Re: [mythtv-users] Some questions about HDTV recording

2004-12-11 Thread Brad Templeton
On Sat, Dec 11, 2004 at 11:51:11PM -0600, Nate Carlson wrote: > So basically write a shell wrapper that gets called for transcode, and > looks at the channel number or something? Well, I would actually look at the resolution of the stream if you can extract that. You want to transcode a 480i dif

[mythtv-users] New Custom Record

2004-12-11 Thread John Patrick Poet
I just tried the new [Custom Record] option in the Myth CVS. This is really COOL! PBS has a neat series called "blah blah blah, A Naked Planet Special". Using [Custom Record], it is easy to set up a rule to record these shows. I only have one complaint; it does not seem to match "Previously

[mythtv-users] X over PVR-350

2004-12-11 Thread Josh Sharpe
I posted something about this a week ago but didn't get much help and am still stuck. I'm following Jarod Wilson's FC2 HOW-TO w/ PVR-350 TV-out. I'm at the point where I'm attempting to reload X over the 350's TV-out. I've edited xorg.conf to my specific settings and when I hit crtl-alt-backspace

Re: [mythtv-users] Some questions about HDTV recording

2004-12-11 Thread Nate Carlson
On Fri, 10 Dec 2004, Brad Templeton wrote: You want a fancier system that knows when a program is truly HD, and records it HD if it is, but from either the twinned SD channel when it isn't or from the cable. Yeah, got'cha. Recording from the HD channel too often doesn't bug me much, though - dis

[mythtv-users] lirc + VStreme Xtereme USB

2004-12-11 Thread Steve Berryman
has anyone got the IR Remote working for the VStereme XTreme USB card? i believe it is the kworld dvb card but i cant find any information about getting lirc to work for it. if you have got it working and you can explain how, or point me in the right direction that would be great Steve _

Re: [mythtv-users] Successful Aussie Commercial Detection ?

2004-12-11 Thread Rob Hillis
Paul Andreassen wrote: Any experiences out there from Australian users on which commercial detection scheme works best ? I turned off commercial detection a while back in frustration but now I'm getting weary pulling commercials out by hand. I've also turned off commercial detection. Have you

Re: [mythtv-users] pvr250 volume doesn't match M179

2004-12-11 Thread Jarod Wilson
On Saturday 11 December 2004 13:24, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I installed an M179 as a secondary card in my system. The audio out of it > is considerably louder than my pvr-250. The m179 matches the volume of > music and dvd's so it seems to be an issue with the pvr. Any thoughts on > how to bump

Re: [mythtv-users] hd2000 and hd3000 coexist?

2004-12-11 Thread Kyle Rose
"john roberts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Has anyone gotten the HD2000 and the HD3000 cards to co-exist yet? > I've read of issues - just wondering if anyone has gotten it to work > yet. As far as I can tell, the new drivers will not tune the HD-2000 properly, so unless the new cx88 driver and

[mythtv-users] hd2000 and hd3000 coexist?

2004-12-11 Thread john roberts
Has anyone gotten the HD2000 and the HD3000 cards to co-exist yet? I've read of issues - just wondering if anyone has gotten it to work yet. I just received my HD3000 card - and was wondering what I was up against (I already have a HD2000 card). Thx! -John -- ___

[mythtv-users] Transcode now in FC3

2004-12-11 Thread PAUL WILLIAMSON
Folks, For those of you using Jarod's guide for FC3, I just wanted to let you know that transcode is now in the FC3 apt repository, so the first step in Jarod's guide is no longer necessary. I'm building another frontend witth his guide and it works perfectly. Kudos to the team. Another great

[mythtv-users] my bad

2004-12-11 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I installed an M179 as a secondary card in my system. The audio out of it is considerably louder than my pvr-250. The m179 matches the volume of music and dvd's so it seems to be an issue with the pvr. Any thoughts on how to bump up the volume on it? ___

Re: [mythtv-users] Successful Aussie Commercial Detection ?

2004-12-11 Thread Chris Pinkham
> On Sat, 2004-12-11 at 09:06, David Johnstone wrote: > > Any experiences out there from Australian users on which commercial > > detection scheme works best ? I turned off commercial detection a while > > back in frustration but now I'm getting weary pulling commercials out by > > hand. > > Hi Da

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: widespread reports of (sort of) the same failures

2004-12-11 Thread Dean Vanden Heuvel
none that I can tell. Most of my postings on this get little response. I do know that XvMC does make it worse, and compiling without OpenGL seemed to make it a little better, but since I cannot get OpenGL vsync to actually work, I have no idea if this would help or not. First things first...

Re: [mythtv-users] DVD Ripping ?

2004-12-11 Thread Franco
> Also recently I've read on the dev list that somebody is working on > integrating full iso rips in mythdvd as an extra "quality" setting, > without extra scripts etc... Hoping so. By now, every time I upgrade myth it resets the xml pages to their default content and I have to redo the work..

