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FInally got my EyeTV Hybrid to work in linux, on netbook, only computer with linux on it right now, will have another one soon. Doing dmesg, said Hauppauge WinTV HVR 950, and also said 980 for the product ID, not really sure why. Finally decided to search google for “linux hauppauge wintv hvr 950″, and found these instructions. Well it found some other instructions, which had a comment to that link, that is better because you don’t need mythtv. Don’t want to install mythtv, was doing it to see if the card would work in linux.

From EyeTV Hybrid on Acer Aspire One

Acer Aspire One doesn’t have big enough screen for HD…

If you enabled the 0.20.2 fixes build repository, then run the commands below, before upgrading to the svn version.

sudo rm /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mythbuntu-gutsy.list

First you need to remove the current mythtv packages, otherwise the svn version will conflict with it.

sudo apt-get remove mythtv-*

Now do the below:

Add the apt key for the mythbuntu svn repository.

wget http://mythbuntu.org/files/EEED06D0.gpg && sudo apt-key add EEED06D0.gpg && rm EEED06D0.gpg

Now add the mirror for the mythbuntu svn repository.

echo "deb http://weeklybuilds.mythbuntu.org/mythbuntu-trunk/ubuntu gutsy multiverse universe restricted main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mythbuntu-gutsy.list

or the uk mirror:

echo "deb http://uk.weeklybuilds.mythbuntu.org/mythbuntu-trunk/ubuntu gutsy multiverse universe restricted main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mythbuntu-gutsy.list

Now update your package list.

sudo apt-get update

Now install the mythtv packages.

sudo apt-get install mythtv-*

These instructions may work for the official ubuntu distribution and other ubuntu based distributions.

Some of the instructions above are from mythbuntu’s site.

There’s no need to pay Schedules Direct, to get tv data, an easy solution is to use zap2xml.

First step is simple, go to zap2xml’s site, and download it, and then follow the instructions on there, quoted below too.

Get a free Zap2it.com TV Listings account.
Set Zap2it.com preferences:
Check “Show six hour grid” option.
Check “Show only my favorites in the grid” option.
Select all channels you want in your grid by adding them to the “My Favorites” column.
Run zap2xml with the userEmail and password options of your account.
Optionally set up a cron job to run it every day.

After you do the above, open mythtv setup, and add a new source, and make the grabber no grabber. Then go to the channel editor and remove all the channels.
Read more…

No more windows or sabayon on it, I wiped it clean, and put mythbuntu on it. Finally got the picture to look right, made the screen resolution 640×480. Now I only need an ir blaster, or a tuner with a ir blaster, so it can change the channel on the cable box. With comcast you can tell it to read a show, all it does is change the channel for you, but then you also have to set it to read in mythtv. Kind of a pain, setting it to record two times. My tuner did have a ir blaster, but the crappy cable broke. Kind of want a pchdtv card, it supports digital tv. Only problem is I don’t have any money, so I won’t be buying anything.

If you want free tv guide data for mythtv, then you can follow my how to here.

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If your getting errors like the below, then most likely you set your DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH, which causes a lot of problems.

dyld: Symbol not found: __cg_jpeg_resync_to_restart
  Referenced from: /System/Library/Frameworks/ApplicationServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/ImageIO.framework/Versions/A/ImageIO
  Expected in: /opt/local/lib/libJPEG.dylib
 
Trace/BPT trap

I set the DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH path, as the macports install instructions said to do so, or at least it use to.
I was trying to compile mythtv and I got an error like the above, when it was running moc, which is provided by qt. That program nor some other programs will work if you set that variable. The solution is simple, comment out the “export DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib:$QTDIR/lib”, in your .bash_profile folder, open a terminal and type nano .bash_profile, in your home directory.

Then run the below command:

export DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=""

Or just restart the terminal after you comment out the “export DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib:$QTDIR/lib” line in your .bash_profile file.
If you don’t have a .bash_profile file, then it might be .profile.

Oh yeah and I never got mythtv to compile on leopard, I gave up. But to save yourself some trouble, you can download a qt3 intel installer here. Which was compiled on leopard, it will be installed in /opt/local. You will probably need to set the variable QTDIR to /opt/local, so you can compile programs that need qt3.

export QTDIR=/opt/local

You can also add that to your .bash_profile file.

I found the information about DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH here. Google actually found that for me, thanks google.

