Re: [mythtv-users] Mythvideo not working.

2004-12-06 Thread Randy Carpenter
Well, I have figured out a little bit more. I had chosen all of the titles that were listed in MythDVD to transcode. What I did not know is that the first one is all of the titles concatenated into one .vob file. The remaining titles were each title (there are multiple episodes of a certain

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: New MythTV Hardware Review

2004-12-06 Thread Brad Templeton
On Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 12:56:42AM -0500, Randy Carpenter wrote: What are the chances of us being able to get a card that will accept ATSC over cable (using a cablecard) ? That, along with satellite, have to be the vast majority of the market. Do many people really use OTA antennas for

Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV Setup Script - Updated

2004-12-06 Thread Jarod Wilson
On Sunday 05 December 2004 17:25, Ryan Pisani wrote: About six months ago I made a scripted version of Jarod's Fedora mythtv setup (http://wilsonet.com/mythtv)available at frouse3.homelinux.com. About 2 weeks ago I rebuilt my home-web server and the script has since been offline. In the last

Re: [mythtv-users] IVTV and the Yuan MPG600GR

2004-12-06 Thread Jarod Wilson
On Sunday 05 December 2004 18:18, Jonathan Harding wrote: I've never had the issue with BW video. Thank god, I think I would have lost a gasket after carting it back from Kyoto. Here's the process I used. It's in Japanese but makes sense:

Re: [mythtv-users] Warning: Something is currently using: /dev/snd/pcmCOD1p, retrying error...

2004-12-06 Thread Jack Trout
recorder: /dev/snd/pcmC0D1p: error setting audio input device to 44100kHz/16bits/2channel Could not detect audio blocksize Cannot open DSP '/dev/snd/pcmC0D1p', exitingopen: Device or resource busy 2004-12-05 23:17:12 Opening OSS audio device '/dev/snd/pcmC0D1p'. 2004-12-05 23:17:12

[mythtv-users] Is X over TV-Out *at all* possible under FC3 (-681 kernel) with PVR-350

2004-12-06 Thread Nick Morrott
Hi all, After much head-scratching and punching of keyboard I am just writing to see if it is *at all* possible to get X running over the TV-out of my PVR350 card under Fedora Core 3. I have had no trouble at all (apart from ALSA) getting my PVR system configured and running but whenever I try

[mythtv-users] Slightly OT: A not so well known secret of the AverMedia 771 DVB-T

2004-12-06 Thread David Whyte
I modified the face plate of the 771 DVB-T on the weekend so I can chain multiple cards together. A simple process which can be done with any 771 AFAIK. Take a look at the photos on my blog if your interested http://www.mtekk.com.au/blogs/dave/davesblog.html HTH's Dave PS - ummm...no comments

Re: [mythtv-users] [OT] Mailing Lists...

2004-12-06 Thread J.D. Bakker
Why does the Linux community tend to collaborate with e-mail lists? I have a one-hour commute by train. I have no Internet access during that time. I do have a laptop. A constant for most fora, mailing lists and newsgroups I have frequented is that only one out of every 20 messages (if that) is

[mythtv-users] *Remote* remote control

2004-12-06 Thread Jonathan Markevich
Here's another pie-in-the-sky request. Is there some kind of way I can control the frontend machine through the network? We're currently in a rather spread-out place, and sometimes I'd like to watch tv and programs another floor away. The frontend and backend are all on the same machine, and

Re: [mythtv-users] Recording a tape to DVD

2004-12-06 Thread Brian Stults
Cory Papenfuss wrote: However, I thought I'd first check here to see if anyone had done something similar or had any clever ideas on improving my approach. Any suggestions are welcome. I am in exactly the same situation. I have a suitcase full of family videos, and I plan to convert them to

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: New MythTV Hardware Review

2004-12-06 Thread Joseph A. Caputo
On Monday 06 December 2004 02:54, Brad Templeton wrote: Sadly, the protocols include copy protection, so no open source decoding of the firewire stream. In theory, if they do non-protected firewire on the broadcast shows you could get that. I thought they were required to provide access to

