MythTV 0.19 is out!

AphexFinn · n00b Joined: 04 Mar 2006 Posts: 3

Hello - this isnt strictly about 0.19, but i have had MythTV 0.18.1-r1 running with my PVR-350 for several months now with no problems. I decided it was time to free up my PCI Slot for another TV Card so I bought an Gigabyte Nvida 6600GT PCI-e video card, I was going to use this for the mpeg decoding.

However - since building mythtv with the nvida use flag mythtv seg faults.

I decided after reading this post to try 0.19 and I get the same results - any ideas?

Hobbes-X · l33t Joined: 04 Feb 2004 Posts: 823 Location: Seattle, WA

timbo · Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 11:38 pm Post subject:

Well my upgrade from 0.18.x to 0.19 went mostly without a hitch, no emerge erros etc but a couple of strange problems...

1 - on two channels the audio seems to be pausing or going quiet then back up it's hard to tell but I've never noticed this before. On another channel which has really bad reception it does not do this so it can't be signal strength.
Checked my log's last night and the channels that these pauses are on also have "rebuffering" log entry's at the same time...
2 - MythVideo settings got screwed up, now I can't select a file to play next and if I try to play a movie it may not select the first file of, say, three so my daughter will see Bug's Life for the middle.
3 - can't get xmame to work or PC games, have not spent much time on this yet though.

Helper's...

Tim

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Hobbes-X · l33t Joined: 04 Feb 2004 Posts: 823 Location: Seattle, WA

For what it's worth, I've seen lots of reports on the myth-dev list where nvidia drivers make a difference. Many people have problems with anything after revision 7667, and some still have problems there and end up falling back to the 6xxx series.

EDIT: And of course, now that I say that, I see a post recommending the 8xxx series

FormerSlacker · Posted: Fri Mar 10, 2006 6:16 am Post subject:

If I turn on the OpenGL timing option, CPU usage jumps to 100%. Is this an Nvidia driver version issue as well?

Hobbes-X · l33t Joined: 04 Feb 2004 Posts: 823 Location: Seattle, WA

woZa · Posted: Sat Mar 11, 2006 7:52 pm Post subject:

Dromle · n00b Joined: 18 Mar 2006 Posts: 5 Location: Norway

Icer · Guru Joined: 26 Aug 2003 Posts: 388 Location: @home

I got mythtv running quite smoothly now. Though I've been lazy lately because I still need to try tv-out and fix lirc. Anyway where I live there's not much incentive at the moment to move from analog tv to DVB. Programs suck on DVB as much as on analog TV. Sorry about that venting, thats just IMO.

I got a question too. Is it so that one has to change all myth programs to be owned by mythtv:users? I just changed mythfilldatabase ownership and I think it fixed the nag about permissions when starting frontend(or was it backend). Wasnt very obvious to me. If that is a fix then it would be a good addition to manual/help files to mention all files one has to chown. Or better yet have somekind of script to automate that.

Also is it so that one has to start backend without using the init.d startup script? Last time I checked it didnt work very well. Hopefully that is going to be fixed. How can one shutdown mythbackend cleanly if we cant use shutdown/stop script?

Btw, thanks for all posters on this thread. Could have been much harder to get myth working without your posts.

FormerSlacker · Posted: Mon Mar 20, 2006 1:41 am Post subject:

phunatic · n00b Joined: 26 Mar 2006 Posts: 4 Location: switzerland

i guess i wasted all my weekend trying to get mythtv run, and i thought i am not really a n00b. feels like one tho.
after trying emerge which was 0.18 or so, tried with the official source, seems to build ok after a make distclean i finally got rid of the
protocol mismatch (guess that was from the first gentoo emerge leftovers?).
the shit with the xmltv stuff is mostly annoying (especially when your from switzerland and even the german tvtoday thing is fucked up),
just wanted to see tv, is like bullshit. got a plextor convertx and a small pentium m system, everything else works fine.
had a streaming server with wis-streamer (http://www.live555.com/wis-streamer/) set up in no time like it should be but mythtv really sucks!
if you had a different experience let me know how the f#$% u did it

greetings

MasterC · Posted: Thu Mar 30, 2006 6:14 am Post subject:

I remember before Zap2It was available, one of the huge obstacles for me trying any of the TV Applications was XMLTV, it just seemed impossible to work with, so I feel for ya.

