I've got it working now! My last post I mis-typed what I was doing. I DID compile and install ffmpeg (after apt-get remove ffmpeg) but only compiled and NOT installed mpeg2dec. I figured there were no ./configure options so what I have installed should be the same. So I went ahead and did apt-get remove mpeg2dec and did make install.
Low and behold I got snow... Not jerky snow but really nice streaming snow. The reason it was snow and not a picture is that I use a irblaster for channel changing. When I selected a channel on the php page it changed the channel on the card. I pulled up the page, selected to stream channel 3 and it was all just beautiful after that!
I am PHP beginner but am going to see if I know enough to make that tweak. For now I can just ssh in and run the channel change script manually.
If I get sometime this weekend I'll stick my instr. on the wiki. One step closer to my ultimate goal: https://www.timekiller.org/carpc/
Thanks so much khrusher! I can't wait to get to work so I can watch tv!

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ASUS A7N266 Micro-ATX Motherboard
Athlon 2200 processor
512K Kingston PC2100 Memory
MicroAtx Case
2 PVR250's w/remote
eVGA e-GeForce mx4000 (64 Ram with Tv/Out (Svideo))
Lite-on DVD cd-rw combo
120 GB Western Digital

congrats, you dont need to make any php changes.

here is all you need....very simple

edit /myth/stream/mythstreamtvLive.sh

make these changes:

1) Remove the part that maps channel to frequency



Replace this line to force tuner card to channel 3




2) before the vlc lines add your command to change channels via blaster

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R5F1 - Dell P4 2.4Ghz 500MB - PVR250 x 2 - GeForce FX 5200 - Onboard sound/NIC 80GB ATA/250GB ATA/400GB SATA

I followed all of the directions in here and everything works fine up until when I try to stream, this shows up in the log:




Any ideas?

Thanks

did you adjust the permissions on the /dev/video devices to allow the user that is running apache to have read access?

maybe you can post more of you log.txt file.

also, are you sure you ran the vlc config with --enable-pvr

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It turns out I forgot to restart apache after adding www-data to the video group.

Now its working, albeit has troubles staying buffered when I'm watching from my local network (anything to do with the no-pvr caching?). I'll look into that tonight.

For me it turns out that the pvr-caching stuff wasn't the issue. In fact whenever I tried to use it vlc would just ignore that command no matter what I put in there. The IRC group didnt' know much about it either. I might be wrong, but from what I gathered the pvr-caching stuff is in the help but really isn't implemented. (Using vlc 8.1) Either way it works for me without it now.

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ASUS A7N266 Micro-ATX Motherboard
Athlon 2200 processor
512K Kingston PC2100 Memory
MicroAtx Case
2 PVR250's w/remote
eVGA e-GeForce mx4000 (64 Ram with Tv/Out (Svideo))
Lite-on DVD cd-rw combo
120 GB Western Digital

I have the issue that if I don't leave it at the absolute minimums (video 128, audio 32, 25% size, 10fps, even setting video size to 100% will fail) for quality, I can never get completely buffered it plays for a few seconds and then keeps trying to buffer, but never succeeds. The CPU on the myth machine never goes about 40% and I'm sure the client machine is good enough and the network is more than enough.

Is this just liveTV or recordings too?

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ASUS A7N266 Micro-ATX Motherboard
Athlon 2200 processor
512K Kingston PC2100 Memory
MicroAtx Case
2 PVR250's w/remote
eVGA e-GeForce mx4000 (64 Ram with Tv/Out (Svideo))
Lite-on DVD cd-rw combo
120 GB Western Digital

I haven't tried streaming recordings since I installed the live tv part, and that acts the same way. I don't know how I could have broken anything in the installation of live stream, because it seems like it would just not work as opposed to have very poor performance.

just wanted to say thanks to "mark" for the knoppmythwiki howto on vlc streaming, it worked great for me first try with knoppmyth R5A16...

thanks!

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First off, thanks for this write up this is a great plugin.
My issue is (of course I have a issue ) in the parseTunerStatus.sh script it has

What is the best way to reverse this as I have a bttv card on /dev/video0 but it is setup as Encoder 2 and my PVR350 is Encoder 1 on /dev/video1.

Thanks!

I would just assume since you know which is the right encoder card, you would just select that one. It's going to open the /dev/video0 or /dev/video1, so as long as you know which card is assigned to which device it shouldn't matter.

By The Way: I just compiled all the notes from this thread for the wiki. Khrusher (and others) did all the hard work. But I am glad the wiki page helped you out!

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ASUS A7N266 Micro-ATX Motherboard
Athlon 2200 processor
512K Kingston PC2100 Memory
MicroAtx Case
2 PVR250's w/remote
eVGA e-GeForce mx4000 (64 Ram with Tv/Out (Svideo))
Lite-on DVD cd-rw combo
120 GB Western Digital

Ahh Ok. I was not realizing that you can pick the card. I figured it would default to /dev/video0.

Thanks I really appreciate the info.

EDIT:
Works great! Only problem I had was I put my WAN IP in the ParseTunerStatus.sh script and the "Device" section was blank. After I realized my mistake and used the local IP everything was great.

Thanks again elgordo123, khrusher & anyone else for the wiki, this was extremely painless for me

while I was helping out someone get the ParseTunerStatus script to work, we figured out that if you need to enter a user / password to get into MythWeb from your LAN, you need to add user / pass to the wget command in the script....man is your friend. I will update wiki when I have more time

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Hi all!

After a lot of blood, sweat and tears, I have it mostly working on Fedora Core 4. One thing I can't quite figure out is, can svideo be done with this on a Hauppauge pvr-250? I have a regular tuner on a second pvr-250 working ok though. I'm hoping not to have to resort to plugging in the cable and tuning channel 3 for it to work with the cable box.

Following the setup from Videolan, I tried to inject a channel=2 into the command line, but that may only be for the software encoders.


Thanks in advance for any help.