RE: [mythtv-users] [ Matrox G400 TV-Out ] RGB Cable
Have a look at http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=2646 I have a couple of G400s - one of which I have been meaning to put into my Myth box. Unfortunately now the good woman has her hands on it I'm not allowed to touch it lest I break it! So I can't say it works for me, but it's a pretty comprehensive guide. -Original Message- From: Bernd Müller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 2 March 2005 5:48 a.m. To: mythtv-users@mythtv.org Subject: [mythtv-users] [ Matrox G400 TV-Out ] RGB Cable Hello; I've read much about the Matrox G400 (Max) an it's exquisite tv-out in this mailing-list. And some time ago i got such a card. But i'm not able until yet to get the tv-out work in a satisfactory way. I've tried all the specified ways how to connect the card (first and second head) via composite, svhs or the selfmade RGB cable (the simple one for tthe second head). At last i've gave up to configure X with directfb as it's seems to be very complicated. But now i've read in this list about an other RGB Cable with a little circuit inside: http://www.sput.nl/hardware/tv-x.html Is it possible to run the G400 with this RGB Cable at the first head? Does the G400 provide the nearby optimal pixelclock of 14.16 or maybe the optimal clock of 14.76? Is it possible to use the mentioned Modline 736x575i 14.16 736 760 824 904 575 580 585 625 interlace -hsync -vsync Which X-driver i've to use? The one from matrox or the GPL one. Will this solution provide hardware acceleration (because of using first head of G400) and an optimal tv-out? Bernd (c; ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] is my processor to blame? (lockups, problems with FF and REW)
On Wed, 2 Mar 2005 22:40:49 -0500, Aaron Aguilar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you can move the sound card to another IRQ in your BIOS setup and see if that solves your problem. Heck, share it with some other device instead of your PVR-250. If it fixes the ff/rew lockups, please let me know! :) Well I moved my PVR 250 so it doesn't share an IRQ with anything else. That didn't fix the problem unfortunately. I'm still having the freezing issue on FF and REW. Also my system seems to be crashing more frequently for some strange reason. I am thinking maybe it's FC3, but am hesitant to reinstall yet again lol. Anyways, any more ideas and I'd appreciate the input :) Cheers, Aaron This helped me with stability problems on my Pundit (SiS version) and PVR250+PVR350 backend+frontend system, installed using Jarod's guide: Add to kernel= line in grub.conf: parport=0 noapic nolapic acpi=off Also, I turned off USB, serial ports and parallel ports in the BIOS, as well as anything related to power management. Seems to be working so far; my mythfrontend hasn't locked up when using ff/rew since I added that, but it may just be me being careful when pushing the buttons on my remote. :) / Niklas ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Couldn't get the color key color; frontend crashes
I don't know exactly why, since yesterday my frontend crashes if I want to watch TV the frontend logs: 2005-03-03 10:18:13.834 Connecting to backend server: 127.0.0.1:6543 (try 1 of 5) 2005-03-03 10:18:13.842 Using protocol version 14 2005-03-03 10:18:14.239 Using protocol version 14 2005-03-03 10:18:17.240 Opening audio device '/dev/dsp'. 2005-03-03 10:18:17.241 Opening OSS audio device '/dev/dsp'. X Error: XvBadPort 153 Major opcode: 142 Minor opcode: 15 Resource id: 0x X Error: XvBadPort 153 Major opcode: 142 Minor opcode: 14 Resource id: 0x *** * Couldn't find Xv support, falling back to non-Xv mode. * MythTV performance will be much slower since color * conversion and scaling will be done in software. * Consider upgrading your video card or X server if * you would like better performance. 2005-03-03 10:18:17.429 Couldn't get the color key color, and we need it. You likely won't get any video. 2005-03-03 10:18:17.700 Realtime priority would require SUID as root. 2005-03-03 10:18:17.723 Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV 2005-03-03 10:18:17.731 Video timing method: USleep with busy wait I have a not touched 0.17 which worked since it was released without a problem. Any ideas why I get this error about the color key ? why it crashes ? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Problems Editing a DVB recording
Hi, I've been using MythTV for about 2 months now, and I'm very impressed with it! Well done to everyone involved! I have a VisionPlus (Twinhan) DVB-T card in the UK, running 0.17 on FC3 but I'm yet to find a way to edit the recordings. I assumed it generates MPEG2 files. So I discovered a program called avidemux2 which can read and write to MPEG2 files. I have a dual boot system of FC3 and Windows 2000. I made some mpg recordings on Windows and avidemux2 edited them really well, with the sound in sync too. I then got a nuv file made by MythTV and tried to open it in avidemux2. avidemux2 says Problem opening that file!, and prints unrecognized file detected... on the terminal window. I tried renaming it to an mpg and I have the same problem. I've tried using nuvexport, but that takes about 5x longer than real time, and I thought if the files are really just mpg2, it shouldn't need transcoding anyway. I'd really like to use the MPEG2-MPEG2 cut option on nuvexport, but as that automates avidemux2 that fails too! Can anyone help me please? Thanks, Jonny ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] FC3, lirc and irman
Thanks from me too. These posts help me get lirc up and running with the irman and the radioshack 15-2116 remote. hondaman wrote: Thanks Andy, Jerod and Jeff. That will give me enough information to beat my head against for a while :) Jeff Wormsley wrote: hondaman wrote: I got my irman in the mail today, and have had no luck getting it to do anything. I have this in my modprobe.conf (as per Jarod's guide) options lirc_serial irq=3 io=0x2f8 install lirc_serial /bin/setserial /dev/ttyS1 uart none ;\ /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install lirc_serial When I do lsmod, i dont see any lirc drivers listed. If I do depmod -a, still nothing. If I do modprobe lirc_serial, then I get Module Size Used by lirc_serial11424 0 lirc_dev 11148 1 lirc_serial lircd then starts ok. When I run irw, however, I get no response from my remote. I am using the pvr-250 remote (grey top, black bottom, with the red,green,yellow, and blue buttons along the bottom) with the corresponding lircd.conf. I imagine Im doing a hundred things wrong. Could someone please offer some advice? I'm seriously stuck. A few things to look for: 1. You don't need anything in modprobe.conf 2. Edit /etc/init.d/lircd and change the daemon line to read as follows: daemon lircd --driver=irman --device=/dev/ttyS0 (Change ttyS0 to ttyS1 if you are on COM2) 3. Make sure you have the right lircd.conf file. If IRW shows no button names, chances are you have the wrong one (or the wrong serial port selected). HTH, Jeff. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Slightly OT: MythTV as Senior Project?
Hi everyone. I have been an avid MythTV user for over 6 months now and I love it. I also have wanted to get involved in some development for it. My friend and I are seniors at the University of California, Riverside, and we are trying to find a fun project we can work on for our senior project. However, this is supposed to be a compilers class, but our professor is open to ideas for our project, as long as it is somewhat compiler related. More specifically, I imagine he is going to want to see some scanning and parsing going on in our code at the very minimum. He definitely considers web pages compiler related, so it seems he's pretty lenient, and doesn't want us to strictly re-write gcc :-) We are looking for potential ideas we can propose to him for a project. If we can get him to approve something related to MythTV, we would be very excited. Do any of you have any ideas for features we could implement that would require some compiler related code? I know this is being somewhat worked on, but I just thought of the possibility of getting VBI working with MythTV for the PVR350 and 250 (or I guess ivtv in general). I believe the VBI code is actually working in the ivtv driver, but just not in MythTV yet. Am I correct? I just remembered that an experimental patch just went in on March 1 so this idea may be scrapped. Anyhow, any and all ideas would be greatly appreciated. If we can pull this one off then we would be able to code for something we're actually interested in, while at the same time helping out the project. And of course, we could both possibly learn a thing or two from the plentiful criticism shot out by Isaac and the other devs. :-) Thanks, Louie Ilievski signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Weird audio problem
I have a strange problem. Whenever I restart mythbackend there's no sound in live TV or in any recordings. I've discovered that if I just restart the backend and leave it, any new recordings will not have any sound. If I watch live TV there will not be any sound either. The only way around this has been to restart the backend, go to a frontend client, go to live TV and change the channel. Once I change a channel, everything works like it should from that point on. Anyone have any ideas? I don't even know where to start looking Soudns like the sound modules in modprobe.conf/modules.conf aren't getting automatically loaded. You could explicitly load them using some modprobe commands in rc.local. Regards, Phill ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] 2 questions - Running out of disk space and transcoding
Running Myth .17
Athlon xp2200
512mb of ram
Hauppauge v4l card
40gb hard drive
nvidia gforce 4
1. I keep running out of disk space and am unable to record anything
new. Even if i delete ALL recordings, I am still out of space. I must
manually delete several .nuv files from my drive. Once deleted, I must
stop and start mythbackend in order for myth to see the free space. I
have searched the threads and see several discussions about this issue
but no fixes that I can understand. I am not a coder and only a Linux
beginner.
Since i have a 40gb drive i am repeating this process several times a week.
anyone have a fix that a newbie could perform?
That's odd. The thread called Mythbackend keeping files open, disk
space not being freed implies that this was fixed in CVS in 0.16 so
should be fixed in your 0.17 version. This is the exact problem you're
talking about.
Maybe a workaround would be to check if any important backend progs
are running and if not do a restart via a regular cron job. Messy but
may help as a stop-gap. You could do something like, which I borrowed
from someone else to do a pre-shutdown check:
!/bin/sh
COMMFLAG=`ps -e | grep mythcommflag | grep -v grep | wc -l | awk '{print $1}'`
TRANSCODE=`ps -e | grep mythtranscode | grep -v grep | wc -l | awk '{print $1}'`
TV_GRAB=`ps -e | grep tv_grab_au.sh | grep -v grep | wc -l | awk '{print $1}'`
if [ $COMMFLAG -eq 0 ] [ $TRANSCODE -eq 0 ] [ $TV_GRAB -eq 0 ]
then
service mythbackend restart
exit 0
else
echo `date +%F\ \%T` Something's running, restart disallowed
/var/log/mythtv/mythbackend.log
exit 1
fi
BIG WARNING - this doesn't check if something's recording at the time
so you'll have to figure out how to check for that yourself. I think
someone may have posted something to this list in the last few days
that uses fuser and /dev/video (from my memory) to see if something's
recording.
Regards,
Phill
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Re: [mythtv-users] Remote Options.
