Re: [mythtv-users] RE: DVB in the UK (EPG)

2004-12-18 Thread Neil Milne
And here's my lircd.conf file - it's gzipped to bring it under the mailinglist attachment limits. You may find it doesn't work for your sky navigator - I found a couple of other lircd files online for that remote which didn't work with mine. I presume this is because it's using the raw IR

Re: [mythtv-users] Should I wait for the PVR 150

2004-12-18 Thread Brad Templeton
On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 11:17:11PM -0600, Andrew Close wrote: -Nate http://hauppauge.com/pages/compare_pvr.html One thing I am curious about. The pictures of the 150-MCE show it with two RF jacks on the board. The 150 non-MCE that I have had just one RF jack on the board, as per its

Re: [mythtv-users] lircd troubles

2004-12-18 Thread eRik
Try to reload lircd /sbin/service lircd restart 'Couse I have to reload this service twice to work for me, so I add upper line to my /etc/rc.d/rc.local twice. I have FlyView tuner. I hope this will work - Original Message - From: Gabe Rubin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Myth User [EMAIL

RE: [mythtv-users] FC1 problem at install mythtv Step

2004-12-18 Thread William
I have been going through Jarod's guide and got stuck at the install mythtv step. I saw the BIG, FAT, IF YOU MISS IT, I WILL SCOLD YOU, WARNING[1] ... kde-redhat.atrpms.net entries in /etc/apt/sources.list (simply place a # in front of all kde-redhat lines)... I looked in my

[mythtv-users] MythDVD cropping problem

2004-12-18 Thread Steven Christall
Hi I just installed MythDVD. It plays OK, but is cropping off the bottom of the picture. If I hit f mplayer toggles from full screen mode to have mplayer window edges and then I can see all of the picture. When I do this the picture shifts up to be centered in the mplayer window edges and I

Re: [mythtv-users] X startup on Warty

2004-12-18 Thread David Collett
do you have any packages from hoary? In particular libgtk (perhaps as a dependancy of firefox or something you may be tracking in hoary)? I had this problem, looks like gdm doesnt like the gtk 2.6.0 in hoary. BTW. gtali also fails to work with hoary gtk. I downgraded. Dave On Sat, 18 Dec 2004

Re: [mythtv-users] mythbackend without X

2004-12-18 Thread Joseph Caputo
nate s wrote: On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 15:43:26 -0600, Kevin Kuphal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael Messner wrote: Hey mythTV users, I like to make my fileserver also to the backend server for mythTV, the fileserver is running with trustix (www.trustix.org) without a XServer and also without any QT

Re: [mythtv-users] lircd troubles

2004-12-18 Thread Gabe Rubin
Try to reload lircd /sbin/service lircd restart 'Couse I have to reload this service twice to work for me, so I add upper line to my /etc/rc.d/rc.local twice. I have FlyView tuner. I wish that were it, but I have tried rebooting, restarting and everything with that. It is wierd, because

Re: [mythtv-users] OT: Dual Channel DDR

2004-12-18 Thread Anthony Vito
Dual channel is a motherboard feature. There is no difference between buying a dual channel memory kit or buying two sticks seperately, not physically at least. Correct, I don't know what the other guy up there is talking about.. THe only distinction that the kits have besides higher

[mythtv-users] Some recordings only getting a few seconds

2004-12-18 Thread Scott Nicholson
My 0.16 setup has been working fine for a couple of months now (or since 0.16 came out, anyway), but the last few days it's been having problems recording... Some recordings seem to spontaneously abort. It doesn't happen to every recording, and I haven't been able to track down any specific

RE: [mythtv-users] FC1 problem at install mythtv Step

2004-12-18 Thread George Lopez
I wish I could say you are correct about ignoring the warning. Unfortunately, I get an error when I try to apt-get mythtv suite. Any thoughts? See below for the error I get. Thanks, George [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# apt-get install mythtv-suite Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency

[mythtv-users] Re: FC3 less stable than FC1? Getting Cannot allocate memory error

2004-12-18 Thread Kttii Tom Thompson
alright, I will now confess to my Newb-ness. How can I tell what version of ivtv I am using? BTW, did you go to FC2 from FC1? how was that transition? The main reason I wanted to go back to FC1 is I have the files already downloaded and burned. thanks, George --- David George [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [mythtv-users] FC1 problem at install mythtv Step

2004-12-18 Thread Kttii Tom Thompson
I ran into the same problem 2 days ago when I tried to upgrade my myth box. If you try to install mythdvd you get an error about transcode, if you install transcode you get more errors... I'm not real proficient at fixing problems and ended up starting from scratch with FC3 and just finished

[mythtv-users] no osd after upgrade to cvs

2004-12-18 Thread Peter Lee
[Sorry if this is a re-send. I sent this yesterday and haven't seen it appear yet on the list.] Hi. For various reasons (mainly some experimentation with a diskless frontend) I decided to upgrade my FC2-based combined backend/frontend from atrpms to cvs. I used the how-to at

