| === tritium_ is now known as tritium | ||
| levander | I'm running the Mythbuntu LiveCD. I need to boot into safe graphics mode (because I'm only hooked up via TV out) and I need to use the noapic kernel option. Anyone know how to do both? | 00:58 |
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| levander | By pressing F6 I can edit the boot options and add noapic. | 00:58 |
| levander | By selecting "safe graphics mode" from Mythbuntu boot menu, I can boot into X with safe graphics mode. | 00:58 |
| levander | But, I don't know how to do both. | 00:58 |
| levander | Is there a kernel option to tell the kernel to boot into safe graphics mode? | 01:00 |
| Daviey | levander: not sure - try #ubuntu, it'll be the same | 01:02 |
| levander | I'm trying it, but those guys never know anything. | 01:02 |
| Daviey | heh | 01:03 |
| Daviey | I've never need both :( | 01:03 |
| Daviey | needed* | 01:03 |
| rhpot1991 | I've never had help in there either | 01:03 |
| rhpot1991 | there was some way to display boot options and modify the line by hand, might be able to try that | 01:04 |
| Daviey | could boot into console/recovery then edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf then change to vesa? | 01:05 |
| Daviey | AIUI safe graphics mode = vesa | 01:05 |
| rhpot1991 | live cd though | 01:05 |
| Daviey | that way you could run noapic | 01:06 |
| Daviey | hope that helps! | 01:06 |
| rhpot1991 | https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BootOptions | 01:06 |
| Daviey | the other option would be to install ubuntu using the alternate cd, then convert to mythbuntu | 01:06 |
| levander | I just found out if you hit F6, you can use the up and down arrows to highlight a boot option from the menu. Whichever boot option is highlighted, the kernel options are displayed on the screen. | 01:06 |
| Daviey | of course! sily me | 01:07 |
| levander | It looks like the safe graphics mode menu item was using the cevesa boot option to boot into safe graphics mode. I'm waiting now to see if it worked. | 01:07 |
| Daviey | doh.. /me didn't know cevesa existed! | 01:07 |
| Daviey | beats manually editing xorg.conf | 01:08 |
| levander | It worked! | 01:08 |
| Daviey | anyway, nn | 01:08 |
| Daviey | yah | 01:08 |
| levander | I never heard of cevesa either. | 01:08 |
| levander | No, the question is, since I have to pass some funky noapic kernel option to get this brand new motherboard to boot, do I live with it, or return the thing? | 01:08 |
| Daviey | hmm.. i had a mobo that needed it for livecd - but worked once installed.. | 01:09 |
| Daviey | worth a try | 01:09 |
| Daviey | anyway, need sleep - ttfn | 01:10 |
| levander | Is there any easy way I can check to see if my sound card is working from within the LiveCD? I haven't installed myth yet. | 01:44 |
| jamesd | i wonder why this distro hasn't including the patch to make the kworld 110 and 115 remote work... | 03:11 |
| morphios2 | I have a question hope someone can answer me when scanning signal/noise should we get something more than 0? | 03:20 |
| jamesd | i do on my kworld 115 card... | 03:20 |
| morphios2 | i can never get signal/noise other than 0 but i get the signal strenght part ok | 03:24 |
| jamesd | morphios2, what card are you using? | 03:33 |
| morphios2 | nexus-s | 03:36 |
| hansoffate | hi | 04:11 |
| hansoffate | for some reaosn, my frontend/backend that i just built .... can't find the backend | 04:11 |
| hansoffate | anyone here? | 04:19 |
| Helvasca | hey | 04:42 |
| hansoffate | hi | 04:47 |
| === MythbuntuGuest06 is now known as Xenocide | ||
| Xenocide | hey guys i can't get my frontend to see my backend | 05:15 |
| Xenocide | it connects to database fine | 05:15 |
