[00:10] <tritium> It appears as though nvidia-glx was supported in the ubuntu jaunty alpha4 release, so I'm guessing the latest daily builds of mythbuntu support nvidia-glx?
[03:17] <SpicyLemon> I have a mythbuntu install with a Pinnacle PCTV card (internal).  When I watch TV, the sound is wonky.  When watching a divx it's fine. TV recordings sound the same as live TV.  The sound isn't a constant hum, it sort of sounds like all voices and sounds are more metallic.  I've tried messing with alsamixer but couldn't get rid of it.  I've also tried different coax cables.  Anyone have any ideas?
[03:17] <tritium> partitioner seems to be stuck in today's daily build
[03:17] <SpicyLemon> *I'm not completely new to using linux but this is the first linux box I've owned.
[03:30] <Sharkonwheels> Q: If I have a bunch of scheduled stuff, and I redo the tuner setup (adding a 4th tuner) will the back-end redo the tuner number scheduling?
[03:41] <Jester86> hello
[03:42] <Jester86> can anyone help me configure my card to capture composite / svideo
[04:11] <thetruthis1> Hello, all. How do i setup a Hauppauge HVR-850 as my capture card during the Mythbuntu steup process?
[04:23] <Jester86> hello
[04:24] <Jester86> does anyone know how to set up svideo/composite capture?
[04:24] <Sharkonwheels> Jester: did you already set up the capture card profile for it?
[04:25] <Jester86> yeah
[04:25] <Jester86> i'm wondering if its not just the card tho ..
[04:25] <Jester86> I have a Dvico 3 and a Dvico 5
[04:26] <Jester86> forget which one is in which pc
[04:26] <Jester86> i'll brb
[04:26] <Sharkonwheels> I dunno those cards
[04:26] <Sharkonwheels> thetruthis: Is that card even supported? I see no mention of it anywhere on the MythTV WiKi
[04:26] <Sharkonwheels> !hvr-850
[04:26] <Zinn> Sorry I don't know about hvr-850
[04:27] <rhpot1991> Sharkonwheels: do your hvr-1600s do QAM?
[04:28] <Sharkonwheels> yea, kinda' - ain't messed with it much...I do have the versions that claim to have QAM (xx041)
[04:28] <Sharkonwheels> Dude - I gotta give you a shout-out...
[04:28] <Sharkonwheels> Many, MANY thanks for the assist - this thing is a BLAST!
[04:29] <rhpot1991> no problem
[04:29] <rhpot1991> glad its working out well for you
[04:29] <rhpot1991> were the hvr-1600s easy enough to set up?
[04:29] <Jester86> brb guys
[04:29] <rhpot1991> I've seen mixed reviews on them, seems some people they work easy for others just can't get them going
[04:29] <Sharkonwheels> did have 1 Q: if I have a bunch of sched. programs, and I redo the backend and the tuner numbers change, will the back-end scheduler figure that out and re-assign?
[04:29] <Sharkonwheels> u mean the QAM?
[04:30] <rhpot1991> Sharkonwheels: it should, when you set a tuner thats the "recommended" tuner, so if it isn't available it will choose whatever is
[04:30] <Sharkonwheels> I just don't know what system (I tried QAM-256 brielfy) my cable sys has (Comcast in Broward County, FL)
[04:30] <rhpot1991> the card as a whole though, not too hard?
[04:30] <Sharkonwheels> I wanna add the Pinnacle as a 4th tuner, for watching TV only (I like the .MPG's written from the encoders)
[04:31] <Sharkonwheels> the cards were easy, except at some point, now that there's 3, I had to manually put in the device names when setting up the capture cards
[04:31] <rhpot1991> Sharkonwheels: there is some propper way to fix the cards changing numbers, perhaps post in the forums and someone will tell you in there
[04:31] <rhpot1991> !forums
[04:31] <Zinn> The Mythbuntu forums are located at http://ubuntuforums.org/forumdisplay.php?f=301.  If you aren't getting a timely response here, there are lots of very active individuals there that may be able to help.
[04:32] <Sharkonwheels> I selected the 'MPEG PVR-X50' option, and it said not detected, but when I put in /dev/video0, then it showed HVR-1600 cx18  on the screen
[04:32] <rhpot1991> also plug your zip in here and it will tell you what QAM channels you should be able to use: http://www.silicondust.com/hdhomerun/channels
[04:32] <Sharkonwheels> I had to enter in the device names manually, but all 3 loaded, and work fine.
