Re: [mythtv-users] limits.conf for realtime priority

2006-01-22 Thread Doug Larrick
Marius Schrecker wrote: I guess this is a typo in the docs, and the comment in the file is correct. Can someone confirm this? As of PAM 0.79, the name was changed to rtprio. I've updated the example in the HOWTO. running pam 0.79-3 (at least I have: snip (obviously Debian or Debian-based

Re: [mythtv-users] Adventures in HDTV - Notes from the trenches

2005-12-19 Thread Doug Larrick
Matt Mossholder wrote: Here are a few links to other people experiencing the VBlank problem. Basically, if I have VBlank enabled, and play back video content with Xv, the system hangs. On further inspection it isn't limited to DVI...

Re: [mythtv-users] Nvidia 8174+OpenGLVSync = High CPU

2005-12-09 Thread Doug Larrick
Greg Estabrooks wrote: Just a friendly note of warning to all of the NVIDIA users out there who have upgraded to use version 8174 of the NVIDIA driver that you could be using a lot more CPU than with earlier driver versions. Did you try messing with the various sync-to-vblank settings in

Re: [mythtv-users] Myth on regular Debian

2005-12-02 Thread Doug Larrick
Marcus wrote: Can I run myth on a regular Debian sarge desktop, and just install via apt? Not currently. The Debian Developer who had been maintaining the MythTV packages (outside the repository) no longer has the time. Many thanks to Matt for his efforts over the years. There is an effort

Re: [mythtv-users] New mythtv theme

2005-11-28 Thread Doug Larrick
Justin Hornsby wrote: As for a wide version of this theme.. I've been trying to get it to work but I'm finding it hard going - especially w.r.t the aspect ratio of the watermarks title graphics. In 1280x720 (even if the background is the right size) they appear stretched horizontally by

Re: [mythtv-users] OTA HD Antennas??

2005-11-08 Thread Doug Larrick
A JM wrote: I'm looking for an OTA antenna to pick up HD content and would love some input on what everyone is using and how well it's working for them. My plan is to install the antenna in the attic and was hoping there was an amplified version available, most of my HD stations are within 20

Re: [mythtv-users] OTA HD Antennas??

2005-11-08 Thread Doug Larrick
A JM wrote: They are all UHF. Is that mounted in your Attic or outside? I mounted it outside. I have no attic to speak of. But I do have some trees in the way, which is probably roughly equivalent to having a roof in the way. -Doug signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [mythtv-users] SUID not working

2005-11-04 Thread Doug Larrick
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah - that's a workaround. I already saw that. But as a long-time UNIX admin, I can't see why the standard SUID bit wouldn't work. If nothing else turns up, I may try the rlimit / PAM approach. Because what MythTV is doing is technically not quite right (I can

Re: [mythtv-users] SUID not working

2005-11-03 Thread Doug Larrick
Louie Ilievski wrote: On Thursday 03 November 2005 06:20 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm running FC4, but disabled selinux on install. However, even when I make mythfrontend SUID root, and select realtime priority, it does not use it when it starts. The only way that realtime priority works

Re: [mythtv-users] Nvidia drivers and 1920x1080i?

2005-10-28 Thread Doug Larrick
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

Re: [mythtv-users] Just released Debian 0.18.1 packages uninstallable

2005-09-14 Thread Doug Larrick
Eyal Lebedinsky wrote: New packages just arrived off dijkstra.csh.rit.edu (look like 0.18.1-5) and they were kept back. Trying to install says: The following packages have unmet dependencies: libmyth-0.18.1: Depends: libasound2 ( 1.0.9) but 1.0.8-3 is to be installed

Re: [mythtv-users] Extra audio channel PBS-HD?

2005-09-08 Thread Doug Larrick
Fred Oliver wrote: While watching some PBS shows (Nova, Innovation) in HD, live or recorded, I hear a second narrator describing the images being displayed. (I assume that this is for the visually impaired.) How can I turn this second channel off? This is indeed descriptive service for

Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV refuses to run SUID

2005-08-07 Thread Doug Larrick
Brady wrote: On 8/4/05, Louie Ilievski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been trying to get MythTV to run SUID for a couple days now but it simply refuses to. The log always shows 2005-08-04 17:38:33.495 Realtime priority would require SUID as root. I've always had this working in the past,

Re: [mythtv-users] Network traffic causing pre-buffering pauses...

