tag:www.nabble.com,2006:forum-15552Nabble - MythTV2008-11-21T07:12:15ZFrom the <a href="http://www.mythtv.org/" target="_top" rel="nofollow">MythTV Homepage</a> ... MythTV is a homebrew PVR project that Isaac Richards has been working on in his spare time. It's been under heavy development for almost four years, and is now quite useable and featureful.tag:www.nabble.com,2006:post-20623066Mac frontend AC3 / SPDIF bug2008-11-21T07:12:15Z2008-11-21T07:12:15ZjunglecatHi!
<br><br>I do have a problem with my two Intel Mac based Mythtv backends and I hope you can help me OR direct me to the right direction ;-)
<br><br>In short: Everything works ok, except when I do enable AC3 to SPDIF passthrough. Then the fronend has a deadlock in 90% of the cases when there is an actual AC3 stream.
<br><br>The deadlock is so bad that the sound is completely gone from the mac and I do have to reboot.
<br><br>Any ideas?
<br><br>Thanks!!!<p>From forum: <a href="http://www.nabble.com/mythtv-users-f15550.html" embed="fixTarget[15550]" target="_top" >mythtv-users</a></p>tag:www.nabble.com,2006:post-20557436can anyone tell me what is good hardware?2008-11-18T03:02:41Z2008-11-18T03:02:41Zcompudude86hello,
<br>I am looking to build a mythtv HD setup, but im getting a bit confused when it comes time to pick an HD video out card. I want something simple, something that I can use 1080i on, HDMI (even with an HDMI-DVI adapter) and wont hit me in the wallet as I'm kinda strapped for cash. oh, and it has to be AGP or PCI, as thats the only hardware I've got laying around here. anyone have any hints for me? thanks in advance!<p>From forum: <a href="http://www.nabble.com/mythtv-users-f15550.html" embed="fixTarget[15550]" target="_top" >mythtv-users</a></p>tag:www.nabble.com,2006:post-20318941configuring lirc for vlc2008-11-04T01:37:05Z2008-11-04T01:37:05ZnorthernsoulmanHi,
I've read countless posts on this subject but as yet have failed to get the results I want!
I'm using vlc to play DVDs in Mythdora 5.0 (basically because it plays ALL my DVDs reliably - wish I could get xine to work but that's another story).
I've edited my /home/mythtv/.vlc/vlcrc file to have the line control=lirc
I've added button assignments to my /home/mythtv/.mythtv/lircrc - for example:
# Pause playback
begin
prog = vlc
button = PAUSE
repeat = 3
config = key-play-pause
end
# Seek forward 10 seconds
begin
prog = vlc
button = Forward
repeat = 3
config = key-jump+10sec
end
HOWEVER, only "play" "pause" "stop" and the navigation buttons in a DVD menu (up, down, left, right) will actually do anything.
I simply can't get fast forward, rewind, bookmarks, chapter jumps etc etc to work from my remote......I'm using a mceusb remote with all the buttons mapped out in my lircd.conf - and everything works fine when using xine to playback recordings.
Any help appreciated - thanks
:O )
Simon
<p>From forum: <a href="http://www.nabble.com/mythtv-users-f15550.html" embed="fixTarget[15550]" target="_top" >mythtv-users</a></p>tag:www.nabble.com,2006:post-20280230Re: Mythmusic background player stopping2008-11-01T06:12:45Z2008-11-01T06:12:45ZDataStream<br><blockquote class="quote light-black dark-border-color"><div class="quote light-border-color">
<div class="quote-author" style="font-weight: bold;">enigma2176 wrote:</div>
<div class="quote-message">I run Myth 0.21 on my carputer. I am attempting to use the background play feature in MythMusic to play mp3s while the display is showing my GPS software. I have an entry in my main menu that launches the GPS software. If I start the music playing and exit MythMusic telling it to continue playing then select the GPS menu item, the music will continue to play only for the current song, when it tries to switch to the next track the player stops playing. I think it has to do with the informational overlay that the player tries to put on the screen, if I exit the GPS software the player will overlay the information for the next track and continue playing.
<br><br>Has anyone else seen an issue like this with the new background player? Are there any workarounds for this issue, or maybe just a way to disable the information overlay? Any help is greatly appreciated.
</div>
</div></blockquote>
I have found this:
<br><a href="http://cvs.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/5008#comment:3" target="_top" rel="nofollow">http://cvs.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/5008#comment:3</a><br><br>Can anybody tell me how to install this patch?<p>From forum: <a href="http://www.nabble.com/mythtv-users-f15550.html" embed="fixTarget[15550]" target="_top" >mythtv-users</a></p>tag:www.nabble.com,2006:post-20038092Re: pcHDTV-5500 reception versus WinTV-HVR-1800?2008-10-17T11:05:39Z2008-10-17T11:05:39Zw0wieMultipath in TV receivers can be a bitch to fix. Sometimes the BETTER tuner will have a worse signal!
<br><br>You can try a pad in the antenna line to knock down the signal if that's the case, usually about 3dB will do it, but a best solution will be a directional antenna with at least 3 elements. Most outdoor TV antennas have a whole bunch of elements and UHF and all that, but they are all basically the same. You don't need a huge one if you are withing 20 miles of the transmitter. Indoor rabbit ears and amplified or external amplifiers are worthless in multipath situations and often make things worse. Those little -plastic satellite dish looking antennas that sit on your TV may impress the babes, but they really suck for multipath.
<br><br>Basically, if you have ghosting on analog, you will have a broken digital signal and need a directional antenna to get rid of the reflected signals.
<br>Sometimes you need to rotate that antenna around until the analog ghosting disappears and then the digital will lock right in. Of course once analog goes away, we won't be able to do that!!
<br><br>John
<br>(W0WIE)<p>From forum: <a href="http://www.nabble.com/mythtv-users-f15550.html" embed="fixTarget[15550]" target="_top" >mythtv-users</a></p>tag:www.nabble.com,2006:post-18701491Re: DVD audio is really low and with Alsa:surround51 no audio when playing Live TV2008-07-28T15:50:19Z2008-07-28T15:50:19ZMacbethThx for Help guys
<br><br>Ok i tryed to remove alsa.conf.... but audio stopped working... so i reloaded my old alsa.conf and changed the max decoded audio channels inside mythtv from 5.1 to stereo and this was enough to fix the problem with live tv.
