[mythtv-users] Several General Questions

2004-12-02 Thread Brian Pilnick
I've been researching HTPC's for a while and I think I'm ready to build a dedicated box for my parents. (It's this or buying a tivo.) I have a few questions first though, just to make sure I'm not overlooking anything. First off, I was thinking of using this barebones system to build off of

RE: [mythtv-users] Xorg.conf for PVR350/PAL?

2004-12-02 Thread Jan Johansson
Here ya go. Thanks! Will try tonight. But it seem to be too familiar.. So I prolly have some other problem :) . ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

Re: [mythtv-users] Playing Tivo .ty files within Myth?

2004-12-02 Thread Ian Forde
On Wed, 2004-12-01 at 23:22 -0600, Kevin Kuphal wrote: Zot O'Connor wrote: I was wondering if there is a way to play tivo (I have a directTivo series 2), inside mythtv. My goal is to utilize myth's commercial skipping featuring. I can currently play the files in mplayer. There was a

[mythtv-users] Sound gone on random channels

2004-12-02 Thread Thomas Rokamp
Hi! I have this really weird problem, that when I record programs, the sound is sometimes missing. Sometimes on one channel, after a reboot it's missing on another channel. I can't tell if there's sound when watching LiveTV, as I have problems getting sound to work on my xbox-frontend. I

[mythtv-users] IRSend?

2004-12-02 Thread Jan Johansson
I'm Running FC2/Jarod (How many posts have i started with that? :) ) Now, I want to implement IR-sending. I tried irsend SEND_ONCE Sagem CHAN-UP irsend: command failed: SEND_ONCE Sagem CHAN-UP irsend: hardware does not support sending [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# Messages says Dec 2 11:58:33

Re: [mythtv-users] Several General Questions

2004-12-02 Thread Phill Edwards
First off, I was thinking of using this barebones system to build off of http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=56-110-024depa=0 All of the on-board hardware looks to be supported, but does the fact that the video card and sound card are built on matter? I don't see why it

[mythtv-users] AverMedia DVB-T 771 Remote. Anyone using it???

2004-12-02 Thread David Whyte
So now I have two 771 cards in my box and haven't even set up the box (probably as I am waiting to get an XBox for a frontend before going to that hassle). Anyways, I was wandering if anyone is using the 771 remote with their Myth setup. I wonder how you could go about doing it. You would need

RE: [mythtv-users] PVR-500 Dual Tuner

2004-12-02 Thread Jay Cornell
Hello, I have been researching the wintv-150 and I am confused about the drivers. It doesn't look like ivtv is going to build one for it. I appologize if I've got the info wrong (newbie), but I am trying to configure my first mythtv system and am still gathering HW specs. -Original

Re: [mythtv-users] RGB Output?

2004-12-02 Thread Tom Hughes
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mark Wormgoor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I haven't found any pre-made adaptors other than full scan convertors which hopefully shouldn't be necessary. There are several recipes for rolling it yourself on the web though, complete with sync combiner circuits

RE: [mythtv-users] PVR-500 Dual Tuner

2004-12-02 Thread John Harvey
Work has been done on the 150. The last i heard was that if you use the 0.3.1 drivers then it can capture video but not audio at the moment. You should check the ivtv-dev list for more accurate information or look at the Changelog in the latest driver. John --- Jay Cornell [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [mythtv-users] PVR-500 Dual Tuner

2004-12-02 Thread Jan Johansson
Hello, I have been researching the wintv-150 and I am confused about the drivers. It doesn't look like ivtv is going to build one for it. I appologize if I've got the info wrong (newbie), but I am trying to configure my first mythtv system and am still gathering HW specs. As it is now, you

Re: RE: [mythtv-users] PVR-500 Dual Tuner

2004-12-02 Thread Rolf Zwart
And How about the MCE versions? Is that a problem? Rolf. Message date : 02-12-2004 13:18 From : Jan Johansson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To : Discussion about mythtv [EMAIL PROTECTED] Copy to : Subject : RE: [mythtv-users] PVR-500 Dual Tuner Hello, I

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-350 tv-out problem

2004-12-02 Thread Claus M. Christiansen
Juan C. Gallardo wrote: Hi to everyone I am trying to set my mythtv on the tv-output of the pvr-350 and I have some troubles, maybe someone can see what my mistake is and give me a hand. my xorg.conf device section is like this: Section Device Identifier videocard0 Driver ivtvdev

Re: [mythtv-users] mythtv and nvram-wakeup not resetting the wakeup time in the BIOS

2004-12-02 Thread Lane Schwartz
On Thu, 02 Dec 2004 02:24:53 +, Phill Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This problem has been raised recently but I have not been able to find a solution to it. I think Lane has recently posted about this, so Lane if you have a solution could you please post it here? The problem is as

[mythtv-users] Re: Problem with apt-get or just me?

