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Users / Re: Backing up to the core using ssh and rync

« on: February 18, 2010, 09:05:53 pm »

That will likely cause a circular file reference and bring no end of headaches.  The best thing to do is stay away from /mnt entirely.

How about creating a folder at: /home/public/data/documents/device_id [[55]]/backup and moving your backup location there?  That's on the same HD you're already using.

J.

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Users / Re: 8.10 Beta Black Screen on MD Video Playback

« on: February 18, 2010, 01:11:58 am »

Keep in mind that the wiki articles are written by different people at different times with different points of view.  I would upgrade the core first. 

MDs are created using a snapshot of files on the core at the time you run the /usr/pluto/bin/Diskless_CreateTBZ.sh script.  So newly created MDs will have to be 'upgrade'd and perhaps 'dist-upgrade'd for them to be completely up to date with your core.

J.

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Users / Re: 8.10 Beta Black Screen on MD Video Playback

« on: February 17, 2010, 10:45:36 pm »

The notice warning not to perform an 'apt-get dist-upgrade' is somewhat misleading but it can cause problems if you don't realize what you're doing.  Under normal circumstances running 'apt-get upgrade' is sufficient, existing packages will be upgraded but no new packages will be installed (like new kernels).  But there are times when you must perform the 'apt-get dist-upgrade' to install new packages your system needs.  See my description here: http://forum.linuxmce.org/index.php?topic=9524.msg65208#msg65208

J.

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Users / Re: Need testers

« on: February 17, 2010, 04:35:13 pm »

1. What country are you in? Possy said the same thing, yet whenever i go there i dont see the message. Ill have to ask their admins about that.

Same result in Canada.

J.

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Users / Re: Backing up to the core using ssh and rync

« on: February 17, 2010, 01:30:56 am »

Sorry, but why WOULDN'T it stay mounted? All my media is on this drive, and it's also the location for all myth recordings!

LMCE will automatically mount and unmount shares as it needs them.  The automounter automatically unmounts filesystems that have been inactive for something like 30 seconds or more, so they disappear from /mnt/device/device_id#.  When something tries to access the files located at /home/public/data/.../Share [##]/... the automounter detects this and automatically re-mounts the filesystem for use.  I believe this action is required for media that can be unplugged (usb, network).  The automounter won't detect you accessing the share through /mnt/device/device_id# and I suppose it could try to unmount the share while you are using it. 

J.

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Users / Re: UPnP How to watch DVDs? / Filter files?

« on: February 16, 2010, 08:36:45 pm »

I use ps3mediaserver regularly from my windoze laptop, for upnp media sharing to the ps3 there is no better application...  But it will not work well with other UPNP frontends like the xbox, or others, because it is optimized for ps3 acceptible file formats.

J.

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Users / Re: UPnP How to watch DVDs? / Filter files?

« on: February 16, 2010, 05:20:59 pm »

makemkv for linux might be scriptable, I'm sure there are others as well, makemkv just came to mind quickly.

MediaTomb will update media immediately if set for 'inotify' otherwise it does a timed scan of your media similar to LinuxMCE's UpdateMedia.

J.

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Users / Re: 8.10 Beta Black Screen on MD Video Playback

« on: February 16, 2010, 05:18:45 pm »

Last time I install my ION as a fresh MD I had to add the medibuntu and avenard gpg keys manually as the wiki states.  Likely this could be folded into /usr/pluto/bin/Diskless_CreateTBZ.sh as it should be done for all MDs, I'm not home right now but adding a ticket for this wouldn't hurt, assuming it still needs to be done manually.

J.

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Users / Re: Backing up to the core using ssh and rync

« on: February 16, 2010, 05:15:21 pm »

That's why accessing through /home/public/... is the proper way, I knew there was a reason but had forgotten about the automounter. 

J.

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Installation issues / Re: upgrade error

« on: February 16, 2010, 02:15:23 am »

Did the same, my core and MDs had a file, not a directory at /root/Desktop so a directory couldn't be created.  It should be a directory though so I:

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# rm /root/Desktop
# apt-get -f install
# apt-get upgrade

on each core and MD fixed it up for me.  I'm not sure when/how/why the /root/Desktop file was created.

J.

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Users / Re: UPnP How to watch DVDs? / Filter files?

« on: February 16, 2010, 02:10:05 am »

The ripping process would be done outside of LMCE with an app like makemkv but the resultant files would be viewable as a video file under LMCE on the core and MDs as well you could configure mediatomb to make the files viewable through UPNP on something like the PS3. 

PS3 doesn't read .mkv formats natively so a different container format would be more ideal.  Do a little research on the formats the ps3 will support and find an app that will rip your dvds to that format. 

J.

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Users / Re: UPnP How to watch DVDs? / Filter files?

« on: February 15, 2010, 08:10:40 pm »

1) How do I make my DVDs appear?
2) Is there any way I can apply a filename filter to the files that are scanned to stop the thumbnails appearing? (At the moment it's still Flickr, but I want to put family pics there eventually.)
3) How do I stop the "Empty" media server appearing? I'd also like to rename the working one from Media Tomb to something more family-friendly

1) UPNP will only work with 'media' files.  The DVDs are disc images which are not understood by upnp systems.  To do this you need to rip your DVDs not as images but as media files with an application like 'makemkv'.  You would keep the movie and chapter locations but lose all the dvd menus and special features.

2) The mediatomb documentation has a mechanism for you to define all the valid file extensions for known valid file types and then to tell it to not import any 'unknown' file extensions.  This sounds like you can define the valid file types and omit '.tnj' as a valid extension and it would omit those files completely.  The mediatomb docs are here: http://mediatomb.cc/pages/documentation#id2536421 look about 2/3 of the way down the page in the <mappings> section.

3) Hmm, I've not seen this myself so I'm not sure where it's coming from.  Ah... Mythtv has an internal UPNP server ... it's likely that both are showing as both are valid upnp servers.

Another thing to keep in mind is that the ps3 has very specific container/media-format combinations which it will play.  Media that does not conform will not play properly, you can set up mediatomb to transcode these files on-the-fly into a format the ps3 can play.

J.

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Users / Re: N900

« on: February 15, 2010, 07:43:34 am »

I did some playing after seeing some action on trac.  The orbiter is running now on my n900 with the new fremantle package.  Had a package couldn't be downloaded error.  The repository is pointing to the wrong location and I had to wget the .debs...  repo was looking in 'arm' directory but was actually 'armel'...  something like that.  Little liquored right now but I'll look again tomorrow and update.

J.

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Users / Re: Funny thing going on with black strips in MythTV

« on: February 14, 2010, 11:45:33 pm »

I have seen this at the top and bottom of my screen, only on a few pixels top and bottom, and usually it's the screensaver showing through.  I havn't been using myth lately so I couldn't say if it's happening there for me or not right now...  The mythtv window is being layered on top of the lmce windows, which is how lmce deals with visibility of it's various components.

You might try adjusing the video overscan settings in mythtv to compensate...  don't remember how specifically, somewhere in the setup section of the frontend.

I used to have to adjust the video overscan when I was running mythtv frontends on xboxes around my house.  I don't believe this adversely affect lmce in any way.

J.

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Users / Re: How "Media" are treated - FRESHUP NEEDED?

« on: February 14, 2010, 11:35:46 pm »

If you rip any new media with LMCE it will grab data automatically when you rip it.

J.