| Xenocide | but thats about it | 05:15 |
| Xenocide | any ideas? | 05:16 |
| Xenocide | superm1? | 05:17 |
| Xenocide | got it, no permissions on /var/lib/mythtv | 05:36 |
| kr00l | hello? | 06:28 |
| morphios2 | ok what dvb card works well with mythtv ...i think nexus has its problems | 06:37 |
| foxbuntu | morphios2, dvb cards in general with linux right now arent great.. | 06:43 |
| kr00l | hello? | 06:56 |
| Helvasca | hey | 08:45 |
| FallenHi1okiri | hi is lirc_serial working out of the box or do I have to compile it (modules) by myself? | 12:41 |
| Ethan | Hi everyone, on my ATI Radeon Xpress 200 video card (onboard), kaffeine plays DVB-S video smoothly (almost perfect), but mythtv is quite choppy, as if it werent using XV. How can I check if Myth is using XV and correct that if not? | 15:08 |
| Ethan | I'm using mythbuntu 7.10 | 15:09 |
| === slestak is now known as slestak|away | ||
| === slestak|away is now known as slestak | ||
| Ethan | ok now i've found out that xine plays the video well, i'll try to use that as the video play command from myth | 17:05 |
| rhpot1991 | I use xine for mythvideo | 17:06 |
| rhpot1991 | http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/MythVideo | 17:06 |
| rhpot1991 | info there about setting it up | 17:06 |
| Ethan | i just put "xine -f %s" in the setup/setup/mediasettings/videosettings/playersettings field and it works much better already | 17:08 |
| Ethan | hm but still not as nice as in kaffeine... i wish i could see the parameters that kaffeine uses | 17:11 |
| Ethan | i still get only abaout 10-15fps | 17:15 |
| Ethan | and mythfrontend is only using 40$ cpu | 17:21 |
| Ethan | 40% | 17:21 |
| Ethan | whats the easiest way to sort and rename and weed-out the 50 channels i want, out of the 1000 that were detected? | 17:27 |
| rhpot1991 | you could try something like xvmc ic you use nvidia to cut down that cpu | 17:44 |
| rhpot1991 | 1000 channels seams like a lot, why so many? | 17:45 |
| rhpot1991 | in mythtv-setup you can modify the channels I believe | 17:46 |
| Ethan | i'm not worried about cutting down the CPU, quite the opposite, i want it to use another 40% and give me better framerates... unfortunately not using nvidia (yet) so no xvmc... but like i said, kaffeine runs BEAUTIFULLY doing the exact same thing, all i need to do is make myth do it the same way :-) | 17:48 |
| Ethan | on the Astra 19.2E satellite, there are almost 1000 channels | 17:49 |
| Ethan | so the 20-30 i'm interested in are scattered in channel numbers between 5 and 60000 (dont ask me why... the mythtv scan doesnt work so i had to scan using dvb-apps and then import the channels.conf into myth) | 17:50 |
| CarlFK | ubuntu net install has a mythtv option, but errors with Jan 7 15:57:59 in-target: Couldn't find task mythbuntu-desktop | 17:55 |
| CarlFK | I am guessing there is a package, but it isn't spelled like that? | 17:56 |
| Ethan | AHA finally found something (i kinda expected) in the console: "videooutputXV: could not find suitable xvidoe surface, falling back to shared memory" | 17:56 |
| Ethan | that was using mplayer | 18:01 |
| rhpot1991 | mythbuntu-desktop - The Mythbuntu standalone system | 18:01 |
| rhpot1991 | did you apt-get update? | 18:01 |
| CarlFK | what is mythbuntu-meta ? https://code.launchpad.net/~mythbuntu/mythbuntu/mythbuntu-meta | 18:01 |
| CarlFK | rhpot1991: I am in the alternate installer, so no. | 18:02 |
| CarlFK | no hits: http://packages.ubuntu.com/cgi-bin/search_packages.pl?keywords=mythbuntu-meta | 18:03 |
| rhpot1991 | why are you looking for that? | 18:05 |
| CarlFK | to see if there there is really a mythbuntu-desktop.deb | 18:05 |