[mythtv-users] MythTV hangs pc

2004-12-06 Thread Søren Pingel Dalsgaard
I have mythtv running on my pc with a pvr250 but if I start using menus (pressing m and navigating the tv programme) it will suddenly hang the pc with the harddisk led on. Resetting the pc is the only way out of the dead-lock. I am running the ivtv 0.2.0-rc3 (0.3.1 does the same to my

Re: [mythtv-users] Recording a tape to DVD

2004-12-06 Thread John Kuhn
Chris wrote: I'm working on a Christmas project that will have me use my myth box to record some old family videos (on VHS tapes) to DVD. I've seen lots of messages on the list about recording shows to DVD, but since this is coming from a tape (and will be manually started stopped), it seems

[mythtv-users] No markers for programs that should be recorded.

2004-12-06 Thread Søren Pingel Dalsgaard
I am unable to mark any program for recording. Right after I installed MythTV I was able to mark programs and they would get a small round icon in the program guide, but now this has ceased to work. Is there a settings somewhere I am missing? Thanks, Søren

Re: [mythtv-users] *Remote* remote control

2004-12-06 Thread Brian LeFevre
Matt Vollmar wrote: Jonathan Markevich wrote: Here's another pie-in-the-sky request. Is there some kind of way I can control the frontend machine through the network? We're currently in a rather spread-out place, and sometimes I'd like to watch tv and programs another floor away. The frontend

Re: [mythtv-users] Recording a tape to DVD

2004-12-06 Thread Lane Schwartz
On Mon, 06 Dec 2004 10:05:02 -0500, John Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chris wrote: I'm working on a Christmas project that will have me use my myth box to record some old family videos (on VHS tapes) to DVD. I've seen lots of messages on the list about recording shows to DVD, but

Re: [mythtv-users] *Remote* remote control

2004-12-06 Thread Ken Edwards
On Mon, 06 Dec 2004 09:42:59 -0400, Jonathan Markevich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's another pie-in-the-sky request. Is there some kind of way I can control the frontend machine through the network? A simple solution might be to use a VNC server on the frontend machine. There is something

Re: [mythtv-users] [OT] Mailing Lists...

2004-12-06 Thread Brian LeFevre
Sorry to flame but I hate this discussion(maybe it is because my thoughts are the one that always lose.) I don't like to crowd my inbox (at the ISP). I am obliged to download once a day (which is sometimes not likeley). I have noticed it is a pain in the butt to answer to digest mode.

Re: [mythtv-users] [OT] Mailing Lists...

2004-12-06 Thread Paul Wheeler
I use mailing lists with Gmail. It works amazingly well. I have it set up to automatically archive and label the mailing lists. The way gmail treats threads as well makes it incredably powerfull. The downside of this is you need an internet connection. The gmail interface itself is very very quick

Re: [mythtv-users] pvr250 + dxr3

2004-12-06 Thread David George
On 12/6/2004 10:16 AM, Chris Wieringa wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/4/2004 6:59:59 PM Has anybody tried getting a dxr3 (using em8300-modules) to work with mythtv. It *should* work just like the output to a pvr350 but even when I enable output to PVR350 and select /etc/em8300_mv-0 I get

[mythtv-users] NVidia remote control query

2004-12-06 Thread mjc
I was wondering if anyone was able to get the Personal Cinema RF remote from NVidia working with LIRC? I know that it is just about identical to the ATI and X10 remotes. I have tried several of the methods that I found in the threads but nothing seems to work right. Lsusb shows the usb receiver

Re: [mythtv-users] [OT] Mailing Lists...

