Re: [mythtv-users] Picture in Picture
So I am thinking old school where a TV has two TV Tuners in the back and you are supposed to plug a line into each. You are saying you only have to plug in the one tuner and MythTV does the PiP from the one tuner? That is pretty sweet. Thank you, Joshua Lewis David Whyte On 12/11/05, Joshua Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Front end will have no video capture. I just want video out audio out to hook to the tv. I would like to use my Picture in Picture feature. I am asuming I will need two video out/audio out cards? Not sure if you know this, but myth offers PiP when watching live tv already, so long as you have two seperate tuner cards. Sweet eh?? :P -- -- 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
[mythtv-users] Pluto!
Back story: I am building a house in KY (insert Red Neck Joke Here!) and am designing the house around homeentertainment. quad CAT6 drops in every room Dual AV jacks in every room Built in speakers in lots of rooms MythTV in the basement dumb terminals at each TV. Then I found another product called Pluto. www.plutohome.com It uses MythTV for Tivo like functionality. But uses other programs to control the home. A smart home or Home automation. climate control, Lights, TV, Astrik PBX, Security. All sorts of goodies. It is completely open source. This seems to good to be true. Has anyone used MythTV and Pluto and have any experiances to share? Pluto can use bluetooth from your handheld or Cell phone to have your MythTV program follow you from room to room to room. Cool. Ok I need to stop watching so much TV. Anyone heard anything about Pluto? Good or bad? Thank you, Joshua Lewis Thank you, Joshua Lewis ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Picture in Picture
I have found Nirvana and it is called MythTV. I am setting up a dedicated back and and will set up a front end as well. Front end will have no video capture. I just want video out audio out to hook to the tv. I would like to use my Picture in Picture feature. I am asuming I will need two video out/audio out cards? I don't want any vedio in. I only want out. Does anyone know what card should I be looking for? Do I need two video out cards and two seperate sound cards so I can watch my picture in Picture and switch back and forth between them? Or are there any cards that have video and audio on the same card. Thank you, Joshua Lewis ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Rip DVD to H.264
I am curious. Can I rip my DVD's to H.264? I love my DVD's. I hate how much space they take in my living room. I am attempting to setup my firt MythTV box using Knopmyth. The problems is I only have a small drive right now. There will be no TV on this box it will purly be a movie sytem. But I am looking at my 100+ DVD's and my 60GB drive and thinking this isn't going to cut it. I am hopeing to rectify this problem in the next year but untill I can prove to my wife this will work I am on a strict budget. I was experimenting with H.264 yesterday and I was able to get my 7GB DVD down to a Single GB. I had no problem with the quality. So I was wondering if there is some way to view an H.264 movie in MythTV. I am still clueless when it comes to PVR/Media Centers. So I am sorry if I use the wrong terminology but can I add some type of codec to read the new files? Can I setup MythTV to rip the DVD to H.264 instead of MPEG4? Saving me a lot of time. Any ideas would be a great help. Thank you, Joshua Lewis ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Setup advice
Sorry for any silly questions. I am trying to map this out in my head and i need some help please. Before I go and by the hardware 5 TVs in the house 5 Hauppauge MediaMVP at each TV 1 MythTV server in a closet/basement 5 WinTV-PVR-150MCE l.p. (or) 3-4 WinTV-PVR-500MCE in the server Alot of drives in the server Goal Watch DVDs that were copied to the server, Live TV, Recorded TV, Slideshows Play FM Radio, MP3s, Basicly all of the modules MythPhone what the heck is that. Ease of use: A wife, three kids, and a mother in law. Need I say more. Able to use remote with MediaMVP at each TV to navigate all functions. No need for a keyboard mouse etc. Am I cruzen for a bruzin? Or is this totaly ok. I was also hopeing for someone to confirm that a user at the TV using the MediaTV remote can click TV and watch the tv show that is running at that moment. Obviously it is being saved to the harddrive and replayed back but to the user it looks like live TV. How does MythTV handle multiple users watching different channels at the same time? I will only have CAT6 cable running from the server to the MediaMVPs. Is that going to cuase problems for Audio or does the audio for the radio and everything go through the CAT6 cable? Thank you again for any advice on Hardware choices or setup. Thank you, Joshua Lewis ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Preventing bad show for small children
Does MythTV has some type of content filter to keep out bad shows. Or some kind of login interface? If I had a server in the basement and a thinclient at each TV booting from a network disk image that has lets say KDE as a GUI then the login screen would show up and each user could select thier own login and then the mythtv frontend would come up and they could do thier thing. I am asuming I can restrict login times for the kids so they are not watching TV all dang day using the OS but how would I filter chanells so little kids are not watching bad shows or teenagers watching rated R content while still allowing my wife and I to watch what we want. I know TV has that little TVG, TVPG ratings and things on the shows. Can that be used somehow to prevent viewing shows not intended for young vieweres? Thank you, Joshua Lewis ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] Setup advice
