| ahave | is there a way to lookup what HD freq table and modulation type my cable provider uses? (comcast in USA) | 00:06 |
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| ahave | is there a way to lookup what HD freq table and modulation type my cable provider uses? (comcast in USA) | 00:18 |
| c3rb3rus5 | ahave: it will probably be much more local then that, apparently they can change based on local office | 00:20 |
| ahave | c3rb3rus5, hmm. so how does one know which to use? | 00:20 |
| ahave | can i call and ask? | 00:20 |
| c3rb3rus5 | can't you scan? | 00:21 |
| c3rb3rus5 | i use a firewire connection, so i dont use those tables | 00:21 |
| ahave | yes, i can scan | 00:21 |
| c3rb3rus5 | you are looking for OTA QAM? | 00:21 |
| ahave | over cable | 00:21 |
| c3rb3rus5 | yea | 00:21 |
| c3rb3rus5 | QAM | 00:22 |
| ahave | i did one scan, and i suppose it worked.. but i seem to be missing a few channels and i also gained alot of channels that are not digital.. | 00:22 |
| c3rb3rus5 | hrm, i can't realy halp out too much on channel scanning.. i had no lock when i tried to use my tuner card | 00:23 |
| c3rb3rus5 | luck too | 00:23 |
| ahave | do you get a horizontal bar of black&white 'fuzz' at the top of your video?.. i do on all the HD channels | 00:25 |
| c3rb3rus5 | ahave: look here: http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/forumdisplay.php?f=45 | 00:27 |
| c3rb3rus5 | ahave: no, i don't have any type of distortion, but again, i'm using set top box through firewire | 00:27 |
| c3rb3rus5 | ahave: check your monitor / tv settings, it might be set to 4:3 and scaling the HD content to fit a square leaving you with not so fun bars | 00:33 |
| c3rb3rus5 | or i might be grabbins at straws | 00:34 |
| ahave | well, this channel happend to be in 4:3 | 00:34 |
| c3rb3rus5 | in hD? | 00:34 |
| ahave | or should i let Mythtv do teh scaling | 00:34 |
| ahave | digital channel, yes | 00:34 |
| c3rb3rus5 | i just let myth figure it out | 00:34 |
| c3rb3rus5 | i have it hooked up to a 32" hdtv | 00:34 |
| c3rb3rus5 | set myth to the 16:9 ratio and let it figure out everything else | 00:35 |
| ahave | yup, still there | 00:37 |
| c3rb3rus5 | :( | 00:37 |
| ahave | hmm, it seems to only be on digital signals that are in 4:3 ratio | 00:39 |
| ahave | (but i do not get the noise when using the tuner in my tv) | 00:39 |
| c3rb3rus5 | hmmm should i install the latest beta of mythbuntu, or wait for the full version in 15 days... | 00:51 |
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| MythbuntuGuest49 | Hi, after fresh install, HDHomerun tuner is not available unless I go to mythTV setup and then go back to the frontend. Any tips? (using latest beta) | 02:58 |
| superm1 | MythbuntuGuest49, try setting up dhcp in network-admin | 03:01 |
| superm1 | rather than network manager | 03:01 |
| superm1 | sucks that bug is *still* around | 03:01 |
| superm1 | i thought we fixed it | 03:01 |
| c3rb3rus5 | random off topic question, but is there any way program in linux that behaves similar to ghost or acronis on windows? | 03:02 |
| superm1 | MythbuntuGuest49, austin.res.rr.com, ah you local to the austin area then? | 03:02 |
| MythbuntuGuest49 | i'll try that. Thanks superml | 03:02 |
| MythbuntuGuest49 | yes, I'm in Austin, you? | 03:02 |
| superm1 | MythbuntuGuest49, yeah | 03:02 |
| superm1 | i just moved down here maybe 1.5-2 mo ago | 03:02 |
| c3rb3rus5 | uhm... any program... not any way program... i cant think straight today | 03:03 |
| superm1 | c3rb3rus5, ghost4linux is available | 03:03 |
| MythbuntuGuest49 | partimage, c3rb.. | 03:03 |
| MythbuntuGuest49 | I moved here about 2 years ago.. you liking it here? | 03:03 |
| superm1 | yeah, i'm still adjusting to the weather | 03:03 |
| superm1 | today was quite brutal | 03:04 |
| superm1 | first day i've turned on my AC | 03:04 |
