john roberts wrote:
Shawn,
I have the same TV - love it.
BTW - how do you watch 1080i content on the TV? Do you drive the tv at 1280x720p and do de-interlacing on the MythTV box? Do you have interlacing issues?
I actually don't have any 1080i content to watch (yet -- I'm sure that
will change
Jack Heneghan wrote:
I have a Samsung DLP with DVI and VGA interfaces along with a number
of Component, S-video and composite inputs. I am still in the process
of acquiring the mythTV components , but I have used it as a PC
monitor and it works very well. A 50 monitor can be a bit
overwhelmi
Michael Haan wrote:
I agree. i don't think it's so much the optimizations as it is the
reduction in software bloat. Although, it is nice to know I'm running
64 bit sw on my 64 bit CPU and to know that portage supports 64 bit sw
distribution, whereas apt-get does not.
My desktop is a Athlon64 runn
Robert Tsai wrote:
Be wary of the newer 128-bit 5200 cards, I think many of those have
fans (at least the eVGA 128-bit 5200 card has one).
My Asus 128MB 5200 doesn't have a fan. It cost $50 at tigerdirect.com.
I'm a little woried about it, though. Its very small heat sink is
typically *very* hot
Steve Dibb wrote:
I have no sympathy for people who run RPM-based systems and then whine
about dependencies. ;)
I have no sympathy for people who run Debian systems and then whine
about... damn. What is there to whine about again? I know there must
be something...
;-)
Shawn.
Craig Partin wrote:
I'm not a portage expert by any means, but I believe this could be
easily done. You would have to build custom ebuild files for your dev
packages. Once the ebuild file (a glorified shell script) was working
to your satisfaction, upgrades would be trivial. You can keep custom
Michael Haan wrote:
The great thing is that once you have the base OS up and running its
just a simple "emerge mythtv" and then the next morning your system is
ready. All the dependencies are handled automatically and it just
works.
Or you could use Debian, and once you have the base OS up and run
Brian J. Murrell wrote:
How about teaching the kids some responsibility to your television, the
environment and their future and turn the thing off when they are done
with it?
I responded privately to this in some detail. Publicly I'll just say
that while this suggestion is good in theory, and
I have kids and a brand-new 50" DLP HDTV, which has a bulb that will
eventually burn out. In case the conflict there isn't obvious, the kids
have a tendency to leave the TV on, wasting electricity and reducing the
bulf lifespan. I was looking for ways to fix this and figured out some
things t
Chris Pinkham wrote:
cerr << "Only MP2 audio is currently supported, unknown type: "
<< buf[1] << endl;
This may be more useful:
cerr << "Only MP2 audio is currently supported, unknown type: "
<< (int)buf[1] << endl;
Shawn.
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Ken Mink wrote:
A slower cooler CPU would have probably been a better choice.
You can still fix that. Just underclock the CPU down to, say, 1600XP,
then turn the voltage down as far as you can without losing stability.
Lowering the clock speed helps quite a bit with temperature, and it
allo
Andrew Close wrote:
i still don't quite get this. if i invite 20 ppl over to watch 'Lost'
on Weds night isn't that a group showing? i'm not profiting, peddling
or gaining in any way other than enjoying a show with a 'group' of
friends.
As I understand it, technically it's illegal to show your
Andy Long wrote:
Since a copy has to be transfixed to a medium to receive copyright,
how exactly does broadcasting qualify? This isn't an attack against
you, just something I have oft wondered.
The show gets copyright protection when it is first fixed in tangible
medium by the production team.
T
Andy Long wrote:
No, this is not "rightly" something that media companies should be
allowed to prevent. Under current law, they CAN'T prevent it. It is
perfectly legal of you to lend a copy of a movie/TV show to a friend
to borrow and watch.
Unfortunately, it's not clear that this is true.
IANA
Is it possible to do set MythDVD up to do distributed transcoding, a la
dvdrip?
If not, I suppose I can just use dvdrip and then throw the AVIs in the
mythtv directory, but it would be nice if I could rip and transcode from
the myth interface and also get the benefit of a couple of additional
Sorry to reply to the list, but your mail server bounces my messages
because my mail server is on my cable modem. It is not, and has never
been, an open relay, but there are a number of ISPs who reject my mail
because it might be. Irritating.
Marius Schrecker wrote:
Mine had a noisy fan on th
Marius Schrecker wrote:
Shawn Willden wrote
So, I pulled the hard drive out of my new Shuttle...
I have one of those and am wanting to do the same thing. It's still in the
early stages but if it works I'll post it. I need some more toslink cables
before I can test. Mine's a sn95g
Shawn Willden wrote:
Hmm. I guess maybe my next step is to dig up a Windows CD and see if
SPDIF works with the vendor-provided drivers.
Yes, it works with the vendor-provided drivers under Windows 2000.
Mostly works, anyway. The surround speakers don't seem to be used properly.
Any
Shawn Willden wrote:
My desktop machine has one, too. It actually has a TOSLINK output
also... maybe I should try hooking that box up to my receiver, just
for kicks...
Okay, that was an interesting experiment. I attached the other
machine's TOSLINK port to the receiver and it worked.
Robert Tsai wrote:
I had the same symptoms.
Have you first tried the normal analog audio ports to make sound is
working at all? If the analog audio isn't working, then maybe you have
a deeper problem. (I encountered a Dell motherboard where the normal
audio port in Linux was actually the *surround*
Hi,
I have a Shuttle FX43G mainboard with builtin Via VT8233 audio. It has
TOSLINK input and output, and I have the output connected to my Yamaha
5.1 receiver, but I'm unable to get any audio out of it.
If I run "aplay -D spdif ", I hear a click when aplay opens the
audio device and another wh
I found the Viewsonic M2000E "media PC", and it looks like it may just
what I'm looking for, assuming that Linux and MythTV will run on it.
Has anyone run MythTV on this system? It's got an nVidia GPU, so I
don't see any problems there, and I'd expect the sound to work, but I
have no idea if t
Aran Cox wrote:
Read the other million posts with this exact same topic in the mail archives?
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/
Thanks, I hadn't found that interface to the archives. The
month-by-month, non-searchable format linked to from mythtv.org is
painful to use. And
Craig Tinson wrote:
Shawn Willden wrote:
yup.. can do that easily.. remember yer gonna need a *huge* amount of
disk space for that kinda sized library
Yep. Luckily, 200GB drives are ~$100 (just bought one for $80), and
xvid produces results that are good enough for the kids at between 500MB
I'm building a home theatre of sorts in my basement. I have a
semi-decent 5.1 audio system and I'm going to get a nice screen
(probably the Samsung 46" DLP -- still working on that decision) and I'd
like to hook a computer up to it to act as a video jukebox, to play any
of the several thousand Ogg
I'd like to set up a nice way to rip/transcode/store/retrieve/play
movies, and I think MythTV might be a great option. I set up a test
system on my laptop (running Debian unstable -- I just installed it with
apt-get) and it looks pretty cool, but I get some errors because I don't
have a TV car
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