Other than the program guide info, did you have other problems getting it installed, or was it just the XMLTV portion really turned you off?

It sounds, from your description anyway, that you don't really need a PVR anyway, maybe TVTime or XawTV would be more along the lines of an application you are looking for.

Good luck!

Chad

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Icer · Guru Joined: 26 Aug 2003 Posts: 388 Location: @home

I use latest nvidia driver. In mythtv I disable opengl sync or sonething like that. I dont use xv or xvmc. When emerging mythtv I dont use nvidia use flags. Why? Because I think I got no choice since my motherboard has nvidia 6150 chipset which I think isnt supported by earlier drivers. Anyway mythtv runs just fine.
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depontius · Veteran Joined: 05 May 2004 Posts: 1925

Note that this is a frontend-only system I'm talking about. When I used 1.0.8xxx drivers, playing video took 100% CPU and skipped frames and sound. I saw some notes here in the forums, and went back to stable 1.0.6629, and playback dropped back to about 25% CPU, with no skipped frames or sound. I hadn't bothered to try anything in the 1.0.7xxx range. I believe I tried xvmc, but had hangs with it, and rebuilt without it.

Recently I realized that this system was still running 2.6.14-gentoo-r5, and decided to build 2.6.15-gentoo-r1, also so I could play with the nForce2 FSB cpufreq stuff, for power and heat savings. The system came up to a black screen, though I could still ssh in, so it was a display-only problem. Back to 2.6.14-r5, I tried moving to nVidia 1.0.7676, based on forum exchanges, and was going to try bringing that forward to 2.6.15-r1. But it failed to start properly. I have not yet begun to debug, but figured I'd find more here, first.
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simeli · Posted: Mon Apr 10, 2006 7:31 am Post subject: Re: mythtv 0.19

Jykke · Apprentice Joined: 31 Mar 2006 Posts: 246

Up to now I have noticed that for 0.19 it takes really long to change channels (at least with DVB-T)
0.18 was faster (and that was already slow) - now we are talking about some 10s - hardly much of
use for channelsurfing. What is good in 0.19, at least, is lossless transcoding and some other things so
I am currently in crossroads.

MasterC · Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 12:05 am Post subject:

I tend to use MythTV as my PVR, not my channel surfer. If I want to channel surf I'll turn the TV over to antenna input and surf

Chad

Icer · Guru Joined: 26 Aug 2003 Posts: 388 Location: @home

I dont like the delay in channel change either. I dont use mythtv as much as normal tv. I hate it that the subtitling isnt automatically enabled. It isnt enabled for live tv or recording. No big problem as long as they speak english though. There should be an options page for the subtitles where one can enable it automatically as well as set subtitle position and font and whatnot...
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infirit · Posted: Mon Jun 05, 2006 11:17 am Post subject: Re: Error here

depontius · Veteran Joined: 05 May 2004 Posts: 1925

I eventually managed to get 1.0.7676 built against 2.6.15, MythTV is up to the 0.19 portage stable version, and all works.

But now I'd like to get up to the 2.6.16 stable kernel, especially considering the long planned life for this level. I can't get 1.0.7676 to build against this kernel. At work I have 1.0.7174 (the last level that supports my "legacy" card) running against 2.6.16, but at home I haven't tried regressing the driver back yet.

Are others having this build problem, or is it uniquely mine?

Does nVidia have a 1.0.8xxx driver yet that doesn't peg the CPU with MythTV?
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gnychis · Posted: Tue Jun 27, 2006 8:51 pm Post subject: