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Thursday, September 6th, 2007, 00:00 UTC
[00:00:05] H00chster: correct GreyFoxx but do you have the matching MCE Keyboard as well?
[00:00:06] GreyFoxx: At least not for my version of it
[00:00:15] GreyFoxx: H00chster: Nope, just the remote/receiver
[00:00:21] H00chster: the remote works out of the box no prob very nice
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[00:00:39] Yahooadam: i think my problem may have been partly a bad guide, and partly cos i didnt restart between switiching from serial to mceusb2
[00:00:43] H00chster: but the patched driver kormoc made and got the mce-mod developer to include makes the keyboard and blaster work.
[00:00:50] H00chster: but lirc cvs hasn't included that yet
[00:01:07] GreyFoxx: Man that was so easy I'll definately be recommending that remote + cvs lirc when users ask
[00:02:16] H00chster: ya I can't stand mickeysoft heh but the remote is quite nice and VERY easy to get going in myth heh so I often recommend it lol
[00:02:26] GreyFoxx: yeah
[00:02:28] H00chster: can't beat it that everything you need is included heh
[00:02:38] H00chster: don't even have to go through the pain of learning keys heh
[00:03:25] GreyFoxx: now to map a few custom buttons :)
[00:04:53] GreyFoxx: xris's example config in contrib certainly helped :)
[00:04:57] H00chster: indeed
[00:05:11] H00chster: only thing I changed was the jump buttons and the channel up/down stuff in myth's edit keys
[00:05:22] H00chster: if only I could keep it from turning my xbox on when the media button is pressed ROFLMAO
[00:05:38] H00chster: but I ended up just programming the harmony to that remote heh that fixed that lol
[00:06:25] GreyFoxx: Once I setup Recorded TV as a Jumppoint to watch recordings and DVD Menu to launch mythvideo I'll be pretty happy :)
[00:07:28] H00chster: exactly what I set my dvd menu too heh
[00:07:40] H00chster: and livetv of course to livetv and set guide to the TV Playback guide
[00:09:38] GreyFoxx: I'm n ot sure what yet but I'm gonna use those 2 for something else since I don't really use either of those functions :)
[00:11:00] H00chster: heh
[00:11:32] Yahooadam: bah
[00:11:37] Yahooadam: u dont use the guide button ? >_<
[00:11:41] Yahooadam: thats like the best button ever :p
[00:11:59] GreyFoxx: Yahooadam: Extremely rarely, not enough to dedicate a button to it :)
[00:12:24] xris: GreyFoxx: yeah. too bad I don't actually use my own remote.... though j-rod is getting the lirc kernel modules into the official fedora kernel, so it'll be a lot easier for me to keep the drivers up to date with my kernel soon.
[00:12:41] GreyFoxx: xris: hehe
[00:12:57] Yahooadam: i wish they would update packages faster on ubuntu
[00:14:03] Yahooadam: oh
[00:14:07] Yahooadam: mythtv is 0.20.2
[00:14:10] Yahooadam: lol
[00:14:16] Yahooadam: meh ok so maybe they do update well :p
[00:14:20] Yahooadam: *shuts up*
[00:15:22] GreyFoxx: Hmmmm IS there a WAtch Recordings jumppoint ?
[00:15:34] GreyFoxx: Admittedly I'm only looking in mythweb for it
[00:16:25] H00chster: greyfoxx
[00:16:34] H00chster: it is called TV Playback Recordings
[00:16:45] H00chster: or TV Playback Recorded Shows or something like that but starts with TV Playback
[00:16:45] GreyFoxx: Ahhh ok
[00:16:55] GreyFoxx: TV Recording Playback
[00:17:03] GreyFoxx: duh, I shoulda tried that. Thanks!
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[00:19:40] H00chster: np
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[00:37:44] juski: Yahooadam: really getting somewhere with my scripts now :)
[00:37:59] juski: got the postcode lookup stuff done & working
[00:38:17] juski: got most of the provider & package data done & parsable
[00:43:06] ** juski goes to bed. g'night all **
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[00:50:49] H00chster: night juski
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[00:59:43] Yahooadam: nice one juski :D
[00:59:48] Yahooadam: just finishing this game ;)
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[01:04:55] John: Can anyone help me?
[01:05:06] Yahooadam: dont ask to ask, just ask
[01:05:49] John: How would I use two different machines to be a backend and a frontend?
