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Users / different handling of Video TS folders?
« on: March 20, 2010, 02:29:30 pm »
OK, I have a mess of movies on a hard drive attached to my LMCE hybrid. Many of them are in different formats, .mkv .iso .dvd .mpg .avi and (Movie Name/video TS/bla bla bla). Basically I used a program to convert a .trp file to a dvd, then instead of actually burning a disk I just dropped them onto the HDD. Works great, I have the attributes and cover art etc, no issues. Well maybe one, the movies that are in the Video TS folders periodically drop out of the database. If I rescan from the admin website, they come back with cover art and attributes, the whole shebang.

Then I guess after the database updates itself, they disappear.




Has anyone else had this issue?

BTW the install is 8.10B





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Users / Re: Capture card/Mythtv setup - help please
« on: March 14, 2010, 07:00:06 am »
Maybe I am misunderstanding what you want to do but to make it work like it is supposed to, where you can change channels with LinuxMCE, the channel guide info needs to be in myth.

in order to get the channel information into myth, you need to use a channel grabber to get the info from somewhere. for dish I use schedules direct. If you want to use the guide on your sky box you can either

1) set up the channels, and use the sky remote anyway
2) run inputs from your sat box to another input on the tv, then set up LinuxMCE to switch the inputs for you when you want to watch it
3) or you may be able to set it up as a security camera feed but I have some pretty serious doubts about the quality of that idea.

Those would bypass the features of mythtv though and are not really the way that things are meant to be set up. You would also experience a few seconds of delay between pressing a button on your remote and seeing the results on your screen if you are using 1 or 3 because of the video processing taking place.
I would not recommend doing those things though. (except choice 2 but there is a time and place for that one)

Your sky box does have a guide, however there is no way that I am aware of to get the guide info from your sky box into myth. That info won't go over the svideo cable.  The channel data and guide information must be downloaded and brought into the database from an external source.


Fortunately for me and unfortunately for you, things seem to be streamlined a bit for US users. If I remember correctly from my 8.10 b install, when you get to the video sources setup section there is a long list of grabbers that you can set up. Highlight the grabber section and press the over arrow.  Choose one that provides listings for the UK and then visit their website. You may have to register or pay a small subscription fee. Once that is done, select your chosen grabber and complete the setup. Myth or LinuxMCE will download the listings and set up the channel db. After that you can complete your setup, make sure your sources and inputs are selected correctly and your system should work.

Another hiccup you may run into is the channel change script but do some rooting around in the wiki and you will find it explained pretty well. If that script is not set up properly myth will not work either. I think that the setup wizard is supposed to take care of that for you but on 2 or 3 occasions it has left the section blank for me.

It can be tough to figure out if you are a noob like me and are converting from a Win box. You certainly have to do a bit more digging to use Linux based systems, but when you get it working it is much more satisfying.

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Users / Re: Capture card/Mythtv setup - help please
« on: March 11, 2010, 05:35:11 pm »
if your using a sat box for tv over svideo, you should not be scanning for channels.

I am not sure if it is the same for sky as it is for Dish, but you should have a channel grabber that gets you listings for you if it is. Then you will have to configure myth with the TuneToChannel.sh so that LMCE can change the channels. search the forums and wiki for this, it is explained pretty well in there.

Scanning for channels is for tuners and ota capture so that is probably where you have your wires crossed.

Get started here:
http://wiki.linuxmce.com/index.php/Setting_up_MythTV

Hope this helps,
Josh

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Users / Re: USB UIRT dies
« on: February 24, 2010, 03:23:32 pm »
These tend to be sensitive to EMI. I was having this problem when the wire was running by the television. I had to plug mine into a front usb port and be very careful to run the line away from any other cabling. Once I got the routing right, the USBUIRT works great. I have had no problems for the last 8 months or so.

hope this helps
josh

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Users / Re: Help I've fallen out of the database, and I can't get up.
« on: February 24, 2010, 03:18:53 pm »
Thanks,

comes with being a rookie

josh


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Users / Help I've fallen out of the database, and I can't get up.
« on: February 22, 2010, 04:59:26 pm »
So this morning I went to transfer a movie from my laptop to the public folder of my linuxmce hybrid. When I tried to open the folder on the Hybrid it prompted me for the password. Well, alright, so I entered it. No joy. I then went on to enter every username and password combination on the machine. Nothing.

