lockups when deleting recorded programs, either through theinterface or via MythWeb.Turns out it wasn't alockup (although the interface and/or Mythweb becamefrozen, and puTTY'ing in did not work).The freezewas temporary (lasting a few to several minutes) and related to deleting *large* files from my ext3filesystem.As far as I can tell, it's been remediedby switching to XFS for my program storage drive (onlyfive days of testing so far).Just a thought, not *entirely* your situation but close enough that I thought I'd post.If yourcurious, you can search for my threads from the pastweek and change.Best, Steve__Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com___mythtv-users mailing listmythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-usersI think you had a different issue. I am using reiserfs like the original poster (I like to be able to resize lvms down), and I see a delete pause of 1-2 seconds, no lockups or anything. However, I can induce a hard lockup on my box very easily. If I run a very data intensive process I _will_ get a hard lockup. I have moved commercial detection to my slave backend beacuse every 2-3 months I will get a hard lockup if I have a lot of commercial detection jobs running. Transcoding also causes issues. Of course I have an nforce2 chipset and I believe that it is the root of the problem. The only solace I can give you is that I have managed to configure my box to have really good uptime by keeping the large intensive jobs on the slave. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] Satellite, RF or IR
At 6:52 PM -0700 10/27/05, David Barkman wrote: Actually Hauppauge is now putting an IR Blaster on the same wire with the IR Receiver, albeit the IR Blaster wire is only about 2 feet long while the IR Receiver wire is like 6 feet long, doesn't make much sense to me, I would've made them the same length. I think I'll have to setup a shelf for the computer behind the entertainment center so it's high enough for the IR Blaster to reach the front of the receiver. Ah, I sit corrected! Sometimes it's sufficient to just aim an IR blaster toward the wall opposite your home entertainment center. The signal bounces off the wall to get to the equipment. I'm guessing this is what they intended you to do, not put the emitter directly in front of the device (as is probably more desirable in this case, so you don't have to worry about people or furniture getting in the way.) -- Dan Wilga [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Administrator http://www.mtholyoke.edu Mount Holyoke CollegeTel: 413-538-3027 South Hadley, MA 01075Who left the cake out in the rain? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-350 sound loop into soundcard
Perfect thread to hijack. I have another sound-loop issue. I've got my PVR 350 connected to the TV through the scart-cable that came with the board. This cable also have a small jack that plugs right into the PC's soundcard (Mic in this case). The soundcard is then connected to some loudspeakers (not the TV). Now, all I get through the loudspeakers if Mic is unmuted are the sounds from channel 1 no matter if I'm watching live-TV, some recordings or do nothing at all. The sound feed to the TV through the scart-cable are correct. If I watch a recording or live-TV, no sound is fed to the soundcard/loudspeakers. But sound comes through the scart to the TV. If I watch som transcoded recording, the TV isn't fed any sound, but the soundcard/loudspeakers are. Now, how do I clean up this mess? Bjarne ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV vs Freevo
Joshua Lewis wrote: Does anyone know of any differences between functionality of MythTV and Freevo? I just setup a FreeBSD sysem and looking for the best entertainment system I can make. Has anyone sucessfully installed MythTV on FreeBSD? FreeBSD is the only platform I am familiar with other then Windows and the MAC OS. Thank you, Joshua Lewis ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users Last I heard Freevo couldn't do time shifting. (pause rewind live TV) That was a deal breaker for me. Has this changed yet? I'll try it when it does. -- Thank you for your time, --== R i c h a r d B r o n o s k y ==-- Nearly all viruses and spyware are designed to use Microsoft internet products. Protect yourself by avoiding Internet Explorer Outlook/Outlook Express. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Occasional hard freezes
--- Ryan Steffes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: These locks ups appear to be permanent, unless temporary can last several hours, over night and into the next morning. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users Ummno. That'd be pretty different (and your patience is greater than mine). Sorry I couldn't be of help, though. Steve __ Yahoo! FareChase: Search multiple travel sites in one click. http://farechase.yahoo.com ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-350 sound loop into soundcard
Nothing is muted, and under [capture] everything is turned up as well... still nothing... the alsamixer docs say pressing space bar on a channel will set it to the active channel, but space seems to do nothing here :( James On Friday 28 October 2005 9:30 am, David Ellis wrote: Im pretty sure the problem is your mixer. Use alsamixer or kmixer to set your capture device to the line-in. David - Original Message - From: Jim Reith [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Discussion about mythtv mythtv-users@mythtv.org Sent: Friday, October 28, 2005 9:25 AM Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-350 sound loop into soundcard At 09:19 AM 10/28/2005, you wrote: Hey I have an audio question - with all the hundreds of cables i have lying around here, I haven't found one yet that will take the PVR-350 TV out L/R RCA audio and allow me to feed them back into my sound card's 'Line In'. The cable that i thought for sure would work is a spare computer speaker cable for old stereo sound cards that just have L/R. its a small jack on one end that plugs into the speaker plug on the soundcard, with two RCA's on the other end to plug into the L/R speaker. I figured if it works to go 'out' it would also work to come back in?? I have a SB Audigy sound card, and in alsamixer, turned Line in up to max, Mic in (just in case) up to max , (and actually every other control there just to be sure) and i still don't get any sound coming out of my computer speakers. The only thing I can think of, is maybe the line is is mono and the stereo jack isn't making connections in the right place? I'm pretty sure its stereo though, so has anyone else had any luck feeding the sound from the 350 TV out back into their sound card? (i know that there's sound coming out, because i can plug the RCA jacks directly into the back of my TV and the sound works fine... but I'd really prefer the sound to go through the computer speakers so the volume can be controlled with myth (not to mention, my computer speakers blow the TV speakers away any day). Thanks, James I got a Y cable at Radio Shack for about $7 and it worked fine. Check your settings on the sound side and make sure you don't have something muted. That seems to be the most likely problem --- - ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users -- James Grant Lightbox Technologies Inc. http://www.lightbox.org 613-294-3670 -- James Grant Lightbox Technologies Inc. http://www.lightbox.org 613-294-3670 ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] An LVM'd drive died! What do I do...
On Thursday 27 October 2005 20:27, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 11:30:07AM -0400, Steve Adeff wrote: noone has yet mentioned S.M.A.R.T. yet. After I went through a stint of loosing 2 hd's in a week's time (due to powersupply problems) I looked into things and found smartctl, which monitors the smart status of drives and can even be setup to email you when it encounters a problem. According to manufacturers warranty's upon a SMART pre-fail warning you are allowed to, if the drive is still under warranty, get a replacement. IMHO, SMART is like the sound from a rifle - if you're in front of the bullet you'll never hear it. I've had three SMART-enabled drives fail on me. In every case, the email saying a drive is dying was just about the last thing written to the drive before it went R/O, and none of them lasted long enough to copy the contents off to another drive. Since then I've switched to RAID5 so I'll get the array is degraded message when there's actually time to do something about it. I've never had SMART not throw a flag early enough. Even when my powersupply was causing problems SMART knew something was wrong and is the only reason I was able to rescue one of the drives. I lost one because I kept running them not knowing what the problem was. I suggest paying the extra shipping cost to receive the new drive so you can copy your data over. Keep an eye on the drive. I'll usually put it into a ro mount and if gets really bad I unplug power to it until I get a new drive. The drives that failed on me were two Maxtors and a Western Digital. The Maxtors lasted long enough to be obsolete so I just chucked them. The WD was only about 9 months old. WD's RMA process allows you to give them a CC number and they'll ship out the replacement by courier at no charge. You then have 30 days to swap the drive and ship back the defective one (at your expense) or else they charge the new drive to your card. In my case, it was a 120Gb that failed and they sent me a 160Gb replacement. All the same, when I decided to switch to RAID5 I bought more Maxtor drives. If they last long enough to make an RMA pointless then I'll be happy. This is one nice thing about the RMA process, getting a larger drive! this has happened to me twice ;-) Steve ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Re: Fusion 5 Gold Problems
Jason Gabriele wrote: On to DVB tuning. I cannot get any channels to lock using dvbscan /usr/share/dvb/atsc/us-ATSC-center-frequencies-8VSB For cable you are supposed to use us-Cable-Standard-center-frequencies-QAM256 or one of the other us-Cable-* files (depending on your cable provider). Bolek ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Development update
On Thursday 27 October 2005 14:33, Bryan Halter wrote: Can someone give this list a quick update of new/improved features under development and an idea of how far out .19 is? I love MythTV and would love to see it continue to grow, that's why I'm curious about this next release. Also some idea of what LxM is up to would be nice too :) First rule of MythTV-dev is don't ask about MythTV-dev! But seriously... it will be released when its ready. If your anxious, build from SVN. Its relatively stable considering how many changes go into it. If you want an idea of what's been added you can search through the SVN commits. Lots of bug fixes, and some new ones, lots of feature updates for HDTV and DVB use. Steve ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Failed to bindport 6543
Hi all, I have just ran into a problem am not familiar with, when a channel was mistakenly entered (via keyboard and hit enter) the screen froze up and was not able to watch Live TV anymore, Everything has worked before then (about a month old) And now it says I have no recordings, Cant watch live TV Its extremely slow from the front end Am able to view the schedules (so I know my Database is up and running) I stopped and restarted the backend and the message I got from it was QServerSocket: failed to bind or listen to the socket: Failed to bind to port: 6543 Even thou I did restart the whole box. Any suggestions? Thanks ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Failed to bindport 6543
On 10/28/05, Folashade Adeyosoye [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I have just ran into a problem am not familiar with, when a channel was mistakenly entered (via keyboard and hit enter) the screen froze up and was not able to watch Live TV anymore, Everything has worked before then (about a month old) And now it says I have no recordings, Cant watch live TV Its extremely slow from the front end Am able to view the schedules (so I know my Database is up and running) I stopped and restarted the backend and the message I got from it was QServerSocket: failed to bind or listen to the socket: Failed to bind to port: 6543 Even thou I did restart the whole box. Any suggestions? Is MythBackend running? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Development update
Steve Adeff wrote: On Thursday 27 October 2005 14:33, Bryan Halter wrote: Can someone give this list a quick update of new/improved features under development and an idea of how far out .19 is? I love MythTV and would love to see it continue to grow, that's why I'm curious about this next release. Also some idea of what LxM is up to would be nice too :) First rule of MythTV-dev is don't ask about MythTV-dev! But seriously... it will be released when its ready. If your anxious, build from SVN. Its relatively stable considering how many changes go into it. If you want an idea of what's been added you can search through the SVN commits. Lots of bug fixes, and some new ones, lots of feature updates for HDTV and DVB use. Is it still basically the same though? I've been reading bits and pieces about a new frontend daemon/frontend client architecture and other things like OpenGL UI rendering that seem to change Myth's core. Are these changes in the next gen, or the next next gen? I think the problem that many of us have with trying SVN is that we only have one mythtv system, and while we'd love to try SVN, we have family that expect Myth to be reliable. :) So all we have left is curiosity... -- Jesse Guardiani Programmer/Sys Admin [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Occasional hard freezes
