Re: [mythtv-users] Can no longer start transcoding

2005-03-16 Thread Chris Pinkham
> Thanks for the information. Do you know if I am right in my assumption that > mythbackend starts mythtranscode when a show is ready for transcoding and that > the database stores the information, whether a show should be transcoded or > not Transcoding jobs are queued in the jobqueue table and

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Remove commercial flags

2005-03-16 Thread Chris Pinkham
> It appears that having a cutlist "overrides" the commercial flagging > flags. Is this correct. Once I manually marked the commercials, the > bad skip "went away". Even without transcoding to actually remove the > breaks from the nuv file. Is this a correct assumption? Yes, if you have a cutlist,

Re: [mythtv-users] Job Queues to run by default

2005-03-17 Thread Chris Pinkham
> I've made a Job Queue which works great when I specify to run Job #1 > when I schedule a recording. But I can't figure out how to make Job > #1 run by default for all recording. Where are those default > settings? > > Is this something missing or I just don't know how to enable it? There isn'

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: MythTV & pcHDTV

2005-03-17 Thread Chris Pinkham
> Thanks for the clarification. Things make sense now that your mention that HD > is broadcast in MPEG. So changing the quality level of the recording has zero > effect on how the video is initially stored. So really the menu item for > pcHDTV transcoder should be removed? More that the options

Re: [mythtv-users] Any reason not to run commflag as a cron job

2005-03-17 Thread Chris Pinkham
> Any reason not to run commflag as a cron job? I do a lot of recording at > night while I'm playing vengeance on my server and if commflag starts up > the server starts laggin and people start complaining. Is there any reason > I cant have commflag run at 1:00am. There's no reason you can't run m

Re: [mythtv-users] Problems deleting

2005-03-17 Thread Chris Pinkham
> > This has happened to me on two seperate occasions lately, the touch > > worked for me, but I would have to think that the developers are going > > to be solving this issue shortly as it really can be a pain in the... > > I think I remember rather a heated thread on this a few weeks ago. I > wo

Re: [mythtv-users] removing from mysql database

2005-03-18 Thread Chris Pinkham
> I have a recording that didn't even make a file - it failed > completely. I too am interested in a manual removal method. With current CVS, this works fine. Since Myth didn't create the file (and the filesize in the database is zero), you can delete the recording in Myth even though the file do

Re: [mythtv-users] anyone use AverTV AverMedia card

2005-03-19 Thread Chris Pinkham
> I'm just trying to get a feel for these cards. I asked about the Matrox, and > apparently it is not a good experience. How about the AverMedia card, is > that a good card? What is your experience with this card? With what AverMedia card? They make quite a few. -- Chris ___

Re: [mythtv-users] Getting mythtranscode to work with MP3 audio

2005-03-19 Thread Chris Pinkham
> > Opening audio decoder: [mp3lib] MPEG layer-2, layer-3 > > MP3lib: init layer2&3 finished, tables done > > AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, 16 bit (0x10), ratio: 24000->192000 (192.0 kbit) > > Selected audio codec: [mp3] afm:mp3lib (mp3lib MPEG layer-2, layer-3) > > > > So, is there anyway I can use mytht

Re: [mythtv-users] Getting mythtranscode to work with MP3 audio

2005-03-19 Thread Chris Pinkham
> > See if you get the same result as the user in that post. If you do get > > 252 printed, you can try changing the 0xfb to 0xfc as he mentioned to > > see if it works. If it does, report back here and we can get the code > > fixed up to allow both. > It printed 252. > > Don't you mean 0xfd? I

Re: [mythtv-users] Transcode makes files bigger

2005-03-27 Thread Chris Pinkham
> If I correctly understand the current state of this problem, > mythtranscode, as late as 0.17, but fixed somewhere in CVS (maybe) has > a problem where it switches to outputting RAW mode frames, due to > system load during the transcode. Captain Murdoch (from IRC) was > chasing this around, and

Re: [mythtv-users] Getting mythtranscode to work with MP3 audio

2005-03-27 Thread Chris Pinkham
> I get following for this file: > > > mythtranscode -i 1021_20050320090700_20050320090700.nuv The problem appears to be in the mpeg2trans portion of the transcoder, but I haven't had time enough to track it down yet. I did notice that if I use the -c and -s options to specify chanid and startt

Re: [mythtv-users] How well does commercial detection work?

