Comments on: Upgrading to MythTV 0.20 http://blog.matthewgast.com/2006/11/25/upgrade-to-myth-0-20/ A former physicist tries to make sense of technology Tue, 06 Jan 2009 08:15:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Surfing the Luminiferous Ether » Blog Archive » Upgrading nuvexport to version 0.4 http://blog.matthewgast.com/2006/11/25/upgrade-to-myth-0-20/#comment-950 Surfing the Luminiferous Ether » Blog Archive » Upgrading nuvexport to version 0.4 Sun, 04 Mar 2007 18:00:43 +0000 http://blog.matthewgast.com/2006/11/25/upgrade-to-myth-0-20/#comment-950 [...] The new ffmpeg that emerge wanted to bring in was far newer, too. I’d had lots of problems with the existing version of mpeg, and had been using mencoder instead since installation. ffmpeg would run fine, but on anything greater than a half hour program, the mythtranscode process would grow until it had consumed 85% of the system memory and swapping would grind the system to a halt. That was too bad, since ffmpeg is much faster than mencoder. I’ve since upgraded MythTV, so I had hopes that I could use ffmpeg. To make emerge happy, I ran the command USE=”3dnow aac encode threads xvid flac” emerge ffmpeg. [...] [...] The new ffmpeg that emerge wanted to bring in was far newer, too. I’d had lots of problems with the existing version of mpeg, and had been using mencoder instead since installation. ffmpeg would run fine, but on anything greater than a half hour program, the mythtranscode process would grow until it had consumed 85% of the system memory and swapping would grind the system to a halt. That was too bad, since ffmpeg is much faster than mencoder. I’ve since upgraded MythTV, so I had hopes that I could use ffmpeg. To make emerge happy, I ran the command USE=”3dnow aac encode threads xvid flac” emerge ffmpeg. [...]

]]> By: Surfing the Luminiferous Ether » Blog Archive » MythDVD 0.20 is cool http://blog.matthewgast.com/2006/11/25/upgrade-to-myth-0-20/#comment-78 Surfing the Luminiferous Ether » Blog Archive » MythDVD 0.20 is cool Wed, 13 Dec 2006 02:01:54 +0000 http://blog.matthewgast.com/2006/11/25/upgrade-to-myth-0-20/#comment-78 [...] One of the pleasant surprises in the MythTV 0.20 upgrade was the improved functionality in MythDVD. In 0.18 and 0.19, I had an unattractive choice. I could use either xine, which supported DVD menus but didn’t rewind, or MPlayer, which supported rewind but not the the DVD menus. (Xine does have a rewind button in its skin, but there doesn’t appear to be a keyboard shortcut for it, which makes it impossible to use with LIRC.) [...] [...] One of the pleasant surprises in the MythTV 0.20 upgrade was the improved functionality in MythDVD. In 0.18 and 0.19, I had an unattractive choice. I could use either xine, which supported DVD menus but didn’t rewind, or MPlayer, which supported rewind but not the the DVD menus. (Xine does have a rewind button in its skin, but there doesn’t appear to be a keyboard shortcut for it, which makes it impossible to use with LIRC.) [...]

]]> By: matthew http://blog.matthewgast.com/2006/11/25/upgrade-to-myth-0-20/#comment-58 matthew Sun, 03 Dec 2006 02:02:27 +0000 http://blog.matthewgast.com/2006/11/25/upgrade-to-myth-0-20/#comment-58 Thanks for your compliment! Unfortunately, there is no good answer. The best solution would be FireWire from the set-top box, but hardly any cable companies support it. CableCARD might be acceptable, but it's designed to limit what we can do with the TV services we buy, not expand our horizons by letting us have our digital media. Direct capture from analog inputs sounds great, but I don't know of any products. If you would like broadcast TV channels, maybe there is some antenna engineering that you can do. (It took me several months of fiddling to get my antenna system right.) If it's a pay channel, the only way to get it into Myth is via a standard-definition output. I do wish that I had a better answer... Matthew Thanks for your compliment!

Unfortunately, there is no good answer. The best solution would be FireWire from the set-top box, but hardly any cable companies support it. CableCARD might be acceptable, but it’s designed to limit what we can do with the TV services we buy, not expand our horizons by letting us have our digital media. Direct capture from analog inputs sounds great, but I don’t know of any products.

If you would like broadcast TV channels, maybe there is some antenna engineering that you can do. (It took me several months of fiddling to get my antenna system right.) If it’s a pay channel, the only way to get it into Myth is via a standard-definition output.

I do wish that I had a better answer…

Matthew

]]> By: Surfing the Luminiferous Ether » Blog Archive » Recording HDTV with MythTV http://blog.matthewgast.com/2006/11/25/upgrade-to-myth-0-20/#comment-57 Surfing the Luminiferous Ether » Blog Archive » Recording HDTV with MythTV Sun, 03 Dec 2006 01:57:19 +0000 http://blog.matthewgast.com/2006/11/25/upgrade-to-myth-0-20/#comment-57 [...] In a comment to the upgrade post, a reader comments: How are you recording HD channels with Myth? Last time I checked, all the available HD tuners out there (ATI, Hauppauge, etc) only record over-the-air broadcasts. [...] [...] In a comment to the upgrade post, a reader comments: How are you recording HD channels with Myth? Last time I checked, all the available HD tuners out there (ATI, Hauppauge, etc) only record over-the-air broadcasts. [...]

]]> By: Canuck http://blog.matthewgast.com/2006/11/25/upgrade-to-myth-0-20/#comment-48 Canuck Wed, 29 Nov 2006 13:42:22 +0000 http://blog.matthewgast.com/2006/11/25/upgrade-to-myth-0-20/#comment-48 Hey Matthew, great blog. How are you recording HD channels with Myth? Last time I checked, all the available HD tuners out there (ATI, Hauppauge, etc) only record over-the-air broadcasts. I'm in Canada and I get my HD via a cable box, but I can't seem to find a reasonable solution to record it with Myth. Component-video (Y Pb Pr) capture card? Too expensive. Over the air? Too unreliable. Firewire output from cable box? Not available through Rogers. Cablecard? Not supported by Rogers either. Any thoughts? Thanks in advance. Hey Matthew, great blog.

How are you recording HD channels with Myth? Last time I checked, all the available HD tuners out there (ATI, Hauppauge, etc) only record over-the-air broadcasts.

I’m in Canada and I get my HD via a cable box, but I can’t seem to find a reasonable solution to record it with Myth. Component-video (Y Pb Pr) capture card? Too expensive. Over the air? Too unreliable. Firewire output from cable box? Not available through Rogers. Cablecard? Not supported by Rogers either.

Any thoughts? Thanks in advance.

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