| [03:04] <stiev3_> for some reason my mythbuntu panel remains visible at the top of the screen when running mythfrontend. How do I go about fixing this? | |
| [06:53] <ddgoose> stiev3_: if you haven't gotten the answer already, I left a post for you on the diskless thread. | |
| [06:56] <stiev3_> ddgoose, awesome. That is what i was looking for. Thanks. | |
| [07:29] <ddgoose> no problemo | |
| [11:16] <selfsk> hi all | |
| [11:16] <selfsk> guys, can someone explain how to start using mythubuntu with twinhan 1034 (DVB-S) cards? | |
| [11:26] <laga> what's the problem? | |
| [11:30] <selfsk> I don't see any cards at all | |
| [11:30] <selfsk> I loaded dvb-bt8xx module | |
| [11:32] <Seeker`> selfsk: is there anything relevant in dmesg? | |
| [11:33] <laga> selfsk: do they show up in lspci? | |
| [11:34] <EvilGuru> Hi, I have just installed the mythweather plugin, however can not work out how to select the UK BBC source. I can get the NDFD | |
| [11:35] <tc111> Problem... scarter@MediaPVR:/usr/share/doc$ sudo -s / [sudo] password for scarter: / Aborted / scarter@MediaPVR:/usr/share/doc$ ... what the heck is 'Aborted'? | |
| [11:35] <selfsk> Seeker` : noop | |
| [11:35] <EvilGuru> Can anyone advise me on this? | |
| [11:36] <selfsk> just common words: bttv loaded, and audio driver loaded | |
| [11:36] <selfsk> i suppose i should get something like card name/type etc. | |
| [11:37] <laga> EvilGuru: ask in #ubuntu - there are more peopl | |
| [11:37] <laga> e | |
| [11:49] <selfsk> what about twinhan? does someone has a succesfull experience with it? | |
| [12:02] <EvilGuru> It seem as if the issue was caused by a missing package | |
| [12:02] <EvilGuru> A sudo apt-get install libxml-simple-perl fixed it5 | |
| [12:11] <gbj> Can't get signal after upgrade to 8.10 using Conexant CX23880/1/2/3 worked on 7.10? | |
| [15:26] <nflava> anyone know what would cause my tv sound to work one day then not the next in mythtv | |
| [15:56] <sabhain> any expert rippers in the room? | |
| [15:56] <sabhain> I'm trying to figure out how to rip to iso from command line in my backend .. is this doable on a backend only? | |
| [15:57] <sabhain> would like to back up a bunch of home movie / dvd's right to ISO's .. rather than tying up a frontend to do it .. | |
| [15:57] <sabhain> seems like there's gotta be a cli script for this .. but google gives me older stuff that isn't working just right | |
| [15:57] <szakulec> it's possible- but you'll end up with a bunch of ISO's that have CSS on them still | |
| [15:58] <sabhain> but won't playback get around the css issue? you can playback css dvd's without ripping them | |
| [15:58] <szakulec> if you have the library, then yes | |
| [15:59] <szakulec> http://www.wikihow.com/Create-an-ISO-File-in-Linux | |
| [15:59] <szakulec> that should tell you how to create an ISO of a CD (or DVD) | |
| [15:59] <sabhain> well most of what I'm trying to do is home generated DVD's .. I have a panasonic dvd cam corder | |
| [15:59] <szakulec> just remember, it's going to be 4.7 GB | |
| [15:59] <sabhain> so would css even be in play for that? | |
| [15:59] <szakulec> nope | |
| [16:01] <sabhain> i'll try that .. thanks for the input | |
| [16:01] <szakulec> here's a slightly more detailed one for ubuntu-type distros: http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-6509.html | |