2004-12-06 Thread John Goerzen
On Sun, Dec 05, 2004 at 10:16:47PM -0700, Bill Sutton wrote: Um... Probably going to draw fire on this, but... Why does the Linux community tend to collaborate with e-mail lists? This seems kind of backward to me given that there is the rather nice real time messaging methods used made

[mythtv-users] Nvidia DVI vs ATI

2004-12-06 Thread mark
After reading the article re. DVI compliance... So it looks like ATI cards are working better than NVidia for DVI. I am looking to by a TV that takes DVI and I am concerned about the compliance of Nvidia cards. Are the ATI cards supported at all? I have always used Nvidia with no problems.

Re: [mythtv-users] *Remote* remote control

2004-12-06 Thread Kevin Kuphal
Jonathan Markevich wrote: Here's another pie-in-the-sky request. Is there some kind of way I can control the frontend machine through the network? We're currently in a rather spread-out place, and sometimes I'd like to watch tv and programs another floor away. The frontend and backend are all

Re: [mythtv-users] NVidia remote control query

2004-12-06 Thread Josh Burks
Are you using the tuner on the Personal Cinema to record with MythTV? I've been interested in getting one, just wasn't sure if it would work or not. Sorry I don't have an answer for your remote problem. Josh On Mon, 6 Dec 2004 09:52:06 -0600, mjc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was wondering if

Re: [mythtv-users] *Remote* remote control

2004-12-06 Thread Jon Bauerle
On Dec 6, 2004, at 7:42 AM, Jonathan Markevich wrote: Here's another pie-in-the-sky request. Is there some kind of way I can control the frontend machine through the network? We're currently in a rather spread-out place, and sometimes I'd like to watch tv and programs another floor away. The

Re: [mythtv-users] Recording a tape to DVD

2004-12-06 Thread John Kuhn
Agreed. The surest way for a feature request to become a feature is to write the code. :) I'll try to take a look at the code tonight. Not making any promises, esp as my C++ skills are a bit rusty. Do any of the current developers have any comments about a MythVHS module being added with the

[mythtv-users] myth-ledxmit.

2004-12-06 Thread j2
Has someone running FC2 on 2.6.8-1.521 followed the guide on http://losdos.dyndns.org:8080/public/mythtv-info/MythTV_DISH_IR_LED_TX_via_Modified_LIRC.html? Could i steal the result, because i cannot make the darn thing compile. Last run gave me. You will have to use the ledxmit_serial kernel

Re: [mythtv-users] Recording a tape to DVD

2004-12-06 Thread Kevin Kuphal
John Kuhn wrote: Agreed. The surest way for a feature request to become a feature is to write the code. :) I'll try to take a look at the code tonight. Not making any promises, esp as my C++ skills are a bit rusty. Do any of the current developers have any comments about a MythVHS module being

RE: [mythtv-users] MythTV Setup Script - Updated

2004-12-06 Thread Neil Davidson
About six months ago I made a scripted version of Jarod's Fedora mythtv setup (http://wilsonet.com/mythtv)available at frouse3.homelinux.com. About 2 weeks ago I rebuilt my home-web server and the script has since been offline. In the last few weeks I've had some requests for the script - so

[mythtv-users] Audio sync progressively worse with nuvexport MPG2-MPG2 (mpeg2cut)

2004-12-06 Thread Lane Schwartz
After installing Myth on FC2 on my new dedicated Myth box, I've run into problems exporting my recordings with nuvexport. I can successfully export using the MPEG2-MPEG2 option. When I play the exported .mpg file, the audio sync starts out OK, then gets progressively worse as the file goes on. By

[mythtv-users] Apologies

2004-12-06 Thread Mark L. Cukier
If anyone received a challenge/response e-mail from me, I apologize. My spam filter went down and had to be reconfigured... I had a typo (mythtv-user instead of mythtv-users) in my allclear list. Once again, my apologies and please ignore the e-mail... all messages from this (highly work

[mythtv-users] Update on Homebrew PVR Multi-Circuit

2004-12-06 Thread Robert Kulagowski
For those of you who were on the list in August when the PVR multi-circuit was being discussed (http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/engine?do=post_view_flat;post=73657;list=mythtv) here's the update from Steve: Original Message Subject: Re: Did you ever finish the IR /

