Not sure if this has been mentioned, but I'd like to see /myth default to the XFS file system for installs instead of EXT3. I think we can universally agree that it's a better file system for what we are doing.

Ether..

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I would also like to vote for the XFS file system.

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ASUS M4A78-EM w/8400GS 4G RAM pcHDTV 3000 + PVR500 (1045), 1TB, 250 & 320. Iguana IR USB (running R6)
Frontend_1
Asus M2NPV-VM - 1GB RAM - 40 GB Hard Disk - StreamZap
Frontend_2
Dragon 1.0 w/ 2G RAM - 40 GB Hard Disk StreamZap

/myth will be what you want it to be...

I'd like to see the following feature/program added to R6:

Linux kernel webcams Driver GSPCA / SPCA5xx

I think the addition of feature/program would be beneficial because:

it's support of 200+ usb webcams. We have motion in myth but no cam support that I have found and no working source tree to build it.

Feature/program X can be found at(please provide a link):

http://mxhaard.free.fr/


Program X has the following dependencies and can be found(please provide a link):

a complete kernel to build source, headders dont' work. (sorrie)

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2 @ 320G sata2 drives LVM,
pvr-500mce, Plextor ConvertX, MSMCE New remote,
iguanaIR USB IR Transceiver

Thanks for the link! Works fine w/ the kernel headers here. Expect it in the next release. Let me know (PM) if you'd like to test.

Cecil,

How about one more 'tweak?'

Could the web pages be globally changed to show the server 'hostname?' I'm now running THREE systems and it would be nice to have the hostname in the title of the page, and displayed next to the "KnoppMyth Rxxxx" in the dark blue header.

Changing the pages to either use php or ssi would end up having to mod every page. I'm not sure what you would prefer.

Here's the php code that I found, but the page needs to be index.php.

Find in index.html:

change to:


Then rename the page index.php and load it up in your browser.

This probably isn't the most secure way to do this, but I just learned a bit of php hacking in the process of asking and showing the example.

I'd like to see the following feature/program added to R6:

A script/and or addon to mythtv that automatically converts HiDef mpeg recordings (like those from HDHomeRun) to a StandardDef mpeg format (with mp2 audio - not ac3). Ideally, this should be done (before?) commercial detection, etc (or done in a way that comm skip would work).

I think the addition of feature/program would be beneficial because:

I use mvpmc (http://mvpmc.org) boxes for my front ends. They do great with SD mpeg shows (like those from PVR-x50, 500 cards), but they can not handle High Def mpegs. They also can't handle ac3 audio. The digital signal of a converted HD has no line noise (as the analog SD recordings often do), and the SD versions still look and sound great and take up waaay less space on disk.

I've seen posts about settings that already exist in mythtv that automatically transcode HD mpegs down to SD mpegs, but so far I've not found a way to configure these settings to also convert the audio streams to something mvpmc can handle (mp2 or mp3 I think).

If someone has suggestions of a better way to accomplish this, please let me know and I'll start a new topic, otherwise, it'd be really great to be able to easily set this up in R6.

Dan

I think the solution to your request is XVID. It works very well on the Mediamvp. The quality is excellent and the size of the file is outstanding.

I would think something along the lines of this would be perfect for the mediamvp

624x352
Bit rate 132kbps
MPEG 3 audio

Frame Rate 23 frames/sec
Data rate 137kbps
Video Sample Size 12bit
Video Compression XVID

You need an app to do the conversion. Thus, Nuvexport needs tighter integration within MythTV. I think this will happen in the next release Myth .21. This would allow recordings to be saved in a much more compact format. XVID is superior to MPEG4 from my perspective is a good tradeoff.

TuxOnIce

I would like to see TuxOnIce in R6. This is a S4 suspend to Hard disk or a replacement for Suspend2. They appear to have a lot of regular updates on the site and have stable patch versions for for 2.6.22, 2.6.23, and 2.6.24. There is a kernel patch require before the program can be installed. http://www.tuxonice.net/

Features
http://www.tuxonice.net/features
Wake alarm support -
Unloadable modules when not in use
Switch poweroff method while hibernating
The ability to cancel a suspend cycle (during suspending) by pressing escape
Works out of the box for most configurations. ( this sounds appealing)
Nice user interface (GenSplash compatible)
Speed and reliability - Software Suspend has been extensively tested in a variety of configurations over many months.
It is not guaranteed to be perfect, but bugs found will be hunted and fixed quickly.