| [16:10] <sabhain> so if the DVD is dual layer .. maybe I'm better off copying the directory structure, and then using mkisofs? .. you're referring to a size limit on the dd command? | |
| [16:43] <sabhain> fyi .. worked well on dual layer DVD! 8.5 GB .. great advice szakulec | |
| [17:48] <darthanubis> Sorry, failed to fetch http://localhost:6544/xml. | |
| [17:51] <sabhain> exit | |
| [18:05] <rhpot1991> just use ddrepair | |
| [18:05] <rhpot1991> errr | |
| [18:05] <rhpot1991> ddrescue | |
| [18:06] <rhpot1991> ddrescue -d /dev/dvd NAME_OF.iso NAME_OF.iso.log | |
| [18:06] <rhpot1991> and then you can ^c and resume it | |
| [18:06] <rhpot1991> haven't seen a dvd that it hasn't worked on | |
| [19:14] <laga> rhpot1991: so, you use dd_rescue to rip dvds? | |
| [19:26] <omnibrown> hello, looking for some help getting mkv/x264 content to play | |
| [19:27] <omnibrown> all my other media plays well with the default mythtv settings | |
| [19:46] <omnibrown> I'm running 8.04 with the current nvidia driver, 169.12 | |
| [19:46] <omnibrown> mplayer hangs on mkv files most are x264/avc 720p/1080p | |
| [19:49] <omnibrown> hardware is AMD Athlon 64 X2 6400+ Windsor 3.2GHz Socket AM2 125W Dual-Core; 2 GB RAM; nVidia GeForce 7050 PV / nForce 6 | |
| [19:49] <omnibrown> 30a | |
| [19:50] <omnibrown> I've tried mplayer with various options and niceness, best luck is having a movie play for like 5 mins, then the screen freezes, and then the pc freezes | |
| [19:51] <omnibrown> all my avi, lo-def content plays great | |
| [19:51] <laga> if your box freezes, something is very broken | |
| [19:54] <omnibrown> well it gets real slow at the console, I can still ssh in | |
| [19:54] <laga> ah | |
| [19:54] <laga> well, what does top say? | |
| [19:55] <omnibrown> the cpu goes up to as much as 60% depending on the niceness | |
| [19:55] <laga> and memory usage? | |
| [19:56] <omnibrown> about half of the 2 GB, no swapping | |
| [19:56] <laga> hum | |
| [19:56] <laga> anything interesting in vmstat? | |
| [19:56] <omnibrown> haven't check it out | |
| [19:56] <laga> run "vmstat 1", but the output is a bit hard to parse. | |
| [19:56] <laga> the first line is usually bogus | |
| [19:59] <omnibrown> ok I've got it running, any special way I should run mplayer? like mplayer -ac hwdts -vfm ffmpeg -lvadopts threads=2:fast:skiploopfilter=all file.mkv | |
| [19:59] <laga> no clue, i usually dont do a lot with x264 movies | |
| [20:00] <omnibrown> ok, I'll kick off a movie with vmstat running and see what happends | |
| [20:03] <omnibrown> procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- -system-- ----cpu---- | |
| [20:03] <omnibrown> r b swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id wa | |
| [20:03] <omnibrown> 1 0 0 949280 43832 337192 0 0 0 0 210 159 0 0 100 0 | |
| [20:03] <omnibrown> 0 0 0 949280 43832 337192 0 0 0 0 210 162 0 0 100 0 | |
| [20:03] <omnibrown> 1 0 0 948600 44088 337336 0 0 256 0 213 249 20 1 80 0 | |
| [20:03] <omnibrown> hmm prob hard to read... | |
| [20:04] <omnibrown> um movie crashed pretty fast | |
| [20:05] <laga> that looks sane.. | |
| [20:05] <omnibrown> htpc 8029 10.2 2.3 141408 42336 pts/1 Sl+ 12:02 0:13 mplayer -benchmark -ac hwdts -vfm ffmpeg -lavdopts fast=1:skiploopfilter=all:threads=8 /media/1TB/Crash/Crash.720p.mkv | |
| [20:05] <laga> it crashed? | |
| [20:05] <omnibrown> that's a ps | |
| [20:06] <omnibrown> it stopped playing | |
| [20:10] <omnibrown> yeah the system never seems to get overloaded | |