<br><br>About the dvd low volume output i found this :
<br><br><a href="http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-230837.html" target="_top" rel="nofollow">http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-230837.html</a><br><br>I don't know if this can be fixed ... maybe i will try with an external player<p>From forum: <a href="http://www.nabble.com/mythtv-users-f15550.html" embed="fixTarget[15550]" target="_top" >mythtv-users</a></p>tag:www.nabble.com,2006:post-18687507DVD audio is really low and with Alsa:surround51 no audio when playing Live TV2008-07-28T03:17:59Z2008-07-28T03:17:59ZMacbethHi all,
<br>I'm using mythubuntu and after a lot of work I finally managed to get my own mythtv work.
<br>I need to solve 2 issues... both related to audio.
<br><br>The first problem is that the DVD audio is really very low compared to my videos , live TV recordings or music (about 50% softer). I do different try with alsamixer, but without find any solution (every channel appear to be settled correctly).
<br><br>there is a special option to increase the dvd audio output of the internal player ?
<br><br><br><br>The second question is harder.
<br>I want use my computer to do the decoding of DTS and AC3 audio info, because I don't have any external decoder (I'm using a cheap 5.1 kit from logitech and embedded 7.1 sound card).
<br><br>For this reason I'm using the Alsa:Surround51 audio output in general configuration of my mythfrontend with max decoding channels = 5.1
<br><br>For a strange reason when I use this audio output the Live TV audio stop working (music and videos are ok)... is a frontend issue, because if I record something and I change the audio output to Alsa:default I can listen the record.
<br><br>The TV card capture the audio with the line-in input of my sound card.
<br><br>Thanks to anyone that can help me.
<br><br><br><br><br><br><p>From forum: <a href="http://www.nabble.com/mythtv-users-f15550.html" embed="fixTarget[15550]" target="_top" >mythtv-users</a></p>tag:www.nabble.com,2006:post-18438991SPDIF audio drop-out problems...2008-07-14T00:49:05Z2008-07-14T00:49:05ZjimsiffI'm having problems with my SPDIF connection to my receiver. When I watch DVDs, archived videos, and rarely Live and Recorded TV in Myth, I get random audio drop outs. I can see my receiver switching from DD5.1 to DPLII if the signal drops for longer than a few seconds.
<br><br>I'm running Mythbuntu 8.04. I'm using a Biostar TN720 mobo w/ AMD 5000+, a SPDIF header adapter mounted to an expansion slot cover, and a Blue Jeans Cable 6' 75 ohm coax digital audio cable connected to a Pioneer VSX-54TX receiver. I don't think the SPDIF connection is bad, because if I swtich xine to use stereo over SPDIF instead of AC3 DD5.1, audio is clean.
<br><br>Any help, tips, or troubleshooting rsources would be greatly appreciated. This is driving me nuts, and I won't cancel DirecTV until the audio glitches are cleaned up.
<br><br>Thanks,
<br><br>Jim<p>From forum: <a href="http://www.nabble.com/mythtv-users-f15550.html" embed="fixTarget[15550]" target="_top" >mythtv-users</a></p>tag:www.nabble.com,2006:post-18242855Video Corruption in MythTV 0.212008-07-02T10:32:04Z2008-07-02T10:32:04ZLoonChildSince upgrading to MythTV 0.21 from 0.20, I'm getting video corruption when watching TV or recording. It mainly happens on a few channels (e.g. BBC One).
<br><br>Checking with tzap, I can see that there are fairly regular dropouts on the FE_LOCK, and variations in the SNR and Signal Strength. So it looks like a bad signal. The odd thing is that this only happened since I upgraded to MythTV 0.21.
<br><br>I'm using a Freecom DVB-T USB stick, firmware version dvb-usb-wt220u-02.fw. AFAIK, this is the same as before the upgrade.
<br><br>Any suggestions?
<br><br>Many thanks
<br><br>Stefan<p>From forum: <a href="http://www.nabble.com/mythtv-users-f15550.html" embed="fixTarget[15550]" target="_top" >mythtv-users</a></p>tag:www.nabble.com,2006:post-18207408Myth frontend with linux thin client2008-06-30T18:11:24Z2008-06-30T18:11:24Zear9mrnHi,
<br><br>I would like to build a thin client frontend similar to what is shown in the linux mce google video here. <a href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2176025602905109829&hl=en" target="_top" rel="nofollow">http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2176025602905109829&hl=en</a><br><br>I am not interested in all the automation stuff so I was planning on using mythbuntu or just install frontend to whatever thin client distro I get. The primary objective of this will be small, quiet and attached to a nice flat screen tv to watch tv and films, not even interested in HD at this point either.
<br><br>The box that seems to be mentioned often is this one. <a href="http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en/sm/WF05a/12454-12454-321959-338927-89307-3634729.html" target="_top" rel="nofollow">http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en/sm/WF05a/12454-12454-321959-338927-89307-3634729.html</a> It's nice and also can be attached to the back of a tv although a little more than I was wanting to spend.
<br><br>First question I have is is this suitable for a front end machine ? If so has anyone else had experience with it ? What was the picture and sound quality like ?
<br><br>Also are there any alternatives out there that are a) more appropriate and/or b) cheaper ?
<br><br>Many thanks,
<br><br>Pete.
<br><p>From forum: <a href="http://www.nabble.com/mythtv-users-f15550.html" embed="fixTarget[15550]" target="_top" >mythtv-users</a></p>tag:www.nabble.com,2006:post-18119965is there a way to prevent LiveTV stuff from appearing in UPNP2008-06-25T12:23:07Z2008-06-25T12:23:07ZOuldHi everyone,
<br><br>I recently upgraded my Myth box to the latest 0.21-fixes branch, I was previously running 0.20 Trunk. After updating I noticed that when using a UPNP client that the LiveTV recordings are showing up in the UPNP list under Recordings. I don't watch much LiveTV and if I do I don't normally watch full shows usually I am testing something out or just watching for a couple minutes so I really don't want the LiveTV stuff to show up in the UPNP lists. I really only want my actual scheduled recordings to show up. I don't recall this happening in the older version but maybe I just never noticed. Is there a way to achieve this? I looked through all the settings pages and didn't really see anything relevant. FWIW, these "LiveTV" recordings don't show up in the MythFrontend when on the "Watch Recordings" screen.
