[mythtv-users] Stumped by Audio buffer overflow errors on frontend

2005-01-07 Thread bmerrill Merrill
I am a gentoo user and recently upgraded from the official MythTV 0.16 ebuild to a myth cvs ebuild. Since doing so, I am unable to get any sound on my remote frontend when playing recorded files or watching live tv. My setup is as follows: PCHDTV HD-3000 Kernel 2.6.9 Intel ICH5 onboard audio

RE: [mythtv-users] frontend rc.d init script?

2005-01-07 Thread sigurdne
= Original Message From Discussion about mythtv mythtv-users@mythtv.org = Could someone post their frontend rc.d init script? I have my mythtv user configured such that when I run startx, mythtv starts up. When I run startx or xinit from an init script, I get an error saying X: user not

[mythtv-users] What is Input Connections setting?

2005-01-07 Thread clemens
I don't understand what the Input Connections window is setting, or to say the same thing, what is it trying to tell me? I have the entries: [HDTV:/dev/dtv1](Antenna-0)-Antenna [MPEG:/dev/video0](Tuner0)-Antenna OK, I can understand that this is associating both the pcHDTV hd2000 card

RE: [mythtv-users] Has anyone configured a semi-diskless frontend?

2005-01-07 Thread mythtv-users
Brad wrote: On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 06:11:22PM -0600, Kevin Kuphal wrote: It'd sure be nice if there was a way for a mythfrontend to discover all the settings needed on a network. Something like Rendevous/ZeroConf/UPnP. Does anyone who runs KnoppMyth in this way know what all

Re: [mythtv-users] Has anyone configured a semi-diskless frontend?

2005-01-07 Thread Brad Templeton
On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 08:28:34PM -0600, Kevin Kuphal wrote: Brad Templeton wrote: On my home network, behind firewalls, I have none of these security concerns. If it is just the address of the DB server, it shouldn't be hard to do Zeroconf or even a simple broadcast as you suggest. I'll

Re: [mythtv-users] Unexplainable high CPU while watching MPEG2 - SOLVED (partly)

2005-01-07 Thread Thomas Börkel
HI! Found the cause: AGP was disabled! I am using the 2.6.9 FC2 kernel from atrpms and this kernel has AGPGART enabeled. I also had set NvAGP to 1 (= use NVidia-AGP) in xorg.conf, like in my other Myth box and as recommended in Jarod's doc. The result was, that the NVidia driver could not use

Re: [mythtv-users] Gentoo and CVS (make your own CVS ebuilds)

2005-01-07 Thread Jim Kusznir
Jeff Thompson wrote: Jim Kusznir wrote: Learning a bit about portage and making ebuilds took me about half a day; but after that I could crank out the ebuilds for each subpart in about 3 minutes each. If you're interested, I could send some instructions. Keep in mind that I'm still a gentoo

Re: [mythtv-users] Has anyone configured a semi-diskless frontend?

2005-01-07 Thread Brad Templeton
On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 08:36:43AM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Better than that why not do it by MAC address recognition, first time a machine pops up the backend asks if you want to allow it, if you say yes that MAC/IP is stored. Next time it pops up it will go oh yes I grant access to

Re: [mythtv-users] OT: 16:9 vs 4:3 signals

2005-01-07 Thread Wouter Lagerweij
On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 00:08 -0600, Robert Denier wrote: Can the dvd player detect the presence of a 16:9 tv versus a 4:3 tv? Or is the 16:9 tv set scaing the 4:3 picture? The DVD players that I've owned (all two of them:-) have a setup screen where it's possible to set the player up for

Re: [mythtv-users] OT: 16:9 vs 4:3 signals

2005-01-07 Thread Brad Templeton
On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 09:49:42PM -0700, David Farber wrote: Sorry for the off-topic post, but I expect that someone on this list has the technical knowledge to answer this question. How is the aspect ratio of a video signal negotiated between two video devices? For example, let's say I

Re: [mythtv-users] nuvexport question...

2005-01-07 Thread Wouter Lagerweij
On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 22:05 -0600, Rob Greene wrote: I'll try that. The second part of the question was: Can I re-encode with something like DivX and replace the nuv file with it? (I assume no...) -Rob Take a look at: http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-10.html#ss10.5 If you

Re: [mythtv-users] Gentoo and CVS

2005-01-07 Thread Nick Rosier
Jim, could you send me some instructions (off-list); I've been building my own ebuilds for ivtv but my builds for mythtv seemed to fail (some library which could not be linked to...). I prefer keeping as much in portage as possible; makes it so easy to un-install. N. On Thu, 06 Jan 2005

Re: [mythtv-users] 3.06 GHz on a Pundit?

