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ZinnPlease 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.00:24
neoneddyI know.. just pushing your buttons00:40
neoneddyQuestion, best graphics card under $100 for HD playback on mythbuntu?02:45
hadsNvidia02:47
neoneddyI have an nVidia right now.. but some BD rips play back at 1/2 speed02:48
neoneddyspecificly transformers and the dark knight02:48
neoneddyor this not a graphics card problem at all02:49
hadsProbably02:50
neoneddynot a graphics card problem?02:50
hadsProbably02:50
neoneddycurse these one word answers :-)02:50
neoneddynew question: common culprits for HD playback problems?  it's a dual core x64 AMD system, 2bg memory, nvidia 5200 or higher graphics card02:52
hadsCPU02:53
neoneddyreally?... I'02:53
neoneddyI'm not sure on the speed right now, but I figured it would be good02:53
hadsEasy to check. Play video and look at CPU usage.02:54
neoneddywhat's the best way to do that via command line?02:54
hadstop02:54
neoneddyahh right02:54
neoneddystandy by02:55
neoneddyplaying dark knight form an MKV and top CPU usage is 16% mythfronend.re02:56
neoneddy  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND02:58
neoneddy 7051 shawn     20   0  381m 207m  67m S   16 10.3   6:56.16 mythfrontend.re02:58
neoneddyhave anything to do with it being h264 encoded?03:00
bobbob1016I'm only getting stereo over spdif with "speaker-test -c 6", can anyone help me get 5.1?  Here's my .asound.rc http://pastebin.ca/132332703:02
neoneddylooks like mplayer plays the content fine, Internal players seems to be the one choking on it.. any switches for internal?03:14
neoneddynew question, anyone know how to update to the nightly builds of internal player?03:19
oobe i didnt know there was one05:10
oobeneoneddy, you can try xvmc if you current card supports it05:11
oobexvmc does not support 8xxx series but there is a new thing called VDPAU which apparently does05:11
oobeits experimental05:12
oobethe above things i mention take the load of the cpu and makes the GPU do a lot of the work decoding video05:12
tritiumoobe: experimental in mythtv, you must mean?  nvidia's latest drivers do support vdpau05:13
oobeyes that is correct05:13
oobealso mplayer svn supports it05:13
oobebut not stable AFAIK05:14
oobeVDPAU is only available in trunk version of mythtv05:14
oobeso suprisingly neoneddy maybe be better off getting a very cheap 6XXX or 7XXX and using xvmc till later on05:15
oobelol im responding 1 hr and 45 since his last question05:16
neoneddyI'm here :-).. been playing wii05:16
neoneddyOk what is xvmc now?05:17
oobegoogle xvmc05:17
oobefirst hit should be mythtv wiki05:17
neoneddyyou know, I had a feel you might say that.. this is a linux based IRC after all, but come on, you mentioned it :-) .. can't bait and switch like that.05:18
oobeno really i gave you all the info you need05:19
oobei even told you what it does05:20
oobebasically its pretty easy to setup if you have a supported GPU05:21
oobewhat is your nvidia card05:21
oobemodel number05:21
neoneddyI'm not even sure off hand...  cna I tell from the command line somehow?05:21
neoneddymy mythtv box is in a cabnit05:22
oobeyeah let me think05:22
tritiumcabinet?05:22
neoneddyyes, that's it :-)05:22
tritium;)05:22
oobecat /etc/X11/xorg.conf | grep BoardName05:23
oobethat might shed some light05:23
neoneddynothing there..05:23
neoneddyhttp://albertomilone.com/nvidia_scripts1.html  this look right ?05:23
hishHi all05:24
hishgot a mythweb question if anyone can help05:24
hishwhenever I access mythweb I get a listing of the directory structure rather than the web interface...any idea?05:25
oobeneoneddy, i have used envy05:25
oobeit cant be handy05:26
oobei mean can05:26
oobejust makes it a bit less labourous05:26
neoneddyI'm having some trouble installing envy with apt-get05:26
hishphp problem?05:26
oobebut also downloads and extra 20 30 megs of stuff you will never need for anything else05:27
MythbuntuGuest72installing 8.10 fresh, configuring the backend states it cannot log into the database.  There is no mythconverg created during install.  how to proceede05:27
oobei think its called envyng now05:27
oobeMythbuntuGuest72, did you do a custom install05:27
oobeadvanced i mean05:27
neoneddyeither of these sounds right "However the following packages replace it:05:28
neoneddy  envyng-qt envyng-core05:28
neoneddy" ?05:28
oobehish, do you mean mythweb doesnt really load the page05:28
hishyes05:28
MythbuntuGuest72no, not that I know of, this is my 1st time installin the 64bit05:28
hishit just shows the directory05:28
hishand files05:28
oobeenvyng-qt is gui and depends on core yes install em both if you want envy05:29
neoneddythis is all new to me05:29
MythbuntuGuest72i did not see any options like in the 32bit version05:30
neoneddythanks obe, you're my only hope.05:30
oobeMythbuntuGuest72, do you have mythtv-database  installed05:30
oobeneoneddy, np05:30
MythbuntuGuest72just mysql and information_schema05:30
oobeneoneddy, this will tell you what your card is it did on my system glxinfo | grep  renderer05:31
neoneddyso now envy will configure a different graphics drivers that will render video better?05:32
hishbtw oobe, I this is not an ubuntu install...it's actually archlinux05:32
MythbuntuGuest72oobe, is there a way around this?05:32
oobehish try #mythtv-users05:32
oobeits a general non os support05:32
hishthat's what I was looking for but I didn't find it so I wandered in here :)05:33
hishok, found it...thanks oobe05:33
oobeMythbuntuGuest72, aptitude search  mythtv-database05:33
