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Hi guys,

thanks, I didn't think about trying a lowe resolution. These MDs run 1280x1024, the main reason being that I also use them for remote desktop working, and there a lowe resolution is unusable.
But I will try lowering the resolution to 640x480 tonight and see if that makes the TV smooth. Will report the results. It still won't solve my problem since I can't use that low resolution permanently, but it's an interesting exercice.

Skeptic: to answer your question, I get my channels through an HD Homerun. What that does I think is that it takes the MPEG 2 stream and simply resends it to the core and then to the MD. That would be a fairly big amount of data for HD channels.

No ideas about how to have different channel lists in Myth on different MDs? I do know how to get a channel 123 for ABC HD and a channel 124 for ABC SD for example, the goal would be that certain MDs only show 123 and others only 124...

Jean

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Users / Possible to watch HD channels on a SD capable media director?
« on: June 18, 2008, 06:00:56 pm »
Hello,

I am building some very low end media directors for secondary bedrooms. On a celeron 1.8 Ghz with a PCI Nvidia NVS 200 card (very very old) I am able to view SD TV channels in Mythtv, but HD channels are choppy, which is probably normal given the hardware.
I use the 96xx series nvidia drivers (which was a challenge in itself because the latest version simply would not work).

Since these computers are not even connected to HD capable TVs (but to computer monitors), I'm wondering if there is a way to tell MythTV to scale down the 1080p channels (which I get through HD Homerun) and send them to the MD as a 480p stream?

If that's not possible, is there a way to specify different channel listings per MD (by fumbling in some config file?), basically hide different channels on each MD. Then I could simply have the HD channels available on my high end MDs (in the living room) and on the low end MDs I could show the 480p version of the same channel (which exists for each channel), then it would just work.

Jean

PS: I gave up on using the HP T5700 thin clients to watch TV. Even after adding an Nvidia card through the PCI extension slot, video playback and low def TV was choppy. I guess the computer itself is just too slow (1 Ghz). But other than that they make a fine low cost low ($50 on ebay) power use MD for places where I need only music and external applications (web browsing, remote desktop). The Mythtv wiki says that T5720 are suitable, but I haven't gottent my hand on those yet. They are only slightly more powerfull than the T5700 too...

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Developers / Re: Trying to compile App_Server
« on: June 16, 2008, 07:40:36 pm »
I am still stuck with this :-( Is anyone able to help?

Jean

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Users / General voicemail and intercom/broadcast feature
« on: June 12, 2008, 04:41:35 am »
Hello,

couldn't find the answers for the following anywhere:

1. Is there any way to retrieve voicemails left in the general house voicemail box (100) somewhere on orbiters? The orbiters show messages left for each users, which is great, but for some reaosn I don't see how to retrieve global messages. To me it would have made sense if a global message would show up in every user's box or something like that

2. Is the "broadcast to all MDs" feature in intercom supposed to be working? When I try it, I hear "this is not a valid conference number" from Asteirsk. I work a lot with Asterisk so I can dig deeper, but first I wanted to make sure that this feature is supposed to be working in 0710, since I read in an old post that it wasn't.

Thank you!

Jean

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Developers / Re: Trying to compile App_Server
« on: June 12, 2008, 03:46:38 am »
Sorry, but I'm running into problems.
When running make in the trunk directory, after compiling a few packages I get this error:
dpkg-architecture: warning: Couldn't determine gcc system type, falling back to default (native compilation)
and then the script just hangs, I have to press Control+C to stop it.

Gcc as well as G++ are installed.
("which gcc" gives "/usr/bin/gcc")

Any ideas?

Jean

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Developers / Re: Trying to compile App_Server
« on: June 11, 2008, 10:15:26 pm »
Perfect, thanks! Some commercial companies could learn a thing or two about the quality and speed of the support that you guys provide here!
Will try this tonight, and if it's successfull, I'll post my binary in the user forum if it heps anyone else...

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Developers / Re: Trying to compile App_Server
« on: June 11, 2008, 05:38:41 pm »
Thank you.
That's what I tried first. I'm doing this on my live core. The script started installing a lot of packages, which I figured couldn't harm, but then it stopped mysql and wanted to make a backup, so that got me scared and I stopped.

Can someone positively guarantee that running the full "make" will not mess up my running core, as long as no "make install" is issued?