2005-01-07 Thread Greg Cope
If this is a pundit not pundit-r then I doubt it will work. I could not get mine to boot from a Celeron D (no post, nothing) Greg On Thu, 6 Jan 2005 23:20:07 -0500 (EST), Brian R. Pilnick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: According to the Asus cpu support page (

[mythtv-users] Re: Re: Prebuffering pause

2005-01-07 Thread Bodo Bauer
On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 08:43, Joaquín Lago Pérez wrote: Hi Bodo, I have same problem, and was also thinking on attaching a usb audio adapter to the box. However, I have some doubts about which one would work ok in linux. Could you please tell me which usb adapter are you using and under

Re: [mythtv-users] Gentoo and CVS

2005-01-07 Thread Simon Kenyon
On Thursday 06 January 2005 22:28, Nick Rosier wrote: Simon, tried your ebuilds but run into a strange problem; the ebuilds don't detect that QT was compiled with mysql support but when checking the /var/db/pkg.../USE file, it's there. Also, when I bypass mysql-detection, I notice that e.g.

Re: [mythtv-users] Changing Channels

2005-01-07 Thread Simon Kenyon
On Thursday 06 January 2005 22:58, Evil Nathan wrote: I always wondered if this was possible with some of the cards used in Myth. Play the live-stream, and record it at the same time, and only jump to the recorded stream when you pause/rewind. However, since I'm not a programmer, I wouldn't

Re: [mythtv-users] nuvexport question...

2005-01-07 Thread Simon Kenyon
On Friday 07 January 2005 02:19, Chris Petersen wrote: I've been playing with nuvexport, and was wondering if I can use it to recompress video after setting up the cutlists to not only remove commercials but to shrink its size on disk - and still use it from Myth? I have a sinking feeling

[mythtv-users] shuttle + 2nd video card

2005-01-07 Thread spok
Hi, I am considering buying a Shuttle SN41G2V3, which has the nForce2 IGP chipset and GeForce4 MX graphics. 1. With only 1 AGP and 1 PCI slots can I still get 2 video capture (or tuner) cards and do picture in picture? 2. If I add a graphics card or a video capture card, will this disable

[mythtv-users] Directv-phone jack vs home control

2005-01-07 Thread spok
Hi, I’m trying to figure out exactly what I need to set up mythtv with directv. I understand I can use a low speed data port on the directv box to change channels. However, on the following page, http://www.dtvcontrol.com/page.aspx?content=cable, I see a picture of a directv box with a “home

[mythtv-users] Re: Tearing in playback

2005-01-07 Thread Tom Hughes
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] William Uther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 06/01/2005, at 11:00 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you start the frontend with -v playback then the log messages should include something like this when you start watching something: Thank you very much for

[mythtv-users] USB audio (was: Re: Prebuffering pause)

2005-01-07 Thread Martin Ebourne
On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 11:13 +0100, Bodo Bauer wrote: I got an USB Sound Blaster Live! 24-bit External adapter. It works very well for Line out. I use the SPDIF out an get excellent quality sound. Does the SPDIF work for dolby digital/ac3 AND plain stereo sources under alsa? This one also

[mythtv-users] Re: Where is atrpms-perl-module-helper

2005-01-07 Thread Axel Thimm
On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 09:15:32PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, Ive seen the same question asked, and never answered, and a google search turned up nothing of interest... So, my apt-get dist-upgrade shows a missing dependancy of perl-module-helper But I cant find the damn

[mythtv-users] PVR350 and X Gives Black Screen

2005-01-07 Thread Joe Willis
I am trying to get MythTV running with a PVR350 card and FC3, using Jarod's guide. I am using TV-Out. I have everything running (and it's great!) except that I haven't set up to run X on the PVR350 TV-Out. I saved the original xorg.conf file and copied Jarod's xorg.conf file for the PVR350

[mythtv-users] Epia RPMs for FC3 ?

2005-01-07 Thread Jules Gosnell
I acquired an M1 over the Xmas period and have it set up as a frontend. It's currently doing everything in s/w. I get the occasional video glitch and high cpu usage and temperature - I'd like to use the h/w mpeg support. Before I start the process of building from CVS I was wondering

Re: [mythtv-users] Can teh Hauppauge remotes be used without WinTV cards?