Try ssh, that works with the kde password like it should.

Try to login to webadmin, nothing with any username and password combination.

I found a post on resetting the password for the webadmin, and found that there seem to be no users in the mysql database. Here are the terminal results and the article I was following:

http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php/Reset_the_password_for_the_LinuxMCE_Admin_site


josh@lmwashere-PC ~ $ ssh 192.168.1.150
josh@192.168.1.150's password:
Linux dcerouter 2.6.27-16-generic #1 SMP Tue Dec 1 17:56:54 UTC 2009 i686

The programs included with the Ubuntu system are free software;
the exact distribution terms for each program are described in the
individual files in /usr/share/doc/*/copyright.

Ubuntu comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by
applicable law.

To access official Ubuntu documentation, please visit:
http://help.ubuntu.com/
Last login: Mon Feb 22 10:27:05 2010 from 192.168.1.152
josh@dcerouter:~$ mysql pluto_main -u root
Reading table information for completion of table and column names
You can turn off this feature to get a quicker startup with -A

Welcome to the MySQL monitor.  Commands end with ; or \g.
Your MySQL connection id is 122614
Server version: 5.0.67-0ubuntu6 (Ubuntu)

Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the buffer.

mysql> select * FROM Users
    -> update Users set Password=md5("josh") where UserName="josh"; quit;
ERROR 1064 (42000): You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'update Users set Password=md5("josh") where UserName="josh"' at line 2
Bye
josh@dcerouter:~$ mysql pluto_main -u root
Reading table information for completion of table and column names
You can turn off this feature to get a quicker startup with -A

Welcome to the MySQL monitor.  Commands end with ; or \g.
Your MySQL connection id is 122647
Server version: 5.0.67-0ubuntu6 (Ubuntu)

Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the buffer.

mysql> select * FROM Users
    -> select * FROM Users update Users set Password=md5("josh") where UserName="josh";
ERROR 1064 (42000): You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'select * FROM Users update Users set Password=md5("josh") where UserName="josh"' at line 2
mysql>



Interestingly, if I go to the setup wizard, my username is still in there.

Any help would be very appreciated.

Thanks,
josh

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Installation issues / Re: Could not start ksmserver. Check installation.
« on: February 02, 2010, 08:20:07 pm »
Other things can be installed manually too, like terminal, systemsettiings, dolphin etc. After a little work I have a pretty functional desktop again.

systemsettings must be installed to disable the screensaver. Once I got the desktop back, the screensaver kept interrupting my movies. None of the xset commands would work. Fortunately I found this with synaptic.


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Installation issues / Re: Could not start ksmserver. Check installation.
« on: February 02, 2010, 06:00:20 pm »
Purps,
I am using an nvidia 8400 gs so if your using an ati, I think we can probably rule out video cards as the culprit.

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Installation issues / Re: Could not start ksmserver. Check installation.
« on: February 02, 2010, 05:56:20 pm »
Yeah, the internet install is pretty flaky too. I tried to do it several times with no success.



Posted by: koenb

I got the same problem, I got my KDE back however by installing kdebase-workspace-bin, but this is not the whole KDE package.
Posted on: January 30, 2010, 05:36:03 pm


Nice, it's still not completely right, but is much closer. At least I can get my nvidia gui to correct for overscan. Thanks!

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Users / Open GL settings in MythTV
« on: January 28, 2010, 06:00:26 pm »
I would like to enable OpenGL vertical sync to improve my picture quality. Everytime I exit Myth the setting resets itself. Is there a way to make this setting permanent?