| directhex | http://packages.ubuntu.com/gutsy/metapackages/mythbuntu-desktop | 18:06 |
| rhpot1991 | there is | 18:06 |
| directhex | believe it or not, to find mythbuntu-desktop, you have to search for mythbuntu-desktop | 18:06 |
| directhex | or do a SOURCE search for mythbuntu-meta | 18:07 |
| directhex | http://packages.ubuntu.com/gutsy/source/mythbuntu-meta | 18:07 |
| CarlFK | oh, sorry, should have mentioned: ubuntu *hardy* net install... | 18:10 |
| CarlFK | -desktop isn't in the hardy repos | 18:10 |
| CarlFK | but I somehow didn't find the gutsy one either. | 18:10 |
| Ethan | also, my video preview in the channel browser doenst work, i see the area where it should be in the top right, but instead there is a black area in the top left which is trying (but failing) to display the video | 18:10 |
| rhpot1991 | CarlFK: just do the ubuntu install first, then install mythtv after you have a working system | 18:11 |
| rhpot1991 | then you can update your sources and all | 18:11 |
| rhpot1991 | though I can't promise that there isn't some dependency problem there | 18:11 |
| CarlFK | rhpot1991: ill file a bug report. somone can either fix it or remove the option | 18:12 |
| rhpot1991 | its on the gutsy repos, I checked my system when you nentioned it | 18:12 |
| CarlFK | right. not in hardy | 18:12 |
| rhpot1991 | its prob more of a discrepancy within apt right now cause hardy isn't stable yet | 18:12 |
| rhpot1991 | while people are working on packages sometimes dependencies break | 18:13 |
| CarlFK | ack. it is in hardy. | 18:13 |
| rhpot1991 | if you install the base first then at least you can see why its failing | 18:14 |
| CarlFK | logs from the install http://dev.personnelware.com/carl/temp/Jan07/b/log - syslog has: in-target: Couldn't find task mythbuntu-desktop | 18:17 |
| CarlFK | ill do a nomall install | 18:17 |
| CarlFK | should I do desktop or just server? | 18:17 |
| rhpot1991 | is this a mythbuntu cd or ubuntu? | 18:17 |
| rhpot1991 | that seems like it might be something other than a package problem | 18:18 |
| rhpot1991 | it normally says "package blah depends on package x so package blah cannot be installed" | 18:18 |
| CarlFK | net, so just the kernel and initrd.gz - the rest gets pulled from the repos | 18:18 |
| Ethan | does this in my Xorg.0.log already mean I can use XV and XVMC ? | 18:18 |
| Ethan | (II) Loading extension XVideo | 18:18 |
| Ethan | (II) Loading extension XVideo-MotionCompensation | 18:18 |
| Ethan | xvinfo says "no adaptors present" | 18:19 |
| rhpot1991 | xvmc is only on nvidia | 18:19 |
| Ethan | great, so those lines mean nothing... aparently XV isnt working either :( | 18:19 |
| directhex | xv is broken on ati | 18:20 |
| directhex | in general | 18:20 |
| directhex | most things are | 18:20 |
| rhpot1991 | ya I switched to nvidia when xv was 2/3 too large on my ati card | 18:20 |
| rhpot1991 | 18 month old (then) bug that still wasn't fixed | 18:20 |
| rhpot1991 | there were work arounds, but it required eating cpu and junk | 18:21 |
| CarlFK | Im doing just server. I can add u-desktop on top of that if I need to | 18:23 |
| FallenHitokiri | hi i try to install mythbuntu on my system conected to a tv using a ati radeon 9000 (composite out) - after booting (no problems here) I get a message that my system is running in low graphics mode - I confirm and after that nothing happens. black screen, white cursor blinking in top left | 18:33 |
| FallenHitokiri | any ideas? | 18:33 |
| Ethan | when booting, pass a vga= parameter | 18:35 |
| Ethan | look that up in google to see some possible params | 18:35 |
| FallenHitokiri | Ethan: I'll try. thanks | 18:35 |
| Ethan | i'm no expert but thats what i'd try first... i think i had to do something similar | 18:36 |
