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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi Clive</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Sorry that you seem to be having so much problems
with your myth install.<BR>I'm not familiar with your card, as I am using a
Nova-T with the new connexant chips on FC3 and this has been working for<BR>some
weeks now. Here are some thoughts that might help.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>1. The Winfast card that you have seems to be a
Analogue Terrestrial card not a DVB freeview card<BR> I'm not
sure if I have thisis right but you do say in your thread that you are
trying to ge the Freeview UK channels.<BR>2. If you are using a DVB Card and
trying to tune into UK Freeview, You have not made it clear if you were
successful<BR> with having your card tune outside of MythTV.
This is absolutley critical cause Myth objects violently when it
cant<BR> tune, cause it buggers up the database and then its
all down hill from there.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Assuming that you are talking about DVB, here is
what I found, if not I have no experience with Analogue card so this will<BR>not
be much use for you.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>So How do you tune DVB Card and load up
Mythdatabase without manually entering the channel info one at a time like<BR>I
did when I started. First I would ignore the Myth TV TV grab utilities, cause if
you cant tune your card, you are wasting a lot<BR>of time in Myth.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>1. I assume that you have all drivers installed for
your card. In the Case of the newer connexant based Nova-T cards you
sadly<BR> have to install a custom kernel and patch it with
the driver patchs from bytesex.org. Let me know if you need help
here.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>2. You now need some tools, I created a directory
for each in /usr/src so that I could build
them.<BR> - DVB Apps
<BR> -
Zap2myth<BR> - tv_grab_dvb.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Zap2myth is here <A
href="http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~brejc8/dvb/">http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~brejc8/dvb/</A><BR>tv_grab_dvb
is here <A
href="http://www.darkskiez.co.uk/index.php?page=tv_grab_dvb">http://www.darkskiez.co.uk/index.php?page=tv_grab_dvb</A><BR>dvb
apps is available from linuxtv.org -you can get from CVS with the
following commands</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>#cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@linuxtv.org:/cvs/linuxtv
login<BR>#carriage return to login<BR>#cd /usr/src/dvb-apps<BR>#cvs -d
:pserver:anonymous@linuxtv.org:/cvs/linuxtv co dvb-apps<BR>#cd
dvb-apps<BR>#make<BR>Once this has been built you will now see a directory
called utils/scan use dvbscan example below<BR>(Assume that you are on the
CrystalPalace transmitter, other transmitters are under the dvb-t
directory)</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2># cd /usr/src/dvb-apps/util/scan<BR>#./dvbscan
dvb-t/uk-CrystalPalace | tee /home/mythtv/.tzap/channels.conf</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>If all is well then you will have a channels.conf
file populated with your freeview channel tuning info.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>You can now have a look a live tv using tzap to
tune into an individual channel and pipe it into mplayer like so.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2># tzap -c /home/mythtv/.tzap/channels.conf -r 'ITV
2<BR># mplayer - < /dev/dvb/adapter0/dvr0.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>===============Loading Mythtv with channel
information===================================</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>1. We build a clean channels.conf file that
contains the tuned channels that we have recepton for using dvbscan
above.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>2. We then use the Zap2myth script to convert this
information into a mysql script that can be loaded into the Myth Converg
database</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>3. !!! as of Nov 04 Myth TV will hang if it can
tune a channel, so any missing fields such as the PID or wrong frequency will
hang the system</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>4. We then load the the Mythtv database with the
channel information</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>5. We then use the tv_grab_dvb program to load up
the latest TV listings and pipe this the Myth database</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Files and what they do (assumes that I have built
all of these in /usr/src )</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial
size=2>==================================================================</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>~/.tzap/channels.conf ( This holds the DVB tuned
channels information from the dvbscan utility)</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>/usr/src/zap2myth/zap2myth/uk_dvb/common.channels
contains the standard freeview tv channels with some config
information</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>/usr/src/zap2myth/zap2myth/uk_dvb/radio.channels
contains the standard freeview radio channels with som config
information</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial
size=2>/usr/src/zap2myth/zap2myth/uk_dvb/regions/london.channels contains the
standard freeview tv channels in london</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial
size=2>/usr/src/zap2myth/zap2myth/uk_dvb/regions/other.channels contains the
interactive channels </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>
<DIV><BR># cd /usr/src/dvb-apps/util/scan</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV># ./dvbscan dvb-t/uk-CrystalPalace | tee ~/.tzap/channels.conf </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV># cd /usr/src/zap2myth/zap2myth</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV># ./zap2myth.pl uk_dvb/common.channels uk_dvb/other.channels
>channels.sql</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV># mysql -p <channels.sql</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV># enter your mysql password from when you set up Mythtv</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Go into mythtvsetup and check that your channels are now installed</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>==============Loading up the program guide=========================</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>tv_grab_dvb uses the following files, and you will need to edit the
tv_grab_dvb.c<BR>source code to change if you decided to put these somewhere
else.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Code snippet<BR>{#define CHANNELS_CONF
"/home/mythtv/.tzap/channels.conf"</DIV>
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<DIV># define CHANIDENTS /usr/local/etc/chanidents<BR>}<BR># cd
/usr/src/tv_grab_dvb <BR>#make</DIV>
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<DIV>Then just make to rebuild.</DIV>
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<DIV>The chanidents file provides translation between the normal XMLTV idents of
<BR>"4479.dvb.guide" for bbci for instance to a custome channel ident of
bbci.bbc.co.uk<BR>I left this blank cause I wanted to to keep the 4479.dvb.guide
syntax</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Now lets get a test version of the programme guide.<BR># cd
/usr/src/tvgrab/tv_grab_dvb-0.9<BR>#tv_grab_dvb -c -t 30 >
/tmp/test.xml</DIV>
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<DIV>Have a look at /temp/test.xml, if all is well then lets load up the guide
int Mythtv for real.</DIV>
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<DIV>#tv_grab_dvb|mythfilldatabase --no-delete --file 1 0 -</DIV>
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<DIV>or manually</DIV>
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<DIV>#mythfilldatabase --manual --file 1 0 /tmp/test.xml<BR>Mythtv should now
work, and you should do your first database backup like so.</DIV>
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<DIV>Backup your mythdatabase</DIV>
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<DIV>#mysqldump -c -a -p mythconverg > /home/mythtv/mythsql.dump<BR>In case
you blow up your database you can restore like so.</DIV>
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<DIV># mysql -u mythtv -p mythconverg < /home/mythtv/mythsql.dump</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>----- Original Message ----- </FONT>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>From: "Clive at Rational" <</FONT><A
href="mailto:clive@rational-communications.com"><FONT face=Arial
size=2>clive@rational-communications.com</FONT></A><FONT face=Arial
size=2>></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>To: <</FONT><A
href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org"><FONT face=Arial
size=2>mythtv-users@mythtv.org</FONT></A><FONT face=Arial
size=2>></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 2004 10:31
PM</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Subject: [mythtv-users] Newbie: FC3 - MythTV
backend setup - stuck. 2. Alsosetup GUI issue. 3. Also UK
settings?</FONT></DIV></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial><BR><FONT size=2></FONT></FONT></DIV><FONT face=Arial
size=2>> Hello,<BR>> <BR>> I have searched through
the MythTV mailing list<BR>> and not found answer to this - sorry if it HAS
already<BR>> been answered.<BR>> <BR>> Setup:
Conexant WinFast TV2000 XP input card<BR>> (a.k.a GDI Black Gold) - works
fine under WinXPPro SP2<BR>> Trying to run card under MythTV on a Fedora Core
3<BR>> (FC3) kernel 2.6.9.something.<BR>> <BR>> The TV signal is being
provided from a "terrestrial"<BR>> aerial / antenna.<BR>> <BR>>
MythTv software install was performed according to<BR>>
the excellent instructions in "Installing and using<BR>> MythTV" by Robert
Kulagowski<BR>> <BR>> I used the "apt-get" method to
install all<BR>> required MythTV (0.16) & other packages as the<BR>>
"manual" process seemed fantastically tedious.<BR>> <BR>>
As far as I can tell the software is installed OK.<BR>> I
can start the backend and front end GUIS and they<BR>> display fine.<BR>>
<BR>> 1. I am at section 9 of the install instructions -<BR>>
Configure back-end.<BR>> <BR>> I have tried various options and
none seem to work.<BR>> <BR>> I guessed certain settings for
the GUI and the<BR>> termianl displayed the following results from a<BR>>
typical run of mythsetup<BR>> <BR>> [root@localhost bin]#
./mythtvsetup<BR>> DisplaRes::switch_res: desired resolution not<BR>>
available<BR>> 2004-12-28 21:57:47 switchToGUI: xrandr failed for 0 x<BR>>
0<BR>> Somehow, your screen size settings are bad.<BR>> GuiHeight:
0<BR>> GuiWidth: 0<BR>> m_height: 0<BR>> m_width: 0<BR>> Falling
back to 640x480<BR>> Would you like to clear all capture card<BR>>
settings before starting configuration? [no] no<BR>> Would you like to
clear all program/channel<BR>> settings before starting configuration?