| c3rb3rus5 | partimage has the same backup / recovery functionality? well... more or less? | 03:04 |
| MythbuntuGuest49 | brutal? It was nice! Where are you from? | 03:04 |
| superm1 | midwest, chicago and iowa | 03:04 |
| MythbuntuGuest49 | I've never used ghost, but partimage does what I think ghost does... not the same format though | 03:04 |
| * superm1 has a feeling he is in for a beating as summer gets closer :) | 03:05 | |
| MythbuntuGuest49 | oh yeah... you ain't seen nothin' yet! | 03:05 |
| superm1 | MythbuntuGuest49, so being down here, by chance have you futzed around with TWC's firewire support? | 03:05 |
| MythbuntuGuest49 | no.. great question though. I'd love to know if it works. | 03:06 |
| superm1 | well i just picked up a box | 03:06 |
| MythbuntuGuest49 | which box is it? | 03:06 |
| superm1 | and i get the HD locals and BBC america via firewire | 03:06 |
| superm1 | that's it.... | 03:06 |
| superm1 | sa4240hdc | 03:06 |
| superm1 | it's one of the cable card models, so it behaves different enough that sa3250ch script doesnt work, but the internal channel changer in myth can handle it | 03:07 |
| MythbuntuGuest49 | yeah, you can get that without a box with the HDHomerun.. and Discovery channel for some reason is also unencrypted.. | 03:07 |
| superm1 | discovery hd is unencrypted??? | 03:07 |
| superm1 | for QAM you mean? | 03:07 |
| MythbuntuGuest49 | Yeah, QAM. | 03:07 |
| MythbuntuGuest49 | Not sure why, but its there. | 03:07 |
| superm1 | oh i'll have to redo my QAM scans for my hdhomerun then | 03:07 |
| superm1 | i didnt see it the first time around | 03:07 |
| superm1 | for the digital cable box though, its all CCI 0x2 for everything but the channels i mentioned | 03:08 |
| superm1 | so i was going to start climbing the support chain until i got to an engineer hopefully | 03:08 |
| MythbuntuGuest49 | That sucks.. | 03:08 |
| superm1 | to see if that can get changed | 03:08 |
| MythbuntuGuest49 | I should probably call, too.. the more calls the better I guess. | 03:09 |
| superm1 | well the more the merrier i suppose :) | 03:09 |
| superm1 | i was hoping someone had already done this at some point for this area | 03:09 |
| superm1 | and had some contacts local to this TWC region | 03:09 |
| superm1 | i've had to do this in the past with other cable companies | 03:09 |
| superm1 | and it just takes ages and/or persistence to get anywhere | 03:10 |
| MythbuntuGuest49 | we'll I'm sorta new to this stuff, so I was trying to avoid anything above the basics at this point | 03:10 |
| superm1 | ah | 03:12 |
| superm1 | well then dont worry as of yet | 03:12 |
| superm1 | but if you want to join the band of folks to complain, in the future | 03:12 |
| superm1 | lets get all the mythtv users in Austin | 03:12 |
| superm1 | and go in at lunch i say | 03:12 |
| superm1 | and demand to sit down with an engineer | 03:12 |
| superm1 | :) | 03:12 |
| MythbuntuGuest49 | I'm down with that. | 03:13 |
| superm1 | for now i set up the box as an input group | 03:13 |
| superm1 | so i record everything via svideo cept BBC america | 03:13 |
| superm1 | so its not a "fully" lost cuase | 03:13 |
| superm1 | *cause | 03:13 |
| MythbuntuGuest49 | with an irblaster? | 03:13 |
| superm1 | well.. | 03:13 |
| superm1 | i ended up pulling all the channel changer code out of mythtv's source | 03:13 |
| superm1 | and into my own very poorly accepted binary | 03:14 |
| superm1 | assembled | 03:14 |
| MythbuntuGuest49 | thats pretty hardcore... | 03:14 |
| MythbuntuGuest49 | Besides the weather, how is Austin treating you so far? | 03:14 |
| KillerKiwi2005__ | lol.... whats wrong with a channel changing script | 03:15 |
| superm1 | well i did start the mythbuntu project mind you, so i am a bit hardcore :) | 03:15 |
| MythbuntuGuest49 | cool, I just found it. | 03:15 |