2004-12-02 Thread PAUL WILLIAMSON
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/2/2004 8:48:30 AM On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 05:39:57AM -0500, PAUL WILLIAMSON wrote: snip I have at-testing enabled in sources.list and this is still not working. Due to a large restructuring of the package it was stability-degraded to bleeding. -- Axel.Thimm at

Re: [mythtv-users] Single Pass Mpeg-4 Transcoding Quality

2004-12-02 Thread Myles Eftos
I was wondering what country you are in by the way - are you sure that your service bit rate is 15Mb/s? They range from 2Mb/s to about 6Mb/s for the services on the DVB-T setup here in the UK. I know that Channel 7 (Maybe others) here in Australia is 15Mb/s -Myles

Re: [mythtv-users] CVS: edit/cutlist problems

2004-12-02 Thread Simon Kenyon
On Wednesday 01 December 2004 22:07, John Patrick Poet wrote: This is fixed in the latest CVS. Thanks David Engel! On Wed, 1 Dec 2004, nate s wrote: PVR 250 recordings, gentoo system w/ kernel-2.6.9-nitro4 and ivtv-0.1.10-ck100z, and cvs as of nov 20ish (is there a way to tell?) On Wed, 1

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-350 TV out usability?

2004-12-02 Thread Bob Wiegand
Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2004 18:24:04 -0500 (EST) From: Randy Carpenter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [mythtv-users] PVR-350 TV out usability? To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Is there a final answer on the usability of the PVR-350 TV

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-350 tv-out problem

2004-12-02 Thread Juan C. Gallardo
Oh god! I can't believe it but using BusID 00:00:0x09 worked! how come the lspci sais 00.09.0 ... Well anyway, it works now, thanks! Juan Claus M. Christiansen wrote: Juan C. Gallardo wrote: Hi to everyone I am trying to set my mythtv on the tv-output of the pvr-350 and I have some troubles,

Re: [mythtv-users] Ideas for new MythTV Features

2004-12-02 Thread Joseph A. Caputo
On Thursday 02 December 2004 10:05, Randy Winchester wrote: The first idea is about making MythNews more useful. MythNews is a great idea, but a lot of the content doesn't look that great rendered in fonts too small to see on a television. MythNews already grabs the headlines for each of

[mythtv-users] DB Error in logs

2004-12-02 Thread Bill Oberman
The other night, I lost my recording of the Daily Show, so I looked in the logs. Directly before the Daily Show, I had recorded Chappelle's Show. I found this in the logs: DB Error (LogEntry): Query was: INSERT INTO mythlog (module, priority, logdate, host, message, details) values (

[mythtv-users] Re: Problem with apt-get or just me?

2004-12-02 Thread Axel Thimm
On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 08:59:10AM -0500, PAUL WILLIAMSON wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/2/2004 8:48:30 AM On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 05:39:57AM -0500, PAUL WILLIAMSON wrote: snip I have at-testing enabled in sources.list and this is still not working. Due to a large restructuring of the

[mythtv-users] Re: MythTVMediaCenter theme and OSD updated

2004-12-02 Thread Jason Gabriele
I did not think of that. I will alter the logo in the next release. You might want to remove the TV Guide logo from the program guide graphic, that'd be a copyright infringement, or some such thing... -- Jarod C. Wilson, RHCE [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Jason Gabriele jason.gabriele at gmail dot com

RE: [mythtv-users] what cards and tools

2004-12-02 Thread Cook, Garry
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 30 Nov 2004 at 8:31, Cook, Garry wrote: although the answer to #1 has me confused again. Maybe I can add to your confusion ;-) Actually Marvin, you cleared up quite a bit for me. Thanks for all of the great information! I do have a few remaining questions

Re: [mythtv-users] My ffmpeg nuvexport module so far

2004-12-02 Thread Lane Schwartz
On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 13:49:37 -0400, Jonathan Markevich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here (finally) is my module that I have been using with the most success for exporting MPEG1. Notice that I declare a bunch of KVCD parameters in here, but am not using them right now. When I try to change the

RE: [mythtv-users] general remote question

2004-12-02 Thread Paul.Buchanan
On Thursday, December 02, 2004 10:43 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: when I run irw.. I can see it recieving the commands from the remote.. and when I keep a button *pressed* .. it keeps recieving the signal and responding... I therefore am led to think the lircd.conf is correct..

