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Journal Talinom's Journal: MythTV goodness 17

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Well mostly good, but first the bad:

My Silver Hauppauge remote is kinda working now. It still dies randomly so I am rather annoyed at that. My DVD player plays the crud outta DVDs but refuses to eject the disk. I've tried doing a manual unmount of it as well but that has proven unsuccessful. Ejecting while rebooting works but is too lame to continue.

Now the good news. Three tuners of joy!!! Yes, I have my PVR-150 and PVR-500 both working great in the machine. Not only that but by moving some cabling around and replacing the cruddy low quality coaxial cable with something better I now have the best signal I have ever seen. It is almost inspiring me to put my pcHDTV HD-3000 card back in to see if I have any digital signal strength. For those of you who have heard my pain that is saying something.

All of this brought to you by copius notes and the latest distro of KnoppMyth. Yeah, KnoppMyth!

Oh, and Abm0raz, you need to e-mail me at "243100 at gmail dot com". I may have answers for you.
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  • What distro are you using?
    • KnoppMyth [mysettopbox.tv] version R5A26. I think that xine is grabbing the drive and not letting go. I have changed a setting in MythTV (Monitor CD/DVD drive) but haven't retested it yet.
      • ahh, hrmmm maybe lsof will tell you what is trying to access the drive? If the test fails maybe try that. I've also had issues with automount before, that might be another place to look. I wonder how myth runs on BSD :-)
  • I'll just ask here.

    1. Have you gotten the dvd burning program under the KnoppMyth menu to work? It opens a program called nuv2disc. When I go to it, it says I have no files ready for burning. If I go under the "transcode" option, it lets me choose any of my recorded shows, then promptly crashes out when I try to transcode them. ANy clues? I've searched the KnoppMyth wiki and the message boards and haven't seen an answer.

    2. Is there a way to set a transcode option so that when I choose to transcode, it
    • oh, if it's easier, my IM is the same as my /. nick, only use the letter "o" instead of the number "0". (abmoraz not abm0raz) It'll work on AIM (abmoraz), yahoo (abmoraz AT yahoo POINT com), ICQ (abmoraz or zaromba, I'm the only one with either nick), or MSN (abmoraz AT homail POINT com). If it helps to communicate, you can use those, but I work from 3pm-12:30am EST every day this week. (that's noon to 9:30pm for you west coasters).

      -Ab
    • Answers in order:

      1). I don't currently have a DVD burner in my system so I haven't tried yet. One thing you might look into is to see if the nuv2disc program is either looking in the correct directory or is looking at the right fields in the MySQL database. Other than that I've got nuthin'.

      2). Just a guess but I don't think that is possible. Cool idea, though. Transcode is used to change formats but doesn't do any (to my knowledge) editing of the files. Perhaps you could disable commercial flagging, m
      • Comment removed based on user account deletion
        • I'm using LIRC-0.7.2 and ivtv-0.2.0-rc3i per the latest changelog.

          I am not loading any firmware as everything (sans remote) is working pretty good. That and with running two different cards (the 150 and the 500) the firmware for each might have a cagematch in memory. ;> That could be messy, plus I wouldn't know how to have different firmware for each card. Hell, I've never even PLAYED with that yet. Everything has pretty much "just worked" so far.

          So in 0.19 are they going to change the frontend/bac
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            • Having never upgraded ivtv will it be a simple apt-get install ivtv command and then I can just continue on or will there be a lot of pain involved hacking scripts and such? The only reason I hesitate is that the new season of Stargate is coming up and I don't want to tank what already works. If it is a guaranteed "it just works" thing then hell yeah I'll do that.

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