Re: [mythtv-users] An LVM'd drive died! What do I do...

2005-10-26 Thread chris
On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 01:41:28PM +0900, David Bennett wrote: > I have seen the same article about reducing the size on LVM... I guess > I'm just unclear about what I would lose if I lost an LVM'd drive > (stemming from the fact i dont know how LVM data is stored.) Are bits > of one file stored ac

Re: [mythtv-users] An LVM'd drive died! What do I do...

2005-10-26 Thread David Bennett
I have seen the same article about reducing the size on LVM... I guess I'm just unclear about what I would lose if I lost an LVM'd drive (stemming from the fact i dont know how LVM data is stored.) Are bits of one file stored across multiple drives, or would the loss of a drive result in the loss o

RE: [mythtv-users] An LVM'd drive died! What do I do...

2005-10-26 Thread Korey Fort
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bryan Halter Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2005 10:35 PM To: Discussion about mythtv Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] An LVM'd drive died! What do I do... David Bennett wrote: > ... fortunately this has not happe

Re: [mythtv-users] OpenGL trouble

2005-10-26 Thread Dave
Yup, that was it: Video timing method: SGI OpenGL Dave ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

Re: [mythtv-users] Looking to get a remote

2005-10-26 Thread Kevin Kuphal
Jon Solomon wrote: Anyone have any suggestions about what kind of remote I should get for my new frontend? I simply use a universal learning remote. I have used it in two different configurations. First, with a USB IR receiver from Streamzap that I had purchased with my Streamzap remote (c

Re: [mythtv-users] An LVM'd drive died! What do I do...

2005-10-26 Thread Bryan Halter
David Bennett wrote: ... fortunately this has not happened (yet!) but I am preparing for the worst. Jarod's MythTV guide recommends LVM as an option to create nice and big MythTV partitions. I followed the guide and have recently added another 250G to my original drive with Mytbtv-users help.

Re: [mythtv-users] realtime commflag on hardware encoding ?

2005-10-26 Thread Michael T. Dean
Matt SF wrote: i saw some old posts in the archive about some developers looking into the possibility of doing a realtime commercial flagging routine on the output from hardware-based encoders (e.g. a PVR-350) Does anyone know if progress was made in that area? thanks! There's a "near-rea

Re: [mythtv-users] mac osx frontend and mysql

2005-10-26 Thread Chris Ribe
No, you do not need to install MySQL on the Mac to get the frontend working.  It has been almost a year since I have run a frontend on OSX so I don't remember all of the details, but installing MySQL wasn't one of them.  The database runs on the backend, the frontend software knows how to talk to

[mythtv-users] realtime commflag on hardware encoding ?

2005-10-26 Thread Matt SF
Hi all-- i saw some old posts in the archive about some developers looking into the possibility of doing a realtime commercial flagging routine on the output from hardware-based encoders (e.g. a PVR-350) Does anyone know if progress was made in that area? thanks! -matt -- --

[mythtv-users] Looking to get a remote

2005-10-26 Thread Jon Solomon
Anyone have any suggestions about what kind of remote I should get for my new frontend? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

Re: [mythtv-users] OpenGL trouble

2005-10-26 Thread Dave
Ok, I did some poking around in the configure script and vsync.cpp, and it looks like USING_OPENGL_VSYNC is not being set. Then I found this thread, which says the same thing: http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/131589?search_string=OpenGL%20vsync%20problem%20with%200.18.1;#131589

[mythtv-users] mac osx frontend and mysql

2005-10-26 Thread Paul McKellar
do i need to install mysql on my mac before i can use the frontend? i get this message 2005-10-26 22:29:39.934 Database not open while trying to save setting: Language 2005-10-26 22:29:39.936 Unable to connect to database! 2005-10-26 22:29:39.936 Driver error was [1/2003]: QMYSQL3: Unable to conn

[mythtv-users] mythtv frontend

2005-10-26 Thread Paul Pianta
Hi people I have been doing a bit of googling for an answer but haven't been able to come up with much so came here for an answer. I have a couple of questions that I hope someone can help me with ... 1. I am looking to setup a mythtv frontend that is : small, diskless, cheap, not noisy, and will

Re: [mythtv-users] HD Frontend hardware: cases for enclosed spaces

2005-10-26 Thread Sean Cier
Mark Kundinger wrote: Well, the one thing that might be a sticker is how intensively you plan on using it as a DVD player. If you use that a lot, then I'd recommend putting the Mythbox in the exposed location, for easy access. Good point, but I don't really mind opening the doors to get at th