If you don’t want to use the installer for qt3, then you can find information on compiling qt3 here.

Update
Download the fixed package here. That package should work.

Update 12/14/07
You can download a pkg installer here. It doesn’t contain my working config files though, you can find my working config files here. Fuppes will be installed into /opt/local/bin, so run /opt/local/bin/fuppes to start.

Fuppes is a free UPnP media server, which can stream to the xbox 360 and other devices too. No need to pay for some program called “connect360″. You can compile it yourself, or download the intel binary, sorry powerpc users, I didn’t cross compile.

Download Fuppes-SVN-549 intel binary OS X (Tested on my mac only, running leopard, no guarantee it will work. Use at your own risk.)

The source code has been edited, so you can go to youipaddress:port/presentation/options.html?db=rebuildv, which will rebuild your virtual folders, it already had the ability to update the database or rebuild the database by the web interface, I just added support to rebuild the virtual folders from the web interface.

The main reason was so I could add the following to a shell script:

cd /tmp && wget myip:port/presentation/options.html?db=rebuild
cd /tmp && wget myip:port/presentation/options.html?db=rebuildv

Which will obviously do the same thing as if you pointed your web browser there.

Download PresentationHandler.cpp (The only file I modified.)

If you make a cronjob to run the above commands, then you will most likely want to set a port number in fuppes.cfg, so it doesn’t change every time you restart it.

For those who can’t read my included readme file, I copied and pasted it here.

Install

Double click install, the install script will copy everything in bin/ to /usr/local/bin and everything in lib/ to /usr/local/lib.

Edit vfolder.cfg, and then copy it to ~/.fuppes, ~/.fuppes will be created the first time you run fuppes, or just do mkdir ~/.fuppes, vfolder.cfg isn’t required by all devices. If you don’t want to use the xbox 360 virtual folder configuration, then change

<vfolder_layout device="Xbox 360" enabled="true">

to

<vfolder_layout device="Xbox 360" enabled="false">

Then change

<vfolder_layout device="default" enabled="false">

to

<vfolder_layout device="default" enabled="true">

You don’t need to copy the included fuppes.cfg, as it will create one when you open it. It is already configured to be working with the xbox 360 though. You might need to put your local ip address in between

<interface></interface>

Also you will most likely need to change the shared objects, to whatever folders you want to share, you can add as many

<dir></dir>

as you want.

After you have it configured you can run it with fuppes, then type r, and then after that is done type v, if you need virtual folders. The source has been modified so you can go to youipaddress:port/presentation/options.html?db=rebuildv, which will rebuild the virtual folders, you need to do that after you update, or rebuild the database.

The script was modified so I could add to a shell script on my mythtv box, to automatically update the database, after it exports the show to the xvid format.

youipaddress:port/presentation/options.html?db=rebuild
youipaddress:port/presentation/options.html?db=rebuildv

Nothing will show in your browser when going to youipaddress:port/presentation/options.html?db=rebuildv, if you look in the terminal you will see that it is working, unless you don’t have a vfolders.cfg file in ~/.fuppes.

Uninstall

Double click uninstall, which will delete everything it installed, but it won’t delete your settings by fuppes, you can delete it manually by running in a terminal “rm -fr ~/.fuppes”

I finally uploaded mythfrontend 0.20.2. I have a crappy upload speed, so it took about 25 minutes. This is the universal binary from here. Hopefully it’ll download faster from my site. Don’t link directly to the file, if you do anti leech will be turned on.

Download MythFrontend-.20.2-Universal.dmg

Update
Hot linking has been disabled. Also moved the file. Link has been updated.

Update
You can find svn packages here. For intel only unless otherwise stated in the filename. If you’re using leopard, your remote should work in all of those svn packages.

To use the svn versions your backend will have to be using a svn version too. If you’re using mythbuntu then you can follow these instructions for upgrading to the svn version. Might work with the official ubuntu too.

Mythtv release-0-21-fixes (Intel only.)

Now its $20 for one year! Damn they must really want me to sign up. You can also pay by google checkout, which is pretty cool. Didn’t take long for the price to be $20 a year, which was their goal. Looks like they succeeded very fast, thank you to all those who signed up at the beginning, and helped make it $20 a year, for cheap bastards like me.

Schedules Direct

Update
Upgraded mythtv, downloaded the source from mythtv.org, easier then trying to figure out emerge. Emerge just compiles it anyways, but usually it gets errors.