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: what cards and tools

2004-12-02 Thread WJCarpenter
jw I'm not certain on the FX series, but for the 4 MX series, it jw actually said in the product pages that there was a hardware mpeg2 jw decoder. I *think* that's in the FX also. Support just isn't fully I finally found an explicit mention of this on the nVidia web site. The FX 5200 *does* have

Re: [mythtv-users] XvMC channel change freezes front-end

2004-12-02 Thread Joe Barnhart
--- Dean Vanden Heuvel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i would be willing to bet that it is another manifestation of this... http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/95765 No, this is the age-old XvMC doesn't work problem. The OSD causes the frontend to freeze hard when using XvMC. In

Re: [mythtv-users] CVS: edit/cutlist problems

2004-12-02 Thread nate s
Well, that's what my mythbackend --version said. Let me try the latest and get back to you. -Nate On Thu, 2 Dec 2004 09:58:39 -0700 (MST), John Patrick Poet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2 Dec 2004, Simon Kenyon wrote: On Wednesday 01 December 2004 22:07, John Patrick Poet wrote:

[mythtv-users] can't make mythtv leave volume alone

2004-12-02 Thread John H.
Ok, I have sb audigy 2. I am not using internal mixer, and I selected do not adjust volume, but using mythtvfrontend and mythtv STILL pumps PCM Capture to 100%! Why? It has to be 0% for recording. __ Do you Yahoo!? The all-new My Yahoo! -

Re: [mythtv-users] Some more questions...

2004-12-02 Thread Jå§òÑ M@¢þhè®$Øñ
Is there some trick to activate the offsets? Yes, there is a trick. You need to run mythtv in window mode (there is an option to do that somewhere in the menus). Or better yet, switch out KDE and use ratpoison. -Jå§òÑ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___

Re: [mythtv-users] CVS: edit/cutlist problems

2004-12-02 Thread Kyle Kelly
nate s wrote: Well, that's what my mythbackend --version said. Let me try the latest and get back to you. -Nate I've upgraded to last nights cvs and can also confirm that this problem is now gone. ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [mythtv-users] LVM question

2004-12-02 Thread Jason Werpy
On Sat, 27 Nov 2004 23:54:04 -0600, randy ferrill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not sure if this is the spot to ask this but. I noticed that on my Mythtv box my LVM made from 15gb of dev\hda2 adn 80gb of dev\hdb shows up using vgdisplay -v as a VG of 88.62GB but a LV of only 69GB...

Re: [mythtv-users] LVM question

2004-12-02 Thread Paul Pick
I noticed that on my Mythtv box my LVM made from 15gb of dev\hda2 adn 80gb of dev\hdb shows up using vgdisplay -v as a VG of 88.62GB but a LV of only 69GB... Where did I lose 19GB of space? First off, it's /dev/hda2, not dev\hda2, etc. When you do the 'vgdisplay -v', check for Free PE /

Re: [mythtv-users] Some more questions...

2004-12-02 Thread Jarod Wilson
On Thursday 02 December 2004 10:29, Jå§òÑ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there some trick to activate the offsets? Yes, there is a trick. You need to run mythtv in window mode (there is an option to do that somewhere in the menus). It used to be possible without going to run-in-a-window mode,

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-350 tv-out problem

2004-12-02 Thread Jarod Wilson
On Thursday 02 December 2004 11:40, Mark L. Cukier wrote: 9 hex and 9 base 10 (eg, decimal) are the same number. D'oh. Brain fart. However, 00:00:09 and 00:09:00 are not the same number... could you have misread what lspci indicated? That's a more likely explanation. That, or maybe I don't

Re: [mythtv-users] DVB-T guide data

2004-12-02 Thread Will
I'm new to myth-tv and have just ordered my dvb-t card to get up and running. Here in the UK tv guide data (for the next 8-days) is broadcast over the air along with the tv pictures. Are there any patches for myth-tv that enable it to use this data rather than the xmltv radio times grabber?

