MythTV + mysql problems

[kenta]

On Sun, 28 Jan 2007, Adam (gnhlug) wrote:
> The only problem I am having now is displaying to the TV. If anyone has any
> experience with that let me know. I have taken the appropriate steps and
> added the Option "TVStandard" "NTSC-M" and "TVOutFormat" "COMPOSITE" (and
> even tried "SVIDEO").
>
> Here is my /etc/X11/xorg.conf file Sorry in advance for the long data. Some
> sections are commented out, showing what I have currently attemped to run
> with also. However, all I get when I run with some of these other settings
> is a blank screen. I am using a GeForce 3D Prophet III, which only allows
> the display of EITHER svideo, or analog, dualview is not possible (and is
> not being attempted).

I recently moved to a nvidia 5200 series card because of issues with my 
ati 9250. All I had to do was plugin the Svideo cable and on startup the 
machine booted and I could see it on the TV immediatenly (BIOS screen, 
etc). If your card can't display on both analong/dvi & svideo then unplug the 
regular monitor before turning on the machine, then maybe it'll detect the 
SVIDEO connection.  In my case xorg failed to start because of the ati 
driver so all I had to do was apt-get the nvidia driver, I reran 
"dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg" and picked the nividia driver, then ended 
up running "nvidia-xconfig".  Restarted and it booted right into my gnome 
desktop. My xorg.conf basically has:

Section "Monitor"
     Identifier     "Generic Monitor"
     HorizSync       30.0 - 70.0
     VertRefresh     50.0 - 160.0
     Option         "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
     Identifier     "NVIDIA Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 5200]"
     Driver         "nvidia"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
     Identifier     "Default Screen"
     Device         "NVIDIA Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 5200]"
     Monitor        "Generic Monitor"
     Option         "UseEvents" "True"
     DefaultDepth    24
##Note: trimmed out the depths 1-16##
     SubSection     "Display"
         Depth       24
         Modes      "800x600" "640x480"
     EndSubSection
EndSection

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Interestingly enough there were no config's specific to a TV-out that I 
could see, it just works and I'm plesantly surprised.   Added in the 
UseEvents line per Jared's recommendation.

Getting the 9250 working was a real pain.  First of all it wouldn't 
display right from the boot and would show a rolling, unreadable screen. 
If there was a bios error or error before X then I'd have to hook it up to 
a real monitor and/or ssh in (if possible). The 9250 also seemed to 
require very specific settings to get working. Moving to a geforce 5200 
was worth the 33 dollars :)

While I'm blabbing...  I just setup Democracy player 
(http://www.getdemocracy.com/) on the MythBox and it's working out as an 
excellent way to manage podcasts.  So it's a nice UI, but more importantly 
settings to say "Keep these podcasts for 1 month" or "6 weeks" or "1 week" 
etc.  So I let Democracy download and management how long I want to keep 
shows and set the data directory to dump into where "Watch Videos" is 
looking on mythtv.  Now I can get my Rocketboom, DL.TV, and diggnation fix 
without having to scp/rsync them from another box manually. woot!

-Kenta