| FallenHitokiri | hm. doesn't work :( | 18:40 |
| Ethan | aha, after installing the prop.ATI driver instead of the Ubuntu drivers, I have an XV capable display | 18:41 |
| Ethan | fallen: how far do you get when booting? | 18:41 |
| FallenHitokiri | Ethan: X-Server is starting and I get the message "running in low graphic option" I can configure my screen and test it -> works, after I press okay i get a black screen with the blinking cursor | 18:42 |
| Ethan | hmmm | 18:43 |
| Ethan | sorry no great idea just offhand | 18:43 |
| FallenHitokiri | no problem, thanks for your help | 18:43 |
| Ethan | sigh, with the ATI driver the myth menus are all messed up... | 18:44 |
| FallenHitokiri | safe grafic's work | 18:49 |
| FallenHitokiri | how much space should I use for / with frontend and backend? (i want a separate data partition [lvm]) | 18:50 |
| rhpot1991 | Ethan: messed up how? | 18:51 |
| Ethan | mom | 18:52 |
| Ethan | hm after a few re-runs i guess it's cleared up... i had "random theme" enabled so it kept doing "prescaling images" every time... not a good idea when debugging :) | 18:59 |
| Ethan | wow okay now xv is working, even the scrolling text on NTV looks ok | 19:04 |
| Ethan | hm but now (since i rebooted) for some reason, sasc-ng isnt working anymore, it was running perfectly | 19:07 |
| CarlFK | rhpot1991: "mythbuntu-desktop: Depends: mythbuntu-control-centre but it is not going to be installed" | 19:10 |
| CarlFK | want me to file a bug? | 19:11 |
| rhpot1991 | dunno, not really up to me, I don't do anything with the packages | 19:12 |
| rhpot1991 | what happens if you try to install MCC first? | 19:12 |
| rhpot1991 | does it not exist or does it have a dependency issue? | 19:13 |
| rhpot1991 | also why are you using hardy? | 19:13 |
| Ethan | ah okay it was just a keychange... i guess it was only by accident that it stopped working at the same time | 19:13 |
| CarlFK | rhpot1991: hardy - just testing things, like the installer | 19:13 |
| CarlFK | mythbuntu-control-centre: Depends: mythbuntu-common but it is not installable | 19:14 |
| CarlFK | E: Broken packages | 19:14 |
| CarlFK | E: Package mythbuntu-common has no installation candidate | 19:14 |
| directhex | there's no hardy mythbuntu stuff yet | 19:14 |
| directhex | mythbuntu preparedness will be stated on http://mythbuntu.org/ as and when | 19:15 |
| CarlFK | directhex so don't bother reporting this? | 19:15 |
| directhex | it's not going to be news for anyone involved | 19:15 |
| Ethan | how can i change the style of the OSD bar at the bottom? | 19:17 |
| Dr_willis | thats in the mytytv-setup themes setting i think. | 19:20 |
| Dr_willis | Hmm.. I dont recall a site with screenshots of all the different themes.. anyone seen one? | 19:21 |
| directhex | the official wiki? | 19:21 |
| Dr_willis | lets look.. i dont recall seeing one there.. but i aint been there in a few months | 19:22 |
| directhex | http://mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Category:Themes | 19:22 |
| Dr_willis | There we go. :) I tend to set up the themes i like... then leave them alone. i forget the names of the ones i even use. Looks like its Isthmus, and g.a.n.t | 19:25 |
| Ethan | i know where to change the themes in general, but they all seem to use the same OSD bar at the screen bottom | 19:26 |
| Ethan | i always get the blue trapezoid with the red tab on top | 19:26 |
| Ethan | but the channel name never fits in right, and i'd like something transparent | 19:27 |
| directhex | Ethan, so change the OSC | 19:27 |
| directhex | OSD | 19:28 |
| Ethan | okay *searching menu structure for that point* :) | 19:31 |