Re: [mythtv-users] OpenGL trouble

2005-10-26 Thread Dave
Ok, I still can't get myth to use OpenGL with my nvidia 5200 video card. In the frontend log, I'm getting: 2005-10-26 20:12:32.506 nVidiaVideoSync: VBlank ioctl did not work, unimplemented in this driver? 2005-10-26 20:12:32.506 DRMVideoSync: Could not open device /dev/dri/card0, No such file or d

[mythtv-users] Mythburn output files

2005-10-26 Thread Robin Gilks
Me again :-)) Many thanks to everyones help with projectx - I'm getting a lot further now. The current problem is that despite my setting the output directory and temp directory in the .conf file, someone (not sure which app) is trying to write to the directory containing the nuv files. This is a

[mythtv-users] An LVM'd drive died! What do I do...

2005-10-26 Thread David Bennett
... fortunately this has not happened (yet!) but I am preparing for the worst. Jarod's MythTV guide recommends LVM as an option to create nice and big MythTV partitions. I followed the guide and have recently added another 250G to my original drive with Mytbtv-users help. A hard drive failure on

[mythtv-users] Re: MyIRBlaster - Myth Issues Only??

2005-10-26 Thread Scott S.
Hello, Thanks for your all your responses. I am running the script from the command line as my mythtv user. I tried putting in the clear key twice before sending the channel change and it still works from the command line just fine but going through Myth it seems to have the same problems. Do

[mythtv-users] Really simple multiple capture card question

2005-10-26 Thread Chris Ribe
I am setting up a system with an old bttv card and a new PVR-150 installed. How do I figure out which card corresponds to which device?  I.e. is the PVR-150 /dev/video0, /dev/video1, /dev/video24, or /dev/video32? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-us

Re: [mythtv-users] new recordings missing database fields after R5A22 upgrade

2005-10-26 Thread Byron Poland
On 10/26/05, Michael T. Dean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Byron Poland wrote: > > >I had to compile from SVN to get the protocol on my > >frontend (ubuntu) (Which I also use as a slave backend to commflag and > >transcode) to match up with the backend (knoppmyth R5A22) so they > >very well could b

Re: [mythtv-users] new recordings missing database fields after R5A22 upgrade

2005-10-26 Thread Michael T. Dean
Byron Poland wrote: I had to compile from SVN to get the protocol on my frontend (ubuntu) (Which I also use as a slave backend to commflag and transcode) to match up with the backend (knoppmyth R5A22) so they very well could be different versions. I just located the source for the knoppmyth ve

Re: [mythtv-users] new recordings missing database fields after R5A22 upgrade

2005-10-26 Thread Michael T. Dean
Bruce Markey wrote: Byron Poland wrote: On 10/26/05, Michael T. Dean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Byron Poland wrote: On 10/26/05, Michael T. Dean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Byron Poland wrote: Here is the relevant part of my backend log on on startup: 2005-10-26 15:02:15.804 Using runt

Re: [mythtv-users] new recordings missing database fields after R5A22 upgrade

2005-10-26 Thread Byron Poland
On 10/26/05, Bruce Markey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Byron Poland wrote: > > On 10/26/05, Michael T. Dean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Byron Poland wrote: > >> > >>> On 10/26/05, Michael T. Dean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> > >>> > Byron Poland wrote: > > > Here is the releva

mythtv-users@mythtv.org

2005-10-26 Thread Robert Manning
Hello, If you have access to a prog like the MySQL query browser you can edit the channels manually (there is a shell based SQL query prog as well but I prefer using the GUI for what I am doing). If you do want to edit the channel numbers manually, the table of interest is in the "mythconverg" dat

Re: [mythtv-users] new recordings missing database fields after R5A22 upgrade

2005-10-26 Thread Bruce Markey
Byron Poland wrote: On 10/26/05, Michael T. Dean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Byron Poland wrote: On 10/26/05, Michael T. Dean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Byron Poland wrote: Here is the relevant part of my backend log on on startup: 2005-10-26 15:02:15.804 Using runtime prefix = /usr QSett

Re: [mythtv-users] mysql update on remote frontend broke MythTV

2005-10-26 Thread Mark Knecht
On 10/26/05, Lee Koloszyc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mark Knecht wrote: > > > > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ mythfrontend > >QSqlDatabase: QMYSQL3 driver not loaded > > > >Thanks, > >Mark > >___ > > > > > > > I had that message once, I re-emerged qt and it fi

