[new] [group=pvr] Personal video recording group + PKGBUILDs

tmadhavan · 2005-06-08 22:03:13

Nice one.

I've finished my year now so I should have plenty of free time on my hands. The problem is getting up and actually doing something!

I think I'll end up formatting, then setting up a new custom kernel, resier 4, RAID system - probably take ages though knowing my luck :S

Cheers
T.

PS
Why do you have a lab?

kleptophobiac · 2005-06-08 23:39:22

Here's a preliminary article on getting started with myth. I'm going to set up a website that is more geared for a complete system. It'll be intended for somebody with hardware and intention in hand, but no operating system or other software.

http://wiki2.archlinux.org/index.php/Mythtv

I would advise against the custom kernel. Most packages that have kernel drivers (including my ivtv packages) are set up to install to the latest stock kernel directory.

I would also advise being more conservative with your system. I use reiserfs (3.xx) for my /, and XFS for my large file storage needs. RAID is also a bit of a PITA due to the need for matched sized drives. I highly recommend LVM.

You could always wait for my full guide.

I do metallurgical research as a lab technician at a local univ.

tmadhavan · 2005-06-09 03:10:48

I've done all of it before (the RAID etc) except resier4 - I'm using reiser3 atm. I have the right drives and all that, not really sure if it's worth the effort though.

I fancy doing a custom kernel because of the patches and things - can I patch a normal pacman kernel? There's no source available for them either is there? Or am I just completely wrong? I had no problems compiling ivtv etc once I'd sorted out the gcc errors.

In any case I think, if I do have a clean install, I'll stay away from Testing for a while

I realise that channel changing is inherently slow, it's just much slower now than it was before.

By no deinterlacing: there is NO deinterlacing. Moving pictures are a bit lined, and blur quite badly. When I first installed and enabled kernel deint, all was good. Now none of them work, presumably because the filters are not installed properly.

Here's the output

2005-06-09 02:33:20.849 New DB connection, total: 2
2005-06-09 02:33:20.874 Connecting to backend server: 127.0.0.1:6543 (try 1 of 5)
2005-06-09 02:33:20.884 Using protocol version 15
2005-06-09 02:33:20.973 Using protocol version 15
2005-06-09 02:33:25.940 Opening audio device '/dev/dsp'.
2005-06-09 02:33:25.940 Opening OSS audio device '/dev/dsp'.
2005-06-09 02:33:25.960 Using XV port 222
2005-06-09 02:33:26.176 The realtime priority setting is not enabled.
2005-06-09 02:33:26.198 Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV
2005-06-09 02:33:26.218 FilterManager: failed to load filter 'kerneldeint', no such filter exists
2005-06-09 02:33:26.219 Couldn't load deinterlace filter kerneldeint
2005-06-09 02:33:26.554 Video timing method: SGI OpenGL

The same error (or warning anyway) occurs with all other filters :S

Incidentally: the Wiki - I think it would be a good idea to stick some ivtv setup commands there (especially for our UK/European) users; namely the output, region and video size settings, which I found needed to be changed from default.

That's basically just ivtvctl -p 4, ivctl -u <PAL code>, and one more (I'll dig it up).

T

kleptophobiac · 2005-06-09 05:38:57

well, I plan on having a full suite of guides in time, this is just something for this specific package. Mythtv should handle all of the ivtv stuff if you say you're on PAL.

In any case, I would remove mythtv altogether and reinstall it from the [community] repo.

jackmetal · 2005-06-27 19:57:33

It's good to see some success with MythTV... I'm getting ready to start a Myth install on a new partition on my Qosmio system...

I'm keeping a small WinXp Media Center partition on one of the drives and I currently have Arch on another and a few VM's of others (Gentoo, Solaris 10, a clean XP and Arch install for testing) on the other drive.

This is the Qosmio G15, do you think Myth will be much of a hassle getting to work on it?

kleptophobiac · 2005-06-28 02:23:07

I'm having fairly good success with my myth system... I'll have to post pics and more guides sooner or later.

Anyway, I wouldn't worry about getting basic functionality out of the laptop. What are you going to use for a tuner? Mythtv supports the USB2 based Hauppauge boxes, and the plextor convertx.

You may have some issues with the proprietary hardware. I am not familiar enough with that particular series of laptops to be able to be more specific.

jackmetal · 2005-06-28 10:42:25

Yeah, I don't know how much success I'll have with it, but figured I'd give it a shot. It runs Media Center great!

