[mythtv] Re: mythtv-dev Digest, Vol 1, Issue 334

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Tue Jan 28 10:56:10 EST 2003


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>    1. RE: 1-column MythTV XML Theme menus (Nathan Ziarek)
>    2. Re: Debian packages 0.7-12 (Matt Zimmerman)
>    3. Re: Some suggestions of features. (Dwight Hubbard)
>    4. Re: Some suggestions of features. (Stephan Wentz)
>    5. Re: Debian packages 0.7-12 (Mark Pitman)
>    6. Marvel G200-tv (IvanK.)
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> Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 08:29:01 -0600
> From: "Nathan Ziarek" <nathan at ziarek.com>
> To: "'Development of mythtv'" <mythtv-dev at snowman.net>
> Subject: RE: [mythtv] 1-column MythTV XML Theme menus
> Message-ID: <000301c2c6d9$9ba10860$6401a8c0 at ziarekone>
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> Sweet...it'll be good to start testing the single column themes.
> 
> Tarek - if you end up finishing one, be sure to post it somewhere / I
> can post it on my site...I'll want to look at how you did it, since I
> can't test it until 8 comes out.
> 
> Nate
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 09:31:07 -0500
> From: Matt Zimmerman <mdz at debian.org>
> To: mythtv-dev at snowman.net
> Subject: Re: [mythtv] Debian packages 0.7-12
> Message-ID: <20030128143107.GA13339 at alcor.net>
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> On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 11:48:21PM -0700, Mark Pitman wrote:
> 
> > I installed the Debian packages, 0.7-12 and I am having a problem. I get
> > the following errors:
> >
> > when installing the package I get:
> >
> > Setting up mythtv (0.7-12) ...
> > chown: failed to get attributes of `/etc/mythtv/theme.txt': No such file
> > or directory
> > dpkg: error processing mythtv (--configure):
> >  subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
> > Errors were encountered while processing:
> >  mythtv
> > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> 
> That file (/etc/mythtv/theme.txt) is included in the package, so either
> there is something very wrong with your system, or you had previously
> installed the package and deleted this file.  In the latter case, use
> dpkg --install --force-confnew mythtv_0.7-12_i386.deb, or purge&reinstall
> mythtv.
> 
> > Then when trying to run myth-setup I get:
> >
> > QSqlDatabase warning: QMYSQL3 driver not loaded
> > QSqlDatabase: available drivers:
> > couldn't open db
> 
> Something is broken with your Qt installation.
> 
> > Anyone else running into these types of troubles?
> 
> It could be anything; I can't tell without knowing what you have installed.
> Run:
> 
> reportbug -s foo -S normal -T none -p mythtv > /tmp/mythtv.txt
> 
> (apt-get install reportbug first if you don't have it)
> 
> and post the contents of /tmp/mythtv.txt here so that I can see them.
> 
> --
>  - mdz
> ------------------------------
> 
> Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 08:37:09 -0600 (CST)
> From: "Dwight Hubbard" <dhubbard at dwightandamy.com>
> To: <mythtv-dev at snowman.net>
> Cc: joel at rosafluffmoln.nu
> Subject: Re: [mythtv] Some suggestions of features.
> Message-ID: <35483.204.124.192.31.1043764629.squirrel at mail.dwightandamy.com>
> In-Reply-To: <1043762701.3e368e0d2a297 at webmail.rosafluffmoln.nu>
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> Reply-To: dhubbard at dwightandamy.com, Development of mythtv
>         <mythtv-dev at snowman.net>
> Message: 3
> 
> > - A way to hide channels that I dont have. I can remove channels, but
> > when i  run mythfilldatabase again they will popup. So for example a way
> > to hide all  channels that have chanid > 1000 or something in settings?
> > Or perhaps just a  flag on all the rows you want to show (or not show)
> > in the channel database.
> 
> It would also be handy to be able to flag a channel as a favorite, and
> have an option to bring up an EPG with just your favorite channels.
> 
> > - A way so that you can have watch live tv on and on the same time
> > change to  myth music or mythweather or whatever and It will continue so
> > that i can get  back to what I was watching.
> 
> Maybe add something to the OSD to show what is running in the background?
> 
> > This is the things that were in top of my head right now. Too bad im not
> > a  developer so I cannot contribute anything but my comments :)
> 
> Has anyone considered doing python or perl bindings for libmyth so that it
> would be possible to implement modules that don't require a lot of
> processing power in scripting languages?
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 16:21:06 +0100
> From: Stephan Wentz <wentz at gmx.de>
> To: Development of mythtv <mythtv-dev at snowman.net>
> Subject: Re: [mythtv] Some suggestions of features.
> Message-ID: <200301281621.06947.wentz at gmx.de>
> In-Reply-To: <1043762701.3e368e0d2a297 at webmail.rosafluffmoln.nu>
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> 
> Am Dienstag, 28. Januar 2003 15:05 schrieb joel at rosafluffmoln.nu:
> > - A way to hide channels that I dont have. I can remove channels, but when
> > i run mythfilldatabase again they will popup. So for example a way to hide
> > all channels that have chanid > 1000 or something in settings? Or perhaps
> > just a flag on all the rows you want to show (or not show) in the channel
> > database.