RE: [mythtv-users] NEW - BIG PROBLEM! Watching LiveTV is very slow

2004-12-11 Thread John Harvey
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:mythtv-users- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Franco > Sent: 11 December 2004 21:53 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] NEW - BIG PROBLEM! Watching LiveTV is very > slow > > > 2) SWITCHING CHANNEL WHILE WATCHING LI

Re: [mythtv-users] Choppy Video in mythfrontend, but not in xawtv

2004-12-11 Thread Kevin Kuphal
Tom Williams wrote: Hi All, I am new to MythTv, but I have setup a RH9 box the details are below. Here is what I am dealing with when I launch xawtv it seems fine the video is smooth no big issues there, when I fire up mythfrontend, and try to watch the video it seems very choppy, audio is out o

Re: [mythtv-users] NEW - BIG PROBLEM! Watching LiveTV is very slow

2004-12-11 Thread Kevin Kuphal
Franco wrote: Also he was describing what happens when you click the "WATCH TV" button. When you press a button labeled like that, you are just supposed to get live-TV functionality!! :-) Not PVR functionality! :-) LiveTV is always recording so you can pause it, etc. If you just want to watch

[mythtv-users] LIRC & Home Brew IR Xmiter not Working

2004-12-11 Thread Babak Pasdar
Hello, I have just brought online my installation of MythTV. For the most part all is working however I cannot get LIRC to work as a second instance to change channels on my Cable box via a homemade IR Blaster. Some background: I have a P4 w/ 1 Gig Ram 2x 80 Gig SATA w/ 3Ware Raid 1 (OS) 1x 25

Re: [mythtv-users] NEW - BIG PROBLEM! Watching LiveTV is very slow

2004-12-11 Thread Franco
> 2) SWITCHING CHANNEL WHILE WATCHING LIVE TV > So it takes 5 sec. to change the channel!! It happens to mee, too (PVR350 PAL) It's very annoying and makes not that good impression when I try to demonstrate myth to people... :-( > we never use Myth to watch LiveTV > The whole idea behind a PVR >

[mythtv-users] pvr250 is too quiet

2004-12-11 Thread myth
The audio out on my pvr250 is significantly lower than my M179, dvds, music, etc. Any way I can turn up the default volume? ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

[mythtv-users] pvr250 volume doesn't match M179

2004-12-11 Thread myth
I installed an M179 as a secondary card in my system. The audio out of it is considerably louder than my pvr-250. The m179 matches the volume of music and dvd's so it seems to be an issue with the pvr. Any thoughts on how to bump up the volume on it? __

Re: [mythtv-users] Choppy Video in mythfrontend, but not in xawtv

2004-12-11 Thread Cecil Watson
Hello, Tom Williams wrote: Hi All, I am new to MythTv, but I have setup a RH9 box the details are below. Here is what I am dealing with when I launch xawtv it seems fine the video is smooth no big issues there, when I fire up mythfrontend, and try to watch the video it seems very choppy, audio is

Re: [mythtv-users] Some questions about HDTV recording

2004-12-11 Thread Bruce Markey
Brad Templeton wrote: On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 07:09:54PM -0600, Nate Carlson wrote: ... 1) How does recording schedulding work for HDTV? My PVR-250's are hooked up to the local cable feed; the PCHDTV card will be set up for OTA. If a show is available via both HDTV and cable, how do I tell it I p

[mythtv-users] Choppy Video in mythfrontend, but not in xawtv

2004-12-11 Thread Tom Williams
Hi All,   I am new to MythTv, but I have setup a RH9 box the details are below.  Here is what I am dealing with when I launch xawtv it seems fine the video is smooth no big issues there, when I fire up mythfrontend, and try to watch the video it seems very choppy, audio is out of sync…any

Re: [mythtv-users] commercial auto skip broken/bug in 0.16

2004-12-11 Thread Jack Wrobbel
On Fri, 2004-12-10 at 21:18, Mario L wrote: > I can vouch for having this issue too. I upgraded to CVS to try and > fix other problems as well as this. It seems that this will happen > less frequently, but will still occur for at least 1 of the commercial > breaks during an one hour episode, or e

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: widespread reports of (sort of) the same failures

2004-12-11 Thread Sasha Z
I'm running Arch linux (similar to gentoo in that it uses bleeding edge everything, but distributed more in binary form). Here's the hardware: GF4 MX440 128MB AGP8X Athlon 1700+ NF7-S 512MB PC3200 20GB WD200 PVR 250 BTTV pos card And the software: kernel 2.6.9 (arch IDE build) mythtv CVS as of 12

Re: [mythtv-users] Remote is a no go.