[01:06:06] Yahooadam: setup the backend
[01:06:09] Yahooadam: like normal
[01:06:16] Yahooadam: on the frontend, enter the ip of the backend
[01:06:19] Yahooadam: done
[01:06:30] John: I thought it was harder
[01:06:34] Yahooadam: have you used mythtv b4 ?
[01:06:36] fryfrog: thats what she said
[01:06:59] fryfrog: you'll also need to make sure your mysql server accept connections on your network (not just localhost)
[01:07:07] John: Yes but it was many years ago
[01:07:15] Yahooadam: from my experience, connecting a frontend to a remote backend is the easy bit
[01:07:23] techjimbo: hey guys, I've roamed the FAQ. who does the listings now? I heard about zap2it
[01:07:32] Yahooadam: Schedules Direct
[01:07:45] techjimbo: how's the support? flawless?
[01:08:10] John: Is there rpm's for el5?
[01:08:26] Yahooadam: el5 = ?
[01:08:42] Yahooadam: as for SD support, asking in here is usually a good bet
[01:08:50] Yahooadam: but its atleast as good as Z2I if not better
[01:09:04] John: Red Hat Linux Enterprise Linux 5 same as CentOS
[01:09:46] John: I use CentOS for my servers
[01:10:00] techjimbo: SMEserver looks quick and easy.
[01:10:18] Yahooadam: john, it doesnt especially look like it at a quick glance
[01:10:26] Yahooadam: i know there is for FC5
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[01:10:50] John: CentOS is a distro based on el5
[01:10:53] Yahooadam: it seems you can use apt-get on red hat though ...
[01:11:32] John: CentOS uses yum repos
[01:11:41] Yahooadam: most people seem to reccomend compiling it ... so ...
[01:12:45] Yahooadam: i cant see any RPM's
[01:12:55] Yahooadam: mythtv is only officially distributed in source format
[01:13:23] John: I have a feeling that it might be in the rpmforge repo
[01:13:38] Yahooadam: http://atrpms.net/topic/multimedia/ – this apparently has it
[01:13:59] Yahooadam: "Red Hat Linux and Fedora Core packages for MythTV and all of its add-on modules"
[01:15:10] John: I use these repos along woth the Core repos: drbl, epel, atrpms, rpmforge
[01:15:44] John: atrpms has them
[01:15:49] Yahooadam: so it would seem a yum install mythtv will work .. ?
[01:16:19] John: with the atrpm repo list installed
[01:16:38] John: then yes you can installing
[01:16:47] John: Compiling
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[01:46:33] fundies: cancan i install mythtv to my tivo?
[01:47:02] fryfrog: no, thanks come again!
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[01:47:26] Yahooadam: "The TiVo is running fairly specialized hardware, so it'd be a real pain to have to tailor MythTV to that. I bet it'd just be easier and way less time consuming to buy a mini-itx fanless PC, and run MythTV on that."
[01:47:35] Yahooadam: http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=mythtv+on+ti . . . enGB225GB225
[01:47:44] Yahooadam: http://ask.pvrblog.com/2004/10/tivo_to_mythtv.html
[01:47:49] Yahooadam: bam bam bam
[01:47:53] Yahooadam: pretty easy ...
[01:48:01] iamben: "it'd actually take some effort to do that..."
[01:48:19] Yahooadam: if i select "Find and record one showing of this title."
[01:48:21] Yahooadam: in mythtv
[01:48:21] fundies: ok well i got a directtv tivo
[01:48:33] fundies: and i want to use it with cable
[01:48:39] Yahooadam: will that record every episode, once ?
[01:48:44] fundies: do i hae any options?
[01:48:46] fryfrog: thats uh, not likely to ever happen
[01:48:48] fryfrog: yeah, sure
[01:48:52] fryfrog: sell it on ebay/craigslist
[01:48:56] fryfrog: buy a cable tivo
[01:49:21] fundies: no i want to image the hardriive or something of that nature
[01:49:54] fryfrog: i think you are having a fundamental issue of not comprehending the differences between satalite and cable
[01:50:10] fryfrog: it is easy to summarize with the phrase "they are very different" perhaps
[01:50:38] Ryushin: Is there something like this http://www.woot.com/ that can be used for a mini frontend for myth. Does Myth support IPTV?
