Hi,

I have tried what you suggested and replacing archive.ubuntu.com with old-releases.ubuntu.com did allow me to download the grek language pack, but I still only see commas and fullstops when I play movies with greek subtitles.

Just out of idle curiosity... did you grab nl or el.

So I have a bunch of these Window$ MCE only cards around. ATSC/QAM/NTSC (note low profile adapter)

"Additional benefits of the Avermedia M780 TV card is that one can watch the Analog channel or the HD channel while recording the other. Alternatively, two channels can be recorded while a program which was previously recorded is watched, all at the same time. Other features of the product include a 32- bit as well as a 64- bit driver support, a stereo sound, Analog TV (NTSC) as well as digital TV (ATSC). It also has a HDTV quality support. It is worth noting that the HDTV will work only if the signal of the TV is HDTV format. Other requirements for HDTV include a VGA card which supports DirectX 9.0c as well as DxVA."

I got it working by first grabbing the firmware and installing mercurial:

Code:

sudo -s
apt-get install mercurial -y
apt-get install linux-firmware-nonfree -y
hg clone http://kernellabs.com/hg/~dheitmueller/ngene3
cd ngene3

Lately I have had to get rid of some bad code in ngene3/v4l/firedtv-1394.c so I just

Code:

echo > v4l/firedtv-1394.c
make
make install
reboot

This loads up a bunch of experimental drivers.

MythTV then picks it up as DVB DTV capture card (v3.x).


Have not got audio going, but the picture/change is fantastic. I would like some help getting it going right, so we can make this happy. I know there are a gazillion of these cards out there, they were pretty inexpensive for the quality... still are. Gateway shoved them into their media pc's for a while... so... calling all dingos...


*Mandingo, I will gladly send you a card

It is a cheap TV that performs well, though woefully shy of an RS232 port. Just wanted to pass along some things I worked out and am trying to work out.

Service menu:
On factory remote, press MUTE, 1, 8, 2, and power in quick succession while the tv is off.This will open up the service menu. Go to options, and then model... change it to the 560. This enables hardware that allows 24p playback. They are the same tv, with different hardware access. I have been looking around trying to figure out if I can turn "overscanning" or some derivative of it off so that KDE will be the right size.


I also know that the 650b service code is INFO, MENU, MUTE, Power.

I also know that you shouldn't go around screwing with things you do not understand in these menus. Use at your own risk, but I can tell you that the upgrade works on the 550.

Was a great place to start for me.

It would be very easy to add quick links to the video/audio folders if you wanted also. Less clicking is less clicking imo. I can also make a dev one which goes to logs etc.

The images should probably live somewhere other than photobucket also... of course if the image does not exist, dolphin is nice enough to make it a blue folder.

Hi all!

I will use a LinuxMCE system in my future house, but that is over a year in the future. However I would like to rip all my movie-dvd's and music cd's to an empty drive that I'm supposed to install in the core later on.

Is there anything in particular I should think about when doing this? Filesystem? Folder structure? Acually having LinuxMCE installed on the drive?

Anything that can help. I'm a newbie :S

As for now I haven't even been able to try LinuxMCE since I only have Mac's in my home.

I would like as high quality as possible, so for the music I'm thinking FLAC.

Thank you!

rgds,
Christian

You might want to separate media by users. Outside of that it pretty much just picks up and goes.

On all of the 1080p TVs I have set up, during AV Wizard I have to drop the viewing area 5 sizes (-), the result leaves the KDE screen too large to display everything. In the beginning I tried screwing with video settings with some fairly disastrous results. Switching back and forth is also odd, and after a few log ins... NOTHING will kill KDE by itself. It will not "log off", init 3 doesn't stop it... kde stop doesn't kill it, /etc/init.d/kdm stop returns:
"Stopping K Display Manager: kdm not running (/var/run/kdm.pid not found)." And indeed it is not. If I hit ctrl alt backspace KDE dies but takes LMCE with it. For these reasons I do not ever enter the desktop environment. I am curious if others have had this experience, as it is always the same for me, regardless of the equip I use. I am going to try and develop, at the very least, a widget that switches from the desktop back to LMCE gracefully. I did this a long time ago, but was lost in one of many re-installs.

Thom thought it would be convenient for KDE users to have a folder in Dolphins "Places" generated by the system, so I thought it would be an easy opportunity to write my first bash script. Of course it should have been a perl script, but I spent too much time learning the one to move. So this is my solution. I would appreciate review, laughter, whatever the case may be.
http://svn.linuxmce.org/trac.cgi/attachment/ticket/986/t4.sh

It works. I have tried to make it not work, but it always works. Dolphin is very lenient on order.
It will download an icon set. I will make something nice if people think that is a good idea. I don't get butt hurt at criticism. Thanks for your time.

This is a fresh 0810 bookmarks.xml file.