Ryan Steffes wrote: I thought I had finally gotten this fixed with the kernel option nolapic, but it happened to me again. I am experiencing hard lock ups that seem to be related to high data throughput, but aren't consistent enough for me to track down. When it freezes, only hitting the reset or power button fixes it. I have an MSI K7N2 Delta 2 motherboard with an AMD Barton 2500+ in it. It has a nforce northbridge. I am passing the kernel acpi=no noapic nolapic. I'm running 2.6.11-6mdk. I have one PVR 150. I have two hard drives, running LVM to make one video share. I'm running ivtv 0.3.9 What happens is a hard lock up. It generally happens when I'm exercising the ethernet hard. This exact same thing was happening to me too with my KT6 Delta. [snip] Can anyone give any advice on where to go from here? Sure. The problem is almost certainly to do with interrupt sharing. In my case it was a problem with the ACPI steering assigning too many devices the same IRQ. I ended up fixing it by disabling unnecessary onboard hardware (eg I don't need 8 USB controllers or onboard sound), using acpi=off (is that different to your acpi=no ?) and re-positioning the cards in the PCI slots. I would check your motherboard's manual since some slots will share an interrupt whatever you do. You can also assign specific slots a specific IRQ in the BIOS. I've also heard that using SBLive cards can cause these sorts of issues - and that's exactly what I am using. If I remove it and turn on ACPI again it all works with no problems, but I need its SPDIF out. Ho hum. Good luck. J ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] Failed to bindport 6543
Yes Its running but on startup of the mythbackend it fails to bind with port6543. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Phil Bridges Sent: Friday, October 28, 2005 11:05 AM To: Discussion about mythtv Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Failed to bindport 6543 On 10/28/05, Folashade Adeyosoye [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I have just ran into a problem am not familiar with, when a channel was mistakenly entered (via keyboard and hit enter) the screen froze up and was not able to watch Live TV anymore, Everything has worked before then (about a month old) And now it says I have no recordings, Cant watch live TV Its extremely slow from the front end Am able to view the schedules (so I know my Database is up and running) I stopped and restarted the backend and the message I got from it was QServerSocket: failed to bind or listen to the socket: Failed to bind to port: 6543 Even thou I did restart the whole box. Any suggestions? Is MythBackend running? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Development update
On Fri, 2005-10-28 at 11:09 -0400, Jesse Guardiani wrote: I think the problem that many of us have with trying SVN is that we only have one mythtv system, and while we'd love to try SVN, we have family that expect Myth to be reliable. :) So all we have left is curiosity... Dump your database, backup your old release (depending on the OS you're running and the distribution method, you could just keep RPMS, or use tar), upgrade to SVN, test and verify all functionality. If it breaks, blow away the DB, recreate, reload, and reload old release. Directions for dumping DB, dropping, recreating, and loading are here: http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-22.html#ss22.5 Certainly this isn't foolproof b/c you may test everything out, and it looks great, and then when a family member trys it, it breaks. :-) But at least it's a nice way to get a quick preview of features. -b ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Development update
On Friday 28 October 2005 11:09, Jesse Guardiani wrote: Is it still basically the same though? yes I've been reading bits and pieces about a new frontend daemon/frontend client architecture and other things like OpenGL UI rendering that seem to change Myth's core. theres development of a new OpenGL UI yes, but it is not active in SVN, its a compile time option to enable it. I haven't tried it, and there has not been much talk on the dev list about it. Are these changes in the next gen, or the next next gen? it all depends on what the dev's feel would be a 19 release. They might release a 18.2 with none of the more experimental stuff just to get some of the fixes and DVB/HDTV stuff in. Who knows?! (rhetorical) I think the problem that many of us have with trying SVN is that we only have one mythtv system, and while we'd love to try SVN, we have family that expect Myth to be reliable. :) So all we have left is curiosity... well, there's always gossamer, you can read through the dev list, and like I mentioned theres always the SVN commits. Steve ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Multi-card setup with only two cards allowed to record
Thanks guys for your help. I do appreciate it! Will Quoting Kevin Kuphal [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Joseph A. Caputo wrote: On Friday 28 October 2005 8:09, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I've been looking around and can't seem to find the info i'm looking for so maybe someone can help. I have a server setup with the mythtv backend and have 2 pvr-250 cards in it; I also have two separate frontend units each with a wintv-go card in them. What i want to do is to have recordings only occur on the two pvr-250 cards in the server, I want the two cards in the frontends to be used as a local tuner for that frontend only. Does that make sense? The reasoning behind this is because if the cards in the frontends start recording then the frontend becomes really slow and sometimes locks-up. So i only want the cards in the server to do the recording, and the cards in the frontends for tv viewing only for that specific frontend. Is this possible? Thanks in advance for any help you guys could offer! It sounds like the frontends are not beefy enough to handle software encoding even for recording, so LiveTV using the cards in the frontend is probably out of the question as well. As I'm thinking about it, another option would be to swap. Put the PVR-250s into the frontends where hardware encoding can happen and move the BTTV cards into the backend which may have the juice to do dual recordings (my athlon 2000 can do it). Kevin ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Looking to get a remote
On Thursday 27 October 2005 05:01, Jon Solomon wrote: Anyone have any suggestions about what kind of remote I should get for my new frontend? If you want to get a high-end remote, I suggest the Philips (or Marantz) Pronto which comes in various types. See : http://www.pronto.philips.com My setup for a Pronto ru890 can be seen here : http://members.home.nl/mphm.janssen/linuxvideo/software/pronto/pronto.html The advantage is that the buttons can be given their own icons and therefore each function can be recognized far more easier than with a conventional remote. Plus you have the advantage to automatically jump between menus, which is quite nice when you select a video from mythTV and xine/mplayer starts that automatically the main controls for that video player pop up. Check ebay for a second hand one and the price may even be acceptable (I found one for 75Euro). Regards, Marcel ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] What does make install actually do
On Thu, 27 Oct 2005 21:58:20 +1000, Phill Edwards wrote: I've noticed that make install puts the binaries into /usr/local/, whereas the rpm binaries are currently in /usr/local/bin, so am I correct in thinking that nothing would get overwritten and I manually move files or adjust the order of the path to enable the compiled versions? I think there's a file called settings.pro (from memory) which lets you override the target dir for install so you could use that to get make install to install to the current location. I don't know what the consequences of having simultaneous RPM and CVS installs, but it sounds like the sort of thing that could turn ugly. Better to use the --prefix=DIR setting in configure before 'make'ing the compile. Either run ./configure --help or open it in an editor to see all of the available switches and their defaults. 'prefix' is usually set to /usr/local which means that the binaries will end up in /usr/local/bin and the libs in /usr/local/lib etc. Using --prefix=/usr will move everything 'up' one level. If you install a new version into /usr and the old is in /usr/local then which one gets called would depend upon the ordering of your $PATH variable. Given the nature of linux, I suspect however, that each version, if called directly would run quite happily because each would look for its own libraries in its own path (ie: the old one would always look in /usr/local/lib while the new one would only look to /usr/lib) This would be fine until they start looking at the same database... and possibly using different schemas. Unless you wish to live dangerously, it would be best practice to rpm -e the original version before 'make install' of the new *if they are going into different places. If the same, then the new will over-write the old. Geoff R. Geoffrey Newbury [EMAIL PROTECTED] Barrister and Solicitor Telephone: 905-271-9600 Mississauga,Ontario, Canada Facsimile: 905-271-1638 ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] MythGame Xbox and wireless gamepads
I'm interested in getting a wireless gamepad for MythGame, but I also have an Xbox that I would also like to have a wireless gamepad for. Is it possible to get an Xbox wireless gamepad to work for MythGame using an Xbox to USB converter cable or vice versa? TIA byron ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Problem with mythfilldatabase and UK listings
Hi all, I am having a nightmare of a time configuring XMLTV for UK listings, so I really hope you can help. Firstly, this is my box: MythTV 0.18.1-5 in Ubuntu Breezy x86 on AMD64 XMLTV 0.5.40-1ubuntu1 I have a WinTV DVB card in there, although there is no arial hooked up and I am switching it for a PVR-350 when it arrives on Monday. The DVB card is not tuned in at all. So, this is what I do: 1. run mythtv-setup and clear my card and channel settings. In the video sources I use the United Kingdom (alternative) which uses tv_grab_uk_rt and I click Finish. At 50%, I flick to the terminal window and type 'all' to accept all channels. I then press esc to exit the setup program and run: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ mythfilldatabase It then gives me the following output: 2005-10-28 17:21:36.121 New DB connection, total: 1 2005-10-28 17:21:36.192 New DB connection, total: 2 - Start of XMLTV output - 2005-10-28 17:21:36.256 New DB connection, total: 3 All data is the copyright of the Radio Times website http://www.radiotimes.com and the use of this data is restricted to personal use only. HASH(0x8ba018c) RT id 1877 (B TV) not known in channel ids file RT id 1885 (Xtraview) not known in channel ids file RT id 1942 (B4U Music) not known in channel ids file RT id 1943 (Boro TV) not known in channel ids file RT id 1944 (Channel M) not known in channel ids file RT id 1953 (Discovery Home Health +1) not known in channel ids file RT id 1948 (Phoenix CNE) not known in channel ids file RT id 1949 (Racing UK) not known in channel ids file RT id 1950 (Stop Shop) not known in channel ids file RT id 1951 (TV Warehouse) not known in channel ids file RT id 1952 (Thane Direct) not known in channel ids file RT id 1955 (Teachers' TV (satellite/cable/DSL)) not known in channel ids file RT id 1956 (Teachers' TV (digital terrestrial)) not known in channel ids file RT id 1958 (Motors TV) not known in channel ids file RT id 1959 (More4) not known in channel ids file RT id 1961 (ITV4) not known in channel ids file RT id 1962 (Sky Mix/Sky Two) not known in channel ids file RT id 1963 (Sky Three) not known in channel ids file channel gmtv2.gmtv.co.uk (1863) not seen on site at /usr/bin/tv_grab_uk_rt line 203. channel news.eurosport.com (1742) not seen on site at /usr/bin/tv_grab_uk_rt line 203. channel traveldealsdirect.com (593) not seen on site at /usr/bin/tv_grab_uk_rt line 203. channel africanandcaribbean.tv (1875) not seen on site at /usr/bin/tv_grab_uk_rt line 203. channel cable.travelchannel.co.uk (285) not seen on site at /usr/bin/tv_grab_uk_rt line 203. channel motors.tv (1581) not seen on site at /usr/bin/tv_grab_uk_rt line 203. channel gmtv.co.uk (1801) not seen on site at /usr/bin/tv_grab_uk_rt line 203. HASH(0x8cfecc8) At this point it seems to have hung, so I press Ctrl-C and it then displays: -- End of XMLTV output -- Error in 327653:388: unexpected end of file Updating icons for sourceid: 1 2005-10-28 17:28:25.797 New DB connection, total: 4 Updated programs: 0 Unchanged programs: 0 Failed to fetch some program info I am now back at the prompt. What is wrong with this? My assumption was that there is a problem with gmtv.co.uk, but when I go to /usr/share/xmltv/tv_grab_uk_rt, edit channel_ids and comment out gmtv.co.uk it throws up a problem with taste.co.uk. Can anyone help me with this? Cheers, Jono ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] MythGame Xbox and wireless gamepads
