| jeremywiebe | Hi there... just trying to install Mythbuntu 9.04 via Wubi and am stuck on the Graphics Drivers screen. No matter what selection I make the Back/Forward buttons remain disabled. I found a bug on Launchpad that seemed related, but it's marked as fixed (https://bugs.launchpad.net/mythbuntu/+bug/362419/+viewstatus). | 02:12 |
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| Blz | hey guys, quick question: the US uses NTSC, right? | 03:22 |
| Blz | Specifically I want to enable composite video out on an NVIDIA card. Is NTSC-M what I want? I'm on the east coast of the US. | 03:24 |
| Blz | Also, another question: Which connecton degrades quality less: coax or composite? | 03:27 |
| hads | Composite | 03:35 |
| Blz | hads: is it a significant difference? | 03:36 |
| Blz | I ask because I'm going to have to hook up my set top box to an analog capture card (PVR 150) | 03:36 |
| hads | RF < Composite < Component/VGA/DVI | 03:36 |
| Blz | and i heard that degrades quality | 03:36 |
| hads | Sure it will. | 03:36 |
| Blz | i'm watching SDTV on a CRT set though | 03:36 |
| Blz | so i dunno how severe it's going to be | 03:36 |
| hads | Best to use the S-video input. It will degrade the least on the PVR150 | 03:37 |
| Blz | hmm. i dunno if i have access to that | 03:37 |
| Blz | i don't think my stb has an s-video out | 03:37 |
| Blz | it has coax and composite | 03:37 |
| Blz | let me check | 03:37 |
| Blz | yeah. coax and composite only | 03:38 |
| Blz | how bad do you think it'll be? | 03:38 |
| Blz | maybe I just won't transcode my shows to mp4... | 03:38 |
| Blz | Can anybody help me with configuring myth to work through a motorola set top box with an IR blaster? I'm kind of stuck | 04:22 |
| Blz | So far I've installed myth and selected the aprorpriate option for my remote (windows media center new version) and the IR blaster option (PVR150 pci w/ motorola cable box) | 04:23 |
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| Essobi | Night all. | 05:20 |
| d110__ | I've just installed mythbuntu 904 and tuned my cards, when I go to Watch TV it just returns to the main menu | 13:49 |
| d110__ | if I however stop the mythbackend and start the mythbackend as the user then I can watch TV | 13:49 |
| darthanubis | seems your user is not part of the mythtv user group? | 13:52 |
| d110__ | yes my user is part of the mythtv group | 13:54 |
| d110__ | Ah I think it's my recording directory | 13:55 |
| d110__ | I setup a new partition for recordings using the XFS file system | 13:55 |
| d110__ | that was it | 13:56 |
| d110__ | I changed the group on my recordings dir to mythtv and now it's not a problem | 13:57 |
| d110__ | thanks for giving me the tip i needed | 13:57 |
| darthanubis | np :) | 13:58 |
| Essobi | Morning! | 14:18 |
| darthanubis | morning | 14:44 |
| rhpot1991 | morning | 14:49 |
| Blz | I need some guidance in setting up my mythtv font/backend server with an IR blaster (motorola cable box -- comcast digital cable). I would like to use the coax in on my pvr150 to record analog data from STB, but so far I haven't been able to scan for channels. I tried setting /usr/bin/ch_change.sh as the external channel changing command, but that didn't work ... What am I missing? | 15:53 |
| Blz | I can provide more information if necessary | 15:54 |
| foxbuntu | Blz, if you use the RG6/coax cable to the PVR it should not come out of your cable box, if you need/want to record your analog digital cable you should use the Composite Video inputs on the PVR-150 instead | 16:17 |
| foxbuntu | Blz, then you can use a serial cable from your backend -> cable stb to change the channels | 16:17 |
| Blz | foxbuntu: oh i see... So it just won't work via coax? | 16:17 |
| Blz | I don't have a serial port on my STB | 16:17 |
| foxbuntu | Blz, get a serial -> usb adapter | 16:18 |
| foxbuntu | Blz, its far easier than an IR blaster | 16:18 |
| rhpot1991 | firewire | 16:19 |