[04:33] <Sharkonwheels> alternatively, is there a way to force linux to detect the Pinnacle PCI card *AFTER* the HVR's have been detected and loaded (kernel bootup)?
[04:33] <rhpot1991> there is some way to deal with that, sadly I don't know it cause I don't deal with it
[04:33] <rhpot1991> it was talked about in here a few days ago, could check the logs or just hit the forums and hope the answer finds you
[04:34] <Sharkonwheels> I just wanna add the pinnacle to watch TV - don't care to record from it, as it's not MPEG2 out, hence no direct MPG file, and no acceleration of offloading the encoding
[04:35] <rhpot1991> might make you a little sad using that, if it doesn't offload the encoding you will eat some cpu
[04:35] <rhpot1991> no reason not to try it, but just keep that in mind
[04:36] <rhpot1991> I have a buddy who needs a capture card, thats why I am asking about the hvr1600, don't want to tell him to get one if its a pain cause then I need to support it :)
[04:36] <Sharkonwheels> it was pretty painless - especially 1!
[04:37] <Sharkonwheels> card works great out of the box, they're $50 at Circuit City, and model 1199 (@ the $50) includes the remote, which is supported and working
[04:37] <rhpot1991> thats a mce remote with a usb dongle right?
[04:37] <Sharkonwheels> nope - has the plug going into the card
[04:37] <Sharkonwheels> works fine though
[04:37] <rhpot1991> ah ok, picture I saw had both
[04:38] <Sharkonwheels> I set it up as "WinTV Remote"
[04:38] <rhpot1991> might be a slightly different version
[04:38] <Sharkonwheels> how many was he getting, just 1? or multiples? Worse case, is he has to type in device names, that was the hardest part :) It really was simple
[04:38] <rhpot1991> yep just one
[04:39] <Sharkonwheels> should be brain-dead install. when I had only one, it was fine, and was detecting when I changed type to "MPEG2 PVR-X50"
[04:39] <Sharkonwheels> link for the board is here: http://www.hauppauge.com/site/products/data_hvr1600.html
[04:40] <Sharkonwheels> don't be fooled by the pic - it's a small remote, mebbe 5-6 inches, not one of the massive MCE remote.
[04:40] <Sharkonwheels> Ain't no tiny pinnacle remote, though
[04:40] <rhpot1991> heh I have 2 of those remotes
[04:41] <Sharkonwheels> Ok - it's one of them jobs - the huge remotes, like on my viewsat, get in the way. This one is fine for me
[04:41] <rhpot1991> ya it gest the job done
[04:41] <rhpot1991> gets
[04:41] <rhpot1991> I use harmony 880s now, found them cheap on cyber monday from amazon
[04:42] <Sharkonwheels> For the one with the remote, the Haup model number is 1199 - $50 at CirCity, incl remote and the blaster cable. it plugs into the very bottom of the card on the backplate
[04:42] <Sharkonwheels> dude - I gotta go 1 step at a time :) I just started this on Saturday :)
[04:43] <Sharkonwheels> Sunday I went out and got a 500GB SATA drive, the HVR-1600+Pinnacle PCI, and installed it a billion times
[04:43] <rhpot1991> Note: Vista Media Center does not currently support clear QAM channels. To watch clear QAM channels, you should use the Hauppauge WinTV v6 application.
[04:43] <Sharkonwheels> You remember - you walked me through half the stuff!
[04:43] <rhpot1991> heh
[04:43] <Sharkonwheels> Is he wanting MythTV or MCE?
[04:43] <rhpot1991> yep, I remember :)
[04:43] <rhpot1991> mythtv, just laughing that they don't support clear QAM
[04:44] <Sharkonwheels> yanked the PCTV, added 2 more HVR's on Tuesday night, and been rocking since
[04:44] <Sharkonwheels> Winblows - whaddaya expect? If it's not a lack of advanced feature support, it's security holes you can drive through...