[mythtv-users] Satellite, RF or IR

2005-10-26 Thread david
Hey guys, great forum, very helpful so far. I have Dish Network with 1 box for 2 TVs. One signal is controlled by an IR remote, the other with an RF remote. I'm trying to decide on the best setup and which signal to put the myth box on. My concerns are if I put it on the IR signal, the signal

Re: [mythtv-users] Sudden lockups on my Myth box

2005-10-26 Thread Joe Ammann
Hi Steve On Wednesday 26 October 2005 02:01, Steve Pugh wrote: > > this evening, I experienced 3 total machine lockups > > on my mythbox. I had to > > hard reset it. That same machine has been running > > for months, no apparent > > hardware problems. > > > > Does anybody have a clue what is going

Re: [mythtv-users] new recordings missing database fields after R5A22 upgrade

2005-10-26 Thread Byron Poland
On 10/26/05, Michael T. Dean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Byron Poland wrote: > > >On 10/26/05, Michael T. Dean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >>Byron Poland wrote: > >> > >>>Here is the relevant part of my backend log on on startup: > >>> > >>>2005-10-26 15:02:15.804 Using runtime prefix = /

Re: [mythtv-users] mysql update on remote frontend broke MythTV

2005-10-26 Thread Lee Koloszyc
Mark Knecht wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ mythfrontend QSqlDatabase: QMYSQL3 driver not loaded Thanks, Mark ___ I had that message once, I re-emerged qt and it fixed it. Lee ___ mythtv-users mailing li

Re: [mythtv-users] missing /dev/dri

2005-10-26 Thread Cyber Source
Michael T. Dean wrote: Cyber Source wrote: Michael T. Dean wrote: Cyber Source wrote: no sound no anything. I can hear the drive crunching, look in the directory that the recording is going into, and watch it grow, just it is only recording a black screen, no video, no audio. I have star

Re: [mythtv-users] new recordings missing database fields after R5A22 upgrade

2005-10-26 Thread Michael T. Dean
Byron Poland wrote: On 10/26/05, Michael T. Dean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Byron Poland wrote: Here is the relevant part of my backend log on on startup: 2005-10-26 15:02:15.804 Using runtime prefix = /usr QSettings::sync: filename is null/empty 2005-10-26 15:02:15.953 New DB connection,

[mythtv-users] How to get rid of User Job?

2005-10-26 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have never defined or set any User Jobs. However, it seems like everytime my slave backend records a show, "User Job #3" gets assigned to some other recording, even if it wasn't recorded on the slave backend. How do I tell MythTV not to run this phantom 'User Job #3' (in mythfrontend or in the

[mythtv-users] mysql update on remote frontend broke MythTV

2005-10-26 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, I've been reading a number of things about this latest mysql update and wanted to take it slow. On one of my Gentoo frontend boxes I gave it a go this morning. Bad results so far. On the frontend where I did the update and am having trouble I now have: * dev-db/mysql Available versions

Re: [mythtv-users] missing /dev/dri

2005-10-26 Thread Cyber Source
Michael T. Dean wrote: Cyber Source wrote: Michael T. Dean wrote: Cyber Source wrote: no sound no anything. I can hear the drive crunching, look in the directory that the recording is going into, and watch it grow, just it is only recording a black screen, no video, no audio. I have star

Re: [mythtv-users] missing /dev/dri

2005-10-26 Thread Cyber Source
R. Geoffrey Newbury wrote: On Wed, 26 Oct 2005 14:14:27 -0400, Cyber Source wrote: Michael T. Dean wrote: Cyber Source wrote: I seem to be missing /dev/dri using a pvr-350 with an nvidia card as the myth is bitching about this and i only get a blank screen when recording, I

Re: [mythtv-users] missing /dev/dri

2005-10-26 Thread Michael T. Dean
Cyber Source wrote: Michael T. Dean wrote: Cyber Source wrote: no sound no anything. I can hear the drive crunching, look in the directory that the recording is going into, and watch it grow, just it is only recording a black screen, no video, no audio. I have started mythfrontend with -v

Re: [mythtv-users] new recordings missing database fields after R5A22 upgrade

2005-10-26 Thread Byron Poland
On 10/26/05, Michael T. Dean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Byron Poland wrote: > > >Here is the relevant part of my backend log on on startup: > > > >2005-10-26 15:02:15.804 Using runtime prefix = /usr > >QSettings::sync: filename is null/empty > >2005-10-26 15:02:15.953 New DB connection, total: 1