2005-03-27 Thread Chris Pinkham
> Using default, blank frame detection. You're probably better off using the new "All" method. > 1st commercial break > Enter off by 25.13 seconds > Exit off by 19.17 seconds > 2nd commercial break > Enter off by 28.62 seconds > Exit off by 34.68 seconds > 3rd commercial break > Enter off by

Re: [mythtv-users] How well does commercial detection work?

2005-03-27 Thread Chris Pinkham
> Well, this is still pre 1.0 software. I dont think flawless is going to > happen any time soon. Pretty damn well? Yup, Ive got that. Only a > couple HD shows get screwy, Alias and Lost off the top of my head. SD Well, I record Lost regularly and just started recording Alias a week or two

Re: [mythtv-users] How well does commercial detection work?

2005-03-27 Thread Chris Pinkham
> I have it set to use all detection modes. I can not say it is 100% but > it is very very close. With only a few exceptions about the only > commercials it seems to miss consistently are those sponsor bits usually > at the end of a show that appear to be part of the actual show just > before it

Re: [mythtv-users] How well does commercial detection work?

2005-03-27 Thread Chris Pinkham
> I've been using the All option since it was introduced and, I have to > agree that it was MUCH better then than it is now. Must be sensitive to > the type of signal or something. When is "then"? -- Chris ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users

Re: [mythtv-users] How well does commercial detection work?

2005-03-27 Thread Chris Pinkham
> Within the first week that you introduced the ALL method, detection was > simply amazing. I have never seen it work so well. > > Then I saw a message from you saying that you had to loosen up the > concept of "black". After that, detection really took a hit. Ever > since then it is not tha

Re: [mythtv-users] HDTV Streaming over Wireless + Caching

2005-03-27 Thread Chris Pinkham
> its not quite enough. My hope has been that some of the transcode stuff > will eventually get changed (or explained well enough to me that I can > change it myself) so that I can transcode down from the huge resolutions I > am forced to capture in to 720p resolutions since I can't do more than 7

Re: [mythtv-users] Transcoding SDTV/HDTV with Ac3 Passthrough

2005-03-27 Thread Chris Pinkham
> Hey. The other day I just got a DNTV Live! DVB-T card, which I > promptly put in the waiting PC to put MythTV on. :) > > Most things seem fine (apart from not seeming to have enough grunt to > watch hdtv broadcasts), except that if I have AC3 passthrough on > (global setting) and try and get Myt

Re: [mythtv-users] regular transcode, and re-import into .nuv?

2005-03-28 Thread Chris Pinkham
> I've got a rock solid process for transcoding my pcHDTV HD-3000 captured > High-Def streams using 'transcode' (not mythtranscode). But I end up > with Mpeg4 XviD files in avi containers that I watch with mplayer. > > I'm wondering if there is any way to pull these back into their original >

Re: [mythtv-users] How well does commercial detection work?

2005-03-29 Thread Chris Pinkham
> On Mar 27, 2005, at 6:40 PM, John Patrick Poet wrote: > > Chris Pinkham wrote: > > > >>> I've been using the All option since it was introduced and, I have > >>> to agree that it was MUCH better then than it is now. Must be > >>> sen

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: How well does commercial detection work?

2005-03-29 Thread Chris Pinkham
> I still say this worked better before. I'm recording the same shows I > used to from the same source and the commercial detection is worse than > it was when ALL was first introduced. So, can you test with current CVS with the Strict Commercial Detection turned ON with the ALL detection method

Re: [mythtv-users] How well does commercial detection work?

2005-03-29 Thread Chris Pinkham
> Of course this is very frustrating, as you have to say "don't delete" > then re-watch, then seek to the place you were and find the real > programming at the end. > > I suspect a better behaviour when you hit End (Skip to next commercial mark) > if there is no next mark (or the next mark is end

Re: [mythtv-users] How well does commercial detection work?

2005-03-29 Thread Chris Pinkham
> Chris (and other developers working on mythcommflag), > I just wanted to let you know that one network I seem to have more > problems on than others is VH1. I find that on quite a few of their Thanks, I'll see if there is something I can record off there to test with. > Also, like mentioned a

Re: [mythtv-users] Commercial Skip

2005-03-29 Thread Chris Pinkham
> I'm pretty sure it has been checked into CVS, but I haven't used it. > Basically, it'll display Live TV a few seconds behind what it would > normally show it at. It'll then mark the commercials. I think it'll > work and continue to mark even if you pause. This feature was > developed within t

Re: [mythtv-users] Commercial Skip

2005-03-29 Thread Chris Pinkham
> Sorry for mistating the patch Chris. I was reading the CVS committ > listserv yesterday and was just trying to regurgitate what I could get > from memory. :) Just wanted to clarify it. The patch was the first step towards getting flagging working for LiveTV, but that may take a while longer.