The price was lowered to $15 for 6 months on the 13th. Won’t do me any good signing up, because I have no way of receiving the data, can’t update mythtv very easily in sabayon linux.

Schedules Direct

# Live boot is now 3 times faster thanks to our improved OpenGL configuration tool
# Beagle only runs on-demand
# Portage has been updated with performance patches
# Entropy stack has been updated to the latest SVN (intended as technology preview)
- Dependencies resolution code completed
- Removal dependencies resolution code in testing (not completed)
- etc-update alike tool needs to be written
- Pre/post install/remove scripting functions need to be written
- Branches support need a rewrite
- Multi source download support completed
- Query tools almost completed
- Code split is on the way
- Database API is almost complete (and will be extended with extra functionalities)
- 3rd party interface structured
- ETA? End of the year.
# Installer updates:
- Vim is on the Core Install along with groff (man pages issue fixed)
- Better release handling
- Initial Entropy integration
# Bluetooth stack updated
# Ext4 support improved (new e2fsprogs)
# ATi video drivers updated to 8.40.4

Damn another new version of sabayon linux. Was released the other day. Don’t think I’ll update, because its a pain. Need to update mythtv, so I can eventually use the new schedules direct service.

Sabayon Linux 3.4 Revision F

Nice its going to cost money for the replacement. I’m not paying, I don’t have to pay for zap2it, so why should I have to pay for their service? Guess that means I have to manually set stuff to record. Which I probably won’t do, so I won’t be recording tv. Will save me a lot of time when the new sabayon linux version comes out, won’t have to emerge mythtv again. I lied, I probably will pay for it, or ask for $15 to pay for it.

Link

x86_64
split -d -b 2000000000 SabayonLinux-x86_64-3.4a.iso sabayon.new.0
xdelta patch sl-x86_64-3.4a-to-3.4e-0.xdelta sabayon.new.000 new.000
xdelta patch sl-x86_64-3.4a-to-3.4e-1.xdelta sabayon.new.001 new.001
xdelta patch sl-x86_64-3.4a-to-3.4e-2.xdelta sabayon.new.002 new.002
cat new.00* > SabayonLinux-x86_64-3.4e.iso
md5sum SabayonLinux-x86_64-3.4e.iso
72dc873baef75200ed7eba97d6638d5b SabayonLinux-x86_64-3.4e.iso

x86
split -d -b 2000000000 SabayonLinux-x86-3.4a.iso sabayon.new.0
xdelta patch sl-x86-3.4a-to-3.4e-0.xdelta sabayon.new.000 new.000
xdelta patch sl-x86-3.4a-to-3.4e-1.xdelta sabayon.new.001 new.001
xdelta patch sl-x86-3.4a-to-3.4e-2.xdelta sabayon.new.002 new.002
cat new.00* > SabayonLinux-x86-3.4e.iso
md5sum SabayonLinux-x86-3.4e.iso
e902da21299736f52b075af58f0dc91c SabayonLinux-x86-3.4e.iso

On the first command still. You can find the xdelta files here. You have to have the 3.4a iso already though.

Found that from the release post. They didn’t say what all those commands did, so I had no idea, that I could use them to make a new iso. Farther down in the thread it says what it does. You can download those files from some of the other mirrors too, just click the xdelta folder. Still takes some time though, just not as long as downloading the iso again. Unless you have a really slow hard drive, then it might not matter.

Update
Burning the iso right now.

Update
The upgrade uninstalled everything. Which really sucks, now I have to reinstall mythtv. Now I Know not to upgrade. I don’t think it deleted the database files, hopefully it didn’t. Don’t want to re setup mythtv too. I think the upgrade was worth it though, now opening tabs in firefox doesn’t have an annoying delay.

Just watched the video and it was sweet, and now I want the game. And that was only a demo, and it already looks bad ass. It’ll be cool if online play has video support, so when you see the enemy’s face talking to you, you can have your face there, so you can talk shit to the enemy. Hmm but I don’t like rebooting into windows, and plus if I’m in windows all the time I won’t be able to record tv, with mythtv. Wait won’t need to by then, because zap2it’s service is being discontinued. But still I like keeping my computer in linux. Its coming out in 2008, so maybe by then I’ll have a mac. To the post before this, it looks like I’ll have to get a mac with an intel processor, since you don’t have a choice, I don’t have anything against intel. I just don’t like it when people laugh and say AMD’s new processor’s will be slower, as you have no proof what so ever. Other then being an intel fan boy. Don’t want a laptop with vista on it either, also rather have a macbook. I won’t be getting a mac desktop, it would be a laptop. Even know I’m already getting a laptop, thats just to hold me off until I have enough for a mac book, plus if I get a macbook and it breaks, and its under warranty, then I’ll have to get it fixed. Probably need a windows laptop too, just not vista, vista is a resource hog. And microsoft has to many versions of vista.