[mythtv-users] Re: Audio sync progressively worse with nuvexport MPG2-MPG2 (mpeg2cut)

2004-12-06 Thread Lane Schwartz
On Mon, 6 Dec 2004 12:27:07 -0600, Lane Schwartz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 6 Dec 2004 12:24:23 -0600, Lane Schwartz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After installing Myth on FC2 on my new dedicated Myth box, I've run into problems exporting my recordings with nuvexport. I can successfully

[mythtv-users] use the hardware decoder of PVR350

2004-12-06 Thread Matthias Meyer
Hello, I am running MythTV V0.16 with Debian/Woody and an openMosix-Kernel 2.4.24. I use the hardware encoder of my PVR350. This work fine and the cpu usage ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is around 5%. Now I try to run xine or mplayer within MythVideo. Because of the weak cpu they should use the

[mythtv-users] pcHDTV 3000 Which video card to use with

2004-12-06 Thread JBorn
I plan on making a myth box revolving around a pcHDTV 3000 card. Which video card should I purchase to go along with it? From the pcHDTV web site I see the following listed: Accelerated HDTV support with nVidia video cards. Accelerated IDCT and Motion Compensation with GeForce4 Mx cards

[mythtv-users] MythBurn under Fedora?

2004-12-06 Thread Chris Clarke
Hi All, I was wondering if anyone has had any sucess in getting mythBurn working under fedora. I just got a DVD burner and would like to burn off a bunch of Biographys I have saved to free up some space. Thanks for any advice/tips anyone can provide, Chris

Re: [mythtv-users] Repeating audio on SMP machine

2004-12-06 Thread Kane Tse
Try forcing the capture card and audio capture IRQ processing onto one CPU. It could be that the process is being migrated between CPUs and the driver is not completely SMP safe. I read up on the smp_affinity file and made the modifications, but ultimately, it didn't help. I made the following

Re: [mythtv-users] MoBo+PVR150 or 350?

2004-12-06 Thread Darren Hart
On Tue, 2004-11-23 at 15:51 -0500, Fred Squires wrote: But my question is what does it mean that everything comes through a framebuffer - is that actually inferior quality or simply more processind needed? The framebuffer is basically just what it sounds like, a buffer (some memory)

Re: [mythtv-users] Recording a tape to DVD

2004-12-06 Thread John Kuhn
Just a side note, if you configure MythVideo to use the internal player (by specifying Internal as the player commandline option), wouldn't that let you use the PVR-350 decoder? I havent tried it but i assume it would then send every type of file to the internal decoder.. which isnt going to

[mythtv-users] Setting overscan with PVR-350 TV out?

2004-12-06 Thread Dan Wilga
I would like to reduce the overscan of the PVR-350's TV out, because the image is too large for my TV right now, and I can't see a lot of X's output. I realize that I can set MythTV to run in a window, but that doesn't help other X apps, or the desktop itself. I know I can run a program like

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: New MythTV Hardware Review

2004-12-06 Thread Kevin Hulse
Quoting Brad Templeton [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 08:42:02AM -0600, Kevin Hulse wrote: e) You wish to archive some of what you are recording on your Tivo f) You wish your Tivo were better organized (like, by series then episode) g) You want a DVD jukebox. h) You want an

Re: [mythtv-users] Recording a tape to DVD

2004-12-06 Thread Kevin Kuphal
John Kuhn wrote: Just a side note, if you configure MythVideo to use the internal player (by specifying Internal as the player commandline option), wouldn't that let you use the PVR-350 decoder? I havent tried it but i assume it would then send every type of file to the internal decoder..