2005-01-07 Thread Robin Elvin
On Friday 07 January 2005 11:28, Andrew Wilson wrote: Check out LIRC, and get a serial IR receiver. I got mine off ebay for a few quid, and it works like a charm. I bought a wireless keyboard and mouse - maybe overkill but at least I can use the machine for other stuff too. -- Rob

Re: [mythtv-users] UK DVB-T problems

2005-01-07 Thread James Fidell
Quoting Nick Craig-Wood ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 11:45:24PM +, James Fidell wrote: I'm guessing those figures really aren't good news and might explain why I can't see any channels from other muxes on that transmitter? Yes you are correct! The mux with BBC ONE

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Tearing in playback

2005-01-07 Thread Doug Larrick
William Uther wrote: On 07/01/2005, at 9:51 PM, Tom Hughes wrote: [snip] If you're root then that seems odd. The only things I would have thought likely to do that are the permissions on /dev/rtc which should be irrelevant as root can open any file. The other thing would be the

RE: [mythtv-users] Directv-phone jack vs home control

2005-01-07 Thread William
I'm trying to figure out exactly what I need to set up mythtv with directv. I understand I can use a low speed data port on the directv box to change channels. However, on the following page, http://www.dtvcontrol.com/page.aspx? content=cable, I see a picture of a directv box with a home

Re: [mythtv-users] Has anyone configured a semi-diskless frontend?

2005-01-07 Thread Matt Mossholder
Now, as a security consultant, I don't know if I would go that far. Firewalls still serve the same purpose they always have: To prevent the bulk of attacks originating on the outside of the firewall, by limiting what traffic is permitted to pass between networks. However, a good security

Re: [mythtv-users] OT: NTFS partition Linux LVM

2005-01-07 Thread Matt Vollmar
Drew Zerdecki wrote: It may be heresy to ask, but can I have a small XP OS on my MythTV box? What if the rest of the drive and another is using LVM? Can I have LVM on two drives where one is not completely of the same volume? Thanks for your help. I am sorry if this is OT, but I am getting

Re: [mythtv-users] Epia RPMs for FC3 ?

2005-01-07 Thread Paul Bender
On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 11:50 +, Jules Gosnell wrote: I acquired an M1 over the Xmas period and have it set up as a frontend. It's currently doing everything in s/w. I get the occasional video glitch and high cpu usage and temperature - I'd like to use the h/w mpeg support. Before

Re: [mythtv-users] Epia RPMs for FC3 ?

2005-01-07 Thread Jules Gosnell
Paul Bender wrote: On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 11:50 +, Jules Gosnell wrote: I acquired an M1 over the Xmas period and have it set up as a frontend. It's currently doing everything in s/w. I get the occasional video glitch and high cpu usage and temperature - I'd like to use the h/w mpeg

Re: [mythtv-users] What is Input Connections setting?

2005-01-07 Thread Kevin Kuphal
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't understand what the Input Connections window is setting, or to say the same thing, what is it trying to tell me? I have the entries: [HDTV:/dev/dtv1](Antenna-0)-Antenna [MPEG:/dev/video0](Tuner0)-Antenna OK, I can understand that this is associating both

Re: [mythtv-users] Gentoo and CVS

2005-01-07 Thread Preston Crow
On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 04:46, Ashley Bostock wrote: Is mythweb included with these? as the current ebuilds I have dont include the cvs version of it. Yes, my live CVS ebuilds cover all the packages that Gentoo already supports for 0.16. The only one I'm not running myself is mythfrontend-cvs.

Re: [mythtv-users] bad HDTV playback with new ffmpeg

2005-01-07 Thread Joshua M. Thompson
Kyle Rose wrote: Okay, that makes more sense: it could be a similar or related problem, but given that mine is solved by backing ffmpeg out to 24-Dec, I doubt it's exactly the same problem. Can you put up for download a clip (50 MB or less) I can view? Here is the first 25 megs of an older clip

Re: [mythtv-users] ivtv, MythTV and DVDs

2005-01-07 Thread Cory Papenfuss
There are a few issues with this for someone cursed with perfectionism as I am: Try nuvexport and dvdstyler: I use the former to export .sql and .nuv, and find qdvdauthor less flaky than the latter. I did a lot of reading of those howtos and found that they are all a lot more complicated

[mythtv-users] OT: Second instance of LIRC not needed

2005-01-07 Thread pete stagman
Hi Everyone, Because I was having a hard time compiling a second instance of LIRC to control my DishNetwork receiver(pvr-250 receiver is working fine controlling MythTV, BTW), I shot an e-mail to the LIRC-list. I got a reply from Christoph asking why I wanted to compile a new instance, since my

