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Users / Media files do not show up under "sort by filename"
« on: April 15, 2011, 07:43:39 pm »

When "sort by filename" is used on the media director, none of my movies are showing up.  Just some folders under /home/public/data/videos.   Most of the media is located on CIFS mounts linked to /home/public/data/other and a few files under .../data/movies.   When I sort by title, everything shows up fine.

I guess filename sort in not using  /home/public/data as its base/root path ?

On a filename sort I would expect to be able to access all the folders under /home/public/data.   

Comments, anyone else see this behavior ?

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Installation issues / Re: Missing Text in menu items on MD
« on: July 26, 2010, 12:10:17 am »
 I re-built the MD and still the typical icons in the UI are missing, only floorplan is available under media.

Any ideas ?

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Installation issues / Missing Text in menu items on MD
« on: June 25, 2010, 06:06:56 am »
Just created a new MD after upgrading to latest beta2.   Have alpha blending on the UI installed. Screen Saver works fine.  Already reloaded router and regen all orbiters.

Problem:  Only a few menu items are created like floorplan.  Audio, video, playlists and most menu items are missing.   Everything shows started in the pluto log folder except for mythbackend which I don't think applies.

Any ideas ?

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Users / Health and performance checks
« on: May 14, 2010, 05:21:49 pm »
Here are some of the tools I use to get health status and current performance of MD's or core system's.  Feel free to add to it, then someone can add it to the wiki later.

# sudo apt-get install sysstat iftop lm-senors

here is a quick way to install lm-sensors to get temperature readings.
Answering with defaults works most of the time and then check that modules get loaded properly in /etc/modules. hint: use lsmod and modprobe.
# sensors-detect

You can see disk, paging, basic cpu performance, and temperature every 30s with this alias
# alias sysperf='watch -n 30 '\''iostat -kx && vmstat && sensors'\'''

Then just type this to see it all in action.
# sysperf

During heavy MD usage such as playing x264 mkv with high-quality sound such as DTS or DD 5.1, I watch the bandwidth from the MD via ssh with
# iftop -nNB


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Installation issues / console-kit-daemonhigh cpu usage
« on: May 12, 2010, 05:09:02 pm »
What is everyone doing to combat high cpu usage on console-kit-daemon ?   I can't find a proposed or security fix for 8.10, but jaunty and later seem to have them.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/consolekit/+bug/284229



EDIT:
   SSH sessions and samba connections can be the catalyst for causing the high CPU usage.
  The problem can be reproduced easily with # while `true`; do ssh localhost exit; done;


   I have  installed these modules and currently testing, have not seen any leaks or increased cpu usage after 3 hours. Steady at 1%.


# sudo apt-get install libck-connector-dev libdbus-1-dev libck-connector0 libdbus-1-3 libpam-ck-connector

This is what I have installed after the udpates.

ii  libck-connector-dev                    0.2.10-1ubuntu10                            ConsoleKit development files
ii  libck-connector0                         0.2.10-1ubuntu10                            ConsoleKit libraries
ii  libpam-ck-connector                    0.2.10-1ubuntu10                            ConsoleKit PAM module                                 
ii  consolekit                                  0.2.10-1ubuntu10                            framework for defining and tracking users, sessions and seats
ii  libdbus-1-3                                1.2.4-0ubuntu1.1                            simple interprocess messaging system
ii  libdbus-1-dev                             1.2.4-0ubuntu1.1                            simple interprocess messaging system (development headers)
ii  libdbus-1-qt3                             0.9-0ubuntu1                                dbus bindings for Qt 3 (backport of the Qt 4 bindings)
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2                          0.76-1                                      simple interprocess messaging system (GLib-based shared library)
ii  libdbus-qt-1-1c2                        0.62.git.20060814-2build1                   simple interprocess messaging system (Qt-based shared library)

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Users / Re: can't play media files
« on: May 10, 2010, 07:02:01 pm »

1.   whats's the media and what video drivers are you using ?

2.   What's the mount command you are using ?

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Installation issues / Re: 0810 64 bit support
« on: May 10, 2010, 06:59:22 pm »
Compile from source, see the developer section. This will take you about 5-10 hours to just to start the prepare section, before you even start compiling.

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Installation issues / Re: Xine, x264, VC1 (mkv), and VDPAU
« on: May 10, 2010, 04:32:46 pm »
How can I re-compile just pluto-xine-player from source ?

I don't see anything I the developers sections about just one package.
Assume I have setup a chroot, thats already run all the prepare scripts for a full build.