| Daviey | CarlFK: if you want bleeding edge - use the weekly builds trunk repo | 19:34 |
| Ethan | ahaaaaa finally found it: setup/Setup/Tv settings/Playback/page 5 or so :-) | 19:35 |
| Dr_willis | I wonder how many pages of settings there are in the setup tool. | 19:38 |
| Ethan | way too many... over 100 (maybe 200) | 19:38 |
| Ethan | one thing I might actually contribute after digging deep enough (only been using myth for 3 days now) is an intuitive menu structure | 19:39 |
| Ethan | i wish the TV stations would correctly label the audio tracks (language)... | 19:43 |
| Ethan | I always watch movies in english where available (but here in germany, the default adio track is alwaays german, and the others are not labelled at all) | 19:44 |
| Ethan | thanks guys, i love this OSD :) | 19:58 |
| Ethan | so... now all i need to do.. is configure remote and sort my channels | 20:00 |
| Ethan | now, if only i could get mythtv's channel scan to work... *sigh* | 20:46 |
| Dr_willis | I get "Scanning Channel" For all my channel Names. :( | 20:49 |
| Dr_willis | heh.. | 20:49 |
| Dr_willis | wonder where to fix that at manually. I only got 60 channels. | 20:49 |
| rhpot1991 | Dr_willis: do you use SD? | 20:50 |
| Dr_willis | I just use the normal SD tv signal from the cable. Yes.. channels 1-60 | 20:53 |
| Dr_willis | Wife took the STB | 20:53 |
| Dr_willis | Plus all i watch is on the Low channels anyway. :) i dont need the stb | 20:53 |
| rhpot1991 | well SD as in Schedules Direct | 20:57 |
| Dr_willis | OR SD card. :) | 20:58 |
| Dr_willis | i do use SchedulesDirect. | 20:58 |
| Dr_willis | I wasent using it for a while.. then tried it again yestarday. some how my channels got out of order with them.. but they fixed that :) | 20:59 |
| Dr_willis | I just dont have the proper names. or icons for the channels | 20:59 |
| Dr_willis | Which is a trivial annoyance.. but still annoying | 20:59 |
| rhpot1991 | I had problems where it would randomly not get names for the channels, I fixed it by removing the channels/sources and readding till it worked (don't remember the correct combo) | 20:59 |
| rhpot1991 | icons is another tough area | 21:00 |
| Dr_willis | Heh.. Yea. I am still usingthe old listing - i havent tried removing them. | 21:00 |
| Dr_willis | I saw a bunch of shows i wanted to record this week.. so letting the box just record them for now. | 21:00 |
| rhpot1991 | I messed with that for a while, both with trying to grab from the SD listings and with mastericon file | 21:00 |
| rhpot1991 | can't tell you what I ended up doing to get them working, but I have almost all of them so I stopped messing | 21:01 |
| Dr_willis | got another bug where the video playbackis garbled. :) but aparently thats a ubuntu/nvidia issue i hear. I tend to watch the recordings on a diffrent machine. So its not a big issue either | 21:01 |
| Dr_willis | next step is to figure out how to auto-reencode the recordings and zap the comercials. | 21:02 |
| Dr_willis | But i think my days of watching videos at work are over.. :( they are rearanging the whole factory/boss's and so forth. | 21:02 |
| rhpot1991 | I had a script that autoremoved the commercials | 21:04 |
| rhpot1991 | problem was that a lot of times the commercial flags weren't 100% accurate | 21:04 |
| rhpot1991 | Dr_willis: do you watch on a computer at work or something else? | 21:05 |
| rhpot1991 | ipod/psp/etc | 21:05 |
| Dr_willis | yea - on a laptop.. i may have to go back to watching them on my GP2x it can do xvid 320x240 res. :) | 21:06 |
| Dr_willis | Brother took my psp. :) | 21:06 |
| Dr_willis | Been looking at getting a smaller video player. but not seen any i like. | 21:07 |
| Dr_willis | Plus i watch a lot of anime with subtitles.. so i cant read them on a 2 inch screen | 21:07 |