I'm looking for IR options. I know you get one with the PVR-250/350s and I could build one I suppose, but I was wondering does anyone have any experience using a commercially build IR receiver, and if so... Who makes it, and what model is it? Thanks in advance. I bought a packard Bell remote on eBay for not much at all and it has a serial port IR receiver and a pretty decent remote, tho you could use a different remote if you have one. The receiver works very well and was easy to set up - just lirc_serial module. I think there's a lot of these on eBay - eg http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemcategory=170item=5171655028rd=1ssPageName=WDVW Regards, Phill ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Audio out of Sync with Video.
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Re: [mythtv-users] bug on visible flag during channel browse
1) The visible flag correctly hides the channel from the channel guide but does not hide it from the channels that show up when you are watching live TV and you are in browse mode. If you don't want this channel you can delete it from mythweb. Regards, Phill ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] No automatic Commercial Flagging DVB-T AC3 in Aus
I turned automatic commercial flagging on after upgrading to 0.17 and it didn't flag commercials. It turns out you have to change this setting in each recording schedule individually. I guess the global setting just changes what the default will be when you create a new recording schedule. Oooh - I didn't know that. So what does the Commercial Free flag get used for in Channel Editor now? I quite liked having it in set and forget mode, but now it's extra presses when seting up a recording. That's not good WAF you know! Regards, Phill ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] MythTV on Xbox - praise
Well, we installed according to the instructions on bltblk and it was beautiful. It pulled down MythTV v0.17 like a champ (looks like it's hosted at RIT.. Yeah Rochester!). I Hey Brian, Good to know there are fellow rochesterians on the list. So here is a hello from the sleepy town of Honeoye. Cheers, Bill ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] No automatic Commercial Flagging DVB-T AC3 in Aus
No, I think the issue is that all the old recordings that have been scheduled will not be updated with the newly set flag. If, when you scheduled them, you didn't have the flag set to scan for commercials, you need to go back to them and update them. All new ones will be set as per the flag. Dave - probably sticking his nose into the wrong end of the conversation and confusing the hell out of everyone :( On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 23:15:36 +1100, Phill Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I turned automatic commercial flagging on after upgrading to 0.17 and it didn't flag commercials. It turns out you have to change this setting in each recording schedule individually. I guess the global setting just changes what the default will be when you create a new recording schedule. Oooh - I didn't know that. So what does the Commercial Free flag get used for in Channel Editor now? I quite liked having it in set and forget mode, but now it's extra presses when seting up a recording. That's not good WAF you know! Regards, Phill ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users -- GMAIL is 'da bomb babyYEAH I have GMail invites, if you want one, email me direct. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] is my processor to blame? (lockups, problems with FF and REW)
First off thanks so much to this list and to Jared for helping me set up a working mythtv box. My setup: AMD Duron 650Mhz 384mb RAM Samsung 160GB HDD FX5200 Hauppauge PVR250 FC3 2.6.10kernel This may not be what you wanted to hear but I was having loads of problems keeping my system running under FC3. Devices would just disappear. Lockups and other problems like ff/rew would crash my frontend. Also could not get my other services like dovecot and fetchmail to work reliably. I ended up wiping and reinstalling FC2. Since then the only problem I am having is that lircd does not want to start from sysinit. That was easily fixed by an entry in rc.local to reprobe and start lirc before starting the backend. Since that fix it has run for about a week without problems. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Commercial Skip
While I'm writing, I have a wishlist request: it'd be nice to be able to have the automatic skipping start 1 or 2 seconds after the beginning of the commercial (the number should be configurable and could default to zero, or course). The reason is that sometimes the skips are so perfect that I can't tell whether I missed any of the show. How about a configurable feature for Commercial flagging that will not save any 'supposed' commercials over xx minutes. I have been having good luck with commercial flagging lately but there is an occasional commercial that is flagged and is over 5 or 6 minutes and is bogus. I think most of my commercials are only a few minutes long so ignoring ones longer than that would cut out some bad commercial flagging. - James ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Commercial Skip
On 3/3/2005 8:56 AM, James Armstrong wrote: How about a configurable feature for Commercial flagging that will not save any 'supposed' commercials over xx minutes. I have been having good luck with commercial flagging lately but there is an occasional commercial that is flagged and is over 5 or 6 minutes and is bogus. I think most of my commercials are only a few minutes long so ignoring ones longer than that would cut out some bad commercial flagging. And if the total commercial break is under 20 seconds or so. Should help with all those Alias non-breaks when they go to black a lot. -- David ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] gentoo cvs ebuild
I tried re-emerging yesterday: emerge mythtv-cvs mythweather-cvs mythtv compiled and worked, mythweather borked out with the same error. Anything else I can try? On Wed, 2 Mar 2005 19:28:11 +, Simon Kenyon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 02 March 2005 15:26, Jeff Simpson wrote: I can't seem to get them working on my system. is the ebuild for mythweather mythweather-cvs? It should be a live cvs update and compile (so every time I try it it would be the most recent cvs copy), but it fails every time on: weather.cpp:484: error: `MSqlQuery' undeclared (first use this function) Ideas? did you emerge mythtv-cvs before you did emerge mythweather-cvs maybe it is overkill but i have a shell script which does: emerge mythtv-cvs mythbrowser-cvs mythdvd-cvs mythgallery-cvs mythgame-cvs mythmusic-cvs mythnews-cvs mythphone-cvs mythvideo-cvs mythweather-cvs mythweb-cvs nuvexport-cvs that way i'm sure that they are all in sync -- simon ps cvs broke for a day or two when the changes to the mysql interface went in maybe you were unlucky in your timing -- email me if you want a gmail invite, I have some invites ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Commercial Skip
On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 08:56:34 -0500, James Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: While I'm writing, I have a wishlist request: it'd be nice to be able to have the automatic skipping start 1 or 2 seconds after the beginning of the commercial (the number should be configurable and could default to zero, or course). The reason is that sometimes the skips are so perfect that I can't tell whether I missed any of the show. How about a configurable feature for Commercial flagging that will not save any 'supposed' commercials over xx minutes. I have been having good luck with commercial flagging lately but there is an occasional commercial that is flagged and is over 5 or 6 minutes and is bogus. I think most of my commercials are only a few minutes long so ignoring ones longer than that would cut out some bad commercial flagging. - James ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users Also, a lower limit for commercial lengths would be nice. In denmark we have few but long blocks. Most are between 4 and 8 minutes. I am starting to get some in-show detections that are 1-2 minutes long that could be avoided by a minimum length check. /henrik ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] parts list
SP1614N is the drive I've got too. Its unbelievably quite. I've heard some complaints about vibrational noise, but I don't get that. I think it has to do with my 8 year old steel case. For a while I unpluged my CPU fan (500 Mhz P3) and the whole system was inaudible. That configuration wasn't compatible with mythcommflag though. On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 01:37:28 -0500, Maverick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't know how large of hard drives you can get, but a laptop hard drive is typically 5400 rpm, and quiet as a mouse, and almost no heat output. You can hook them up with a $2 adapter to a normal computer. I checked into laptop hard drives, ref: http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/107401?#107401 And basically found out 2.5 drives are uselessly expensive. I gave a Samsung drive a try, based on a recommendation of silentpcreview.com (I think). I got a the SP1614N 8MB and it's VERY quiet. In fact, it's so quiet that I can now here the CPU fan over the HD, no whine or noise normally associated with hard drives. It's hard to tell it's spinning. ATA133: http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=22-152-014depa=1 SATA: http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=22-152-015depa=1 As far as I'm concerned, if you're looking for quiet, this is the way to go. Not available bigger than 160gb though :( -Kenneth ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] parts list
I own 2 seagates currently, and in my history with comptuers Seagates have never failed me. On Wed, 02 Mar 2005 15:30:14 -0800, Bill Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Probably less disk than you need. You can only get so many disks in a box (not just because of slots, but because of power supply and controllers) so I am loathe to buy below 200gb these days, even though it is slightly more expensive than the 160gb sweet spot. Yeah, I can put up to 3 drives in that case which will certainly be enough for me until I build a backend and put it in the basement. Consider looking for 5400 rpm drive instead of 7200 if you can get a good price. Less power, less heat, less noise, in theory more reliable. Okay, I'll consider that for my next drives. I got this one cheap on the recent Office Depot Maxtor rebate. In case you didn't notice it, Fry's has 200GB Seagate's on sale this week: http://shop2.outpost.com/product/4008252 I can't speak to the power/noise/performance for these. -bj ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Slightly OT: MythTV as Senior Project?
Check this out for a list of ideas: http://www.mythtv.info/moin.cgi/UserWishList Personnally I want to see something like MythAlarm, but I don't really see where parsing can come into it (unless you did an overly complex implementation.) On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 03:03:21 -0800, Louie Ilievski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everyone. I have been an avid MythTV user for over 6 months now and I love it. I also have wanted to get involved in some development for it. My friend and I are seniors at the University of California, Riverside, and we are trying to find a fun project we can work on for our senior project. However, this is supposed to be a compilers class, but our professor is open to ideas for our project, as long as it is somewhat compiler related. More specifically, I imagine he is going to want to see some scanning and parsing going on in our code at the very minimum. He definitely considers web pages compiler related, so it seems he's pretty lenient, and doesn't want us to strictly re-write gcc :-) We are looking for potential ideas we can propose to him for a project. If we can get him to approve something related to MythTV, we would be very excited. Do any of you have any ideas for features we could implement that would require some compiler related code? I know this is being somewhat worked on, but I just thought of the possibility of getting VBI working with MythTV for the PVR350 and 250 (or I guess ivtv in general). I believe the VBI code is actually working in the ivtv driver, but just not in MythTV yet. Am I correct? I just remembered that an experimental patch just went in on March 1 so this idea may be scrapped. Anyhow, any and all ideas would be greatly appreciated. If we can pull this one off then we would be able to code for something we're actually interested in, while at the same time helping out the project. And of course, we could both possibly learn a thing or two from the plentiful criticism shot out by Isaac and the other devs. :-) Thanks, Louie Ilievski ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Slightly OT: MythTV as Senior Project?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/03/05 6:03 AM snip Anyhow, any and all ideas would be greatly appreciated. If we can pull this one off then we would be able to code for something we're actually interested in, while at the same time helping out the project. And of course, we could both possibly learn a thing or two from the plentiful criticism shot out by Isaac and the other devs. :-) Thanks, Louie Ilievski How about a modeline generator? People are always aksing for ways to come up with the perfect modeline. I often see the control strip in windows mentioned, but since Myth only does linux, something equivalent so I didn't have to remove my card from the current machine, load it into a windows machine I might have lying around, run the program, generate the modelines, take them down, take the card out, put it back into the myth box, then try out all the modelines supported. That would be huge! Paul ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Help with pcHDTV-2000
Quoting Brandon Beattie [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 09:04:32AM -0800, Nathan Whittacre wrote: I actually followed those steps pretty closely. That's how I got the video working. US-broadcast is the frequency table, and only the HD channels are selected in Zap2It. I'm not sure what it is. Nathan What if you try to record a show? Does that work? --Brandon Recording does work now. I had to remove a few channels that don't have good signal. Now I am having trouble with changing channels. It locks up the frontend on channel change. Any ideas? Thanks! --Nathan ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Slightly OT: MythTV as Senior Project?
