Re: [mythtv-users] mythfrontend laptop linux distro???
On Saturday 21 January 2006 11:09 am, mike choy wrote: Matt wrote: I think the days of what distro is best is out the window. Ask a group of 10 people and you'll get 10 different answers when it comes to distros. Matt I Agree... its SUSE :-) Mike C nope, it's GENTOO (2 down, 8 to go) Mat -- mythtv [at] matmrosko [dot] com ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] mythfrontend laptop linux distro???
On Sunday 22 January 2006 1:54 am, Rudy Zijlstra wrote: Mathew Mrosko wrote: On Saturday 21 January 2006 11:09 am, mike choy wrote: Matt wrote: I think the days of what distro is best is out the window. Ask a group of 10 people and you'll get 10 different answers when it comes to distros. Matt I Agree... its SUSE :-) Mike C nope, it's GENTOO (2 down, 8 to go) Mat Nagh, all you new-fangled players, its Slackware of course ! :-) http://www.arouse.net/despair-linux/slackware.jpg In case you haven't seen that :) Mat -- mythtv [at] matmrosko [dot] com ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Importing recordings after losing entire database and reinstalling
On Wednesday 18 January 2006 6:33 pm, Steve Adeff wrote: I could modify my TV.com script to accept arbitrary filenames and ask for the show title and season/episode number if this is something folks would fine usefull in this situation? I searched the last 2 months of my myth e-mails and can't find your tv.com script... Where can I find it? I thought after the tvtome.com - tv.com transition there was no new helpful script... I have been out of touch on these lists for some time now. Mat -- mythtv [at] matmrosko [dot] com ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] DirectTV external tuner help
On Tuesday 02 August 2005 03:19 pm, Alex Van Deusen wrote: I have a Sony Bat55 directv box. It is connected via a serial cable to my mythbackend. The ports are enabled in bios. I use two Sat B55's Here are the scripts I use, in case yours are different, try these out. The sony0.pl uses /dev/ttyS0, and the sony1.pl uses /dev/ttyS1 (kinda obvious, no?). Mat -- mythtv [at] matmrosko [dot] com sat-b55-scripts.tar.gz Description: application/tgz ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Clean the database
On Friday 29 July 2005 07:42 am, Daniel Agar wrote: in mysql: delete from recorded; delete from oldrecorded; delete from recordedmarkup; delete from recordedprogram; there might be a couple other tables that hold stuff about old recordings, but these should be sufficient to clear your previous recording stuff... Mat -- mythtv [at] matmrosko [dot] com ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] New Install Recommendations
On Wednesday 13 July 2005 06:29 pm, Thom Paine wrote: I know everyone has their preference, and I've used RedHat for a long time, but for ease of installation and maintenance, what are some of the other installs that people are using? I tried MythDora, and I always seem to have some sort of a snag. Just when I thought it was working good, I find that it doesn't tune to the proper channel for recording. I'm downloading KnoppMyth as I type this, and will give it a try. I recently tried installing Gentoo on my spare laptop, and had had really good success. Many people running Gentoo using Myth? Basically I'm looking for solid backend and and will likely use Xboxes for frontends where I have TV's. I've been using FC4 on my good laptop, and I'd think that I wouldn't want to run this on the backend just yet. I like FC3, but these few changes is making it hard to get a working install. Thanks. Depending on your setup, there are other pluses to gentoo besides ease, and customizability. If you're like most gentoo ricers (myself included), you want to compile everything from source, specific to your system. I have a backend, and 3 remote frontends. The three remote frontends are dell optiplexes (they're small, don't look that bad in a entertainment center rack, and they're cheap!) Look up the Dell GX150 on eBay and you'll see. Anyways, back to my point. I use distcc to distribute the compile over the network (http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/distcc.xml). I also have one frontend set to use the buildpkg feature, which will make packages of the things it comiples (http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-hppa.xml?part=2chap=3#doc_chap4). This makes it so that when I update my 3 frontends, everything is compiled from source specific to it's arcitecture, and with distcc, I can update all 3 frontends in minutes instead of hours. The combined forces of distcc and building packages, makes gentoo IDEAL for a setup with LIKE machines such as I have. Also, another fun package most people should know about for using gentoo and compiles is screen. This is a terminal emulator which you can detach from. In other words, you can ssh to your box, start compiling, and detach from the session and the compiles will continue. Most people will just ssh to a machine, and must leave the session open to allow the compiles to continue, however, screen helps this out! Hope that helps! Mat -- mythtv [at] matmrosko [dot] com ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Image gallery shows no previews
On Saturday 09 July 2005 07:28 am, PAUL WILLIAMSON wrote: I'm running 0.18.1, FC3, atrpms thanks to Jarod's Guide. When I go to the Image Gallery, I don't get any previews on the folders or on regular images. I know when I compiled from source back in the 0.14 or so days, I had little preview images. What should I be looking for to fix the problem? Thanks, Paul Check that myth has write permissions to your image directory. It creates a folder called .thumbnails so if it can't write there, it won't make your previews. I believe I saw a patch a while ago about adding something to the setup to allow the thumbnails to be written somewhere else, but I'm not sure about that. -- mythtv [at] matmrosko [dot] com ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] MythWeb Gentoo