Re: [mythtv-users] Can't see slave card in master

2005-03-29 Thread Chris Pinkham
> I have an xbox frontend and a master backend with two tuner cards > working just fine. > > Last night, I added a Slave Backend with another card in it - but I > can't see the third card from the Master Backend. > > The card in the slave is working fine - I have set it up in mythtvsetup, > and t

Re: [mythtv-users] Can't see slave card in master

2005-03-30 Thread Chris Pinkham
> Should I be able to see the third card from the frontend? I believe so, and from the backend status webpage as well. > Checking the card status in the Information Center, I only see the two > 'local' cards - I was expecting to see the status of the slave card as > well. Yes, it should show up

Re: [mythtv-users] Getting mythtranscode to work with MP3 audio

2005-03-30 Thread Chris Pinkham
> > | Am Sonntag, 20. Mdrz 2005 09:12 schrieb David Morrison: | |> > > Chris Pinkham wrote: |> |>>>> See if you get the same result as the > > user in that post. |>>>> If you do get 252 printed, you can try > > changing the 0xfb to |>&g

Re: [mythtv-users] Stale NFS file handle - an epiphany

2005-03-30 Thread Chris Pinkham
> Anyway, what I'm thinking is happening is this... > > When I go to delete a recording, there are *two* "Enter" presses > registered in rapid succession. (Due to the flakey joystick). The > first one goes and deletes the file from my NFS store, but mythtv goes > to delete the file a second

Re: [mythtv-users] Commercial skip, cutlist, auto skip, and editing.

2005-03-30 Thread Chris Pinkham
> When a video has been commercial flagged and then the > video editor is brought up for that video, no cut sections > are displayed until I hit *z* on the keyboard. Does this > essentially load the cut list with with data from commercial > flagging? Is the cut list generated in this manner indep

Re: [mythtv-users] How well does commercial detection work?

2005-03-30 Thread Chris Pinkham
> > With the new ALL method, the "Strict Commercial Detection" setting wasn't > > being used, so I just committed a change to CVS to use it in the blank-frame > > detection code to allow reverting to the stricter black-frame detection > > that was > Now that I have my system working again, I gave

Re: [mythtv-users] Commercial skip, cutlist, auto skip, and editing.

2005-03-30 Thread Chris Pinkham
> Thanks. That pretty much clears everything up for me. As > I read your answers the basic gist is: > > A cutlist overrides commercial flagging and commercial > skip mode *only* applies to commercial flags. Correct. > One last quick question if you don't mind. Is there a way to >

Re: [mythtv-users] How well does commercial detection work?

2005-03-30 Thread Chris Pinkham
> I have found that commercial detection works well for most shows. One > show that appears to have serious problems however is Blind Justice. > Might make a good test show to record and flag. I'm already recording that, so I'll make a note to see how well detection is working on there. -- Chr

Re: [mythtv-users] Commercial skip, cutlist, auto skip, and editing.

2005-03-30 Thread Chris Pinkham
> >Both of these should accomplish the same thing, so I'm not sure why > >you were seeing what you describe. Did you exit by hitting ESCAPE > >or using 'M'? > I used ESCAPE IIRC because it was the one key I *knew* would > get me out. Take a look at keys.txt. ESCAPE exits without saving your cha

Re: [mythtv-users] Stale NFS file handle - an epiphany

2005-03-30 Thread Chris Pinkham
> Chris Pinkham wrote: > > Thanks for the good descriptiong. I'll try to simulate here and get a > > fix into CVS if I can find an issue. I think I may already know what > > the issue is and how to prevent this. > > Excellent! Let me know what you find out. I

Re: [mythtv-users] DCT-6200 w/ FireWire -- Looking for Input..

2005-03-30 Thread Chris Pinkham
> The resolution of the video depends on the provider, I think. For me, in > the SF Bay Area using Comcast, I'm getting 1940x1400 (1080i or what is > that?) which comes to between 6.3 and 7.3 Gb per hour. My hope is that > sometime soon the transcoding options will allow resize for sizes greater

Re: [mythtv-users] How well does commercial detection work?

2005-03-31 Thread Chris Pinkham
> I agree, the strict option does help a lot. It's hard to be objective > about it but it seems just about as good as it was when the ALL option > was first introduced. I'm wondering if my picture is confusing it. My > cable box produces light and dark lines that scroll up the picture > constan

Re: [mythtv-users] DCT-6200 w/ FireWire -- Looking for Input..