Maybe he'll do that for his thesis! On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 08:25:31 -0600, Michael J. Lynch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How about something that can be used to parse through all of the assorted log files when something goes wrong and tell you how to fix whatever is broken. :-) PAUL WILLIAMSON wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/03/05 6:03 AM snip Anyhow, any and all ideas would be greatly appreciated. If we can pull this one off then we would be able to code for something we're actually interested in, while at the same time helping out the project. And of course, we could both possibly learn a thing or two from the plentiful criticism shot out by Isaac and the other devs. :-) Thanks, Louie Ilievski How about a modeline generator? People are always aksing for ways to come up with the perfect modeline. I often see the control strip in windows mentioned, but since Myth only does linux, something equivalent so I didn't have to remove my card from the current machine, load it into a windows machine I might have lying around, run the program, generate the modelines, take them down, take the card out, put it back into the myth box, then try out all the modelines supported. That would be huge! Paul ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users -- Michael J. Lynch What if the hokey pokey IS what it's all about -- author unknown ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] [OT] 1080i
On Wednesday 02 March 2005 18:00, Josh Burks wrote: I hope Leadtek has improved the quality of fans they put on their cards. We have ~2 Dozen white box oem pc's that came with Leadtek nvidia cards. Over half of them growl, due to bearing/bushing failure. The noise drives my co-workers nuts. On average, the fans went south around 6 months old. Just an FYI... Yeah, the fan on my Leadtek GF4MX-420 card went bad... not sure when; I'm sure it had something to do with the X lockups I was seeing all the time. I don't think the heat was too bad unless I tried to do anything with OpenGL. I finally noticed it when I rebuilt my system; not only was the fan not running, but the caps were going bad as well. The card is in for RMA now; can't wait to get it back because the TVout blew away my current onboard nForce2 with the new NV18 encoder chip. If/when I do get it back, I may change out the fan for some passive cooling as a preemptive measure. -JAC ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Tvtime instead of mplayer?
On Wednesday 02 March 2005 19:18, Sapan Ganguly wrote: I also tried putting the following into mainmenu.xml under the Watch TV section - EXECTV tvtime -m -D %s This stopped the menu option doing anything at all. You might need to use the full path of the tvtime executable, i.e. /usr/bin/tvtime. Try running mythfrontend from a terminal window and see if the output messages give you any clues. -JAC ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Slightly OT: MythTV as Senior Project?
On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 09:33:48 -0500, Nicholas McCoy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe he'll do that for his thesis! On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 08:25:31 -0600, Michael J. Lynch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How about something that can be used to parse through all of the assorted log files when something goes wrong and tell you how to fix whatever is broken. :-) PAUL WILLIAMSON wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/03/05 6:03 AM snip Anyhow, any and all ideas would be greatly appreciated. If we can pull this one off then we would be able to code for something we're actually interested in, while at the same time helping out the project. And of course, we could both possibly learn a thing or two from the plentiful criticism shot out by Isaac and the other devs. :-) Thanks, Louie Ilievski How about a modeline generator? People are always aksing for ways to come up with the perfect modeline. I often see the control strip in windows mentioned, but since Myth only does linux, something equivalent so I didn't have to remove my card from the current machine, load it into a windows machine I might have lying around, run the program, generate the modelines, take them down, take the card out, put it back into the myth box, then try out all the modelines supported. That would be huge! Paul ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users -- Michael J. Lynch What if the hokey pokey IS what it's all about -- author unknown ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users If its going to figure out what's wrong and tell you how to fix it, then it might as well just fix it itself right? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Audio out of Sync with Video.
Phill Edwards wrote: A little read up tells me that I do not need to route the external wire. Does anyone know how to enable the TV Tuner sound card . There's a btaudio HOWTO at http://www.mythtv.info/moin.cgi/BtaudioHowTo I use btaudio with great success. I have an ATI TV Wonder card, which is one of the few where btaudio works correctly (supposedly). You MUST set audio capture to 32000 Hz, or you will get some serious chipmunking. Also, I had to fiddle with my modprobe.conf to make sure btaudio was loaded AFTER my soundcard so that /dev/dsp was my soundcard and /dev/dsp1 was btaudio. Works like a charm and makes me happy not to have to route the external cable. Matt ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Bob and artifacts
I'm a recent convert from the pvr-350 tv-out to a new nvidia 6200 tv-out. while i think the tv-out quality of nvidia is on par with the 350 the tv playback using it isnt. By turning on Bob deinterlacing the picture is much more comparable to the 350. my problem now is that when i fast forward or some times in the middle of watching a recording, I'll get artifacts (big blocks and skipping audio to match) is this a normal side effect from using bob? is there a way to reduce this? I currently have audio buffering on and it doesnt seem to help that. any help would be appreciated. --John ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] parts list
On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 01:37:28 -0500, Maverick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SNIP And basically found out 2.5 drives are uselessly expensive. I gave a Samsung drive a try, based on a recommendation of silentpcreview.com (I think). I got a the SP1614N 8MB and it's VERY quiet. In fact, it's so quiet that I can now here the CPU fan over the HD, no whine or noise normally associated with hard drives. It's hard to tell it's spinning. +1 on the Samsung SP1614N I went with one of these drives. The first time I fired the machine up, I thought the drive was DOA as it was silent. There is no whine from rotation and head movement is the quietest I've even heard. It's quieter than all the 2.5 drives I've used. Performance numbers are about average for 7200rpm drives. Ken ATA133: http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=22-152-014depa=1 SATA: http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=22-152-015depa=1 As far as I'm concerned, if you're looking for quiet, this is the way to go. Not available bigger than 160gb though :( -Kenneth ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Broadcast Flag Article mentions MythTV and quotes Issac
Thought some of you all might want to read... http://www.sfbg.com/39/22/cover_fcc.html ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] parts list
+1 on the Samsung SP1614N I went with one of these drives. The first time I fired the machine up, I thought the drive was DOA as it was silent. There is no whine from rotation and head movement is the quietest I've even heard. It's quieter than all the 2.5 drives I've used. Haha, same here, I was like, Hmm, it shows up in the BIOS on boot, but it doesn't sound like it's on!! I'm so used to those big loud Maxtor's that I was completely aww struck a drive could be so quiet and actually work. -Kenneth ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Bob and artifacts
John Kuhn wrote: I'm a recent convert from the pvr-350 tv-out to a new nvidia 6200 tv-out. while i think the tv-out quality of nvidia is on par with the 350 the tv playback using it isnt. By turning on Bob deinterlacing the picture is much more comparable to the 350. my problem now is that when i fast forward or some times in the middle of watching a recording, I'll get artifacts (big blocks and skipping audio to match) is this a normal side effect from using bob? is there a way to reduce this? I currently have audio buffering on and it doesnt seem to help that. I think I read somewhere that enabling the option to seek to exact frame (Under playback settings) might help with this? It's worth a shot. Just out of curiosity, how is the picture resolution look with your system set to Bob? I like the smoothness of motion, but there's a distinct hit in the picture resolution for me. (Which I believe is an inherent problem with the Bob technique itself?) -WD ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Bob and artifacts
I think I read somewhere that enabling the option to seek to exact frame (Under playback settings) might help with this? It's worth a shot. Just out of curiosity, how is the picture resolution look with your system set to Bob? I like the smoothness of motion, but there's a distinct hit in the picture resolution for me. (Which I believe is an inherent problem with the Bob technique itself?) it seems to be the best of the bunch for me.. picture quality seems as good as the source (which isnt that great) what looks even better is using bob with xvmc.. but that's a trick i cant seem to pull off yet.. xvmc causes lockups and strange issues when the osd is displayed --John ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Torrentocracy Patch against Mythtv-cvs
On Thursday 03 March 2005 07:14, Maverick wrote: how about sharing the locations of the commercials? would need a way of accurately setting time - or a hash of the frames a bit like cddb - somebody does an accurate commerical cut and then sends it to a central repository now that would be cool You must be on the same wave length of me and my friends. We where recently talking about this functionality, so only the first person mark commercials (manual, ie, not auto flagged) and submit their locations to the network. Then everyone else has perfectly commercial free viewing. For any time that show ever airs, it's likely to be the same too. THE MAN would definitely dislike this idea, and IANAL, but I certainly can't seeing it being illegal. There's no obligation to watching commercials or using any sort of technology to skip them, as far as I know. that sort of makes it worth doing - doesn't it :-) Issac already expressed he doesn't want any technology that's central server centric (ala Napster was), at least that's the way I understood his post about that. Maybe I misunderstood. -Kenneth we use freedb, imdb and amazon already - so the point is moot all you would need is: channel, date and time (though additional info like program title might help) what would be returned would be a set of cut point you would probably need to be able to slide them around as a group to cater for time differences -- simon ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Slightly OT: MythTV as Senior Project?
On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 09:43 -0500, Craig Partin wrote: [snip] If its going to figure out what's wrong and tell you how to fix it, then it might as well just fix it itself right? Its usually not that simple. A tool like that ultimately can propose possible solutions to a problem, and give you the option of implementing those solutions, but there are times when the possible solutions are useless and its good for the software to at give the user enough information that he or she has the chance to figure out the true solution. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Bob and artifacts
John Kuhn wrote: it seems to be the best of the bunch for me.. picture quality seems as good as the source (which isnt that great) what looks even better is using bob with xvmc.. but that's a trick i cant seem to pull off yet.. xvmc causes lockups and strange issues when the osd is displayed Hm, maybe I'll give it another shot sometime. What version of the Nvidia drivers are you using? Any special options? What resolution? (I'm in 640x480 NTSC land) My input video is digital cable, and the picture goes to my (non-HD) TV via sVideo. So maybe with my particular setup I can more easily see the resolution loss when using bob? (with or without xvmc) Thanks -WD ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Slightly OT: MythTV as Senior Project?