<br><br>Thanks for any help.
<br><br>Kevin<p>From forum: <a href="http://www.nabble.com/mythtv-users-f15550.html" embed="fixTarget[15550]" target="_top" >mythtv-users</a></p>tag:www.nabble.com,2006:post-18027491Re: LIRC and MacOS X2008-06-20T04:11:57Z2008-06-20T04:11:57ZrwkSam,
<br><br>Would you be so kind as to post your lirc enabled port somewhere it can be downloaded?
<br><br>Thanks,
<br>rwk
<br><br><blockquote class="quote light-black dark-border-color"><div class="quote light-border-color">
<div class="quote-author" style="font-weight: bold;">Sam Jacobs wrote:</div>
<div class="quote-message shrinkable-quote">Hi,
<br><br>On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 8:10 PM, Craig Treleaven <ctreleaven@cogeco.ca> wrote:
<br>> Hi:
<br>>
<br>> I'd like (1) to test LIRC on the Mac (2) but I'm having trouble
<br>> building a version of the frontend with Lirc support. The problem is
<br>> that MacPorts (3) installed Lirc under /opt/local/ and
<br>> osx-packager.pl expects it to be somewhere else.
<br>>
<br>> If I understand src/myth-svn/mythtv/configure correctly (which is
<br>> doubtful), it ensures that the Lirc client, libraries and header
<br>> files are all present before compiling in Lirc support. How do I
<br>> tell it to try /opt/local/ ?
<br>>
<br>>
<br>> Craig
<br><br>Just thought I should let you know, since you were kind enough to post
<br>in my thread, that last night I managed to build MythFrontend.app with
<br>lirc support! I don't know whether you've had a chance to test your
<br>build, but my build works - so it certainly is possible to make it
<br>work.
<br><br>Sam
<br><br>--
<br>Sam Jacobs on MythTV 0.21, UK Freeview, EIT-only EPG
<br>mythbox: BE+FE, Mythbuntu 8.04, Athlon XP2000+@1.6GHz, 512MB RAM,
<br>nVidia GeForce 4MX (proprietary driver)
<br>tuners on mythbox: Nebula DigiTV PCI, Elgato EyeTV for DTT Stick
<br>(Hauppauge Nova-T USB Stick in disguise!)
<br>smbx: FE, Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, Macbook Intel Core Duo@2.0GHz, 2GB RAM
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<p>From forum: <a href="http://www.nabble.com/mythtv-users-f15550.html" embed="fixTarget[15550]" target="_top" >mythtv-users</a></p>tag:www.nabble.com,2006:post-17735282Deleting of Video files2008-06-09T08:29:20Z2008-06-09T08:29:20ZphdemartinCould it be possible to delete video files from the "video" file list ?
<br>I use mythvideo on my frontend tu wach on my TV the miro's videos, and want to
<br>be hable to delete the video I have allready seen.
<br>Miro canauotomaticly erase those video if I wach them with him,, it tag them
<br>as "wached" but I just use Miro to retrive the contents, never as player !!!
<br>So it would be greate to clean my videos directly within the MythVideo
<br>frontend<p>From forum: <a href="http://www.nabble.com/mythtv-users-f15550.html" embed="fixTarget[15550]" target="_top" >mythtv-users</a></p>tag:www.nabble.com,2006:post-17316628MythTV Flash GUI2008-05-19T03:57:35Z2008-05-19T03:57:35Zmar1rHello,
<br><br>I am trying to develop a frontend for MythTV based on Flash. I have the flash animation ready and want to integrate that animation directly on top of the live tv player of MythTV (all the menus are actually part of the OSD).
<br><br>Did anyone ever tried to do something similar?
<br>How should i proceed to integrate Flash over mplayer?
<br><br>Thank you very much
<br><br>Marwan<p>From forum: <a href="http://www.nabble.com/mythtv-dev-f15551.html" embed="fixTarget[15551]" target="_top" >mythtv-dev</a></p>tag:www.nabble.com,2006:post-17170510nuvexport fails with'mythtranscode had died early2008-05-11T04:07:55Z2008-05-11T04:07:55ZcheopsI'm using Ubuntu Hardy with MythTV installed from the latest packages and both nuvexport and ffmpeg compiled from latest source (NOT PACKAGES) as per the various HOWTO's that google turned up.
I'm trying to use nuvexport to export UK radio programs recorded from DVB-T (Freeview) to MP3. I have had this all working fine on a machine running Feisty up until a recent hardware failure - I've been successfully producing MP3's like this for over a year. This just makes my current difficulties more frustrating!
Nuvexport starts up just fine. I then hit a number to select a show from the list and the terminal window goes blank. If I wait and do nothing then it stays blank. If I hit [return] then i get the following:
<br><br><code>Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/local/share/nuvexport/nuv_export/ui.pm line 320, <STDIN> line 1. </code><br><br>
followed by the 'You have chosen to export 1 episode:' prompt.