2005-07-11 Thread Doug Larrick
Mark Woodward wrote: I'm curious if any one has ever seen this too and if so how to fix it. I'm using mythtv 0.18 from CVS but this has been a problem for a while but I never really had a reason to look into it. Kernel is 2.6.8. When ever there is network traffic (i.e. file transfer to/from

Re: [mythtv-users] zero length recordings w/ pcHDTV

2005-07-11 Thread Doug Larrick
Tom McKearney wrote: I'm running pretty recent code and I still get issues with zero length recordings with my pcHDTV 3000 cards. I'm running the pcHDTV 1.6 drivers on kernel 2.6.5. I'm on SuSE 9.1 and I get no error messages that I can see. MythTV doesn't tell me anything until it

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: zero length record

2005-07-11 Thread Doug Larrick
Please don't CC me when you send to the list. Tom McKearney wrote: When I get signal quality issues, it's usually during bad weather and manifests itself as partial recordings, not zero length. I have gotten zero length on, for instance, 3 or 4 consecutive days' worth of Simpsons recordings

Re: [mythtv-users] Playback vid corruption with 1080i (with pics)

2005-06-23 Thread Doug Larrick
Glen Dragon wrote: I'm still seeing the problem that I reported a week or so ago. I took some pictures to show the effect. Hopefully someone knows something. Interestingly enough it is also causing the same effect on the OSD. Pics: http://www.jetcom.org/gallery/dragon-myth (There is some

Re: [mythtv-users] Playback vid corruption with 1080i (with pics)

2005-06-23 Thread Doug Larrick
Glen Dragon wrote: Hmm.. I am using kernel deinterlacing. Or at least thats what I specify in the menu. I don't have any other exotic filters or anything. I am playing at a 1x speed (normally) The display is outputing onto a lcd flat panel at 1680x1050, the native resolution of the display.

Re: [mythtv-users] OT: Help choosing an antenna for ATSC

2005-06-20 Thread Doug Larrick
Jason Weinstein wrote: So, if possible, I'd like to replace my antenna with an omnidirectional UHF-only one. Of the 5 stations I am trying to receive, 3 have transmitters that are located 1.7 miles from me at 208 degrees, and 2 have transmitters 8 miles from me at 17 degrees. There are some

Re: [mythtv-users] Tweaks to playback HDTV

2005-06-03 Thread Doug Larrick
Paul Leppert wrote: Doug, I've read several comments about realtime and selinux. When I installed FC3, I disabled selinux (per Jarod's instructions). Should that matter? Or is it just a factor of FC3 that prevents me from doing the chmod u+s mythfrontend solution? I really don't know; I

Re: [mythtv-users] problems with 6/1 CVS, can't FFWD/RWD, long time accessing tuner, some segfaulting

2005-06-02 Thread Doug Larrick
Sasha Z wrote: It prints out that it needs SUID in order to have realtime priority, even though it has SUID. I seem to remember this being a nuisance in the past, but I don't know the its current status. Is it giving me that message because it really can't change to realtime, or just as a

Re: [mythtv-users] Tweaks to playback HDTV

2005-06-02 Thread Doug Larrick
Paul Leppert wrote: Here are some HDTV Performance tweaks I posted about a month ago: Here is a correction and an addition to the realtime priority stuff: f) Real time scheduling of playback thread Need to do a couple of things to get this working: One of the following three is

[mythtv-users] Realtime priority and kernel RLimits patch

2005-05-20 Thread Doug Larrick
I am happy to report that, with kernel 2.6.12-rc4 and the proper version of PAM installed and configured, there is now a way for a normal user process to gain realtime scheduling w/o having to be SUID root. Mythfrontend's current realtime scheduling capabilities are able to use this new

Re: [mythtv-users] Video runs for 2-3 seconds then pauses until it gives up

2005-05-19 Thread Doug Larrick
Brandon Beattie wrote: I'm looking to see if anyone else has experienced this.. CVS of myth for about a week has been giving me problems (Or I changed some option and I can't find out what it was to revert.. -- I've tried *everything* I changed recently.. anyway)... I have a split

Re: [mythtv-users] 1920x1080 vs. 1920x1088 HDTV streams

2005-05-19 Thread Doug Larrick
Bernd Paysan wrote: The main difference is obvious when switching from ProSieben to HD1: 2005-05-19 22:41:44.184 AvFormatDecoder: Video has changed from 1920x1080 to 1920x1088. Apparently the 1920x1088 mode is decoded fine, while the 1920x1080 doesn't. Interesting that you have a