2005-03-31 Thread Chris Pinkham
> Just gave this a shot, and I get "picture size invalid (0x0)" in the > logs before the job fails. Looking at libavcodec utils.c, there is a > function that returns that error and it seems to be returning it because > it is passed 0 x 0 as the width and height. What resolution were you trying

Re: [mythtv-users] How well does commercial detection work?

2005-03-31 Thread Chris Pinkham
> It's also a little annoying when the commercials are incorrectly marked > and pressing forward skips some random large value, there is no easy way > to go back because where you jumped from wasn't a marked point. So you > have to just manually skip back to the correct place > > Would it be possi

Re: [mythtv-users] How well does commercial detection work?

2005-03-31 Thread Chris Pinkham
> On Mon, Mar 28, 2005 at 08:54:19AM -0600, Ramon Redondo wrote: > > Since we're talking about consistent commercial detection problems, I > > could also mention Jeopardy!. Commercial detection is flawless for my > > recordings of Jeopardy!, with the one exception being that it misses > > the end

Re: [mythtv-users] How well does commercial detection work?

2005-04-01 Thread Chris Pinkham
> Is there a chance that those blank detection values for light and dark > could be made to be read from the DB and controlled from setup? I have > a couple channels that suffer from slightly poorer signal than others > and the strict detection only really fails me on those poor channels. > I

Re: [mythtv-users] How well does commercial detection work?

2005-04-01 Thread Chris Pinkham
> > I just committed a patch to CVS to disable skipping when the last commercial > > flagging marker is less than 10 seconds from the end of the recording. It > > will instead display the "At End, can not Skip" message that it normally > > does when you are at the end of the recording and there ar

Re: [mythtv-users] How well does commercial detection work?

2005-04-02 Thread Chris Pinkham
> >I wonder if it would help to apply a narrow filter to get rid of high > >frequency noise before testing whether a frame is blank? This might > >help for noisy signals without hurting things much for clean > >signals... > > > > > I'd be interested in this. In going through my programs last ni

Re: [mythtv-users] How well does commercial detection work?

2005-04-03 Thread Chris Pinkham
> I send this to you directly. From the relevant portions I can see it > did detect the 12 second and ~0 second break again. If I read it right, > that's at frame 18625 and then at 67576. I am using the ALL detection > method with strict detection enabled. > > 2005-04-03 12:07:33.803 18625

Re: [mythtv-users] How well does commercial detection work?

2005-04-03 Thread Chris Pinkham
> Thanks for the debug info (although I'm not sure the whole list wanted > to see the mythcommflag.out.bz2 file). :) This should be fixed in > current CVS, can you update and reflag this show to see if it does it > correctly now? > http://cvs.mythtv.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/mythtv/libs/libmythtv/c

Re: [mythtv-users] How well does commercial detection work?

2005-04-03 Thread Chris Pinkham
> I checked out and reran mythcommflag and based on the debug output it > did not detect those breaks this time. Thanks for the quick fix. My > WAF just increased. :) I'll let this version run on next week's shows Great, glad it worked. Not sure how I missed that initially. > BTW, any in

Re: [mythtv-users] OSD funniness using any zoom modes

2005-04-05 Thread Chris Pinkham
> a CRT monitor, so if anyone can advise me as to how to do a screenshot I=20 > would much appreciate. Search for "NO_XV" on the mailing lists for explanation/howto about screenshots inside Myth. -- Chris ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@my

Re: [mythtv-users] "Unable to find mythcommflag" in 0.17

2005-04-05 Thread Chris Pinkham
> One of the several (minor) annoyances I've had with my 0.16->0.17 > upgrade is that mythcommflag won't run automatically anymore. When I It does run automatically, if things are properly configured. >"ERROR: Unable to find mythcommflag" This error message means mythbackend can't find m

Re: [mythtv-users] "Unable to find mythcommflag" in 0.17

2005-04-05 Thread Chris Pinkham
> > "ERROR: Unable to find mythcommflag" > I figured this would get resolved down the road... so I > > made the full pathname explicit in the setup screens. Instead of > > mythcommflag > > I put > > /usr/local/bin/mythcommflag > > resolved it for me. Huh? What setup screen? I don't