| rhpot1991 | what about ipod touch/ | 21:10 |
| Dr_willis | I aint buying *&@&@# from apple. :) | 21:16 |
| rhpot1991 | heh, why not? | 21:16 |
| Dr_willis | id rather get an Asus EEE for that kindof $$ | 21:16 |
| Dr_willis | Apple can... well.. i wont go on... | 21:16 |
| Dr_willis | 100% mark up price for one..... :P | 21:16 |
| directhex | for a while the imac was good value | 21:22 |
| Dr_willis | Value and Apple. :) Heh heh. | 21:22 |
| rhpot1991 | I love my ipod | 21:22 |
| rhpot1991 | had an rca lyra before it | 21:23 |
| Dr_willis | That appletv, or mac mini. would be nice to have.. but i donthave the $$. | 21:23 |
| rhpot1991 | thing was the size of a brick, and swelled up when it charged | 21:23 |
| Dr_willis | I dont even want/need a mp3 player. - Its just more noise to me. dont get me started on the RIAA either. hehheh. | 21:23 |
| Dr_willis | I do like my Van's Sirus radio. but the Free Year is almost up on it. | 21:23 |
| rhpot1991 | I was saying the ipod touch cause thats wide screen, subs might be readable on it | 21:24 |
| rhpot1991 | and chapter skipping can simulate commercial skipping (when I ever get it working) | 21:24 |
| Dr_willis | Yea.. well. the subtitles videos are not tv recordings. | 21:24 |
| Dr_willis | so no comercials in them. | 21:24 |
| Dr_willis | Cheapest way to do all this is just get a portable dvd player that can do divx i guess. | 21:25 |
| Dr_willis | They are getting decent in the cost/value/addons now a days | 21:25 |
| rhpot1991 | just run mythtv on a small laptop | 21:27 |
| rhpot1991 | with your videos in mythvideo | 21:27 |
| rhpot1991 | or even any OS can play them | 21:27 |
| rhpot1991 | might have a problem with the cost though | 21:28 |
| Dr_willis | Yep. thats why i was looking at the EEE. But its all on hold for now. tilli see what Boss I have at work now. I dont want to get fired for watching videos at work. | 21:28 |
| Dr_willis | So for now - im recording/archiving my fave shows. Thas why i would like to auto-remove comercials/recncode to somting a bit smaller. | 21:28 |
| Dr_willis | but no hurry there either.. I got a 300gb hd for $40 - over the weekend . just for recordings | 21:29 |
| Ethan | oh man... now all of a sudden i have this problem mit Xorg using 100% CPU and everything very very slow (hitting arrow down, to go from one menu item to the next, takes 10 seconds (!!!) | 21:29 |
| rhpot1991 | if you just go in and edit the commflags you can check them then tell them to transcode | 21:30 |
| rhpot1991 | isn't much work | 21:30 |
| rhpot1991 | though if you have a lot of shows it may be | 21:30 |
| Dr_willis | Yea. it gets a bit confusing :) of course I really should set up this on a faster machine. | 21:30 |
| Dr_willis | gotta track down a howto on it. | 21:30 |
| Ethan | i think i've read about this problem somewhere but now i cant find it | 21:32 |
| rhpot1991 | Ethan: give your ati card a hug | 21:33 |
| directhex | which theme are you using? switch to iulius and see if it fixes it | 21:34 |
| Ethan | okay i'll try that... i think it may have started when i turned opengl on somwhere deep in the myth setup menu | 21:36 |
| Ethan | man, it'll take me 15 minutes to get there at this rate :-((( | 21:36 |
| rhpot1991 | I'd turn off opengl | 21:37 |
| rhpot1991 | unless you are sure you have support for it | 21:37 |
| rhpot1991 | especially if stuff was working well before you turned it on | 21:37 |
| directhex | it MIGHT be an opengl problem, if the theme you use has a bugged animated element | 21:38 |
| Ethan | after reading this (http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/293314) i'm pretty sure thats what the problem is, the fading in/out of mnenu text takes like a minute (no shit!) | 21:39 |