[mythtv-users] Simultaneous S-Video out w/ PVR-350 Video Card

2004-12-06 Thread Drew Zerdecki
Would it be possible to configure MythTV in such a way that it is outputting TV/Video from both the PVR-350 and from an Nvidia FX5200 s-video out out the same time? I'd like to watch TV using the 350, but maybe switch to the 5200 and watch a divx file (from the another s-video input on the

Re: [mythtv-users] [OT] Mailing Lists...

2004-12-06 Thread mark
On Thursday 06 January 2005 10:35 am, Brian LeFevre wrote: if gossamer threads did allow login and posting that would solve all of our problems. That would be the better for everybody solution. You can have your email and we can have forum!

Re: [mythtv-users] myth-ledxmit.

2004-12-06 Thread mythtv_user
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/74281 j2 wrote: Has someone running FC2 on 2.6.8-1.521 followed the guide on http://losdos.dyndns.org:8080/public/mythtv-info/MythTV_DISH_IR_LED_TX_via_Modified_LIRC.html? Could i steal the result, because i cannot make the darn thing compile.

[mythtv-users] pvr-250 + dxr :-(

2004-12-06 Thread =?unknown-8bit?q?S=F8ren?= Pingel Dalsgaard
Thanks to all - you saved me a lot of hard work trying to get this to work. Ok, so I learned the hard way that a dxr is a bad combo. So I need to sell my pvr-250 card to get a pvr-350. Anyboyd wanna buy a pvr-250 :-) :-) Thanks Søren Thanks to all - you saved me a lot of hard work trying

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Question about using nuvexport

2004-12-06 Thread Mr. Myth
Gavin Hurlbut wrote: OK, we'd need a bit more details to be able to start helping troubleshoot this. First off: 1) What kind of card are you capturing with? 2) What version of avidemux2? mpeg2cut should take about 5 minutes or so to cut a 1h show (that's what it takes for me anyways). 18h is

[mythtv-users] Re: Setting overscan with PVR-350 TV out?

2004-12-06 Thread sdk
Dan, I had been grappling with the same exact problem, even as of this afternoon when I read your message. However, I have found a solution that worked for me. I have a PVR350 with X enabled and am running KDE window manager. I followed the instructions below (taken from

Re: [mythtv-users] d1.com.au broken?

2004-12-06 Thread Craig Read
Brian May wrote: Hello, Is there a problem here? launchpad:~# su mythtv /usr/share/xmltv/tv_grab_au/tv_grab_au.d1 tv_grab_au - (version 0.6 - release 2004-07-19) using config filename /home/mythtv/.xmltv/tv_grab_au.conf ?xml version=1.0 encoding=ISO-8859-1? !DOCTYPE tv SYSTEM xmltv.dtd

[mythtv-users] EPIA-M Unichrome xvmc vld

2004-12-06 Thread Steven
Hi, After running live tv for an hour or so my EPIA-M1 frontend gets into a state where is show about 1 frame every 5 seconds. Restarting mythfrontend doesn't help, restarting X does fix things. This is from dmesg : mtrr: 0xd800,0x200 overlaps existing

Re: [mythtv-users] Re:MythBurn under Fedora?

2004-12-06 Thread Ross Campbell
I was wondering if anyone has had any sucess in getting mythBurn working under fedora. I just got a DVD burner and would like to burn off a bunch of Biographys I have saved to free up some space. Thanks for any advice/tips anyone can provide, The easiest thing to do to keep all your

[mythtv-users] DVD Ripping ?

2004-12-06 Thread Randy Carpenter
I mentioned this in a different email, but I'm not sure if people read it all (it was a long message :) ) Anyway... I'm looking for a way to put in a DVD, and have Myth rip the whole disk, just as it is, and make a single image file of it (Including menus, and extras). I then want to be able to

Re: [mythtv-users] Re:MythBurn under Fedora?

