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Sunday, January 10th, 2010, 00:05 UTC
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[00:08:59] freephile1: [R]: my q. is about mythweb not working on karmic
[00:09:36] freephile1: Dagmar: do you have anything specific?
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[00:16:50] Dagmar: freephile: That your PHP is incompatible
[00:16:57] Dagmar: ...because of suhosin.
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[00:19:14] cmdln: mmm so what tables do i need to move between backend databases if all I want to keep is the channel lineup?
[00:20:51] joesuffceren: dagmar: I've done plenty of reading and know enough about the superiority of component to svideo (hence my desire to get an adapter). What I don't know is the level of superiority on my particular set. Haven't found (have looked) online anyone who's done that comparison with my set.
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[00:21:23] joesuffceren: I'll just borrow a dvd player that has both outputs and see if the difference is enough (from my perspective) to warrant the additional cost
[00:23:37] antgel: cmdln: can't you import a channels.conf or something? getting down and dirty with sql is usually frowned on here
[00:23:57] cmdln: well I dont have a channels.conf
[00:24:05] cmdln: i just scanned with myth
[00:24:13] cmdln: then i fixed the channel map there
[00:24:39] Dagmar: joesuffceren: No, I'd say from your statement that you've either spent too much time listening to salespersons, or you think you've read enough
[00:25:26] Dagmar: Component > s-video, not because of any comparative lack of signal loss, but because component can carry higher than 480 resolution video and S-video can not.
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[00:26:20] antgel: joesuffceren: i don't know how much the converter is, but HDTVs are getting cheaper all the time, is it worth investing in a converter that will become obsolete sooner rather than later?
[00:26:31] Dagmar: Either your set can display 720/1080, or you're basically wasting your time with component video.
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[00:29:15] cmdln: So im not seeing what the best way to move my channel data is being that its only stored int the database
[00:29:28] cmdln: unless there is a script somewhere to generate a channels.conf from the db
[00:29:50] Dagmar: Just dump the table that has your channel data
[00:29:59] cmdln: which table is it
[00:30:06] cmdln: i see several with channel in the name
[00:30:07] Dagmar: The wiki probably knows.
[00:30:11] Dagmar: Or dump them all
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[00:37:29] DaveLib: hello i am hera asking on behalf of my friend who is a Linux newbie. He just installed Ubuntu and in there just installed mythtv
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[00:38:22] DaveLib: he started mythtv on his pc and got a window in the upper left quarter screen with a menu watch tv shutdown etc but everything is frozen
[00:38:52] AndyCap: video driver problems?
[00:39:00] cmdln: kill the myth process maybe
[00:39:03] DaveLib: his computer is locked up he can't make mouse or keyboard do anythin
[00:39:18] cmdln: can you ssh into it?
[00:39:47] DaveLib: yes i have been trying to giver him instructions overr the phone to kill it
[00:40:02] iamlindoro: handling one-on-one support is hard enough, your friend should really kill the myth process or reboot, then join the channel themselves
[00:40:18] DaveLib: we dont have ssh conifgured he only installed ubuntu 2 days ago
[00:40:29] iamlindoro: IRC->person->phone->person is just not going to work with a program as complicated as Myth
[00:40:31] cmdln: hard reboot then
[00:40:40] cmdln: donst seem you have much choice
[00:40:46] DaveLib: ok firsdt step is to kill it the process
[00:41:01] DaveLib: he tried reboot and it just returned to mythtv
[00:41:17] DaveLib: maybe that is gnome session management doing that
[00:41:42] DaveLib: in top we found a process called mythbackend
[00:41:58] DaveLib: is there a mythtv process ?
[00:42:08] iamlindoro: mythfrontend is presumably what you are looking for
[00:42:16] DaveLib: ah thanks
[00:42:36] DaveLib: if we find mythfrontend should we start by killing that ?
[00:42:51] iamlindoro: how are you managing this if the system is locked, with no SSH?