| rhpot1991 | my understanding is that opengl just gets you animations going from menu to menu, functionality wise they are all the same | 21:39 |
| Ethan | any way i can turn off opengl manually, without going through the myth menus? | 21:40 |
| rhpot1991 | its in the db somewhere | 21:42 |
| Dr_willis | i though gl was required for most of the themes? or is it just some features of the themes. | 21:43 |
| rhpot1991 | don't ask me where though | 21:43 |
| Dr_willis | :0 | 21:43 |
| rhpot1991 | Dr_willis: opengl is off by default | 21:43 |
| Dr_willis | One of these days i need to learn more MythTV. | 21:43 |
| rhpot1991 | Ethan: might be able to change it in mythweb if you have that setup | 21:43 |
| directhex | -O ThemePainter=Qt | 21:43 |
| rhpot1991 | directhex that just applies for the current session right? He would still need to go in and disable it for other sessions? | 21:45 |
| Ethan | you mean in http://mythtv/mythweb/settings/settings ? thats where i was just looking, but cant find "theme" or "paint" | 21:45 |
| Ethan | or "gl" for that matter | 21:45 |
| Ethan | aha, i have to select a host, not "global"... now i found it | 21:46 |
| Ethan | the theme is "titivillus" by the way | 21:47 |
| Ethan | Titivillus | 21:47 |
| Ethan | yaaaaaay that was the trick :-) changed the painter to "qt" and hit ctrl-alt-backspace and now my mythmenus are usable again :-D thanks!!! | 21:49 |
| Ethan | now, back to that transponder scan... i think i had just experienced a breakthrough when my girlfreind called... | 21:50 |
| Ethan | why do the theme images need to be prescaled EVERY TIME i start myth??? | 22:01 |
| javatexan | so converting mpeg to h.264....mencoder or ffmpeg...is one better than the other? | 22:03 |
| Dr_willis | I need to learn todo that better javatexan :) My videos i recoded looked like poo. | 22:04 |
| javatexan | lol....how do you tell them to do a h.264 mpeg file...it wants to do divx or something | 22:05 |
| Ethan | has anyone tried using phpmysql on the mythbackend yet, to edit the channel list? | 22:11 |
| Ethan | with over 1000 channels in the list after a scan, editing within myth or even the mythweb is pretty slow | 22:12 |
| directhex | i do that a fair bit | 22:16 |
| directhex | for channel icons, mostly | 22:16 |
| Ethan | coooool apt-get installed phpmyadmin, logged in, table channels.... *happy* | 22:22 |
| Ethan | at least i can bilk delete easier this way | 22:23 |
| Ethan | and make a backup of the channels list :) | 22:29 |
| lime4x4 | which setting should i use for a mce remote model 1039 | 22:33 |
| lime4x4 | the bottom is black and the top is silver | 22:33 |
| rhpot1991 | javatexan: h.264 is extremely slow in gutsy | 22:42 |
| rhpot1991 | what are you encoding for your tv screen or some other device? | 22:42 |
| TazgodX | so how do i connect to samba on my mythbox in windows? anyone know? | 22:43 |
| rhpot1991 | \\ip\sharename | 22:43 |
| rhpot1991 | provided you have the share setup correctly | 22:44 |
| TazgodX | i connect with linux easily | 22:44 |
| rhpot1991 | ip can be substituted for the computer name if windows can resolve it | 22:44 |
| javatexan | rhpot1991: yes for screen | 22:44 |
| TazgodX | what would sharename be tho? | 22:44 |
| javatexan | i don't want to lose a whole lot of quality, | 22:45 |
| directhex | TazgodX, whatever you set your share up as | 22:45 |
| TazgodX | got it | 22:45 |
| TazgodX | thanks | 22:45 |
| directhex | also, if you want name resolution, ensure windows and samba are in the same workgroup | 22:45 |
| TazgodX | yeah i got that set up | 22:45 |
| javatexan | these are mpeg2 files f | 22:46 |