Re: [mythtv-users] "Unable to find mythcommflag" in 0.17

2005-04-06 Thread Chris Pinkham
> > Huh? What setup screen? I don't remember making the > > executable pathname configurable. > > You're right, my bad memory. :) > That's what I did to fix the same problem with Mythfillldatabase... :) > > For commflag, I just linked it from /usr/local/bin/mythcommflag to > /usr/bin/mythcom

Re: [mythtv-users] Commercial detection idea

2005-04-07 Thread Chris Pinkham
> I had a idea i thought might be worth a try. Currently as i > understand it the commercial detection code only looks at the image's > captured, however an easy way to detect a commercial break would be to > "listen" to the sound. When there is no sound (or under a certain > level) and it coinci

Re: [mythtv-users] Commercial Flagging Percent Complete

2005-04-07 Thread Chris Pinkham
> When myth is commercial flagging a show, is there anyway to tell what > percent complete it is? It seems that comm flagging stops if I start > watching a show which is being flagged. So, I'd like to know how > close it is to "done" so I can decide whether to wait or not. Look in the JobQueue s

Re: [mythtv-users] Suggestions

2005-04-08 Thread Chris Pinkham
> > > > Did I read this right? Are you saying that if I touch the missing > > > > file, thus creating a zero length file, that mythbackend will > > > > clean it up for me and I don't have to go into the UI to delete it? > > > If > > > > that's true, then that's fantastic! > > >

Re: [mythtv-users] ERROR: file I/O problem in 'safe_read()': Invalid

2005-04-09 Thread Chris Pinkham
> There currently isn't a fix for this problem. I am in the same boat as > you. It is the only thing keeping mythtv from being wife ready. The I just committed a fix to CVS for this issue. If you are running CVS, please update your systems and test this to make sure that this fixes the issue for

Re: [mythtv-users] How well does commercial detection work?

2005-04-11 Thread Chris Pinkham
> downloaded todays CVS and reflagged > it detected and flagged an obviously false commercial of just 8 frames long > > "white frames" like those in explosions and in scene transitions in Cold Case > also trigger false positives every time If you use the same instructions I gave the others earli

Re: [PATCH] Re: [mythtv-users] How well does commercial detection

2005-04-12 Thread Chris Pinkham
> I sent this last night but it never showed up on the list, > So I am resending Got both of these actually. > The patch is attached and it replaces the previous patch and > addresses all four issues. > > 1) in strict mode - treat frames as blank only if logo is absent I get this part of the p

Re: [mythtv-users] commercial flagging at set times

2005-04-15 Thread Chris Pinkham
> leith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > could I modify mythcommflag to only run say at 3 in the morning, rather > > then just after the program is finished recording? > > > > If no command line arguments are specified to mythcommflag, > all unflagged shows will be flagged. > > disable automat

Re: [mythtv-users] Time stretch bug in 0.18

2005-04-24 Thread Chris Pinkham
> When I set time stretch to 1.1, then the checkmark in the OSD menu is on > 1.2. If I set it to 1.2, then the checkmark is on 1.3. For the other > settings, it's ok. If you're compiling from source, can you try a simple 1-line fix? Edit libs/libmythtv/tv_play.cpp and search for the following l

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Time stretch bug in 0.18

2005-04-24 Thread Chris Pinkham
> On Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 04:49:25PM -0400, Chris Pinkham wrote: > > If you're compiling from source, can you try a simple 1-line fix? > > > > Edit libs/libmythtv/tv_play.cpp and search for the following line: > > > > int speedX10 = (int)(ceil(normal_s

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Re: Time stretch bug in 0.18

2005-04-24 Thread Chris Pinkham
> On Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 09:09:46PM -0400, Chris Pinkham wrote: > > Does switching to speedX100 vs speedX10 make sense in addition to > > the round vs ceil change? > > Not having looked too closely at the code, speedX100 seems the easiest > way to go. FWIW, this bug

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Re: Time stretch bug in 0.18

2005-04-24 Thread Chris Pinkham
> On Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 09:09:46PM -0400, Chris Pinkham wrote: > > Does switching to speedX100 vs speedX10 make sense in addition to > > the round vs ceil change? > > Not having looked too closely at the code, speedX100 seems the easiest > way to go. FWIW, this bug

Re: [mythtv-users] Time stretch bug in 0.18

2005-04-25 Thread Chris Pinkham
> Chris Pinkham wrote: > >>When I set time stretch to 1.1, then the checkmark in the OSD menu is on > >>1.2. If I set it to 1.2, then the checkmark is on 1.3. For the other > >>settings, it's ok. > > > > If you're compiling from source, can y

Re: [mythtv-users] OT: Mysql DB backups don't produce same results?