On Tuesday 28 June 2005 10:01 pm, Daniel Segel wrote: I think portage installs it into /usr/share/webapps/mythweb; I just cp'd it from there to /var/www/localhost/htdocs/mythweb and it works fine. The e-build I use (it's kind of old... it sits in my overlay directory) automatically copies them to /var/www/localhost/htdocs/mythweb The only things you will have to configure are the conf/config.php files and getting apache to have php_mod working. To do that in gentoo, all you need to do is add APACHE2_OPTS=-D PHP4 or APACHE2_OPTS=-D PHP5 (depending on your version of mod_php) in /etc/conf.d/apache2. Mat -- mythtv [at] matmrosko [dot] com ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Defrag XFS?
On Friday 24 June 2005 02:48 pm, j2 wrote: Not strictly a MythTV question, but is there a util (apart from backup/restore) to defrag XFS? My recording partition is getting very sluggish after being in use for a while? how much ram do you have? how big is your swap space? you're probably just swapping after a while, which will bog things down... (type free -m at a prompt to see mem/swap usage in megabytes) Mat -- mythtv [at] matmrosko [dot] com ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Channel Surfing is a Myth
On Thursday 23 June 2005 09:05 pm, J. Scott wrote: I'm not real clear on why anyone would channel surf and try to figure out what to watch via their mythtv box. First of all, you'll have to watch commercials (blech!). Second, you have to deal with the pause between channels, not to mention the fact that your box is running hard for no reason, having to compress a video signal, write it to disk, read it from the disk, decompress it, and deliver the video output. At our house, on the rare occasion that we watch live TV, we just bypass the MythBox. On the even more rare occasion that we find something on live TV that we might want to pause or be able to rewind, we'll just switch over to Myth. I'd say that happens maybe once every 60-90 days, max. Maybe I'm in the minority, but 'Live-TV' is by far the least used function on my Myth. Good for you. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Adding a second disk to current LVM
On Thursday 23 June 2005 06:27 pm, A JM wrote: I've read the docs with regard to adding a second hard drive to an existing LVM group and I need some clarification and maybe a slight how to. The VG VGforMyth has been created and is working fine. I've added a second hard drive and have created a primary partition on the drive using the entire disk and have changed the Hex code to 8e so I think the drive is about ready. Here is my confusion, according to the docs I'm supposed use pvcreate to create the PV then vgextend to add the volume to the group, is that it? Don't I need to tell the VG that it's been enlarged or something? There are other parts of the docs that say once you add it to the vgextend you need to resize it to include all PE portions to make the size bigger. Some say to just keep resizing it bigger until it is full, but look for the command (i think it's pvdisplay) and the line that has Total PE: X will be your key to make it use the whole drive. This is in the LVM HOWTO. This drive has not been formatted so doesn't that process also need to take place? I've never seen an OS that could write to a drive not formatted and I don't see mention of that in the docs? IIRC pvcreate puts the info on the drive that the LVM will need, as far as the XFS stuff, read on! My original drive in the VG is formatted with XFS so I assumed I would need to format the new drive the same? The new drive will be ready for XFS when you run the command to GROW the xfs size. One of the great things about XFS is that you can leave it mounted when you grow the FS. This is also in the HOWTO. Thanks for any light you can shed. Sorry it wasn't too technical, and sort of RTFM format, but still, I hope that helps! Mat -- mythtv [at] matmrosko [dot] com ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] MythWeb Disc Usage calculation
On Monday 06 June 2005 08:48 am, Chris Petersen wrote: How much should that number actually be? The filesize calculation changed in CVS recently, and due to math limitations in php, I think that anything beyond 4TB of disk space will confuse it. -Chris Maybe in my dreams it's 4TB!!! I only have 562 Gigs... I know the old output used to be the whole disk usage as opposed to what was used for just recordings, but I don't know what's wrong... I have 494 Gigs used, and 319 Gigs of that are the recordings. Does the new code rely on the video_dir and/or video_url? I don't think I have that video_url line UNcommented from the config file. The links and everything work without it, so I guess I'll try that until I hear of anything else! Thanks for the reply Chris!!! -Mat -- mythtv [at] matmrosko [dot] com ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] MythWeb Disc Usage calculation
Hi everybody! My mythweb recorded_programs.php page does not show any disc usage on the bottom... all I get is 334 programs, using B (273 hrs 41 mins) out of B. I thought maybe it was a CVS issue, and never saw any posts, and also, waited a few days, got new CVS built, and all the new plugins, but this still remains the same... this leads me to believe that something's wrong with my configuration... Is there anything in the DB used for this calculation? Do I need to change permissions somewhere? Thanks! -- mythtv [at] matmrosko [dot] com ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Network speed.
I have a question about a network setup issue. My uncle is building a new house, and I'll be setting up a nice myth setup for him. I have a Cisco 1900 series 24 port switch. The switch has 24 10Mbit ports and 1 100 Mbit port. I'm just wondering if the 10 Mbit speed would be enough to run 3 or 4 frontends if the backend was on the 100 Mbit port. I know straight number wise, since 10 Mbit is fast enough, that you should be able to put 10 ports against the 1 100 Mbit one, but if there's one thing i've learned in 5 years as a CS major, it's that the numbers in computing (especially when talking about the retail side of things) are skewed in favor of looking better than it is... -Mat Mrosko -- mythtv [at] matmrosko [dot] com ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Network speed.
On Sunday 29 May 2005 09:06 pm, Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, I just bought a cheap Netgear 5 port 100Mb switch for $20 @ Frys. Why bother with the old stuff? You don't need a 24-port switch for 3-4 frontends. You need the little guy I bought. A) Because I already have it, why buy new, and just throw yet another thing that could be useful away? I'm no tree-hugger but I hate to throw something away that will just take up more space in a land-fill somewhere, especially when it could be useful still. B) Because already having it is still cheaper than $20 @ Frys. C) Because it takes me over 1 1/2 hours to get to the neartest Frys. :) (Sorry, I didn't mean to be a dick, the whole reason I posted to the mailing list wasn't to get hey, just buy something new messages... I could have easily done that, I was just wondering if it would work with something I already have.) -Mat -- mythtv [at] matmrosko [dot] com ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] MythVideo category doesn't stick
On Saturday 28 May 2005 07:45 am, Phil Bridges wrote: Is anyone else having this problem? Yes! I've seen this brought up at least one other time, but I don't think there was ever a resolution other than Edit the database yourself. Manually editing the database has seemed to work for me, plus, it's quicker! -Mat -- mythtv [at] matmrosko [dot] com ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Can't Emerge Latest Mythmusic Ebuild
On Saturday 28 May 2005 10:29 am, Michael Haan wrote: I get the following: aacdecoder.cpp: In member function `bool aacDecoder::initializeMP4()': aacdecoder.cpp:298: error: cannot convert `long unsigned int*' to `uint32_t*' for argument `4' to `int8_t faacDecInit2(void*, uint8_t*, uint32_t, uint32_t*, uint8_t*)' make[2]: *** [aacdecoder.o] Error 1 make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/mythmusic-0.18.1/work/mythplugins-0.18.1/mythmusic/mythmu sic' make[1]: *** [sub-mythmusic] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/mythmusic-0.18.1/work/mythplugins-0.18.1/mythmusic' make: *** [sub-mythmusic] Error 2 when trying to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] haanm # ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~amd64 emerge mythmusic try #USE=-aac ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~amd64 emerge mythmusic if that works, a more permanent approach would be to run this: #echo media-plugins/mythmusic -acc /etc/portage/package.use FYI: [EMAIL PROTECTED] haanm # emerge -s myth Searching... [ Results for search key : myth ] [ Applications found : 13 ] * media-plugins/mythbrowser [ Masked ] Latest version available: 0.18.1 Latest version installed: 0.18.1 ...snip... FYI: that doesn't help anything... it'd be better to see the output of emerge info -Mat -- mythtv [at] matmrosko [dot] com ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] WHISH-LIST: what I always wanted.