Download StarCraft 2 video

To download it you have to use some blizzard download program, which works fine in wine, there’s also a mac version. If you look under preferences, you’ll notice the option to disable peer to peer downloading. They could just put a torrent file up or both, as I guess some people aren’t smart enough to know what program to use with a torrent file. But I guess its easier for them to just have one program. But then people who can’t use peer to peer program’s couldn’t download it, if there was only a bittorrent. The download was fast though, so I don’t care. But for those without wine, I guess they’ll have to search around for the video. I can’t upload the video, as I don’t have enough bandwidth, and I don’t want to get sued. Guess you might be able to find it on youtube, but the quality won’t be as good as the download.

If you want the mobile version of mythweb on your ds, then check this out.

If you’re using another mobile device, that you want the mobile version to show on then do the below:

Read more…

Now I want a mac again, as the new leopard is cool looking. The time machine is kind of cool, but then I’d need an external drive. Just watched all the videos. Won’t be getting a mac for a while though, plus I’m waiting until leopard comes out. Oh yeah I’m in windows because linux froze, I think safari is faster then firefox. Plus I wanted to watch little bush on the t.v up stairs, tversity in vmware server, wasn’t working. Works fine in windows. Will have to boot back into linux, as I like the commercial flagging that mythtv has. If mythtv was for windows, then I wouldn’t boot back into it.

“Why build a mythtv pvr?”
Said that it was a hassle to do. Which is a lie. The ad might not be blocked yet, but it will be eventually. Mythtv is easy as hell to setup, if you can’t thats sad. In ubuntu at least it does everything for you, you just select the packages you want. You don’t need a how to setup mythtv, its easy, just type “mythtv-setup” in a command prompt, no you don’t need to be root. The reason to build one is its free, easy and open source. Probably better support then some payed bastard.
Hmm mythtv can skip commercials too, you dumb fuck ad. It can do more then your pile of shit software. Also your software is probably for windows only. Who cares, about payed shitty software. Use gb-pvr in windows, which is free. Get over yourself ad, mythtv is not a lot of work, at least not in ubuntu feisty.

I was messing around with the date on my computer, was testing something. Well mythtv thought it already recorded heroes, so it wasn’t recording it. But I’m lucky as it doesn’t exactly start right at 9, as it shows a preview of the previous episode. Well I saw white text on the screen on the bottom, the credits or whatever, it was getting back from the first commercials, so I recorded some of the commercials. The show actually starts after the first set of commercials. So I’m lucky now my mom won’t be mad or anything. Though I will have to boot into windows to stream it to the 360, since vmware and tversity don’t work together. Won’t be upgrading tversity in windows either. As it works, and I don’t want to break it.

Instead of transcoding while it streams it, I will convert the files first. You can do it easily with tversity. Go to the library and go over the top left. Make sure you select the video file before converting.

That is running in my cache, not running tversity right now. Thats why you only see a black area.
You still have to do ln -s xxx.nuv xxx.avi

Streaming files to the xbox 360 in linux

Update
It broke, can’t convert anything anymore, with tversity. Didn’t do anything.

All you have to do is open synaptic and search for mythtv, select the packages you want. Install it, then in a terminal run mythtv-setup. You don’t really need a how to. At least I didn’t, it wasn’t hard to setup.

Well my on board ethernet isn’t supported. Also my sound card isn’t supported. Not going to download freebsd, cause the release notes don’t say its supported. Freebsd has worse support for hardware then linux, wonder how hard it would to get wireless working. Probably wouldn’t work either.

Update
I got kubuntu working, mythtv is working too. Also have wine working, steam is installed, decrypting files now. I did some tweaks to speed up ubuntu or kubuntu, same thing.

How to speed up ubuntu edgy

I didn’t do a server install though. I rather have a whole bunch of crap I don’t need.