Re: [mythtv-users] Broadcast flag thrown out

2005-05-06 Thread Doug Larrick
Wendy Seltzer wrote: The DC Circuit has ruled in our favor, unanimously throwing out the FCC's broadcast flag -- the rule that would have prevented pcHDTV and Air2PC from making HDTV tuner cards in the US after July 1. Let me be among the first to say Woo hoo!, and congratulations and thanks

Re: [mythtv-users] P4 HyperThreading SMP Kernel and HDTV playback

2005-05-05 Thread Doug Larrick
Xiaotian Sun wrote: Hi, I have a P4 3.0E GHz CPU in the Pundit-R. It's running the latest 2.6.11 smp kernel from FC3. When I try to play HDTV, the CPU usage for mythfrontend is 97%. However the total CPU usage is only around 75%. The playback quanlity is really bad, even worse than my

Re: [mythtv-users] Aspect ratio (16:9 anamorphic)

2005-05-05 Thread Doug Larrick
There are two concepts at work here: 1. normal Myth themes are based on 4:3 aspect ratio. As you've seen the -wide themes are based on 16:9 aspect ratio 2. MythTV GUI (Qt toolkit, really) assumes square pixels. You could pre-stretch a theme's images in the opposite direction, but the text will

Re: [mythtv-users] Aspect ratio (16:9 anamorphic)

2005-05-05 Thread Doug Larrick
James Stembridge wrote: On 5/5/05, Doug Larrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There are two concepts at work here: 1. normal Myth themes are based on 4:3 aspect ratio. As you've seen the -wide themes are based on 16:9 aspect ratio 2. MythTV GUI (Qt toolkit, really) assumes square pixels. You could

Re: [mythtv-users] HD-3000: when scanning for channels, couldn't probe inputs...

2005-04-05 Thread Doug Larrick
Brian McCrary wrote: Hello, Like many others, I'm trying to get a HD-3000 card to work with MythTV. I'm using MythTV v0.17 (debian package), pcHDTV 2.0 drivers, 2.6.11.4 kernel, and Debian 3.1. When I go into mythtv-setup, I can setup the card as a DVB and the card type comes back as

Re: [mythtv-users] Picture moved off -- right in 1920 HD modes ???

2005-04-05 Thread Doug Larrick
Jonathan Watmough wrote: Hi The picture through my TV out is displayed off to the right with a black border on the left. This only happens on my TV at 800x600 or 640x480, when displaying 1920x1080 HD content. A monitor at 800x600 is fine, and regular HD 1280 content is fine. snip

Re: [mythtv-users] SUID Root

2005-03-26 Thread Doug Larrick
Mario L wrote: I have been trying to make mythfrontend run as SUID root, but can't seem to have much luck. I have already done chmod a+s /usr/local/bin/mythfrontend, but still when I launch, I get interruptions when the computer runs an apache request and I still see it using usleep in the term:

Re: [mythtv-users] Lite-On IR Keyboard and Learning Remotes

2005-03-21 Thread Doug Larrick
Sent this to Paul directly because he cc'd me and it went in both folders. PAUL WILLIAMSON wrote: Really? Do you hold the key down a long (1 sec) time, or does it matter? Are you doing this in the dark on a dark surface, or light surface in ambient light? This is awesome news, as I've

Re: [mythtv-users] Lite-On IR Keyboard and Learning Remotes

2005-03-21 Thread Doug Larrick
PAUL WILLIAMSON wrote: No, I'm using this one: SK-7551 [ vs. my http://www.digitalconnection.com/Products/keyboard/sk7100.asp ] http://www.censuspc.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PRODStore_Code=CProduct_Code=LITEON-7551B That may be the difference...$29 is not much to spend to see if it

Re: [mythtv-users] Anybody having X lockup problems with MX440 on 7167 nvidia drivers?