On 10/28/05, byron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm interested in getting a wireless gamepad for MythGame, but I alsohave an Xbox that I would also like to have a wireless gamepad for.Isit possible to get an Xbox wireless gamepad to work for MythGame using an Xbox to USB converter cable or vice versa? Sure, you should be able to do that. You'll just have to use the xpad driver. Carl Fongheiser ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-350 sound loop into soundcard
Use a stereo RCA to headphone (1/8, is that the size?) cable, and then you can control the volume level using the Line-In input level. That's what worked on my SB Live 5.1 card. (I gave up on this after starting to use Xv on the PVR-350, but it did work). -- Joe --- James Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey I have an audio question - with all the hundreds of cables i have lying around here, I haven't found one yet that will take the PVR-350 TV out L/R RCA audio and allow me to feed them back into my sound card's 'Line In'. The cable that i thought for sure would work is a spare computer speaker cable for old stereo sound cards that just have L/R. its a small jack on one end that plugs into the speaker plug on the soundcard, with two RCA's on the other end to plug into the L/R speaker. I figured if it works to go 'out' it would also work to come back in?? I have a SB Audigy sound card, and in alsamixer, turned Line in up to max, Mic in (just in case) up to max , (and actually every other control there just to be sure) and i still don't get any sound coming out of my computer speakers. The only thing I can think of, is maybe the line is is mono and the stereo jack isn't making connections in the right place? I'm pretty sure its stereo though, so has anyone else had any luck feeding the sound from the 350 TV out back into their sound card? (i know that there's sound coming out, because i can plug the RCA jacks directly into the back of my TV and the sound works fine... but I'd really prefer the sound to go through the computer speakers so the volume can be controlled with myth (not to mention, my computer speakers blow the TV speakers away any day). Thanks, James -- James Grant Lightbox Technologies Inc. http://www.lightbox.org 613-294-3670 ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users __ Yahoo! FareChase: Search multiple travel sites in one click. http://farechase.yahoo.com ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] MythGame Xbox and wireless gamepads
Carl Fongheiser wrote: On 10/28/05, *byron* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm interested in getting a wireless gamepad for MythGame, but I also have an Xbox that I would also like to have a wireless gamepad for. Is it possible to get an Xbox wireless gamepad to work for MythGame using an Xbox to USB converter cable or vice versa? Sure, you should be able to do that. You'll just have to use the xpad driver. Carl Fongheiser ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users What about using a USB wireless gamepad on the Xbox? Might that be feasible? byron ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Development update
Andrew Close wrote: On 10/28/05, Jesse Guardiani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think the problem that many of us have with trying SVN is that we only have one mythtv system, and while we'd love to try SVN, we have family that expect Myth to be reliable. :) So all we have left is curiosity... i too am curious about the future of MythTv. but i know better than to ask about it. ;) it would be cool if there were updates from decisions made by the devs that were posted on occassion. I'd rather they spend their time writing code for Myth. That way, I'm pleasantly surprised when I see new functionality--as opposed to wondering why this vapor ware is never being completed. ;) Jesse, one thing you could try is looking at some of the newer distro releases. KnoppMyth R5A22 was recently released and includes MythTv from SVN. it is a fairly quick and easy install on newer hardware. if you're comfortable with tweaking Linux then i would say go ahead and install it on your production machine (do a little research first, and make backups ;) AFAICT, it's 0.18-fixes, which primarily only contains bug fixes and no new features. KnoppMyth experts, please feel free to correct me... but i would be hesitant to tell anyone that just 'uses' MythTv to upgrade their production system regardless of the distro being used. Right. Thank you, Jesse and Andrew for taking this approach. This is the right approach to take unless you're willing to invest considerable time in doing your homework both before /and/ after the upgrade. Anyone who decides to upgrade to SVN has the *responsibility* of keeping up with the -dev and -commits lists (which takes a good bit of time). Those who don't keep keep up with the lists/do their homework often cause a lot of developer time to be wasted.--especially now that Trac is in place. Very often, when something changes in SVN, a well-meaning user (wanting to help the project) who hasn't been keeping up with the changes will think he/she has identified a bug. So, instead of posting to the lists to verify that it's a bug, the user submits a ticket to Trac. Then a dev closes the ticket with a short message saying that it's invalid. Since the user hasn't been keeping up with the changes, he/she doesn't understand the short message, so the user reopens the ticket, forcing the developer to spend significantly more time writing up a longer, more detailed description of the changes that have been made (and that were described in the previous commits/messages to the dev list)--sometimes this keeps happening several times. All of this interaction has taken some of the time the developer could have been using to write more code and add more features. And, since it all occurred on the Trac server instead of the lists, other users were unable to contribute and lessen the burden on the devs. So, is it possible to make Trac refuse new tickets without a patch or a reference to a thread on the users or dev list? IMHO, that would be very beneficial for the devs. And, what's beneficial for the devs is beneficial for the users and their Myth boxes. ;) Mike ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Development update
Jesse Guardiani wrote: Steve Adeff wrote: On Thursday 27 October 2005 14:33, Bryan Halter wrote: Can someone give this list a quick update of new/improved features under development and an idea of how far out .19 is? I love MythTV and would love to see it continue to grow, that's why I'm curious about this next release. Also some idea of what LxM is up to would be nice too :) ... Lots of bug fixes, and some new ones, lots of feature updates for HDTV and DVB use. Is it still basically the same though? At this point, 0.19 seems to consist of some major improvements to the backend--many of which won't be directly visible to the user--and a few user-visible changes to both the backend and the frontend. I've been reading bits and pieces about a new frontend daemon/frontend client architecture mfd - Doesn't look like it will be in 0.19. It hasn't really made it onto the roadmap, yet. and other things like OpenGL UI rendering that seem to change Myth's core. MythUI is currently scheduled for 0.20 ( http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/12 ). Note, however, that may change, so don't expect it in that release (so that you're happy when it is). Originally, Isaac was planning to try to have it in 0.19, but he has since changed it to 0.20. But, it will be worth the wait. :) Mike ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Hauppauge PVR-250 - Silver Remote - KnoppMyth
When the Knoppmyth forum is back up tonight, check the Remotes sticky under Knoppmyth Gneral. I posted a config for this there. PM me there and I will send you a the lircrc file too if you want it. On 10/28/05, Tony Pisarek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi: Just started putting this together, and I noticed that there isn't a config file or this remote... Can anyone point me on the right direction to either acquire the config file, or tell me how to create one??? Thanks Tony ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] pass info for job queue status
I am working on a myth2ipod/portable script with some great help from a few others. I need some direction as to where to look for an example of providing progress information so that the backend status on mythweb and system info can display progress. After poring through scripts, I am stumped as to where to look for doing this. It would be great to send a percentage complete, or fps of the encoding process so the user can monitor this. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] (slightly OT) improving wireless connections
On Thu, 27 Oct 2005 10:15:23 -0500, Kevin Kuphal wrote: Nelson Tang wrote: So, my question is, is there a good way to improve my wireless signal? Any placement tips, antenna orientation, etc.? Any references online I can read? If it matters, the two stations are a Linksys WRT54G with a Sveasoft firmware (don't remember which version offhand) on the FE/BE and a Netgear WGT624v2. Get a range expander to rebroadcast your signal. Put it on the floor of the house between the backend and frontend. It wouldbe much cheaper to build a directional antenna to focus the transmissions in the right direction. Check out the wireless hardware links page at www.seattlewireless.net. Great discussions about antenna parameters and examples of how to build your own. To start with however, you should ensure that your existing antenna are oriented correctly. IIRC, the antennas which come with, for example, the Linksys router are intended to stand vertically so that they project omni-directionally *in a horizontal plane*. Maybe you will get a better signal just by putting both antenna horizontal. The cheapest upgrade is to built a parabolic reflector or corner reflector for the antenna on your wireless router. See the goodies at www.freeantennas.com and build your own with some cardboard or card stock and aluminum foil. The *only* critical dimension is getting the existing antenna in the correct place relative to the reflector. G. R. Geoffrey Newbury [EMAIL PROTECTED] Barrister and Solicitor Telephone: 905-271-9600 Mississauga,Ontario, Canada Facsimile: 905-271-1638 ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Occasional hard freezes
Ryan Steffes wrote:
On 10/28/05, Julian Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ryan Steffes wrote:
I thought I had finally gotten this fixed with the kernel option
nolapic, but it happened to me again. I am experiencing hard lock ups
that seem to be related to high data throughput, but aren't consistent
enough for me to track down. When it freezes, only hitting the reset
or power button fixes it.
I have an MSI K7N2 Delta 2 motherboard with an AMD Barton 2500+ in
it. It has a nforce northbridge. I am passing the kernel acpi=no
noapic nolapic. I'm running 2.6.11-6mdk. I have one PVR 150. I have
two hard drives, running LVM to make one video share. I'm running
ivtv 0.3.9
What happens is a hard lock up. It generally happens when I'm
exercising the ethernet hard.
This exact same thing was happening to me too with my KT6 Delta.
[snip]
Can anyone give any advice on where to go from here?
Sure. The problem is almost certainly to do with interrupt sharing. In
my case it was a problem with the ACPI steering assigning too many
devices the same IRQ. I ended up fixing it by disabling unnecessary
onboard hardware (eg I don't need 8 USB controllers or onboard sound),
using acpi=off (is that different to your acpi=no ?) and re-positioning
According to proc/interrupts, there shouldn't be a sharing problem. However,
I'm unsure if there is a difference between acpi=no and acpi=off. I'll try
off and see if I can pound away on the NIC and the hard drive and see what
happens.
vi /usr/src/linux-`uname -r`/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
/acpi
acpi= [HW,ACPI] Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
Format: { force | off | ht | strict }
force -- enable ACPI if default was off
off -- disable ACPI if default was on
noirq -- do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
ht -- run only enough ACPI to enable Hyper Threading
strict -- Be less tolerant of platforms that
are not
strictly ACPI specification compliant.
I think you were trying for acpi=noirq noapic nolapic. And, it
wouldn't hurt to throw in a pci=noacpi for good measure. Most of the
'net gets these parameters wrong, though, so I realize you saw someone
else recommend this...
Note, also, that acpi=off would give you the same IRQ-related results
as acpi=noirq (and disable the rest of ACPI, also).
Mike
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[mythtv-users] Why did my remote control quit working?