[mythtv-users] SUSE 9.2 MythTV RPM rebuild with XvMC

2005-01-07 Thread Greg
Hi all, I am trying to rebuild Øystein Olsen's SUSE 9.2 rpm's from http://folk.uio.no/oeysteio/apt/suse/9.2-mythtv/SRPMS.MythTV/ with xvmc support. rpmbuild --rebuild --nosignature mythtv-0.16-7.src.rpm --with xvmcnvidia gives error: Failed build dependencies:

Re: [mythtv-users] shuttle + 2nd video card

2005-01-07 Thread Joel Merrick
On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 02:53 -0800, spok wrote: Hi, I am considering buying a Shuttle SN41G2V3, which has the nForce2 IGP chipset and GeForce4 MX graphics. snippage I bought a shuttle and t.b.h. I wasn't impressed. It looks nice, but having slaved over it I realised that there was a much

Re: [mythtv-users] newto mythtv

2005-01-07 Thread Marc Manthey
hello all, i am working on an mac osx/unix application and like to know, is http://www.mythtv.org/ similar to http://www.videolan.org/ on macintosh? regards marc -- I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there. -- Richard Feynman (1918 - 1988)

[mythtv-users] HDTV Success Stories?

2005-01-07 Thread Roy Murphy
I've been reading this list for about two months and I'm about ready to buy some HW for a MythBox, but I'm having a hard time finding setups that work well in the archives. I'm going to be driving a 1080i native HDTV CRT with a VGA-Composite adaptor (no DVI or HDMI inputs on this model). I hear

[mythtv-users] Changing synopsis of recorded shows

2005-01-07 Thread Chris Clarke
Hi all, I was wondering if there is a way to change or at least erase the synopsis of recorded shows. I'm a big fan of Corner Gas but the comedy channel can't seem to match the episodes to proper descriptions, so I'm never sure what episodes I have and Myth sometime skips ones I don't have

Re: [mythtv-users] nVidia card choices, and processors for HDTV playback

2005-01-07 Thread Scott Alfter
On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 05:44:41PM -0800, Brad Templeton wrote: On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 05:08:56PM -0800, Scott Alfter wrote: On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 12:42:38PM -0500, Bill Smith wrote: A couple of brands that use passive cooling on their 5200s are Gainward (in my MythTV box) and Albatron

Re: [mythtv-users] Changing synopsis of recorded shows

2005-01-07 Thread Kevin Kuphal
Chris Clarke wrote: Hi all, I was wondering if there is a way to change or at least erase the synopsis of recorded shows. I'm a big fan of Corner Gas but the comedy channel can't seem to match the episodes to proper descriptions, so I'm never sure what episodes I have and Myth sometime skips

Re: [mythtv-users] Gentoo and CVS

2005-01-07 Thread Scott Alfter
On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 08:34:00AM -0600, Baudouin, Andrew top-posted (grr): On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 08:22:00AM -, Jens Baumeister wrote: I'm wondering, however, how well Gentoo plays with CVS versions: If I decide later on to grab a CVS version of MyhTV, would I be able to go back to

[mythtv-users] Pundit-AB P2600 - store in germany?

2005-01-07 Thread Michael Haas
Hello. I want to buy a Pundit ABP2600 in Germany. No, i don't want want to buy a Pundit-R or Pundit-S, sorry ;). Can anyone tell me where can i get one for less than 150 euro? I've only found a shop where they sell it for 219 euro, which is too much, IMHO. No luck on ebay, either. Please drop

Re: [mythtv-users] Changing synopsis of recorded shows

2005-01-07 Thread Ashley Bostock
Thats pretty user friendly for updating mysql database: http://www.mysql.com/products/mysqlcc/ On Fri, 07 Jan 2005 11:04:22 -0600, Kevin Kuphal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chris Clarke wrote: Hi all, I was wondering if there is a way to change or at least erase the synopsis of recorded

Re: [mythtv-users] HDTV Success Stories?

2005-01-07 Thread Joe Barnhart
--- Roy Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm going to be driving a 1080i native HDTV CRT with a VGA-Composite adaptor (no DVI or HDMI inputs on this model). I hear that an nvidia adapter can drive HD with less processor, but interlace dosn't work. nVidia 5200 FX is your best bet. XvMC

Re: [mythtv-users] HDTV Success Stories?