[mythtv-users] add webcam in MythTV system

2004-12-02 Thread rlpconsulting
I have installed PVR-250 in my system with MythTV and things are working fine. I want to add webcam to the system. The webcam is Dlink DSC-C110 and FC2 installed the module sn9c120 for this USB webcam. However, I could not be able to get it working on the gnomemeeting on KDE and xawtv as

[mythtv-users] Really strange problem with playback

2004-12-02 Thread Ben Newman
I'm getting this really odd problem that I'm at a loss as to what's causing it. Randomly, when watching a show not in real time, the recording will suddenly display a bunch of compression artifacting and then skip back an hour or so while still claiming that it's showing the recording at the

Re: [mythtv-users] Program listings problems discussed on /.

2004-12-02 Thread James Armstrong
Asciimonster wrote: Read this interesting thread on Slashdot: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/12/02/1856215 I never had this problem, do guys recognise it? I have seen this a few times and wondered what was going on. Just thought maybe the show ran 1 minute over. I think I see it on Lost on

Re: [mythtv-users] Some more questions...

2004-12-02 Thread Jå§òÑ M@¢þhè®$Øñ
With CVS of a few days ago on an EPIA's Unichrome output, my box running KDE 3.2 did the right thing with positioning offsets, while ratpoison on someone else's did not... In my case, ratpoison will work correctly with offsets for values within -50 to +50. Anything out of that range gets

Re: [mythtv-users] Program listings problems discussed on /.

2004-12-02 Thread Ramon Redondo
This has come up from time to time. There was quite a discussion on it about a year ago: http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/41056?search_string=overlap;#41056 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/dev/15510?search_string=overlap;#15510 On Thu, 02 Dec 2004 21:24:33 +0100,

Re: [mythtv-users] Program listings problems discussed on /.

2004-12-02 Thread Michael J. Lynch
YepI just noticed this the other night. One show's official end time and the official start time of the following show was 9:01. Asciimonster wrote: Read this interesting thread on Slashdot: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/12/02/1856215 I never had this problem, do guys recognise it?

Re: [mythtv-users] XvMC channel change freezes front-end

2004-12-02 Thread Joe Barnhart
--- Brad Templeton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, it's not XcMC's fault... I agree. I should have said, this is the old XvMC doesn't work under mythfrontend bug. I also agree with your conclusion that HDTV will push more users towards XvMC and we'll hear more and more complaints about its

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-500 Dual Tuner

2004-12-02 Thread Bruce Markey
Brad Templeton wrote: ... Of course, I have lived happily on a 1 tuner Tivo before trying to build my mythbox which will have two tuners, a pcHDTV and a wintv-150. I sort of feel that a scheduling conflict is god's way of telling me I watch too much TV. God probably didn't tell networks to pit

Re: [mythtv-users] Program listings problems discussed on /.

2004-12-02 Thread Mike Benoit
Apparently the time can change without notice. One episode might run a minute late, and the next be 2 minutes early. Is MythTV not smart enough to make a best effort to record shows, even if they started 1-5minutes ago? On Thu, 2004-12-02 at 14:57 -0600, Michael J. Lynch wrote: Can't you just

Re: [mythtv-users] mpeg2

2004-12-02 Thread travis eddy
my qustion is answered lol thanks so much From: Lane Schwartz [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Lane Schwartz [EMAIL PROTECTED],Discussion about mythtv [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Discussion about mythtv [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] mpeg2 Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2004 15:12:10 -0600

[mythtv-users] DVB-T card with FC3

2004-12-02 Thread Neil Davidson
Anyone using a DVB-T card (specifically a Nebula DigiTV) with FC3? I need help with patching the kernel to include the linuxtv-dvb drivers. I've read that it is possible to build the drivers without patching the kernel, but I have a bt878 based card so that isn't possible right now. thanks for

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-500 Dual Tuner

2004-12-02 Thread Brad Templeton
On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 01:15:52PM -0800, Bruce Markey wrote: Brad Templeton wrote: ... Of course, I have lived happily on a 1 tuner Tivo before trying to build my mythbox which will have two tuners, a pcHDTV and a wintv-150. I sort of feel that a scheduling conflict is god's way of telling

[mythtv-users] Very High 'System' CPU Usage - nxtvepg was root cause

2004-12-02 Thread Simon Message
Hi there, I have been using mythtv for about2 months. It worked ok, but the performance was not great, this evening I finally tracked down the root cause, so I thought I would post to the list in case anyone else had the same problem. Basically when nxtvepg and mythtv were running at the