# ls -l /usr/local/lib/libxine*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    901 2010-05-10 08:54 /usr/local/lib/libxine-interface.la
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   1021 2010-05-10 08:54 /usr/local/lib/libxine.la
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     16 2010-05-10 08:56 /usr/local/lib/libxine.so -> libxine.so.2.0.0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     16 2010-05-10 08:56 /usr/local/lib/libxine.so.2 -> libxine.so.2.0.0
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 352092 2010-05-10 08:54 /usr/local/lib/libxine.so.2.0.0




# /usr/pluto/bin/Xine_Player                                                                                                                                                                  
/usr/pluto/bin/Xine_Player: error while loading shared libraries: libxine.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

This soft link doesn't work.
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     16 2010-05-10 00:55 /usr/local/lib/libxine.so.1 -> libxine.so.2.0.0

# cat /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig/libxine.pc
prefix=/usr/local
exec_prefix=${prefix}
bindir=${exec_prefix}/bin
libdir=${exec_prefix}/lib
includedir=${prefix}/include

datarootdir=${prefix}/share
datadir=${datarootdir}

xinelibdir=${libdir}/xine
xinedatadir=${datadir}/xine

acflags=-I ${prefix}/share/aclocal
plugindir=${xinelibdir}/plugins/2.0
scriptdir=${xinedatadir}/scripts
localedir=${datadir}/locale
objcflags=  -pipe  -Wall -Wformat=2 -Wno-format-zero-length -Wmissing-format-attribute -Werror-implicit-function-declaration -Wstrict-aliasing=2 -Wchar-subscripts -Wmissing-declarations -Wmissing-prototypes -Wwrite-strings -Wpointer-arith -g

xine_list=${bindir}/xine-list-1.2

Name: libxine
Description: The xine engine library
Version: 1.1.90
Requires.private:
Libs: -L${libdir} -lxine
Libs.private:  -lz -lresolv -lnsl  -pthread  -lrt
Cflags: -I${includedir}
Cflags.private:

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Installation issues / Re: How to install Latest Snapshot via DVD burning ?
« on: May 09, 2010, 05:36:54 pm »
We should have a sticky thread for burning the latest snapshot.

Note, its always best to use re-writeable media unless you need more coasters.

If a DVD or CD doesn't boot after burning, then there is most likely a problem with the media or hardware.

Also check the BIOS settings to make sure that you have booting from cdrom enabled and check the boot order.

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Installation issues / Re: ./mce-install.sh appears to have broken links how can I edit?
« on: May 09, 2010, 05:29:55 pm »
what happens when you run apt-get update ?

Do you have two NICS installed ?

Can you resolve any other site ?

What is displayed when you type ?
# sudo ps auxw | grep -i router

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Installation issues / Re: Can't find eth0 in the diskless image using Foxconn Nettop - 0331i as a MD
« on: May 02, 2010, 08:34:30 pm »
google.com search terms atheros l1 module linux

copy the atl1.ko to /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/net
modprobe -v atl1
if it loads correctly, then add to /etc/modules
you may have to blacklist other atheros drivers if they load instead of the one you want.

check  with:
dmesg
lsmod | grep atl1

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Installation issues / Re: Xine, x264, VC1 (mkv), and VDPAU
« on: May 02, 2010, 06:06:40 pm »
Turns out my problem was xine_player was using /usr/local/lib and my source compiled xine was using /usr/src.  Thanks lsof | grep xine.
I removed the files in/usr/local/lib/xine and rebuilt the library cache with ldconfig.  Now xine_player is using the correct plugins.

lspci
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce 8400 GS (rev a1)


Somehow during my troubleshooting /usr/bin/xine lost the ability to play VC1 files through vdpau.  Xine_player log below.