Hi all- My remote control with my PVR-150 was working great when I used the packaged install (mythtv-suite). Then I decided I wanted to tweak some of the plugin settings, so I decided to build from source. I have built from source and got basically everything working like it used to, but my remote control doesnt work with mythtv anymore. When I compiled, the ./configure script reported lirc support : yes I can still run my remote with irw, the messages are received correctly (lircd is running). I can also use the remote with irxevent piping the remote commands to mythtv. However, Id really prefer to get native remote control support in mythtv so I could use my existing lircrc file. I searched the archive with nothing pointing directly to my problem. Thoughts? Any log files I should post to help the members of this great community to figure out whats going on? Eric. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Why did my remote control quit working?
At 01:43 PM 10/28/2005, you wrote: Hi all- My remote control with my PVR-150 was working great when I used the packaged install (mythtv-suite). Then I decided I wanted to tweak some of the plugin settings, so I decided to build from source. I have built from source and got basically everything working like it used to, but my remote control doesn’t work with mythtv anymore. When I compiled, the ./configure script reported “lirc support : yes” I can still run my remote with irw, the messages are received correctly (lircd is running). I can also use the remote with irxevent piping the remote commands to mythtv. However, I’d really prefer to get native remote control support in mythtv so I could use my existing lircrc file. I searched the archive with nothing pointing directly to my problem. Thoughts? Any log files I should post to help the members of this great community to figure out what’s going on? Eric. There are some reports that ivtv causes the remote to stop working after a while. Does it come back for a short period if you reboot? On the ivtv list there was a patch which basically puts in an IR reset into the code. There are also patches to do the same with a once a minute cron job. This might not be your case where you say it works with irw. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Development update
Michael T. Dean wrote: Jesse Guardiani wrote: Steve Adeff wrote: On Thursday 27 October 2005 14:33, Bryan Halter wrote: Can someone give this list a quick update of new/improved features under development and an idea of how far out .19 is? I love MythTV and would love to see it continue to grow, that's why I'm curious about this next release. Also some idea of what LxM is up to would be nice too :) ... Lots of bug fixes, and some new ones, lots of feature updates for HDTV and DVB use. Is it still basically the same though? At this point, 0.19 seems to consist of some major improvements to the backend--many of which won't be directly visible to the user--and a few user-visible changes to both the backend and the frontend. I've been reading bits and pieces about a new frontend daemon/frontend client architecture mfd - Doesn't look like it will be in 0.19. It hasn't really made it onto the roadmap, yet. and other things like OpenGL UI rendering that seem to change Myth's core. MythUI is currently scheduled for 0.20 ( http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/12 ). Note, however, that may change, so don't expect it in that release (so that you're happy when it is). Originally, Isaac was planning to try to have it in 0.19, but he has since changed it to 0.20. But, it will be worth the wait. :) Hey, thanks for taking the time to reply. That's exactly the sort of summary I was hoping for. (not that I'm the OP, because I'm not, but you answer my questions quite well) -- Jesse Guardiani Programmer/Sys Admin [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Monitor CD/DVD with Fedora?
Has anyone managed to get fedora to play nice with Myth's monitor CD/DVD functionality? I've got myth setup up to do that, specifically for DVD's to bring up the menu. No matter what I try it doesn't seem to work though. I've edited /etc/fstab so that my dvd-rom shows up as: /dev/hdc/media/cdrom ufs,iso9660 exec,ro,noauto,user 0 0 That seems to work so that HAL (fstab-sync) doesn't re-write /etc/fstab. Myth just ignores it though. If I use anything besides /dev/hdc (say /dev/dvd, a symlink to /dev/hdc) fstab-sync removes all dvd-rom related entries and adds it's own again. Is there some specific device or mount point I need to have in fstab for Myth? How do I work around HAL to do that? Nobody? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] MythGame Xbox and wireless gamepads
On 10/28/05, byron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What about using a USB wireless gamepad on the Xbox?Might that befeasible? No reason it shouldn't work, if the right drivers are there. It won't work with XBox games, though. Carl Fongheiser ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Monitor CD/DVD with Fedora?
On 10/28/05, Matt Goebel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone managed to get fedora to play nice with Myth's monitor CD/DVDfunctionality?I've got myth setup up to do that, specifically for DVD's to bringup the menu.No matter what I try it doesn't seem to work though.I've edited /etc/fstab so that my dvd-rom shows up as:/dev/hdc/media/cdrom ufs,iso9660exec,ro,noauto,user 0 0That seems to work so that HAL (fstab-sync) doesn't re-write /etc/fstab.Myth justignores it though.If I use anything besides /dev/hdc (say /dev/dvd, a symlink to/dev/hdc) fstab-sync removes all dvd-rom related entries and adds it's own again. Is there some specific device or mount point I need to have in fstab for Myth?Howdo I work around HAL to do that? I've been messing around with this myself recently. Make sure that you select/enable Monitor CD/DVD in the the frontend; Setup - General, it's a few screens in. I was having the same issues with /etc/fstab being re-written by fstab-sync so I am using this entry: /dev/hdb /media/cdrom iso9660 pamconsole,exec,noauto,user 0 0 That is, I changed the fstype to iso9660 from auto per Jarod's advice, and I removed managed from the options as this seems to cause fstab-sync to leave the entry alone. This *mostly* works (the entry survives a reboot) except that every now and then I have to ssh into the box and $ umount /dev/hdb. I don't know why that is... I'll have one of two problems; either xine will exit very quickly after trying to play a DVD with a quick flash of an error message saying something to effect that the device can't be read. Or, after watching the DVD, I can't eject it from the drive. Unmounting the drive seems to always fix this, at least for a while. The strange thing is that sometimes I get an error message back saying the drive wasn't mounted to begin with, but it works fine after the failed umount anyway. Everything is sunshine and happiness for a while but eventually the problem comes back; I haven't figured out why. Anyway, this is just a heads-up in case you decide to use this entry in your system and you start to see similar things. I haven't spent much time trying to figure this out as I can work around it and other things have taken priority recently. My system is a dedicated FE/BE, FC3 setup using Jarod's guide, myth 18.1 from atrpms. HTH -- Brian. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] Why did my remote control quit working?
At 01:43 PM 10/28/2005, you wrote: Hi all- My remote control with my PVR-150 was working great when I used the packaged install (mythtv-suite). Then I decided I wanted to tweak some of the plugin settings, so I decided to build from source. I have built from source and got basically everything working like it used to, but my remote control doesnt work with mythtv anymore. When I compiled, the ./configure script reported lirc support : yes I can still run my remote with irw, the messages are received correctly (lircd is running). I can also use the remote with irxevent piping the remote commands to mythtv. However, Id really prefer to get native remote control support in mythtv so I could use my existing lircrc file. I searched the archive with nothing pointing directly to my problem. Thoughts? Any log files I should post to help the members of this great community to figure out whats going on? Eric. There are some reports that ivtv causes the remote to stop working after a while. Does it come back for a short period if you reboot? On the ivtv list there was a patch which basically puts in an IR reset into the code. There are also patches to do the same with a once a minute cron job. This might not be your case where you say it works with irw. That is an interesting idea, but a couple things: Concerning reboot: it makes no difference. The remote _always_ works with irw and irxevent, but _never_ in mythtv. I did compile ivtv from source whereas before I was using the pre-built binaries in the package install, so what you say is possible, but since it works with irw always, I wouldnt think the problem is with the driver. Other thoughts? TIA, Eric. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] Why did my remote control quit working?
At 02:40 PM 10/28/2005, you wrote: At 01:43 PM 10/28/2005, you wrote: Hi all- My remote control with my PVR-150 was working great when I used the packaged install (mythtv-suite). Then I decided I wanted to tweak some of the plugin settings, so I decided to build from source. I have built from source and got basically everything working like it used to, but my remote control doesnt work with mythtv anymore. When I compiled, the ./configure script reported lirc support : yes I can still run my remote with irw, the messages are received correctly (lircd is running). I can also use the remote with irxevent piping the remote commands to mythtv. However, Id really prefer to get native remote control support in mythtv so I could use my existing lircrc file. I searched the archive with nothing pointing directly to my problem. Thoughts? Any log files I should post to help the members of this great community to figure out whats going on? Eric. There are some reports that ivtv causes the remote to stop working after a while. Does it come back for a short period if you reboot? On the ivtv list there was a patch which basically puts in an IR reset into the code. There are also patches to do the same with a once a minute cron job. This might not be your case where you say it works with irw. That is an interesting idea, but a couple things: Concerning reboot: it makes no difference. The remote _always_ works with irw and irxevent, but _never_ in mythtv. I did compile ivtv from source whereas before I was using the pre-built binaries in the package install, so what you say is possible, but since it works with irw always, I wouldnÂ’t think the problem is with the driver. Other thoughts? TIA, Eric. Well, the lircrc file is what controls the functionality away from irw. Are you sure it didn't get corrupted/overwritten? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] pass info for job queue status
On 10/28/05, WiFi Fun [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am working on a myth2ipod/portable script with some great help froma few others. I need some direction as to where to look for an exampleof providing progress information so thatthe backend status onmythweb and system info can display progress. After poring through scripts, I am stumped as to where to look for doing this. It would begreat to send a percentage complete, or fps of the encoding process sothe user can monitor this. Some time again I made a few modifications to nuvexport to support updating of the status when running user jobs. I don't currently have access to those mods as the machine holding them is currently down so I can't really give many specifics at the moment. However, when you view the status of a job in mythweb and it shows percentage complete, FPS, etc what it is displaying to you is the value in the comment field of the jobqueue table in mysql. So any status information you want to pass to other apps should be inserted into mythconverg.jobqueue.comment for the job it pertains to. If the app you're writing is in C++ I believe you will find some methods to update this field in jobqueue.cpp (don't recall offhand where that file lives in the source tree). If your app isn't in C++ then you'll probably have to write your own methods to access the DB and update that field. Hope that helps, Brad Benson ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] Why did my remote control quit working?
