Hey,

I just got my Shuttle SK41G and proceeded with my first installation of MythTV 0.14/KnoppMyth R4V2. Everything went more or less fine, but of course I had to go and change some things...

So I wanted to install Videolan. After doing an one dependency couldn't be resolved: The library libxv1 couldn't be installed.

In order to resolve this, I tried an followed by an and then an .

Of course I wound up with far more X-related libraries not being installed and now X won't run at all.

I don't mind re-installing the system, but isn't apt-get the 'correct' way to get vlc or other applications installed? How can I resolve these dependencies?


Other questions (I feel the borders of my Linux-knowledge):

- I can't figure out how automount works. Is it possible at all that an inserted CD is automatically mounted/unmounted just like in Windows or Macs? Or do you need to access the disc in order to get it mounted?

- If I have two running network interfaces (eth0 and wlan0), how do I select the one I want to have my data transmitted over?

- Where does the MythTV-log go?

TIA,
christian

Interesting, the dependency-problem seems to be solved.

I rebooted (an old Windows-habit), did another and it worked. (Only now X and mysql seem to act up...)


My other questions however remain.

Bye,
christian

well first of all you are probably going to have to reinstall. On Knoppmyth which is based on knoppix an apt-get upgrade or dist-upgrade is not really a good idea and reaks all kinds of havoc. This is because they have about 150 different repositories in the sources.list file. I think I've heard cesman mention that this is one of the things that he is working on cleaning up for R5. I truly hope so cause it makes people think hey debian sucks cause this is debian based and I can't use apt. As far as once you reinstall you should just be able to do an apt-get update and apt-get install vlc. I think the vlc stuff did get an update just within the last day or so and sometimes in unstable one dependancy will be a day late getting uploaded.

yes automount can work, but in a myth box what would you have it do? play or rip, and what is it cd or dvd? there is actually a place in the settings to set it up so it auto does something, but I don't know how it attempts to know what I want it to do, so I have it turned off. In my mind autoplay doesn't make that much since in a myth box, but it can be configured, however it is not as easy to do so as in win/mac, and I'm not sure if it is setup by default on knoppmyth. Major distrobutions like redhat and mandrake have it on by default.

why do you have two interfaces running? are they on the same network? If they are you should not have both running. if they are not it should use whichever one is in the subnet of the default gateway unless the traffic is bound for the subnet the other on is in. If they are both up and both in the same network you are going to have all kinds of routing problems anyways, so who cares.

for log info you can look in /var/log/mythtv/mythbackend.log for the backend, and the rest pretty much gets put in /var/log/messages with the system logs.

Hey, thanks for the infos. I'm actually just reinstalling... and I'll wait with installing vlc for a couple of days then.

Concerning automount: I wasn't thinking about autoplay. I completely forgot about that. I just have a lot of CDs with DivXs on it, so I made a symlink from /cdrom to /myth/video/cdrom. The idea is that I can put in a CD and easely watch the files on it from MythVideo. (Like it works with DVDs and VCDs).

Concerning interfaces: I keep the ethernetcable as long as I don't have my WLAN-USB-stick working reliably. So there is sometimes the situation where both interfaces is running.

Bye,
christian

well once you reinstall just try the apt-get update apt-get install vlc if it has a problem it will tell you and just wait a day or two and try again. but you said the dependency worked itself out, so that may mean that somewhere it there it got fixed. new packages are available everyday at 3:00PM CST for debian unstable, of course I can't say for the other 100 sources. Sorry if you're not in central time zone, but I'm too lazy to calculate it back to GMT or UTC.

Me too.

I'll check it out later... But it seems to me that the problem isn't with vlc, but with this libxv1:




Concerning the logs: I just was wondering if I could somewhere see the shell-output of applications like mplayer when they are called from within MythTV.

Bye,
christian (Sweet, this reinstalls faster than Windows.)

you wouldn't happen to have installed the binary sis drivers using apt-get would you?

Not that I know, no.

The only modification I did within the X-things was to replace the Savage drivers with another version. (Replaced savage.o).

Bye,
christian

Hmmm, I ended up getting the exact same error during the apt-get install vlc as cstuder.

I then attempted to do the apt-get install wxvlc libdvdcss2 as stated in this link after updating /etc/apt/sources.list for debian unstable:
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-debian.html


and got the following error:

A search of the forum should turn up info on how to resolve that.

Finals are done!!! WOHOOO. Taking 6 classes and working full time = no time for to have fun/frustration with my mythbox.

Ok it looks like I got past the libxv1 problem.
Now I found some very, very interesting information about creating dynamic http pages, which I cant wait to try out once I have the basic stuff working. For now I can't seem to seem to play a simple stream from my box. What command do you use on the server side to serve the video. I tried the following from the documentation:
vlc /myth/tv/1120_20041218200000_20041218203000.nuv --sout
I got the following error:

I am hoping I'm either just using the wrong command or I typoed something. I also tried:
vlc /myth/tv/1120_20041218200000_20041218203000.nuv --sout --server-port localhost:8090 -codec mpeg
And I got the following output:


After the above output appears, it just brings me back to the prompt. When I try to view the file from windows using vlc nothing happens

Can you elobarate on this? I tried to do an 'apt-get install vlc' and am getting the libxv1 dependencie error and now apt-get is all broke (again!!).

tjc,

Are you referring to doing a 'dpkg -i --force-overwrite'? I want to make sure this won't screw everything up before I try it.

Thanks all!

Yeah, although I think there was something else you have to do afterwards... Memory fails...

Hmm.. now I even more apprehensive about trying it. Can anyone provide any additional information? Thanks....

You're really going to make me search for this aren't you... Sigh... Here is the exact post: http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=337&start=31
All the info is there in the thread... The extra step was just doing apt-get -f, No rocket science involved.