MythTV General Discussion and Support

[Blinky]

Originally Posted by Oblong Cheese

I do. I have found a setting "PlaybackWLAutoExpire" which is set to zero. Should I change this to 1?

I don't know that we are looking at the same thing. I can see a whole heap of AutoExpire settings.
I one I was looking at was AutoExpireDefault

[Oblong Cheese]

Originally Posted by Blinky

I don't know that we are looking at the same thing. I can see a whole heap of AutoExpire settings.
I one I was looking at was AutoExpireDefault

OK...

My screen looks like this:

[Blinky]

Originally Posted by Oblong Cheese

OK...

My screen looks like this:

Hmmm, last chance. In the mythconverg database, 'record' or 'recorded' table, 'autoexpire' entry ?

OT, I see THE PROFESSIONALS are back on telly. dunnanat dunnatnanunt dunnadnat

[SteveMenheere]

Originally Posted by Oblong Cheese

OK...

My screen looks like this:

On the top right, where it says "owen-htpc"
Change that to "-All Hosts-" and you will have different options. That's where it is on mine.

[Oblong Cheese]

Originally Posted by SteveMenheere

On the top right, where it says "owen-htpc"
Change that to "-All Hosts-" and you will have different options. That's where it is on mine.

Hey, thanks!

This is what my settings are:


Any ideas why it would apparently not work?

[xju]

Originally Posted by theSeekerr

Hi,

I've been unable to use Channel 9 on my MythTV box for some time (since the Go! switchover, I guess). This is despite having set the system up from scratch when I updated to 0.22. I've tried the troubleshooting steps in the wiki (substituting the correct frequency of my local 9 multiplex) but there's no change - 9 is detected by the channel scanner, but fails to tune ([LMs] Partial Lock).

I can tune it fine using the same card under Windows.

Thanks,
- Chris

I am having same problem with Channel 9, interestingly(?) I can watch channel 9 in mplayer fine - Trevor

[fref99]

Originally Posted by Oblong Cheese

Hey, thanks!

This is what my settings are:
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Any ideas why it would apparently not work?

Have a look at your AutoExpireExtraSpace 1Gb doesn't look like much

Have a look here http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/dev/377633

Regards
FREF99

[Oblong Cheese]

Anyone else have this MythVideo problem?

I have named all of my TV series to the format "title - [00x00] - subtitle.avi" for example (with correctly incrementing season and episode numbers), but MythVideo does not pick this up for all the files.

It's strange because, usually, the first episode in the folder will be detected and have metadata downloaded fine, but the rest will then show "title - [" as the title of the episode, and not download metadata, indicating that perhaps something isn't being parsed correctly.

Any ideas what I can do to fix this?

Originally Posted by fref99

Have a look at your AutoExpireExtraSpace 1Gb doesn't look like much

Have a look here http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/dev/377633

Regards
FREF99

Hey, thanks!

[HyRax1]

Originally Posted by Oblong Cheese

Any ideas what I can do to fix this?

Press "I", choose "Metadata Options", then "Manually Enter Video Title" (if incorrect), or choose "Download Metadata" to try finding that title as given again.

[Oblong Cheese]

Originally Posted by HyRax1

Press "I", choose "Metadata Options", then "Manually Enter Video Title" (if incorrect), or choose "Download Metadata" to try finding that title as given again.

I have looked into that. I've been poking around my database in phpMyAdmin - any sort of manual effort is too much effort.

I think I'll rename all my files to a more reliably parsed name; it was suggested I drop the square brackets, and see how I go then.

It's just annoying that it works for some files and not others. I don't mind if it's universally broken but inconsistency I can't stand.

[Oblong Cheese]

That was easier than I thought:

find . -iname "*.mkv" -exec rename -v 's/[\]]//' {} \;
find . -iname "*.mkv" -exec rename -v 's/[\[]//' {} \;

(couldn't figure out how to get the regex in rename to do both [ and ] at the same time)

Now I have a new problem, though. I discovered that whenever I apt-get updated, MythVideo wouldn't work anymore. It was because I had at one point selected to use the 0.24 development branch of MythTV in my Mythbuntu control centre, and then changed it back again: updates kept installing mythvideo from that version and not updating from the 0.23+fixes branch.

So, now I am trying to fix that and I think I've made things worse, some packages are 0.23+fixes and some aren't, and my database scheme is for 0.24 as well...

aptitude remove mythtv just removes the metapackage and doesn't take everything else with it, what's the best way to completely uninstall everything MythTV so I can reinstall it again?

Should I not bother and just go back to using 0.24, considering my database schema is at that version too? (1033)

[phreeky82]

Originally Posted by xju

I am having same problem with Channel 9, interestingly(?) I can watch channel 9 in mplayer fine - Trevor

Yes, the tuning part of mythtv is a POS.

It probably needs an offset. IIRC I did an auto-tune with kaffeine which found Ch9, and I then checked the freq it was using - it was out by a little and it turns out that needed an offset is relatively common.

[cleary]

Originally Posted by Oblong Cheese

...
So, now I am trying to fix that and I think I've made things worse, some packages are 0.23+fixes and some aren't, and my database scheme is for 0.24 as well...

aptitude remove mythtv just removes the metapackage and doesn't take everything else with it, what's the best way to completely uninstall everything MythTV so I can reinstall it again?

Should I not bother and just go back to using 0.24, considering my database schema is at that version too? (1033)

Personally, I think you should drop the myth[some distro] and use the core [some distro].
I also think now would be a perfect time to do it - I think it would also teach you a little bit more about handling meta-packages by having to install the whole lot of required myth packages.

[HyDrA]

Originally Posted by xju

I am having same problem with Channel 9, interestingly(?) I can watch channel 9 in mplayer fine - Trevor

This question comes up every so often

There are settings in the backend that control how myth tunes channels, iirc it is something like coarse and fine tuning? Anyway, set it to the other setting if you can work out where it is. I'm not at home so I can't check atm unfortunately.

EDIT: "Set in mythbackend "Always use quick tuning" - it should be one of the tv settings but I can't remember where."

[Oblong Cheese]

Originally Posted by cleary

Personally, I think you should drop the myth[some distro] and use the core [some distro].
I also think now would be a perfect time to do it - I think it would also teach you a little bit more about handling meta-packages by having to install the whole lot of required myth packages.

I initially installed Mythbuntu because I wanted something that would "just work", but then I started tinkering and breaking all of the "just working" parts, so your idea does have some merit.

However, I am not so sure it's broken enough for me to warrant starting over. I'm going to have to play around with the package management, but that'll take less time for me to solve than a complete rebuild.

Edit: OK, so I have turned it back to being 0.24 and changed the repo from "US" to "PPA" (international) and now it's all updated, but I'm having a problem with the frontend not being able to find the backend, which I think is just a port config issue.

Edit2: Rebooted the machine, now it's all working just fine.