I read this post, but I am afraid this fix is a touch over my head.

http://forum.linuxmce.org/index.php?topic=4496.0

Was there ever a walkthrough posted anywhere?

Thanks
Josh

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Installation issues / Re: Could not start ksmserver. Check installation.
« on: January 28, 2010, 05:45:40 pm »
Thanks, Myth is working well now. Ran into a bit of a hiccup with the channel changing but it was because I didn't understand that I needed to pass the device ID and source id to the TuneToChannel script. Once I got that figured out it worked pretty well.

Now just trying to figure out the ksmserver thing.

Josh

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Installation issues / Could not start ksmserver. Check installation.
« on: January 28, 2010, 03:43:46 am »
I just did a 8.10b2 dvd install and am receiving this error whenever I try to go to the kde desktop. I am turning up nothing when I try to search for this in the forum. Does anyone have any idea what might be happening or where to start on a fix? This is the 3rd time I have done the install and I have had the error every time.

I also do not seem to be able to download or install myth, as a result it fails to start up after a reload.

Thanks in advance for any help.

Josh

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Users / Re: OrbiterInstaller.msi is 0 bytes
« on: January 28, 2010, 03:26:19 am »
if anyone knows some free server space that won't crap out, I'll upload the file there so that people can have a quick easy download.

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Users / Re: Magical dissappearing media!
« on: January 15, 2010, 12:36:46 am »
Well over time the disappearing media issue seems to have self resolved, or at least mutated. Now I am getting multiple copies of movies showing up in the videos section. A few minutes ago I had 25 listings for "The Iron Giant".

If I open the movie from the LMCE menu it lists a circular location like /public/data/other/(name of hard drive (device 64)/public/data/other/(name of hard drive (device 64)/public/data/other/(name of hard drive (device 64)/public/data/other/(name of hard drive (device 64)/public/data/other/(name of hard drive (device 64)/public/data/videos/movie name

The original movie is stored in /public/data/videos

If I go into /public/data/other and delete the shortcut back to the hard drive, then rescan media, all the extras go away and it behaves properly again. The problem is that I have to do this over and over again because LMCE apparently likes to put those shortcuts in there. Is there any way that I can keep it from putting those shortcuts in the /other folder?

Could I change the owner and permissions of the /other folder without shooting myself in the foot later. Also is this where it is supposed to add external hard drives?  I do not want to screw up the usage of my 500 GB HDD, (not the one that these movies are stored on) by trying to fix this recursive link problem.


Thanks in advance,
Josh

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Users / Magical dissappearing media!
« on: December 19, 2009, 07:58:38 am »
Strange,

Every few days, most of my media seems to drop out of the database. This seems to mostly affect video files, pictures and games, but apparently not the music files as they have yet to disappear.

I can browse right to the missing media from the kde desktop and it is there if I check it through the admin website or just over the network. If I re-sync the media through the website, it all shows up fine again. At least for a few days.

OR if I leave it alone, then several hours later, most or all of it will all usually come back.

This seems to have started after I elected to install mame from the admin website. At least it did not have an episode before then, and the machine had been running for two weeks or so on this install prior to that.

Shortly after the mame install it told me that it had detected a new internal HDD and asked me what I wanted to do with it. Now I had not installed a new HDD, but due to me having to reinstall pretty regularly with my experimenting and all, I have my media saved to another partition on the same physical disk. In any case I told LMCE that I wanted to use it and to make all of the media public. Then all of this craziness started.

In the past I have had issues when using an external HDD of the drive constantly mounting and dismounting and I am wondering if perhaps this may be the source of the issue. Maybe it dismounts it and the media drops out, then remounts it and I happen to look for a movie prior to it putting it back in the db. Is that even plausible? Seems like a stretch. Especially since the music files are on the same partition and seem to always be present. Should I mount the partition to the home folder during the install, or would that run the risk of corrupting the system as would an external drive?

Josh

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