Re: [mythtv-users] Adding extra recorder disk space for Christmas
One thing to remember with XFS, particularly for short-term storage, is that XFS partitions cannot be shrank, only enlarged. I'm running into this problem right now on my myth box, I want to re-allocate some space to another partition. William wrote: I've yet to encounter any filesystem that does not have this problem. This just seems to be a general issue with LVM. This issue also crops up on high end SAN storage systems. Don't ever expect to be able to shrink a filesystem. [deletia] ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Hard Drives that Actually Work?
Quoting John Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED]: funny you should type that i have the exact same drive dead on my table. A friend asked if i could recover it, but its pretty much DOA. I have had alot of luck with seagates, they run cool and extremly quiet. I have about 7 seagates in my home network non have gone belly up as of yet Does anyone have any experience with their laptop drives? I just upgraded my laptop with their 100G model (ST9100823A). [deletia] This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Hard Drives that Actually Work?
Quoting Jay R. Ashworth [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 10:17:19AM -0500, cythraul wrote: My Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 (120 GB) has been running efficiently for more then a year now. Tho, it's now as quiet as my two 40 GB Seagate Barracuda IV that used to be in my backend -- now being used almost as badly on my desktop. We have 3 of the 200GB models, 4 months, 24x7. So far, so good. But do remember that IDE drives aren't really built for 24x7 100% duty cycle applications, as SCSI drives are; that's why they're so cheap, by comparison. It's not *just* manufacturing quantity. The IDE drives in my Tivo's don't seem to have that problem. This may simply be a case of consumer product deterioration. The drive makers have been reducing their warranties lately. They clearly aren't interested in standing behind their products for any reasonable amount of time any more (regardless of how the drives are used). Seagate specifically markets models with the older/longer warranties. I thought that WD was also supposed to have such a line but I have not seen it in retail outlets. This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Lightweight window manager recommendation
On Tue, 7 Dec 2004 10:58:34 -0500, Travis Osterman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... I was looking for a recommendation on a lightweight wm that would offer a slight increase in performance from KDE. Why are you concerned about window managers? Myth doesn't need one. I've seen blackbox and fvwm mentioned in the mythtv.org howto and would appreciate any more information whether one is preferrable or if there are other undocumented alternatives. Thank you all for a wonderful project and community. There are a *ton* of windowmanagers. They all work. http://xwinman.org/ provides a good list of options. Most Linux systems *should* already have twm and mwm on them. twm is about as lightweight as you can get - it also has almost no functionality other than launch an xterm and exit. A few choices I would consider that provide a good balance between lightweight and usability: - icewm - xfce - fvwm with fvwm-themes (using windows XP-like theme) - flwm WindowMaker is also a nice mix of performance versus features. [deletia] ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] DVD Ripping ?
[ Charset ISO-8859-1 unsupported, converting... ] (It was me who made the original request...) One file, or a VIDEO_TS folder would be fine. Either way, the ability to seamlessly copy DVDs to the hard drive, and be able to later call them up for viewing, is what I want. If you want to preserve the menus then you need to clone the entire disk (or contents of video_ts). I may also want the ability to compress (Mpeg-4 ?) the video. Is it possible to keep the DVD menus and such, but have the video format different than Mpeg-2 ? Another nice feature would be to be able to strip Audio is pretty tiny. I would think that stripping that would not be worth the trouble. As far as shrinking DVDs and keeping everything intact there is a win32 app called dvdshrink. I also found this script on the web although I have not tested it yet: This came off of the transcode-users list http://zebra.fh-weingarten.de/~maxi/html/transcode-users/2004-02/msg00506.html out unwanted audio tracks, but keep the menus. As recording TV is a secondary need at this point, I am beginning to wonder if there might be a better software solution for what I want to do with DVDs. [deletia] ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