Under MythTV MCE remotes there is a procedure to enable your S3/S4 suspended machine to wake from the remote power on button.
http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/MCE_Remote
Now that my machine is running APCI Wakeup to save the environment I need a way to bring it back to life from the remote power button.

TVBox

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I'd like to see some change to the mythtv user's UID/GID. I feel this would make it easier to integrate KM into existing home networks.
I'm not talking about scripts or whatever to actually perform the change. Only a choice to change the IDs when the mythtv user is (re)created. I'm thinking new install should have something like "Do you want to override mythtv user's UID/GID? (hint: 'No' is the safe answer)" On upgrade a grep of /etc/passwd on the root partition could extract the UID/GID and be honored during the upgrade.

I think the default UID/GID for new installations should be 1000/1000 (or higher) While far from standard, other distros set an imaginary barrier on UIDs UIDs below the barrier are "daemon" UIDs; those above are "user" UIDs. Only "users" show up on the login screen.

I find setting up NFS Sharing, particularly for /myth/video to have more headaches than it needs to, particularly because KM's selection of UID's conflicts with other distro's. If I mount /myth remotely on my ubuntu boxen my videos appear to be owned by syslog/dhcp unless I go through the bother of setting up all_squash and anonuid etc.

If I remember this was addressed a few years ago but I'll throw it up again for consideration. I am a big fan of Zoneminder instead of Motion. If it could be incorporated with stability that would be nice.

Jack, I seem to remember posting some code quite a while back to change the UID/GID and do all the necessary fixups. Memory says that this came up as an upgrade issue at one point, either when Cecil changed the mythtv user, or when users created an extra mythtv account with different IDs. It could easily be recycled into a script for doing what you want.

Just wanted to respond to the above post from RacerX. Maybe the stock MediaMVP running against the Windoze server software supports XVid, but the mvpmc (which is an Open Source, Linux based Media Client that runs on the mvp hardware) certainly does not support XVid. In fact, I believe the Haupaugge Winz software has to actually transcode formats like XVid on the fly to a format supported by the mvp's hardware decoder chip (ie: mpeg2 w/mp3 audio) before sending the data over the net to the mvp. As I don't use Winz, nor the Hauppauge Winz software, XVid doesn't solve the problem for me.

I don't mean to stray from the purpose of the overall topic - but an easy way to transcode HD down to SD mpeg2/mp3 audio would be a great benefit to mvpmc (http://mvpmc.org) users. If such a feature is to be built into myth .21, fantastic! If not, it would be nice to add the ability to KnoppMyth.

View Picture / Artwork files in Webmin
In Webmin File manager there is a button called "Preview" to look at picture / artwork files. When I find a picture file and use the button this is the reply.

.gif file type
Error Message -- The command giftopnm needed to scale this image is not installed
/usr/bin/giftopnm
Debian Package name --- netpbm
http://packages.debian.org/etch/netpbm

.jpg file type
Error Message -- The command djpeg needed to scale this image is not installed
/usr/bin/djpeg
Debian Package name --- libjpeg-progs
http://packages.debian.org/etch/libjpeg-progs

.png file type
Error Message -- The command pngtopnm needed to scale this image is not installed
/usr/bin/pngtopnm
Debian Package name --- netpbm
http://packages.debian.org/etch/netpbm

Note: .gif and .png take the same package
TVBox

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LinHES R8.6.1

I would like to propose this as a feature request/bugfix:

For the next version of Knoppmyth, please add a TERM=vt100; export TERM (or some other sane terminal) to the /etc/init.d/mythtv_backend startup script.

This will allow the myth2ipod jobs to run out of the box. (This doesn't work with a vanilla R5F27 install now.)