On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 09:12:03 -0600, Robert Denier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 09:43 -0500, Craig Partin wrote: [snip] If its going to figure out what's wrong and tell you how to fix it, then it might as well just fix it itself right? Its usually not that simple. A tool like that ultimately can propose possible solutions to a problem, and give you the option of implementing those solutions, but there are times when the possible solutions are useless and its good for the software to at give the user enough information that he or she has the chance to figure out the true solution. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users Right - I thought we were joking. Notice the smiley in the original post. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Torrentocracy Patch against Mythtv-cvs
Simon Kenyon wrote: we use freedb, imdb and amazon already - so the point is moot all you would need is: None of those are hosted, operated, or under the control of anyone related to MythTV which was the point being made. Kevin ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Asus S-pressio
On Thursday 03 March 2005 06:29, David Bennett wrote: I seem to be slowly settling on a smaller case and my local electronics store is pushing the Asus S-presso. Does anyone have any opinions? Will this have troubles with Linux? (Thinking of running Gentoo but am open to anything really!) Is MythTV going to be ok with this? how about http://www.hipergroup.com/mediaspec.htm not used it - but it looks nice -- simon ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Broadcast Flag Article mentions MythTV and quotes Issac
On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 09:58:37AM -0500, Maverick wrote: Thought some of you all might want to read... http://www.sfbg.com/39/22/cover_fcc.html Oh. The writer is a policy analyst for EFF. No *wonder* the piece is so good. :-) Well, I blogged it, and posted it on mythtv.info; let's hope it gets some traction in the media. Thanks for the pointer. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth[EMAIL PROTECTED] Designer Baylink RFC 2100 Ashworth AssociatesThe Things I Think'87 e24 St Petersburg FL USA http://baylink.pitas.com +1 727 647 1274 If you can read this... thank a system adminstrator. Or two. --me ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Slightly OT: MythTV as Senior Project?
Sure...it could use AI to make itself better and better at interpreting the logs and telling the user how to fix the problem. Once it got to certain proficientcy level it could just fix the problem itself by making changes to the system. If the problem couldn't be fixed via software fixes and/or configuration fixes, it could just design new hardware, have it built at an automated factory.. :-) Craig Partin wrote: On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 09:12:03 -0600, Robert Denier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 09:43 -0500, Craig Partin wrote: [snip] If its going to figure out what's wrong and tell you how to fix it, then it might as well just fix it itself right? Its usually not that simple. A tool like that ultimately can propose possible solutions to a problem, and give you the option of implementing those solutions, but there are times when the possible solutions are useless and its good for the software to at give the user enough information that he or she has the chance to figure out the true solution. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users Right - I thought we were joking. Notice the smiley in the original post. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users -- Michael J. Lynch What if the hokey pokey IS what it's all about -- author unknown ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] MythTV frontend for Mac OS X testimony requests
Hello everyone, I'm a french independent journalist preparing an investigation on the Mac mini as a Media Center projects for the french magazine Univers Mac. I'd like to get testimonies of MythTV frontend for Mac OS X users. Here are my preliminary questions : - What made you when did you decided to use your Mac as a MythTV frontend ? - What your software and hardware configuration (including remote) ? - What problems did you encounter ? - Does it finally meets your needs ? - Do you run it on a dayt-to-day basis ? - What do you think about all the hyper regarding Mac mini as a Media Center ? - What do you think about competing Media Center frontends projects ? - What do you think about Apple's inaction in this field ? Regards, Valery Marchive Tel.: +33.247 522 110 begin:vcard fn;quoted-printable:Val=C3=A9ry Marchive n;quoted-printable:Marchive;Val=C3=A9ry adr;quoted-printable:Le Tertre aux Moines;;Chemin du Coudray;Neuill=C3=A9 le Lierre;;37380;France email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] title:Journaliste tel;work:+33.247522110 tel;fax:+33.685237898 tel;home:+33.871092590 tel;cell:+33.674660588 url:http://www.casualtek.com/ version:2.1 end:vcard ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Torrentocracy Patch against Mythtv-cvs
On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 09:32:07 -0600, Kevin Kuphal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Simon Kenyon wrote: we use freedb, imdb and amazon already - so the point is moot all you would need is: None of those are hosted, operated, or under the control of anyone related to MythTV which was the point being made. Kevin This might be a pie in the sky idea, but since we are talking about commercials and information about them being stored centrally and/or distributed, I thought I might throw out this wish-list item. I've had my MythTV box up for a little over a week now, and one thing that really kills me is when I see a commercial (watching live TV of course) for a program that is of interest. What do I do? Stop watching and go schedule it? Write it down on a list I keep on the coffee table? It would be great if I could just hit a button and have the program touted in the commercial scheduled. Naturally, this might require information about the program to be stored in the stream, which probably does not exist. That's why this is a true wish-list item and not a feature request/idea. Perhaps the TWish beta that's being talked about will help with this issue, but wow, wouldn't that just be the nutz?!?! Garry ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Torrentocracy Patch against Mythtv-cvs
On Thursday 03 March 2005 10:39, Garry Cook wrote: I've had my MythTV box up for a little over a week now, and one thing that really kills me is when I see a commercial (watching live TV of course) for a program that is of interest. What do I do? Stop watching and go schedule it? Write it down on a list I keep on the coffee table? It would be great if I could just hit a button and have the program touted in the commercial scheduled. Naturally, this might require information about the program to be stored in the stream, which probably does not exist. That's why this is a true wish-list item and not a feature request/idea. Perhaps the TWish beta that's being talked about will help with this issue, but wow, wouldn't that just be the nutz?!?! Wouldn't even need anything so fancy -- just the ability to navigate around some Myth menus without exiting the recording I'm watching. LiveTV already does this wrt the EPG. -JAC ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Torrentocracy Patch against Mythtv-cvs
You will find this suggestion from me in a number of threads in the past (I think I first suggested it to the Replay guys 5 years ago but they never did anything with it.) It will happen. Actually, where it would come in handy is not just commercials (which software today can detect) but other things like pitching changes, boring academy awards acceptance speeches, long driving scenes to no purpose etc. That's cool. Of course implementing this using a central server of some sort will be easier. Is the MythTV project (users) opposed to server centric information sharing, such as flagged commercials? Issac already expressed he doesn't want any technology that's central server centric (ala Napster was), at least that's the way I understood his post about that. Maybe I misunderstood. Actually what he said recently that sounded like this was that what he meant was he wants to insist that a recommendation system be centralized on his personal server. Ahh, thanks for the clarification. -Kenneth ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Torrentocracy Patch against Mythtv-cvs
we use freedb, imdb and amazon already - so the point is moot all you would need is: channel, date and time (though additional info like program title might help) what would be returned would be a set of cut point you would probably need to be able to slide them around as a group to cater for time differences Well, if it could use a key frame signature then the time frame adjustment could be automatic. But the key frame detection would have to be smart enough to compensate for varying signal qualities... -Kenneth ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Broadcast Flag Article mentions MythTV and quotes Issac
Oh. The writer is a policy analyst for EFF. No *wonder* the piece is so good. :-) Yeah, but he makes that plenty clear, heh. Well, I blogged it, and posted it on mythtv.info; let's hope it gets some traction in the media. Thanks for the pointer. Agreed. The whole broadcast flag thing is retarded. What ever happened to the day where you could buy a reception device without paying for the content? Radio, OTA TV, are all a dying breed... :( I guess their feeling is, if the commercials are paying for the content, and people are outsmarting the commercials (albeit still paying for content reception in many cases), then they'll just make you watch the commercials and not allow you to record. I guess they forgot about the millions of people that work while must see TV is being aired and require alternatives for later viewing. -Kenneth ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Nuvexport
Updated nuvexport from cvs. After passing through the optional choises (width, height) it just quits no nothing even with -debug and -transcode. Any clues? Sigurd ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Broadcast Flag Article mentions MythTV and quotes Issac
Currently I would NEVER consider getting a black box-- I'm not going to steal cable. But, once the black boxes output a signal with the flag filtered out... well, I'll still pay for my cable but I'll definitely have a black box! :-D Maverick wrote: Oh. The writer is a policy analyst for EFF. No *wonder* the piece is so good. :-) Yeah, but he makes that plenty clear, heh. Well, I blogged it, and posted it on mythtv.info; let's hope it gets some traction in the media. Thanks for the pointer. Agreed. The whole broadcast flag thing is retarded. What ever happened to the day where you could buy a reception device without paying for the content? Radio, OTA TV, are all a dying breed... :( I guess their feeling is, if the commercials are paying for the content, and people are outsmarting the commercials (albeit still paying for content reception in many cases), then they'll just make you watch the commercials and not allow you to record. I guess they forgot about the millions of people that work while must see TV is being aired and require alternatives for later viewing. -Kenneth ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users -- -- *Mark L. Cukier*, /Design Engineer/ PE Microcomputer Systems 710 Commonwealth Avenue Boston, MA 02215 _ e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] phone : (617) 353-9206 x19 fax : (617) 353-9205 _ visit us on the web at: http: //www.pemicro.com ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Broadcast Flag Article mentions MythTV and quotes Issac
Maverick wrote: Thought some of you all might want to read... http://www.sfbg.com/39/22/cover_fcc.html The article is great - Mainly. However, opening with this quote: 'ALL I WANT is to make a high-definition copy of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, save it on a DVD, and loan it to my friend, says Sarah Brydon, looking up from a long table covered with half-built computers. REALLY gets my back up. Again. This is what the media companies are trying to (rightly) prevent with the broadcast flag. And MythTV is appearing to be referred to consistently in this light. Cheers, Allan. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Torrentocracy Patch against Mythtv-cvs
Actually, where it would come in handy is not just commercials (which software today can detect) but other things like pitching changes, boring academy awards acceptance speeches, long driving scenes to no purpose etc. This gives me an idea.. how about having more than one sort of flag? - Over 18 flag - Boring car chases flag - Commercial flag - ... This way if you want to see something all you need to do is say what sections to remove according to the flags and away you go On Wed, 2 Mar 2005 23:53:39 -0800, Brad Templeton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 02:14:58AM -0500, Maverick wrote: You must be on the same wave length of me and my friends. We where recently talking about this functionality, so only the first person mark commercials (manual, ie, not auto flagged) and submit their locations to the network. Then everyone else has perfectly commercial free viewing. For any time that show ever airs, it's likely to be the same too. You will find this suggestion from me in a number of threads in the past (I think I first suggested it to the Replay guys 5 years ago but they never did anything with it.) It will happen. THE MAN would definitely dislike this idea, and IANAL, but I certainly can't seeing it being illegal. There's no obligation to watching commercials or using any sort of technology to skip them, as far as I know. Actually, where it would come in handy is not just commercials (which software today can detect) but other things like pitching changes, boring academy awards acceptance speeches, long driving scenes to no purpose etc. Issac already expressed he doesn't want any technology that's central server centric (ala Napster was), at least that's the way I understood his post about that. Maybe I misunderstood. Actually what he said recently that sounded like this was that what he meant was he wants to insist that a recommendation system be centralized on his personal server. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Broadcast Flag Article mentions MythTV and quotes Issac
On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 16:09:36 +, Allan Stirling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maverick wrote: Thought some of you all might want to read... http://www.sfbg.com/39/22/cover_fcc.html The article is great - Mainly. However, opening with this quote: 'ALL I WANT is to make a high-definition copy of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, save it on a DVD, and loan it to my friend, says Sarah Brydon, looking up from a long table covered with half-built computers. REALLY gets my back up. Again. This is what the media companies are trying to (rightly) prevent with the broadcast flag. And MythTV is appearing to be referred to consistently in this light. Cheers, Allan. Yeah, I thought the same thing. Perhaps we, as actual users of these apps/cards/etc., should write our own article, a manifesto of sorts, and post it somewhere highly visible. Maybe there is something already out there, I dunno, but with the press that this keeps getting, an update may be in order. Garry ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Broadcast Flag Article mentions MythTV and quotes Issac
The article is great - Mainly. However, opening with this quote: 'ALL I WANT is to make a high-definition copy of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, save it on a DVD, and loan it to my friend, says Sarah Brydon, looking up from a long table covered with half-built computers. REALLY gets my back up. Again. This is what the media companies are trying to (rightly) prevent with the broadcast flag. And MythTV is appearing to be referred to consistently in this light. Your right. I doubt that will never change... just a consequence of being the best open source PVR project on the net. Then again, what's wrong with giving an HD copy of a tv show to a friend that doesn't have an HD antenna? If her friend had the antenna, then she would have been able to watch the show. It seems like making something illegal to share, that's being *aired* unencrypted, is kind of an oxymoron. Let's face it, the only reason these companies (the one's with the gun, I mean money, in the FCC's back) want the broadcast flag is so they can produce more of those store shelf hogging TV seasons on DVD and sell them to you for $40+ a season. -Kenneth ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Slightly OT: MythTV as Senior Project?
