Re: [mythtv-users] Adding extra recorder disk space for Christmas
> > --===2088436314== > Content-Type: text/plain > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > On Fri, 2004-12-17 at 16:09, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I've yet to encounter any filesystem that does not have this problem. > > This just seems to be a general issue with LVM. This issue also crops up on > > high end SAN storage systems. > > > > Don't ever expect to be able to shrink a filesystem. > > I have not had a problem using e2resize to shrink an unmounted ext3 > filesystem and then using LVM to reallocate PE's. c000l... What redhat & kernel verserion were you running? I thought that ext3 was inflexible in this regard. It's nice to know that I'm partially wrong. > > I did have some issues using 'pvmove' to free a disk from LVM because of > incompatibilities of kernel.org kernels vs LVM-patched RedHat kernels. > The workaround I used was just to boot single user mode with a patched > redhat kernel for the pvmove operation. [deletia] ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] DTIVO v. MythTV (Pvr-350) Quality
> > If I switch over from a DirecTiVo to MythTV will I notice a decline in > recording quality? I will output from a pvr-350 card (still using the PVR recording quality is all about the quality of your source feed. The cleaner the signal is, the better your output will be regardless of compression rate. If there is any noise or defects in your video signal, those will be magnified the analog->digital conversion process. If you would be satisfied with a Tivo hooked up to a satellite set-top box then you should be satisfied with MythTV doing the same thing. [deletia] I've hooked up Tivos (Series1 & 2 standalone) to analog cable, mixed analog/digital cable and DishTV. Defects in the source system have always been my biggest problem, even when recording in "Best" mode. ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Adding extra recorder disk space for Christmas
> > One thing to remember with XFS, particularly for short-term storage, is > that XFS partitions cannot be shrank, only enlarged. I'm running into > this problem right now on my myth box, I want to re-allocate some space > to another partition. > William wrote: I've yet to encounter any filesystem that does not have this problem. This just seems to be a general issue with LVM. This issue also crops up on high end SAN storage systems. Don't ever expect to be able to shrink a filesystem. [deletia] ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Hard Drives that Actually Work?
Quoting John Kuhn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > funny you should type that i have the exact same drive dead on my > table. A friend asked if i could recover it, but its pretty much DOA. > > I have had alot of luck with seagates, they run cool and extremly > quiet. I have about 7 seagates in my home network non have gone belly > up as of yet Does anyone have any experience with their laptop drives? I just upgraded my laptop with their 100G model (ST9100823A). [deletia] This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Hard Drives that Actually Work?
Quoting "Jay R. Ashworth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 10:17:19AM -0500, cythraul wrote: > > My Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 (120 GB) has been running efficiently for > > more then a year now. Tho, it's now as quiet as my two 40 GB Seagate > > Barracuda IV that used to be in my backend -- now being used almost as > > badly on my desktop. > > We have 3 of the 200GB models, 4 months, 24x7. > > So far, so good. > > But do remember that IDE drives aren't really built for 24x7 100% duty > cycle applications, as SCSI drives are; that's why they're so cheap, > by comparison. It's not *just* manufacturing quantity. The IDE drives in my Tivo's don't seem to have that problem. This may simply be a case of consumer product deterioration. The drive makers have been reducing their warranties lately. They clearly aren't interested in standing behind their products for any reasonable amount of time any more (regardless of how the drives are used). Seagate specifically markets models with the older/longer warranties. I thought that WD was also supposed to have such a line but I have not seen it in retail outlets. This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Lightweight window manager recommendation
> On Tue, 7 Dec 2004 10:58:34 -0500, Travis Osterman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ... I was looking for a > > recommendation on a lightweight wm that would offer a slight increase > > in performance from KDE. Why are you concerned about window managers? Myth doesn't need one. > > > > I've seen blackbox and fvwm mentioned in the mythtv.org howto and > > would appreciate any more information whether one is preferrable or if > > there are other undocumented alternatives. Thank you all for a > > wonderful project and community. > > There are a *ton* of windowmanagers. They all work. > > http://xwinman.org/ provides a good list of options. > > Most Linux systems *should* already have twm and mwm on them. twm is > about as lightweight as you can get - it also has almost no > "functionality" other than launch an xterm and exit. > > A few choices I would consider that provide a good balance between > lightweight and usability: > - icewm > - xfce > - fvwm with fvwm-themes (using "windows XP-like" theme) > - flwm WindowMaker is also a nice mix of performance versus features. [deletia] ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] DVD Ripping ?
[ Charset ISO-8859-1 unsupported, converting... ] > > (It was me who made the original request...) > > One file, or a VIDEO_TS folder would be fine. Either way, the ability to > seamlessly copy DVDs to the hard drive, and be able to later call them up > for viewing, is what I want. If you want to preserve the menus then you need to clone the entire disk (or contents of video_ts). > > I may also want the ability to compress (Mpeg-4 ?) the video. Is it > possible to keep the DVD menus and such, but have the video format > different than Mpeg-2 ? Another nice feature would be to be able to strip Audio is pretty tiny. I would think that stripping that would not be worth the trouble. As far as shrinking DVDs and keeping everything intact there is a win32 app called dvdshrink. I also found this script on the web although I have not tested it yet: This came off of the transcode-users list http://zebra.fh-weingarten.de/~maxi/html/transcode-users/2004-02/msg00506.html > out unwanted audio tracks, but keep the menus. > > As recording TV is a secondary need at this point, I am beginning to > wonder > if there might be a better software solution for what I want to do with > DVDs. [deletia] ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] DVD Ripping ?
[ Charset ISO-8859-1 unsupported, converting... ] > The op said he wanted it in one file... Would it work to just do dd He can slice it and dice it anyway he wants once it's decrypted and on his filesystem. > if=/dev/dvd of=outfile.iso? I have done this many times with CDs and ...so much for copy control. '-) > it works well. It makes an iso file that can be mounted with the > loopback, or just played directly. I don't know how it would work > with a UDF dvd. I suspect that this is not something he's preparted to do. Mounting files as loopback filesystems is rather arcane. [deletia] ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