2004-12-06 Thread Tim Litwiller
Dennis Hand wrote: Hi All, I was wondering if anyone has had any sucess in getting mythBurn working under fedora. I just got a DVD burner and would like to burn Chris I've got it working on FC1 and FC2. And it works great. Head over to

[mythtv-users] nuvexport and file too big

2004-12-06 Thread Brian Stults
I am actually having a problem with lvemux, which is called by mpeg2cut which is called by nuvexport when doing mpeg2-mpeg2. The problem is that in order to run nuvexport, I need to ssh into the backend as root. Apparently, although I am using jfs which allows file sizes much bigger than

Re: [mythtv-users] DVD Ripping ?

2004-12-06 Thread Joakim Kolsjö
I don't know anything about that, but if you want a good ripper in general try dvd::rip, http://www.exit1.org/dvdrip/ On Mon, 6 Dec 2004 22:50:31 -0500 (EST), Randy Carpenter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I mentioned this in a different email, but I'm not sure if people read it all (it was a long

[mythtv-users] pvr-250 + dxr :-(

2004-12-06 Thread Søren Pingel Dalsgaard
Thanks to all - you saved me a lot of hard work trying to get this to work. Ok, so I learned the hard way that a dxr is a bad combo. So I need to sell my pvr-250 card to get a pvr-350. Anyboyd wanna buy a pvr-250 :-) :-) Thanks Søren ___

[mythtv-users] please help: horrendous video quality

2004-12-06 Thread Mark L. Cukier
Everyone: I have a hauppauge pvr350 connected to a Sony Widescreen 51. The picture quality is horrendous on several levels. The picture is shifted, so some is cut off. I have scan lines scrolling up (horizontal lines moving vertically), and the colors are WAY off. Does anyone know how to

Re: [mythtv-users] myth-ledxmit.

2004-12-06 Thread j2
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/74281 Problem is that i have compiled a kernel with that source. ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

[mythtv-users] ripping dvd grabs wrong audio track

2004-12-06 Thread Donovan Lashbrooke
everytime I transcode a dvd to my video library using mythTV, the incorrect audio track is encoded. I have attempted this with many different dvd's and with encoding the AC3 audio track option selected or deselected. On a dvd with 1 standard (ac3) audio track and 1 commentary (ac3) audio track i

Re: [mythtv-users] EPIA-M Unichrome xvmc vld

2004-12-06 Thread Joe Votour
I've had that happen, but generally only when starting LiveTV, and not during. If it does happen, restarting LiveTV once or twice usually fixes it. For the most part, my LiveTV works fairly well, with the occasional glitch, and major glitches with the EPG and (sometimes) OSD. The spurious

[mythtv-users] FC3 MythTV Setup Script

2004-12-06 Thread Tom E. Craddock, Jr.
Ryan Pisani wrote: 'll get mention of it into the docs themselves. I've got some other ideas relating to kickstarts floating around in my head, it would be nice to tie a kickstart together with some of your stuff... I was thinking of doing the same thing actually. A few months back, I

Re: [mythtv-users] FC3 MythTV Setup Script

2004-12-06 Thread Tom E. Craddock, Jr.
Tom E. Craddock, Jr. wrote: Ryan Pisani wrote: 'll get mention of it into the docs themselves. I've got some other ideas relating to kickstarts floating around in my head, it would be nice to tie a kickstart together with some of your stuff... I was thinking of doing the same thing

Re: [mythtv-users] Tainted Kernel and Obsolete Parameters

2004-12-06 Thread Joe Votour
Here's what I understand the messages to mean: Tainted Kernel - You have loaded a kernel module that does not comply with one of the permitted licenses for kernel modules. This isn't really much of a problem, all it means is that if you get a kernel panic, or some other sort of issue, and you

[mythtv-users] Re: pcHDTV with FX5200 TV-Out

2004-12-06 Thread Dan Lanciani
Jarod Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: |Well, I just remembered I have two clips you can try out, one 1080i, one 720p, |both sitting around on my web server. | |1080i: http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/cbs-in-hd.nuv |720p: http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/abc-in-hd.nuv | |Both are in the 100MB or so range,