2005-01-07 Thread Doug Larrick
Joe Barnhart wrote: --- Roy Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm going to be driving a 1080i native HDTV CRT with a VGA-Composite adaptor (no DVI or HDMI inputs on this model). I hear that an nvidia adapter can drive HD with less processor, but interlace dosn't work. nVidia 5200 FX is your best

Re: [mythtv-users] newto mythtv

2005-01-07 Thread Simon Williams
On Fri, 7 Jan 2005 17:31:03 +0100, Marc Manthey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello all, i am working on an mac osx/unix application and like to know, is http://www.mythtv.org/ similar to http://www.videolan.org/ on macintosh? In a word.. no MythTv is a complete PVR suite of

Re: [mythtv-users] re: Knoppmyth only for frontend?

2005-01-07 Thread Mark Gardner
I went ahead and tried knoppmyth the other night!!! Almost flawless. It connected just fine and i was able to watch my precious Simpsons. However When i Tried to view live TV it said all the tuners were being used. (but they weren't) even restarting the backend didn't fix it.

Re: [mythtv-users] Front end hardware?

2005-01-07 Thread Kalle Pokki
Andrew Ziobro wrote: xbox. I have actually never seen a running xbox, as I'm not a big fan of console games. So I'm wondering how quiet the xbox really is. It does contain a hard drive and some cooling fans to my knowledge, but are they close to silent as nobody seems to ever mention anything

Re: [mythtv-users] Has anyone configured a semi-diskless frontend?

2005-01-07 Thread Brad Templeton
On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 08:10:16AM -0700, Adam Felson wrote: Why would you have to worry so about security on your LAN? Are you worries somebody is going to break into your house, connect physically to lan, and spoof a mythbox and watch tv? :-p Some attacks I can imagine: a) Somebody,

Re: [mythtv-users] HDTV Success Stories?

2005-01-07 Thread Roy Murphy
On Fri, 7 Jan 2005 12:12:05 -0800, Brad Templeton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 10:05:21AM -0800, Joe Barnhart wrote: --- Roy Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm going to be driving a 1080i native HDTV CRT with a VGA-Composite adaptor (no DVI or HDMI inputs on

Re: [mythtv-users] nVidia card choices, and processors for HDTV playback

2005-01-07 Thread Brad Templeton
On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 08:59:24AM -0800, Scott Alfter wrote: It works for me (the Gainward card is in the Myth box). Yes, there are reports of working at 720p. What we want to find out is if anybody is doing 1080i to an HDTV over DVI/HDMI from the 5200, and if so, to what TVs. Several of us

Re: [mythtv-users] pvr 350 audio-in cable connectedc but no sound

2005-01-07 Thread Michael T. Dean
On 01/01/2005 02:22 PM, Bart Peeters wrote: I'm running mythtv with a prv 350 tuner card. I can watch live tv, recorded programs... It works fine.(with sound) (cable from s-video out to scart) But when I start a file via mplayer (in a xterm) I've no sound. I connected my audio output line from

Re: [mythtv-users] Audio Sync when exporting to DVD using Nuvexport

2005-01-07 Thread Gary Dawes
On Wed, 2005-01-05 at 11:06 +, Robin Elvin wrote: I've been having trouble with nuvexport too but it is the video which is coming out corrupted. The original .nuv files play back OK in Mplayer. In relation to the audio trouble, because I can't use nuvexport I've created a DVD manually

Re: [mythtv-users] no audio for some recordings

2005-01-07 Thread Michael T. Dean
On 01/01/2005 08:33 PM, William Lott wrote: First, the setup: AMD Athlon XP 2k+, ASUS A7V8X-MX SE mobo, 512M ram, and two Haupguage PVR 250s running Fedora Core 1 with the most recent stable atRPMs and MythTV CVS of last night. (But I had the same problem with 0.16 from atRPMs.) The ivtv

[mythtv-users] From CES: Linux/Myth based Media Center from Transmeta

2005-01-07 Thread Roy Murphy
http://news.designtechnica.com/article6248.html Embedded Software Group (ESG) today announced it has assisted Transmeta Corporation (NASDAQ:TMTA) in the development and integration of Royal Linux Media Center(TM), the software foundation of Transmeta's Linux-based fanless Digital Entertainment

Re: [mythtv-users] nVidia card choices, and processors for HDTV playback

2005-01-07 Thread Aran Cox
On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 12:23 -0800, Brad Templeton wrote: On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 08:59:24AM -0800, Scott Alfter wrote: It works for me (the Gainward card is in the Myth box). Yes, there are reports of working at 720p. What we want to find out is if anybody is doing 1080i to an HDTV over

Re: [mythtv-users] HDTV Success Stories?