2005-04-25 Thread Chris Pinkham
> I don't know how appropriate it is to post/attach 2 files, one fairly > large, and one slightly large (~20MB, ~1.7MB) so I won't. But here's > my question: > mysqldump -p mythconverg > mythdb.sql > > #!/bin/sh > dbdump="/home/mythtv/backup/mythtv_backup.`date '+%w'`.sql.bz2" > /usr/bin/mysqld

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Time stretch bug in 0.18

2005-04-25 Thread Chris Pinkham
> On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 03:24:35PM -0400, Chris Pinkham wrote: > > > Chris Pinkham wrote: > > I put a patch in anyway that fixes this and another issue with the popup > > menu for TimeStretch. > > release-0-18-fixes, too? :) ;) :) > -- > Axel.Thimm at AT

Re: [mythtv-users] auto-expire by priority?

2005-06-14 Thread Chris Pinkham
> Maybe I'm thinking about this all wrong, but is there a way to > auto-expire by priority rather than by age, or otherwise configure my > recording schedules to achieve this effect? Don't think there's a way to do this right now. It'd be fairly easy to implement though. When I created AutoExpir

Re: [mythtv-users] seeking table issues

2005-06-15 Thread Chris Pinkham
> But now mythcommflag wants to run the commercial flagging *again* on > all these programs as the commercial information is deleted from the > recorded database. The only option I have is to do a ctrl-C on all of > them and mark them *busy*. So, all the recorded program show up as > currently bein

Re: [mythtv-users] Housekeeping thread? Curiosity is getting the best

2005-06-17 Thread Chris Pinkham
> I am really just basically wondering what the 'housekeeping thread' > is? No, I don't think it's related to my problem in any way shape or > form, I'm just curious. http://cvs.mythtv.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/*checkout*/mythtv/programs/mythbackend/housekeeper.cpp?content-type=text%2Fplain&rev=1.8

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: AutoExpireDefault in settings table

2005-06-23 Thread Chris Pinkham
> On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 07:05:16AM -0500, Mercury Morris wrote: > > The Question: Can I add AutoExpireDefault to the settings table in > I just added it manually to the database (mysql, phpadmin, etc. are > all fine). The rest of the source code still honors the setting (if > present in the dat

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: AutoExpireDefault in settings table

2005-06-23 Thread Chris Pinkham
> Is anonymous subversion access set up yet? I haven't seen any mail > about it ... Via the webpage. I'm not sure if Isaac has enabled any other method quite yet. -- Chris ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bi

Re: [mythtv-users] Transcoding HDTV for playback on EPIA MII Frontend

2005-10-08 Thread Chris Pinkham
> programs on the frontends. The frontends pretty much bomb. Even when I > mythtranscode the HDTV programs to very small (and very poor quality) MPEG-4 > and RTJpeg, the picture is jumpy, choppy and stutters at best. FYI, when I > play the same recording live, freshly recorded or transcoded on t

Re: [mythtv-users] Auto expire setting ambiguity

2005-10-10 Thread Chris Pinkham
> When I am in the recorded media section and selecting a recording to > watch, I can hit a right arrow key and myth pops up a dialog box with > various buttons - one of which says 'Auto Expire'. > > Does this mean the recording it set to auto expire, or does it mean that > if I press the butto

Re: [mythtv-users] Aspect ratio - possible advert filter cue

2005-10-10 Thread Chris Pinkham
> One thing I have noticed is that there is a discontinuity between the > program and the adverts. More often than not this is accompanied by an > aspect ratio shift. This does, in a minute number of cases, cause myth > to trip over and die .. but that's not what I am writing about. It > occurr

Re: [mythtv-users] playlist problem

2005-10-12 Thread Chris Pinkham
> > Is there any fix for the following problem? > > Say I have a recording group called "Default". I add the show under it > > to my playlist. Then going under playlist options, I ask it to change > > the recording group. The mythfrontend immediately crashes. This > > happens *every time*. Does

Re: [mythtv-users] Commercial skips about 5-15 seconds early

2005-10-14 Thread Chris Pinkham
> I'm having an issue recently. My commercial detection seems to detect > perfectly (duration wise) but the commercial skips about 5-15 seconds > early. So I miss 5-15 seconds prior to each break and see about 5-15 > seconds of the last commercial. The clocks on both machines are synced > up