Re: [mythtv-users] missing /dev/dri

2005-10-26 Thread Cyber Source
Michael T. Dean wrote: Cyber Source wrote: no sound no anything. I can hear the drive crunching, look in the directory that the recording is going into, and watch it grow, just it is only recording a black screen, no video, no audio. I have started mythfrontend with -v all option and looking

Re: [mythtv-users] new recordings missing database fields after R5A22 upgrade

2005-10-26 Thread Michael T. Dean
Byron Poland wrote: Here is the relevant part of my backend log on on startup: 2005-10-26 15:02:15.804 Using runtime prefix = /usr QSettings::sync: filename is null/empty 2005-10-26 15:02:15.953 New DB connection, total: 1 2005-10-26 15:02:15.991 Setting Lock for Database Schema upgrade. If you

Re: [mythtv-users] missing /dev/dri

2005-10-26 Thread Michael T. Dean
Cyber Source wrote: no sound no anything. I can hear the drive crunching, look in the directory that the recording is going into, and watch it grow, just it is only recording a black screen, no video, no audio. I have started mythfrontend with -v all option and looking at that see that it is

Re: [mythtv-users] new recordings missing database fields after R5A22 upgrade

2005-10-26 Thread Byron Poland
On 10/26/05, Kevin Kuphal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Michael T. Dean wrote: > > > Kevin Kuphal wrote: > > > >> Sounds like a DB update was missed. If you do not have the basename > >> field in your DB, execute this SQL statement against it: > >> > >> ALTER TABLE recorded ADD COLUMN basename varc

Re: [mythtv-users] missing /dev/dri

2005-10-26 Thread R. Geoffrey Newbury
On Wed, 26 Oct 2005 14:14:27 -0400, Cyber Source wrote: >Michael T. Dean wrote: > >> Cyber Source wrote: >> >>> I seem to be missing /dev/dri using a pvr-350 with an nvidia card as >>> the myth is bitching about this and i only get a blank screen when >>> recording, I can watch tv OK. Any ideas,

Re: [mythtv-users] new recordings missing database fields after R5A22 upgrade

2005-10-26 Thread Kevin Kuphal
Michael T. Dean wrote: Kevin Kuphal wrote: Sounds like a DB update was missed. If you do not have the basename field in your DB, execute this SQL statement against it: ALTER TABLE recorded ADD COLUMN basename varchar(128) NOT NULL DEFAULT; and then, once it is in your database, run this:

Re: [mythtv-users] MyIRBlaster - Myth Issues Only??

2005-10-26 Thread David Ellis
Solved. I inserted a sleep command in the changechannel script BEFORE I send the command. sleep .5 Its possibly a thread contention issue of some sort? Anyway experiment with different sleep options to get the best configuration for your setup. David - Original Message - From: "Da

Re: [mythtv-users] missing /dev/dri

2005-10-26 Thread Cyber Source
Michael T. Dean wrote: Cyber Source wrote: I seem to be missing /dev/dri using a pvr-350 with an nvidia card as the myth is bitching about this and i only get a blank screen when recording, I can watch tv OK. Any ideas, TIA I didn't respond to your other post ( http://www.gossamer-threads

Re: [mythtv-users] Firewire source and channel changer

2005-10-26 Thread Curtis Stanford
On Oct 26, 2005, at 11:54 AM, Brian C. Huffman wrote: On Wed, 2005-10-26 at 11:05 -0500, Alex Brekken wrote: Anyway, I realize you're having other issues with FireWire but I just thought I'd see if you were seeing this choppy video stuff on non-HD content as well. I do not see this chopp

Re: [mythtv-users] new recordings missing database fields after R5A22 upgrade

2005-10-26 Thread Byron Poland
On 10/26/05, Michael T. Dean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Byron Poland wrote: > > >On 10/26/05, Kevin Kuphal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >>Byron Poland wrote: > >> > >> > >> > >>>Since upgrading my backend to Knoppmyth R5A22, all of the recordings > >>>I've made are missing the basename, p

[mythtv-users] EIT Guide won't fill

2005-10-26 Thread Norm
I've downloaded and am testing the latest build 7596. In particular I wanted to try out the EIT on-air guide downloading. I was getting this same error while trying to get the on-air guide from previous versions. Screenfuls of the following is spewed out: 2005-10-26 13:53:53.161 Desired pro

Re: [mythtv-users] Firewire source and channel changer

2005-10-26 Thread Brian C. Huffman
On Wed, 2005-10-26 at 11:05 -0500, Alex Brekken wrote: > Anyway, I realize you're having other issues with FireWire but I just > thought I'd see if you were seeing this choppy video stuff on non-HD > content as well. > I do not see this choppy video with SD content through the firewire. Brian

Re: [mythtv-users] MyIRBlaster - Myth Issues Only??