oobeif its not installed then install it05:33
oobesudo apt-get install  mythtv-database05:33
oobebrb05:34
neoneddyoobe, I ran envy in text mode and it looks like I have the newest nvidia driver installed already.  Maybe I'm confused.05:35
neoneddyoobe, it's not a huge deal, I need to go in and look at my hard ware here anyway.05:35
MythbuntuGuest72i   mythtv-database                                                        - A personal video recorder application (database)05:36
MythbuntuGuest72it was installed05:36
oobeneoneddy, this will tell you what your card is it did on my system glxinfo | grep  renderer05:38
oobe glxinfo | grep  renderer05:38
oobesorry i dont think my typing was to clear05:39
oobeim tired05:39
neoneddyfrom the terminal "Error: unable to open display05:39
neoneddy"05:39
oobestart a fresh shell05:39
oobeyou su - to other user like root05:40
tritiumroot account is locked by default.  Use 'sudo -i'05:40
oobeglxinfo | grep  renderer05:41
oobeOpenGL renderer string: GeForce 8400 GS/PCI/SSE2/3DNOW05:41
oobethat is what mine looked like05:41
MythbuntuGuest72is there a way to force the install of mythconverge?05:42
oobeanyway you want a 6xxx or 7XXX series or even 5XXX to support xvmc05:42
ooberead up on it05:42
oobeif you have a supported card already try it05:42
oobeif not thats the way to go for playing back HD on the cheap05:42
neoneddysu I get an authentication error05:43
neoneddyhowever I cna sudo fine05:43
oobeMythbuntuGuest72, have you tried setting stuff up from mythbuntu-control-centre05:44
MythbuntuGuest72yes05:44
neoneddyoobe thanks for the help.. I just had mplayer play my Dark Knight goodness05:45
MythbuntuGuest72no luck05:45
oobeneoneddy, thats an ok comprimise05:45
oobeMythbuntuGuest72, did you do the test connect to database05:45
oobetest sql connection05:46
oobedoes your mysql.txt have your mysql info put in correctly05:47
oobelike port number05:48
MythbuntuGuest72I tried, but connect failed because the db does not exsist05:48
oobewow05:48
oobeok you can do it the old fashioned way but that package should of installed it05:48
MythbuntuGuest72I am running back through the setup one more time05:49
MythbuntuGuest72when it gives me 4 options to install, do I leave all of them unselected to preform typical install?05:50
oobeMythbuntuGuest72, http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/User_Manual:Initial_Installation#Setup_mysql_database_mythconverg05:52
oobeheh05:52
MythbuntuGuest88oobe, can you send the install link again?05:53
oobehttp://www.mythtv.org/wiki/User_Manual:Initial_Installation#Setup_mysql_database_mythconverg05:53
oobeif you havent already reinstalled yet or started try this first05:53
oobemc.sql is already on your system05:54
oobejust not in  the same path05:54
oobetype locat mv.sql05:54
oobetype locate mc.sql05:54
oobeit will take less then 10 mins to test and if it works it will have saved you time05:55
MythbuntuGuest88what are the steps?05:55
oobeits on the page05:56
oobethat i gave05:56
oobei used google to find it so i guess thats the first step05:57
MythbuntuGuest88I am already installing, but this will be my 3rd time.  I think there are 4 options to select components to choose from , is leaving them unselected the typical install?05:58
MythbuntuGuest88I am not there yet.  it will take a little time for it to format the 2tb raid.05:59
oobeMythbuntuGuest88, i cant really remember i installed mythbuntu 8.04.1 a few months back06:03
MythbuntuGuest88the install has changed a little since then,06:04
oobefrom memory there is an advanced install where you configure mythtv during the install and another option to let it install like a regular OS06:04
oobethere must be a current guide on mythbuntu.org06:05
oobenice06:12
MrEgg964hi all :) I'm having an issue with Cover Art, when playing mp3 with MythMusic : the cover will show for a few seconds, then disappear. Any idea ?11:27
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nonix4Hrm, https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MythTV/Install/Hardy/Diskless mentions nothing about what kind of kernel should be used... it ain't going to work w/out a kernel, right?15:25
ThraeAlright, it seems mplayer isn't multithreaded.16:11
ThraeI'll try mplayerxp.16:12
atmaweaponmy usb ir receiver has become unresponsive - the red LED just stays lit.  anyone have any insight on troubleshooting this issue?16:28
MythbuntuGuest02having trouble installin the 64bit version.  got past the part where the install did not install make the mythconverg db,  connected mythbackend to it.  But for some reason the frontend (on the same server ) will not connect.16:31
MythbuntuGuest02place the physical ip as well as the user and login that connect in the backend config16:32
MythbuntuGuest02still no luck16:32
ThraeWhere are mythtv's settings kept for mplayer? I can't find .mplayer.17:38
ThraeHow does one setup audio? I'm getting no audio, even though lspci shows the card is detected.18:00
ThraeI see [   24.511627] saa7133[0]/alsa: saa7133[0] at 0xffaef000 irq 10 registered as card -2, but that's a tuner card.18:01
bobbob1016I'm only getting stereo over spdif with "speaker-test -c 6", can anyone help me get 5.1?  Here's my .asound.rc http://pastebin.ca/132332723:22
MythbuntuGuest51having trouble installin the 64bit version.  got past the part where the install did not install make the mythconverg db,  connected mythbackend to it.  But for some reason the frontend (on the same server ) will not connect.23:58

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