This might be kinda douche (i'm known for coming up with that sort of idea in the morning), but how about a reccomendation-type feature, similar to what Tivo has but on a much smaller scale. Maybe have it keep a log/database of important characteristics about what you watch and record (such as actors, director, genre, etc...). This would then be used to generate show ideas that the user might want to see based on what they previously watched. I'm not sure if something like that would meet your requirements or not. Or hell, maybe it already has something like that in or available for myth. Just a thought. On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 09:33:39 -0600, Michael J. Lynch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sure...it could use AI to make itself better and better at interpreting the logs and telling the user how to fix the problem. Once it got to certain proficientcy level it could just fix the problem itself by making changes to the system. If the problem couldn't be fixed via software fixes and/or configuration fixes, it could just design new hardware, have it built at an automated factory.. :-) Craig Partin wrote: On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 09:12:03 -0600, Robert Denier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 09:43 -0500, Craig Partin wrote: [snip] If its going to figure out what's wrong and tell you how to fix it, then it might as well just fix it itself right? Its usually not that simple. A tool like that ultimately can propose possible solutions to a problem, and give you the option of implementing those solutions, but there are times when the possible solutions are useless and its good for the software to at give the user enough information that he or she has the chance to figure out the true solution. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users Right - I thought we were joking. Notice the smiley in the original post. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users -- Michael J. Lynch What if the hokey pokey IS what it's all about -- author unknown ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Nuvexport
Any clues? cvs is broken. read the commit logs. Will hopefully finish my changes today. As a temporary fix, try installing the nuvexportrc file. -Chris ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Re: 1080i
Joseph A. Caputo writes: On Wednesday 02 March 2005 18:00, Josh Burks wrote: I hope Leadtek has improved the quality of fans they put on their cards. We have ~2 Dozen white box oem pc's that came with Leadtek nvidia cards. Over half of them growl, due to bearing/bushing failure. The noise drives my co-workers nuts. On average, the fans went south around 6 months old. Just an FYI... Yeah, the fan on my Leadtek GF4MX-420 card went bad... not sure when; I'm sure it had something to do with the X lockups I was seeing all the time. I don't think the heat was too bad unless I tried to do anything with OpenGL. I finally noticed it when I rebuilt my system; not only was the fan not running, but the caps were going bad as well. The card is in for RMA now; can't wait to get it back because the TVout blew away my current onboard nForce2 with the new NV18 encoder chip. If/when I do get it back, I may change out the fan for some passive cooling as a preemptive measure. I still haven't notice anything with my leadtek card's fan. I will have to check it tonight. Seems quiet to me though. Anyways, Jarod, don't worry about sending your config. I got X working with the propietary 6pin ps/2 port. However, I'm still having solid battle with single head configuration on this port and DVI port. If anyone is interested in troubleshooting, here are my different mythfrontend logs: This is a single head configuration. Only component cable is connected on the proprietary 6pin p/s2 via the converter. VGA cable removed too. The link below is a log using Xv and that it only showed blank screen. http://restricted.dyndns.org/mythlog.txt I tried running mythfrontend like this: NO_XV=1 mythfrontend and guess what, I was able to watch the recorded program. So is it an OVERLAY issue when using single head? There is another link but I posted it last night in pastebin.com but it uses XvMC. The log was similar too however, it added some XvMC lines. Blank screen too. Here is another link of mythfrontend but using my twinhead xorg configuration using XvMC and I am able to see the recorded program without any issues. However, both DVI and VGA cables are connected. This is my current setup. http://restricted.dyndns.org/mythlog4.txt I did another test using mplayer. I played it like this: mplayer -vo xv test.st the system spiked to 99% cpu utilization. So it's not a Myth issue!!! What are your recommendations now. If I can get this to work using single head(to get rid of tearing in pictures), that would be awesome!!! Thanks. Neil ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] mysql error with mythweb
When I get that error, it means my disk is full. That's the only time
I've gotten that. If your disk isn't full... I don't know what the
problem is.
could also mean that the disk *was* full (or something else) and the
table got corrupted. In any case, googling for the error string will
produce better/faster results than asking here.
-Chris
Ryan Kremser wrote:
Hello, somewhat of a newbie and was looking for help. when i go to
mythweb i get an error saying
Fatal Error at /usr/share/mythtv/mythweb/includes/programs.php, line 138:
SQL Error: Got error 28 from table handler
The system administrator has been notified and the problem will be
remedied shortly.
and then at line 138 this is what resides
131 .' AND program.starttime !=
program.endtime)';
132 // The extra query, if there is one
133 if ($extra_query)
134 $query .= ' AND '.$extra_query;
135 // Group, sort and query
136 $query .= ' GROUP BY program.chanid, program.starttime
ORDER BY
program.starttime';
137 $result = mysql_query($query)
138 or trigger_error('SQL Error: '.mysql_error(), FATAL);
139 // No results
140 if (mysql_num_rows($result) 1) {
141 mysql_free_result($result);
142 return NULL;
143 }
144 // Load in all of the programs (if any?)
145 global $Scheduled_Recordings;
146 $these_programs = array();
147 while ($data = mysql_fetch_assoc($result)) {
148 if (!$data['chanid'])
Thanks for any help. I'm still trying to feel my way around this so
thanks in advance.