So do I make MPEG4 work? Do I wait untill they release a new version or do you think they will enable that with some kind of update? Does anyone else have a setup model like mine? Do you use some cheap PC or something? I am looking for super cheap thinclient front ends I am dumping all the money into the back end. So any recomendations on front end hardware is welcome. There is a new AOPEN MiniPC (Wannabe Apple MACMini) that looks like it would work but I am not familiar with linux hardware to say one way or another. Thank you, Joshua Lewis Peter Darley Michael, That's great, I probably just missed it. How do you do it? Thanks, Peter Darley -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Mr. Myth Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2005 2:10 PM To: Discussion about mythtv Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Setup advice Peter Darley wrote: Third, the MVPs can't delete shows, so the users will have to pay atention to what they watch and then delete it through mythweb or something. This probably doesn't pass your ease of use test. I doubt that my wife would be willing to do that, for example. I can delete shows just fine from my mvp. I have only had it for a few months but it has always worked. Michael ___ 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
RE: [mythtv-users] Setup advice
Title: Message I would like to say unlikey. But I know for a fact at least three at a time. So that leaves room for a show or two to record and everyone watching TV. But I do hear what you are saying. -Original Message-From: Chris Ribe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2005 7:19 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Discussion about mythtvSubject: Re: [mythtv-users] Setup adviceOne more thing: Even though you have 5 TVs, make sure you really need 5 tuners. How often are all 5 TV's in use at the same time? Now, consider that each of those 5 TV's will have access to a huge library of previously recorded shows and DVDs. Now, how likely is it that you will ever need 5 tuners simultaneously? On 11/2/05, Chris Ribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: MPEG4 will never work with something like the MediaMVP. It has a chip dedicated to video decoding that doesn't understand MPEG4 and never will. On 11/2/05, Chris Ribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: An admittedly ugly/noisy solution, but and whitebox/dell/gateway pc ca.1998-2000 w/ a 17" CRT will make a decent frontend. 17" CRTs can be had for free, and they work as HDTV monitors! On 11/2/05, Joshua Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So do I make MPEG4 work?Do I wait untill they release a new version or do you think they willenable that with some kind of update?Does anyone else have a setup model like mine? Do you use some cheap PC or something? I am looking for super cheap thinclient front ends I am dumpingall the money into the back end.So any recomendations on front end hardware is welcome. There is a newAOPEN MiniPC (Wannabe Apple MACMini) that looks like it would work but I am not familiar with linux hardware to say one way or another.Thank you,Joshua LewisPeter Darley Michael, That's great, I probably just missed it.How do you do it? Thanks, Peter Darley -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mr. Myth Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2005 2:10 PM To: Discussion about mythtv Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Setup advice Peter Darley wrote: Third, the MVPs can't delete shows, so the users will have topay atention to what they watch and then delete it through mythweb or something.This probably doesn't pass your ease of use test.I doubt that my wife would be willing to do that, for example. I can delete shows just fine from my mvp.I have only had it for a few months but it has always worked. Michael ___ 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.orghttp://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] MythTV vs Freevo
Does anyone know of any differences between functionality of MythTV and Freevo? I just setup a FreeBSD sysem and looking for the best entertainment system I can make. Has anyone sucessfully installed MythTV on FreeBSD? FreeBSD is the only platform I am familiar with other then Windows and the MAC OS. Thank you, Joshua Lewis ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Some Quick Questions about MythTV
I am seriously considering the MythTV as an alternative to having 5 satellite receivers and DVD players and computers and stuff in my house. I want desperately to consolidate my house. I questions is three fold. One is the MythTV documentation on PDF somewhere or available to download so I can read it on my way home on the train? Two: Can I even do what I am trying to do? The Windows XP Media Center allows you to hook up an X-Box or media extender to TV's so you can watch your Prerecorded information from a TV not directly hooked to the Media Center PC. That is what I want to do with MythTV. Although it looks like MythTV can record my DVD's to disk drive where I can't get a confirmed yes on that ability for Windows MCPC. I would like to load all my families DVD's (If they are all loaded the way I want then I don't have to keep baying new DVD's when my kids scratch them. I got to get a new Harry Potter this weekend), MP3's and hook up like 5 TV tuners to the system so everyone can watch and record TV from there own room. Then I can watch Sci-Fi and Westwing until I am blue in the face in my bedroom while my wife watches Desperate House Wives and America's Next top Model downstairs (ok those two shows have enough hotties that I don't mind so much) but you get the picture. I got Barney in one room and GI Joe in another and so on and so fourth. Three: I plan to get a truly beefy system to do all of this. I am looking into a SARA raid array to prevent data loss and if possible dual core system (do they make duel CPU Dual Core motherboards) I want to avoid any kind of Encoding in the main processors. So do I need a certain TV Tuner to do everything in the tuner and such? Let's pretend money is no object (unfortunately it is so this will be an ongoing project) how would you design your system. I know a lot of these questions can be answered by the documentation but I only have time to read it offline and have not been able to find a way to print or view it offline. Thank you in advance for any recommendations and advice. Thank you, Joshua Lewis ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