Re: [mythtv-users] Commercial skips about 5-15 seconds early

2005-10-14 Thread Chris Pinkham
> Chris, this problem has existed for a long time with software encoding > but I hadn't ever wanted to bother you with it. If a file is damaged > by a pegged CPU, temporary loss of signal or any other reason that > might cause a significant number of dropped frames, the commercial > markers will be

Re: [mythtv-users] Commercial skips about 5-15 seconds early

2005-10-15 Thread Chris Pinkham
> >If the frame numbers match up (so commercial detection is correct), > >you can put some debug statements into > >NuppelVideoPlayer::AutoCommercialSkip() to see if this is being > >triggered early for some reason or if frame numbers look off in > >there for some reason. > > > They do seem to matc

Re: [mythtv-users] Commercial skips about 5-15 seconds early

2005-10-16 Thread Chris Pinkham
> I'll see if I can get you something tonight, btw, do you have a way to > see frame numbers in the editor or is converting somethingl like > 0:23:59:09 to a frame number using 30fps the correct way? The theme I uses displays the frame number in the OSD while in edit mode, guess yours doesn't.

Re: [mythtv-users] Commercial skips about 5-15 seconds early

2005-10-16 Thread Chris Pinkham
> >Just put the existing AutoCommercialSkip(); inside a block and put a > >couple cerr's before and after it to print out the above values and > >see how they compare to what you're seeing in the editor. See if it > >looks like it skipped at the right frame number or if maybe it thinks > >it's ski

Re: [mythtv-users] Commercial skips about 5-15 seconds early

2005-10-16 Thread Chris Pinkham
> >If the frame numbers in the editor match the frame numbers in the commercial > >skip list, and the frame numbers displayed when AutoCommercialSkip skips > >match those as well, then the frame number during playback must not be > >matching the frame number you see when in edit mode (or when the f

Re: [mythtv-users] Commercial skips about 5-15 seconds early

2005-10-16 Thread Chris Pinkham
> Ok. I applied this patch and the uncomment change to my remote frontend > (for completeness, this is does *not* include the change we made before > to initialize framesPlayed and use an incrementer). I noted the cutlist > that was generated by the previous run of mythcommflag and I ran the

Re: [mythtv-users] Commercial skips about 5-15 seconds early

2005-10-16 Thread Chris Pinkham
> >I think there is other logic that would need to be changed later in the > >analysis code to account for these frames, but this might fix it for > >your test case. > It does in fact fix this. Perfect commercial skip. Great. I have this patch along with the other nuppeldecoder.cpp line uncomme

Re: [mythtv-users] myth storage balancing script

2005-10-17 Thread Chris Pinkham
> i wrote this quick script to kind of load balance my oldest videos off > to a remote box when i get close to full. (set up as a nightly cron > job) not the best way in the world to handle this, i know, but a > partial solution bests no solution. > > anyway, figured it might be useful to oth

Re: [mythtv-users] run transcode on selected programs schedules

2005-10-18 Thread Chris Pinkham
> I want to transcode some shows automatically, but not all. > Do I need to use a user-job for this? If so can someone suggest a > working command line? You'll need to make a shell script then run the shell script as the user job. The shell script needs to run mythtranscode and then rename or

Re: [mythtv-users] Mythcommflag - which backend

2005-10-18 Thread Chris Pinkham
> I have an underpowered diskless combined front/back end and a master > backend/mysql/fileserver with bags of left over cpu. How can I force > mythcommflag to always run on the master backend with the excess cpu? Go into mythtv-setup on each of the other backends and turn OFF the setting that say

Re: [mythtv-users] Mythcommflag - which backend

2005-10-18 Thread Chris Pinkham
> > Possible and designed to allow it. :) You can do the same with the > > transcoding and User Jobs. > Is this true? I tried to get a non-tuner backend to do all my > commflaging and transcoding, while commflagging worked fine, > transcoding only worked on the master backend > > Or was the

Re: [mythtv-users] Need help with custom mythtranscode User Job

2005-11-14 Thread Chris Pinkham
> Okay, so I've decided to set up my main PC as a slave backend w/no > tuners. What I want to do is set up a User Job to transcode selected > programs down to 352x240 MPEG-4 and save them on the slave's local disk > so I can watch them over a VPN at a remote location. Here's my setup: > > So,

Re: [mythtv-users] Need help with custom mythtranscode User Job

2005-11-14 Thread Chris Pinkham
> So, any suggestions on how to proceed? I suppose I could patch > mythtranscode to take an output parameter... Replying again because I forgot to attach the script. :( -- Chris #!/usr/bin/perl ## ## Written by Chris Pinkham ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ## ## Here's the description email I

Re: [mythtv-users] LiveTV Broken or Bad Permissions?

