[01:44] <noinip> Does this guide still work as expected for transcoding
[01:44] <noinip> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=346778
[01:44] <noinip> Or should I follow something else?
[02:19] <pteague> ok, gotta love this...  on my pvr-500 tuner #2 usually dies either before a recording or in the middle of 1... #1 always works...  so tonight i had something i really wanted to record & something else i thought it'd be kinda nice to record... set up the must have to record on #1, the nice to have on #2... so guess which 1 crapped out on me tonight?
[05:09] <fnc1> evening all.. anyone around?
[05:13] <IOU> evening
[05:14] <fnc1> im looking at redoing my mythbackend... and was thinking about using mythbuntu
[05:16] <fnc1> but after some diggin i see that if i want to do a sw raid then im probably gong to have do a alt ubuntu install, then install the mythbuntu package?
[05:16] <fnc1> or is there a mythbuntu iso that i can use that im not seeing?
[05:16] <hads> Na, not a big deal though, it's all the same repository
[05:17] <hads> So you'll end up with the same packages
[05:17] <fnc1> if it makes a difference..  i want to install the os on its own drive, then the /video  or whatever it was called on the raid 5
[05:17] <IOU> just have the raided drive mount on /var/lib/mythtv
[05:17] <IOU> thats what mine does
[05:17] <hads> Well you can always setup RAID after you install
[05:18] <IOU> or that
[05:18] <hads> If you don't want RAID on /
[05:18] <fnc1> i was kinda thinking that... just set /video on the / then change it later
[05:19] <fnc1> and if thats the case i guess i could just use the desktop iso (and wouldnt need the alternate iso one)
[05:20] <fnc1> any of you guys happen to be running a software raid for your /video ?  any issues there?
[05:21] <hads> I don't RAID on my mythboxes but there won't be an issue
[05:22] <IOU> i raid my box
[05:22] <IOU> i have a 60G drive that holds the OS
[05:22] <hads> I don't care enough about recordings for RAID
[05:22] <IOU> and i have two 200G striped to 400G which is mounted on /var/lib/mythtv
[05:22] <IOU> i just got sick of one of my drives getting full
[05:23] <fnc1> got cha
[05:23] <IOU> so i installed Mythbuntu on the 60
[05:23] <fnc1> i cant remember how large my os drive is but im guessing at least 320
[05:23] <hads> Ah, I use NFS to a server for stored videos etc.
[05:23] <IOU> set up the software raid and mounted on that path
[05:23] <IOU> hads: i would have done that, but this is the machine with the biggest storage media lol
[05:24] <fnc1> i have a nfs hardware raid box.. but its only got 750gb left so i wanted to set something else up to store all my huge atsc recordings
[05:24] <fnc1> (until i manage to build a new bigger hard ware raid)
[05:25] <fnc1> so my backend would be 320 or something for the os and 5x750 gb for /video
[05:25] <fnc1> software raid 5
[05:26] <IOU> 320 gig for the OS? Overkill ? lol
[05:26] <IOU> :)
[05:26] <fnc1> originally i wanted to do like you an offload the recordings to my big raid. but after ripping my dvds, its kinda full
[05:26] <fnc1> well its whats in there now..
[05:27] <IOU> i was gonna do it like this:
[05:28] <IOU> /dev/sda1 - 200G - Videos/Recordings
[05:28] <IOU> /dev/sdb1 - 200G - Music
[05:28] <IOU> but i couldnt be assed
[05:28] <IOU> i need to re-think my setup anyhow
[05:28] <fnc1> yeah.. thats what im doing now
[05:28] <fnc1> heh
[05:29] <fnc1> /dev/sda3             285G  103G  171G  38% /
[05:29] <fnc1> /dev/sda1              99M   21M   73M  23% /boot
[05:29] <fnc1> tmpfs                1014M   12K 1014M   1% /dev/shm
[05:29] <fnc1> /dev/sdb1             459G  430G  5.4G  99% /video/tv
[05:30] <fnc1> 5.4g free doesnt work too well.. there is no more room for recordings
[05:34] <hads> It's fine with automatic deletion
[05:35] <fnc1> cept i dont like deleteing things :-/
[05:35] <fnc1> /media/disk
[05:35] <fnc1>                      9416352768 8326998528 1089354240  89% /mnt/raid
[05:36] <fnc1> see
[15:51] <zyberwoof> Adding QAM channels is a pain in the rear.  Mythbuntu found all of the channel, but was unable to lable any of them.  So now I am going back channel by channel, and finding out if the channel works and which it is.  Once I figure out what it is by watching it, I match it up to my report on SchedulesDirect.org and type in the xmlid, callsign, and name.  Once I do that, mythfilldatabase populates the guide just fine.
[15:51] <zyberwoof> I have two questions.
[15:51] <zyberwoof> 1) Is there an easier (more automatic) way to populate Mythbuntu with the correct channel information?
[15:51] <zyberwoof> 2) If not, is there a simple method to export/import this information both for archival purposes and to share with others who have the same provider and live in my area?
[15:51] <zyberwoof> I have Mythbuntu 8.04 running as a VM in VMware.  My tuner is HDHomeRun.  I live outside of Atlanta (Alpharetta) and have Comcast.  So far all I have been adding is Qam256 channels.
[16:40] <superm1> zyberwoof, so that data comes with the channel stream.  if comcast doesn't provide it, then you have to do it manually
[16:40] <superm1> you can export the tables from your database i believe, but that's abou  it
[17:30] <EvilGuru> Can LVM be set up from the normal CD nowadays? Or is the alternate install still needed?
[17:30] <rhpot1991> EvilGuru: alternate only I do believe
[17:30] <rhpot1991> LVM is less useful now that we have storage groups though
[17:31] <EvilGuru> I also keep my DVD rips and music on my mythbox
[17:31] <rhpot1991> so do I...
[17:31] <rhpot1991> just plan ahead and you should be ok, otherwise use the altnerate disc
[17:47] <EvilGuru> I feel more comfortable with the alternate one
[17:48] <EvilGuru> I may be wrong, but I think back in the 5.04 days the only way to install ubuntu was to use the 'alternate' disk, as the live cd was just live
[17:56] <EvilGuru> Hmm, seems as if 9.04 will not have alternate disks
[18:19] <zyberwoof> My /var/log/mythtv/mythfrontend.log file keeps growing huge.  It is completely filling up my root partition.  It seems to be around 5.2 GiB right now and my hard drive is full.  All the log keeps saying is "LiveTV forcing JumpTo 1".  Any way to fix this?
[20:10] <EvilGuru> Does 9.10 (or the alphas which will one day become such) support the iMON LCD/remote out of the box, or does one need to manually compile lirc & friends
[20:17] <EvilGuru> As poking around the ubuntu forums 8.04 users and 8.10 users seem to be having some trouble with it
[20:25] <foxbuntu> EvilGuru, depends on the device, some of them yes, some of them no
[20:26] <EvilGuru> Guess I'll need to wait until my case comes to know
[20:26] <foxbuntu> EvilGuru, Antec Silver or Black?
[20:26] <EvilGuru> (Silverstone GD01B-MXR
[20:26] <foxbuntu> oh
[20:26] <foxbuntu> yeah...not sure which imon they use
[20:33] <EvilGuru> Well I always have my Hauppauge remote if things don't work
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[21:56] <IOU> Is there a way I can re-scan the video collection from the command line ?
[22:17] <IOU> anyone ?
[23:43] <IOU> Is there a way I can re-scan the video/music collections from the command line ?