I've been trying to find out what the built-in TV tuner is compatible with. A Toshiba TV-Tuner is all I've been able to find out so far.. ;-)

I have everything else working great on it under Arch, so I thought it was a good time to test out the TV since it's the last thing left to get working (except the built-in multi-card reader (which I haven't gotten around to testing yet))..

I'll post my experience with the install. I'm writing up the install step-by-step.

kleptophobiac · 2005-06-28 12:42:57

Well, if you're going to rely on the onboard tuner, I would suggest using tvtime, mplayer, or xawtv to test with. Mythtv is a considerably larger investment just for a test.

I do grant, however, that there's a lot of other reasons to use mythtv. The plugins can be a worthwhile thing without regular TV.

Nnyan · 2006-01-09 18:54:55

Having just found Archlinux I'm interested in using this for my PVR, I noticed allt he links to the howto are blank, anyone have a guide on this?

kleptophobiac · 2006-01-09 21:05:47

Yeah, sorry, this is an ancient thread.

Check the AUR and the regular repositories for packages. Here's the link to the wiki entry:

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/MythTV

Welcome to Arch!

EmbraceThePenguin · 2006-01-11 07:06:51

Hey there.

Ok, I just got a new WinTV-PVR-250 today from Hauppauge and all I want to do is watch TV. Don't need MythTV quite yet.

So, I installed the ivtv from pacman using the stock kernel and it complains about /lib/hotplug/firmware or something like that in dmesg. Ok, So I go out to the ivtv web site and download all the firmware and drivers, make them and follow the instructions and it all seems to work (Had to hack some hotplug files and put the firmware in /lib/firmware) as I now have a /dev/video0, 24, and one other one, but I have no output and KDETV, XINE, or Kmplayer seems to be able to receive any signal.

I, reluctantly, installed WinXP to see if the hardware was working and it wokred great there.

Any idea how to get this to work?

Thanks!!!

Joe

kleptophobiac · 2006-01-11 12:33:45

a simple test of the card...

use ivtvctl to set the 250 to tuner input and to set a channel. then cat /dev/video0 > ~/test.mpg

ctrl-c it when you think you've had enough (four or five seconds should be sufficient). use mplayer (or xine or whatever) to play back the file.

or if you want, mplayer can treat /dev/video0 as an mpeg2 source directly. use tv://

EmbraceThePenguin · 2006-01-11 13:15:24

kleptophobiac wrote:

a simple test of the card...
use ivtvctl to set the 250 to tuner input and to set a channel. then cat /dev/video0 > ~/test.mpg
ctrl-c it when you think you've had enough (four or five seconds should be sufficient). use mplayer (or xine or whatever) to play back the file.
or if you want, mplayer can treat /dev/video0 as an mpeg2 source directly. use tv://

Ok, if I use modprobe ivtv tda9887=0 and mplayer /dev/video0 I can get a static screen with some audio that is in Spanish or something.

However, none of the tv tuner apps are able to connect. Its not much fun watching static and listening to a stations I cant understand and not being able to swich channels

Surely there is a better way?

Thanks!!!

Joe

Nnyan · 2006-01-18 19:35:12

Thank you for the reply and link (I had found it when I stopped being lazy and looked around = ).

I've printed out the MythTV, LAMP, XORG, LIRC and the Arch Installation Guide(s). Now I just need a free weekend and I'll give this a whirl.

Anyone give any consideration to making an Arch based MythTV distro? Something like Knoppmyth (which is fine but IMHO just includes too much stuff you don't need).

Thanks!

kleptophobiac · 2006-01-18 20:31:59

Funny you should mention it, I have been thinking about it. What with all the incompatibilities between particular and bleeding edge versions of the software, I think having an arch-mythtv distro that keeps a repository of safe and compatible packages would be a good thing... I even have some bandwidth to waste.

Nnyan · 2006-01-18 22:41:36

I for one would love for someone to take this on. I wish I had the know-how to actually do something like this, for now I'm going to stick to trying to get all of this working on Arch.

kleptophobiac · 2006-02-02 02:36:49

For those that need the binaries and don't want to bother building them... They're compiled against each other, so everything should work out with them.

http://mstcforum.com/uploads/php4-4.3.11-1.pkg.tar.gz
http://mstcforum.com/uploads/qt-3.3.5-2.pkg.tar.gz
http://mstcforum.com/uploads/mysql-4.1.16-1.pkg.tar.gz

Nnyan · 2006-08-30 21:01:13

Unfortunately getting married, a honeymoon and other things have kept this on my "todo" list. Anyone made any progress on getting an Archlinux MCE version out?

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