[Liverpool] Re: Liverpool Digest, Vol 115, Issue 1

Wed Jan 9 21:14:58 GMT 2008

has anyone ever had a problem not being able to access the bios
after i installed linux on a new sata drive i found that i cannot get 
into the bios
using delete, or the boot screen ( f8 ) as before

& on my existing ide drive (microsoft xp) my keyboard does not work at all

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>    1. Re: Myth TV (Iain MacGranthin)
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> Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2008 16:23:23 +0000
> From: Iain MacGranthin <iaingmacg at mac.com>
> Subject: [Liverpool] Re: Myth TV
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> Guess there some mythologists out there be...
>
>
> ... While you guyz are checking out the chatline, I have a q:
>
> I have myth tv set up and working fairly painlessly on ubuntu after  
> years of teethy gnashing with suse and no joy.
>
> However I still can't get the EPG to display, or populate the database  
> - I don't think Myth TV is registering it, although I know my device  
> (terratec t2) can deal with it fine as it does so quite happily on  
> Kaffeine...
>
>
> The database is up and running btw, b4 anyone asks...
>
> what should I be doing in the settings that I am not?...
>
> AND: Has anyone made use of myth's transcode feature?
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> On 5 Jan 2008, at 12:15, liverpool-request at mailman.lug.org.uk wrote:
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>>   1. Re: Liverpool Digest, Vol 114, Issue 6 myth tv (eric purvis)
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>> Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2008 13:43:19 +0000
>> From: eric purvis <e_purvis at sky.com>
>> Subject: [Liverpool] Re: Liverpool Digest, Vol 114, Issue 6 myth tv
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>> I am about to build a linux media center
>> I think myth tv is a great idea lets go for it
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>>> Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2008 17:09:18 +0000
>>> From: Neil Bothwick <neil at stfw.net>
>>> Subject: Re: [Liverpool] Meeting / Social
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>>> On Tue, 01 Jan 2008 23:55:47 +0000, David Watson wrote:
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>>>       
>>>> Building a MythTV box has been something I have wanted to do for a  
>>>> long
>>>> time, I even have all of the parts ready.  Sadly no time to  
>>>> actually get
>>>> it done.  So I'd like to see that.
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> If you don't have time to build it, you'll never find time to watch  
>>> all
>>> the programmes you record :)
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>> Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2008 15:12:53 +0000
>> From: "Andrew Williams" <andy at tensixtyone.com>
>> Subject: Re: [Liverpool] Meeting / Social
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>> On 03/01/2008, Neil Bothwick <neil at stfw.net> wrote:
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>>> On Tue, 01 Jan 2008 23:55:47 +0000, David Watson wrote:
>>>
>>>       
>>>> Building a MythTV box has been something I have wanted to do for a  
>>>> long
>>>> time, I even have all of the parts ready.  Sadly no time to  
>>>> actually get
>>>> it done.  So I'd like to see that.
>>>>         
>>> If you don't have time to build it, you'll never find time to watch  
>>> all
>>> the programmes you record :)
>>>
>>>       
>> Yes tell me about it, I only have 175gb assigned to myth recordings,
>> and I watch probably bout 25% of the content I record...
>>
>> Anyway, as a few people like the sound of a mythtv talk I'll start
>> writing one up, I'm not sure what provisions Dave & Co had for a place
>> to hold the meeting so i'll leave that to them for the moment.
>>
>> Socials, Are friday night/weekends a major issue for people?
>>
>> -- 
>> Andrew Williams
>> w: http://nikdoof.net
>> e: andy at tensixtyone.com
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> Message: 2
> Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2008 16:50:24 +0000
> From: "Andrew Williams" <andy at tensixtyone.com>
> Subject: Re: [Liverpool] Re: Myth TV
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> On 06/01/2008, Iain MacGranthin <iaingmacg at mac.com> wrote:
>   
>> However I still can't get the EPG to display, or populate the database
>> - I don't think Myth TV is registering it, although I know my device
>> (terratec t2) can deal with it fine as it does so quite happily on
>> Kaffeine...
>>     
>
> Well the EPG data is in the actual MPEG stream, so it's not card
> dependent. What source are you using? (I assume DVB-T).
>
> First of all you need to check that your tuner is setup in
> mythtv-setup to receive EIT data. Then check that each channel has
> "Use On Air Data" set, I usually do this sort of SQL on the database:
>
> update channel set useonairguide = 1 where sourceid = <source>
>
> Or if your using a mixed Radio Times XMLTV and EIT
>
> update channel set useonairguide = 1 where sourceid = <source> and xmltvid = ""
>
> To check EIT is working, you can run mythbackend -v eit, and you
> should get some output in the logs.
>
>   
>> AND: Has anyone made use of myth's transcode feature?
>>     
>
> No, I don't use mythtranscode, as the MPEG2->MPEG4 transcoding has
> little to no benefit on UK DVB-T transmission (due to their low
> bitrate). I use nuvexport and a little settings script and run it via
> a userjob.
>
> For transcode to Xvid i use the following job string:
>
> /usr/local/bin/nuvexport-xvid --mencoder --nice 19 --channel %CHANID%
> --starttime %STARTTIME%
>
> and my nvuexportrc:
>
> <XviD>
>     vbr          = yes   # Enable vbr to get the multipass/quantisation options
>     multipass    = no   # You get either multipass or quantisation;
> multipass will override
>     quantisation = 3   # 4 through 6 is probably right...  1..31 are
> allowed (lower is betterquality)
>
>     a_bitrate    = 256   # Audio bitrate of 256 kbps
>     v_bitrate    = 4500   # Remember, quantisation overrides video bitrate
>
>     width        = 624   # Height adjusts automatically to width,
> according to aspect ratio
>     height       = auto
> </XviD>
>
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