On Thursday 26 May 2005 01:33 pm, James Oltman wrote: When I go to use the remote, it gives me 2 keypresses instead of one for EVERY command I learned. Did you do something special? begin prog = mythtv button = menu config = m delay = 2 end Put that delay in all of your lircrc button sections, and lirc will basically treat 2 keypresses as 1, this avoids those double keypresses. -Mat -- mythtv [at] matmrosko [dot] com ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Playlist Speed (Maintaining Time Stretch)
I was wondering if anybody has worked on a patch to maintain play speed for a playlist, and how hard others think this would be to impliment. I've only peeked at playback code once, earlier today for a short time. If it is unclear what I'm talking about, here is an example... if you have a playlist, and while watching an episode, you change the time stretch to 1.2x... when that file is done, and the second show starts, the time goes back to 1.0x... -- Mathew Mrosko ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Will we be watching pictures with background music?
On Thursday 28 April 2005 06:12 am, Fredrik Karlsson wrote: Do you ever read the lists? This has been talked about a hundred times in the last month or so. Mat Hi all, Honestly, I have to say that looking throught the feature set of MythTV in comparison with the the other HTPC/PVR solutions out there in the OSS world, I get impressed with the featured I have availible to me as a MythTV user. However, there is one thing that Freevo has that MythTV has that I know would make me (and my family) jump with joy, and that is the ability to de-attach music playing so that it continues when viewing pictures (for instance). Is this in the roadmap for Myth? Would it be hard to do? /Fredrik -- Mathew Mrosko ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] 0.18 (gentoo/nvidia) blue video preview
On 4/26/05, Julian Rendell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone have any suggestions? No, just a comment! Me too! I am running the 0.18 ebuilds that are no longer masked. 2.6.10-gentoo-r6 with nvidia 1.0.6111-r3 Hope there's a fix soon! -- Mathew Mrosko ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Request: Do you have recordings that don't commflag well?
I think I've read about this before, so I think it's a known issue, but when recording Jeopardy on ABC in the US the final jeopardy section is completely cut off as a commercial... The last jump on the episode is usually 10 minutes, when it should be about 3 minute, final jepoardy for 3, and then another commercial break for about 3 minutes. I'm running 0.18 gentoo ebuilds, and I would be able to get a NUV to a large pipe. -- Mathew Mrosko ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Typo in error message
This error message is probably rarely seen, but I updated mythtv to 0.18 today, but haven't restarted the running frontend. When going to Watch Recordings I get this error message: Myth could not locate the selector object within your theme. Please make that your ui.xml is valid. Myth will now exit. I believe the message should say Please make SURE that your Just thought I'd point this out... Tonight if I get home early enough, and still give a damn, I'll make a patch and submit it to the dev list. -- Mathew Mrosko ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Re: VNC launches second mythfrontend
On Tuesday 19 April 2005 12:23 pm, Nate Thompson wrote: I used to have this problem. To get around it, I simply enabled 'Desktop Sharing' in the KDE Control Panel under Internet Components. If you don't want to use the WAY TO BIG FOR MYTH window manager KDE, just get x11vnc... it will bind to an already running session, so you can control the ONE instance of mythfrontend that you have running. $x11vnc -display :0 when run on the myth box will start the x11 server on port 5900 with your current X session... I have a script on my remote machine so I can just run it from the remote machine easily and quickly: #!/bin/bash echo x11vnc -display :0 | ssh matltwifi sleep 2 krdc -m -s vnc://192.168.1.6 sleep 2 The first sleep is to let the ssh log-in and get x11vnc running, the second sleep is so that the output of my prompt doesn't get drawn before the final steps of the vnc disconnect. Hope this helps! -- Mathew Mrosko ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Remote stops working for 1-3 minutes
On Saturday 16 April 2005 11:45 pm, Stutty wrote: Does the sun come out when it stops working? Try closing the curtains/blinds :-) At first, I thought you were joking... but no, the sunlight has no effect... My window faces away from the sun most of the day, and I rarely open my blinds very much. Plus the remote will stop working at night sometimes too. Thanks for the suggestion though! -- Mathew Mrosko ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Files to Backup
Hello, I am making a simple script to backup my mythbox's config data every day. I don't have the hard drive space to backup all the actual recordings and movies, so I'm just backing up important things like the database, logs, etc. I was just wondering if anybody has a list of good files to backup regularly so that a new setup won't take too long in the event of a hard drive failure or something. So far, I am grabbing all the system logs, all my little scripts, my lircrc, fstab, all the files in the /etc/ directory ending in conf (for ease, i'm just grabbing them all). Is there anything I'm missing? Also, does anybody know how to grab partition info and LVM info? I know I should be using DD to grab the first 512? bytes of the drive to grab partion info, but does anybody have something similar already made? Anybody know how to save all this data? Thanks, -- Mathew Mrosko ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] New Program Alerts?