If I then select 'c' to continue the following happens:
<br><br><code>
Choose a function, or episode(s) to remove: c<br>
Where would you like to export the files to? [/home/user]<br>
Enable Myth cutlist? [Yes] no<br>
Audio bitrate? [128]<br>
<br>
Now encoding: The Doppelganger: Untitled<br>
Encode started: Sat May 10 12:29:49 2008<br>
Waiting for mythtranscode to set up the fifos.<br>
<br>
mythtranscode finished.<br>
<br>
mythtranscode had died early:<br>
<br>
2008-05-10 12:29:49.261 Using runtime prefix = /usr, libdir = /usr/lib<br>
2008-05-10 12:29:49.262 Empty LocalHostName.<br>
2008-05-10 12:29:49.275 New DB connection, total: 1<br>
2008-05-10 12:29:49.280 Closing DB connection named 'DBManager0'<br>
2008-05-10 12:29:49.281 Enabled verbose msgs: important<br>
2008-05-10 12:29:49.285 New DB connection, total: 2<br>
2008-05-10 12:29:49.310 Using protocol version 40<br>
2008-05-10 12:29:50.009 NVP: Unable to initialize video for transcode.<br>
2008-05-10 12:29:50.009 Unable to initialize NuppelVideoPlayer for Transcode
Segmentation fault<br>
!!! process 16231 complete: 139 !!!<br>
<br>
Cleaning up temp files.<br>
Cleaning up child processes. </code><br><br>
I've googled this thing for a week. I've tried with fresh installations of mythbuntu and mythdora. I've tried building mythtv from source. I've tried everything I can think of and this thing is driving me crazy!!!!!<br>
<br>
I know I'm making a stupid mistake somewhere - but I'd REALLY appreciate some help with this.<br>
<br>
Yours hopefully, <br>
<img class='smiley' src='http://www.nabble.com/images/smiley/smiley_beam.gif' /><p>From forum: <a href="http://www.nabble.com/mythtv-users-f15550.html" embed="fixTarget[15550]" target="_top" >mythtv-users</a></p>tag:www.nabble.com,2006:post-17093719Re: A better way to view or search these emails?2008-05-06T19:04:28Z2008-05-06T19:04:28ZbungleI think a better option would be to use Nabble, since it allows searching much like gossamer. It has the added benefit of allowing posting to the list, so you can turn on digest mode or turn off emails completely. Basically it turns the list into a forum, which I prefer. However, for some reason Nabble's access has not been working for a while, and no one is responding about it. I do not know why.
<br><p>From forum: <a href="http://www.nabble.com/mythtv-users-f15550.html" embed="fixTarget[15550]" target="_top" >mythtv-users</a></p>tag:www.nabble.com,2006:post-16980804Re: 0.21 XvMC Cashes mythfrontend wtih Embedded nVidia 6150, Not With AGP nVidia 62002008-04-30T04:55:51Z2008-04-30T04:55:51ZmanakI've got a consistent crash as well. But I've got an ASUS M2N-VM DVI (7050 chipset)
<br>This is on a clean install of the new MythDora 5.0. It's using 169.12 drivers. It will play video (ie Watch TV) for 20min - 2hrs, and the crash. I need to do a hard reset at that point to get the video back. If I'm not playing video it's 100% stable. Unfortunetly, I've got a different error message
<br><br>NVP: Timed out waiting for free video buffers.
<br>NVP: Timed out waiting for free video buffers.
<br>NVP: Timed out waiting for free video buffers.
<br><br>AK
<br><br><blockquote class="quote light-black dark-border-color"><div class="quote light-border-color">
<div class="quote-author" style="font-weight: bold;">Mache Creeger wrote:</div>
<div class="quote-message shrinkable-quote">mythfrontend log shows the crash - full log listed below - Here is
<br>the pertinent excerpt.
<br><br>2008-04-01 20:41:09.596 XvMCSurfaceTypes::find(w 480, h 480, chroma
<br>1, vld 0, idct 1, mpeg2, sub-width 0, sub-height 0, disp, p<= 386,
<br>3550 <=p, port, surfNum)
<br>2008-04-01 20:41:09.596 Trying XvMC port 355
<br>2008-04-01 20:41:09.596 Found a suitable XvMC surface 0
<br>2008-04-01 20:41:09.596 VideoOutputXv: Grabbed xv port 355
<br>2008-04-01 20:41:09.596 VideoOutputXv: XvMC surface found with IDCT
<br>support on port 355
<br>2008-04-01 20:41:09.602 VideoOutputXv: Closing XVideo port 355
<br>2008-04-01 20:41:09.602 AFD: InitVideoCodec() 0x1f3ccc0
<br>id(MPEG2VIDEO_XVMC) type (Video).
<br>2008-04-01 20:41:09.602 detectInterlace(Detect Scan, Interlaced Scan,
<br>29.97, 480) ->Interlaced Scan
<br>2008-04-01 20:41:09.603 AFD: Using xvmc for video decoding
<br>2008-04-01 20:41:09.603 AFD: Looking for decoder for MPEG2VIDEO_XVMC
<br>2008-04-01 20:41:09.603 AFD Error: Could not open codec 0x1f3ccc0,
<br>id(MPEG2VIDEO_XVMC) type(Video) aborting. reason -1
<br>2008-04-01 20:41:09.603 RingBuf(/opt/store/1009_20080331220000.mpg):
<br>CalcReadAheadThresh(0 KB)
<br> -> threshhold(64 KB) min read(0 KB) blk size(32 KB)
<br>2008-04-01 20:41:09.603 NVP: Disabling Audio, params(-1,-1,-1)
<br><br>/usr/bin/xine -pfhq --no-splash -D -V xxmc dvd://<filename>.iso -
<br>works fine - this proves that XvMC works for other players.
<br>Xorg.0.log - seems to be fine and is listed below.
<br><br>I really believe its a subtle bug in the way mythfrontend works with
<br>the 6150 in fedora 8-64-bit as things seem to work fine in Fedora 7
<br>with the 6200.
<br><br>-- Mache
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<p>From forum: <a href="http://www.nabble.com/mythtv-dev-f15551.html" embed="fixTarget[15551]" target="_top" >mythtv-dev</a></p>tag:www.nabble.com,2006:post-16732298Mythmusic background player stopping2008-04-16T12:58:30Z2008-04-16T12:58:30Zenigma2176I run Myth 0.21 on my carputer. I am attempting to use the background play feature in MythMusic to play mp3s while the display is showing my GPS software. I have an entry in my main menu that launches the GPS software. If I start the music playing and exit MythMusic telling it to continue playing then select the GPS menu item, the music will continue to play only for the current song, when it tries to switch to the next track the player stops playing. I think it has to do with the informational overlay that the player tries to put on the screen, if I exit the GPS software the player will overlay the information for the next track and continue playing.
