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dodgerWAJust installed 8.04.1 as a move from KnoppMyth, and I'm finding video (Live TV) is noticeably jittery.00:03
dodgerWAMain difference in this install is I'm using VGA out instead of my PVR-350.00:03
dodgerWAIs this to be expected, or is there something I can do to improve the video quality?00:04
rhpot1991dodgerWA: have you enabled the 3rd party video drivers via the restricted driver manager?00:04
dodgerWAI'm not clear on how to use the restricted driver manager.  all it shows me is an empty list with a [close] button.00:05
dodgerWAI did configure X for my specific vga card.00:06
dodgerWAok, I just double-checked:  Setup/Utilities -> Setup -> Mythbuntu -> Proprietary Drivers -> Launch Restricted Drivers Manager00:09
dodgerWAit says "no proprietary drivers are in use on this system".  So, how do I add proprietary drivers?00:10
rhpot1991it should provide a checkbox to install them if your computer has something like an ati or nvidia card00:11
dodgerWAAlso, while I'm waiting for that; where can I find the myth folders?  I have additional drives I want to mount at myth/video and myth/tv, but the myth root isn't where I expect it.00:11
dodgerWArhpot, I don't.  Via Unichrome (S3)00:11
dodgerWA[jittery video] I'm not convinced this is a video card problem though.  It seems to coincide with the hard drive writes as the stream is spooled to the drive.00:13
dodgerWA[jittery video] The documentation I've found isn't clear.  Should the MPEG decoder on my PVR-350 be getting used even if the output is going through VGA, or do I have to push the output through the 350 to take advantage of that?00:14
directhexdodgerWA, you're not using the mpeg decoder.00:23
dodgerWAokay, thanks.  I guess I'll just have to go back to using the 350 then.00:30
dodgerWA[location of myth folder] okay, so does anybody know where the root "myth" folder is?01:07
ajhtiredwolfIm haivng two problems with mythbuntu, the first that is about a third of the time i select " watch tv" the front end crashes and i have to restart it to get it working again. The other is that lirc is acting odd, i can use it fine in mythtv, but after i close mythtv i have to restart lirc and irxevent /irexec to get it working again01:17
Lossifhey i have an easy problem, in terminal how do I download the latest parser for youtube?01:46
Lossifnm got it to work!02:02
MythbuntuGuest45Hello, does anyone know where I can find a list of the supported options to put in the xorg.conf file for the built-in "ati" driver with 8.04 ?02:16
cobb28question: every time i restart my mythbuntu box i have to reset the default directories to /var/lib/mythtv/recordings again....any ideas?03:01
cobb28it isn't saving these directories..is there a checkbox I overlooked or something?03:01
dodgerWAcobb; I do remember seeing an area for setting these values in mythtv-setup, but I didn't mess with them myself.03:26
cobb28yea i've been working on this for a couple hours now, very annoying03:28
cobb28when i reset the folders to the defaults i can watch tv again until i restart the PC03:28
dodgerWA:nod: that sucks03:29
Foopleanyone know of a analog USB video capture device that works out of the box with mythbuntu?03:29
baggar11what's up with avermedia a180's and mythbuntu? doesn't seem to work out of the box. search the forums and keep seeing forum posts pointing to some help guide online, haven't been able to find it... anyone point me in the right direction?03:56
balzI restarted my mythtv server and all of the sudden, I have no recorded programs and livetv doesn't work.  I'm not sure where to start... any ideas?04:03
gregLgo to mythweb and check your database04:29
gregLI will bet you will find it crashed04:30
balzgregL yeah let me try that04:42
balzdammit... mythweb isn't running04:43
miniboxhi guys05:58
balzhow do i repair the mysql database?09:05
fishsponge_hey people - can anyone offer advice on how to seciure the MySQL server running on my mythbuntu box a little better?16:16
fishsponge_the root account, for examplee has no password, there are user accounts for root@ultramagnus, whatever "ultramagnus" is, and i'm not entirelyy sure what to do... i do have phpmyadmin installed, so whatever needs doing will at least be simple!16:16