[01:51:23] fundies: fryfrog but theres a cable port on the tivo
[01:51:46] fryfrog: is that to let it record ota locals?
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[01:53:11] BHSPitMonkey: Hiya.
[01:53:53] fundies: fryfrog theres a cable in and 2 satilite ins and 1 cable out
[01:53:59] Yahooadam: "Dont ask to Ask Just Ask"
[01:54:05] Yahooadam: im so gonna have to make a macro for that
[01:54:34] sphery: Yahooadam: Find and record one showing of this title is appropriate for movies. Record at any time on any channel is good for all episodes of a series.
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[01:55:19] fryfrog: fundies: so... then just use it?
[01:55:37] Yahooadam: sphery – "Record at any time on any channel." wont re-record episodes ?
[01:55:42] Ryushin: Yahooadam: Well, their are trying to be polite. They've probably been beaten up by going to the FreeBSD/Solaris/other elitist channel.
[01:55:50] sphery: Yahooadam: Nope. Not if you enable duplicate detection.
[01:56:10] fundies: fryfrog cant the ghey directv software only checks satilite
[01:56:41] Yahooadam: ok ty sphery :)
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[02:01:21] Yahooadam: hmm mythtv could actually be quite good
[02:01:39] Yahooadam: well when juski gets his setup thing done i might tie in my sky connection and start using it :)
[02:01:57] sphery: mine is quite good (not to say it couldn't be improved)
[02:02:56] Yahooadam: Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 512 bytes) in /usr/share/mythtv/mythweb/includes/programs.php on line 420
[02:02:58] Yahooadam: bah !
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[02:07:31] sphery: Yahooadam: You need to increase the PHP memory size.
[02:07:41] Yahooadam: its ok now
[02:07:45] sphery: cool
[02:07:51] Yahooadam: i realised, i was trying to search all films, and all series
[02:08:06] Yahooadam: (with no criteria as i was trying to find 4* films)
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[02:08:10] Yahooadam: = alot of results
[02:08:22] sphery: Yeah. A search for nothing is similarly interesting.
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[02:08:39] sphery: nothing finds everything
[02:09:11] Yahooadam: :)
[02:09:19] Yahooadam: search with no critera = no filter ;)
[02:09:33] sphery: right
[02:10:09] Yahooadam: can you watch stuff off mythweb ?
[02:10:18] sphery: yes/no
[02:10:28] Yahooadam: ah
[02:10:35] Yahooadam: it opens it with mythtv
[02:11:03] sphery: You can do direct download, ASX streaming, and Flash video (Flash and maybe ASX only in SVN trunk), but they all have limitations
[02:11:35] Yahooadam: hmm :(
[02:11:39] sphery: Flash is a proof-of-concept implementation that needs a /lot/ of supporting backend code that's not there, yet, to be done correctly..
[02:12:03] clever: the mythtv protocol is simple
[02:12:05] clever: to me
[02:12:19] clever: if i knew the interface for vlc/mplayer i could probly add mythtv support to them
[02:12:30] sphery: My backends are unable to even play back my recordings (HDTV) in real time, but the Flash approach requires transcoding in real time.
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[02:12:48] sphery: clever: Yeah. It was designed to be simple.
[02:13:00] clever: sphery: the new method is to have mythbackend transcode on its own in realtime
[02:13:03] sphery: Though if you can run vlc/mplayer, why not just run mythfrontend.
[02:13:04] clever: which wont help for you:P
[02:13:15] clever: mplayer and vlc also work on winblows
[02:13:26] clever: if i code the addon right it should build for both os's
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[02:14:07] Yahooadam: which would be freaking awesome :p
[02:14:28] p3bkac: I have mythtv installed and setup to use my hauppauge pvr-350 but times out when I try to record video or watch live tv...I have done a dd if=/dev/video0 of=capture.mpg and am able to capture video
[02:14:35] clever: ive asked the mplayer channel before but they led me to the wrong part of the help file
[02:14:39] sphery: clever: right. there's also going to be support for multiple-recording-files per show, so if I wanted, I could do a < realtime transcode and watch later through MythWeb (but I won't ever do that--it's easier to carry my recordings with me than to try to watch through my 768kbps upstream link to the 'net)
[02:15:02] clever: what i did before
[02:15:10] clever: i copyed the nuv's over the internet
[02:15:12] clever: 50kb/sec
[02:15:18] clever: halfway arross the country
[02:15:26] Yahooadam: i want to watch my recordings on windows
[02:15:27] clever: then put them in a local folder
[02:15:31] Yahooadam: atm :p
[02:15:33] clever: making it think i nfs mounted the backend
[02:15:42] clever: then mythfrontend played them just fine
[02:15:55] clever: except for the lag to the mysql and master backend:(
[02:16:09] clever: and it took ages to transfer a show
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[02:16:17] sphery: I guess for a slim windows client, vlc/mplayer wouldn't be bad. I find, though, that if I'm not using mythfrontend, it's just as easy to play the file directly.
