I'm using xine for .vob filetypes

xine -pfhq --no-splash

This WORKS!

you can. also, as of 0.20 myth can play .vob files using the internal player.

the mythtv wiki will be better at explaining things than I would. heres the relevent page
http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/My ... figuration

EXCELLENT!! .. sorry i wasnt much help

Easily. Go into Utilities/setup -> setup -> Media Settings -> Videos Settings -> player Settings and set Default Player to "xine -V xv -pchq %s"

Cheers

Mike

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LiveTV through xine was unwatchable - blocky, choppy, cutting out.

In my ruminations in getting DVDs to play from the hard drive smoothly, before I stumbled upon the simple notion of tying Xine to .vob and .iso files, I may have broken something else.

I've gone back through the setup screens disabling XvMC, as others have reported trouble with that.

Setting Xine to handle .vob and .iso filetypes and having MPlayer as my default - which will LiveTV use as the player?

I tried typing "top | grep xine" and "top | grep mplayer" in an X window while LiveTV was on - and didn't get a hit for either. Is there a better way to determine which player is being used for LiveTV?

I've never seen live tv with anything other than the mythtv "Internal" player.

If you run top with tv playing and mythfrontend is significant, I'd say your system is using Internal.

XvMC should make playback better not worse if you have everything installed properly. Incidentally, when you used xine, did you have XvMC enabled? Should have been "-v xxmc" (not "-v xv") when you started it.

Mike

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So, after having the living room torn asunder this weekend, I had to return things to normal for the work week.

We shut down the MythBox, unplugged everything, got all of the components tucked into their proper corners in the Entertainment center, and then plugged everything back up together and brought everything back up.

Now, when I go into "Watch TV" I get the following message...

"MythTV is already using all available inputs for the channel you selected. If you want to watch an in-progress recording, select one from the playback menu. If you want to watch live TV, cancel one of the in-progress recordings from the delete menu."

Trouble is... I have no recordings! I tried exiting out of MythTV to the KnoppMyth splash screen, and ran an X-term window to run "mythtv-setup" and I verified I have two HD-HomeRun cards showing up there.

Any ideas? Thank you for your help!

While I was placing everything back in it's proper places this evening, I noticed that the gain setting on my Terk TV55 antenna was accidentally tripped to "ON" - now, I live about 3 miles from the TV transmitters, so I don't need the gain setting at all for local channels.

I probably had an over-amplified, distorted signal entering my HomeRuns this morning when I thought I had broken some settings on LiveTV somewhere. (Gawd, distinguishing between software problems and a "garbage in" input can be tricky!)

I was set to try with my antenna corrected, but now I'm stuck in this "all of your tuners are being used" - I have rebooted several times, hoping to kill the job that is declaring them occupied. I suspect there must be a flat file somewhere that is declaring the tuners busy?

Simplest solution:

stop the backend (alt-2), run mythtv-setup (alt-s), delete tuner cards, re-add tuner cards, run channel scanner, quit setup, restart backend (alt-3) and you should be OK.

Proper way is to find out what process is tying them up, but that would depend on your cards and thus too hard to explain.

Good luck

Mike

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Thanks! I'm out on travel this week, so I won't be able to attempt this fix until Thursday or Friday.

The Xine solution for .vob and .iso worked great, and we're loving that feature of our Dragon. I'm sure I will eventually get these other issues resolved.

For anyone reading this thread who is considering a Dragon 2.0 reference system, here is my "noob" advice.

1) Don't forget that there's a "dragon2" option on the KnoppMyth release. That makes the initial installation much simpler.
2) Set Xine as your player for .vob and .iso filetypes.

3) I also downloaded the latest nVidia drivers and enabled XvMC, but I don't think those steps were really necessary.

I think my HD HomeRun units are dead. I retrieved the unit from my entertainment center, and it was hot enough to fry an egg. The antenna connectors on the back of it were too hot to touch.

The light on the front of the unit is dark.

Running hdhomerun_config fails to find the hdhomeruns on my network.

Just posting a status - I'll let everyone know what I end up finding out.

Thanks for everyone's assistance!

I too am having some jerky video playback, especially with 1080p video. I've tried all sorts of things - and the switch to the Xine player has made some difference but I am still seeing a bit of slow-down. Heres what I've done so far;

- Am using an IDE HD, DMA is enabled.
- CPU usage is low during play back - so doesn't appear to be this.
- I'm using an Asus MB, the one with integrated Nvidia 6150. I'm running a 1920x1080 modeline
- I've tried enabling XvMC Standard and the other one (Name escapes me)

Can anyone confirm if the 6150 is up to coping with 1080p and 1920x1080 resolutions?

Thanks!
Steve

I was able to connect my Motorola DCT-6412 III to the Dragon 2.0 with KnoppMyth R5F1. It was as easy as connecting the cable, figuring out which node and port the FireWire connection was on, and setting it up in the Myth Setup Screen as the Motorol 6200 (same cablebox architecture as the 6412)

I used broadcast settings.

Excellent information in this forum if you search for "firewire"

Regarding my dead HDHomeRun units - the plug for a LinkSys wireless router and the HDHomeRun units are identical and both are unlabeled. The LinkSys wireless router is 12V 1A, and the HD HomeRun is 5V 2A. Given that they're designed to connect to one another [they're both Ethernet devices] a lot of people might do what I did, which is tuck them in the entertainment center on top of each other. Crawling around the entertainment center, I accidentally swapped the plugs.

I know - pretty idiotic thing to do - but it was dark, the plugs fit, and it didn't occur to me that they might be mechanically the same pin size but have a different electrical spec.

LiveTV over firewire - I do get some hiccups every now and then. I'm getting replacement HDHomeRun units soon to see if the problem is isolated to FireWire, or if it's something in the internal player, or something in my configuration. A friend at work has mentioned I may need to check my overscan settings.

Just wanted to post that in my extended trials, I think the video quality of the Internal player is far superior to the video quality in the XINE player.

The Internal player, however, chokes on the menus in some .iso files. I like having the full video experience, so I use .iso.

I see in the MythTV release notes that there were some bug fixes in the MythDVD plug-in. Does anyone know where a good link is in how to grab and upgrade to the latest version of MythTV from a KnoppMyth release? I've found some links, but most have some of the details missing - like what folder should I download the tar to - what folder should I put the results into, or does the make command take care of all that for me?

Thanks!