| [20:12] <omnibrown> hmm can't find the mplayer process now, hows this load? | |
| [20:12] <omnibrown> load average: 14.41, 9.87, 4.73 | |
| [20:13] <omnibrown> Cpu(s): 6.3%us, 41.3%sy, 0.0%ni, 0.0%id, 0.7%wa, 4.9%hi, 46.9%si, 0.0%st | |
| [20:13] <omnibrown> Mem: 1814608k total, 853320k used, 961288k free, 46476k buffers | |
| [20:13] <omnibrown> Swap: 5309440k total, 0k used, 5309440k free, 340456k cached | |
| [20:13] <nespinosa> hi everybody! | |
| [20:13] <omnibrown> hello | |
| [20:16] <JDStone> what does auto-transcode do? | |
| [20:17] <nespinosa> I have some problems watching livetv. I don't understand why. I have done a channel research but I have sputtering and lag.This is my mythbackend log : http://pastebin.ubuntu.com/14862/plain/. Could you help me ? | |
| [20:18] <nespinosa> Let me say it again. So, I have done a manuel channel research. | |
| [20:19] <nespinosa> but when I want to watch tv, I have some sputtering an lag. You can see above my mythbackend log. | |
| [20:20] <JDStone> nespinosa: have you looked into the Unknown video codec error? | |
| [20:20] <omnibrown> laga: anyother ideas? | |
| [20:21] <nespinosa> What should I do ? Install a codec via mythbuntu centre ? | |
| [20:22] <JDStone> nespinosa: follow the instructions | |
| [20:22] <JDStone> it tells you what to do | |
| [20:23] <JDStone> nespinosa: "2008-05-26 21:05:06.571 NVR(/dev/video0): Unknown video codec. Please go into the TV Settings, Recording Profiles and setup the four 'Software Encoders' profiles. Assuming RTjpeg for now. | |
| [20:23] <JDStone> " | |
| [20:24] <laga> omnibrown: maybe your CPU is overheating? :( | |
| [20:25] <omnibrown> I can check that through /proc? | |
| [20:25] <laga> dunno :) | |
| [20:25] <laga> maybe "acpi" will display the temperature | |
| [20:28] <omnibrown> I'll check | |
| [20:29] <omnibrown> anybody that joined recently have luck with HD mkv files & mplayer? | |
| [20:34] <nespinosa> what does the log mean by setup the profile. I do not know what to modify. | |
| [20:35] <nespinosa> sofware encoder profiles are already RTjpeg. | |
| [21:01] <nespinosa> Ok, I do not have codec errors. But I have sputtering. Here is my backend log :http://pastebin.ubuntu.com/14876/plain/ | |
| [21:09] <nespinosa> Is there someone ? | |
| [21:11] <tgm4883_laptop> nespinosa, what are your machine specs? | |
| [21:16] <nespinosa> I Thomas. We spoke on sunday. | |
| [21:16] <nespinosa> So I have a pctv stereo analogue card. | |
| [21:16] <tgm4883_laptop> yes | |
| [21:17] <tgm4883_laptop> but what are your actually machine specs | |
| [21:17] <tgm4883_laptop> most notably, ram and cpu | |
| [21:17] <nespinosa> My machine is a 2,4 ghz cpu, ram = 512 mo | |
| [21:17] <tgm4883_laptop> restricted drivers installed? | |
| [21:18] <nespinosa> Let me check. | |
| [21:20] <nespinosa> do you mean linux restricted modules ? | |
| [21:20] <tgm4883_laptop> your video card drivers | |
| [21:20] <nespinosa> I do not have proprietary drivers installed on the computer | |
| [21:21] <tgm4883_laptop> what video card? | |
| [21:21] <nespinosa> it is an ati 9200 radeon video card I think | |
| [21:25] <nespinosa> Should I install restricted drivers ? Tv works well on TVtime. I don't know if it could be a sign? | |
| [21:26] <tgm4883_laptop> no, sounds ok | |
| [21:26] <tgm4883_laptop> why are your software encoder profiles RTjpeg? | |
| [21:27] <nespinosa> why ? I don't know. I have never modified them. | |