2005-03-17 Thread Doug Larrick
John Freer wrote: Hey All: Just curious if anybody is having weird lockup problems with MX440 hardware with the 7167 driver. I can confirm that Option RenderAccel false in my X config fixes the freeze for me. I did not try the two patches from the nvnews.net forum. -Doug

Re: [mythtv-users] use EIT in DVB

2005-03-17 Thread Doug Larrick
Rudy Zijlstra wrote: Then how do i get it to fill the program database? The EPG is still very empty, even after watching RTL for quit some time, and with 2 LNBs available on the same satelite. Also double check that you have UNchecked Open DVB card on demand (mythtv-setup, Capture card setup,

Re: [mythtv-users] HD-2000 DVB Driver(s)

2005-03-14 Thread Doug Larrick
John Freer wrote: Hey All: Can someone point me to some directions on how to set up the DVB driver for the HD-2000 card? I just went through this, though I'm not done with the MythTV part so it's possible I've missed something. Choose one of two routes: 1. Get the pcHDTV 2.0 driver set from

Re: [mythtv-users] new nvidia driver 1.0-7167

2005-03-11 Thread Doug Larrick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Aran Cox said: New nvidia drivers were released today. Unfortunately they don't mention fixing any bugs related to 1080i output over DVI, which is what I wanted them to fix. Still, the changes list is so small that surely they've fixed more than

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

2005-03-09 Thread Doug Larrick
John Patrick Poet wrote: If someone wanted to buy Doug an Asus Pundit, he *might* be willing to take the time to work on improving bobdeint for non nVidia cards, but he is unlikely to buy one for himself just for that purpose. I would not accept any hardware; I barely have time (recently: none at

Re: [mythtv-users] HDTV ringbuffer possibly causes missed 13 minutes of West Wing?

2005-03-09 Thread Doug Larrick
Jules Gosnell wrote: I guess I will just have to miss 15 mins a show until i see some sort of regular pattern - I will probably fiddle with setup options and see if they have any effect on these periods... Check for database error messages in your system logs, too... if the db is taking extra-long

Re: [mythtv-users] HDTV on 0.17 - only records half the show

2005-02-16 Thread Doug Larrick
Eric Werness wrote: After upgrading from 0.16 to 0.17, I can't record a full show in HDTV. I have a pcHDTV 2000 on kernel 2.4.27 If I watch live TV or make a short recording, the video is fine for a few seconds, then starts dropping out, even though the reception is fine (getatsc produces a

[mythtv-users] Negative ATSC signal strength

2005-02-16 Thread Doug Larrick
With the new-ish code that uses v4l2 to get the signal strength from a HD-3000 card, I am seeing negative signal strengths on my strongest stations (over 90 using dtvchannel). I suspect the 1.6 driver is (buggily) using a signed char to compute the signal strength at some point. I don't have

Re: [mythtv-users] mythweb over slow connections

2005-02-11 Thread Doug Larrick
Ryan wrote: I have a lot of listings set to show up in MythWeb. My upload speed is not that high and so the listing would take 30 seconds to load. Thus I have written a howto on setting up mod_gzip for apache 1.x. Using mod_gzip my load times are usually 6 seconds. The howto is located at

Re: [mythtv-users] Aspect Ratio problem

2005-01-30 Thread Doug Larrick
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yesterday I changed my old TNT2 for a Ti4200. Now, when I watch something it shows streched filling up the entire surface, and the W mode changes just behave totally crazy. It is like if myth doesn't see that the resolution is 16:9, it takes it as a 4:3. [snip]

Re: [mythtv-users] Aspect Ratio problem

2005-01-30 Thread Doug Larrick
Cory Papenfuss wrote: I'm assuming that most applications assume square pixels and a 4:3 screen (640x480, 1024x768, 1600x1200, etc), but they supposedly *could* check the DisplaySize attribute to find out for sure? Maybe I'll have to stop badmouthing the 1280x1024 resolution since it's not

Re: [mythtv-users] Bobdeint is only for playback?

2005-01-22 Thread Doug Larrick
Henk Poley wrote: Like I said Is it possible to edit my existing nuv files so Myth knows it's deinterlaced already (aka. no guesses)? I can't answer this question, but my guess is no. The heuristics you noticed in NuppelVideoPlayer are basically always used, AFAICT; if it's read from the stream,

Re: [mythtv-users] Bobdeint is only for playback?

2005-01-22 Thread Doug Larrick
Henk Poley wrote: Exactly what should be read from the stream that says this is already deinterlaced (or this is progressive scan if you like)? Sorry, I don't know. Anybody? You might try mplayer to see if it detects a difference, and if so, how it reads it. You might have to search online to

Re: [mythtv-users] nvidia geforce MX 4000 and blank/black screen

2005-01-19 Thread Doug Larrick
MacNean C. Tyrrell wrote: I get it installed and follow the steps, but get to the part where you install the nvidia drivers, and when X restarts it goes all black. Possibly a known bug in nVidia 6629 drivers. If so, downgrade to 6111 or wait for a new release. -Doug signature.asc

Re: [mythtv-users] nvidia geforce MX 4000 and blank/black screen

2005-01-19 Thread Doug Larrick
Frank smith wrote: Hi Yes I to have problems with the Fx5200 and 6629. Will this effect play back of Mythtv ? Does it need the GLX stuff? What are you asking? If you are having the problems described in the forums at nvnews.net, you will need to back off to 6111. The problem is severe

Re: [mythtv-users] From STB to hd-3000 [was Is pchdtv3000 worth it?]