2005-10-26 Thread Robert Denier
I had a lot of trouble changing channels reliably since I moved to dish network 301 receivers from a 5xx series. Someone suggested that the gap value in the file may have to be changed and that it was cpu/serial port dependent. I kept changing it and figured it was a lost cause at one point, an

[mythtv-users] Re: MyIRBlaster - Myth Issues Only??

2005-10-26 Thread Mike Frisch
On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 01:22:47PM -0400, David Ellis wrote: > What I've noticed is it only pops up if the same blaster is used to > receive the command as send the command. I use discrete send and receive IR emitters/receivers and I have the problem. > 2) changing channels is 25% reliable Mine

Re: [mythtv-users] MyIRBlaster - Myth Issues Only??

2005-10-26 Thread David Ellis
I'm having a similiar issue with a USB connected blaster..so I'm pretty sure its not related to the serial line speed or configuration. What I've noticed is it only pops up if the same blaster is used to receive the command as send the command. Symptoms: 1) recording is 100% reliable (tha

Re: [mythtv-users] MyIRBlaster - Myth Issues Only??

2005-10-26 Thread George Nassas
On 26-Oct-05, at 1:08 PM, Scott S. wrote: Has anyone seen this? Or have any other ideas on a fix? Any help would be great. I haven't seen this problem with mine but I remember when I was setting up a modem I had a heck of a time getting the serial connection to work reliably. One thought I h

[mythtv-users] Re: MyIRBlaster - Myth Issues Only??

2005-10-26 Thread Mike Frisch
On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 10:08:53AM -0700, Scott S. wrote: > There's typically three things could happen when it fails, one is it > could do nothing. It's rare but it's happened a couple of times), > another is that it misses a digit (usually at the beginning or middle > of the channel number), and

[mythtv-users] MyIRBlaster - Myth Issues Only??

2005-10-26 Thread Scott S.
Hello, I've recently switch TV providers (because the company I work for is offering TV services now) and we have Amino AmiNet110's for set top boxes. I'm using a MyBlaster, the serial one from my tv store (mytvsore dot com). I use the MyBlaster.pl that you can download for use with the My

Re: [mythtv-users] Can't record from composite.

2005-10-26 Thread Michael T. Dean
Greg Burke wrote: I've just got my mythtvbox up and running but i have a problem with it. i'm using a a wintv pvr 350 card which seems to working fine because i can watch my old videotapes and satellite tv through it but i can't record from s-video composite or tuner. when i press "r" while

Re: [mythtv-users] new recordings missing database fields after R5A22 upgrade

2005-10-26 Thread Michael T. Dean
Byron Poland wrote: On 10/26/05, Kevin Kuphal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Byron Poland wrote: Since upgrading my backend to Knoppmyth R5A22, all of the recordings I've made are missing the basename, progstart, and progend fields (ie they are blank). this causes jobs like commercial fl

Re: [mythtv-users] new recordings missing database fields after R5A22 upgrade

2005-10-26 Thread Michael T. Dean
Kevin Kuphal wrote: Sounds like a DB update was missed. If you do not have the basename field in your DB, execute this SQL statement against it: ALTER TABLE recorded ADD COLUMN basename varchar(128) NOT NULL DEFAULT; and then, once it is in your database, run this: UPDATE recorded SET basen

Re: [mythtv-users] Firewire source and channel changer

2005-10-26 Thread Alex Brekken
Brian, I see this exact same issue - the choppy video which you describe as a "stopping and starting" effect - on my firewire video as well.  Everything else with my Firewire setup works well, except this.  The thing is, I see it on standard def. TV as well as HD - although not all the time and not

Re: [mythtv-users] Upgrade to MySql 5.0

2005-10-26 Thread Michael T. Dean
Robert Denier wrote: I wonder if that tiny database (sqlite?) that comes with php5 (?) is adequate for mythtv. The main thing is it treats everything as strings. I don't think it has support for accessing remotely so it may not be useful.. I found it useful when I needed a database and didn't h

[mythtv-users] Installing projectX from source?

2005-10-26 Thread Mike Daugird
I feel kind of stupid now, it seems the way to run it on gentoo is the following: #chmod 777 build.sh #./build.sh #cp ProjectX.jar /usr/bin/ #/opt/blackdown-jdk-1.4.2.02/bin/java -jar /usr/bin/ProjectX.jar now it works for me. ** I get the same

Re: [mythtv-users] missing /dev/dri

2005-10-26 Thread Michael T. Dean
Cyber Source wrote: I seem to be missing /dev/dri using a pvr-350 with an nvidia card as the myth is bitching about this and i only get a blank screen when recording, I can watch tv OK. Any ideas, TIA I didn't respond to your other post ( http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/15

Re: [mythtv-users] Installing projectX from source?