2005-01-07 Thread Aran Cox
On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 11:49 -0500, Roy Murphy wrote: I've been reading this list for about two months and I'm about ready to buy some HW for a MythBox, but I'm having a hard time finding setups that work well in the archives. I'm going to be driving a 1080i native HDTV CRT with a

Re: [mythtv-users] Has anyone configured a semi-diskless frontend?

2005-01-07 Thread Lee Lists
I boot /root from an USB key and then mount /usr via nfs so I have no drive on my frontend. Robert Kulagowski a écrit : I have a number of frontends, each with local storage. I have a master backend which is already serving as a DHCP / TFTP / NFS server to a MediaMVP and my frontends. What

Re: [mythtv-users] UK DVB-T problems

2005-01-07 Thread Will
No problem here, Bilsdale transmitter, AverTV 771, Duron 700, sorry! What transmitter are you using? Will Sorry to jump on, Anyone noticed any strange issues with UK-TV History? For me it seems as if every other video frame is skipping, yet the audio is fine. I don't believe its a signal issue

[mythtv-users] ESC doesn't work with MythWeather

2005-01-07 Thread john roberts
I've built 3 MythTV boxes so far - on one of them I can hit ESC and get out of the MythWeather map. BUT - one TWO of the myth boxes ESC doesn't exit. Has anyone seen this? -John -- ___ Find what you are looking for with the Lycos Yellow Pages

Re: [mythtv-users] 3.06 GHz on a Pundit?

2005-01-07 Thread Alex Smith
The Celeron-D processors are a different core than a P4-3.06 HT processor. I am not suprised that the Celery-D didn't function in that box... The P4-3.06 should work (have no Pundit to test on), but the heat from such a unit may exceed the design parameters of such a small case... On Fri, 7 Jan

Re: [mythtv-users] OT: 16:9 vs 4:3 signals

2005-01-07 Thread Alex Smith
In a DVI (or HDMI) situation, you have the EDID (I2C communication) to tell the source what the display is capable of. On Fri, 7 Jan 2005 01:10:04 -0800, Brad Templeton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In theory, DVI might be able to have the TV know what it's getting but I think even there you are

Re: [mythtv-users] D-VHS ???

2005-01-07 Thread David George
On 01/05/2005 06:05 PM, Jim Kusznir wrote: Hi all: I have a Hughes Platnum Edition DSS reciever that has D-VHS output on the back. The connector looks like a 5-pin firewire port, and is supposed to carry digitial video output as far as I've been able to tell. What is the model number? This

Re: [mythtv-users] modules.conf vs modprobe.conf

2005-01-07 Thread Michael T. Dean
On 01/02/2005 02:15 PM, nate s wrote: On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 16:27:34 -0500, Michael T. Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/13/2004 06:50 PM, Jarod Wilson wrote: On Monday 13 December 2004 15:27, Schwarz, Robert P wrote: I have been fighting sound for several days and have finally resolved my

[mythtv-users] Re: Tearing in playback

2005-01-07 Thread William Uther
On 08/01/2005, at 12:52 AM, Tom Hughes wrote: [snip] That sounds likely. I'd try checking the other setting with: sysctl dev.rtc.max-user-freq heh: % sysctl dev.rtc.max-user-freq dev.rtc.max-user-freq = 64 If it is less than 1024 then that is probably the problem. You can increase it with:

Re: [mythtv-users] Soundblaster live and AC3 for MythDVD help

2005-01-07 Thread Gregg
I think that is the problem. There is no rpm for my kernel alsa-kmdl-2.6.8-1.521 So I think I may have to do a apt-get dist-upgrade :(. I was planing on changing the case anyway. Is there a good way to backup all the settings ect? -Gregg On Fri, 07 Jan 2005 10:26:44 -0600, Michael Segulja

Re: [mythtv-users] nVidia card choices, and processors for HDTV playback

2005-01-07 Thread Brad Templeton
On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 02:57:45PM -0600, Aran Cox wrote: On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 12:23 -0800, Brad Templeton wrote: On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 08:59:24AM -0800, Scott Alfter wrote: It works for me (the Gainward card is in the Myth box). Yes, there are reports of working at 720p. What we

Re: [mythtv-users] Data Direct Subscription Expires?