| superm1 | none of the scripts that are out can change for the sa4240hdc | 03:15 |
| MythbuntuGuest49 | It is freakin' great. Its great to say thanks to the dude behind it. | 03:15 |
| superm1 | i'd like to write something that just uses libmythtv in the future, so as to make these other scripts a bit pointless | 03:15 |
| superm1 | i'm glad to see word gets around for it so well without much advertising for it :) | 03:16 |
| MythbuntuGuest49 | wow, I've used knoppmyth, plain ubuntu + myth, and now this. It is really put together well. | 03:16 |
| MythbuntuGuest49 | One question, though... | 03:17 |
| superm1 | sure | 03:17 |
| MythbuntuGuest49 | The hd tv playback is choppy whereas, | 03:18 |
| MythbuntuGuest49 | my last install wasn't. not sure what is different in the mix. | 03:18 |
| superm1 | well 8.04 or 7.10 to start? | 03:18 |
| KillerKiwi2005__ | superm1: is there a reason ubuntu dosn't auto create udev rules for all devices... instead of just having /dev/video0 , /dev/video1 ? | 03:18 |
| superm1 | and if 7.10 are you on Myth 0.21? | 03:18 |
| MythbuntuGuest49 | 8.04 mythbuntu | 03:18 |
| superm1 | KillerKiwi2005__, talk to keescook about that | 03:18 |
| superm1 | he started to go down that route to make some udev rules | 03:19 |
| superm1 | but i dont think that ever came to fruition for one reason or another | 03:19 |
| superm1 | MythbuntuGuest49, okay so 0.21 based myth | 03:19 |
| MythbuntuGuest49 | yes | 03:19 |
| superm1 | MythbuntuGuest49, the thing is that for 0.21 the default deinterlacer is more cpu intensive | 03:19 |
| superm1 | so you can pick a less intensive video playback profile | 03:19 |
| superm1 | and that usually resolves it | 03:19 |
| superm1 | if not, there are a few areas that i can recommend to try to improve performance | 03:20 |
| MythbuntuGuest49 | I'll try that first.. sound like it will probably work | 03:20 |
| KillerKiwi2005__ | superm1: it would be cool to have.... /dev/video_pvr150_pci1 would be nive | 03:20 |
| superm1 | KillerKiwi2005__, yeah that's what the plan was with the udev rules | 03:20 |
| superm1 | from what i remember, it boiled down to how to easily pull that information into an accessible form to use for the udev rules | 03:21 |
| superm1 | and upstream had some qualms | 03:21 |
| superm1 | you'll have to see what keescook says about it though | 03:21 |
| KillerKiwi2005__ | its not hard... just scrape the stout | 03:21 |
| KillerKiwi2005__ | and a few re expressions | 03:21 |
| superm1 | well it was a fundamental problem that was wrong with it | 03:22 |
| superm1 | again i dont know the details, just messenger here. | 03:22 |
| KillerKiwi2005__ | ok | 03:22 |
| c3rb3rus5_friedc | so i think that i just witnesed my computer fry | 03:22 |
| superm1 | MythbuntuGuest49, hopefully that should take care of it. | 03:22 |
| KillerKiwi2005__ | was there smoke ? | 03:22 |
| c3rb3rus5_friedc | nah, there was a staticy sound that came form the speakers | 03:22 |
| c3rb3rus5_friedc | kinda like a gsm phone about to ring | 03:22 |
| KillerKiwi2005__ | printer power lead into laptop == smoke coming from keyboard | 03:23 |
| c3rb3rus5_friedc | then the screen went blank | 03:23 |
| superm1 | MythbuntuGuest49, but as for other stuff w/ Austin, i'm starting to get adjusted. my only issue would be that all of my coworkers are 10+ years older than myself, so there is always a bit of an age barrier there | 03:23 |
| superm1 | MythbuntuGuest49, (i'm just out of school before I came down here) | 03:23 |
| c3rb3rus5_friedc | so i try to reboot, hangs on drive detection | 03:24 |
| c3rb3rus5_friedc | and now win won't boot, not even into safe mode... :( and i cant even see what the damn bsod is | 03:24 |
| c3rb3rus5_friedc | stupid windows | 03:24 |
| c3rb3rus5_friedc | wrong forum to be complaining about win, i know... but i'm pretty sure this is hardwar related | 03:25 |