On Monday 11 April 2005 05:53 am, Marcel Meier wrote: (program.title LIKE %Japan% OR program.subtitle LIKE %Japan% OR program.description LIKE %Japan%) AND program.previouslyshown = 0 Is there something I'm missing here... I cannot type a 0 in... The number keys put in parts of regular expressions like ascii values, number values, etc. How do I insert a 0? -- Mathew Mrosko ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] remote *receiver* ?
On Tuesday 05 April 2005 06:48 am, Shawn Flynn wrote: Would you mind sharing your configuration info with me? Not at all! What version of lirc are you using? 0.7 What does your lircd.conf look like? # Please make this file available to others # by sending it to [EMAIL PROTECTED] # # this config file was automatically generated # using lirc-0.7.0(serial) on Sun Mar 20 01:26:39 2005 # # contributed by # # brand: ./test # model no. of remote control: # devices being controlled by this remote: # begin remote name TiVo_Remote bits 16 flags SPACE_ENC|CONST_LENGTH eps30 aeps 100 header 9002 4534 one 574 1658 zero 574 528 ptrail544 repeat 9015 2263 pre_data_bits 16 pre_data 0xA10C gap 108142 min_repeat 8 toggle_bit 0 begin codes TIVO 0xF00F LIVE 0x8807 WINDOW 0x220D RIGHT0xA807 UP 0x2807 LEFT 0xE807 DOWN 0x6807 EXIT 0xA20D LIST 0x620D GUIDE0x6C03 SELECT 0x9807 THUMB_UP 0x5807 THUMB_DOWN 0x1807 MUTE 0xD807 VOL_UP 0x3807 VOL_DOWN 0xB807 RECORD 0x040B CHAN_UP 0x7807 CHAN_DOWN0xF807 PLAY 0x840B PAUSE0xC40B FFW 0x240B REW 0x440B SLOW 0xA40B ADVANCE 0xE40B JUMP_BACK0x640B TV_INPUT 0x2C03 TV_POWER 0x0807 10x140B 20x940B 30x540B 40xD40B 50x340B 60xB40B 70x740B 80xF40B 90x0C03 CLEAR0x4C03 00x8C03 ENTER0xCC03 end codes end remote What does your modprobe.conf look like? snip alias char-major-4-* serial alias char-major-5-* serial snip I use my TiVo remote with the packard bell receiver with no problems... It might be the remote you were trying to use with the receiver. I could not get the pacbell thing to get anything off my RCA remote. It's a pos (the IR receiver) and doesn't recognize all remotes. I'm guessing the RCA is slightly non-standard or something. -- Mathew Mrosko ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Suggested Remote Control Setup for MCE Tuner Cards
On Thursday 31 March 2005 07:04 pm, brian mcgann wrote: Somebody is selling some old Packard Bell sets on eBay that have a serial IR receiver... They work with SOME remotes other than the crappy packard bell one it comes with... It works with my TiVo remote, but not my RCA one. Buy them at your own risk! The IR/Remote combo is like $10-15 on eBay. I am putting together a Myth system and would like to use a low-profile Hauppauge 150 MCE l.p. or any other low-profile blackbird tuner card, but don't know what remote and IR receiver to use. The Microsoft MCE remote/receiver package seems a natural, but I'm resisting using a Microsoft branded product in my Myth system. Does anyone have any suggestions other than building my own IR receiver? Thanks, Brian McGann -- Mathew Mrosko ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] ontop or equivalent?
On Tuesday 15 March 2005 03:04 pm, Shaun Jackman wrote: In kde, just kill kicker and you won't have the bar anymore... #pkill kicker -Mat I'm having this exact same problem on KDE. The menu bar and panel are obscuring MythTV. With KDE 3.2.2 and MythTV 0.16, 'kstart --window mythfrontend --ontop mythfrontend' would place MythTV on top of the menu and panel, but with KDE 3.3.2 and MythTV 0.17 that trick has stopped working. Does anyone have a solution to this problem? Thanks, Shaun On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 19:30:12 -0500, Chris Clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I've got a dual-head video setup with myth on a TV and a normal gnome desktop on a monitor, the only problem is whenever I do something on the desktop, gnome panel bars pop up ontop of the myth display. When I'm running mplayer I can use the option -ontop and this stops the bars from appearing, is there an equivalent option or command I can use to get the same behaviour out of myth? TIA, Chris ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users -- Mathew Mrosko ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] how does mythtv connect to mysql?