| javatexan | is there a better way to go...I am only going to watch these in mythtv | 22:46 |
| javatexan | I am really just trying to get some of the hd back | 22:46 |
| javatexan | the h.264 I was using on windows was dropping the sizes pretty far.. | 22:48 |
| rhpot1991 | I think mythtv can transcode to xvid, poke around at that cause you can set up a transcode to happen automagically | 22:49 |
| TazgodX | i never got mythtv to transcode to work | 22:50 |
| rhpot1991 | other than that I use ffmpeg to do mpeg4/xvid/h.264 ipod encodes fairly reliably, something like that can be setup to run in a user job automagically too | 22:50 |
| rhpot1991 | strange, I thought transcode worked out of the box | 22:50 |
| javatexan | even from just a folder...I am hoping to transcode the mpeg2 and move it into the mythtv video folder | 22:51 |
| rhpot1991 | I'll look at transcoding on my box, I know I've done lossless mpeg2 | 22:51 |
| rhpot1991 | I gotta run, I'll hop on here later tonight | 22:51 |
| javatexan | well lossless mpeg2 are big files....I would like to move them to mpeg4 or avi to save HD | 22:52 |
| directhex | avi is a container, not a codec | 22:54 |
| directhex | put pcm wav and rgb video into an avi container, and you're looking at some fairly chunky file sizes | 22:54 |
| TazgodX | divx and XviD are main codecs for avi files | 22:54 |
| directhex | divx and xvid are mpeg4 part 2 codecs which have some popularity in the pirate video scene | 22:55 |
| TazgodX | use them with VBR MP3 and you get decently small | 22:55 |
| TazgodX | is that the only use? pirate video scene? is that why there are DivX support being added to DVD players? | 22:56 |
| TazgodX | couldn't be because its a good backup codec could it? | 22:56 |
| directhex | largely | 22:56 |
| TazgodX | i personally back up most of my movies in XviD, because it is a nice codec, and mythtv can play them | 22:59 |
| directhex | part 2 codecs aren't space-efficient compared to part 10, but there's an enormous volume of content available using them. not things people make themselves - imovie uses part 10, windows movie creator uses vc-1 | 22:59 |
| directhex | so it's not things people make themselves, and it's not stuff they buy (since that's drm'd vc-1) | 22:59 |
| directhex | so that leaves a pretty small pool of content | 22:59 |
| flami | humm , even though I think Im a bit wrong here .... Im trying to find out what kernel module i should compile for lirc , none of the drivers in ./configure seem to be right one ... I have this http://lirc.sourceforge.net/remotes/pinnacle_systems/PCTV_USB_STICK remote . | 23:01 |
| directhex | flami, the module isn't related to the remote, it's related to the receiver | 23:01 |
| flami | yes | 23:02 |
| flami | well its easy | 23:02 |
| flami | my reciever is the PCTV_USB:STICK | 23:02 |
| flami | and i cant find that in the ./configure | 23:02 |
| directhex | flami, plugged into what? | 23:02 |
| flami | USB ^^ | 23:02 |
| directhex | usb tuner, or usb ir receiver? | 23:03 |
| flami | usb tuner ( for dvbt ) | 23:04 |
| directhex | i2c. | 23:04 |
| flami | what you eman with i2c ? :P | 23:06 |
| flami | mean........ ^ | 23:06 |
| directhex | i mean configure lirc to use an i2c receiver | 23:06 |
| lime4x4 | Do u still have to go thru the whole process of downloading the lirc module for the mce remote that uses the lirc_mceusb2 module? Running the latest mythbuntu with all updates | 23:08 |
| flami | <--- debian /hides | 23:09 |
| The_Rebel | yo | 23:26 |
| Xenocide | hey guys is anyone able to help me with a remote wonder II? | 23:38 |
| Xenocide | no one? | 23:47 |
| Xenocide | r487ff28 | 23:53 |
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