| defendguin | dont look at me like that | 00:00 |
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| tgm4883 | afaik, you can't make a perpetual motion machine either | 00:00 |
| * rogue780 made a perpetual motion machine | 00:02 | |
| defendguin | i'm playing around with boxee and i have to be able to easily switch between apps | 00:03 |
| tgm4883 | thats not the same as using a remote to use the applications menu | 00:04 |
| defendguin | tgm4883: what do you suggest | 00:05 |
| tgm4883 | what do I suggest so you can use the applications menu? | 00:05 |
| tgm4883 | a mouse | 00:05 |
| tgm4883 | alternatively, you could configure a button on your remote to launch the application that you want | 00:06 |
| tgm4883 | you might also try setting up a wii-mote as a mouse | 00:07 |
| defendguin | hmm the wii mote might not be a bad idea | 00:09 |
| lawson23 | I have a question on getting to mythbuntu via VNC is a vnc server installed by default with the 8.10 package? If so any resources concerning setting up and using this in mythbuntu? | 01:11 |
| darthanubis | mythweb seems to have stopped working | 01:13 |
| dsbw | Is it possible to set up MythTV so that it will just accept an input from (e.g.) an analog source? (Say, a VCR or cable box?) | 01:49 |
| hads | Yes | 01:50 |
| dsbw | OK. Are there instructions somewhere as to how? I can identify the capture card (Haup-150) easily enough, but of course there's no Video Source. So how would I watch? | 01:53 |
| arocs | !help | 10:17 |
| Zinn | !help For a complete list of my knowledge visit: http://www.baablogic.net/Zinn.cgi Other available commands: !status, !about, !bug [bug_number]. | 10:17 |
| fxr | can someone tell me where the httpd.conf file is in mythbuntu? is it apache2.conf ? | 13:46 |
| rhpot1991 | fxr: looking for something mythweb specific? | 13:51 |
| fxr | no i am trying to install wtorrent | 13:52 |
| rhpot1991 | fxr: normally each site will have its own info within /etc/apache2/sites-available | 13:52 |
| rhpot1991 | but apache2.conf is a system wide config, so you can do things in there as well | 13:53 |
| fxr | ok i see, ll have a poke around in those locations. thanks. | 13:54 |
| arocs | Hi to all .. | 14:11 |
| arocs | I have lot of problems with mythbuntu 8.10 and ATI x1600 (closed and open) drivers with vsync in screen when watching videos ... any clues ? | 14:12 |
| arocs | I have tried with sv , x11 and opengl output with same results ... | 14:18 |
| arocs | sv=xv | 14:18 |
| williambrown0000 | I am having video "stutter" problems. This varies channel to channel. I suspect that the higher resolution stations are causing me problems. To verify this, I would simply like to have the "input type" 1080i/720p displayed channel by channel in the OSD. I haven't yet figured out how to do this. Thanks for your help. | 15:01 |
| arocs | Someone with vsync problems un mythbuntu 8.10 ... ? | 15:06 |
| williambrown0000 | Yes, vsync problems with 8.10. My first problem is that I can't easily figure out what type of video, 1080i/720p, is giving me trouble since, via the OSD(on screen display), there is no indicator of the type of video I am currently watching. | 15:39 |
| williambrown0000 | So, if you'll could tell me how to display the video feed type, via OSD or otherwise, that would help me narrow-down the issue. | 15:39 |
| williambrown0000 | I am running a 2.40 GHz Pentium 4 with 1gig of ram and an NVidia Geforce 7600GS(512MB). I don't know if I am using XvMC or not. | 15:44 |
| williambrown0000 | My CPU maxes-out on some channels. On others, it is about 15% busy. | 15:44 |
| williambrown0000 | The machine is a client in a myth master/client pair. I assume that this does not matter for live TV viewing. | 15:45 |
| rhpot1991 | williambrown0000: do you see monochrome menus ever? | 15:46 |
| rhpot1991 | thts how you can tell if XvMC is on | 15:46 |
| williambrown0000 | Which menus? The menus associated with the frontend like the menus/screens I see when I select "watch TV"? In that case, they are in color. | 15:47 |
| williambrown0000 | The OSD is in color. | 15:47 |
| rhpot1991 | hit m while watching video | 15:47 |
| rhpot1991 | OSD as well | 15:47 |
| williambrown0000 | OK. Hold on. | 15:48 |
| rhpot1991 | williambrown0000: http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/XvMC | 15:48 |
| rhpot1991 | your cpu will be overwhelmed without XvMC, and even with it some 1080i content may be too much | 15:48 |
| williambrown0000 | I Hit m. Now what? | 15:49 |