2005-01-18 Thread Doug Larrick
Julian wrote: Hi, Is it possible to capture the HD stream coming from a set top box on its way to the tv? Maybe some rare cable to re-route the stream into the hd-3000 before resending it to the tv? This would enable unencrypted HD capture. To tune channels, just use an IR blaster or serial

Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV and Widescreen displays?

2005-01-18 Thread Doug Larrick
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I recently installed mythtv on my linux system (Source Mage Linux 0.9.3 if that matters), and I have a question - I have a standard cable tv card (4:3 aspect ratio) and a wide-screen monitor (1280x768 screen resolution). When I try to use my tv tuner with xawtv

Re: [mythtv-users] From STB to hd-3000 [was Is pchdtv3000 worth it?]

2005-01-18 Thread Doug Larrick
Julian wrote: Doug, Thanks for the response. Could you validate my thought process here? It seems that the HD-3000 has svideo in and the dct2000 (http://broadband.motorola.com/catalog/product_documents/DCT2000.pdf) has svideo out...would this not support the proper encoded video? Otherwise I

Re: [mythtv-users] Low-Def Widescreen - almost there

2005-01-12 Thread Doug Larrick
mike murphy wrote: -monitoraspect 16:9 to the mplayer command line MythTV (and TVtime, xine, and most others) honors the DisplaySize attribute in your X config file. This is discussed frequently on this list, most recently last week. -Doug signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [mythtv-users] Tearing and the mythical VBlank ioctl

2005-01-12 Thread Doug Larrick
William Uther wrote: I managed to get the nVidia drivers installed (2.6.10 kernel requires a patched nVidia driver, sigh). I then started up myth with the -v playback option and got: nVidiaVideoSync: VBlank ioctl did not work, unimplemented in this driver? WTF?!? The nVidiaVideoSync

Re: [mythtv-users] ATSC content heavy pixel-ating every 15 sec's

2005-01-11 Thread Doug Larrick
Just to verify... you're up to date with CVS, right? Pixellation every 15 seconds is a symptom of the bug John Poet found where the entire positionmap was being written to the database, rather than just updates. -Doug signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [mythtv-users] New Mac Mini

2005-01-11 Thread Doug Larrick
Steve Frank wrote: So, who wants one of these as a MythTV front end? I certainly wouldno TV-out, mind you, but otherwise a 2 X 6.5 X 6.5 box that's sleek, does Mac OSX Panther, is nearly silent, and 1.25Ghz @ $500... http://www.apple.com/macmini/specs.html Actually, there's an

Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV w/HD Sat or Cable? what hw to use? is the dolby preserved?

2005-01-11 Thread Doug Larrick
Michael Miyabara-McCaskey wrote: Has anyone gotten a MythTV box, running with an external tuner, pulling down HDTV signals from either Sat or Cable? If so, what are you using to pull the feed into the MythTV backend hardware wise? (i.e. how are you getting the Dolby Digital COAX or Optical +

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Suid root, but mythtv complains that it isn't.

2005-01-09 Thread Doug Larrick
Tom Hughes wrote: The problem appears to be that the kernel now implements setuid properly so that it changes the UID of the process rather than just the current thread so it isn't possible to have a privileged thread anymore. Basically the whole scheme only worked because threads on linux are

Re: [mythtv-users] can't load nvidia 6106 or 6111 modules, and 6629 fails (FC3, ATrpms)

2005-01-09 Thread Doug Larrick
Mike Jasper wrote: Hi, I have blown away my FC1 install and am starting fresh with FC3 using Jarod's guide. I am unable to install a working Nvidia module, though. I tried 6629 and the module was loaded successfully, but the system just hangs at the Nvidia splash screen on bootup. I then

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Tearing in playback

2005-01-07 Thread Doug Larrick
William Uther wrote: On 07/01/2005, at 9:51 PM, Tom Hughes wrote: [snip] If you're root then that seems odd. The only things I would have thought likely to do that are the permissions on /dev/rtc which should be irrelevant as root can open any file. The other thing would be the

Re: [mythtv-users] HDTV Success Stories?