> 
> yes, that would be very useful. i have >10 channels in the database that i
> don't receive and i have to skip them in the epg... a hide-flag, or maybe a
> status flag would be great (0=normal, 1=favorite, 10=hide, etc).
> 
> shouldn't be a great change, only the queries have to be altered!
> 
> bye, stephan
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 09:11:45 -0700
> From: Mark Pitman <mark at ePitman.com>
> To: Development of mythtv <mythtv-dev at snowman.net>
> Subject: Re: [mythtv] Debian packages 0.7-12
> Message-ID: <3E36ABC1.6020606 at ePitman.com>
> In-Reply-To: <20030128143107.GA13339 at alcor.net>
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> 
> OK, purging the package and reinstalling fixed the first problem. I had installed and uninstalled before, hoping that it would fix the problem with QT magically ;)
> 
> Here's the output of reportbug. I am new to Debian but not linux. Is there some way to test the libqt3-mt-mysql package?
> 
> Package: mythtv
> Version: 0.7-12
> Severity: normal
> 
> -- System Information
> Debian Release: testing/unstable
> Architecture: i386
> Kernel: Linux SecretSquirrel 2.4.20-bf2.4 #1 Wed Dec 25 13:17:08 UTC 2002 i686
> Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C
> 
> Versions of packages mythtv depends on:
> ii  adduser           3.49                   Add and remove users and groups
> ii  cron              3.0pl1-73              management of regular background p
> ii  debconf           1.2.21                 Debian configuration management sy
> ii  libc6             2.3.1-10               GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
> ii  libdbd-mysql-perl 2.1020-2               A Perl5 database interface to the
> ii  libfreetype6      2.1.3-6                FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
> ii  liblame0          3.93.1-0.0             LAME Ain't an MP3 Encoder
> ii  libmyth-0.7       0.7-12                 Common library code for MythTV and
> ii  libqt3-mt         2:3.1.1+cvs.20021220-1 Qt GUI Library (Threaded runtime v
> ii  libqt3-mt-mysql   2:3.1.1+cvs.20021220-1 Mysql database plugin for Qt3 (Thr
> ii  libstdc++2.10-gli 1:2.95.4-15            The GNU stdc++ library
> ii  libxmltv-perl     0.5.6-1                Perl libraries related to the XMLT
> ii  pwgen             2.03-1                 Automatic Password generation
> ii  wget              1.8.2-8                retrieves files from the web
> ii  xlibs             4.2.1-4                X Window System client libraries
> 
> Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 11:48:21PM -0700, Mark Pitman wrote:
> >
> >
> >>I installed the Debian packages, 0.7-12 and I am having a problem. I get
> >>the following errors:
> >>
> >>when installing the package I get:
> >>
> >>Setting up mythtv (0.7-12) ...
> >>chown: failed to get attributes of `/etc/mythtv/theme.txt': No such file
> >>or directory
> >>dpkg: error processing mythtv (--configure):
> >> subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
> >>Errors were encountered while processing:
> >> mythtv
> >>E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> >
> >
> > That file (/etc/mythtv/theme.txt) is included in the package, so either
> > there is something very wrong with your system, or you had previously
> > installed the package and deleted this file.  In the latter case, use
> > dpkg --install --force-confnew mythtv_0.7-12_i386.deb, or purge&reinstall
> > mythtv.
> >
> >
> >>Then when trying to run myth-setup I get:
> >>
> >>QSqlDatabase warning: QMYSQL3 driver not loaded
> >>QSqlDatabase: available drivers:
> >>couldn't open db
> >
> >
> > Something is broken with your Qt installation.
> >
> >
> >>Anyone else running into these types of troubles?
> >
> >
> > It could be anything; I can't tell without knowing what you have installed.
> > Run:
> >
> > reportbug -s foo -S normal -T none -p mythtv > /tmp/mythtv.txt
> >
> > (apt-get install reportbug first if you don't have it)
> >
> > and post the contents of /tmp/mythtv.txt here so that I can see them.
> >
> >
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 11:22:37 -0500
> From: "IvanK." <chepati at yahoo.com>
> To: Development of mythtv <mythtv-dev at snowman.net>
> Subject: [mythtv] Marvel G200-tv
> Message-ID: <200301281122.37869.chepati at yahoo.com>
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> 
> Hey guys,
> 
> I'm ordering a Matrox Marvel G200 8MB TV SDRAM AGP card because I saw many
> people praising it on this list for its good tv-out and tv-in capabilities.
> I remember there was a thread entitled "G200 -- works, HOWTO" or something
> like that.  However, the mailing list doesn't work for some reason --
> clicking on a message doesn't render the text and I get a blank page.
> 
> So before I click the "Order" button, I want to have somebody confirm that
> indeed it's the Marvel G200 that has a good tv-out.  Also, I already have a
> WinTV-PCI installed, but I see that the G200 seems to have a tuner.  Does
> that mean I can use the G200 both for tv-in and tv-out and remove the WinTV?
> 
> Thanks,
> IvanK.
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