| Blz | foxbuntu: maybe I'm missing something, but all I have is coax out and RCA Composite out | 16:19 |
| Blz | out of the STB that is | 16:19 |
| rhpot1991 | I thought serial to usb was a dtv only thing? | 16:19 |
| Blz | this is digital cable | 16:19 |
| foxbuntu | Blz, there should be a DB9 serial port on the moto box | 16:19 |
| Blz | there's not. | 16:19 |
| Blz | it's a really small box | 16:20 |
| foxbuntu | Blz, thats really strange then | 16:20 |
| foxbuntu | Blz, well then use the IR blaster | 16:20 |
| Blz | that was the idea, unless I can trade it in for a normal stb | 16:20 |
| foxbuntu | Blz, but the previous statement is the same | 16:20 |
| Blz | about using RCA composite? | 16:20 |
| foxbuntu | yup | 16:20 |
| Blz | okay, I'll try that | 16:20 |
| foxbuntu | run RCA stb -> PVR-150 | 16:21 |
| Blz | and I use ch_chan.sh right? | 16:21 |
| Blz | for the IR blaster? | 16:21 |
| foxbuntu | whatever works with your particular ir blaster | 16:21 |
| Blz | it's the ir blaster that comes with the pvr150 MCE ... i'm not sure what that requires | 16:21 |
| Blz | I tried looking on the mythtv wiki but i couldn't find much... | 16:22 |
| foxbuntu | im not sure off the top of my head | 16:22 |
| foxbuntu | i think you can just use irsend though | 16:22 |
| Blz | do you know where I could look? | 16:22 |
| Blz | irsend is the command? | 16:22 |
| foxbuntu | yea | 16:22 |
| foxbuntu | check out the mythtv wiki | 16:22 |
| Blz | okay i'll give that a try. | 16:23 |
| Blz | otherwise I'll just see if i can trade in my stb for a classic one. I have no idea why they gave me the midgit version | 16:23 |
| foxbuntu | :) | 16:24 |
| rhpot1991 | Blz: those are the new ones | 16:24 |
| Blz | rhpot1991: do they still play nice? | 16:25 |
| rhpot1991 | dunnos | 16:25 |
| Blz | ffffffffffffuuuuuu- | 16:25 |
| Blz | well I guess there's only one way to find out | 16:25 |
| Blz | so let me just recap to make sure I'm not missing anything... | 16:25 |
| foxbuntu | Blz, rhpot1991 can hardly keep cable online much less test new stuffs | 16:25 |
| Blz | lol yeah what's wrong with you rhpot1991!!?? | 16:26 |
| rhpot1991 | heh | 16:26 |
| Blz | =) | 16:26 |
| Blz | but anyway... coax to STB, composite to PVR150 | 16:26 |
| rhpot1991 | forgive me for wanting my credit I was promised :) | 16:26 |
| Blz | haha actually rhpot1991 has helped me numerous times... | 16:26 |
| foxbuntu | Blz, you got it | 16:27 |
| Blz | and in the settings I just set it up as I normally would, with my schedules direct bit? | 16:27 |
| Blz | and try irsend as the external channel changing command | 16:27 |
| Blz | oh also, what channel format do i need to select, if any? | 16:27 |
| foxbuntu | Blz, yeah..in the input connections setup be sure to select the PVR-150 composite input | 16:27 |
| Blz | I saw weird stuff like us-cable-hrs or something like that | 16:27 |
| foxbuntu | Blz, defaults work for that | 16:27 |
| foxbuntu | Blz, us-cable or us-broadcast | 16:28 |
| Blz | foxbuntu. awesome. thanks | 16:28 |
| Blz | rhpot1991: also many thanks | 16:28 |
| Blz | time to get my hands dirty... | 16:28 |
| rozon | Does mythbuntu's MythTV-fixes packages include support for DVB-S2 HD channels? I don't get a lock on the transponders on 1W that transmitts the HD channels I want... | 16:37 |
| superm1 | rozon, if they are in 0.21-fixes upstream then yes | 16:38 |
| superm1 | if not, then no :) | 16:38 |
| rozon | well... are they? :) | 16:38 |
| superm1 | i'd ask in #mythtv-users. i'm not absolutely positive myself | 16:39 |
| rozon | cool... I'll do that, thanks... :) | 16:39 |
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| Blz | Question: when going through mythtv setup, I can usually only see about half of the option descriptions at the bottom before the text runs out of the box ... how do I scroll to see more? | 23:27 |
| Blz | Anybody? | 23:36 |
| Blz | I'm sure it's something obvious... | 23:36 |
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