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Installation issues / Remotes behaving badly.

« on: June 07, 2008, 03:38:20 am »

Does anyone know of an issue with the Windows MCE remote/reciever where two things happen;

1. Initially directly after install, the remote works fine in the orbiter, but once inside mythtv none of the arrow keys, numbers, work, but the shortcut buttons like for the guide do work.

2. I did nothing, one day the remote arrow keys started working in mythtv, but now it acts like I pressed the button twice, for example i'm moving through my movie list or tv guide and it always jumps two items.  As if i hit it twice.  I checked if maybe the remote was re-transmitting the signal very fast, and it is not.  It doesn't repeat transmission until 5 seconds of holding the button down.

I've experimented with the lirc.conf, re-mapping buttons, etc... I've probably learned way more about lirc and the way remotes work in mce than i really wanted to lol.

I'm out of ideas...

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Installation issues / No sound from playing movies but works everywhere else.

« on: March 31, 2008, 08:23:02 pm »

I need to start off by saying everything worked perfectly previously.  Nothing has changed, no hardware, no software, just came home one day and sound stopped coming from playing my movies.  Only movies without AC3 encoding would have sound.

So I rebooted and went back into the AV wizard, and when it's playing DD/AC3 sound test, I hear it just fine.  So I answer yes... then of course my reciever does not support DTS, therefore I hear no sound from the DTS test and answer no.

I get back into LMCE, and sound works from MythTV (my sound config for myth is modified to play sound through my spdif/iec958 with AC3 passthrough enabled)

I get sound in movies not supporting DD/AC3 and just use 2 speaker stereo.

When I play a movie that does have DD tracks, I get no sound. 

I have had this problem in the past about a month ago, and I distinctly remember re-running the AV wizard being sure I answered the questions properly fixed it before.  This time it's not working.

So I figured whats a 103rd re-install of lmce to me, so I re-installed again and am getting the same results.

I've gone through all sorts of documentation regarding alsa configs, xine configs.  I've referenced posts here, posts elsewhere, wiki's here and elsewhere, and none of this information seems relevant because all of it is assuming there is a configuration problem.  But as I follow instructions put forth in all this documentation, as I follow the directions i'm finding that all my config files are ALREADY setup properly, just as the documentation states.  So I never had to change anything, my configs are consistent with all the documentation i've referenced. 

At first I suspected the AC3/DD decoding capability burned out in my reciever, which is why I immediately rebooted to the avwizard, and the AC3/DD test int he Avwizard plays 5.1 sound perfectly.  Just not when i'm back in lmce.

710b3
Nforce 520LE Chipset
IDT HD 6-channel HD audio CODEC using the snd-hda-intel sound module

Any ideas, point in the right direction maybe?

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Developers / MythTV Plugin

« on: March 24, 2008, 07:56:28 pm »

I saw another guy talking about recompiling the MythTV Pugin so that some of the interlacing options aren't forced on him.  I started a new thread since that other user was being bashed to death for some dumb comments.  I was wondering if, he or anyone else has ad any luck with this and could give me a hand or point me in the right direction?  Here is my situation.

I could care less about the interlacing setting, but I do wish to change is the save path for TV shows, i'd rather not have all those miscellaneous channel flipping recordings that are only 5 and 4 minutes long showing up on my media list.  Besides, the way I handle MythTV recordings does not require it to be inside pluto's structure. I never leave my recordings as 4239592345_929435.mpg, I also change it's name (in database also) and move it to a more proper location, something like /home/public/data/video/tvshows.  On top of that, I could never figure out how to tell it to record it's shows on a network share that I told to use auto and use pluto structure.  But everytime I changed the path in mythtv-setup, i noticed, it would revert back every reboot or quickreload. So after reading that guys post about changing the setting in the source, I downloaded and checked the source and sure enough, /home/public/data/tv_shows_# is set in the source code.  I would like to have this go elsewhere outside of pluto's structure and i'll compensate anything looking for that directory as I get to it.

Anyways, that was my situation, here is my problem.

Unlike other guy, I managed to compile the plugin successfully first try.  Except when I put the resulting MythTV_Plugin.so in place of the distro /home/usr/pluto/MythTV_Plugin.so, TV won't start from the interface with an error of

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"I cannot play this media. Perhaps there is not a valid device in this entertainmnt area capabale of playing it."
So, how can I tell the interface to open MythTV properly?  I know my .so works because MythTV runs perfectly find from the KDE Desktop, it just won't launch from lmce.  I checked the log files while I attempt to launch MythTV, and there was nothing of any interest.   I do admit I might not have been thorough in checking the logs, there are just so many of them.  I tried to just grep for myth with a a numeric expression to match the time frame I was trying to start MythTV, and found nothing of any relevance.

Oh I used the charonmedia source, I understand the linuxmce.org source is not stable yet/will break installs?  I think i read that somewhere...
I'm compiling on a 7.04 updated installation.
I'm running 7.10b3 as production box.
Any ideas?