2004-12-11 Thread Jordack
That's what it was. Thanks. rc.local looks like this and all is well ---/etc/rc.d/rc.local touch /var/lock/subsys/local /sbin/modprobe ivtv modprobe lirc_i2c /usr/sbin/lircd -d /dev/lirc/0 Thanks again --- Erik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Please check which device the lirc kerne

Re: [mythtv-users] Another n00b with a (simple?) problem

2004-12-11 Thread Derek Jennings
On Saturday 11 December 2004 18:16, Daniel Howell wrote: > Hi all, > > New to the list and, as with many first time posters I imagine, having > the typical problems. Not actually with MythTV itself (well, some minor > little problems, but one thing at a time, eh?!). If these questions > really need

[mythtv-users] Re: nuvexport logic change question (mplex instead of lvemux)

2004-12-11 Thread Gavin Hurlbut
Mark H <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been fighting to get nuvexport MPEG2-MPEG2 > working. It seems to blow up on lvemux (gives error > opening a/v streams (1/0). But the mp2 and m2v files > are fine. Obviously they aren't :) >I am thinking about changing from using lvemux to > mplex

[mythtv-users] Another n00b with a (simple?) problem

2004-12-11 Thread Daniel Howell
Hi all, New to the list and, as with many first time posters I imagine, having the typical problems. Not actually with MythTV itself (well, some minor little problems, but one thing at a time, eh?!). If these questions really need to be directed towards the ivtv mailing list, then fair enough - te

Re: [mythtv-users] FC2 and IvyTV Problems and Questions

2004-12-11 Thread jon e wishbone
On Sat, 9 Oct 2004 00:14:55 +0200, jon e wishbone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>2004-09-26 16:52:04 ReadStringList timeout (quick). > > >>Remote encoder not responding. > > >>2004-09-26 16:52:04 33 QUERY_RECORDER 1[]:[]IS_RECORDING > > >>QSocketDevice::writeBlock: Invalid socket > > >>20

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR 250 problems

2004-12-11 Thread Noel Murphy
ok I tried the pvr 250 card in every pci slot. This did rectify the problem with 2 devices having the same IRQ, however I still can't get rid of the ivtv: Bus Mastering is not enabled ivtv: Error -6 on initialization ivtv: iTVC15/16 mpg2 encoder card: probe of :00:0c.0 failed with error

Re: [mythtv-users] commercial auto skip broken/bug in 0.16

2004-12-11 Thread Mark Friedgan
Shawn, Please log it in bugzilla. On Fri, 10 Dec 2004 21:18:23 -0600, Mario L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I can vouch for having this issue too. I upgraded to CVS to try and > fix other problems as well as this. It seems that this will happen > less frequently, but will still occur for at le

Re: [mythtv-users] Remote is a no go.

2004-12-11 Thread Erik
Hi, Please check which device the lirc kernel modules create. On my Gentoo box (Kernel 2.6.9) this is /dev/lirc/0 and thus the lircd should be started with -d /dev/lirc/0 and not /dev/lirc. Regards, Erik On Saturday 11 December 2004 09:02, Richard C. Isaacson wrote: > I had this issue earlie

Re: [mythtv-users] Change Myth Frontend OS X Settings

2004-12-11 Thread Ken Edwards
Hi Jared, On Sat, 11 Dec 2004 01:18:34 -0700, Jared McIntyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How do you get to the initial setup dialog for the mythfrontend on OS > X or where are the settings stored so that I can change them? The > first time I ran it, I accidentally configured it to the wrong > ad

Re: [mythtv-users] New Australian XMLTV grabber

2004-12-11 Thread Paul Andreassen
On Thu, 2004-12-02 at 07:02, Mark Spieth wrote: > tz_local_offset works on each time supplied individually. I tested it. > works. > thus 1am on last sund of oct is +1000 and 4am on same day is +1100 and diff > on the dates gets 2 hours as it should be. > cache dir set was mainly for testing so I c

[mythtv-users] MythMusic DecoderMAD

2004-12-11 Thread Matthias Meyer
Hello group Some mp3-songs which I can play on one pc with kaboodle I can not play on another with MythMusic. I get an error: DecoderMAD: Cannot find a valid MPEG header. This are missing codecs? -- no panic ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTE

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: RAID5 ATA IDE hardware card recommendations for mythbackend machine

2004-12-11 Thread Rudy Zijlstra
Brad Templeton wrote: Why would you want to do RAID for a backup machine? Assuming we are talking disks full of backups, you already have 2 copies of that data, so you are not in trouble if a drive fails, you just put up a new one and backup the original data again. RAID is for systems that need

[mythtv-users] perfect quality TV-out

2004-12-11 Thread Florin Andrei
I can't seem to find this thing described in the documentation... What is the list of TV-out hardware supported by MythTV that has perfect quality? I.e., direct output of interlaced video is supported, no image resizing is performed anywhere in the chain between the video file and the TV screen, e

[mythtv-users] FOLLOWUP: Cannot tune PVR 350 on FC3

2004-12-11 Thread Bruce McKenzie
Semi-success, brought on by massive Googling the world: 1) Buy a video amp. (this was recommended on a list a while ago, and I had one sitting around. I went from mostly-no channels to mostly-all channels. Mine is a $20 one from Radio Shack. Once I installed this the tuning by channel number (nt

Re: [mythtv-users] Remote is a no go.

2004-12-11 Thread Richard C. Isaacson
I had this issue earlier. It is strange and frustrating. Though I found that I was getting bit errors over my PVR-250 into the backend. For about 6 hours I used my keyboard. Then I checked the output for the backend and found that the errors went away and I could then bounce the lircd stuff and