[00:43:09] DaveLib: my friends system is locked at his house
[00:43:24] DaveLib: i am at my house on my pc doing this irc
[00:43:33] iamlindoro: re-reead the question
[00:43:35] DaveLib: and i talk to him on the phone about what to type in
[00:43:41] iamlindoro: if the system is locked, you can't do top, or anything else
[00:43:50] iamlindoro: meaning if he's typing anything, the system isn't locked
[00:43:59] DaveLib: ahh we could do ctrl-alt-F1
[00:44:07] DaveLib: that worked
[00:44:10] iamlindoro: Then the process is hung, the system isn't locked
[00:44:13] DaveLib: we got
[00:44:17] DaveLib: yes ok
[00:44:17] iamlindoro: killal mythfrontend
[00:44:22] iamlindoro: er killall -9 mythfrontend
[00:44:44] DaveLib: but in VT 7 keyboard and mouse are locked i meant to say
[00:45:01] DaveLib: thanks iamlindro
[00:45:03] cmdln: even after killing the myth process?
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[00:45:15] DaveLib: we didn't manage to kill it yet
[00:45:40] iamlindoro: once the process is killed, your friend needs to login to the channel themselves
[00:45:48] Dagmar: That's because your friend isn't smart enough to type what you're telling him to type.
[00:45:56] DaveLib: we tried to kill mythbackend from inside top and from the shell with kill and kill -9
[00:46:00] Dagmar: Spell it out for him. Each and every keypress.
[00:46:20] Dagmar: If you can't kill -9 the process, then you get to reboot.
[00:46:23] DaveLib: he launched mythtv from his ordinary user account
[00:46:34] cmdln: ps aux | awk '/myth/ {print $2}' | xargs kill -9
[00:47:05] DaveLib: reboots didn't stop it i wonder if gnome session management was bringing it back
[00:47:15] DaveLib: thanks cmdln
[00:47:20] cmdln: didnt stop what?
[00:47:30] cmdln: mythfrontend is launching every time he reboots?
[00:47:41] DaveLib: when he rebooted he returned tyo the stuck mythtv window
[00:47:48] DaveLib: or so he told me over the phone
[00:48:11] Dagmar: Yeah you need to go find the people responsible for that distro.
[00:48:15] cmdln: he prolly has mythfrontend set to start on boot
[00:48:26] cmdln: gonna have to stop that
[00:48:33] DaveLib: it is ubuntu
[00:48:55] Dagmar: Right, so perhaps they'll be interested in helping you sort this out over the phone
[00:49:01] DaveLib: and he just installed mythtv today from synaptiv or add and remove software
[00:49:33] Dagmar: What he did to his install is not a mythtv problem
[00:49:55] DaveLib: when he launches mythtv as ordinary user will those processes be owned by his user account or something else ?
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[00:50:17] DaveLib: we had trouble killing mythbackend so i was wondering if something else owned them
[00:50:22] Dagmar: I'm sure the #Ubuntu people will be very happy to help.
[00:50:34] DaveLib: thanks Dagmar
[00:51:14] DaveLib: is mythtv intended to be used to watch tv on the cpmputer monitor or just on main tv screens atached to the computer ?
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[00:52:35] iamlindoro: DaveLib, Myth isn't a "watching TV" software, it's a full DVR and media system
[00:53:36] iamlindoro: meanind while it is possible to watch television with it, if all your friend wants to do is watch live TV, it is absolutely the wrong choice
[00:54:31] DaveLib: thanks iamlindoro
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[01:02:36] Dagmar: MythTV is bad for you
[01:02:47] DaveLib: :)
[01:02:49] Dagmar: I could be doing something useful for society right now, but instead I'm watching Qt compile.
[01:03:02] anenigma_: that is useful for society :P
[01:03:31] Dagmar: ...because society desperately needs more electricity converted into heat?
[01:03:50] Dagmar: I don't think the Athlon 64 4600+ is going to help measurably against the cold snap.
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[01:07:43] Dagmar: o.O -DWTF_USE_JIT_STUB_ARGUMENT_VA_LIST
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[01:18:49] wagnerrp: any suggestion on channel i could get some help on multicast? blind '/join'ing doesnt seem to be working
[01:24:53] Dagmar: huh?
[01:26:01] wagnerrp: basically, im trying to have two applications listen to the same multicast address and port... that should be possible right?
[01:26:15] Dagmar: Yeah as far as I know
[01:26:31] wagnerrp: im just getting errors... 'address already in use'
[01:26:49] Dagmar: Oohhh doh
[01:27:54] Dagmar: It may not be possible to do on one machine
[01:28:12] wagnerrp: im writing something in python, but i cant very well ask in #python since ill just get reamed for not using Twisted
[01:28:26] wagnerrp: why even have this perfectly nice socket library if no one is supposed to use it...