<br><br>Has anyone else seen an issue like this with the new background player? Are there any workarounds for this issue, or maybe just a way to disable the information overlay? Any help is greatly appreciated. <p>From forum: <a href="http://www.nabble.com/mythtv-users-f15550.html" embed="fixTarget[15550]" target="_top" >mythtv-users</a></p>tag:www.nabble.com,2006:post-16624569Re: * Please help -- can't schedule recordings (but can record with R, can view guide)2008-04-10T20:44:20Z2008-04-10T20:44:20ZrdfoersterI had the same issue.
<br><br>As an administrative user I had to run mythtv-setup and delete all tuners then re-add them. Then associate the tuners with a data source.
<br><br>> Please help. Cannot get anything scheduled from the
<br>> program guide although recording the current program
<br>> works from within live TV and shows correct program
<br>> information. There are no error messages displayed
<br>> but
<br>> it always says "not recording" and "preview of
<br>> schedule changes" alawys says: "no changes will be
<br>> made". Also, it appears that schedulign the show
<br>> does
<br>> something -- I can run "mythbackend --testsched" and
<br>> get output of my attempted schedules. But
<br>> "mythbackend
<br>> -- printsched" doesn't do anything.
<br><p>From forum: <a href="http://www.nabble.com/mythtv-users-f15550.html" embed="fixTarget[15550]" target="_top" >mythtv-users</a></p>tag:www.nabble.com,2006:post-16615362Re: Tuner recomendation for trial system2008-04-10T12:25:15Z2008-04-10T12:25:15Zbungle<blockquote class="quote light-black dark-border-color"><div class="quote light-border-color">
<div class="quote-author" style="font-weight: bold;">allene222 wrote:</div>
<div class="quote-message">On the other point, I want to know if I can run mythtv and handle things like a 1080i transmission going to my 720p projector along with the other things the PC would need to so, like record one show while watching another.
</div>
</div></blockquote>
Do you already have any capture cards now? ATSC capture and hardware-based SD cards take very little CPU for recording. If you can watch HD with a little headroom you should have no problem recording while doing that. Your disk might have a lot of activity, but it should be fine. You could install Myth and get some samples set up in MythVideo and test playback ability and quality without having to get a card.
<br><br><blockquote class="quote light-black dark-border-color"><div class="quote light-border-color">
<div class="quote-author" style="font-weight: bold;">allene222 wrote:</div>
<div class="quote-message">So, what I was looking for was advice on picking a tuner card.
</div>
</div></blockquote>
I would start here: <a href="http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Video_Capture_Card#ATSC_US.2FCanada_.22HDTV.22_cards" target="_top" rel="nofollow">http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Video_Capture_Card#ATSC_US.2FCanada_.22HDTV.22_cards</a><br><br>The HDHomeRun is pretty popular, so if you didn't like it you could probably sell it easily. If you do, you already have a second tuner. Otherwise, choose the cheapest one in that list for low-risk. I have an HDHomeRun and like it; otherwise, I don't know enough to give advice.
<br><br>HTH,
<br>John
<br><p>From forum: <a href="http://www.nabble.com/mythtv-users-f15550.html" embed="fixTarget[15550]" target="_top" >mythtv-users</a></p>tag:www.nabble.com,2006:post-16613669Re: Tuner recomendation for trial system2008-04-10T11:44:14Z2008-04-10T11:44:14Zallene222Wel
<br><blockquote class="quote light-black dark-border-color"><div class="quote light-border-color">
<div class="quote-author" style="font-weight: bold;">bungle wrote:</div>
<div class="quote-message"><blockquote class="quote light-black dark-border-color"><div class="quote light-border-color">
<div class="quote-author" style="font-weight: bold;">allene222 wrote:</div>
<div class="quote-message">I want to see if my P4-2.4G can do OTA HDTV. ...
<br>I have a large outdoor antenna with pre-amp and am about 40 miles from the transmitter. My projector is 720p. My video card is a new eVGA 7200.
</div>
</div></blockquote>
Judging by your first sentence and second paragraph, you want to learn two things: whether your computer can playback HD, and whether you can get stuff with your antenna. I don't know if you can learn the second item without trying, but for the first you could download sample clips from various places. Just make sure you get high bitrate mpeg to accurately simulate what you'd be recording.
</div>
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Well, that is an interesting idea. Actually, I included the information on the antenna thinking I had plenty of signal so I am thinking I don't need a very sensative card.
<br><br>On the other point, I want to know if I can run mythtv and handle things like a 1080i transmission going to my 720p projector along with the other things the PC would need to so, like record one show while watching another.
<br><br>So, what I was looking for was advice on picking a tuner card.
<br><br>Allen
<br><br><p>From forum: <a href="http://www.nabble.com/mythtv-users-f15550.html" embed="fixTarget[15550]" target="_top" >mythtv-users</a></p>tag:www.nabble.com,2006:post-16609893Re: Tuner recomendation for trial system2008-04-10T09:27:45Z2008-04-10T09:27:45Zbungle<blockquote class="quote light-black dark-border-color"><div class="quote light-border-color">
<div class="quote-author" style="font-weight: bold;">allene222 wrote:</div>
<div class="quote-message">I want to see if my P4-2.4G can do OTA HDTV. ...
<br>I have a large outdoor antenna with pre-amp and am about 40 miles from the transmitter. My projector is 720p. My video card is a new eVGA 7200.
</div>
</div></blockquote>
Judging by your first sentence and second paragraph, you want to learn two things: whether your computer can playback HD, and whether you can get stuff with your antenna. I don't know if you can learn the second item without trying, but for the first you could download sample clips from various places. Just make sure you get high bitrate mpeg to accurately simulate what you'd be recording.<p>From forum: <a href="http://www.nabble.com/mythtv-users-f15550.html" embed="fixTarget[15550]" target="_top" >mythtv-users</a></p>tag:www.nabble.com,2006:post-16609354Tuner recomendation for trial system2008-04-10T08:47:09Z2008-04-10T08:47:09Zallene222I want to see if my P4-2.4G can do OTA HDTV. I was thinking of an HDHR but a little steep for a trial system in case it doesn't work out. I do not need QAM as this is an ATSC only system. I see Air2PC cards on ebay for not much and pvr-150s for somewhat more.