| rhpot1991 | is it color, monochrome? | 15:51 |
| rhpot1991 | (the menu) | 15:51 |
| williambrown0000 | color. Green buttons when selected. | 15:51 |
| rhpot1991 | XvMC is not running then | 15:51 |
| rhpot1991 | readl the link I pasted | 15:51 |
| rhpot1991 | also read this: http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Playback_profiles | 15:52 |
| williambrown0000 | OK. Thanks. I will follow the Nvidia directions. | 15:52 |
| williambrown0000 | I have selected slim as my profile. This made things a bit better. | 15:52 |
| williambrown0000 | Thanks very much! | 15:54 |
| rhpot1991 | you will need to mess with that to get XvMC in there after you activate it | 15:54 |
| williambrown0000 | You mean that I will have to create a custom profile? | 15:55 |
| rhpot1991 | cpu+ and cpu-- are the only ones that have XvMC by default | 15:56 |
| rhpot1991 | so you will either need to use one of them or add XvMC to your slim profile | 15:57 |
| williambrown0000 | OK. Thanks again! Do modern CPUs, dual cores require video hardware assist. I will eventually build a silent media pc as a frontend, so then it will be relevant. | 15:58 |
| rhpot1991 | I think the general rule is 3ghz is the minimum you should try unassisted HD with | 15:58 |
| rhpot1991 | once you get into dual cores you should be pretty good | 15:58 |
| williambrown0000 | Thanks, I appreciate the info. There is a lot to wade through when you first bring mythtv up. | 16:00 |
| williambrown0000 | rhpot1991: Video is much better! I am getting audio stutters and "NVP: prebuffering pause" in the log. Any hints? | 17:45 |
| williambrown0000 | Oh, I am using CPU+ not a modified slim. | 17:46 |
| dsbw | So, yesterday, I was informed that mythtv could be used to passthrough an analog signal (as from a cable box or VCR) so that the signal could be viewed or recorded through Myth. But no indication of how (or where to find out how). Any thoughts? | 18:23 |
| tgm4883 | dsbw, you would use a device such as the pvr-150 | 18:27 |
| tgm4883 | then use coax out (or svideo or composite) from the cable box to the pvr-150 | 18:27 |
| tgm4883 | then you would need an ir blaster to change the channel on the box | 18:27 |
| tgm4883 | dsbw, do you have a digital cable box? | 18:27 |
| tgm4883 | almost forgot, if you run trunk, and have an hdpvr, you can use that and component | 18:28 |
| tgm4883 | in fact, thats basically what i'm doing, as I have directv | 18:29 |
| dsbw | I have a digital box, yes, I'm running a S-Video cable from the box to a Hauppauge 150. But I don't want to mess with channel changing; I just want to do a straight pass through, if possible. | 19:22 |
| tgm4883 | dsbw, thats not possible | 19:26 |
| awilkins | Hi there ; what's the best way to build MythTV on a Mythbuntu box and install it without totally screwing up your existing install? | 19:32 |
| rhpot1991 | awilkins: use another box or use virtualbox | 19:56 |
| awilkins | rhpot1991: I suppose what I mean is, how do I build it with the Mythbuntu customizations | 19:57 |
| rhpot1991 | apt-get source mythtv? | 19:57 |
| awilkins | I'm no stranger to building MythTV, I was running trunk up until just before the Qt4 merge | 19:58 |
| rhpot1991 | or check out the bzr branch? | 19:58 |
| awilkins | rhpot1991: I'm trying to find the bzr branch, there's this enormous list of them on the Mythbuntu project page on LP | 19:58 |
| awilkins | All I want to do is backmerge some trunk fixes relating to not-totally-wrong-seektables-on-DVB and build/install it | 19:59 |
| rhpot1991 | awilkins: https://launchpad.net/mythtv | 19:59 |
| awilkins | Heh, my fault for looking at mythbuntu first | 19:59 |
| RealNitro | any lirc experts around? | 20:49 |
| * awilkins is not an expert but may have advice | 20:55 | |
| awilkins | RealNitro: lirc? | 21:33 |
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| RealNitro | awilkins: Linux Infrared Remote Control (I think) | 21:37 |
| awilkins | RealNitro: Yes, you were asking for help? | 21:38 |
| RealNitro | yeah | 21:38 |
| RealNitro | LIRC is something like my nemesis | 21:38 |
| RealNitro | years ago I got it to work on gentoo | 21:38 |
| awilkins | Sounds just like me :-) | 21:38 |
| RealNitro | one day it stopped working, since then it never did | 21:38 |
| RealNitro | I tested my remote using winlirc yesterday | 21:39 |
| RealNitro | and it still works | 21:39 |
| RealNitro | but on Linux I can't get it working | 21:39 |