2005-10-26 Thread Michael T. Dean
Robin Gilks wrote: Getting there... now I get the error: Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: net/sourceforge/dvb/projectx/common/X Googling shows lots of people with the same error but so far I've not found a solution. Again it comes down to the installation I think in th

[mythtv-users] nuv2disc problem

2005-10-26 Thread Ben Edwards
When I first go into nuv2disc it lets me select files to transcode but then I get it to transcode it does not seem to do anything. I am using KnoppixMyth with a nova-t dvb card. Any Idead? Ben-- Ben Edwards - Bristol, UK, EnglandWARNING:This email contained partisan views - dont ever accuse me of

Re: [mythtv-users] Installing projectX from source?

2005-10-26 Thread Michael T. Dean
Robin Gilks wrote: But projectx doesn't come as a jar file Yes it does. - it comes as a bunch of .java files that are compiled by the sdk into a jar file - that step works fine. What I can't get right is where do I put the library files it depends on that are created during the 'compile' ste

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Xbox as FE

2005-10-26 Thread Vladan Bato
Vladan Bato wrote: I'll send you the files as soon as I get back to my Xbox (probably wednesday). Here are the files I promised: the xir and xpad drivers recompiled for Xebian 1.1.4 (kernel 2.4.31-xbox). For those who missed the previous posts: these drivers allow you to use some cheap afte

[mythtv-users] Can't record from composite.

2005-10-26 Thread Greg Burke
Hi. I've just got my mythtvbox up and running but i have a problem with it. i'm using a a wintv pvr 350 card which seems to working fine because i can watch my old videotapes and satellite tv through it but i can't record from s-video composite or tuner. when i press "r" while watching it ju

Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV vs Freevo

2005-10-26 Thread Joseph A. Caputo
On Wednesday 26 October 2005 11:25, Joshua Lewis wrote: > I just setup a FreeBSD sysem and looking for the best entertainment > system > I can make. > > Has anyone sucessfully installed MythTV on FreeBSD? FreeBSD is the > only > platform I am familiar with other then Windows and the MAC OS. I

Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV vs Freevo

2005-10-26 Thread Ben Edwards
On 10/26/05, Joshua Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Does anyone know of any differences between functionality of MythTV andFreevo? http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=mythtv+vs+freevo&btnG=Search You will probably get a slightly more biast  opinion here;) I just setup a FreeBSD sysem and lo

Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV vs Freevo

2005-10-26 Thread Scott Carr
Joshua Lewis wrote: Does anyone know of any differences between functionality of MythTV and Freevo? MythTV appears to be more polished, and has more features. It was also a bit easier to setup, for me. I just setup a FreeBSD sysem and looking for the best entertainment system I can make. H

Re: [mythtv-users] Freeze when deleting program

2005-10-26 Thread Andrew Close
On 10/26/05, Mercury Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 10/26/05, Steve Pugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > --- Mercury Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Can you post the size(s) of the the recordings that > > > were deleted? > > > If you don't have that data, that's OK. I ask for

[mythtv-users] MythTV vs Freevo

2005-10-26 Thread Joshua Lewis
Does anyone know of any differences between functionality of MythTV and Freevo? I just setup a FreeBSD sysem and looking for the best entertainment system I can make. Has anyone sucessfully installed MythTV on FreeBSD? FreeBSD is the only platform I am familiar with other then Windows and the MAC

Re: [mythtv-users] Freeze when deleting program

2005-10-26 Thread Mercury Morris
On 10/26/05, Steve Pugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: --- Mercury Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> Can you post the size(s) of the the recordings that> were deleted?> If you don't have that data, that's OK. I ask for > the size data because> on my EXT3 filesystem, deleting smaller size> recordings d

Re: [mythtv-users] Freeze when deleting program

2005-10-26 Thread Steve Pugh
--- David Wallace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > What Flavor OS are you running? I have heard Fedora > 4 has problems with > XFS and that JFS works better with it. Hi there, I am running Knoppmyth R5A16 which is based on Knoppix and therefore more akin to Debian than Fedora. OK, the first