Re: [mythtv-users] Several General Questions

2004-12-02 Thread Bruce Markey
Brian Pilnick wrote: I've been researching HTPC's for a while and I think I'm ready to build a dedicated box for my parents. (It's this or buying a tivo.) Buy them a TiVo. -- bjm ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-350 tv-out problem

2004-12-02 Thread Juan C. Gallardo
I double checked, the output of the lspci is :00:09.0 doesn't this mean 00:09:00 I am still confused, but is working! Thanks Joseph A. Caputo wrote: On Thursday 02 December 2004 14:23, Jarod Wilson wrote: On Thursday 02 December 2004 06:56, Juan C. Gallardo wrote: Oh god! I can't

RE: [mythtv-users] what cards and tools

2004-12-02 Thread match
On 2 Dec 2004 at 10:24, Cook, Garry wrote: What is your display? I run a projector that the PVR-350 can't drive anyway, so for me it's a no-brainer, I use a PVR250. I'm still a noob, so just getting used to the new acronyms. My main TV has an Svideo input, which I believe is NTSC, please

[mythtv-users] Nebie here...

2004-12-02 Thread jlartz
Hi guys, First of all, please have mercy on this MythTV Newbie... I'm a happy DishPlayer 7100 PVR user and I read a blurb about 'MythTV' in the dishrip group and thought I'd check it out. All I can say is WOW!... It's amazing what you guys have collectively put together!!! So, I'd love to

[mythtv-users] Configuring Channel frequencies

2004-12-02 Thread Rolf van der Zwart
Hello, So I can get a tv-listing (manually as it may) but I first have to get a channel (frequency) setup. In the Video_setup I can select Holland in my case but that doesn't get the channel setup from my Cable-Provider. I saw with MicroShit Media Center that it can be done automatic via the

Re: [mythtv-users] Several General Questions

2004-12-02 Thread Ryan A. Carris
On Thu, 02 Dec 2004 13:54:50 -0800, Bruce Markey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Brian Pilnick wrote: I've been researching HTPC's for a while and I think I'm ready to build a dedicated box for my parents. (It's this or buying a tivo.) Buy them a TiVo. -- bjm 100% agree. Myth is great for

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-350 tv-out problem

2004-12-02 Thread Mark L. Cukier
Juan: I would say it means 00:00:09 (since that's what's working for you :-) ). Cheers, Mark Juan C. Gallardo wrote: I double checked, the output of the lspci is :00:09.0 doesn't this mean 00:09:00 I am still confused, but is working! Thanks Joseph A. Caputo wrote: On Thursday 02

Re: [mythtv-users] Nebie here...

2004-12-02 Thread Mark L. Cukier
jlartz: There are several options available to Newbies. (speaking as a newbie, I can tell you :-D ). 1) I've heard that Knoppmyth is a great way to go to minimize required-linux-knowledge. I have never used it, but my understanding is it's pretty straightforward, and requires little user

[mythtv-users] Idea for faster channel surfing

2004-12-02 Thread Michael Starks
I had an idea about how the delay might be reduced when changing channels. In a 2+ tuner system, can one tuner leapfrog the other and start buffering the next or previous channel, depending on the direction the user is surfing? For example, I start at channel three. Tuner two starts buffering

Re: [mythtv-users] Several General Questions

2004-12-02 Thread Lane Schwartz
On Thu, 02 Dec 2004 04:48:10 -0500, Brian Pilnick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been researching HTPC's for a while and I think I'm ready to build a dedicated box for my parents. (It's this or buying a tivo.) I have a few questions first though, just to make sure I'm not overlooking anything.

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-500 Dual Tuner

2004-12-02 Thread Randy Carpenter
So does anyone have an idea as to whether or not the PVR-500 is supported? Is it too early to tell? -Randy ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

Re: [mythtv-users] mpeg2

2004-12-02 Thread travis eddy
looking at the first post, i think i could have made a better more clear one but thanks agian From: Lane Schwartz [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Lane Schwartz [EMAIL PROTECTED],Discussion about mythtv [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Discussion about mythtv [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re:

Re: [mythtv-users] Idea for faster channel surfing

2004-12-02 Thread Lane Schwartz
On Thu, 02 Dec 2004 17:30:50 -0500, Michael Starks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I had an idea about how the delay might be reduced when changing channels. In a 2+ tuner system, can one tuner leapfrog the other and start buffering the next or previous channel, depending on the direction the user