fishsponge_any advice>?16:16
superm1fishsponge_, you can set a mysql root password using the mysql command line tool16:20
superm1that extra account is a side effect of the build process, doesnt do anything16:20
fishsponge_ok, ultramagnus accouunts removed, root passwords set16:22
fishsponge_what about the "Any"@"%" account which shows "--" as it's password? (as opposed to "Yes" or "No")...16:22
fishsponge_and the "Any"@"localhost" account that has no password...16:22
superm1look at what it can change and then decide16:38
superm1the only important account is the "Mythtv"16:38
superm1account16:38
superm1you'll want to make sure you dont change it16:38
surgehey guys can anyone help me i have a uqestion17:02
surgequestion*17:02
tgm4883_laptop!ask | surge17:02
Zinnsurge: Please don't ask if anyone is around or if it is alright to ask a question.  Many people check back periodically and may answer your question when they see it.  IRC is not normally an instant fix so check back often for an answer.17:02
surgeno prob17:03
surgeI understand17:03
surgeWell... I have a wintv pvr 150 card17:04
surgeand a geforce fx 5900 ultra video card17:04
surgethe video card has dvi ,vga and a 9 pin svideo output ?17:05
tgm4883_laptopsounds about right17:05
surgewell17:06
surgeim guessing theres different standards of svideo cable ?17:06
surgebe right back17:06
surgewell my tv uses a 4 pin svideo cable17:07
surgeis there like a converter box i can buy or something17:08
surgebasically im just trying to setup the video to connect my video card to my tv17:08
surgeso i can start configuring mythtv17:09
tgm4883_laptopgo buy a 4 pin cable?17:09
surgewell the video card has a 9pin svideo input on it17:10
tgm4883_laptopyou mean output?17:10
surgeyes sorry17:11
tgm4883_laptopsounds like your card has VIVO17:11
surgeyes video in video out17:11
tgm4883_laptopin which case I think* since you only want video out you can just plug a 4 pin svideo in there17:12
shameany of you have a usb genpix skywalker?17:13
surgeit will fit ?17:13
tgm4883_laptopor you might need a splitter cable17:13
tgm4883_laptopsurge, it should fit, the 1-4 pins are in the same location17:13
tgm4883_laptopsec17:13
tgm4883_laptopsurge, take a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_In_Video_Out  and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svideo17:14
surgeok17:15
surgethis may seem like a dumb question17:15
surgebut17:15
surgecant i juse use the video output on my pvr 150 card17:15
tgm4883_laptopbeing that your PVR-150 doesn't have video output.   No.17:16
surgeof course17:17
surgeseems i need that vivo cable17:17
surgefor my video card17:17
tgm4883_laptopwell if your video card didn't come with one i'd try the 4 pin option17:17
folkertHi I hear tv-sound at login, please look at this thread for further explanation http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=94448517:19
surgeyeah.... lost that dang cable and i tried the 4 pin option.. pins don17:19
surgedon17:19
surgedon't* match up right17:19
surgeI guess I will just go buy that cable...17:19
ajhtiredwolfim having a problem with mythtv, about every other time that i try and watch tv it will hang for a while and then say "can't connect to the master back end server is it running?"17:24
folkertanyone???17:26
surgewhat type of video card do you guys use for your ythbox ?17:35
surgemythbox* ?17:35
oz_new atom boards any good for running backend/frontend together19:58
surgehey guys20:41
surgewhats a good video card for a mthbox setup20:41
surgeyou guys there21:03
surge?21:03
balzMy myth box went haywire:  no ssh, no webmin, no mythweb, and livetv (and recordings) don't work either.  I'm guessing that the problem might stem (at least partially) from a database problem, but I really don't know where to start.  Any suggestions?23:26
cobb28would by chance anyone know how to remove the rg6 cable from a dish network satellite? are the cable connections inside the LNB?23:41
balzI tried "mysqlcheck -u mythtv -p --repair"  (also tried with "root" instead of "mythtv") and I get the following error:  Got Error:  2002:  Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' 2 when trying to connect23:41
balznvm fixed!23:46

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