[04:44] <Sharkonwheels> and then there's "V-I-S-T-A" the dang 'V-word'
[04:45] <Sharkonwheels> brb
[04:48] <Sharkonwheels> seriously though - I knew nothing about these DVR's a week ago, and with the mythbuntu docs, wiki, and you, I was able to get it going fast. single-card was a snap.
[04:50] <Sharkonwheels> with the 3 1600's recording, top showed like 3% CPU util! On an Athlon XP 1843mHz (180/320FSB - mildly overclocked from 166) and 1.5GB RAM
[04:51] <Sharkonwheels> watching a recorded movie, while recording 3 channels, only bumped it up to the mid teens. not bad for a 6yo PC!
[04:51] <Jester86> ello govna
[04:52] <Jester86> Sharkonwheels, i've come to the conclusion that the crazy pinned to svideo/composite w/ audio adapter i bought is worthless
[04:52] <rhpot1991> Sharkonwheels: yep not bad at all, gotta love hardware encoding :)
[04:52] <neoneedy> anyone had hd video play fine in the thumbnail, but not play normally?
[04:52] <rhpot1991> alright off to watch some TV
[04:53] <rhpot1991> neoneedy: most likely your playback profiles mess with them
[04:53] <neoneedy> this is a single occurance
[04:53] <Jester86> anyone here ever use myth w/ DirecTV .. i have one of the new H23-600 receivers :\
[04:54] <neoneedy> other hd video has played back fine, my wife is sort of upset her survivor episode only plays in the thumbnail :-)
[04:54] <rhpot1991> neoneedy: bad video?
[04:54]  * rhpot1991 goes for real now
[04:54] <Jester86> i bought the serial to usb (usb plugs in the back of the receiver) .. use null modem to connect serial to pc's serial
[04:55] <Jester86> just need to know how to use i tnow
[04:55] <neoneedy> rhpot1991: plays fine via VLC through the web interface...
[04:59] <neoneedy> ok I just tried a new recording in HD... david letterman.. same issue.. so it appears consistant
[05:11] <robert`> I'm having trouble with the Mythbuntu 8.10 diskless server setup. I have gotten pretty far by myself but I'm thinking this is requiring a lot of manual setup? I basically got the pxe-client to boot from tftp server and its at the part where it loads from pxelinux.cfg. My config file for this client is empty and I'm kind of stuck on how to load ltsp image files from this point. Any help?
[06:12] <Sharkonwheels> rhpot1991: Got all 4 going.
[06:12] <Sharkonwheels> What I did, after reading that priority is as they are created (rather, preference), I did Video1/Video2/Video3 (the 3 1600's) then /dev/video (Pinnacle PCTV).
[06:13] <Sharkonwheels> I also set priority on the HVR's at +1, and the Pinnacle PCTV at -1 :) also enabled the avoid conflict with recording option-thingie.
[06:13] <Sharkonwheels> Works fine - all 4 tuners free/not recording, I go to watch TV, and it brings it up on Tuner4 which is the PCTV card
[07:07] <pteague> hmm... onboard intel gma 950 or pci nvidia fx 5200 ?
[08:10] <Sharkonwheels> pteague: you asking, or being funny?
[08:13] <pteague> apparently being funny cause i've made a lot of people laugh tonight...  the fx5200 i had gotten for my atom 230 (& never worked with it) works with my atom 330 & was wondering whether to use it there or the lan party box i'm thinking of making... but looks like i may go with a shuttle for that
[09:07] <Sharkonwheels> fx5200 should be much better. Using the prop. Nvidia driver, it should support XvMC, which makes a big diff in playback decoding.
[09:07] <Sharkonwheels> I'm curious...how's the perf. on that 330? That's the DC part, right?
[09:19] <pteague> ah crap... just getting around to trying to set it up... was hoping to install intrepid & i've got the 64bit... attempting to check cd for defects i got a kernel panic :(
[09:23] <pteague> wonder if i can find my hardy 32bit
[10:16] <pteague> well that doesn't seem good... tried booting off my previous install (basically swapping an atom 230 for atom 330) & adding an nvidia fx5200... & not getting a kernel panic, but it's just spitting out lots & lots of errors
[11:46] <pteague> ah, think i've figured it out...  seems as though there's some sort of a problem with either the mobo accepting the nvidia card, the particular mix of drivers, or maybe the power supply isn't getting enough power to it...