| superm1 | well drives die | 03:25 |
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| superm1 | so it happens | 03:25 |
| superm1 | do a run of DFT on it | 03:25 |
| superm1 | and see how it spits out | 03:25 |
| c3rb3rus5 | dft = drive fitness test? | 03:26 |
| superm1 | yeah | 03:27 |
| superm1 | hitachi makes it | 03:27 |
| c3rb3rus5 | ok | 03:27 |
| c3rb3rus5 | its not specific to their drives is it? | 03:27 |
| superm1 | nope | 03:28 |
| c3rb3rus5 | hope its not the HD.. that might be the worst of all posssibilities... | 03:29 |
| MythbuntuGuest49 | that helped bigtime, superml. Thanks. | 03:29 |
| superm1 | no prob | 03:33 |
| c3rb3rus5 | um... i'm gonna gues that its bad if the bootable DFT disk does not respond after booting... and keypresses make the computer speaker sounds like a frog | 03:34 |
| MythbuntuGuest49 | hey, superml, I gotta run, but if I can help with the austin TW thing, let me know. | 03:37 |
| MythbuntuGuest49 | or if you have any q's about Austin, I might be able to help you. | 03:37 |
| MythbuntuGuest49 | is it bad form to give you my email via irc? | 03:37 |
| superm1 | MythbuntuGuest49, you can email me | 03:39 |
| superm1 | superm1@ubuntu.com | 03:39 |
| superm1 | i put it out publicly :) | 03:39 |
| superm1 | you dont have to put yours out publicly though | 03:39 |
| MythbuntuGuest49 | i'll shoot you a line in a minute. | 03:39 |
| MythbuntuGuest49 | Welcome to Austin. Thanks again for the help. | 03:39 |
| c3rb3rus5 | update: apparently the SATA drives are not detecting consistently... | 03:47 |
| puck | Hey, I was just wondering if mythtv-status had made it into the mythbuntu 8.04 betas? | 09:34 |
| MythbuntuGuest40 | ? | 13:40 |
| Pasteurized | hi all | 15:10 |
| superm1 | puck, it's in apt, it should be by default for the RC | 15:53 |
| Wobbo | i am trying to test 8.04 | 21:25 |
| Wobbo | but when booting live cd, after a while, it gives me an error | 21:26 |
| Wobbo | one sec | 21:26 |
| Wobbo | ill write down the error | 21:26 |
| Wobbo | seems it doesn't occur in safe graphics mode | 21:30 |
| atlanta80 | anyone here? | 23:25 |
| tgm4883_laptop | !ask | atlanta80 | 23:27 |
| ubotu | atlanta80: Please don't ask to ask a question, ask the question (all on ONE line, so others can read and follow it easily). If anyone knows the answer they will most likely answer. :-) | 23:27 |
| atlanta80 | I mean, technically I wasn't asking about asking a question, lol | 23:27 |
| tgm4883_laptop | !hello | 23:28 |
| ubotu | Hi! Welcome to #ubuntu-mythtv! | 23:28 |
| atlanta80 | but anyways, I have slight annoyance, when I go into the Video Manager the text "Loading.." appears over the top of all the movie info as well as the menu when I bring it up | 23:28 |
| atlanta80 | I could post a screenshot if necessary | 23:29 |
| tgm4883_laptop | yea do that | 23:29 |
| atlanta80 | hmmm, maybe never taken a SS in XFCE | 23:30 |
| tgm4883_laptop | hmm | 23:31 |
| tgm4883_laptop | printscreen? | 23:31 |
| atlanta80 | no go, I'm running a stock Mythbuntu 7.10 so I don't have very many apps installed | 23:32 |
| tgm4883_laptop | hmm, interesting | 23:32 |
| atlanta80 | one moment, installing xfce4-screenshot-plugin | 23:34 |
| atlanta80 | wow, never thought figuring out how to take a screenshot could be so involved | 23:38 |
| tgm4883_laptop | yea it really should be included by default | 23:43 |
| atlanta80 | Finally, ok here we go: https://filebox.vt.edu/users/jawil06/Public/MythTV/ | 23:53 |
| atlanta80 | that's what it is doing | 23:53 |
| directhex | never seen that happen | 23:57 |
| tgm4883_laptop | run the frontend from a terminal and see if it says anything about it | 23:57 |
| atlanta80 | I've looked at /var/log/mythtv/mythfrontend.log and this is what I get everytime I load the Video Manager http://pastebin.com/m69f0edc1 | 23:59 |
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