2005-01-07 Thread Bruce Markey
Brad Templeton wrote: On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 02:02:16PM -0800, Bruce Markey wrote: ... TV will change over time and these are all good points but none of this in any way proves that TMS is about to start charging for DataDirect. Of course. As you may recall, I simply was interested in

Re: [mythtv-users] ESC doesn't work with MythWeather

2005-01-07 Thread Doug Larrick
john roberts wrote: I've built 3 MythTV boxes so far - on one of them I can hit ESC and get out of the MythWeather map. BUT - one TWO of the myth boxes ESC doesn't exit. Has anyone seen this? Yes... I often have to click the mouse button in MythWeather before ESC will work. I think it has to do

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Tearing in playback

2005-01-07 Thread Doug Larrick
William Uther wrote: Quick question: how does RTC sync work? RTC stands for Real Time Clock, right? I assume that the frequency has to be higher than the total number of horizontal lines in your X modeline. If myth then got a known sync signal at any point in the image display it could use that

Re: [mythtv-users] Radeon and TVOut

2005-01-07 Thread lucacri7650
Sorry, friends, but I need to solve this problem... Help me plz!! Lucacri lucacri7650 wrote: Hi all, i'm new to MythTv and i must do my best compliments to the developers for their good job! (Sorry for my poor english, i'm italian). I've only one problem: i bought an Ati Radeon 9200SE 128mb

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Tearing in playback

2005-01-07 Thread Isaac Richards
On Friday 07 January 2005 07:45 pm, Doug Larrick wrote: William Uther wrote: Quick question: how does RTC sync work? RTC stands for Real Time Clock, right? I assume that the frequency has to be higher than the total number of horizontal lines in your X modeline. If myth then got a

[mythtv-users] MythTV Text

2005-01-07 Thread mythtv
I am running MythTV on Fedora Core 3 using Jarod's guide to install. The hardware that I am using is: AMD Sempron 2400+ NForce2 Chipset NVidia GeForce4 MX440 - VGA Out PVR-250 Everything is working really well, except the bottom of the words on the GANT theme are being cut-off. For example,

[mythtv-users] Using a DVICO FusionHDTV DVB-T Plus with MythTV

2005-01-07 Thread jani
Hi all, I've just written up a guide based on my experiences getting the DVICO card to work happily, on a FC3 installation following much of Jarod's guide. If you're interested the guide is here: http://www.users.on.net/~jani/dvico-mythtv.html It's very much a work in progress so any feedback

[mythtv-users] Still using 0.15- upgrade to 0.16 or wait for 0.17?

2005-01-07 Thread J. Scott
I never upgraded to 0.16, but am itching for some of the features it offers. Should I go ahead and make the plunge, or should I wait for 0.17? I figured I'd wait, but then I thought there might be some issues/incompatibilities moving directly from 0.15 to 0.17. Any recos?

Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV Text

2005-01-07 Thread jani
you need to downgrade urw-fonts package to the FC2 one. http://www.users.on.net/~jani/dvico-mythtv-10.html#ss10.1 cheers, jani On Fri, 7 Jan 2005 17:49:43 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am running MythTV on Fedora Core 3 using Jarod's guide to install. The hardware

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Tearing in playback

2005-01-07 Thread Bruce Markey
Doug Larrick wrote: William Uther wrote: Quick question: how does RTC sync work? RTC stands for Real Time Clock, right? I assume that the frequency has to be higher than the total number of horizontal lines in your X modeline. If myth then got a known sync signal at any point in the image

[mythtv-users] can't find kernel#2.6.8-1.521

2005-01-07 Thread Julian Simpson
I'm following jarod's guide for fc2. after a successfull dist-upgrade I'm not able to upgrade to the reccomended kernel. # apt-get install kernel#2.6.8-1.521 Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done E: Couldn't find package kernel#2.6.8-1.521 Anyone have any ideas why it's

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

2005-01-07 Thread David Collett
So did you figure out why transcode is screwing up so badly? I am having the same problem, If I try to transcode anything the files grow out of control, there is a serious problem with the transcoder. Does anyone have a profile that actually works with DVB recordings? Dave On Sun, 19 Dec 2004

Re: [mythtv-users] Using a DVICO FusionHDTV DVB-T Plus with MythTV

2005-01-07 Thread Andrew J
Nice Work Jani, I'll be doing this setup shortly and will give it a go and let you know any feedback. Andrew jani wrote: Hi all, I've just written up a guide based on my experiences getting the DVICO card to work happily, on a FC3 installation following much of Jarod's guide. If you're

Re: [mythtv-users] D-VHS ???