<br><br>I have a large outdoor antenna with pre-amp and am about 40 miles from the transmitter. My projector is 720p. My video card is a new eVGA 7200.
<br><br>Anyone care to chime in and share their experiences.<p>From forum: <a href="http://www.nabble.com/mythtv-users-f15550.html" embed="fixTarget[15550]" target="_top" >mythtv-users</a></p>tag:www.nabble.com,2006:post-16593497No Sound2008-04-09T11:34:13Z2008-04-09T11:34:13ZthusgaardHi
<br><br>Setup:
<br>Opensuse 10.3
<br>Mythtv 0.21
<br>1 frontend-backend machine
<br><br>I had a little Audio problem. Live TV sound was always on. So I followed the mythtv wiki advice for fixing it with the alsamixer.
<br><br>The result no sound at all..
<br>So Either I have no sound at all from my TV-card or I have permanent Live TV sound.
<br>Live TV sound on recordings is not very nice.
<br><br>Can anyone help. I'll try all you ideas. And I'll reply all test results.
<br><br>Kind regards J;-)<p>From forum: <a href="http://www.nabble.com/mythtv-users-f15550.html" embed="fixTarget[15550]" target="_top" >mythtv-users</a></p>tag:www.nabble.com,2006:post-16537553Re: Bell ExpressVu PPV scraper2008-04-07T10:03:34Z2008-04-07T10:03:34ZScott Souter<blockquote class="quote light-black dark-border-color"><div class="quote light-border-color">
<div class="quote-author" style="font-weight: bold;">Andrew Saunders-2 wrote:</div>
<div class="quote-message shrinkable-quote">Here's a revised version of a php script I submitted here a few months
<br>ago. I fixed the issues with not being able to scrape info and have been
<br>running it without issues for 3 months now. Part of what happened was
<br>bell redesigned their site and the way it handles/creates cookies is
<br>seriously screwed up. It took me a few hours just to figure out what the
<br>hell was going on.
<br><br>What this script does is scrape down all the PPV information straight
<br>from Bell's site, including all PPV descriptions/ratings/prices/etc.
<br>Problem is the pages that it scrapes from are horribly inconsistent, so
<br>it's scrapes what it can but manages to do a pretty good job. This
<br>script can run from both the command-line and browser, difference is if
<br>you want better looking debug info then run it from the browser.
<br><br>Here is a screencap from mythweb of the results.
<br><a href="http://www.pagpaintball.com/tempfolder/xvu_scraper.gif" target="_top" rel="nofollow">http://www.pagpaintball.com/tempfolder/xvu_scraper.gif</a><br><br>And here is the file on my server.
<br><a href="http://www.pagpaintball.com/tempfolder/xvu_scraper.php.tar.gz" target="_top" rel="nofollow">http://www.pagpaintball.com/tempfolder/xvu_scraper.php.tar.gz</a></div>
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Does this work still? Does it work alongside the schedule's direct info? Should one setup the schedules direct files with or without the PPV channel info to make it work correctly?
<br><br>Thx
<br>Scott
<br><p>From forum: <a href="http://www.nabble.com/mythtv-users-f15550.html" embed="fixTarget[15550]" target="_top" >mythtv-users</a></p>tag:www.nabble.com,2006:post-16509793Re: xbox xebian E images for mythtv 0.212008-04-04T22:26:15Z2008-04-04T22:26:15ZSkitals<br><blockquote class="quote light-black dark-border-color"><div class="quote light-border-color">
<div class="quote-author" style="font-weight: bold;">Monkey Pet wrote:</div>
<div class="quote-message shrinkable-quote">Thx Paul!
<br><br><a href="http://yoeu.net/~fa/xebian_mythtv_0.21/xebian_mythtv_0.21-big-20080331-001.tar.bz2" target="_top" rel="nofollow">http://yoeu.net/~fa/xebian_mythtv_0.21/xebian_mythtv_0.21-big-20080331-001.tar.bz2</a><br><br><a href="http://yoeu.net/~fa/xebian_mythtv_0.21/xebian_mythtv_0.21-big-20080331-001.tar.bz2.torrent" target="_top" rel="nofollow">http://yoeu.net/~fa/xebian_mythtv_0.21/xebian_mythtv_0.21-big-20080331-001.tar.bz2.torrent</a><br><br>On 4/2/08, Paul Fine <pfine@comcast.net> wrote:
<br>> Thanks.
<br>>
<br>> I have had the 0.20.2 images seeded for a while, and it appears as is
<br>> people have been able to download them even though I have comcast.
<br>>
<br>> When I get home tonight, I will start downloading this image and seed it
<br>> also.
<br>>
<br>>
<br>> Monkey Pet wrote:
<br>> > Hi, I posted the xbox xebian E images for mythtv 0.21 as a torrent.
<br>> > I am not sure if i can seed it though since my ISP is comcast.
<br>> >
<br>> > Instructions here:
<br>> > <a href="http://mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Xbox_Install_using_E_Images" target="_top" rel="nofollow">http://mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Xbox_Install_using_E_Images</a><br>> >
<br>> > Let me know if you have any problems with it.
<br>>
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Anyone having success with this? I downloaded to help seed, and decided to try it out (despite the fact I have 0.21 working fine which I upgraded from one of the 0.20 E Images). I backed up my e:\debian folder and replaced it with this one, and it won't boot. I got a black screen, and nothing else. I can't ping or ssh the box, so it's not just a video thing. I copied my own xebian image back and its back to normal. Just wonder what's up with that.
<br><p>From forum: <a href="http://www.nabble.com/mythtv-users-f15550.html" embed="fixTarget[15550]" target="_top" >mythtv-users</a></p>tag:www.nabble.com,2006:post-16499138Re: MythTV backup2008-04-04T08:30:14Z2008-04-04T08:30:14ZDavid George-2On 04/04/2008 11:17 AM, Brad DerManouelian wrote:
<div class='shrinkable-quote'><br>> Mike Perkins wrote:
<br>>
<br>>> There's a potential problem here, though. Suppose the worst happens and you lose
<br>>> all or some of your recordings, but the database can be recovered.
<br>>>
<br>>> The rebuilt database now has in it recordings it thinks you have, but you don't.