2005-01-07 Thread Doug Larrick
Joe Barnhart wrote: --- Roy Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm going to be driving a 1080i native HDTV CRT with a VGA-Composite adaptor (no DVI or HDMI inputs on this model). I hear that an nvidia adapter can drive HD with less processor, but interlace dosn't work. nVidia 5200 FX is your best

Re: [mythtv-users] ESC doesn't work with MythWeather

2005-01-07 Thread Doug Larrick
john roberts wrote: I've built 3 MythTV boxes so far - on one of them I can hit ESC and get out of the MythWeather map. BUT - one TWO of the myth boxes ESC doesn't exit. Has anyone seen this? Yes... I often have to click the mouse button in MythWeather before ESC will work. I think it has to do

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Tearing in playback

2005-01-07 Thread Doug Larrick
William Uther wrote: Quick question: how does RTC sync work? RTC stands for Real Time Clock, right? I assume that the frequency has to be higher than the total number of horizontal lines in your X modeline. If myth then got a known sync signal at any point in the image display it could use that

Re: [mythtv-users] Aspect Ratio questions

2005-01-06 Thread Doug Larrick
James Pifer wrote: I have a separate frontend setup on FC2 and the display is a 17 flat panel. Everything is fine until I watch LiveTV or a Recording. Then the display looks like 16:9, but it's actually 4:3. I can scroll through using W and see the settings. Still 4:3 has a about 2 inches of black

Re: [mythtv-users] Aspect Ratio questions

2005-01-06 Thread Doug Larrick
James Pifer wrote: Looks like it does use xorg.conf. Problem is there isn't a DisplaySize parameter anywhere in the file. Searching with google I see some examples of display size, but how do I figure out what I should use for my monitor? With a ruler? :-) Seriously, go search the archives at

Re: [mythtv-users] More ATSC woes - Doug README - somestations nownotbeingreceived at all

2005-01-05 Thread Doug Larrick
john roberts wrote: Odd. Ok - I'll post the backend in verbose mode. I'm confused on the sub-chan definitions you're suggesting here. I was under the impression that a station such as: FOX45_H: :45.1 :46: 3:0 FOX45 : :45.2 :46: 4:0 Would be mapped as 45_1 - 46-3 45_2 - 46-4 Am I

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

2005-01-05 Thread Doug Larrick
Thomas Börkel wrote: HI! Using NVidia 6629 TV-out with XV for playback in mythfrontend, I get: - 1% CPU for mythfrontend - 40% CPU for X But total CPU is at 80%, causing prebuffering pause every now and then (and all the time, if I enable kernel deint in addition). Strange is, I can't see any

[mythtv-users] ATSC (HDTV) mandated PID changes

2005-01-05 Thread Doug Larrick
I saw this change mentioned over at avsforum, but tracked down the source to here: http://www.atsc.org/pid_changeinfo.html Basically, what it means to pcHDTV MythTV users is that your stations will likely all be renumbering their programs, if they have not done so already. The requirement is to

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

2005-01-05 Thread Doug Larrick
Thomas Börkel wrote: Thanks for this info! Is there another tool, that reports totals with 2.6.9? Not that I know of. -Doug signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org

Re: [mythtv-users] More ATSC woes - Doug README - somestationsnow notbeingreceived at all

2005-01-05 Thread Doug Larrick
john roberts wrote: Well - not good news to report. When something was marked to be recorded - the backend is freaking out and looping. This is with the patch applied: [snip] 2005-01-05 17:24:59.384 TuneTo(42-1) curList[i].freq(639250) [snip] 2005-01-05 17:25:00.808 VCT Terra 2005-01-05

Re: [mythtv-users] bad HDTV playback with new ffmpeg

2005-01-05 Thread Doug Larrick
My playback of this clip is definitely weird... playback speed seems to oscillate about 2 times a second. Deinterlacing or not doesn't seem to make much of a difference. -Doug signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ mythtv-users

Re: [mythtv-users] More ATSC woes - Doug README - some stations nownot beingreceived at all

2005-01-04 Thread Doug Larrick
Can you make a short (50 MB or so) capture from one of these misbehaving stations available somewhere? (captured with getatsc) The output from the backend run with '--verbose record' would also be helpful. -Doug signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [mythtv-users] More ATSC woes - Doug README - some stations nownotbeingreceived at all

