| scott__ | hi mythbuntu IRC channel- anybody home | 06:27 |
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| scott__ | okay throwing out a quick question if anyone could help Id be greatful- Ive got a frontend/backend mythbuntu server setup attached to a projecter for movie viewing in my house. I want to be able to remotely control it via laptop | 06:34 |
| scott__ | in order to have it play music. However I want the sound to come out of the mythubuntu server itself- not from the remotly connecting laptop.. so myth frontend in that remote laptop isnt an option. | 06:35 |
| scott__ | Is there any way to do something like this other than doing a remote desktop session? I was kind of hoping mymote etc would allow you to browse your music etc collection and have them play but you need to have a screen up (the projecter in this case) in order to navigate the pages | 06:36 |
| scott__ | I want to navigate and play stuff on the server, from the servers speaker output etc, with a remote interface or laptop. | 06:36 |
| scott__ | But I dont want to have to turn on the projector every time I want to play an audio file... I hope Im making sense this is kind of a convoluted question | 06:38 |
| scott__ | anyway if anyone has any advice Id appreciate it and thanks for your help in advance | 06:38 |
| dekarl | scott__: i've seen that the 0.25/master series has a frontend webinterface that can be enabled which allows you to control that. I'm not sure how much of that is in 0.24/fixes. | 08:10 |
| dekarl | it's a good question for the main #mythtv-users channel as it's not ubuntu specific | 08:11 |
| scott__ | Hi Dekarl ok Ill try throwing it out there to mythtv-users channel. Thanks for your help :-) | 08:16 |
| dekarl | oh and, your best bet is when the americans are up, as that is where the devs are | 08:29 |
| mrand | scott__: the answer should be that the telnet interface is what you want. See http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Telnet The reason I say "should" though, is because its ability to control and interact with mythmusic is pretty limited. | 11:29 |
| Zinn | [www.mythtv.org] Frontend control socket - MythTV Official Wiki | 11:29 |
| mrand | Looks like a a change in 0.25 should improve that limitation. | 11:32 |
| TandyUK | ok now i have a new problem after following the steps in the forum post for upgrade issues | 11:46 |
| TandyUK | i get a login screen up, but login fails - no error i just get bounced back to the login screen | 11:46 |
| TandyUK | after digging turns out this is logged to /var/log/auth.log | 11:46 |
| TandyUK | lightdm: pam_succeed_if(lightdm:auth): requirement "user ingroup nopasswdlogin" not met by user "mythtvuser" | 11:48 |
| TandyUK | has anyone tested vnc with 11.10 | 11:52 |
| TandyUK | cause that doesnt work atm either | 11:53 |
| TandyUK | it was configured with mcc before the upgrade, and if i manually start X and run mcc i can see it is still selected | 11:53 |
| TandyUK | hmm | 11:56 |
| TandyUK | i seem to have a /var/lib/lightdm/.Xauthority file | 11:56 |
| mrand | TandyUK, did you search on that auth.log message? There are a number of forum hits that I don't have time to read right now, as well as this one: http://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=1117897 and probably others. | 12:21 |
| mrand | bbl | 12:21 |
| Zinn | [arstechnica.com] Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Headaches - Ars Technica OpenForum | 12:21 |
| TandyUK | -rw------- 1 root root 15048 2011-10-14 01:22 .ICEauthority | 12:42 |
| TandyUK | theres the fking problem | 12:42 |
| TandyUK | need to remove that file as well as .Xauthority | 12:42 |
| tgm4883 | TandyUK, did you run any graphical programs using sudo? | 15:04 |
| TandyUK | tgm4883: not to my knowledge but hey ho | 16:28 |
| TandyUK | having lirc problems now... my remote wasnt working so through mcc i set it to no additional remote, and it removed the config and lirc | 16:29 |
| TandyUK | now when i select lirc, it pops up as if it is going to install oething, then disappers | 16:29 |
| TandyUK | doing a manual install says well it used to lol | 16:30 |
| TandyUK | it was saying no package lirc but a couple of apt-get updates has fixed that | 16:31 |
| dekarl | how can I add "-v jobqueue" to the mythbackend without hacking the upstart script? | 17:29 |
| mrand | dekarl: for sure you could rename mythbackend to something else (mythbackend.real) and then put a "script" (which could be just a single line) which calls mythbackend with the argument added (along with any arguments passed on the command line, using $* or $@ | 17:37 |
| mrand | BTW, thanks for helping to answer other questions here and elsewhere! | 17:38 |
| superm1 | dekarl, hacking the upstart script shouldn't be too big a deal though, it's a really trivial script and if it changes on upgrade merging the change shouldn't be too much work (compared to old init scripts) | 17:39 |
| dekarl | mrand: ok, I was looking for some MBE_FLAGS= configuration option | 17:39 |
| superm1 | we haven't changed it in a LONG time anyhow | 17:40 |
| superm1 | so i don't see it being something that you need to do on every apt-get upgrade or so | 17:40 |
| dekarl | I was just wondering as the "-v this,that" is not so uncommon ;) | 17:40 |
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| dscoular | mythbuntu 11.10: can't play sound with aplay while mythfrontend is playing. Any thoughts ? | 23:33 |
| superm1 | dscoular, sounds like expected behavior; no pulseaudio or anything being used? | 23:53 |
| superm1 | especially if you are using digital audio, expected behavior | 23:53 |
| dscoular | Hmm, yes, there's no pulseaudio... I had thought that alsa supported mixing via dmix... I can have 2 aplay samples play at the same time | 23:56 |
| superm1 | alsa does support dmix, but i'm not sure all hardware supports that | 23:56 |
| dscoular | If I have aplay playing simultaneously in two windows... why doesn't mythfrontend allow simultaneous play through dmix et al ? | 23:57 |
| superm1 | not so sure then, that does sound a bit odd | 23:57 |
| dscoular | I'm sure it used to work fine... as I have X10 motion detectors play a sample when someone is at the door and I'm it used to work while watching mythtv | 23:58 |
| dscoular | s/ I'm it/I'm sure it/ | 23:58 |
| superm1 | well if you don't find a solution, an alternative could be to have it send an OSD message | 23:58 |
| dscoular | I'll pester the mythtv users list I guess | 23:59 |
| dscoular | thanks for your help | 23:59 |
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