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Re: [mythtv-users] Broadcast Flag Article mentions MythTV and quotes Issac
On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 16:09:36 +, Allan Stirling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maverick wrote: Thought some of you all might want to read... http://www.sfbg.com/39/22/cover_fcc.html The article is great - Mainly. However, opening with this quote: 'ALL I WANT is to make a high-definition copy of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, save it on a DVD, and loan it to my friend, says Sarah Brydon, looking up from a long table covered with half-built computers. == REALLY gets my back up. Again. This is what the media companies are trying to (rightly) prevent with the broadcast flag. == 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. Would you assert that when you have friends over, they shouldn't be allowed to watch TV at your house because they don't help pay your cable bill? If you are the person who rents a movie at blockbuster, should your wife/girlfriend/kids have to also rent the movie before they can sit down and watch it with you? The broadcast flag is trying to enforce a legal lie that you are the only person who should be allowed to watch content that came from your television, when both previously written law and common law say otherwise. What she advocates doing is legal, and should remain legal as a form of fair use. And MythTV is appearing to be referred to consistently in this light. Cheers, Allan. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Broadcast Flag Article mentions MythTV and quotes Issac
On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 09:20:39 -0700, Garry Cook [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah, I thought the same thing. Perhaps we, as actual users of these apps/cards/etc., should write our own article, a manifesto of sorts, and post it somewhere highly visible. Maybe there is something already out there, I dunno, but with the press that this keeps getting, an update may be in order. Garry Is there we start the drive to put a firefox-like add in the NYT? I hate the flag, and I hate the greed it's come to represent. gs -- I have some G-Mail invites. Let me know if you want one. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Broadcast Flag Article mentions MythTV and quotes Issac
On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 08:39:40 -0800, Geoff Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there we start the drive to put a firefox-like add in the NYT? I hate the flag, and I hate the greed it's come to represent. gs Damn, I typed too fast. Severe caffeine deficiency. Is this where we start... gs -- I have some G-Mail invites. Let me know if you want one. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Broadcast Flag Article mentions MythTV and quotes Issac
Yeah, I thought the same thing. Perhaps we, as actual users of these apps/cards/etc., should write our own article, a manifesto of sorts, and post it somewhere highly visible. Maybe there is something already out there, I dunno, but with the press that this keeps getting, an update may be in order. Probably a good idea, but the MythTV site pretty much defines where it stands without the need for 'press releases'. Hehe However misleading the attention may be, anyone seeking true will find it in the code, I'm sure. Will MythTV obey the broadcast flag if it where to become law? Being an open source project, seems like everyone would just remove that section of code using illegal patches. -Kenneth ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Broadcast Flag Article mentions MythTV and quotes Issac
REALLY gets my back up. Again. This is what the media companies are trying to (rightly) prevent with the broadcast flag. 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. Would you assert that when you have friends over, they shouldn't be allowed to watch TV at your house because they don't help pay your cable bill? If you are the person who rents a movie at blockbuster, should your wife/girlfriend/kids have to also rent the movie before they can sit down and watch it with you? The broadcast flag is trying to enforce a legal lie that you are the only person who should be allowed to watch content that came from your television, when both previously written law and common law say otherwise. What she advocates doing is legal, and should remain legal as a form of fair use. Yes, thank you. The willingness people have to just cave to anything the media industry says is very disheartening. We need to have some common sense about these things and not just allow industry to dictate the features and uses we're allowed to have. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Broadcast Flag Article mentions MythTV and quotes Issac
On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 08:39 -0800, Geoff Scott wrote: Is there we start the drive to put a firefox-like add in the NYT? I hate the flag, and I hate the greed it's come to represent. The problem with this issue and all like it (CSS for example just as the article mentions) is that most people don't really care. They don't understand the issue to start with and even if they do, they still don't understand why they should care. In the case of CSS, why does the average consumer care? They can buy their DVD players (and they are damn cheap now) and their DVDs and play them. What's the problem? That some future company cannot do something revolutionary and cool with DVD technology does not affect their day to day life. They don't miss the future possibilities they don't already have. You have to break that barrier to get any mass movement on these kinds of issues. It's like what a friend of my girlfriend's said when I tried to get her to use jabber (and spread the use to her contacts) rather than MSN and ICQ. Even after I explained to her why using something open and unencumbered is so important for future needs she still asked but why do I care? and lamented about how ICQ did everything she cared about. It's a hard battle. b. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Torrentocracy Patch against Mythtv-cvs
a.) every instance of the show puts the commercials in the same place b.) the same show airing on different channels have the commercials in the same place (SkyONE has radically different commercial placement than, say, the sciFI channel). c.) the commercials are the same length (could be gotten around by looking at content on either side of commercials). This is pretty standard -- shows are edited such that there are commercial breaks in certain places. However, it does NOT account for the commercial breaks being the same length in each region (remember, commercials are regional things). Also, don't forget that some people record before/after shows, and myth is never 100% accurate in the time you give it (I'm set to record an additional 2.5 minutes on each show, and my recordings are anywhere from 1.5 to 3.5 minutes longer than the show runs) And how would you pick which commercial flags to use? My flagging is rather inaccurate on about half of my shows, and I go in and clean up ALL of my shows (almost every flag needs to be moved at least a few frames one direction or another). Importing a flag list is useless to me if no one else shares my desire for perfect commercial cutting. As for whether users want it or not -- that's easy, you just add a flag (default to off) for auto-sending/getting, and/or make it a manual choice -- just like transcode is now. -Chris ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Broadcast Flag Article mentions MythTV and quotes Issac
On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 11:47 -0500, Maverick wrote: Will MythTV obey the broadcast flag if it where to become law? Being an open source project, seems like everyone would just remove that section of code using illegal patches. You are missing the point of the problem. Software like Myth will not even get access to the content to strip/remove/skip/ignore the flag. The knowledge (i.e. programming specs) needed to get the information from the HDTV capture card will not be available to a project like Myth for those very reasons. Sure, it could be reverse engineered for every device out there but that's a long hard road. b. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Broadcast Flag Article mentions MythTV and quotes Issac
Andy Long wrote: On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 16:09:36 +, Allan Stirling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: REALLY gets my back up. Again. This is what the media companies are trying to (rightly) prevent with the broadcast flag. 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. From my reading, this only applies to the FIRST copy (ie the original work, as broadcast). Does anyone have a reference for this allowance to lend a non-derivative copy? Would you assert that when you have friends over, they shouldn't be allowed to watch TV at your house because they don't help pay your cable bill? If you are the person who rents a movie at blockbuster, should your wife/girlfriend/kids have to also rent the movie before they can sit down and watch it with you? These are all seperate issues, since you are watching either the first copy, or timeshifting for your own personal use. The broadcast flag is trying to enforce a legal lie that you are the only person who should be allowed to watch content that came from your television, when both previously written law and common law say otherwise. What she advocates doing is legal, and should remain legal as a form of fair use. Again, references. The only one I can find that answers this specific question is: http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=434043 Which says this is *not* legal. Cheers, Allan. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Broadcast Flag Article mentions MythTV and quotes Issac
Matt Grommes wrote: Yes, thank you. The willingness people have to just cave to anything the media industry says is very disheartening. We need to have some common sense about these things and not just allow industry to dictate the features and uses we're allowed to have. Following this to absurdity, if what you are stating is legal, only one person in the US would have to subscribe to each of the available channels. They could then share out all the programs with their friends, who could share out to their friends. I really wouldn't want to have that person's cable bill. Cheers, Allan. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] parts list
I have three of the SP1614C drives (the SATA version) and find that they are silent when idle, but I hear some vibrational noise when they are writing. I use xfs on lvm over raid-5, and for some reason the drives seem to seek a lot. Raid 5? You afraid of loosing tv shows? Hehe. I'd say it's the raid causing the extra disk seeks, probably designed to be safer than sorry, so it writes a lot and caches less. Maybe adjustable though. Plus, you have 3 drives all doing I/O at the same time, so that's probably going to make them 3 times louder than a non-raid configuration accessing one drive. Have people found that lining the sides of the case (on the inside) with felt or something like that makes a big difference? Use Dynamat, it's designed to be a sound barrier, made out of cork, and probably more fire retardant than felt. Plus it has a sticky side for easy application. Though I've never done this to a computer, it works great on cars with lots of noisy speakers in them. :) I hope they come out with a 200G version, as I have room for one more... I wanna 400GB version. ;) -Kenneth ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Broadcast Flag Article mentions MythTV and quotes Issac
Close, but not quite.. IIRC, the law still prohibits group viewing, which is a gathering of over 12 people.. That law applies to commercially available DVDs, VHS, as well as recordings of shows. It also seems to me that the new law would only prohibit *selling* of devices that don't obey the new flag.. Meaning, you could build your own device, just not market it. And I'd imagine that at some point we'll see some kind of inline device that would attach to your cable before your tv/tv card/box that strips out the broadcast flag, but maybe that's just wishful thinking. I'd also like to note that while the article in the SF Guardian has some merit, the EFF tends to go off the deepend a bit.. They have a great cause, and I applaud them for upholding it, but they go overboard far too often, which lends them less credibility in political circles than is their due. -=Aaron On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, Allan Stirling wrote: Matt Grommes wrote: Yes, thank you. The willingness people have to just cave to anything the media industry says is very disheartening. We need to have some common sense about these things and not just allow industry to dictate the features and uses we're allowed to have. Following this to absurdity, if what you are stating is legal, only one person in the US would have to subscribe to each of the available channels. They could then share out all the programs with their friends, who could share out to their friends. I really wouldn't want to have that person's cable bill. Cheers, Allan. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] HD3000 FC3 Install guide
All worked well until the very end - installing the v4l drivers: . + /sbin/ldconfig + /sbin/depmod -aq + /sbin/modprobe cx88-dvb FATAL: Error inserting cx88_dvb (/lib/modules/2.6.11/kernel/drivers/media/video/cx88/cx88-dvb.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg) dmesg: cx88_dvb: disagrees about version of symbol cx8802_fini_common cx88_dvb: Unknown symbol cx8802_fini_common cx88_dvb: disagrees about version of symbol cx88_core_put Well I rebooted - is this like windows or what - and it seems to work. FWIW, here's my dmesg: Linux video capture interface: v1.00 cx2388x blackbird driver version 0.0.4 loaded cx2388x: snapshot date 2005-03-03 cx88[0]: subsystem: 7063:3000, board: pcHDTV HD3000 HDTV [card=22,autodetected] cx2388x v4l2 driver version 0.0.4 loaded cx2388x: snapshot date 2005-03-03 ACPI: PCI interrupt :02:00.0[A] - GSI 20 (level, low) - IRQ 225 cx88[0]: subsystem: 7063:3000, board: pcHDTV HD3000 HDTV [card=22,autodetected] cx88[0]/0: found at :02:00.0, rev: 5, irq: 225, latency: 32, mmio: 0xf000 tuner 1-0061: chip found @ 0xc2 (cx88[0]) tuner 1-0061: type set to 52 (Thomson DDT 7610 (ATSC/NTSC)) cx88[0]/0: registered device video0 [v4l2] cx88[0]/0: registered device vbi0 cx88[0]/0: registered device radio0 Now let's see if I can get the rest to work! sean ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Torrentocracy Patch against Mythtv-cvs