| [21:28] <tgm4883_laptop> lets try something | |
| [21:28] <nespinosa> I am ready | |
| [21:28] <tgm4883_laptop> is this live tv only problem or does it happen for recordingns too | |
| [21:29] <nespinosa> I have never tried recordings. I would have like to use tv. | |
| [21:30] <tgm4883_laptop> try recording something for a few minutes. Then stop the recording and see if it fixes it | |
| [21:31] <nespinosa> I press R key for a few minutes and R key another time ? | |
| [21:32] <laga> crap. | |
| [21:32] <tgm4883_laptop> no, setup a recording from the frontend not while in live tv | |
| [21:32] <laga> mplayer worked a few times and now that i'vwe got all arguments right, the alsa device can't be opened | |
| [21:32] * laga stabs alsa | |
| [21:32] <laga> of course, this ALWAYS happens when i have the GF over to watch a movie. | |
| [21:34] <nespinosa> ok. | |
| [21:38] <nespinosa> The recording doesn't work. Frontend writes : recording failed | |
| [21:38] <tgm4883_laptop> did you scan the channels from mythtv-setup? | |
| [21:38] <nespinosa> yes I have scan the channel. | |
| [21:39] <nespinosa> I have a big list of channels. Somes of them are marked as found channels. | |
| [21:40] <tgm4883_laptop> some are marked as found? | |
| [21:40] <nespinosa> let me run my backend | |
| [21:43] <nespinosa> sorry, here is one of my channels lines : (unnamed : 1060) (60) (essai) with essai : my video source name, 60 should be the channel number ? | |
| [21:45] <tgm4883_laptop> nespinosa, where do you get your channel data from again? | |
| [21:46] <nespinosa> I have launched the channel search in the channel editing menu | |
| [21:50] <omnibrown> laga: my cpu was at 27 C after the mkv playback crashed | |
| [21:51] <nespinosa> is it possible that the pre-set tuner channel number (in input video) could be the problem ? | |
| [21:51] <omnibrown> seems ok, cricial is listed as 90 C | |
| [21:51] <omnibrown> from /proc/acpi ... | |
| [21:51] <tgm4883_laptop> omnibrown, i'd think critical more around 70C | |
| [21:51] <omnibrown> cat /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THRM/trip_points | |
| [21:51] <omnibrown> critical (S5): 90 C | |
| [21:51] <omnibrown> passive: 80 C: tc1=4 tc2=3 tsp=60 devices=CPU0 | |
| [21:51] <omnibrown> active[0]: 80 C: devices= FAN | |
| [21:51] <omnibrown> that's what's in there | |
| [21:52] <omnibrown> but maybe so | |
| [21:52] <omnibrown> either way it doesn't seem like the cpu is over heating | |
| [21:52] <omnibrown> BTW, I'm trying to play HD mkv/264/avc files with mplayer | |
| [21:53] <omnibrown> no luck :-( | |
| [21:55] <nespinosa> I am erasing my channel. I redo the channel search . | |
| [21:58] <nespinosa> If I understand well, search channel and search guide data is separated. Once you have found your channels, you associate each channels to id guide data. Is that correct ? | |
| [22:02] <nespinosa> Eureka! Thomas! | |
| [22:02] <nespinosa> the live tv works ! | |
| [22:07] <nespinosa> Thank you for all. See you. | |
| [23:09] <leprechau> so..I've been playing with the diskless server | |
| [23:09] <leprechau> so far so good | |
| [23:09] <leprechau> I have a couple of diskless boxes up and running | |
| [23:09] <leprechau> problem....my /etc/fstab is always reset on every reboot | |
| [23:09] <leprechau> so my nfs mounts never come back | |
| [23:09] <leprechau> for my videos/recordings/etc... | |