05      05/01/10 15:25:26.470           Xine_Player::EVENT_Playback_Started(streamID=1003) <= AV info <0xae301b90>
05      05/01/10 15:25:36.463           [ID: 1003]  CHAPTER:0 POS:0 TITLE:0 SUBTITLE:-1 AUDIO:-1 TOTAL:0 (seek 0) t.c. ctr 0 freq 1, <0xad0feb90>
05      05/01/10 15:25:36.464           Socket::SendData sendbytes==0 <0xb6d81b90>
05      05/01/10 15:25:36.464           Read media A/V information: []/[] => []/[] <0xb6d81b90>
05      05/01/10 15:25:36.464           Xine_Player::EVENT_Playback_Started(streamID=1003) <0xb6d81b90>
05      05/01/10 15:25:36.464           Xine_Player::CMD_Play_Media() ended for filename: filenaame.mkv with stream 0x9306cc8. <0xb6d81b90>
05      05/01/10 15:25:36.465           Socket::ReceiveData 0x924b4f0 failed, bytes left 0 start: 1380000 1: 0 1b: 0 2: 0 2b: 0 m_Socket: 6 Command_Impl1 Dev #58 <0xb6d81b90>
05      05/01/10 15:25:36.465           Socket::ReceiveString2 ReceiveData failed m_Socket: -1 Command_Impl1 Dev #58 <0xb6d81b90>
01      05/01/10 15:25:36.465           Receive string failed in HandleRequestSocket 18:ReceiveData failed Command_Impl1 Dev #58 <0xb6d81b90>
05      05/01/10 15:25:36.465           Dumping 1 locks <0xb6d81b90>
05      05/01/10 15:25:36.465           finished check for exceptions <0xb6d81b90>
05      05/01/10 15:25:36.465           OL: (0x924b63c) (>125) MessageQueue Command_Impl.cpp l:822 time: 6:00:00p (1272745536 s) thread: 3076008848 Rel: Y Got: Y <0xb6d81b90>
05      05/01/10 15:25:36.466           Destroying all active streams <0xb76036c0>
05      05/01/10 15:25:36.466           Xine_Player::EVENT_Playback_Completed(streamID=1003) <0xb76036c0>
05      05/01/10 15:25:36.534           TCPIP: Closing connection to -1 (m_pNotificationSocket) 0x9306e90 m_Socket: -1 <0xb10feb90>
05      05/01/10 15:25:36.564           XineStreamEventListener called on non-initialized stream - aborting command <0xae301b90>
05      05/01/10 15:25:36.973           Destroyed stream with ID=1003 <0xb76036c0>
05      05/01/10 15:25:37.094           Dropping all sockets... <0xb76036c0>
05      05/01/10 15:25:37.113           TCPIP: Closing connection to -1 (m_pNotificationSocket) 0x9309018 m_Socket: -1 <0xadb00b90>


When I run xine manually on the command line, I get:
load_plugins: probing demux 'matroska'
xine: found demuxer plugin: matroska demux plugin
audio discontinuity #1, type is 0, disc_off 0
waiting for in_discontinuity update #1
video discontinuity #1, type is 0, disc_off 0
vpts adjusted with prebuffer to 47755
demux_matroska: Track 1, V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC eng
demux_matroska: Track 2, A_DTS eng
demux_matroska: Track 3, A_VORBIS eng
load_plugins: plugin vdpau_h264 will be used for video streamtype 4d.
done parsing extradata
load_plugins: plugin dts will be used for audio streamtype 05.
av_offset=0 pts
spu_offset=0 pts
xine_play
vdpau_h264_reset
dpb_free_all, used: 0
done parsing extradata
ao_flush (loop running: 1)
play_internal ...done
assert: demux.c:561: _x_demux_send_data: Assertion `size > 0' failed.[
audio discontinuity #2, type is 3, disc_off 473590350
ebml: read error
waiting for in_discontinuity update #2
video discontinuity #2, type is 3, disc_off 473590350
vpts adjusted with prebuffer to 31961009
input_cache: read calls: 1095407, main input read calls: 218015
input_cache: seek_calls: 230413, main input seek calls: 217855
xine_dispose
shutdown audio
shutdown video
dpb_free_all, used: 0
xine_exit: bye!
Segmentation fault (core dumped)


I looked at the code, if size is zero, there there is a demux problem.  This is the 1.1.16 code branch for xine-vdpau.

Anyone know whats wrong ?

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Users / Re: How Long for initial PXE boot
« on: April 29, 2010, 02:20:13 pm »
Still having the problem ?

check the soft links on the MD in /usr/pluto/diskless/XX where XX is the MD designation.  Mine show.

initrd.img -> /usr/pluto/diskless/53/boot/initrd.img-2.6.27-14-generic
vmlinuz -> /usr/pluto/diskless/53/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27-14-generic

You may have to manually fix if they are not pointing to the correct kernel boot files.
Everytime I generated a new MD they would point to ...27-7-generic which was wrong.

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Installation issues / Re: Wiki Needs Correction - LinuxMCE DVD Install for 0810
« on: April 29, 2010, 07:21:27 am »
Anyone can install Kubuntu 8.10 intrepid, install latest video,alsa drivers, then apt-get update/upgrade, then web install, then apt-get upgrade lmce again.
I think this is least bandwidth intensive, and gives procedure experience for future updates.

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Installation issues / Re: 810 installation hangs when detecting file systems at 15%
« on: April 29, 2010, 07:18:07 am »
Try deleting partitions, then re-installing fresh.

Also check for Bad Sectors, and bad memory.

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