[01:28:59] Dagmar: Yeah I'm pretty sure there's something of broader scope I'm overlooking
[01:29:10] wagnerrp: so you can only have one UPNP server active on a given machine?
[01:29:29] wagnerrp: rather, client
[01:29:32] wagnerrp: that doesnt seem right
[01:30:22] Dagmar: Ther emight be a clue here http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0108.3/0803.html
[01:30:46] Dagmar: There's either a socket option for this, or there's osme wholly different way of going about it I've forgotten
[01:30:50] Dagmar: I think it's the former
[01:30:56] wagnerrp: searching around, ive been getting conflicting answers
[01:31:01] Dagmar: I did some screwing aorund with multicast back like, 15+ years ago
[01:31:14] wagnerrp: either, 'no, only one application per port', or 'youre wrong, thats only for tcp traffic'
[01:31:35] Dagmar: No I'm pretty sure there's going to be a way to get around it for UDP
[01:32:23] Dagmar: THat page I linked is from 2001. It's the guy who did a lot of the PCMCIA/wireless stuff, banging on a similar recalcitrant multicast problem
[01:32:29] tariq: hi all, what does "error opening jump program file" indicate, what should i be looking for
[01:33:14] Dagmar: Oh heh. Ther'es also this http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Multicast-HOWTO-6.html
[01:33:43] wagnerrp: tariq: seems to indicate that the file youre trying to open does not exist
[01:33:54] wagnerrp: or otherwise cannot be accessed by your current user or current machine
[01:34:10] wagnerrp: check to see if the recording actually exists
[01:34:20] wagnerrp: if not, check your backend logs to see why the recording failed
[01:34:34] Dagmar: insufficient video signal
[01:35:01] Dagmar: wagnerrp: Yeah, section 6 & 6.1 explains it
[01:35:12] wagnerrp: ok, thanks
[01:37:10] wagnerrp: yeah, the socket syntax in python is almost a complete copy of that in C
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[01:37:52] Dagmar: 'cuz there's nothing you can do that would ever make that any more (or less) human-readable
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[01:37:57] AndyCap: any language which isn't? :P
[01:38:22] wagnerrp: well im sure the idea is that people already know C, why not make the API something that looks familiar
[01:38:53] Dagmar: Because there's very little there that isn't hte name of the option, which is simply an abstraction from an enumerated list, and parens
[01:39:29] AndyCap: s/people/the guy writing the API/
[01:39:52] Dagmar: It's up to other coders to "extend" things so you wind up with more palatable expressions like "openmydamnsocket(to_that_site, nao_damnit)
[01:40:19] wagnerrp: well thats the idea behind Twisted
[01:40:41] Dagmar: http://code.activestate.com/recipes/425975/
[01:40:52] wagnerrp: but then you end up with an elephant of a library just to access some simple functions
[01:40:58] Dagmar: Of course
[01:41:06] Dagmar: That's the whole point of python
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[01:41:34] Dagmar: All the complexity and overhead of C, without the loathesomely small resource allocation of a compiled app
[01:42:42] Dagmar: Damn Qt is still compiling
[01:43:26] AndyCap: you were saying? :P
[01:44:15] Dagmar: No you don't know the half of it man
[01:44:36] Dagmar: Once this test run is done, I have to take apart the package, look for anything amiss, and then do it all over again.
[01:44:47] wagnerrp: yeah, Qt takes a good couple hours to build on my systems
[01:45:08] Dagmar: Somehow I don't think I'm getting the new Myth binaries up and running tonight
[01:45:38] wagnerrp: -fixes or trunk?
[01:45:39] Raygu: does the mythtv-frontend really need an mysql database? cause i won't install the mysql server on my notebook
[01:46:01] cmdln: Raygu: it needs to connect to a database
[01:46:03] wagnerrp: Raygu: mythtv runs one single database
[01:46:17] wagnerrp: used for all frontends, backends, jobqueues, transcodes, commflags, etc....