[12:09] <pteague> yep, found a forum post that has approx minimum power requirements for cards... fx5200 - 250w which is what my power supply in my mini-itx box is :(
[14:25] <[yzf600]> I just installed ubuntu 8.10 and the mythtv frontend that came with it
[14:25] <[yzf600]> when watching live tv, the program guide is painfully slow
[14:26] <[yzf600]> I saw the thread over at svn.mythtv.org
[14:26] <[yzf600]> from what I can tell, the mythtv release that came with ubuntu 8.10 (MythTV Version   : 18722, MythTV Branch    : branches/release-0-21-fixes) should have a fix for this
[14:27] <[yzf600]> apparently it doesn't
[14:28] <[yzf600]> I don't really feel like downloading the source and applying patches like several people in the thread have
[14:57] <gbutters> !slow guide | [yzf600]
[14:57] <Zinn> [yzf600]: If you have a slow guide in Live TV, this is most likely due to the bob deinterlacer.  Please try disabling this deinterlacer and test again.  If this is the case please report back.
[15:10] <rcopelan> !help PVR-250
[15:10] <Zinn> !help PVR-250 For a  complete list of my knowledge visit: http://www.baablogic.net/Zinn.cgi  Other available commands: !status, !about, !bug [bug_number].
[15:13] <rcopelan> !status
[15:13] <Zinn> I am alive.
[15:13] <rcopelan> !about
[15:13] <Zinn> I am an IRC bot written in perl, but my code is not yet released.  I am named after Howard Zinn, you can learn more about him here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Zinn
[15:19] <rcopelan> Hello. I have installed mythbunty 8.10  (and also tried with 9.04) using a PVR 250 card.  The sound from Live TV is available only via the PVR250 audio out and leads the video by 0.5-1.0 seconds.  Audio from streaming stations does come out of the sound card.
[15:20] <rcopelan> I tried wrapping the PVR audio out to the sound card audio in but that didn't yield any audio.
[15:22] <rcopelan> Found on a wiki that the PVR250 shoudl be set as Card type: MPEG-2 encoder card instead of ANalog V4L  but then the Live TV didn't work at all.   I would appreciate any pointers to where I find info about this issue.
[15:22] <rcopelan> !about
[15:22] <Zinn> I am an IRC bot written in perl, but my code is not yet released.  I am named after Howard Zinn, you can learn more about him here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Zinn
[15:23] <rcopelan> !about
[15:23] <Zinn> I am an IRC bot written in perl, but my code is not yet released.  I am named after Howard Zinn, you can learn more about him here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Zinn
[15:35] <jr2s> does the hauppage hd pvr212
[15:35] <jr2s> work with myth
[15:56] <StickMan> ohnoes hulu!
[16:00] <rcopelan> jr2s  I use the PVR 250.  works fine except for hte audio issue I posted here earlier today
[17:59] <psicobra> hi all any one able to help
[17:59] <rhpot1991> !ask
[17:59] <Zinn> 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.
[17:59] <psicobra> i have just installed my tv card a wintv nova-t
[17:59] <psicobra> i was typing the rest
[18:00] <psicobra> the picture works great but i have no sound
[18:00] <psicobra> it is a cx88 chipset
[18:00] <psicobra> there is no jack output
[18:02] <psicobra> i have been googling all day
[18:02] <psicobra> and last night
[18:03] <psicobra> i have had a few suggestions but as yet no luck it must be an easy fix
[18:18] <aliby-> did you try messing with your volume settings?
[18:20] <psicobra> yes as best i could
[18:20] <psicobra> think they should be right
[18:20] <psicobra> my sound comes through optical tho
[18:20] <psicobra> everything else works
[18:20] <psicobra> games video's mp3's ect
[20:30] <aliby-> any idea why mythtv (and other video playback apps) are so choppy wtih the ATI proprietary drivers?
[20:51] <StickMan> aliby, you sure you are running those drivers?
[20:51] <StickMan> do an fglrxinfo
[20:51] <StickMan> and see what it says
[20:52] <StickMan> i ended up having so much trouble with the latest drivers with my radeon 9600 i ended up settling on the open source 'radeon' driver
[20:52] <StickMan> for the older ati cards its probably a much better bet
[21:59] <psicobra> does any one know how to make the tv picture automatically progressive?