[02:16:45] sphery: I copy my recordings to my laptop when I go on trips and play them as any other video file.
[02:16:47] clever: the direct download of mythweb can be streamed thru vlc/mplayer/other
[02:16:52] clever: but lacks seek support
[02:17:04] clever: asx might fix that i dont remember using it
[02:17:06] sphery: (and I have keys set up to allow skipping commercials in about 3 keypresses)
[02:17:10] p3bkac: any takers on what i might be doing wrong?
[02:17:31] clever: how far is mythtv from a working frontend build on winblows?
[02:17:46] sphery: Yahooadam: With Samba, mythrename.pl (highly recommend using it's --link option, not actually renaming), you can play them on Windows (and it's easy to find the right one).
[02:18:15] clever: sphery: i only use samba for the other direction(mounting xp shares on linux)
[02:18:25] Yahooadam: bah another network drive :p
[02:18:31] sphery: p3bkac: You've selected PVR-x50, PVR-500 for the card type?
[02:18:34] Yahooadam: i already have 5 :p
[02:18:47] sphery: :)
[02:18:50] clever: most of my net drives are nfs mounts
[02:18:51] p3bkac: It actually shows PVR-350 identified
[02:19:02] p3bkac: and /dev/video0
[02:19:13] sphery: I found that not using Windows makes it easy to access my Myth stuff on any of my machines...  :)
[02:19:25] clever: bbl
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[02:19:29] sphery: p3bkac: but what about what you selected in mythtv-setup?
[02:19:38] Yahooadam: how would i use mythrename.pl ?
[02:19:53] Yahooadam: is there a good faq somewhere :)
[02:20:01] sphery: not really.
[02:20:13] p3bkac: sphery: I thought that was what you were talking about...I selected the V4L PVR350 in mythtv-setup
[02:20:43] p3bkac: is there a place where myth keeps it's logs for me to parse through?
[02:20:57] p3bkac: nm...found it in /var/log
[02:21:33] Yahooadam: p3bkac – usually a good place to start looking ;)
[02:21:36] sphery: Yahooadam: I use: mythrename.pl --link /path/to/dir --format '%Y%m%d-%H%i-%eH%ei-%T-%S' --underscores --separator '-' --replacement '_'
[02:21:37] Chutt_: v4l / pvr-350 are two separate things
[02:22:27] sphery: Yahooadam: But I run it for 5 directories and use these other four formats, too: '%T/%Y%m%d-%H%i-%eH%ei-%S' , '%U-%T-%Y%m%d-%H%i-%eH%ei-%S' , '%C-%T-%Y%m%d-%H%i-%eH%ei-%S' , '%T-%oY%om%od-%S'
[02:22:41] Yahooadam: do you have to run that manually, or can mythtv do it automatically ?
[02:22:51] sphery: To get dirs sorted by start time, title, recording group, category, original airdate
[02:22:59] sphery: I have a cron job run it.
[02:23:04] p3bkac: I think it says V4L in the menu (2nd Option Capture Cards) and then identifies PVR350 when I go in to it
[02:23:08] sphery: Myth doesn't have it built in.
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[02:23:34] p3bkac: I have the logfile but it's not giving me any details...2007-09–05 21:59:42.578 TV Error: StartRecorder() — timed out waiting for recorder to start
[02:24:14] sphery: p3bkac: It should be something like: "MPEG-2 encoder card (PVR-x50, PVR-500)" (though that version--from trunk--is new and the old said something about PVR-250, PVR-350, the MPEG-2 encoder part should be recognizable).
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[02:25:51] p3bkac: I think I just found it in the backend logs...says I have to setup the profile (which I thought I already did)....2007-09–05 21:59:02.532 Unknown video codec...2007-09–05 21:59:02.540 Please go into the TV Settings, Recording Profiles and.
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