Re: [mythtv-users] Freeze when deleting program

2005-10-26 Thread Steve Pugh
--- Mercury Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can you post the size(s) of the the recordings that > were deleted? > If you don't have that data, that's OK. I ask for > the size data because > on my EXT3 filesystem, deleting smaller size > recordings don't always > cause the freeze. But deleting

Re: [mythtv-users] MythBackend - There but nobodies home

2005-10-26 Thread Kevin Kuphal
Scott Carr wrote: Carl Fongheiser wrote: On 10/24/05, *Scott Carr* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: Carl Fongheiser wrote: > On 10/24/05, *Scott Carr* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >

Re: [mythtv-users] Freeze when deleting program

2005-10-26 Thread Mercury Morris
On 10/26/05, Steve Pugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:> I converted my system to XFS on (software) RAID-5> when I> installed MythTV and it's been rock-solid.  The box> also > hosts IMAP, SMB, VNC and Apache2 servers, and has> never> seemed to have any problem deleting large

Re: [mythtv-users] FC4 & MythTV - Computer powering down... sort of! - FRUSTRATION!!

2005-10-26 Thread R. Geoffrey Newbury
On Wed, 26 Oct 2005 14:17:51 +0200, Stef Coene wrote: >> IS EXACTLY what I would like to do. Problem is I have no idea how to >> copy on a new kernel and have that load as the default kernel. At that >> point I wouldn't know what to be looking for in dmesg and lspci to >> make a new kernel, and on

Re: [mythtv-users] Freeze when deleting program

2005-10-26 Thread David Wallace
Hi, What Flavor OS are you running? I have heard Fedora 4 has problems with XFS and that JFS works better with it. David On Wed, 2005-10-26 at 07:43 -0700, Steve Pugh wrote: > --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I converted my system to XFS on (software) RAID-5 > > when I > > installed MythTV and

Re: [mythtv-users] 150 or 150MCE

2005-10-26 Thread Erik Pettersen
On 10/16/05, Carl Fongheiser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 10/16/05, Joe Votour <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > There is a "kit" of the PVR-150MCE that comes with an > > MCE remote, versus the regular retail PVR-150 that > > comes with the Hauppauge remote. How this would be at > > retail, well,

Re: [mythtv-users] Freeze when deleting program

2005-10-26 Thread Steve Pugh
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I converted my system to XFS on (software) RAID-5 > when I > installed MythTV and it's been rock-solid. The box > also > hosts IMAP, SMB, VNC and Apache2 servers, and has > never > seemed to have any problem deleting large files > while > recording. Both mythweb

Re: [mythtv-users] new recordings missing database fields after R5A22 upgrade

2005-10-26 Thread Byron Poland
On 10/26/05, Kevin Kuphal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Byron Poland wrote: > > >Since upgrading my backend to Knoppmyth R5A22, all of the recordings > >I've made are missing the basename, progstart, and progend fields (ie > >they are blank). this causes jobs like commercial flagging to fail. > >If

Re: [mythtv-users] Anyway of making the fonts smaller

2005-10-26 Thread Scott Carr
Ben Edwards wrote: Tried changing them in settings but made no difference :-(. Also I guess once I have made them smaller I will then want to increase the number of characters for the prog descriptions. Is there a way of doing this? Maybe I need to use a different theme? Regards, Ben -- Be

Re: [mythtv-users] [Fwd: PVR-150 - Random Noise/Blockiness top 1/6 of screen]

2005-10-26 Thread Scott Carr
Lee Koloszyc wrote: Occasionaly while recording or watching TV the channel will have a band of white/black transparent blocks at the top of the screen, probably about 1/6 of the whole height (about 4-6 in. on a 36in TV). Switching to a new channel and back will cause it to go away. I tried

Re: [mythtv-users] MythBackend - There but nobodies home

2005-10-26 Thread Scott Carr
Michael T. Dean wrote: Scott Carr wrote: Carl Fongheiser wrote: On 10/24/05, *Scott Carr* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: I have already modified mythfilldatabase to work with 5.0. Adding ` to repeat worked fine. Just this annoying 'MySQL server has go

Re: [mythtv-users] MythBackend - There but nobodies home

2005-10-26 Thread Scott Carr
Carl Fongheiser wrote: On 10/24/05, Scott Carr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Carl Fongheiser wrote: > On 10/24/05, *Scott Carr* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > > > I have already modified mythfilldatabase to work with 5.0.  Adding > ` to > repe

[mythtv-users] Re: Installing projectX from source?