2005-01-07 Thread Jim Kusznir
Marc Nicholas wrote: Aren't the D-VHS ports normally *disabled* and you need to get your sat receiver mod'ed to get them working? -marc According to the manual for mine, all I need to do is plug in the device and set the vcr time in the control pannel to d-vhs (otherwise it uses a provided ir

Re: [mythtv-users] can't find kernel#2.6.8-1.521

2005-01-07 Thread Jonathan Link
I poked around and found that this kernel has been discontinued. I'm not sure where it was being pulled from, but use this version: 2.6.9-1.6_FC2. -Jonathan On Fri, 7 Jan 2005 21:38:05 -0500, Julian Simpson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm following jarod's guide for fc2. after a successfull

Re: [mythtv-users] Data Direct Subscription Expires?

2005-01-07 Thread Brad Templeton
The last message was too much one of those included text point-by-points that nobody reads, so I will write without including text. I am not saying there are no motivations for TMS to give it away free, and indeed halting scraping is a good one we've already discussed. However, it still concerns

Re: [mythtv-users] mythweb probs with .htaccess

2005-01-07 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Thu, Dec 30, 2004 at 06:38:29PM -0800, Chris Petersen wrote: No README file in Mythweb's directory - I'm using Debian's apt-get install mythweb Then the packagers probably put it in the mythweb docs directory. I don't know deb, but there should be a way to list all files associated

Re: [mythtv-users] mythweb probs with .htaccess

2005-01-07 Thread Chris Petersen
Then again, as much as I love packages, I think they are totally stupid for web programs (too many variances in where people like to put their web trees). But that's another issue altogether. Distros can standardise on those things though and provide packages that meet the standard. Standardize

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

2005-01-07 Thread Tj
David Collett wrote: So did you figure out why transcode is screwing up so badly? I am having the same problem, If I try to transcode anything the files grow out of control, there is a serious problem with the transcoder. Does anyone have a profile that actually works with DVB recordings? Nope.

[mythtv-users] Maximizing DVD playback

2005-01-07 Thread David Farber
Thanks to all who responded to my last question. Here's the next: What is the minimal frame rate that a tv/monitor should support at 720x480 if I don't want to be downsampling DVD playback? I'd like to build a myth system that plays DVDs at the highest level of quality so I am trying to

[mythtv-users] nVidia MX 420 SE - svideo on TV rolls

2005-01-07 Thread Richard Mixon (qwest)
Maybe a little off-topic, but I've read and read on the nVidia forums. One post suggested the TV could not synch to s-video. So I switched out my 31 Toshiba (10 years old) for my son's new Samsung 27. Still does not work. The TV is the only monitor connection. I got MythTV working with the

Re: [mythtv-users] Using a DVICO FusionHDTV DVB-T Plus with MythTV

2005-01-07 Thread William Uther
Hi, jani wrote: If you're interested the guide is here: http://www.users.on.net/~jani/dvico-mythtv.html It's very much a work in progress so any feedback is much appreciated. Nice guide. You say in your guide that the 2.6.10 kernel doesn't work for you with the DVICO card. I'm using that

[mythtv-users] OT: Can IDE and SCSI mix?

2005-01-07 Thread Rob Greene
I've been browsing eBay for potential backend machines. Older dual-processor machines are continuously put up for sale. Most of them also have SCSI drives... but the motherboard also supports IDE. While browsing HP documentation I came across a note that stated that Linux only supports SATA or

Re: [mythtv-users] OT: Can IDE and SCSI mix?

2005-01-07 Thread Andrew J
IDE is different to SATA. IDE is the older style of drives, while the new drives are SATA. SATA drives require a SATA controller, which is treated differently to IDE drives. Most SATA boards have a IDE controller as well for cd/dvd drives. Rob Greene wrote: I've been browsing eBay for

Re: [mythtv-users] OT: Can IDE and SCSI mix?

2005-01-07 Thread Ian Forde
On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 23:37 -0600, Rob Greene wrote: I've been browsing eBay for potential backend machines. Older dual-processor machines are continuously put up for sale. Most of them also have SCSI drives... but the motherboard also supports IDE. While browsing HP documentation I came

RE: [mythtv-users] Data Direct Subscription Expires?

2005-01-07 Thread Richard Mixon (qwest)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... And that shouldn't surprise us. They are doing it free, and that means they can stop at any time they view it to be a problem. So can any open source developer stop coding (though the FOSS licences stop them from revoking code from the FOSS arena for others to

Re: [mythtv-users] OT: Can IDE and SCSI mix?

2005-01-07 Thread Greg Mitchell
... While browsing HP documentation I came across a note that stated that Linux only supports SATA or SCSI - not both at the same time. IIRC, the note was regarding RH9, so it may be out of date. I'll be using FC2 or FC3. ... Heh - that's some serious FUD being put out there by HP... my slave