Re: [mythtv-users] Idea for faster channel surfing

2004-12-02 Thread Russ Dill
I had an idea about how the delay might be reduced when changing channels. In a 2+ tuner system, can one tuner leapfrog the other and start buffering the next or previous channel, depending on the direction the user is surfing? For example, I start at channel three. Tuner two starts

Re: [mythtv-users] Several General Questions

2004-12-02 Thread Cory Papenfuss
On Thu, 2 Dec 2004, Ryan A. Carris wrote: On Thu, 02 Dec 2004 13:54:50 -0800, Bruce Markey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Brian Pilnick wrote: I've been researching HTPC's for a while and I think I'm ready to build a dedicated box for my parents. (It's this or buying a tivo.) Buy them a TiVo. -- bjm

Re: [mythtv-users] Configuring Channel frequencies

2004-12-02 Thread Nick Rosier
Rolf, you can either ask another person who uses mythtv in your region to send his channels table to you, or you can add them manually like I did (I live in Belgium). Install ptune and mplayer; use mplayer /dev/video0 and tune all channels with ptune. It isn't that much work to enter them in

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-500 Dual Tuner

2004-12-02 Thread Ryan A. Carris
On Thu, 2 Dec 2004 17:37:12 -0500 (EST), Randy Carpenter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So does anyone have an idea as to whether or not the PVR-500 is supported? Is it too early to tell? -Randy Not yet. ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [mythtv-users] Nebie here...

2004-12-02 Thread Lane Schwartz
On Thu, 2 Dec 2004 16:01:00 -0600, jlartz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi guys, First of all, please have mercy on this MythTV Newbie... I'm a happy DishPlayer 7100 PVR user and I read a blurb about 'MythTV' in the dishrip group and thought I'd check it out. All I can say is WOW!... It's

Re: [mythtv-users] XvMC channel change freezes front-end

2004-12-02 Thread Simon Glynn
Well I have a stop-gap solution to this that worked for me. What I've done is modified the osd display theme, to have 0 steps in its fadeout. For my system, I'm running blueosd (default for Knoppmyth), so the file I had to modify was /usr/share/mythtv/themes/blue/blueosd.xml and change the

[mythtv-users] Epia, MythTV, and a pile of confusion

2004-12-02 Thread Matt Picker
Hello, I am trying to get a dedicated mythbox running and possibly running some frontends on other machines. I can handle getting the frontends working. I have done all this many times but things for my setup have changed so much I don't know where to begin. Here is what I have: Epia MII mobo

[mythtv-users] update on the Mythtv for Debian Installation Guide

2004-12-02 Thread Robert Wilson
Hello Everyone, I have updated the guide based on the commits from a few of you. I am interested in improving this guide further. I have recently updated the links to the ckennedy drivers to the new location. This should no correct the error messages people received. I will include that

Re: [mythtv-users] Idea for faster channel surfing

2004-12-02 Thread Cecil Watson
Hello, Michael Starks wrote: I had an idea about how the delay might be reduced when changing channels. In a 2+ tuner system, can one tuner leapfrog the other and start buffering the next or previous channel, depending on the direction the user is surfing? For example, I start at channel three.

Re: [mythtv-users] Playing Tivo .ty files within Myth?

2004-12-02 Thread Scott Alfter
On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 01:40:32PM -0800, Zot O'Connor wrote: Also it is also possible to convert the ty streams to mpeg (they are mpegs with extra headers). Is there a prefered format for the internal player? I would prefer to just move the ty stream obviously. TyStudio will rip video from

[mythtv-users] Confused...

2004-12-02 Thread clemens
Im having more problems with getting MythTV up than I have ever had with any other piece of software. I have a machine here with a PVR-250 and a pcHDTV HD2000 in it, along with a Sound Blaster Live 5.1 (tho if it would make things any easier to get this thing started, I could easily pull one or

Re: [mythtv-users] Idea for faster channel surfing

2004-12-02 Thread Dan Ferris
You would have to enable/disable this on the fly, for channel surfing. it's obviously only workable for incremential surfing in one direction (going up, or going down). This would also be useful for switching channels back and forth (aka, hitting the 'last' button)... but you would probably be