<br>>> You may want to re-record all or just some of them. How do you tell Myth that,
<br>>> sorry, these don't actually exist anymore, particularly as you may have a huge
<br>>> list, some of which may or may not still exist? Is there a script which does
<br>>> this, perhaps?
<br>>>
<br>>> And how do you tell Myth that certain programs it thinks you have, or had, you
<br>>> now want to re-record?
<br>>>
<br>>>
<br>>
<br>> If it's a couple of programs, jut scroll through your watch recordings
<br>> and delete/allow to re-record anything that says it's not there. If it's
<br>> a LOT of recordings, I use myth.find_orphans.pl.
<br>>
<br>>
</div><br>And if you use myth.find_orphans.pl make sure you add the patch in
<br>ticket 4677 ( <a href="http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/4677" target="_top" rel="nofollow">http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/4677</a> ) so you can set
<br>the re-record flag. Or if you run svn trunk the patch was in as of
<br>16481. It has not been added to .21 fixes (unless a packager pulls in
<br>this patch extra). Just a warning in case you are thinking about it:
<br>Unless you know what you are doing, don't upgrade to trunk:HEAD right
<br>now because of all the mythui/QT4 changes going on.
<br><br><br>--
<br>David
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<div class='shrinkable-quote'><br>> I'm using HD-5500 cards for OTA DTV.
<br>>
<br>> Does anyone know if the signal to noise reported by the HD-5500 card
<br>> is out of whack? I think it almost has to be.
<br>>
<br>> If I monitor it with femon from the media-tv/linuxtv-dvb-apps package
<br>> I get what appears to be a correct signal strength (it usually jives
<br>> with my Samsung HD receiver). The snr however is never beyond the 8%
<br>> to 13% range. I can't believe it would even get a lock if that were
<br>> correct:
<br>>
<br>> femon -a 0 -h
<br>> FE: LG Electronics LGDT3303 VSB/QAM Frontend (ATSC)
<br>> status SCVYL | signal 94% | snr 12% | ber 00000000 | unc 00000000 |
<br>> FE_HAS_LOCK
</div><br>>
<br>> My Samsung receiver only shows strength, not quality...and as I said,
<br>> it jives with the above signal strength. When I had my Sony
<br>> DHG-HDD500 HD DVR I believe the quality usually showed 'good' or
<br>> better.
<br>>
<br>> There's no way that's even close is it?
<br>>
<br>SNR is normally reported in dB, so could it be 12 db in stead of 12% ?
<br><br>Johan
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<br>> content where ffplay has no troubles at all !
<br><br><br> Make sure you disable Deinterlacing on the Internal player BEFORE you compare to ffplay as I believe ffplay does not deinterlace by default. That's where large portion of your CPU usage can come from. Many times when users compare mplayer and ffplay cpu usage to myth they forget that those 2 players have to be told explicitly to deinterlace content and most have deinterlacing enabled in myth.
<br><br><br> But as the other poster said, feel free to put in a ticket with a sample video that can be used for comparison.
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<div class='shrinkable-quote'><br>> There's a potential problem here, though. Suppose the worst happens and you lose
<br>> all or some of your recordings, but the database can be recovered.
<br>>
<br>> The rebuilt database now has in it recordings it thinks you have, but you don't.
<br>> You may want to re-record all or just some of them. How do you tell Myth that,
<br>> sorry, these don't actually exist anymore, particularly as you may have a huge
<br>> list, some of which may or may not still exist? Is there a script which does
<br>> this, perhaps?
<br>>
<br>> And how do you tell Myth that certain programs it thinks you have, or had, you
<br>> now want to re-record?
<br>>
<br>> Mike Perkins
</div><br>If it's a couple of programs, jut scroll through your watch recordings
<br>and delete/allow to re-record anything that says it's not there. If it's
<br>a LOT of recordings, I use myth.find_orphans.pl.
<br><br>-Brad
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<div class='shrinkable-quote'><br>> On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 3:26 PM, Brad DerManouelian
<br>> <<a href="http://www.nabble.com/user/SendEmail.jtp?type=post&post=16498587&i=1" target="_top" rel="nofollow">myth@...</a>> wrote:
<br>> > Daniel Arfsten wrote:
<br>> > > Where as you don't get that over firewire.
<br>> >
<br>> > You can't just make this global statement. YOU don't get that over
<br>> > firewire. Other people can. Some cable companies do give you everything
<br>> > you pay for over firewire. Admittedly, not many and no big ones, but
<br>> > some smaller ones, too. (Astound is one.)
<br>> >
<br>>
<br>> Isn't Comcast a "Big One"?
</div><br>even Comcast varies by region.
<br><br>From what I understand, cable companies are only supposed to pass
<br>along the 5C signal they receive with the station. The only stations I
<br>know of that enable 5C in their broadcast signal to the cable
<br>companies are the movie channels (HBO, Cinemax, Showtime, etc), and a
<br>couple of the sports channels like NFL Network. All the other channels
<br>have their 5C signal set to 0. Now, the engineers for the cable
<br>companies (or their managers really) can have their hardware that puts
<br>those signals on the cable lines change the 5C bit, though I believe
<br>legally they are not really "allowed" to. So in theory everyone should
<br>get all the basic and extended cable channels free of 5C and the movie
<br>channels, etc with 5C "enabled", but as we've seen many companies
<br>change these bits. some, by default, set all of them to 0, some set
<br>all of them to 1, some vary what they set them to seemingly randomly.
<br><br>it's all a crap shoot really. except that PPV, InDemand, and the like
<br>will pretty much always have 5C enabled.
<br><br>--
<br>Steve
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<br><<a href="http://www.nabble.com/user/SendEmail.jtp?type=post&post=16497908&i=0" target="_top" rel="nofollow">gharris+list+mythtv@...</a>> wrote:
<div class='shrinkable-quote'><br>> This morning I was tweaking priorities and schedules so I could record
<br>> as much baseball and new shows that are starting back up in the coming
<br>> weeks (finally!). I saw a bunch of old episodes of The Office airing
<br>> this Thursday and wanted to try to catch them as well. As always, the
<br>> easiest solution to all of this would be to throw more money at it and
<br>> buy another tuner, but in lieu of that, I played with the schedules
<br>> and ran into this issue:
<br>>
<br>> I set up a recording schedule to record all episodes of The Office
<br>> airing on WBALDT (the HD CBS affiliate here) that are not currently
<br>> recorded - with a priority of 0.