Re: [mythtv-users] OT: How to upgrade from FC2 to FC3 via apt-get

2004-12-18 Thread Martin Ebourne
On Sun, 2004-12-12 at 22:10 -0800, Jarod Wilson wrote: On Sunday 12 December 2004 14:19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have setup my FC2 MythTV box using Jarod's great guide and I'd like to now upgrade to FC3. How can I do this via apt-get? I think I saw a how-to earlier on the list, but have

Re: [mythtv-users] OT: How to upgrade from FC2 to FC3 via apt-get

2004-12-18 Thread Martin Ebourne
On Sun, 2004-12-12 at 22:10 -0800, Jarod Wilson wrote: On Sunday 12 December 2004 14:19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have setup my FC2 MythTV box using Jarod's great guide and I'd like to now upgrade to FC3. How can I do this via apt-get? I think I saw a how-to earlier on the list, but have

Re: [mythtv-users] Nvidia DVI vs ATI

2004-12-18 Thread Simon Williams
On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 13:36:42 -0800, nate s [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Agreed. In posting that, I didn't mean to be doing any scaremongering. I mostly found it to be usefull information on the DVI spec. I don't at all think that people should shun nvidia and buy only ati cards for dvi now,

Re: [mythtv-users] no osd after upgrade to cvs

2004-12-18 Thread mielikki-ivtv
Peter Lee wrote: The upgrade went smoothly, except for one thing: The OSD is not working. Everything else seems to be working perfectly. I can pause, ff, rewind, etc in both live and recorded tv and it works just fine, but just no osd. The program guide works. But OSD-related things are not

[mythtv-users] MythMusic fails to init - TLS issue?

2004-12-18 Thread john roberts
Ok - first - I'll be the first to admit - I don't know what TLS but it seems to be what is preventing MythMusic from starting. Here is my STDOUT/STDERR during mythfrontend startup: 2004-12-18 13:21:12.479 mythfrontend version: 0.16.20041207-1 www.mythtv.org 2004-12-18 13:21:12.480 Enabled

Re: [mythtv-users] MythDVD cropping problem

2004-12-18 Thread Steve Christall
In answer to myself, the issue was caused by mplayer trying to figure out the correct aspect ratio itself I have switched to using xine (dvd menu support) and have overridden its autodetected aspect ratio, hard coding to 4:3 HTHSITF S Hi I just installed MythDVD. It plays OK, but is

[mythtv-users] Few questions about cvs

2004-12-18 Thread Justin Hunt
Hi all, Ive been running mythtv cvs for about 4 months, and ive noticed that if i tell it to automatically flag commercials, the back end will hang as soon as it starts trying to flag commercials for any recording or if i ask it to transcode somthing. This hasnt been a problem so far, but id

[mythtv-users] Somewhat OT: Transcoding MPEG audio to AC3

2004-12-18 Thread Scott Alfter
Whatever problem I was having with nuvexport now seems to be resolved, so I can now create a cutlist in mythfrontend, fire up nuvexport, and get an edited MPEG-2 PS (I have a couple of MPEG encoders installed) out. The PVRx50 and friends produce MPEG-2 video and MPEG-1 layer II audio. The video

Re: [mythtv-users] OT: Dual Channel DDR

2004-12-18 Thread Yan-Fa Li
Joseph Caputo wrote: My understanding was that dual-channel needed at least PC3200 RAM (400 MHz); the difference in price is probably due to the fact that if you're not running in dual-channel mode most mobos fall back to PC2700 speeds (333 MHz), so if you're not running dual-channel there's no

Re: [mythtv-users] How to add more recording disk space: Christmas is coming !

2004-12-18 Thread Brad Templeton
On Sat, Dec 18, 2004 at 10:30:30AM -0800, Bruce Markey wrote: Ah, that's the other side of the /. As far as the server and interface is concerned, the filename are internal data and don't need to be human readable. Someone already wrote a script to create symlinks with readable names that

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Mythbackend keeping files open, disk space not being freed

2004-12-18 Thread Brad Templeton
On Sat, Dec 18, 2004 at 07:06:48PM +, Gavin Hurlbut wrote: Brad Templeton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just encountered a somewhat serious bug. I noticed my partition was low on disk space, and deleted some older videos, and while the files were deleted and to du they were gone, to df

Re: [mythtv-users] OT: Dual Channel DDR

2004-12-18 Thread dustymugs
Tell us what motherboard and CPU you are planning on using. THe key rule is to find a balance between the speed of the ram, speed of the fsb to the cpu and CAS Latency. Lets look at 3 Kingston RAM chips from newegg. This is just a representativeness of what is out there, I'm not recommending

Re: [mythtv-users] no osd after upgrade to cvs

2004-12-18 Thread Peter Lee
On Sat, 18 Dec 2004 13:22:48 -0500, mielikki-ivtv [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Peter Lee wrote: The upgrade went smoothly, except for one thing: The OSD is not working. Everything else seems to be working perfectly. I can pause, ff, rewind, etc in both live and recorded tv and it works just