2005-01-04 Thread Doug Larrick
john roberts wrote: Here is a 50M capture of some ATSC content from a MD FOX station. They map their sub-chan's like: FOX45_H: :45.1 :46: 3:0 FOX45 : :45.2 :46: 4:0 The getatsc file can be pulled from: ftp://66.160.21.146/pub/tmp/FOX45.atsc.gz Let me know if you need

Re: [mythtv-users] Stutter every 15 secs

2005-01-01 Thread Doug Larrick
john roberts wrote: I thought I had this figured out - but it is still doing it. This only seems to happen with playback of recorded shows. It's like clock work - you can set you watch by the fact EVERY 15 sec's it drops frames and causes stutter. Here is the verbose playback: You need to

Re: [mythtv-users] TV Playback distorted (multiple displays)

2004-12-31 Thread Doug Larrick
Dan Boger wrote: Used to be able to just run mythfrontend in a window, and everything would work. But I have just set up my machine to run X over two monitors, and now, when I start mythfrontend, the menus are still ok (in the 720x480 window), but when I start playback, there's wide bands of

Re: [mythtv-users] Can't attach LWP xxx operation not permitted.

2004-12-26 Thread Doug Larrick
Christian Hack wrote: Yep that was it it. Thanks. I did that a while back and had forgotten about it since it still seemed to use the RTC method for some reason. BTW, timer method (e.g. RTC) is orthogonal to realtime scheduling. -Doug signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [mythtv-users] Video/Deinterlacing/Sound problems (XvMC)

2004-12-22 Thread Doug Larrick
Brian Bartlow wrote: I've read through some messages and the only solution I've seen is to buy a faster processor and use Xv. Not much of a solution for me. I also tried removing the fade feature of the OSD, but that didn't work. So I'm wondering if this problem is fairly common, or is it

Re: [mythtv-users] pcHDTV.com defaced AGAIN

2004-12-22 Thread Doug Larrick
Geoff Scott wrote: As a postscript to this, a worm is hitting the phpBB forum software. It uses google to find targets. pcHDTV.com was vulnerable because google has them indexed (google search powered by phpBB site:pchdtv.com to see how the worm found them). The 13 means it's the 13th infection

Re: [mythtv-users] how do I get component-out?

2004-12-22 Thread Doug Larrick
sean darcy wrote: My first question is what do I need to get component video - which is what the tv needs for 1080i signals. I'd actually assumed the 3000 had component out - silly me. I assume there's some addin card that has this. Most people here use an nVidia graphics card and a

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR250 or HD3000?

2004-12-21 Thread Doug Larrick
Brad Templeton wrote: On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 03:56:36PM -0600, Michael J. Lynch wrote: Doug Larrick wrote: It sure would be nice if it combined a MPEG2 encoder for the NTSC stuff along with the ATSC tuner wouldn't it? Watch your attributions ... those are not my words, and in fact I personally

Re: [mythtv-users] Enlighten me about 1080 interlace

2004-12-21 Thread Doug Larrick
Joe Barnhart wrote: I thought I understood this interlace stuff but Myth is challenging my concept of interlace vs. non-interlace video. I have a TV capable of displaying 1920x1080 interlaced. It's a CRT based RPTV from Pioneer, if you care. I have watched terrestrial broadcasts on HDTV and it

Re: [mythtv-users] several Problems with MythTV/hd-2000

2004-12-21 Thread Doug Larrick
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have FINALLY seen a picture from my hd-2000 card, and now need to get it working 'better' (1) The sound appears to come in little 'chunks' with spaces between them... WHAT should the audio be set to? (Ill assume that an incorrect setting is the problem) (2) The video

Re: [mythtv-users] Need help with HDTV Out Jitter

2004-12-21 Thread Doug Larrick
Steve Frank wrote: Thanks Doug. That modeline results in little or no change. Are you doing 960X540p out of DVI? It appears that's where the issue is. The N frame is about 8 pixels above the N+1 frame. Interlacing and running at 1080i gets the frames a little closer to each other, but not

Re: 1394 and compressing analog Re: [mythtv-users] Beginner Question

2004-12-20 Thread Doug Larrick
Ian Forde wrote: 1. HD2000/3000 with QAM drivers 2. Firewire Option 1 drivers don't exist yet, so test captures can't be done. Option 2? I can capture already. It's just not in Myth. It seems like a faster way of getting more HD users on myth in the short term until the (option 1) drivers are