[mythtv-users] Avermedia PCI 300

2004-12-02 Thread Bill Sutton
Oops, Might have pulled the trigger too quickly. I thought I saw in the archives where this card had been used successfully. However, now that I have it, I'm not as sure. Anyone have any experience with it? Thanks, Bill ___ mythtv-users mailing

Re: [mythtv-users] Idea for faster channel surfing

2004-12-02 Thread Asher Schaffer
I'm not sure how popular having favorites set. But what if the other tuner tuned to the next favorite channel up or down depending on which direction you are going. Either that, or have a scan mode that would change through the channels every 5 or 10 seconds, when you are in that mode it then

Re: [mythtv-users] Idea for faster channel surfing

2004-12-02 Thread Mark L. Cukier
Not only that, but this feature would become moot if one tuner were recording a program :-/ Dan Ferris wrote: You would have to enable/disable this on the fly, for channel surfing. it's obviously only workable for incremential surfing in one direction (going up, or going down). This would

Re: [mythtv-users] Epia, MythTV, and a pile of confusion

2004-12-02 Thread Matt Picker
So this xvMC stuff all confuses me. I looked into the tv tuner stuff and found how to get the remote working the way I want so that won't be a problem. What is the xvMC stuff exactly? Does Myth use this automatically? I saw something about it regarding xine. Do I have to use xine or will

Re: [mythtv-users] Idea for faster channel surfing

2004-12-02 Thread Brad Templeton
On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 05:30:50PM -0500, Michael Starks wrote: I had an idea about how the delay might be reduced when changing channels. In a 2+ tuner system, can one tuner leapfrog the other and start buffering the next or previous channel, depending on the direction the user is surfing?

Re: [mythtv-users] Several General Questions

2004-12-02 Thread Florin Andrei
On Thu, 2004-12-02 at 19:53 +, Will wrote: In the general settings page you can turn the system exit key off (at least in latest CVS), so hopefully that shouldn't be needed. (Just mentioning it incase you've had to set up such a key without knowing this). Definitely makes it more of a

[mythtv-users] The Goldfish is dead?

2004-12-02 Thread Bill Sutton
Has anyone else noticed that the nice site at: http://pvrhw.goldfish.org/ Doesn't seem to be working? ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

RE: [mythtv-users] Confused...

2004-12-02 Thread Phill Edwards
Not that you probably want to hear this, but it is a difficult process. I myself, and I think loads of others, have found that starting from scratch with Jarod Wilson's build guide based on Fedora Core 2 and Axel Thimm's RPMs is a HUGE help. You might want to consider doing it this way as it

Re: [mythtv-users] Program listings problems discussed on /.

2004-12-02 Thread Joe Barnhart
--- James Orr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2004-12-02 at 15:57, Michael J. Lynch wrote: Can't you just use the start recording 1 minute late option for The West Wing to solve the conflict? I wasn't aware there was one ... where is it? I usually use mythweb for setting up the

[mythtv-users] nuvexport MPG.pm again

2004-12-02 Thread Jonathan Markevich
I figured out why I couldn't resize video in my module. It was my misunderstanding of the parameters for ffmpeg. You notice that no matter what you type in for the previous module, nothing gets passed to the encoder? I fixed that now. This is a simple change, all it does is uncomment one

Re: [mythtv-users] My ffmpeg nuvexport module so far

2004-12-02 Thread Jonathan Markevich
Lane Schwartz wrote: On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 13:49:37 -0400, Jonathan Markevich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here (finally) is my module that I have been using with the most success for exporting MPEG1. Notice that I declare a bunch of KVCD parameters Just for clarification... This module will

Re: [mythtv-users] My ffmpeg nuvexport module so far

2004-12-02 Thread Jonathan Markevich
Michael J. Lynch wrote: Coolthe export frame rate on my 733Mhz P3 went from 3 fps to 21 fps. Way more acceptable. Thanks for the patch. I hope it ends up in the distro. Glad it helps. How does the end result look to you? I find it interesting that this encode scales with

Re: [mythtv-users] The Goldfish is dead?