2005-10-26 Thread Mike Frisch
On Tue, October 25, 2005 11:53 pm, Robin Gilks said: > But projectx doesn't come as a jar file - it comes as a bunch of .java > files that are compiled by the sdk into a jar file - that step works fine. > What I can't get right is where do I put the library files it depends on > that are created du

[mythtv-users] transcoding shows manually

2005-10-26 Thread Jesse Guardiani
Hello, I've been reading about transcoding to cut out commercials or transcoding to mpeg4 lately, but I'm not sure how it works from the frontend. I see the ability to start a transcode job when I press the right arrow key while looking at a recording in the Watch Recordings menu, but how do I c

Re: [mythtv-users] Upgrade to MySql 5.0

2005-10-26 Thread Jesse Guardiani
Robert Denier wrote: I wonder if that tiny database (sqlite?) that comes with php5 (?) is adequate for mythtv. The main thing is it treats everything as strings. I don't think it has support for accessing remotely so it may not be useful.. I found it useful when I needed a database and didn't ha

Re: [mythtv-users] new recordings missing database fields after R5A22 upgrade

2005-10-26 Thread Kevin Kuphal
Byron Poland wrote: Since upgrading my backend to Knoppmyth R5A22, all of the recordings I've made are missing the basename, progstart, and progend fields (ie they are blank). this causes jobs like commercial flagging to fail. If I fill in the missing data manually into the tables, things work

Re: [mythtv-users] Upgrade to MySql 5.0

2005-10-26 Thread Robert Denier
I wonder if that tiny database (sqlite?) that comes with php5 (?) is adequate for mythtv. The main thing is it treats everything as strings. I don't think it has support for accessing remotely so it may not be useful.. I found it useful when I needed a database and didn't have the space for mysql.

Re: [mythtv-users] Some Quick Questions about MythTV

2005-10-26 Thread Scot L. Harris
On Wed, 2005-10-26 at 04:05, David Watkins wrote: > On 25/10/05, Scot L. Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > My main backend system had four 300GB drives with one LVM group setup as > > a 1TB file system which I use for recordings. At this point I did not > > bother with raid. If a dri

Re: [mythtv-users] Upgrade to MySql 5.0

2005-10-26 Thread Lee Koloszyc
Adrian Kladnig wrote: Is anyone running MythTV with MySQL 5.0? Are there any config changes that I will need to make to get it to work properly? Is there a way that I can run MySQL 5.0 in parallel with MySQL 3.23.58 (just to hedge my bets!) Thanks, Adrian. I had problems with m

Re: [mythtv-users] Mythweb listings painfully slow?

2005-10-26 Thread Dennis Hand
>Hi all, >I am a newbie to Myth(TV) but finally have things up and running on a FC4 box. > The system is reasonably fast, an >Intel 2.5GHZ with 512 megs of ram. >However, when I attempt to access Mythweb from other machines on the >network, >the process of opening the channel listings on the ma

[mythtv-users] Upgrade to MySql 5.0

2005-10-26 Thread Adrian Kladnig
Is anyone running MythTV with MySQL 5.0? Are there any config changes that I will need to make to get it to work properly? Is there a way that I can run MySQL 5.0 in parallel with MySQL 3.23.58 (just to hedge my bets!) Thanks, Adrian. ___

[mythtv-users] missing /dev/dri

2005-10-26 Thread Cyber Source
Hello All, I seem to be missing /dev/dri using a pvr-350 with an nvidia card as the myth is bitching about this and i only get a blank screen when recording, I can watch tv OK. Any ideas, TIA -- cybersource.us 115 Richfield Road Williamsville, New York 142

[mythtv-users] Installing projectX from source?

2005-10-26 Thread Mike Daugird
I get the same error if I run the build.sh but if I try the ebuild that is basically an update of the .82 version(the last one in portage) I get a different error but it still doesn't work. Message: 15 Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 23:04:05 +1300 (NZDT) From:

Re: [mythtv-users] FC4 & MythTV - Computer powering down... sort of! - FRUSTRATION!!

2005-10-26 Thread Stef Coene
On Wednesday 26 October 2005 06:26, David Bennett wrote: > This may seem like a terribly lazy question but this: > > I usually run with a custom kernel that matches my hardware > > exactly. When moving to another box, I first copy on a > > recent knoppix kernel and modules and make that my default

[mythtv-users] Anyway of making the fonts smaller

2005-10-26 Thread Ben Edwards
Tried changing them in settings but made no difference :-(. Also I guess once I have made them smaller I will then want to increase the number of characters for the prog descriptions.  Is there a way of doing this? Maybe I need to use a different theme? Regards, Ben-- Ben Edwards - Bristol, UK, E

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