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jim Reith Sent: Friday, October 28, 2005 1:51 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Discussion about mythtv Subject: RE: [mythtv-users] Why did my remote control quit working? At 02:40 PM 10/28/2005, you wrote: At 01:43 PM 10/28/2005, you wrote: Hi all- My remote control with my PVR-150 was working great when I used the packaged install (mythtv-suite). Then I decided I wanted to tweak some of the plugin settings, so I decided to build from source. I have built from source and got basically everything working like it used to, but my remote control doesnt work with mythtv anymore. When I compiled, the ./configure script reported lirc support : yes I can still run my remote with irw, the messages are received correctly (lircd is running). I can also use the remote with irxevent piping the remote commands to mythtv. However, Id really prefer to get native remote control support in mythtv so I could use my existing lircrc file. I searched the archive with nothing pointing directly to my problem. Thoughts? Any log files I should post to help the members of this great community to figure out whats going on? Eric. There are some reports that ivtv causes the remote to stop working after a while. Does it come back for a short period if you reboot? On the ivtv list there was a patch which basically puts in an IR reset into the code. There are also patches to do the same with a once a minute cron job. This might not be your case where you say it works with irw. That is an interesting idea, but a couple things: Concerning reboot: it makes no difference. The remote _always_ works with irw and irxevent, but _never_ in mythtv. I did compile ivtv from source whereas before I was using the pre-built binaries in the package install, so what you say is possible, but since it works with irw always, I wouldnt think the problem is with the driver. Other thoughts? TIA, Eric. Well, the lircrc file is what controls the functionality away from irw. Are you sure it didn't get corrupted/overwritten? Hi Jim, thanks for the reply again. I think my lircrc is in tact, see below: ~ ls -al .lir* lrwxrwxrwx 1 ebrandt ebrandt 28 Oct 12 22:52 .lircrc - /home/ebrandt/.mythtv/lircrc ~ ls -al .mythtv/lir* -rw-rw-r-- 1 ebrandt ebrandt 6310 Oct 21 09:17 .mythtv/lircrc ~ head -n30 .mythtv/lircrc # ~/.mythtv/lircrc # # MythTV native LIRC config file for # the new grey Hauppauge remote # # Modified from Jarod Wilson's which came from Jeff Campbell's # By Brad Templeton # Here we have the jump point commands. They only work if you have # defined function keys for these jump points. For me the most # common command is the menu of recordings, so I put that on videos # even though that's counter-intuitive begin prog = mythtv button = TV repeat = 3 config = F5 end begin prog = mythtv button = Videos repeat = 3 config = F2 end # Not yet defined Begin Any further thoughts? TIA, Eric. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Problem with mythfilldatabase and UK listings
Hi all, I am having a nightmare of a time configuring XMLTV for UK listings, so I really hope you can help. Firstly, this is my box: MythTV 0.18.1-5 in Ubuntu Breezy x86 on AMD64 XMLTV 0.5.40-1ubuntu1 I have a WinTV DVB card in there, although there is no arial hooked up and I am switching it for a PVR-350 when it arrives on Monday. The DVB card is not tuned in at all. So, this is what I do: 1. run mythtv-setup and clear my card and channel settings. In the video sources I use the United Kingdom (alternative) which uses tv_grab_uk_rt and I click Finish. At 50%, I flick to the terminal window and type 'all' to accept all channels. I then press esc to exit the setup program and run: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ mythfilldatabase It then gives me the following output: 2005-10-28 17:21:36.121 New DB connection, total: 1 2005-10-28 17:21:36.192 New DB connection, total: 2 - Start of XMLTV output - 2005-10-28 17:21:36.256 New DB connection, total: 3 All data is the copyright of the Radio Times website http://www.radiotimes.com and the use of this data is restricted to personal use only. HASH(0x8ba018c) RT id 1877 (B TV) not known in channel ids file RT id 1885 (Xtraview) not known in channel ids file RT id 1942 (B4U Music) not known in channel ids file RT id 1943 (Boro TV) not known in channel ids file RT id 1944 (Channel M) not known in channel ids file RT id 1953 (Discovery Home Health +1) not known in channel ids file RT id 1948 (Phoenix CNE) not known in channel ids file RT id 1949 (Racing UK) not known in channel ids file RT id 1950 (Stop Shop) not known in channel ids file RT id 1951 (TV Warehouse) not known in channel ids file RT id 1952 (Thane Direct) not known in channel ids file RT id 1955 (Teachers' TV (satellite/cable/DSL)) not known in channel ids file RT id 1956 (Teachers' TV (digital terrestrial)) not known in channel ids file RT id 1958 (Motors TV) not known in channel ids file RT id 1959 (More4) not known in channel ids file RT id 1961 (ITV4) not known in channel ids file RT id 1962 (Sky Mix/Sky Two) not known in channel ids file RT id 1963 (Sky Three) not known in channel ids file channel gmtv2.gmtv.co.uk (1863) not seen on site at /usr/bin/tv_grab_uk_rt line 203. channel news.eurosport.com (1742) not seen on site at /usr/bin/tv_grab_uk_rt line 203. channel traveldealsdirect.com (593) not seen on site at /usr/bin/tv_grab_uk_rt line 203. channel africanandcaribbean.tv (1875) not seen on site at /usr/bin/tv_grab_uk_rt line 203. channel cable.travelchannel.co.uk (285) not seen on site at /usr/bin/tv_grab_uk_rt line 203. channel motors.tv (1581) not seen on site at /usr/bin/tv_grab_uk_rt line 203. channel gmtv.co.uk (1801) not seen on site at /usr/bin/tv_grab_uk_rt line 203. HASH(0x8cfecc8) At this point it seems to have hung, so I press Ctrl-C and it then displays: -- End of XMLTV output -- Error in 327653:388: unexpected end of file Updating icons for sourceid: 1 2005-10-28 17:28:25.797 New DB connection, total: 4 Updated programs: 0 Unchanged programs: 0 Failed to fetch some program info I am now back at the prompt. What is wrong with this? My assumption was that there is a problem with gmtv.co.uk, but when I go to /usr/share/xmltv/tv_grab_uk_rt, edit channel_ids and comment out gmtv.co.uk it throws up a problem with taste.co.uk. Can anyone help me with this? Jono, If you selected ALL, you have many many channels defined in your database... Mythfill should work (I get the same errors - ignore them) but it will take a long time, I'm sure mine took a couple of hours last week on my new build... The best bet is to use MythWeb (the webserver plugin) and delete any channels you don't get/want, this will speed up the fill. Next time you run it it shouldn't take as long... Lee ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] Monitor CD/DVD with Fedora?
-Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Behalf Of Brian BoschSent: Saturday, 29 October 2005 4:24 AMTo: Discussion about mythtvSubject: Re: [mythtv-users] Monitor CD/DVD with Fedora? On 10/28/05, Matt Goebel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone managed to get fedora to play nice with Myth's monitor CD/DVDfunctionality?I've got myth setup up to do that, specifically for DVD's to bringup the menu.No matter what I try it doesn't seem to work though.I've edited /etc/fstab so that my dvd-rom shows up as:/dev/hdc/media/cdrom ufs,iso9660exec,ro,noauto,user 0 0That seems to work so that HAL (fstab-sync) doesn't re-write /etc/fstab.Myth justignores it though.[David Maher] I use chattr to make fstab immutable, that way it can't be overwritten by fstab-sync. chattr -V +i /etc/fstab To undo this if I need to edit fstab chattr -V -i /etc/fstab The -V is optional, it just diplays the results of your change so that you can see that it worked Cheers David Maher ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Monitor CD/DVD with Fedora?
Brian Bosch wrote: I was having the same issues with /etc/fstab being re-written by fstab-sync so I am using this entry: /dev/hdb /media/cdrom iso9660 pamconsole,exec,noauto,user 0 0 That is, I changed the fstype to iso9660 from auto per Jarod's advice, Which is good for CD's, but not for DVD's. and I removed managed from the options as this seems to cause fstab-sync to leave the entry alone. This *mostly* works (the entry survives a reboot) except that every now and then I have to ssh into the box and $ umount /dev/hdb. I don't know why that is... I'll have one of two problems; either xine will exit very quickly after trying to play a DVD with a quick flash of an error message saying something to effect that the device can't be read. Or, after watching the DVD, I can't eject it from the drive. DVD's are not iso9660, they're udf. I don't know why Jarod's guide suggests iso9660, but I'd guess he was suggesting that for a CD drive, not for a DVD drive used for both DVD's and CD's. Otherwise, it must be to work around some problem in FC4, in which case you can just ignore me... Mike ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Fwd: [mythtv-users] mac osx frontend and mysql
the only one that existed was my ~/.mythtv/mysql.txt and it was right, which is why it can now connect to mysql. but not the back end. it still tries to connect to backend on localhost. i tried deleting hte mysql.txt file and that works at getting me back to a point where i can resetup the mysql server info, but that doesn't help with the backend ip. it is like the frontend isn't respecting the data in mysql. although it does change my theme to the master settings. thanks for your time Paul On 10/28/05, Todd Houle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As Roald said, the mac will remember the ip address, even if you chaned the backend. His message below referes to the Mac in this case. The Mac cache's the backend's IP address and MySQL server in a folder called (dot)mythtv in your home. I tend to just delete that whole directory and run mythfrontend on the mac again, but you could just as easily edit the file... Todd On Oct 28, 2005, at 7:29 AM, Roald wrote: Check if the contents of these files are correct. If the file is missing, you wont need to create it. ~/.mythtv/mysql.txt /root/.mythtv/mysql.txt /.mythtv/mysql.txt -- Roald Martin Amundsen ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Frontend crashing with Text area set as scrolling, but no movement
Trying to play a recording, but the frontend is crashing out to the desktop with the above line in the frontend log. I've never had it before, and othe recordings play correctly? Does anyone have any ideas? Cheers, Nick ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] oh no! - update mysql
i accidently deleted my /video directory... I meant just /video/ music but oops. that's why I never got that sysadmin job... What tables to I need to modify in Mysql to empty things out? so i can start recording again? I just did recorded, but under upcoming recordings in mythtv, I still see T - Max Recordings. even though my media library says no recordings... thanks Todd ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] mac osx frontend and mysql