2005-11-16 Thread Chris Pinkham
> IMHO, I simple line in the README to say LiveTV is disabled would save a > lot of hassle. Seems lazy to me. I tried the SVN to get better support > for my DVB-T card and had the same problem. Why should I have to follow > the development forums. Im not a mythtv developer. > > btw Ive only been p

Re: [mythtv-users] LiveTV Broken or Bad Permissions?

2005-11-16 Thread Chris Pinkham
> > Do you at random times go to your coworker's computers and take pieces of > > code they've been working on and compile them into your programs and put > > that code > > into production use without asking or checking to see if there are any > > unintended > > side-effects in their code? That'

Re: [mythtv-users] nuvexport command line user jobs

2005-11-17 Thread Chris Pinkham
> I set up 2 user jobs.. > > 1) to load the cutlist which does not do anything.. Problem here is that > it just hangs as well. > > mythcommflag --chanid %CHANID% --starttime %STARTTIME% --gencutlist What is the output in your backend log when this job runs? It looks like it should work and shou

Re: [mythtv-users] Custom Job Queues from mythfrontend

2005-02-14 Thread Chris Pinkham
> I know that custom jobs can be setup to run after a recording finishes, > but is it possible to access them from mythfrontend using the 'Job > Options' menu option. Currently only 'Begin Transcoding' and 'Begin > Commercial Flagging' are present. Not currently. -- Chris __

Re: [mythtv-users] Current CVS Cannot Delete Files

2005-02-14 Thread Chris Pinkham
> I have some files that are of size 0 (the recording failed?) and I > cannot delete them from within myth. Is this a known issue? Is there a > workaround? Are they 0 bytes or do they not even exist? 0.17 and current CVS will not delete programs from the database if they do not have a correspon

Re: [mythtv-users] Commercial flagging using logo detection not working

2005-02-15 Thread Chris Pinkham
> I just upgraded from cvs (2005-01-11) to .17, and I am experiencing > some problems. Using logo detection to find commercial breaks used to > work very well, but after upgrading to .17 no commercials are > detected. Are these transparent or opaque logos. The logo detection method in 0.17 change

Re: [mythtv-users] Current CVS Cannot Delete Files

2005-02-15 Thread Chris Pinkham
> On Feb 14, 2005, at 11:49 PM, Chris Pinkham wrote: > > If the files you are talking about do not exist, just 'touch' them > > and then retry your delete in Myth and it should work fine. > The files do not exist in. > > How do I remove them (the metadata)

Re: [mythtv-users] Custom Job Queues from mythfrontend

2005-02-15 Thread Chris Pinkham
> Chris Pinkham wrote: > > >>I know that custom jobs can be setup to run after a recording finishes, > >>but is it possible to access them from mythfrontend using the 'Job > >>Options' menu option. Currently only 'Begin Transcoding' and &#x

Re: [mythtv-users] Can't FF or RW after cutting commercials

2005-02-15 Thread Chris Pinkham
> On Tuesday 15 February 2005 11:19, Chris Clarke wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > I re-transcoded a bunch of old shows to cut out the commercials > > and seem to have screwed it up some how :( The shows are still > > watchable but if you try to FF or RW the video stops playing, I can > > still exi

Re: [mythtv-users] Commercial flagging using logo detection not

2005-02-15 Thread Chris Pinkham
> OK, I just tried flagging a channel I usually don't flag, and the logo > was detected even without a first frame logo. But the first frame > behaviour really is the case for at least two of my channels. > > Can you point me to any threshold values in the code I can change and > experiment with?

Re: [mythtv-users] Can't FF or RW after cutting commercials

2005-02-15 Thread Chris Pinkham
> Thanks for the tips guys, is running mythcommflag the same as > selecting "Start Commercial flagging" under "Job Options"? Yes, that puts an entry in the JobQueue to tell Myth to run mythcommflag for that recording. -- Chris ___ mythtv-users maili

Re: [mythtv-users] Can't FF or RW after cutting commercials

2005-02-15 Thread Chris Pinkham
> On Tuesday 15 February 2005 14:24, Chris Pinkham wrote: > > > Thanks for the tips guys, is running mythcommflag the same as > > > selecting "Start Commercial flagging" under "Job Options"? > > > > Yes, that puts an entry in the JobQueue to

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