On Tuesday 15 March 2005 05:31 pm, Michael Wester wrote: http://mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-6.html#modify_perm_mysql ?? -Mat Hi- I've had my Mythtv box working fine for months. Yesterday I started installation of new hardware (pvr-500) and now for some reason my database is acting up. I'm having a tough time understanding this one. Maybe if I knew a little better how the program accesses the db, I could figure it out. I'm not finding any solutions in the archive. If you know of one, please kindly point me, 1) When I log in to my x session-kde as root (I know a no no...), I can start mythbackend and mythfrontend, no problems. - 2) When I log in to my x session- kde as user mythtv, I get errors that : 2005-03-15 17:22:34.161 Unable to connect to database! 2005-03-15 17:22:34.162 Driver error was [1/2005]: QMYSQL3: Unable to connect Database error was: Unknown MySQL Server Host ' mediabox' (1) couldn't open db When I go through the setup, I set ip address, indicate user is mythtv, and set password to mythtv. Still cannot connect to db. --- 3) from command line: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ mysql -u mythtv -p mythconverg I enter password=mythtv and I'm in. --- I have a feeling that I'm missing a setting somewhere in mythtv? but where? Thanks for any insight. Mike ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users -- Mathew Mrosko ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] View console on TV while MythTV running
On Tuesday 15 March 2005 11:12 pm, John Mangan wrote: Is it possible to ssh in from another machine? I would think that would be much easier, because you're not leaving X on the TV -Mat I hope this hasn't been answered a hundred times before but I searched the archive without success. I am using Knoppmyth to run a test system with MythTv. I am using an nVidia 5200 card with TVOut. It works fine but since I am still testing it would be nice to be able to Ctrl-Alt-F1 to a console (XTerm is too small/fuzzy to be really workable). However when I change to the console screen I just get scrambled lines as though the horizontal hold has gone. I am not familiar enough with the XF86Config-4 file to know what needs to be changed (and I'm not sure that's where the problem lies since X displays perfectly well). Also the text output during bootup displays perfectly well. Any help gratefully received. -- Mathew Mrosko ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Re: How to reply to messages in mythtv-users Archives?
On Friday 11 March 2005 02:43 am, Mark Crutch wrote: 1) Subscribe to the list 2) Set your preferences so that it doesn't deliver any mails to you. 3) When you find a message you want to reply to in the web archives, copy the message subject 4) Start a new email to mythtv-users@mythtv.org 5) Paste in the subject line; I prefix it with Re: , but I'm not sure if that's essential 6) Copy any text you want to quote from the web archive 7) Right click in the message in TB and select Paste As Quotation 8) Fill out the rest of your reply 9) Send. This seems to keep things threaded within the web archives, so I presume it also keeps it together with the rest of the thread for those people who are receiving the list as emails. If that's what you did this time, it didn't work...This e-mail you sent did not show up threaded with the rest in my email client (KMail). I already have enough trouble keeping up with my inbox from other mailing lists; at least with this approach I can dip into the archive when I have time, and when a subject grabs my attention. This is why I made a separate e-mail address for the mythtv list. I have them downloaded, but it's not mixed in with all my other stuff. The other method is to set up filters. Just your mail client to filter all messages from the mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org into a different folder. This should be relatively easy unless you use a primitive client like pine. Mark P.S. If this message appears in its own thread on the archive, then I guess you can ignore everything I've said ;) P.S. It didn't, which is why I replied ;) This message has been scanned by F-Secure Anti-Virus for Microsoft Exchange. e... Microsoft :( -- Mathew Mrosko ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Distro of choice?
On Wednesday 09 March 2005 05:11 pm, Bryan Halter wrote: Louie Ilievski wrote: Gentoo here as well. Never gonna change to anything else. I run gentoo on my desktop and laptop, but for some reason I thought I'd try knoppmyth for my first experiment... that was a mistake... I can't get anything to work... will be gentoo VERY soon! (The only thing is that compiling on a 500 MHz machine takes a while!) -- Mathew Mrosko ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