On Thursday 03 March 2005 15:32, Kevin Kuphal wrote: Simon Kenyon wrote: we use freedb, imdb and amazon already - so the point is moot all you would need is: None of those are hosted, operated, or under the control of anyone related to MythTV which was the point being made. this is not going anywhere - but hey, what the heck :-) it would be ok if it was not tied specifically to mythtv? just like cddb is not tied to one player -- simon ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Torrentocracy Patch against Mythtv-cvs
On Thursday 03 March 2005 17:35, Aaron Stewart wrote: Problem is that one must assume that: a.) every instance of the show puts the commercials in the same place b.) the same show airing on different channels have the commercials in the same place (SkyONE has radically different commercial placement than, say, the sciFI channel). c.) the commercials are the same length (could be gotten around by looking at content on either side of commercials). I'm guessin' that, while the idea is a great one, it's a wash. But hopefully there's someone out there who's smarter than I am that can figure out how to do it. not so! rather that key by show key by channel and time -- simon ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Broadcast Flag Article mentions MythTV and quotes Issac
On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 16:57:20 +, Allan Stirling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andy Long wrote: On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 16:09:36 +, Allan Stirling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: REALLY gets my back up. Again. This is what the media companies are trying to (rightly) prevent with the broadcast flag. 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. From my reading, this only applies to the FIRST copy (ie the original work, as broadcast). Does anyone have a reference for this allowance to lend a non-derivative copy? 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. Nonetheless, it seems to be splitting hairs on an issue. So, if you don't own the original filmstock a movie was shown on, but instead only own the DVD, no one should be able to watch it with you? Your friends shouldn't be allowed to borrow it? The DVD is not the original copy. It is only a copy of the original copy transfixed on a different medium. By similar logic, it would seem libraries across the country are committing mass infringement, since I know of few libraries that hand out original manuscripts. Any I have been too hand out copies of copies (read: books). And if you tape music off Top 40 radio and lend it to a friend, is that a copyright offense? I am certainly not a lawyer (yet), but it would seem that even if this is what copyright has come to mean, that we are letting fair use be destroyed in the name of protecting a legal fiction (aka intellectual property). I am certainly not advocating mass infringement, but let's be reasonable here. The framers of our Constitution intended for their to be a balanced, leaky copyright system. Perfect control over Intellectual Property was never intended, and in fact was outright rejected by both Madison and Jefferson as a bad idea. The purpose of copyright was to give incentive to produce while allowing for the transfer of ideas from person to person. We certianly have a system that MORE than compensates the originator of a work. The broadcast flag only further upsets this balance by making us come more near to perfect control of IP, which I - as well as many others - believe is both unhealthy for maintaining a creative environment and a bad principle for a democratic country. In every other instance where a new form of technology has upset the previous scheme of distributing copyrighted material (player pianos, radio, television, cable, VCRs, etc...), we have relied on the market to find the solution, not imposed government regulations to keep the powers that be in business. Would you assert that when you have friends over, they shouldn't be allowed to watch TV at your house because they don't help pay your cable bill? If you are the person who rents a movie at blockbuster, should your wife/girlfriend/kids have to also rent the movie before they can sit down and watch it with you? These are all seperate issues, since you are watching either the first copy, or timeshifting for your own personal use. The broadcast flag is trying to enforce a legal lie that you are the only person who should be allowed to watch content that came from your television, when both previously written law and common law say otherwise. What she advocates doing is legal, and should remain legal as a form of fair use. Again, references. The only one I can find that answers this specific question is: http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=434043 Which says this is *not* legal. Cheers, Allan. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Broadcast Flag Article mentions MythTV and quotes Issac
Will MythTV obey the broadcast flag if it where to become law? Being an open source project, seems like everyone would just remove that section of code using illegal patches. You are missing the point of the problem. Software like Myth will not even get access to the content to strip/remove/skip/ignore the flag. The knowledge (i.e. programming specs) needed to get the information from the HDTV capture card will not be available to a project like Myth for those very reasons. Sure, it could be reverse engineered for every device out there but that's a long hard road. OK, so the software decoding driver on the pcHDTV would have to be patched? Big deal. It really just sucks for closed source/hardware things and just makes it a pain for the open sourcers. I really hope there's no future for the broadcast flag, it's just the dumbest idea ever. Next in news, DMV mandates driver flag on automobiles. You'll only be able to retrieve your car from your garage when the state allows, thus eliminating traffic congestion. As part of the bill, sharing vehicles with friends will also become illegal. Is there we start the drive to put a firefox-like add in the NYT? I hate the flag, and I hate the greed it's come to represent. I put my name on the Firefox ad, I'd do the same for a MythTV supported cause. I agree with Brian, getting people to care is the real problem. -Kenneth ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Re: 1080i
On Thursday 03 March 2005 11:29, Neil wrote: I still haven't notice anything with my leadtek card's fan. I will have to check it tonight. Seems quiet to me though. Perhaps *too* quiet... :-) -JAC ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV review from a long-time TiVo user
On Wed, 2 Mar 2005 20:36:54 -0500, Donavan Stanley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've just done a quick instrumentation of the code and verified that the calls are being made to disable/enable the screensaver properly as well as turn off dpms. Why they're not working for all users, I'm not sure and right now I'm too tired to dig into it. Wow. I'm really excited to hear this. I may try this out over the weekend! Lane -- Meetup with other Myth users! http://mythtv.info/moin.cgi/MUG ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Broadcast Flag Article mentions MythTV and quotes Issac
On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 12:24 -0500, Maverick wrote: OK, so the software decoding driver on the pcHDTV would have to be patched? cracked you mean? to strip the flag? i guess that would fall under the category of the legislation that says that a manufacturer of a device needs to make it not easy to break. i wonder who decides what is easy and what is difficult and who was negligent in this aspect of the law. Big deal. It really just sucks for closed source/hardware things and just makes it a pain for the open sourcers. I really hope there's no future for the broadcast flag, it's just the dumbest idea ever. uhm. yeah. b. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Broadcast Flag Article mentions MythTV and quotes Issac
Cable isn't losing money throught people sharing TV shows. The networks maybe are (and that is risky). What about the case of broadcast television or OTA-HD content. No one pays a nickel for that, and never have, yet I haven't seen NBC, ABC, FOX, CBS or any others go belly up. Most people pay for cable because its convenient. If the networks all decided to distribute their shows over bit torrent and everyone went that route, then tough shit for the cable companies. It's not like they have some right to exist, nor are we indebted to them. Innovation has changed how content was distributed before, and it will do so again. The broadcast flag is just an attempt by the networks to keep from having to switch to a new method of distribution, because when that happens some of the old hats in the industry might lose money. We are *slowly* seeing the music industry come around to this notion that if you sell the people what they want, they won't do it illegally. If only one person in the country paid for cable and then shared the shows, don't you think content creators/copyright holders would realize that? In such an instance, where everyone has shown preference for getting TV/movies via the internet, which would you say is better: prosecuting everyone and making them get cable, or putting content in the form people want and letting them access it that way? It's something that could still be charged for. It just takes a different business model to do it. Just because people are choosing to get their content in a different way doesn't mean that it should inherently be illegal. It just means the market is changing, and the law should allow the market to find its happy medium. On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 17:01:12 +, Allan Stirling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matt Grommes wrote: Yes, thank you. The willingness people have to just cave to anything the media industry says is very disheartening. We need to have some common sense about these things and not just allow industry to dictate the features and uses we're allowed to have. Following this to absurdity, if what you are stating is legal, only one person in the US would have to subscribe to each of the available channels. They could then share out all the programs with their friends, who could share out to their friends. I really wouldn't want to have that person's cable bill. Cheers, Allan. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Problems following instructions for MythTV on Fedora Core 3
Hi everyone *sorry if this email has gone twice, oops* I am following the article: http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/fcmyth.php Everything has went perfect so far, cept when i try to install a kernal module for ivtv. apt-cache search ivtv-kmdl shows ivtv-kmdl-2.6.10-1.12_FC2 - IVTV kernel drivers. ivtv-kmdl-2.6.10-1.12_FC2smp - IVTV kernel drivers. ivtv-kmdl-2.6.10-1.14_FC2 - IVTV kernel drivers. ivtv-kmdl-2.6.10-1.14_FC2smp - IVTV kernel drivers. ivtv-kmdl-2.6.10-1.8_FC2 - IVTV kernel drivers. ivtv-kmdl-2.6.10-1.8_FC2smp - IVTV kernel drivers. ivtv-kmdl-2.6.10-1.9_FC2 - IVTV kernel drivers. ivtv-kmdl-2.6.10-1.9_FC2smp - IVTV kernel drivers. ivtv-kmdl-2.6.9-1.11_FC2 - IVTV kernel drivers. ivtv-kmdl-2.6.9-1.11_FC2smp - IVTV kernel drivers. ivtv-kmdl-2.6.9-1.6_FC2 - IVTV kernel drivers. ivtv-kmdl-2.6.9-1.6_FC2smp - IVTV kernel drivers. and I have done: rpm -q kernel which shows: kernel-2.6.9-1.667 kernel-2.6.10-1.766_FC3 kernel-2.6.10-1.770_FC3 Looks like I dont have a kernel version that will work, so how do I apt-get/yum a newer version of kernel? Thanks, looking forward to mythtv :) James ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Broadcast Flag Article mentions MythTV and quotes Issac
On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 12:24:57 -0500, Maverick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I put my name on the Firefox ad, I'd do the same for a MythTV supported cause. I agree with Brian, getting people to care is the real problem. -Kenneth Can't we just use scare tactics? gs -- I have some G-Mail invites. Let me know if you want one. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV review from a long-time TiVo user
I was about to mention it does seem that myth makes the appropriate calls to xscreensaver consistently for me. I can watch TV without worrying about the screensaver coming up, but when I am at the main menu, if I just wait xscreensaver will enable, and then later my dpms will kick in. I can even wake it up using my remote and lirc. On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 11:32:21 -0600, Lane Schwartz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2 Mar 2005 20:36:54 -0500, Donavan Stanley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've just done a quick instrumentation of the code and verified that the calls are being made to disable/enable the screensaver properly as well as turn off dpms. Why they're not working for all users, I'm not sure and right now I'm too tired to dig into it. Wow. I'm really excited to hear this. I may try this out over the weekend! Lane -- Meetup with other Myth users! http://mythtv.info/moin.cgi/MUG ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Broadcast Flag Article mentions MythTV and quotes Issac
On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 09:44 -0800, Geoff Scott wrote: Can't we just use scare tactics? What would you scare the average consumer with? If you have an idea, you might have the magic bullet. b. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Slightly OT: MythTV as Senior Project?
You could try to fix something which gives problem: When I use mythtranscode + mencoder to encode movies to mpeg2, there is a sudden noise at the beginning of the recording. This can be removed by making the sound coming from mythtranscode to have fade-in effect. This is just a suggestion. VJ ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Slightly OT: MythTV as Senior Project?
What about just a fix to the problem with multiplexing mpeg2? I think it basically boils down to there is no decent tool to accomplish this, so as a result anyone that wants to record the hauppauge mpeg2 recordings to a dvd have to use avidemux, which never seems to work right and doesn't have a console-only mode for doing cutlists and simple multiplexing. I imagine a transcoder/multiplexer type utility would be a good project for a compilers course, since it's all about compiler efficiency when you can get a frame per second rate in the output - Jeff On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 18:02:34 +, Vijay Gill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You could try to fix something which gives problem: When I use mythtranscode + mencoder to encode movies to mpeg2, there is a sudden noise at the beginning of the recording. This can be removed by making the sound coming from mythtranscode to have fade-in effect. This is just a suggestion. VJ ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users -- email me if you want a gmail invite, I have some invites ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Re: [mythtv] Slightly OT: MythTV as Senior Project?