[no]<BR>> mythtv: could not connect to socket<BR>> mythtv: No such file or
directory<BR>> lirc_init failed for mythtv, see preceding messages<BR>>
2004-12-28 21:58:30 Please wait while MythTV retrieves<BR>> the list of
available channels<BR>> sh: tv_grab_uk: command not found<BR>> 2004-12-28
21:58:30 tv_grab_uk --config-file<BR>> '/root/.mythtv/CRL DVB card.xmltv'
--configure<BR>> 2004-12-28 21:58:30 exited with status 32512<BR>>
2004-12-28 21:58:45 Please wait while MythTV retrieves<BR>> the list of
available channels<BR>> sh: tv_grab_uk: command not found<BR>> 2004-12-28
21:58:45 tv_grab_uk --config-file<BR>> '/root/.mythtv/CRL DVB card.xmltv'
--configure<BR>> 2004-12-28 21:58:45 exited with status 32512<BR>>
Couldn't open 0 to probe its inputs.<BR>> If this is the master backend
server:<BR>> Now, please run 'mythfilldatabase' to populate the<BR>>
database<BR>> with channel information.<BR>> <BR>> It seems (obviously)
that tv_grab_uk is not found<BR>> <BR>> However, in /usr/bin the following
DOES exist<BR>> <BR>> [root@localhost bin]# ls | grep tv_grab_uk<BR>>
tv_grab_uk_rt<BR>> <BR>> So what do I do to achieve the back-end
config?<BR>> <BR>> For completeness I include the result of
running<BR>> "mythfilldatabase" but I think the errors occuring are<BR>>
as a result of the tv_grab_uk failure<BR>> <BR>> [root@localhost bin]#
mythfilldatabase<BR>> 2004-12-28 22:28:18 mythfilldatabase: Listings<BR>>
Download Started<BR>> ----------------- Start of XMLTV output<BR>>
-----------------<BR>> nice: tv_grab_uk: No such file or directory<BR>>
------------------ End of XMLTV output<BR>> ------------------<BR>> Error
in 1:1: unexpected end of file<BR>> Updating icons for sourceid: 1<BR>>
----------------- Start of XMLTV output<BR>> -----------------<BR>> nice:
tv_grab_uk: No such file or directory<BR>> ------------------ End of XMLTV
output<BR>> ------------------<BR>> Error in 1:1: unexpected end of
file<BR>> Updating icons for sourceid: 2<BR>> Failed to fetch some program
info<BR>> 2004-12-28 22:28:18 mythfilldatabase: Failed to fetch<BR>> some
program info<BR>> <BR>> <BR>> <BR>> 2. Also,the back-end setup GUI
screens seem to be<BR>> "larger" than the window opened and the window is
not<BR>> scrollable hence it is not always possible to see the<BR>>
"Cancel" "Back" and "next" buttons on a screen. Is<BR>> there a fix for
this?<BR>> <BR>> <BR>> 3. Any recommendations or documentation on
setting up<BR>> the software for UK Freeview supplied through<BR>>
standard aerial / antenna.<BR>> <BR>> <BR>> <BR>> Thanks for any
help or pointers<BR>> <BR>> Clive<BR>> <BR>>
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