Code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE xbel>
<xbel xmlns:bookmark="http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/desktop-bookmarks" xmlns:mime="http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/shared-mime-info" xmlns:kdepriv="http://www.kde.org/kdepriv" dbusName="kfilePlaces" >
 <bookmark href="file:///home/mcc" >
  <title>Home</title>
  <info>
   <metadata owner="http://freedesktop.org" >
    <bookmark:icon name="user-home" />
   </metadata>
   <metadata owner="http://www.kde.org" >
    <ID>1297542459/0</ID>
    <isSystemItem>true</isSystemItem>
   </metadata>
  </info>
 </bookmark>
 <bookmark href="remote:/" >
  <title>Network</title>
  <info>
   <metadata owner="http://freedesktop.org" >
    <bookmark:icon name="network-workgroup" />
   </metadata>
   <metadata owner="http://www.kde.org" >
    <ID>1297542459/1</ID>
    <isSystemItem>true</isSystemItem>
   </metadata>
  </info>
 </bookmark>
 <bookmark href="file:///" >
  <title>Root</title>
  <info>
   <metadata owner="http://freedesktop.org" >
    <bookmark:icon name="folder-red" />
   </metadata>
   <metadata owner="http://www.kde.org" >
    <ID>1297542459/2</ID>
    <isSystemItem>true</isSystemItem>
   </metadata>
  </info>
 </bookmark>
 <bookmark href="trash:/" >
  <title>Trash</title>
  <info>
   <metadata owner="http://freedesktop.org" >
    <bookmark:icon name="user-trash" />
   </metadata>
   <metadata owner="http://www.kde.org" >
    <ID>1297542459/3</ID>
    <isSystemItem>true</isSystemItem>
   </metadata>
  </info>
 </bookmark>
</xbel>

This is the result of the code. The bottom entry is new, and will generate without any conflicts or odd behavior no matter how many things or separators are there... of course ideally it would be run before Dolphin ever mounted anything.

Code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE xbel>
<xbel xmlns:bookmark="http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/desktop-bookmarks" xmlns:mime="http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/shared-mime-info" xmlns:kdepriv="http://www.kde.org/kdepriv" dbusName="kfilePlaces">
 <bookmark href="file:///home/rec">
  <title>Home</title>
  <info>
   <metadata owner="http://freedesktop.org">
    <bookmark:icon name="user-home"/>
   </metadata>
   <metadata owner="http://www.kde.org">
    <ID>1289787488/0</ID>
    <isSystemItem>true</isSystemItem>
   </metadata>
  </info>
 </bookmark>
 <bookmark href="remote:/">
  <title>Network</title>
  <info>
   <metadata owner="http://freedesktop.org">
    <bookmark:icon name="network-workgroup"/>
   </metadata>
   <metadata owner="http://www.kde.org">
    <ID>1289787488/1</ID>
    <isSystemItem>true</isSystemItem>
   </metadata>
  </info>
 </bookmark>
 <bookmark href="file:///">
  <title>Root</title>
  <info>
   <metadata owner="http://freedesktop.org">
    <bookmark:icon name="folder-red"/>
   </metadata>
   <metadata owner="http://www.kde.org">
    <ID>1289787488/2</ID>
    <isSystemItem>true</isSystemItem>
   </metadata>
  </info>
 </bookmark>
 <bookmark href="trash:/">
  <title>Trash</title>
  <info>
   <metadata owner="http://freedesktop.org">
    <bookmark:icon name="user-trash"/>
   </metadata>
   <metadata owner="http://www.kde.org">
    <ID>1289787488/3</ID>
    <isSystemItem>true</isSystemItem>
   </metadata>
  </info>
 </bookmark>
<bookmark href="file:///home/public/data" >
 <title>LMCE_Data</title>
 <info>
  <metadata owner="http://freedesktop.org" >
   <bookmark:icon name="folder-lmce" />
  </metadata>
  <metadata owner="http://www.kde.org" >
   <ID>1289787488/4</ID>
   <isSystemItem>true</isSystemItem>
  </metadata>
 </info>
</bookmark>
</xbel>

I have figured a lot out the last few days and would like a more difficult task. Thanks.

RayBe,

I have one of those cards laying around I just saw. I will install, do a build, and try and figure out what is going on and why. Are you using turning off auto configure as well? Because tricking auto-configure gives me crashless TV/record. Eventually I will try and help implement something to autodetect single tuners to avoid the auto configure takeover.

Also what settings do you change in myth?

I am still tempted to move forward because I think my idea will be scalable to future applications.

I am building a 3d cube with a top level menu, a bottom level menu, and infinite left right scrollable menus. So some version of the normal menu will appear always on top, an area specific menu on bottom, and area specific data populates left to right middle. So f7 will bring up the whole cube.

For now I am just worrying about populating the middle. Tell me if you think it is a waste of time.

Hi.

When I issue a

cat /proc/asound/version on my Core it shows version 1.0.23.

When I do it on the MD it shows 1.0.17

When I run alsamixer on both the Core and MD it says version 1.0.18

So 1.0.18 is the version of Alsamixer.
Your MD version is wrong. I don't know why. I would try to make changes to the audio and rebuild the image, and see if it grabs the right version. If that didn't work I would ssh into the moon unit and try and shoehorn 1.0.23 into it... that might not be smart advice. You might do ok with an upgrade on the moon, but if audio is all that is goofy, I would install the right version manually.

On the core where XX is the moon number:

Code:

chroot /usr/pluto/diskless/XX passwd

Change the password

Code:

ssh root@moonXX

New password, then I would do this:
http://monespaceperso.org/blog-en/2010/05/02/upgrade-alsa-1-0-23-on-ubuntu-lucid-lynx-10-04/

Any media, or specific media? Presumably libdvdcss2 is installed?

What would that specific version be?

That alsa version is well outdated isn't it?

Did you manually shove that in? Because I think LMCE is pinned at 1.0.23.

Ouch... and a spelling error at that...

Doh. Fixed.


To add to purps post, I don't know what your tv souce is, but I LOVE the hdhomerun. Get the dual or better tuner versions.

My audio on board is always weak, so I threw in a 90s sound blaster and it has been fantastic.

Nvidia only at this point.


My best recommendation frankly is to buy your stuff ready to roll from www.lmcecompatible.com

Its cheap, it works.