<br>> I set up another recording schedule to record all episodes of The
<br>> Office on any channel that have not already been recorded - with a
<br>> priority of 5.
<br>>
<br>> This gives me mostly what I want. The Office only records old shows
<br>> when it does not conflict with anything else - and it only records
<br>> re-runs from CBS (which are fairly infrequent, as opposed to TBS which
<br>> seemingly shows 10 a day). And new episodes get priority over a lot
<br>> of the other fluff that I scheduled during the writers' strike.
<br>>
<br>> The only problem is that it wants to record the new episode from the
<br>> non-HD channel WBAL, since it apparently sees the WBALDT showing as a
<br>> lower priority.
<br>>
<br>> Am I going about this the wrong way? Is there an easier/better way to
<br>> set this up?
<br>>
<br>> Thanks for any help!
<br>> --Glenn
</div><br>I've done similar, though here is how I went about doing it...
<br><br>I assigned all my HD channels with a higher priority, so I used "10"
<br>(in case I decide to later do some other channel priority
<br>assignments....). Then I set one schedule to record only new episodes
<br>of the shows, specifically on the HD channel with a high priority (in
<br>my case I choose between 15-25 depending on how much I want the show
<br>compared to other new shows). Then I set a schedule to record reruns
<br>on "any channel" with a low priority (0-10 again depending on...).
<br>Then I set up my sports schedules (basically all the futbol/soccer we
<br>watch) with a really high priority (40).
<br>now granted, we have 3 QAM tuners for OTA HDTV channels and two cable
<br>boxes connected via firewire for everything else, so we rarely have
<br>conflicts which is nice, but this arrangement lets us record reruns of
<br>some shows (southpark, simpsons, etc) while making sure to nab the new
<br>episodes on their first airing (and with shows like simpsons on
<br>Fox-HD).
<br><br>--
<br>Steve
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<div class='shrinkable-quote'><br>> Hi all,
<br>>
<br>> The Internal player has pausing/buffering problems on 1920x1080 h264
<br>> content where ffplay has no troubles at all !
<br>>
<br>> Henk Schoneveld
<br>> The Netherlands
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</div>I would recommend a ticket be entered for this. Perhaps supply a video
<br>sample.
<br>I have similar problems, and have a ticket in as well. Not close enough
<br>to add to the same ticket though.
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<br><<a href="http://www.nabble.com/user/SendEmail.jtp?type=post&post=16497715&i=0" target="_top" rel="nofollow">steve@...</a>> wrote:
<div class='shrinkable-quote'><br>>
<br>> >The only way to store something on a hard-drive is to convert it to
<br>> >digital, so I'm not sure what you're asking about with regards to
<br>> >that.
<br>> >
<br>>
<br>> The reason I wondered this one was because it seemed like if this is the
<br>> case, then the hd dvr's must have two tuners in them, one for digital
<br>> channels, and one for analog channels. Also, since they can record two
<br>> programs at once, they now have 4 tuners in them??? Seems like a waste.
<br>>
<br>> -Steve
</div><br>I know for the Motorola's at least (the DCT-6xxx and newer), the
<br>hardware basic internal hardware is all the same. What changes is the
<br>exact options. So they can have one or two "dual tuners" (capable of
<br>digital and analog tuning). The device also has an mpeg conversion
<br>chip to convert analog stations to an mpeg. The internal system is all
<br>digital, whether you have the DVR or not, so the signal is immediately
<br>converted then passed to the rest of the hardware for doing the
<br>overlay, etc. I don't know if it has a single mpeg encoder chip
<br>capable of handling two streams or if each tuner section has its own
<br>mpeg chip, though I imagine that there is one chip per tuner (and
<br>probably all part of the tuner module).
<br><br>So yes, they convert analog channels to a digital stream (mpeg), they
<br>have two tuners, but they are like the QAM tuners on PC cards in that
<br>they can tune one digital or analog signal at a time.
<br><br>So, for instance, I have two DCT6200's (non-DVR) connected to my
<br>mythbackend machine via firewire and can capture all the remaining
<br>analog channels this way. Of course, I also have three QAM tuners for
<br>capturing OTA HD stations.
<br><br>--
<br>Steve
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<br>better. What I don't understand is why my MythTV box gets a bad MPEG
<br>stream while my television plays just fine. If I look at the
<br>mythfrontend log I see a lot of ac-tex and bad mb frame errors while
<br>watching live tv.
<br><br>It looks like the HVR-1600 uses a decoder chip released in 2004 while
<br>the HVR-1800 uses one released in 2007. Maybe there is an improvement
<br>in picture quality? But those are the decoder chips. Would they be
<br>more important than the tuner chips?
<br><br>Thank you for the input. I will certainly skip the HVR-1600. I'm still
<br>curious about the 1800, though.
<br><br><br>On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 9:54 AM, Greg Mischel Smith <<a href="http://www.nabble.com/user/SendEmail.jtp?type=post&post=16497665&i=0" target="_top" rel="nofollow">gregms@...</a>> wrote:
<div class='shrinkable-quote'><br>> I have the WinTV-HVR-1600 on my Windows machine and I have not been very
<br>> impressed with it. I decided to purchase two pcHDTV-5500 for my MythTV
<br>> system and I have been very impressed thus far.
<br>>
<br>> Nonetheless, the thing I found that makes the biggest difference is the
<br>> antenna I use. With the right antenna, I can get a clear signal on both, but
<br>> with the wrong type of antenna for my area, the MythTV system using
<br>> pcHDTV-5500 still shows a better picture than my WinTV-1600 using the WinTV
<br>> software. But again, I don't have any direct experience with Hauppauge cards
<br>> in Linux.
<br>>
<br>> Greg Mischel Smith
<br>> KCMO
</div><br>--
<br>James Sumners
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<br>pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it
<br>is magnetic to the corruptible. Such people have a tendency to become
<br>drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted."
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