on my master server. mysql select * from settings where data = localhost; Empty set (0.04 sec) mysql select * from settings where data = 192.168.1.4; +-+-+--+ | value | data| hostname | +-+-+--+ | MasterServerIP | 192.168.1.4 | tvbox| | BackendServerIP | 192.168.1.4 | tvbox| +-+-+--+ 2 rows in set (0.00 sec) mysql ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] pass info for job queue status
This is not in C, but accessing the DB is no problem. The key then is how to find what job item I am. Looking at the jobqueue table it looks like we have the same chanid, start/end times used to identify the recorded program the job relates to. This should work. The field statustime; is this updated by the queue, or where I would stamp when I update the comment field. Maybe I should leave it alone, and only update the comment field. Looks pretty straight forward. Now. On 10/28/05, Brad Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/28/05, WiFi Fun [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am working on a myth2ipod/portable script with some great help from a few others. I need some direction as to where to look for an example of providing progress information so that the backend status on mythweb and system info can display progress. After poring through scripts, I am stumped as to where to look for doing this. It would be great to send a percentage complete, or fps of the encoding process so the user can monitor this. Some time again I made a few modifications to nuvexport to support updating of the status when running user jobs. I don't currently have access to those mods as the machine holding them is currently down so I can't really give many specifics at the moment. However, when you view the status of a job in mythweb and it shows percentage complete, FPS, etc what it is displaying to you is the value in the comment field of the jobqueue table in mysql. So any status information you want to pass to other apps should be inserted into mythconverg.jobqueue.comment for the job it pertains to. If the app you're writing is in C++ I believe you will find some methods to update this field in jobqueue.cpp (don't recall offhand where that file lives in the source tree). If your app isn't in C++ then you'll probably have to write your own methods to access the DB and update that field. Hope that helps, Brad Benson ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] oh no! - update mysql
Todd Houle wrote: i accidently deleted my /video directory... I meant just /video/music but oops. that's why I never got that sysadmin job... There was a time in the '90s in Silicon Valley where this would show that you knew of rm -rf making you a leading candidate for a 50-100k job ;-). What tables to I need to modify in Mysql to empty things out? so i can start recording again? I just did recorded, but under upcoming recordings in mythtv, I still see T - Max Recordings. even though my media library says no recordings... First, backup your database before making any manual changes: http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-22.html#ss22.5 Do I need to explain why you may want to do this =)? The information about your recordings is in the recorded table. First, grab a list of the missing shows and episodes: $ mysql -u mythtv -pmythtv mythconverg mysql select title,subtitle from recorded where hostname='yourhost' order by title; Cut'n'paste this into a file that you can look at later. If you have slaves with local disks, you do not want to remove the entries for those recording that you still have. You can remove just the recordings for the host where the recordings are missing with: $ mysql -u mythtv -pmythtv mythconverg mysql delete from recorded where hostname=yourhost; If, however, you have just the one backend, you can: mysql truncate table recorded; mysql truncate table recordedmarkup; mysql truncate table recordedprogram; mysql truncate table recordedcredits; mysql truncate table recordedrating; [Don't bother with these other tables if you still have recordings on other hosts. It's to much trouble to pluck out the right stuff and a little cruft won't hurt you.] This will fix the too many recordings problem and clean up the Watch Recordings page. Next, if you want to try to re-record the things that were deleted, go to the Previously Recorded page and view it sorted by title. Look at the list of titles and subtitles you made earlier and find them on this page. For each one you find, press Enter and click Remove this episode from the list. This will allow it to re-record if it is shown again. Hope this helps. -- bjm ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] transcoding to VLC
I was wondering if there's any sort of mechanism in which mythtv could transcode video to VLC so it can be broadcast? Since VLC has a broadcast mechanism, is it possible to somehow integrate it with mythtv ? Ricardo ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] 2 DTV questions
1) Is anyone got something that will let me see the PPV listings? I know there used to be a script, but it never worked for me and I'm pretty sure that I've seen here that its no longer maintained. 2) Far more importantly to me, every once in a while my D10-200 locks up. This means that channels won't change, no picture is displayed, etc. I can't even turn it off using the power button. I have to actually unplug it from the wall and wait 30 seconds. This doesn't happen very often, maybe twice in the last six or nine months, but when it happens I start looking for a problem with my normally very reliable Myth setup instead of the STB where I should be looking. Am I alone in this or have others had this trouble too? -- Mickey Chandler Chief Operating Whizard Whizardries, Inc.: http://www.whizardries.com Our new site: http://www.my-debt-reduction-plan.com/ ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] transcoding to VLC
Ricardo Kleemann wrote: I was wondering if there's any sort of mechanism in which mythtv could transcode video to VLC so it can be broadcast? Since VLC has a broadcast mechanism, is it possible to somehow integrate it with mythtv ? mythstreamtv Mike ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] What does make install actually do
On 28/10/05, R. Geoffrey Newbury [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 27 Oct 2005 21:58:20 +1000, Phill Edwards wrote: I've noticed that make install puts the binaries into /usr/local/, whereas the rpm binaries are currently in /usr/local/bin, so am I correct in thinking that nothing would get overwritten and I manually move files or adjust the order of the path to enable the compiled versions? I think there's a file called settings.pro (from memory) which lets you override the target dir for install so you could use that to get make install to install to the current location. I don't know what the consequences of having simultaneous RPM and CVS installs, but it sounds like the sort of thing that could turn ugly. Better to use the --prefix=DIR setting in configure before 'make'ing the compile. Either run ./configure --help or open it in an editor to see all of the available switches and their defaults. 'prefix' is usually set to /usr/local which means that the binaries will end up in /usr/local/bin and the libs in /usr/local/lib etc. Using --prefix=/usr will move everything 'up' one level. If you install a new version into /usr and the old is in /usr/local then which one gets called would depend upon the ordering of your $PATH variable. Given the nature of linux, I suspect however, that each version, if called directly would run quite happily because each would look for its own libraries in its own path (ie: the old one would always look in /usr/local/lib while the new one would only look to /usr/lib) This would be fine until they start looking at the same database... and possibly using different schemas. Unless you wish to live dangerously, it would be best practice to rpm -e the original version before 'make install' of the new *if they are going into different places. If the same, then the new will over-write the old. Well thanks for all the advice. You've convinced me that I should delete the rpms, so it's off to start doing some serious backing-up!. Thanks again, D ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] OpenGL ATI Radeon MythMusic MythGallery Problem
On 10/25/05, Sammo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/24/05, Lee Koloszyc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am also using the proprietary driver, version 8.18.6 and running Gentoo 2.6.13. It is also 64 bit. Can you send me your fglrxinfo output? This is my glxinfo, which appears to show that I have OpenGL installed: name of display: :0.0 display: :0 screen: 0 direct rendering: Yes server glx vendor string: SGI server glx version string: 1.2 server glx extensions: GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_EXT_import_context client glx vendor string: ATI client glx version string: 1.3 client glx extensions: GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_EXT_import_context, GLX_ARB_get_proc_address, GLX_ARB_multisample, GLX_ATI_pixel_format_float, GLX_ATI_render_texture GLX extensions: GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_EXT_import_context OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc. OpenGL renderer string: RADEON 9550 Generic OpenGL version string: 1.3.5395 (X4.3.0-8.18.6) OpenGL extensions: GL_ARB_multitexture, GL_EXT_texture_env_add, GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array, GL_S3_s3tc, GL_ARB_depth_texture, GL_ARB_fragment_program, GL_ARB_fragment_program_shadow, GL_ARB_fragment_shader, GL_ARB_multisample, GL_ARB_occlusion_query, GL_ARB_point_parameters, GL_ARB_point_sprite, GL_ARB_shader_objects, GL_ARB_shading_language_100, GL_ARB_shadow, GL_ARB_shadow_ambient, GL_ARB_texture_border_clamp, GL_ARB_texture_compression, GL_ARB_texture_cube_map, GL_ARB_texture_env_add, GL_ARB_texture_env_combine, GL_ARB_texture_env_crossbar, GL_ARB_texture_env_dot3, GL_ARB_texture_mirrored_repeat, GL_ARB_transpose_matrix, GL_ARB_vertex_blend, GL_ARB_vertex_buffer_object, GL_ARB_vertex_program, GL_ARB_vertex_shader, GL_ARB_window_pos, GL_ARB_draw_buffers, GL_ATI_draw_buffers, GL_ATI_element_array, GL_ATI_envmap_bumpmap, GL_ATI_fragment_shader, GL_ATI_map_object_buffer, GL_ATI_separate_stencil, GL_ATI_texture_env_combine3, GL_ATI_texture_float, GL_ATI_texture_mirror_once, GL_ATI_vertex_array_object, GL_ATI_vertex_attrib_array_object, GL_ATI_vertex_streams, GL_ATIX_texture_env_combine3, GL_ATIX_texture_env_route, GL_ATIX_vertex_shader_output_point_size, GL_EXT_abgr, GL_EXT_bgra, GL_EXT_blend_color, GL_EXT_blend_func_separate, GL_EXT_blend_minmax, GL_EXT_blend_subtract, GL_EXT_clip_volume_hint, GL_EXT_draw_range_elements, GL_EXT_fog_coord, GL_EXT_framebuffer_object, GL_EXT_multi_draw_arrays, GL_EXT_packed_pixels, GL_EXT_point_parameters, GL_EXT_rescale_normal, GL_EXT_secondary_color, GL_EXT_separate_specular_color, GL_EXT_shadow_funcs, GL_EXT_stencil_wrap, GL_EXT_texgen_reflection, GL_EXT_texture3D, GL_EXT_texture_compression_s3tc, GL_EXT_texture_cube_map, GL_EXT_texture_edge_clamp, GL_EXT_texture_env_combine, GL_EXT_texture_env_dot3, GL_EXT_texture_filter_anisotropic, GL_EXT_texture_lod_bias, GL_EXT_texture_mirror_clamp, GL_EXT_texture_object, GL_EXT_texture_rectangle, GL_EXT_vertex_array, GL_EXT_vertex_shader, GL_HP_occlusion_test, GL_NV_blend_square, GL_NV_occlusion_query, GL_NV_texgen_reflection, GL_SGI_color_matrix, GL_SGIS_generate_mipmap, GL_SGIS_texture_border_clamp, GL_SGIS_texture_edge_clamp, GL_SGIS_texture_lod, GL_SUN_multi_draw_arrays