2004-12-02 Thread PAUL WILLIAMSON
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/2/2004 7:18:25 PM Has anyone else noticed that the nice site at: http://pvrhw.goldfish.org/ Doesn't seem to be working? It's just extremely slow. It's always been that way. I think it's taken me about a month to get my system entered into the PVR database. The site

Re: [mythtv-users] Several General Questions

2004-12-02 Thread Brad Templeton
On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 04:40:14PM -0600, Lane Schwartz wrote: Once Myth is properly set up, it is just as easy to use as a Tivo. It is not a far cry from punching a few buttons on a Tivo remote. That's not my experience. I have not been using Myth that long but already I have run into a

Re: [mythtv-users] Idea for faster channel surfing

2004-12-02 Thread Dan Littlejohn
Noob question, but why is it necessary to have the buffer require a 2 second start time? Why could it not just drop frames at a rate not easily noticed until the buffer was full? That would solve the surfing problem in a simpler way. On Thu, 2 Dec 2004 16:10:24 -0800, Brad Templeton [EMAIL

[mythtv-users] good quality TV-out question

2004-12-02 Thread Florin Andrei
Hi, I learned about MythTV long time ago, but it was only yesterday that i decided to give it a spin. I am thoroughly impressed! This is one piece of kick-ass software, if there ever was one. I'm thinking to build a single-purpose machine running MythTV, a TiVo replacement as it were. My main

Re: [mythtv-users] My ffmpeg nuvexport module so far

2004-12-02 Thread Chris Petersen
As it stands, yes. ffmpeg will do MPEG2, AFAICT, if you look at ffmpeg -formats, you'll see a few of them that point to MPEG2. I'm not really sure which ones would be appropriate... I'm all for using ffmpeg for svcd/dvd/etc. But as I said, I've heard that there are quality differences vs

Re: [mythtv-users] Pvr250 and black screen

2004-12-02 Thread Joakim Kolsjö
Ok, now it works. (Had to recomple without direcfb support tough too :) On Thu, 02 Dec 2004 08:20:23 -0500, Jason Ramey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joakim Kolsjö wrote: And the server log only says: Unknown video codec Please go into the TV Settings, Recording Profiles and setup the four

[mythtv-users] X11 Gamma?

2004-12-02 Thread Joakim Kolsjö
Hi When watching and comparing to the normal tv signal there is still a quite big diffrence in that the mythtv picture is alot more bright, that is, the black areas are not black, they have alot of white in them. I once say a mail somewhere where someone described a command to set normal tv

Re: [mythtv-users] XBox frontend video doesn't fill screen

2004-12-02 Thread Jonathan Oexner
I have a 1.4 (I think) XBox, with a Focus video encoder chip. Here's my linuxboot.cfg: kernel vmlinuz initrd initrd append init=/linuxrc root=/dev/ram0 kbd-reset xbox=fatx_e:/debian ramdisk_blocksize=4096 video=xbox:hoc=-7,voc=0 xboxfb y ...and here's my focus.c : #include fcntl.h #include

HD-2000 and PVR-250 (was Re: [mythtv-users] Confused...)

2004-12-02 Thread David George
On 12/02/2004 06:33 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Im having more problems with getting MythTV up than I have ever had with any other piece of software. I have a machine here with a PVR-250 and a pcHDTV HD2000 in it, along with a Sound Blaster Live 5.1 (tho if it would make things any easier to get

Re: [mythtv-users] Idea for faster channel surfing

2004-12-02 Thread Brad Templeton
On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 06:49:33PM -0600, Dan Littlejohn wrote: Noob question, but why is it necessary to have the buffer require a 2 second start time? Why could it not just drop frames at a rate not easily noticed until the buffer was full? That would solve the surfing problem in a

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-500 Dual Tuner

2004-12-02 Thread Bruce Markey
Brad Templeton wrote: On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 01:15:52PM -0800, Bruce Markey wrote: Brad Templeton wrote: ... Of course, I have lived happily on a 1 tuner Tivo before trying to build my mythbox which will have two tuners, a pcHDTV and a wintv-150. I sort of feel that a scheduling conflict is

Re: [mythtv-users] Ideas for new MythTV Features

2004-12-02 Thread David Whyte
I would love the ability to setup a 'stream' which each of the frontends can hook into. That way, if I have a party at my place and am playing music videos, I can just tell each of the front ends to hook into a stream being directed by frontend 'N', which users can then use to modify the playlist

[mythtv-users] Re: Confused...

2004-12-02 Thread Don Brett
Don't know what distro you're using, but your description sounds allot like mine. Here's the setup guide I followed: (I am using Slackware 9.1) http://home.comcast.net/~homebrewracing/Mythtv.txt Take a look at ===Install IVTV Driver=== section for a couple of tips on troubleshooting the pvr

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