Re: [mythtv-users] Need help with HDTV Out Jitter

2004-12-20 Thread Doug Larrick
Steve Frank wrote: Hey gang, I've read Jarod Wilson's guide to HDTV, and currently I'm having a dickens of a time with getting X to agree with some of the settings I'm passing it. I'm using FC1 with XFree86 4.0.3-55. (I'd update, but this puppy is really stable and stability is king for

Re: [mythtv-users] Strange X behavior with nvidia drivers

2004-12-16 Thread Doug Larrick
Greg Estabrooks wrote: You're lucky, though... 6629 is completely hosed for people with cards earlier than about an FX5200. I'm curious, what sort of problems have people been reporting? I went from 6111 to 6629 a few days ago on a machine with a GF4 MX440 running a custom 720x480 modeline

Re: [mythtv-users] MX440 question

2004-12-16 Thread Doug Larrick
John Freer wrote: Hey all, I just upgraded to 2.6.9 and am working through some nvidia problems. Does anybody have an MX440 card working with the 6629 nvidia-graphics package? I tried it previously with 2.6.8 and got black screens and messed-up KDE results. I just installed 6111 (which worked

Re: [mythtv-users] OT: HDMI and DVI questions

2004-12-15 Thread Doug Larrick
Michael J. Lynch wrote: As far as I can tell the receiver's DVI is DVI-I (analog and digital) and since HDMI is digital only my guess is the cable connects the digital side of the DVI to HDMI. If this is the case, then the monitor is what is decoding the digital (MPEG2?) stream is it not? This

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

2004-12-14 Thread Doug Larrick
Joe Barnhart wrote: --- Brad Templeton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: By jitter I refer to what appear to be dropped frames, slight skips in smooth motion during periods of high motion. Not the Sound is freaking out constant jitter or actual slow playback. I've noticed this too, and I describe it

Re: [mythtv-users] Strange X behavior with nvidia drivers

2004-12-14 Thread Doug Larrick
Paul Hamm wrote: I am currently going through an OS upgrade cycle to FC3. One of my machines has a Chaintech 7nif2 igp system board 512mb XP 3200+. This machine has been my test box for mythtv. I was planning to switch it over to my primary work station and change my work station over to a

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

2004-12-13 Thread Doug Larrick
Brad Templeton wrote: On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 11:13:46PM -0800, Jarod Wilson wrote: Well, not quite since my TV, like most, is only 720 lines, so I was never using it all, but you get the idea. I don't think most TVs are 720 lines. Indeed, almost all HDTVs sold today are 720 lines native

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

2004-12-13 Thread Doug Larrick
Joe Barnhart wrote: --- Doug Larrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As far as your occasional jitter, I'd suggest making sure OpenGL vsync is being used (with 'mythfrontend --verbose playback), and make sure you're installing mythfrontend as SUID root. I've tried and tried to use the suid root trick

Re: [mythtv-users] segfault on HDTV playback

2004-12-09 Thread Doug Larrick
Jay Merrifield wrote: Hey, I have a Pundit with the new HD3000 card in it [snip] when I try and play the video in mythtv, I get a SegFault. [snip] The only thing I can think of is that the resolution of the video is 1080i, while my system is currently outputting 720p. This is not your problem.

Re: [mythtv-users] hd2000 / dtvscan / strange output

2004-12-09 Thread Doug Larrick
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In any case, the thing that seems just WRONG is the line dtv unit v4l minor = 1297516246 I get this too, on my working hd-3000 system. You don't say what driver revision you're using. The new (out-of-kernel-tree) drivers released for the HD-2000 don't seem to work;

Re: [mythtv-users] Can I play scaled HDTV content on a standard TV?

2004-12-07 Thread Doug Larrick
Lane Schwartz wrote: OK, I know this is a really basic question, but I haven't been able to find an answer in the archives I'm thinking about buying a pcHDTV 3000. I currently have Myth working - connected to my TV via the svideo connection on my nvidia 5200. My processor is a P4 2.8C HT. I

Re: [mythtv-users] HD3000 sound out

2004-12-01 Thread Doug Larrick
. . wrote: Hello all, FC2 and HD3000 hints below Short question: How to enable sound out on HD3000 in Mythtv? [snip] I am running the card as a generic v4l caputure card. As you have probably guessed, you are in uncharted territory here. Most people use the HD3000 to capture digital HDTV