[mythtv-users] nuvexport question

2004-12-18 Thread Rob Walker
are causing me troubles. Is there any plan in the works to change it from output-filename.ext, o-f.1.ext, o-f.2.ext, ad nauseum? I would like to have an output something like Rob Black and Your Money-20041218-1004-1000.1030.asf Would this be useful to anyone else? rob

Re: [mythtv-users] no osd after upgrade to cvs

2004-12-18 Thread Peter Lee
On Sat, 18 Dec 2004 13:32:05 -0500, Tom E. Craddock, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Peter Lee wrote: [Sorry if this is a re-send. I sent this yesterday and haven't seen it appear yet on the list.] Yup, your first one came thru at about 1:00 am EST. Tom Ah, sorry about that. Weird that

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Mythbackend keeping files open, disk space not being freed

2004-12-18 Thread Bruce Markey
Brad Templeton wrote: ... does the frontend just magically check the NFS filesystem first to see if it can read the file directly before asking the server to stream it? Yes. How does this work if the frontend is also a slave backend, as I will probably do because I want to insert a pvr-250 in it

[mythtv-users] No DVD Rip, but DVD Play OK

2004-12-18 Thread merge
Happy Christmas mythtv community! I am in the process of working through Jarod's (brilliant) FC3 install instructions. I have an issue with my Optical media: a) my DVD decice is /dev/hda (my hard discs are twin SATA in RAID 0) b) I must manually mount the DVD drive outside myth, to be able to

Re: [mythtv-users] My DVB recordings are huge (70min = 35GB)

2004-12-18 Thread Tj
OMG, I flunked my maths! :( the 500MB /minute isn't unusually high for SDTV content, you reckon? Hahaha.. finally realised what's going on.. After each recording, mythtranscode transcodes my recordings from approx 1.5GB to around 35GB.. No wonder I suddenly went out of space... Regards.

[mythtv-users] Couldn't find Xv support with a pvr 350

2004-12-18 Thread Schweizer Laurent
Hello, I have installed mythtv on a slackware 10, but when i try to see tv i have this error: Couldn't find Xv support i have a PVR 350 with ivtv 0.3.2 and i use mythtv from cvs Thanks Laurent 2004-12-19 01:18:29.105 mythfrontend version: 0.16.20041207-1 www.mythtv.org

[mythtv-users] Radio Shack 3-in-one remotes are cheap right now

2004-12-18 Thread Gabe Rubin
I just had to replace my lola x10 remote today (never could get it to work with the new kernel), and I went to radio shack to pick up a new one. The 3-in-one remotes are selling for less than $5 right now and it looks pretty sleek. It could use a few more buttons, but I have things set up for

[mythtv-users] Preformance issues with the internal player

2004-12-18 Thread Joakim Kolsjö
Hi I've tryed to look in old mails about the internal player but i can't get much out of them... is the cvs version of mythtv more effective (especially for sound) than the current? The internal player only plays movies at around 2200 kbit live, probably a little bit more from a recording. When

[mythtv-users] Just Can't Get lirc to Work :-(

2004-12-18 Thread David Bosiljevac
Hi all, I've tried everything I can, but I just can't seem to get lirc to work for me. I do all the kernel compilations, with all the required modules, but when I run the /usr/local/bin/irw program, nothing shows up when I press buttons on the remote. I've checked to make sure the IR cable is

Re: [mythtv-users] Just Can't Get lirc to Work :-(

2004-12-18 Thread Rob Rosenfeld
David Bosiljevac wrote: Hi all, I've tried everything I can, but I just can't seem to get lirc to work for me. I do all the kernel compilations, with all the required modules, but when I run the /usr/local/bin/irw program, nothing shows up when I press buttons on the remote. I've checked to make

Re: [mythtv-users] nuvexport question

2004-12-18 Thread Erik Karlin
(commute, at work, whatever). However, the output naming conventions are causing me troubles. Is there any plan in the works to change it from output-filename.ext, o-f.1.ext, o-f.2.ext, ad nauseum? I would like to have an output something like Rob Black and Your Money-20041218-1004

[mythtv-users] Re: atrpms-package-config vs medley-package-config (was: Fresh FC1 and Myth 0.16 install observations/questions)

2004-12-18 Thread George Lopez
I saw this posting and thought it might help me fix the fact that I do not have a kde line in my sources.list file. However, I am too much of a newb to know 1. If this is my solution. 2. If it is the required solution, what actions I need to take to get the expanded sources.list file. I would

Re: [mythtv-users] No sound in mythtv

2004-12-18 Thread Bruce Markey
Ståle Undheim wrote: After some problems I finally got sound working in video4linux. Sound is through a cabel into line-in on my soundcard. The TV card is pinnacle PCTV pro - running linux debian sid 2.6.9-1-686. It works fine in tvtime and xawtv, but not in mythtv. The first thing I found that I

Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV noob

2004-12-18 Thread Sim
On Friday 17 Dec 2004 23:01, TJ Hunter wrote: I'm thinking about getting two Hauppauge PVR-250 capture cards so that I can record (or watch) more than one channel at a time. I also need another card that has video-out, correct? What card would you all recommend for this? Do you really need