[mythtv-users] Not sure what else to try

Fri Jun 17 18:23:52 UTC 2005

We don't have nova. We get everything over the air right now, but the  
listings for the national channels are from nova's website. We've  
been looking at getting it, but for the same price in the states you  
get 100+ channels, nova is only the national channels +25 for 54 euro  
a month. double that if you want to be able to record two shows at  
once. No ESPN, HBO, FoodTV, G4, etc. It's just 3 more channels of  
football. I set up myth just so i could record the few good movies,  
english with greek subtitles) a week and watch them at our leisure,  
without having to wait during the 15 minute commercial breaks, or  
even worse when they put a full 30 minute news broadcast in the  
middle of the movie. Don't even get me started on 'M' channels friday  
night horse-racing. They cut from whatever they are showing to 10  
minutes of racing then back to the show again.

-hary
(American living in Greece)

On Jun 17, 2005, at 5:44 PM, Tachtevrenidis, Kosta wrote:

> Hary,
>
> I am all too familiar with greek programming. Do you have nova? As for
> my problem yes I fixed it, it was the silliest thing. I had  
> forgotten to
> set my capture card type to PVR250-350 alas hardware deconding. It  
> works
> well now but still have not figured out how the commercial skip works.
>
>
> Kosta Tachtevrenidis
> FileNet Developer
> (253) 924-4862
>
> http://www.corp.weyer.pri/dmg
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org
> [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of harywilke
> Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2005 4:59 PM
> To: Discussion about mythtv
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Not sure what else to try
>
> Well i'm a new user to both myth and linux. but i've managed to get it
> to work, mostly. I haven't taken the real plunge and hooked it up  
> to our
> main TV. My main problem is that tv shows here in greece tend to start
> whenever they feel like it no matter what the schedule says, so right
> now i'm recording half an hour before and after, and i still miss  
> parts
> of shows.
>
> did you give the ptune-ui.pl/mplayer test a try? I relied on that a  
> lot
> to figure out channels frequencies and make sure my card was changing
> channels correctly
>
> best of luck
>
> -hary
>
>
> On Jun 16, 2005, at 2:43 AM, Tachtevrenidis, Kosta wrote:
>
>
>> Hary,
>>
>> Thanks so much for following up.
>>
>> I am at work right now but it just hit me that I am using v4l  
>> standard
>>
>
>
>> device for my tuner setup. I used to have a tv wonder and after I
>> ditched it I did not change it.
>>
>> You are right about my /dev/dsp but I can fix it but making arts not
>> startup with kde.
>>
>> As a new user I have been trying to read howtos, tutorials, mailing
>> list archives, etc.
>>
>> Thanks again...
>>
>>
>> Kosta
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org
>> [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of harywilke
>> Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2005 4:24 PM
>> To: Discussion about mythtv
>> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Not sure what else to try
>>
>> dunno, double check that you have write permission on /pvr/livetv
>> another way to test your card would be to use mplayer and the ptune-
>> ui.pl script in the util directory from the ivtv tarbal.
>>
>> from jarod's guide:
>> # /usr/lib/ivtv/ptune-ui.pl &
>> # mplayer -vo xv /dev/video0
>>
>> that's what i used to check my videocard setup.
>>
>> other things to check:
>> and it looks like you are also having problems w/ opening your audio
>> device if you compiled your own, did it pick up arts? i have to tweak
>> the configure script slightly to get it to recognize arts as a sound
>> option.
>>
>> also if your new to myth you might want to check out the list  
>> archives
>> at:
>> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/
>>
>> hope that helped
>> -hary
>>
>> On Jun 15, 2005, at 6:22 PM, Tachtevrenidis, Kosta wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>>
>>> Somebody must have some suggestions for me. C'mon people!
>>>
>>> Haha
>>>
>>> Kosta
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>> As far as firmeare my kernel does have something to say about the  
>>> one
>>>
>
>
>>> I am using:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> ivtv: Encoder revision: 0x02050032