glu version: 1.3 glu extensions: GLU_EXT_nurbs_tessellator, GLU_EXT_object_space_tess visual x bf lv rg d st colorbuffer ax dp st accumbuffer ms cav id dep cl sp sz l ci b ro r g b a bf th cl r g b a ns b eat -- 0x23 24 tc 0 24 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 16 16 16 16 1 0 None 0x24 24 tc 0 24 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 16 16 16 16 1 0 None 0x25 24 tc 0 24 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 16 16 16 16 1 0 None 0x26 24 tc 0 24 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 16 16 16 16 1 0 None 0x27 24 tc 0 24 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 0 0 0 0 1 0 None 0x28 24 tc 0 24 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 0 0 0 0 1 0 None 0x29 24 tc 0 24 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 None 0x2a 24 tc 0 24 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 None 0x2b 24 dc 0 24 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 16 16 16 16 1 0 None 0x2c 24 dc 0 24 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 16 16 16 16 1 0 None 0x2d 24 dc 0 24 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 16 16 16 16 1 0 None 0x2e 24 dc 0 24 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 16 16 16 16 1 0 None 0x2f 24 dc 0 24 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 0 0 0 0 1 0 None 0x30 24 dc 0 24 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 0 0 0 0 1 0 None 0x31 24 dc 0 24 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 None 0x32 24 dc 0 24 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 None ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Hardware Woes
I recently upgraded my motherboard and processor from a p4 1.6 to a p4 3.0 and asus p4r800-v deluxe. It seems that hdtv stutters more than it did on the 1.6. I was able to watch it on the 1.6 without stutter unless I fast forwarded it. Should I upgrade the kernel to an SNMP version? I used Jarods Guide to originally install mythtv. I am currently running 2.6.11-1.14_FC3, 512mb ram p4 3.0ghz,pchdtv3000,pvr250, fx5200, and 120gig hd. Any suggestions are greatly appriciated. -Gregg ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Jittery Audio/video
Hello List, I've gone through a hundred messages from list archives, looked at I can't remember how many how-tos, searched the Gentoo and EPIA forums and wikis, and tried everything I can think of, but I can't get LiveTV and recording playback to play normally. The Audio stutters, and the video jitters when it tries to sync with the audio. I tried turning on extra audio buffers, but no soap. When I use MythVideo to playback mpg videos I made earlier, they play just fine. If I drop out of MythTV and play the Myth recordings in Mplayer, they play beautifully too. Why the difference? Shouldn't the problem exist everywhere? A little background. Myth frontend and backend are on the same machine, a VIA EPIA M1, which provides the audio and video. TV is from a PVR-350. I am running Gentoo Linux V2.6.12-r10, with the Xorg drm modules. Mplayer has the XvMC patch. I run ivtv from fb. There are no errors I can find in dmesg, or the Xorg logs. Everything else in Mythtv looks and runs beautifully. Has anyone else with this hardware had and solved this problem? Can anyone help? -- Here is a sample mythfrontend log - 2005-10-27 10:42:39.604 prebuffer wait timed out.. 2005-10-27 10:42:39.604 waiting for prebuffer... 2005-10-27 10:42:39.617 _AddSamples bytes=4608, used=19457, free=492543, timecode=5377 2005-10-27 10:42:39.622 _AddSamples bytes=4608, used=24065, free=487935, timecode=5401 2005-10-27 10:42:39.624 write-15 53 QUERY_RECORDER 1[]:[]REQUEST_BLOCK_RI... 2005-10-27 10:42:39.635 Read(): reqd=128000, rcvd=128000, rept=128000, error=0 2005-10-27 10:42:39.671 _AddSamples bytes=4608, used=28673, free=483327, timecode=5425 2005-10-27 10:42:39.712 _AddSamples bytes=4608, used=33281, free=478719, timecode=5449 2005-10-27 10:42:39.739 prebuffer wait timed out.. 2005-10-27 10:42:39.739 waiting for prebuffer... 2005-10-27 10:42:39.762 _AddSamples bytes=4608, used=37889, free=474111, timecode=5473 2005-10-27 10:42:39.767 _AddSamples bytes=4608, used=42497, free=469503, timecode=5497 2005-10-27 10:42:39.812 _AddSamples bytes=4608, used=47105, free=464895, timecode=5521 2005-10-27 10:42:39.856 _AddSamples bytes=4608, used=51713, free=460287, timecode=5545 2005-10-27 10:42:39.861 _AddSamples bytes=4608, used=56321, free=455679, timecode=5569 2005-10-27 10:42:39.874 prebuffer wait timed out.. 2005-10-27 10:42:39.874 waiting for prebuffer... 2005-10-27 10:42:39.915 _AddSamples bytes=4608, used=60929, free=451071, timecode=5593 2005-10-27 10:42:39.968 write-15 53 QUERY_RECORDER 1[]:[]REQUEST_BLOCK_RI... 2005-10-27 10:42:39.970 _AddSamples bytes=4608, used=65537, free=446463, timecode=5617 2005-10-27 10:42:39.980 Read(): reqd=128000, rcvd=128000, rept=128000, error=0 2005-10-27 10:42:40.009 prebuffer wait timed out.. 2005-10-27 10:42:40.009 waiting for prebuffer... 2005-10-27 10:42:40.024 _AddSamples bytes=4608, used=70145, free=441855, timecode=5641 2005-10-27 10:42:40.030 _AddSamples bytes=4608, used=74753, free=437247, timecode=5665 2005-10-27 10:42:40.038 OutputAudioLoop: Play Event 2005-10-27 10:42:40.039 Broadcasting free space avail 2005-10-27 10:42:40.040 Broadcasting free space avail 2005-10-27 10:42:40.040 Broadcasting free space avail 2005-10-27 10:42:40.041 Broadcasting free space avail 2005-10-27 10:42:40.041 audio waiting for space on soundcard: have 256 need 4096 2005-10-27 10:42:40.048 audio waiting for space on soundcard: have 1536 need 4096 2005-10-27 10:42:40.055 audio waiting for space on soundcard: have 2880 need 4096 2005-10-27 10:42:40.062 Broadcasting free space avail 2005-10-27 10:42:40.062 audio waiting for space on soundcard: have 224 need 4096 2005-10-27 10:42:40.069 audio waiting for space on soundcard: have 1632 need 4096 2005-10-27 10:42:40.077 audio waiting for space on soundcard: have 3008 need 4096 2005-10-27 10:42:40.084 Broadcasting free space avail 2005-10-27 10:42:40.084 audio waiting for space on soundcard: have 352 need 4096 2005-10-27 10:42:40.091 audio waiting for space on soundcard: have 1600 need 4096 2005-10-27 10:42:40.098 audio waiting for space on soundcard: have 2944 need 4096 2005-10-27 10:42:40.105 Broadcasting free space avail This is what my modules look like: - Module Size Used by via37792 1 drm67704 2 via ivtv_fb39132 0 tda988712728 0 tuner 26760 0 ivtv 217236 3 ivtv_fb saa712712348 0 saa711514296 0 msp340025672 0 via_ircc 23316 0 via_agp 7648 1 agpgart29608 2 drm,via_agp snd_pcm_oss48128 0 snd_mixer_oss 17152 1 snd_pcm_oss snd_seq_oss32384 0
Re: [mythtv-users] Monitor CD/DVD with Fedora?
On 10/28/05, Michael T. Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Brian Bosch wrote:I was having the same issues with /etc/fstab being re-written by fstab-syncso I am using this entry:/dev/hdb /media/cdrom iso9660 pamconsole,exec,noauto,user 0 0 That is, I changed the fstype to iso9660 from auto per Jarod's advice,Which is good for CD's, but not for DVD's.and I removed managed from the options as this seems to cause fstab-sync to leave the entry alone. This *mostly* works (the entry survives a reboot)except that every now and then I have to ssh into the box and $ umount/dev/hdb. I don't know why that is... I'll have one of two problems; either xine will exit very quickly after trying to play a DVD with a quick flash ofan error message saying something to effect that the device can't be read.Or, after watching the DVD, I can't eject it from the drive. DVD's are not iso9660, they're udf.I don't know why Jarod's guidesuggests iso9660, but I'd guess he was suggesting that for a CD drive,not for a DVD drive used for both DVD's and CD's.Otherwise, it must be to work around some problem in FC4, in which case you can just ignore me... Huh, I don't know if Jarod was trying for some kind of work-around or not. I have been playing with this for a few minutes and am now to the point where Matt is; the monitoring doesn't seem to work and the menu doesn't appear. I'm out of time, though. I'll play around with this some more tomorrow. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] transcoding to VLC
That's pretty awesome... I'm guessing, though, that mythstreamtv requires decent horsepower for the live transcoding...? Ricardo - Original Message - From: Michael T. Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Discussion about mythtv mythtv-users@mythtv.org Sent: Friday, October 28, 2005 3:20 PM Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] transcoding to VLC Ricardo Kleemann wrote: I was wondering if there's any sort of mechanism in which mythtv could transcode video to VLC so it can be broadcast? Since VLC has a broadcast mechanism, is it possible to somehow integrate it with mythtv ? mythstreamtv Mike ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV Frontend doesn't show on the TV
On 28/10/05, Martin H Hartman III [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am running FC4 with a PVR-350. I can go into the MythTV frontend and click on Watch TV and that pipes out to the TV and I can do everything fine. My problem is that the MythTV Frontend doesn't show at all on the TV but on my PC monitor. Let me guess - the desktop also shows on your monitor? If this is the case, you need to make sure you are using the PVR-350 X driver to ensure everything appears on the TV. The way you are running now makes me think you are running everything on the monitor, but, having selected 'Use PVR-350' in frontend setup, LiveTV and recordings are being correctly routed through the PVR-350 to your TV. Nick ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Hardware Woes
Gregg wrote: I recently upgraded my motherboard and processor from a p4 1.6 to a p4 3.0 and asus p4r800-v deluxe. It seems that hdtv stutters more than it did on the 1.6. I was able to watch it on the 1.6 without stutter unless I fast forwarded it. Should I upgrade the kernel to an SNMP version? I used Jarods Guide to originally install mythtv. I am currently running 2.6.11-1.14_FC3, 512mb ram p4 3.0ghz,pchdtv3000,pvr250, fx5200, and 120gig hd. Any suggestions are greatly appriciated. -Gregg I can't offer much in the way of fixing the stuttering I'm afraid, but I can tell you not to try upgrading the kernel to an SNMP version. .. SNMP is Simple Network Management Protocol , I suspect you're thinking of SMP (Symmetric MultiProcessing ). To take advantage of an SMP kernel you'd need two CPU's (or possibly one of the 'new' dual core CPU's , tho I don't know if SMP would see the as seperate ). Please don't think I'm being 'funny' , just trying to save you the aggro of installing a new kernel and possibly spending a long time recompiling / reinstalling if you don't need to.. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] dd yourself to the mythtv users map!!