My friend and I are seniors at the University of California, Riverside, and we are trying to find a fun project we can work on for our senior project. However, this is supposed to be a compilers class, but our professor is open to ideas for our project, as long as it is somewhat compiler related. Finish porting MythTV to Cygwin so that Windows can be used as a fully functional MythTV frontend. -Ross ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Broadcast Flag Article mentions MythTV and quotes Issac
On Thursday 03 March 2005 10:01 am, Allan Stirling wrote: Matt Grommes wrote: Yes, thank you. The willingness people have to just cave to anything the media industry says is very disheartening. We need to have some common sense about these things and not just allow industry to dictate the features and uses we're allowed to have. Following this to absurdity, if what you are stating is legal, only one person in the US would have to subscribe to each of the available channels. They could then share out all the programs with their friends, who could share out to their friends. *puts on tinfoil hat* Let's put it this way, it's no more illegal to lend a copy of a Buffy tape to your friend, than it is for you to lend a copy of your LOTR DVD, or even something like a sweater that you bought. The idea is that consumers have a fair use clause in the law, so that they can make a copy, and use it fairly. ie. do with it, what you can do with anything else you bought This quickly becomes a question of what is for sale ie what is the product and who are the consumers The consumers and the networks are operating under two completely different sets of assumptions here. 1)Lending Buffy to your friend, like you can lend any other DVD, implies that the copy of Buffy was the product and it was sold to you by the networks, and that you paid for it by watching ads or paying for cable or whatever. 2)Not being able to lend Buffy to your friend implies that you were the product, and you were sold to the advertisers by the networks, and that the advertisers paid large amounts of MONEY to the networks, for their product -- you. People see that the shows have ads in them. To the advertisers and the networks the ads have shows interjected. Something has to be done about this mentality, in order to defeat the broadcast flag. People have to reassert them as consumers in the broadcast model. The masses have to realize that the broadcast flag entails legalized exploitation of consumers, but i am afraid, as is the author of this article, that since their future rights are in question, they won't until it's too late. *ducks* ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Broadcast Flag Article mentions MythTV and quotes Issac
Can't we just use scare tactics? What would you scare the average consumer with? If you have an idea, you might have the magic bullet. Sadly, that probably would be most effective. I know a lot of people are addicted to TV, but I wouldn't die if it just stopped existing in all forms. Internet access, well, that's a whole different thing. One week without it and I'm a crack head looking for a free hit, in a mad panic to find the nearest cyber cafe to juice my laptop into some wi-fi internet accessing love. Man, I'm part of the internet generation, not TV-land. In fact, I'd say 5 hours of tv a week, 50+ hours of Internet a week, depending on how much I work. Whoa, they should have pills for this condition! :) -Kenneth ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Broadcast Flag Article mentions MythTV and quotes Issac
--- Andy Long [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What about the case of broadcast television or OTA-HD content. No one pays a nickel for that, and never have, yet I haven't seen NBC, ABC, FOX, CBS or any others go belly up. The networks make their money by selling you (the audience) to advertisers. If your recording contains the commercials, and you don't have a mechanism for skipping or excising the commercials, then watching or sharing your recording has not done any harm to the networks. You are just helping them with additional distribution of the advertisements. As to the larger debate: U.S. copyright is a very sensible and workable law (except for the extensions that media companies have won). The problem with the broadcast flag is that it is far more restrictive than copyright law. The broadcast flag prevents fair use of media, which is legal according to copyright law. As to the cracking of HDTV receivers that adhere to the broadcast flag: This is where the DMCA comes into play. It is illegal to circumvent a copyright protection mechanism. The protection mechanism can be pathetically weak (such as the DVD CSS protection), but that does not matter. While this does not prevent the underground from distributing the information about cracking, it does stop manufacturers and importers from selling a pre-cracked plug 'n' play device to the masses, in the U.S. The FCC broadcast flag proposal does mandate that devices be reasonably secure against cracking, which probably means the protection mechanism must be stronger than DVD CSS. It also stops an HDTV card maker from adding a weak mechanism, and then leaking the simple crack to the web. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Broadcast Flag Article mentions MythTV and quotes Issac
On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 12:58:17 -0500, Brian J. Murrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 09:44 -0800, Geoff Scott wrote: Can't we just use scare tactics? What would you scare the average consumer with? If you have an idea, you might have the magic bullet. b. Given one of the posters thoughts, which I think are really good, how about something like: The Big Media Companies are about to buy you. The Government is about to sell you. Do you want to be a digital slave? or Imagine a world with no fast forward buttons I dunno, I'm grasping here... gs -- I have some G-Mail invites. Let me know if you want one. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Broadcast Flag Article mentions MythTV and quotes Issac
Can't we just use scare tactics? What would you scare the average consumer with? If you have an idea, you might have the magic bullet. Given one of the posters thoughts, which I think are really good, how about something like: The Big Media Companies are about to buy you. The Government is about to sell you. Do you want to be a digital slave? or Imagine a world with no fast forward buttons I dunno, I'm grasping here... Works for me. I think a good mythtv commercial would be: If you had MythTV, you wouldn't be watching this commercial... or Buy a MythTV now or we'll force you to watch commercials! :) -Kenneth ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Slightly OT: MythTV as Senior Project?
On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 13:12:44 -0500, Jeff Simpson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What about just a fix to the problem with multiplexing mpeg2? I think it basically boils down to there is no decent tool to accomplish this, so as a result anyone that wants to record the hauppauge mpeg2 recordings to a dvd have to use avidemux, which never seems to work right and doesn't have a console-only mode for doing cutlists and simple multiplexing. I imagine a transcoder/multiplexer type utility would be a good project for a compilers course, since it's all about compiler efficiency when you can get a frame per second rate in the output - Jeff I second this. A mpeg2 to mpeg2 cut that works would be awesome. Josh ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Broadcast Flag Article mentions MythTV and quotes Issac
On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 10:41:31AM -0800, Geoff Scott wrote: Given one of the posters thoughts, which I think are really good, how about something like: The Big Media Companies are about to buy you. The Government is about to sell you. Do you want to be a digital slave? or Imagine a world with no fast forward buttons Ultimately the broadcast flag will take away our VCRs. VCRs will be phased out in favour of DVRs which, when honouring the broadcast flag, will be less functional. No more time shifting. Ultimately, I think this law will fail. Even if it's passed, there will be mass civil disobedience. There will be a work around. There always is. People will simply buy offshore devices that shipped in brown paper boxes. -- Neil Watson | Gentoo Linux Network Administrator | Uptime 49 days http://watson-wilson.ca | 2.6.10 AMD Athlon(tm) MP 2000+ x 2 ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Broadcast Flag Article mentions MythTV and quotes Issac
On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 11:07:17 -0500, Mark L. Cukier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Currently I would NEVER consider getting a black box-- I'm not going to steal cable. But, once the black boxes output a signal with the flag filtered out... well, I'll still pay for my cable but I'll definitely have a black box! :-D This reminds me of an add they run on my cable where a guy is interviewing for a job. Then the interviewer notes that he has a criminal record. The inverviewee says Oh that, I just had one of those cable descramblers, its was no big deal. The interviewer looks at him and says well this interview is over, or something like that. Then cue the ominous Cable Theft, its a Crime, voice over. Every time and I mean EVERY time I see this add I can just hear them replacing the line about stealing cable with I just recorded a show to watch later with my PVR, and replacing the cable theft line with Recoding HD TV, its a Crime. At that point I just shake my head, because I know thats exactly how Big Media wants it to be. But I do still know one thing, I will do everything in my power to never ever honor the copy bit, no matter what. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Commercial Skip
On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 08:56:34AM -0500, James Armstrong wrote: While I'm writing, I have a wishlist request: it'd be nice to be able to have the automatic skipping start 1 or 2 seconds after the beginning of the commercial (the number should be configurable and could default to zero, or course). The reason is that sometimes the skips are so perfect that I can't tell whether I missed any of the show. How about a configurable feature for Commercial flagging that will not save any 'supposed' commercials over xx minutes. I have been having good luck with commercial flagging lately but there is an occasional commercial that is flagged and is over 5 or 6 minutes and is bogus. I think most of my commercials are only a few minutes long so ignoring ones longer than that would cut out some bad commercial flagging. Such long gaps do exist, though they are rare, and one presumes the flagging algorithm settles on them only when it feels it should. However, an intermediate solution to your problem would be to set it so that if the gap found is very long, to turn it into two adjacent gaps, using the 2nd most likely cut-point, no matter how poorly it scored compared to the 6 minute one. For those doing auto-skip, they would see no difference, the points are adjacent. For those doing manual skip, they would just be hitting the End button one extra time. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] PVR350 frame buffer blanking before calling mplayer
I am looking for a way to blank the frame buffer before mplayer is called to view video files. mplayer sometimes in unable to black out the areas that lie outside of its chosen playback area even though I have selected that option on the mplayer command line. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Broadcast Flag Article mentions MythTV and quotes Issac
LEIA: The more you tighten your grip, Tarkin, the more star systems will slip through your fingers Neil Watson wrote: On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 10:41:31AM -0800, Geoff Scott wrote: Given one of the posters thoughts, which I think are really good, how about something like: The Big Media Companies are about to buy you. The Government is about to sell you. Do you want to be a digital slave? or Imagine a world with no fast forward buttons Ultimately the broadcast flag will take away our VCRs. VCRs will be phased out in favour of DVRs which, when honouring the broadcast flag, will be less functional. No more time shifting. Ultimately, I think this law will fail. Even if it's passed, there will be mass civil disobedience. There will be a work around. There always is. People will simply buy offshore devices that shipped in brown paper boxes. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users -- -- *Mark L. Cukier*, /Design Engineer/ PE Microcomputer Systems 710 Commonwealth Avenue Boston, MA 02215 _ e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] phone : (617) 353-9206 x19 fax : (617) 353-9205 _ visit us on the web at: http: //www.pemicro.com ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] upgrading from CVS?
Thank you... that really was helpful. :) I use Debian, so the rpms are out, but I really don't mind just redoing it each time. It's not really that big of a deal for me. I usually try to upgrade once a month, or if a major change is made in CVS. I like to get fixes, particularly since mythtv development seems to move fairly quickly as far a feature sets/fixes/improvements are concerned. Thanks! Matt On Wed, 2 Mar 2005 22:30:42 -0800, Brad Templeton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 10:02:11PM -0600, Matt S. wrote: Would there be any harm in copying the settings.pro file out, then doing a make distclean, then removing the myth directory and just doing cvs as from scratch? Seems almost as easy. Anything else I would need to backup or reasons why this would be a bad idea? You can do that, though in fact you can also not copy out settings.pro, because CVS will merge your changes with any changes made in the source tree -- that's the purpose of cvs. If your goal is just to compile from cvs sources without using what CVS does, you might want to check into Axel's regular rpms-from-cvs including source rpms. (If you're on Fedora, anyway.) If you feel something has gone wrong with your cvs tree, you can do the technique you describe, but otherwise cvs's job is to figure all this out for you. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] RF remote options / XBox Remote
Does anyone know of a RF remote that can works w/ linux, and what remote are xbox frontend users using? thnx, reza ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