>>>> ivtv: Encoder Firmware may be buggy, use version 0x02040011
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> Can somebody tell me how to fix this? I got the rom file from the
>>> .inf
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>>> driver but where Do I place it, is it /lib/firmware or /lib/modules?
>>>
>>> Now I followed Leigh's tips and ran the mythback and front ends on
>>> the
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>>> console and captured Both stdout and stderr. Here they are. If this
>>> sheds some light, please guide me to What I should be doing to fix
>>> it.
>>> Thanks again...
>>>
>>> A couple of this I noticed is that sometimes /dev/dsp is locked  
>>> and I
>>>
>
>
>>> assume it is because of Arts. When I kill it, mythtv seems to be  
>>> able
>>>
>
>
>>> to access it. I know how to make this permanent So no problem here.
>>>
>>> The other thing it was complaining about was that it did not like
>>> RTJpeg (or something) under The recording profiles. I changed  
>>> that to
>>>
>
>
>>> MPEG4. Is there anything else I need to do?
>>>
>>>
>>> Backend.out
>>> -----------
>>> 2005-06-14 12:43:23.849 New DB connection, total: 1
>>> 2005-06-14 12:43:23.865 New DB connection, total: 2
>>> 2005-06-14 12:43:23.878 New DB connection, total: 3
>>> 2005-06-14 12:43:24.373 New DB scheduler connection
>>> 2005-06-14 12:43:24.381 mythbackend version: 0.18.1.20050510-1
>>> www.mythtv.org
>>> 2005-06-14 12:43:24.381 Enabled verbose msgs : important general
>>> 2005-06-14 12:43:26.379 Reschedule requested for id -1.
>>> 2005-06-14 12:43:26.827 Scheduled 0 items in 0.4 = 0.44 match + 0.01
>>> place
>>> 2005-06-14 12:43:26.830 Seem to be woken up by USER
>>> 2005-06-14 12:44:07.329 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback
>>> 2005-06-14 12:44:07.329 adding: pvr as a client (events: 0)
>>> 2005-06-14 12:44:07.336 adding: pvr as a remote ringbuffer
>>> 2005-06-14 12:44:07.337 Could not open audio device: /dev/dsp
>>> 2005-06-14 12:44:07.345 Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV
>>> 2005-06-14 12:44:07.405 NVR: Won't work with the streaming  
>>> interface,
>>>
>
>
>>> falling back
>>> 2005-06-14 12:44:07.406 TVRec: Recording Prematurely Stopped
>>> 2005-06-14 12:44:08.738 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback
>>> 2005-06-14 12:44:08.738 adding: pvr as a client (events: 0)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>>> Frontend.out
>>> ------------
>>> 2005-06-14 12:43:28.754 New DB connection, total: 1 Total desktop
>>> width=1024, height=768, numscreens=1
>>> 2005-06-14 12:43:28.762 Using screen 0, 1024x768 at 0,0
>>> 2005-06-14 12:43:28.767 mythfrontend version: 0.18.1.20050510-1
>>> www.mythtv.org
>>> 2005-06-14 12:43:28.768 Enabled verbose msgs : important general
>>> 2005-06-14 12:43:29.264 Switching to square mode (visor)
>>> 2005-06-14 12:43:29.890 Registering Internal as a media playback
>>> plugin.
>>> 2005-06-14 12:43:29.913 Registering MythDVD DVD Media Handler as a
>>> media handler
>>> 2005-06-14 12:43:29.915 Registering MythDVD VCD Media Handler as a
>>> media handler
>>> 2005-06-14 12:43:30.080 Registering MythMusic Media Handler as a
>>> media
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>>> handler
>>> 2005-06-14 12:43:30.457 Mediamonitor: Adding /dev/cdrom
>>> 2005-06-14 12:43:30.472 Mediamonitor: Adding /dev/cdrom1
>>> 2005-06-14 12:43:30.479 Starting media monitor.
>>> 2005-06-14 12:43:30.556 Media status changed...  New status is:
>>> MEDIASTAT_OPEN old status was MEDIASTAT_NOTMOUNTED
>>> 2005-06-14 12:43:30.571 Media status changed...  New status is:
>>> MEDIASTAT_OPEN old status was MEDIASTAT_NOTMOUNTED
>>> 2005-06-14 12:44:03.603 New DB connection, total: 2
>>> 2005-06-14 12:44:03.628 Connecting to backend server: 127.0.0.1:6543
>>> (try 1 of 5)
>>> 2005-06-14 12:44:03.636 Using protocol version 15
>>> 2005-06-14 12:44:03.673 Using protocol version 15
>>> 2005-06-14 12:44:03.943 Disable DPMS
>>> 2005-06-14 12:44:04.169 RemoteFile::Read() failed in
>>>
>>> Frontend.err
>>> ------------
>>> Failed to run 'cdrecord --scanbus'
>>> Couldn't read file: rbuf://127.0.0.1:6543/pvr/livetv/ringbuf2.nuv
>>> Couldn't read file: rbuf://127.0.0.1:6543/pvr/livetv/ringbuf2.nuv
>>> Couldn't read file: rbuf://127.0.0.1:6543/pvr/livetv/ringbuf2.nuv
>>>
>>>
>>> THANKS AGAIN!
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
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