| awilkins | Are you still on Gentoo? And what's your hardware? | 21:39 |
| RealNitro | (Pinnacle PCTV pro remote) | 21:39 |
| RealNitro | I'm on mythbuntu now | 21:40 |
| RealNitro | hardy | 21:40 |
| RealNitro | the remote comes with a serial port receiver and uses the pinsys driver | 21:40 |
| awilkins | My remote is rather different because it has a kernel event driver | 21:41 |
| awilkins | Uses dev/event | 21:41 |
| RealNitro | I wish mine did :) | 21:41 |
| RealNitro | I tested all inputs today using irw | 21:42 |
| RealNitro | it's not there :) | 21:42 |
| RealNitro | s/input/event input/ | 21:42 |
| awilkins | Does your /etc/lircd.conf just say "include /usr/share/lirc/remotes/pinnacle_systems/lircd.conf/pctv" > | 21:42 |
| awilkins | ?> | 21:43 |
| awilkins | Do you have that file? | 21:43 |
| RealNitro | it did | 21:43 |
| RealNitro | and I copied the actual file over it :) | 21:43 |
| awilkins | I'm trying to work out where the right port gets set | 21:44 |
| RealNitro | ? | 21:44 |
| awilkins | Aha, how about /etc/lirc/hardware.conf ? | 21:44 |
| RealNitro | that's a custom file now | 21:45 |
| RealNitro | I have mostly been trying to run lircd with -n and --driver=... --device=... to get more feedback | 21:46 |
| awilkins | Hmmph, I suppose you've tried all the /dev/ttyS0, 1, 2, 3, etc | 21:47 |
| RealNitro | yep | 21:48 |
| RealNitro | the only one working is /dev/lirc0 | 21:48 |
| awilkins | And are using the pinsys driver. | 21:48 |
| RealNitro | uhu | 21:48 |
| awilkins | Darn | 21:48 |
| RealNitro | I drives me so mad I've even brought the Linux device drivers book home from work to start learning how I can fix LIRC :p | 21:50 |
| dashs | What is required for "Fetch Channels from Listings source" do I need to have subscribed to a aervice for this?, can I test watching tv without it? | 22:54 |
| brucedougal | can i have help please | 23:03 |
| brucedougal | http://mythbuntu.pastebin.com/f79fcc8ec | 23:03 |
| brucedougal | anyone there that can help? / would like to help? | 23:06 |
| brucedougal | very new to ubuntu and linux doing ok setting pc up got drivers sorted (i think) got mythbuntu in as well thought i was doing ok then started to cofigure mythtv it all fell to bits | 23:09 |
| brucedougal | hi buntu that sounds like a name that should know some answers | 23:14 |
| buntu | Hi im new to mythbuntu . I was playing around with the frontend and backend settings and now when i laund mythbuntu i get a light gray menu with only six options. i no longer get the black menu with all of the options. can somebody tell me what i did wrong? thanks | 23:14 |
| buntu | i think i chose wrong name then | 23:15 |
| brucedougal | lol | 23:15 |
| buntu | lol | 23:15 |
| buntu | im new to linux | 23:15 |
| brucedougal | oh ok never mind thought you wereb going to be my angle | 23:15 |
| brucedougal | angel even | 23:16 |
| brucedougal | iv only ever had grey menu with 6 options your the lucky one | 23:18 |
| buntu | when i first installed i got the black menu with all of the video card , theme , guide etc . and now i get gray screen | 23:19 |
| Crelam | Greetings and Salutations. I'm interested in building a MythBuntu box using one of those neat MSI Wind boxes. I'm going to install the OS on a CF card and need to know what size card I should aquire. How much space does the OS take up? | 23:20 |
| brucedougal | i used a fresh drive for my install nothing else on drive mythbuntu drivers etc no recordings etc have used 5.1 gb | 23:25 |
| hads | Interesting, I didn't expect it to be that big | 23:26 |
| brucedougal | but am no expert so that might be complete garbage | 23:26 |
| Crelam | One way or another, I should be safe with an 8 GB card then. | 23:27 |
| hads | Definitly | 23:27 |
| Crelam | As long as I don't have to buy a 16 GB. Those things are expensive. ;) | 23:27 |
| brucedougal | i didnt think it would either was surprised when i looked | 23:27 |
| brucedougal | whats "cf" | 23:28 |
| Crelam | CF = Compact Flash | 23:28 |
| brucedougal | compact flash | 23:28 |
| brucedougal | yer yer just as i said it realised | 23:29 |
| brucedougal | you any help with linux or are you newbie? | 23:29 |
| Crelam | My Linux experience is very very limited. Just to my Nokia Web Tablet. | 23:30 |
| Crelam | Thanks for the help folks. Have a great evening. | 23:37 |
| brucedougal | any one here to help? | 23:39 |
| dashs | Worst user interface of all time | 23:46 |
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