[01:46:21] cmdln: Raygu: you can install a backend on another box
[01:46:26] Raygu: yes
[01:46:31] Dagmar: wagnerrp: Doens't really matter which branch until Qt is done cooking, but you know I don't run trunk
[01:46:34] wagnerrp: only one machine needs to install and run the database
[01:46:37] Raygu: the backend is on another box
[01:46:46] Raygu: with an mysql database
[01:46:48] AndyCap: Raygu: and the frontend needs to talk to the same database.
[01:46:52] Raygu: ahh
[01:46:54] cmdln: Raygu: then just install the frontend
[01:46:55] Raygu: thanks :)
[01:46:56] Dagmar: Raygu: http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Executive_Overview
[01:47:18] wagnerrp: Dagmar: well if you were running trunk, i was going to suggest holding off for a couple days, since the OSD branch just got merged in
[01:47:27] iamlindoro: wagnerrp, not merged
[01:47:33] iamlindoro: he resynced with trunk
[01:47:41] wagnerrp: oh, nevermind then
[01:47:57] Dagmar: wagnerrp: Considering that I broke my TV last night it matters even less.
[01:48:25] wagnerrp: Raygu: technically, there is no 'frontend only' build for mythtv, so if youre running a frontend-only package, thats something your distro has cooked up
[01:48:42] wagnerrp: and the only reason to do such a thing is to remove dependencies such as the mysql server
[01:48:55] Dagmar: ...and to make problems for other people.
[01:49:22] AndyCap: wagnerrp: I thought Raygu was done 3 minutes ago and problem solved.
[01:54:17] tariq: Dagmar: if i wasnt trying to play a recording and trying to watch tv, then what would that error indicate?
[01:54:49] wagnerrp: tariq: watching livetv is nothing more than watching a recording happening right now
[01:55:21] wagnerrp: either way, you end up with a big file on the hard drive
[01:55:27] tariq: aha so thats the concept
[01:55:46] tariq: ok so how could that file not exist?
[01:55:53] wagnerrp: because the recording has failed
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[01:57:01] wagnerrp: you failed to tune to the channel, your tuner card is broken, the drivers are messed up, you misconfigured something in mythtv, the list of reasons goes on
[01:57:10] wagnerrp: check your backend logs at the time of failure for more information
[01:57:43] tariq: ok will do
[02:04:06] syamajala: got my pvr-150 in the mail yesterday
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[02:16:55] robbins61: Any lirc geniuses around?
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[02:20:43] [R]: do you have an actual question?
[02:20:50] robbins61: oh you!
[02:21:01] robbins61: yeah, i do. I can't get my remote working in karmic
[02:21:11] [R]: lol
[02:21:14] [R]: very descriptive
[02:21:15] robbins61: it goes through and recognizes everything
[02:21:26] [R]: "it"?
[02:21:29] robbins61: my remote lights up, as does the receiver, but i get nothing in IRW
[02:21:41] robbins61: ummm it = the lirc setup tool in ubuntu
[02:22:21] [R]: and if you run lircd with the no daemon option and look at its output when you use irw...
[02:23:38] robbins61: how do i run lircd with no daemon?
[02:23:58] [R]: you could start by reading its man page
[02:24:01] [R]: i know... its a crazy idea
[02:24:21] robbins61: -n
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[02:26:56] robbins61: [R], you want to see this pastebin?
[02:27:11] [R]: no... let me guess it
[02:27:12] ** Dagmar puts five bucks on "no" **
[02:27:26] ** [R] puts his tv on espn **
[02:27:32] [R]: oh wait... thats not gonna help me figure out what it said
[02:28:01] robbins61: http://pastebin.ca/1744897
[02:28:27] [R]: and you wonder why it doesn't work
[02:28:35] robbins61: yes...that's why i'm here.
[02:28:43] [R]: well you could... you know... fix your broken config
[02:28:51] robbins61: i saw that
[02:29:34] robbins61: is there a generic one that i can grab or something?
[02:29:50] [R]: there is no such thing as a generic config
[02:29:54] [R]: thats why you had to make one
[02:30:03] robbins61: i did no such thing
[02:30:10] robbins61: not by hand anyway
[02:30:14] robbins61: one may have been generated
[02:30:20] [R]: s/may/was/
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[02:34:48] robbins61: alright, i'm passed the config problem now
[02:34:59] robbins61: still getting that could not get file information for /dev/lirc