Following the idea from the AVS forum, I created Mythtv users map: http://www.frappr.com/mythtv Show off you Mythtv pride and add yourselv to the map. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV Frontend doesn't show on the TV
Nick, I found the problem and have fixed it, it was the frame buffer setting in my xorg.conf. I do have another question if anybody knows how? I would like to run Dual Heads without any aspect ratio or desktop showing issues on the TV. I have looked at most of the threads on the issue but most of them are quite dated. Anybody running dual heads in FC4 with a PVR-350 using the output on said card I would greatly appreciate your help. BTW my regular video card is an ATI 9600 XT. I am running FC4 with a PVR-350. I can go into the MythTV frontend and click on Watch TV and that pipes out to the TV and I can do everything fine. My problem is that the MythTV Frontend doesn't show at all on the TV but on my PC monitor. Let me guess - the desktop also shows on your monitor? If this is the case, you need to make sure you are using the PVR-350 X driver to ensure everything appears on the TV. The way you are running now makes me think you are running everything on the monitor, but, having selected 'Use PVR-350' in frontend setup, LiveTV and recordings are being correctly routed through the PVR-350 to your TV. Nick ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Problems with libmepg2
Joseph A. Caputo wrote: I abandoned using libmpeg2 some months ago because I determined it was causing my transcoded shows to be horribly jumpy and pixellated with spotty audio (though strangely enough, using it for LiveTV was just fine). I haven't tried it since then, so that issue may have been fixed. Just thought I'd provide a data point. Same here. Been using XvMC for a while. Just wondering if I'm the only one having libmpeg2 problems. :p ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Hardware Woes
The only obvious thing that comes to mind is to check that any hard drives that are involved in streaming are actually using dma. I.E. hdparm /dev/hda Beyond that, in no particular order... 1) Are you running a good video card driver? (Perhaps a binary driver from your hardware vendor?) 2) Is your kernel configured for preemption? Sometimes that can help, and occasionally, it can even hurt, but the second is mostly due to some other buggy driver. 3) There are options to use DRI(sp?) [Direct Rendering] and such for video cards. I've never been ambitious enough to get them working as I haven't had the need, but with hdtv you might have the need. I believe that also requires some kernel configuration. 4) Are program versions actually compiled with support for the P4? Things run a bit faster if programs use all the processors native instructions rather than say only those that would work on a generic 686. I tend to doubt this is the cause of your problem though. Good luck, -Robert On Fri, 2005-10-28 at 15:58 -0700, Gregg wrote: I recently upgraded my motherboard and processor from a p4 1.6 to a p4 3.0 and asus p4r800-v deluxe. It seems that hdtv stutters more than it did on the 1.6. I was able to watch it on the 1.6 without stutter unless I fast forwarded it. Should I upgrade the kernel to an SNMP version? I used Jarods Guide to originally install mythtv. I am currently running 2.6.11-1.14_FC3, 512mb ram p4 3.0ghz,pchdtv3000,pvr250, fx5200, and 120gig hd. Any suggestions are greatly appriciated. -Gregg ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Dumb question about guide
I just notices that when I'm watching live TV and I call up the schedule, one of the channels has asterisks on either side of the channel number. It's not the channel I'm watching. What's that all about? -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Window Managers - Success with ratpoison instead of kde
Hi all, I had been meaning to try this for ages, but was bored today so I thought I would risk WAF FAF I have a master backend/frontend running on FC3, I use my FC4 workstation as a frontend when the family insist on watching soap. ratpoison makes alot of sense as kde is such a beast. I also took the opportunity to change the way the frontend is spawned so that on the odd occasion it crashes, you don't need to get up off the lounge to control-alt-backspace the X I have gdm set to autologon after 5 seconds. The newest prebuilt rpm I could find was here: ftp://sunsite.auc.dk/projects/newrpms/www/htdocs/apt/redhat/en/i386/fc2/RPMS.newrpms/ratpoison-1.3.0-1.rhfc2.nr.i386.rpm this is a FC2 version that loaded on my FC3 without issue, and on my FC4 after installing compat-readline It is a super lean window manager that spawns in an insant. To get full screen xterm is as easy at typing Control-c Control-t c (that's three keystrokes) I would recommend it as it saves mucking around with disabling the kde sound server, modifying mouse focus etc.. Why waste memory on a window manager when it is not required On RedHat the switchdesk command creates .Xclients and .Xclients-default in your home directory to set for kde I created a .Xclients-ratpoison and called it from .Xclients , that will keep it safe from being overwritten with switchdesk Instead of having my startup commands in .kde/Autostart/myth-load.sh I have put them into the .Xclients script I also changed things around so that the window manager is spawned to the background and it is the presence of mythfrontend process that keeps the X session from dying. If the frontend exits, so does the X session My one line .Xclients file looks like this exec ./.Xclients-ratpoison My .Xclients-ratpoison looks like this #!/bin/bash /usr/bin/ratpoison # To get an xterm with Ratpoison, Control-c Control-t c # Load nVidia driver custom settings #nvidia-settings --load-config-only # Stop the Nvidia blue line problem xvattr -a XV_COLORKEY -v 66048 # Disable screensaver and blanking /usr/X11R6/bin/xset -dpms /usr/X11R6/bin/xset s off # Restore sound settings /usr/bin/amixer set Master,0 80%,80% unmute /usr/bin/amixer set PCM,0 80%,80% unmute /usr/bin/amixer set Line,0 80%,80% mute captur /usr/bin/amixer set Capture,0 80%,80% captur /usr/bin/aplay /usr/share/system-config-soundcard/sound-sample.wav # Make sure the DVD is umounted umount /media/cdrecorder # Launch myth frontend mythfrontend # We are here because mythfrontend crashed or was exited # After we drop out of here, X will terminate # We could stay in X and the window manager by changing exit to wait sleep 2 exit ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Window Managers - Success with ratpoison instead of kde
I don't get why people even use a WM (for a dedicated mythtv box)... I run mythtv perfect without any overhead from a windows manager... on x:tty7 (in my inittab) i have /home/mythtv/startup.sh which contains: /path/to/X sleep 8 /path/to/mythfrontend this has the added advantage, that if mythfrontend crashes (which it does from time to time) the script will exit, and inittab will recycle tty7 and start the script again, thus bringing the frontend right back up automagically. maybe not Linux Standards Base compliant, but works like a charm :) James On Saturday 29 October 2005 12:06 am, Support [ Ian Ward ] wrote: Hi all, I had been meaning to try this for ages, but was bored today so I thought I would risk WAF FAF I have a master backend/frontend running on FC3, I use my FC4 workstation as a frontend when the family insist on watching soap. ratpoison makes alot of sense as kde is such a beast. I also took the opportunity to change the way the frontend is spawned so that on the odd occasion it crashes, you don't need to get up off the lounge to control-alt-backspace the X I have gdm set to autologon after 5 seconds. The newest prebuilt rpm I could find was here: ftp://sunsite.auc.dk/projects/newrpms/www/htdocs/apt/redhat/en/i386/fc2/RPM S.newrpms/ratpoison-1.3.0-1.rhfc2.nr.i386.rpm this is a FC2 version that loaded on my FC3 without issue, and on my FC4 after installing compat-readline It is a super lean window manager that spawns in an insant. To get full screen xterm is as easy at typing Control-c Control-t c (that's three keystrokes) I would recommend it as it saves mucking around with disabling the kde sound server, modifying mouse focus etc.. Why waste memory on a window manager when it is not required On RedHat the switchdesk command creates .Xclients and .Xclients-default in your home directory to set for kde I created a .Xclients-ratpoison and called it from .Xclients , that will keep it safe from being overwritten with switchdesk Instead of having my startup commands in .kde/Autostart/myth-load.sh I have put them into the .Xclients script I also changed things around so that the window manager is spawned to the background and it is the presence of mythfrontend process that keeps the X session from dying. If the frontend exits, so does the X session My one line .Xclients file looks like this exec ./.Xclients-ratpoison My .Xclients-ratpoison looks like this #!/bin/bash /usr/bin/ratpoison # To get an xterm with Ratpoison, Control-c Control-t c # Load nVidia driver custom settings #nvidia-settings --load-config-only # Stop the Nvidia blue line problem xvattr -a XV_COLORKEY -v 66048 # Disable screensaver and blanking /usr/X11R6/bin/xset -dpms /usr/X11R6/bin/xset s off # Restore sound settings /usr/bin/amixer set Master,0 80%,80% unmute /usr/bin/amixer set PCM,0 80%,80% unmute /usr/bin/amixer set Line,0 80%,80% mute captur /usr/bin/amixer set Capture,0 80%,80% captur /usr/bin/aplay /usr/share/system-config-soundcard/sound-sample.wav # Make sure the DVD is umounted umount /media/cdrecorder # Launch myth frontend mythfrontend # We are here because mythfrontend crashed or was exited # After we drop out of here, X will terminate # We could stay in X and the window manager by changing exit to wait sleep 2 exit ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users -- James Grant Lightbox Technologies Inc. http://www.lightbox.org 613-294-3670 ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Front end memory usage
I am experimenting with a diskless setup based on Knoppmyth R5A16 After the frontend is done resizing things, memory usage of the mythfrontend process starts to increase from 18M (right after the resizing is done) to 107M of Resident memory (virtual is at 171M) Trying to run the weather plugin kills the frontend, as I only have 256M RAM and it runs out of memory. So, the question is, where is the frontend memory going? It seems that 107M of resident RAM just to display the main menu is quite excessive. Did I miss-configure my system? Thanks, Alberto ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Window Managers - Success with ratpoison instead of kde
I use a window manager on my MythTV machine (which is dedicated to MythTV) because external applications like xine won't get proper focus sometimes without a window manager. It's a pain to try to play a DVD in xine, and have it behind the MythTV UI. -- Joe --- James Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't get why people even use a WM (for a dedicated mythtv box)... I run mythtv perfect without any overhead from a windows manager... on x:tty7 (in my inittab) i have /home/mythtv/startup.sh which contains: /path/to/X sleep 8 /path/to/mythfrontend this has the added advantage, that if mythfrontend crashes (which it does from time to time) the script will exit, and inittab will recycle tty7 and start the script again, thus bringing the frontend right back up automagically. maybe not Linux Standards Base compliant, but works like a charm :) James On Saturday 29 October 2005 12:06 am, Support [ Ian Ward ] wrote: Hi all, I had been meaning to try this for ages, but was bored today so I thought I would risk WAF FAF I have a master backend/frontend running on FC3, I use my FC4 workstation as a frontend when the family insist on watching soap. ratpoison makes alot of sense as kde is such a beast. I also took the opportunity to change the way the frontend is spawned so that on the odd occasion it crashes, you don't need to get up off the lounge to control-alt-backspace the X I have gdm set to autologon after 5 seconds. The newest prebuilt rpm I could find was here: ftp://sunsite.auc.dk/projects/newrpms/www/htdocs/apt/redhat/en/i386/fc2/RPM S.newrpms/ratpoison-1.3.0-1.rhfc2.nr.i386.rpm this is a FC2 version that loaded on my FC3 without issue, and on my FC4 after installing compat-readline It is a super lean window manager that spawns in an insant. To get full screen xterm is as easy at typing Control-c Control-t c (that's three keystrokes) I would recommend it as it saves mucking around with disabling the kde sound server, modifying mouse focus etc.. Why waste memory on a window manager when it is not required On RedHat the switchdesk command creates .Xclients and .Xclients-default in your home directory to set for kde I created a .Xclients-ratpoison and called it from .Xclients , that will keep it safe from being overwritten with switchdesk Instead of having my startup commands in .kde/Autostart/myth-load.sh I have put them into the .Xclients script I also changed things around so that the window manager is spawned to the background and it is the presence of mythfrontend process that keeps the X session from dying. If the frontend exits, so does the X session My one line .Xclients file looks like this exec ./.Xclients-ratpoison My .Xclients-ratpoison looks like this #!/bin/bash /usr/bin/ratpoison # To get an xterm with Ratpoison, Control-c Control-t c # Load nVidia driver custom settings #nvidia-settings --load-config-only # Stop the Nvidia blue line problem xvattr -a XV_COLORKEY -v 66048 # Disable screensaver and blanking /usr/X11R6/bin/xset -dpms /usr/X11R6/bin/xset s off # Restore sound settings /usr/bin/amixer set Master,0 80%,80% unmute /usr/bin/amixer set PCM,0 80%,80% unmute /usr/bin/amixer set Line,0 80%,80% mute captur /usr/bin/amixer set Capture,0 80%,80% captur /usr/bin/aplay /usr/share/system-config-soundcard/sound-sample.wav # Make sure the DVD is umounted umount /media/cdrecorder # Launch myth frontend mythfrontend # We are here because mythfrontend crashed or was exited # After we drop out of here, X will terminate # We could stay in X and the window manager by changing exit to wait sleep 2 exit ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users -- James Grant Lightbox Technologies Inc. http://www.lightbox.org 613-294-3670 ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users __ Yahoo! FareChase: Search multiple travel sites in one click. http://farechase.yahoo.com ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