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Developers / Trying to compile App_Server
« on: June 11, 2008, 06:08:36 am »
Hello,

I am trying to compile the App_Server binary, where I want to make a change regarding the mixer selection. I searched as much as possible in this forum but I am simply stuck.
I downloaded the source files from SVN.
Then the FAQ in this developer forum says:
"To build Applications, you should fetch it from the SVN repository, then go into Application directory and run:
dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -b
"

So in my case, I went to /src/App_Server
And issued the command
dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -b

Which gives me:
dpkg-parsechangelog: error: cannot open debian/changelog to find format: No such file or directory
dpkg-buildpackage: unable to determine source package is

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks. Jean.

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Users / Re: How to change the audio mixer used by LinuxMCE
« on: June 10, 2008, 10:53:10 pm »
Indeed I agree!

If there is some precedure by which I should formally request this feature let me know and I'll be glad to do it.
I have a mantis account. Should I just go in there and start a new ticket with my suggestion? Is that how it's done?

Jean

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Users / Re: MythTV recording directory
« on: June 10, 2008, 05:49:17 pm »
Hello,

in case it helps, when I was trying to do this and chantging the path in MythTV Setup, it was also reverting back on each startup.
The only way I found was to go to the core, delete the directory /home/public/data/videos/tv_shows_1 and then replace it with a symbolic link also called tv_shows_1 to wherever I wanted my data to be stored.
The storage drives configured in LinuxMCE happen to be mounted on the core as /mnt/device/XX/
(if you're moving the data to a drive that's not mounted in linuxmce, then you can mount it there, and don't forget to add an entry to fstab)
This is what Seth my have been referring to when saying "link"...

If you already have data in your tv_shows_1 directory, you can first move that data to your new directory by using the web admin, which will also make the appropriate changes to the database...

I hope that works for you.

Jean

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Users / Re: How to change the audio mixer used by LinuxMCE
« on: June 10, 2008, 05:11:33 pm »
Hello,

you;re right about this being located in the App_Server package. I found the following code in amix.cpp which is part of the App_Server source code:

m_MixerElem = NULL;
   for (elem = snd_mixer_first_elem(m_MixerHandle); elem; elem = snd_mixer_elem_next(elem))
   {
      snd_mixer_selem_get_id(elem, sid);
      const char * MixerName = snd_mixer_selem_id_get_name(sid);
      if (strcmp(MixerName, "Master") == 0 || strcmp(MixerName, "Front") == 0)
      {
         m_MixerElem = elem;
         break;
      }
   }

So a quick fix until this is integrated in the UI would be for me to edit the code and recompile. Is there a howto somewhere about how to recompile just this one module? The make_package.sh script seems to take several parameters.
If someone knows how this works, it will probably save me a few hours :-)

Thanks.

Jean

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Users / Re: How to suspend/sleep/turn off a VGA LCD monitor
« on: June 10, 2008, 01:56:32 am »
Thom,

thanks, it would be great if you could write in this thread whenever you got around to it (including some instructions as to what to change in the linuxmce admin) so that I can give it try. It's really annoying that all my screens are on all the time, and if I turn them off manually, it kind of defeats the purpose of using orbiters and such...

Thank you!

Jean

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Users / Re: How to change the audio mixer used by LinuxMCE
« on: June 09, 2008, 07:27:20 am »
Hello,

the only reference I found to App_Server is the App_Server binary itself. Not sure if I should go down the path to change the source code and recompile...

I also found a file called SoundCards_AudioVolume.sh with some alusion to the Master mixer, but making changes there had no effect.

Would there perhaps be a way to delete the Master mixer and replace it with a new Master mixer that's an alias to PCM? I did find how to create an alias in asound.conf, I guess the question is how to delete the original master mixer?

Jean

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Users / Re: How to suspend/sleep/turn off a VGA LCD monitor
« on: June 09, 2008, 06:57:03 am »
Hello,

just to let you know that commenting out that line has no effect.
I also tried adding:
/usr/bin/xset dpms 60 120 180
instead, and that did not work either.

Tschak, if you get around to writing such a template, will there be a way for me to add it without waiting for the next linuxmce release?

Jean

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Users / How to change the audio mixer used by LinuxMCE
« on: June 08, 2008, 09:48:51 pm »
Hello,

this question has been asked before in the forum but I couldn't find the answer.
My problem is the following: when playing music on my media directors, the volume up/down and mute button in the orbiter "remote" feature have no effect.

When looking from ssh in alsamixer, I can see that linuxmce is changing the volume of the "Master" mixer, however the correct mixer which has an effect on sound volume is the "PCM" mixer.

How do I tell linuxmce to use the PCM mixer instead of Master?

I changed audio.alsa_mixer_name:Master to audio.alsa_mixer_name:PCM in xine.conf but that had no effect.

Any idea which config file controls the Mixer that linuxmce uses to control volume?

Thank you!

Jean

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