[mythtv-users] OpenGL support for vertical retrace sync

2005-02-23 Thread sigurdne
Is there any issues enabling OpenGL support for vertical retrace sync? When I enable it - the playback halts every second - but the cpu load seems fine. I had this working with an early 0.17 from CVS. What is to gain from enabling this feature anyhow? Sigurd _

Re: [mythtv-users] how to decrease time needed for switch channels in live-TV ?

2005-02-23 Thread Leo Weppelman
On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 02:29:37PM -0500, Isaac Richards wrote: > On Wednesday 23 February 2005 02:16 pm, Risto Treksler wrote: > > 2) i set the "live tv" to always use "browse mode" > > ie - when you hit the channel change button > > it just pops up info about the next channel > >

Re: [mythtv-users] Firewire Compilation

2005-02-23 Thread Jarod Wilson
On Feb 23, 2005, at 21:24, Jeff Wormsley wrote: I'm trying to build a firewire capable system from CVS. I managed to find and install libraw1394 and libiec61883, but I still can't compile myth. [...] The CVS was checked out earlier this evening. Both firewire libs were checked out of subversio

Re: [mythtv-users] Problems with installing apt

2005-02-23 Thread Jarod Wilson
On Feb 23, 2005, at 21:16, Carl Reynolds wrote: Thanks for your help. I thought your suggestion was going to work. After running apt-get -f update several times, all the errors disappeared, but when I ran apt-get dist-upgrade I got several new ones and then after running it two or three times, a

Re: [mythtv-users] Release 0.17 has serious database issue with HDTV

2005-02-23 Thread Brad Templeton
On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 02:10:04AM -0500, Dan Lanciani wrote: > Rather than try to fix everything to deal with extra information that in > many cases isn't even useful (would you really want to abort a recording > even if the signal went away for a minute in the middle?) I would suggest > simply ma

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: ATRPMs CVS packages?

2005-02-23 Thread Jarod Wilson
On Feb 23, 2005, at 21:41, Robin Smith wrote: Anyone? Axel usually doesn't push out cvs builds right after a release. On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 23:41:18 -0500, Robin Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Before my upgrade to the final release of .17, I had stumbled across the CVS versions of MythTV through

[mythtv-users] HDTV ringbuffer possibly causes missed 13 minutes of West Wing?

2005-02-23 Thread Brad Templeton
Recording tonight's west wing, 2 stange things. 1) The recording was only 47 minutes long, and the first 13 minutes of the program is not there. (File is smaller than normal.) Logs show full hour recorded, the only odd thing are some ringbuffer diagnostics from the new ringbuffer, included bel

Re: [mythtv-users] Release 0.17 has serious database issue with HDTV

2005-02-23 Thread Dan Lanciani
Brad Templeton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: |On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 03:48:54PM -0500, Dan Lanciani wrote: |> Brad Templeton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: |> |> |My own MythTV experience, as I noted, explains this. I got a pcHDTV |> |got it working on its own then installed Myth. And the first thi

Re: [mythtv-users] Recordings and Processing

2005-02-23 Thread Phill Edwards
> > For a given resolution, only a certain range of bitrates makes any sense!! > > > > According to the article which is about DVDs but applies to PVR-x50 cards > > too > > http://www.mediachance.com/dvdlab/tutorial/bitrate.html > > > > For 352x480 MPEG-2 we will get: Min: 2500-2800, Average: 3300

Re: [mythtv-users] lirc, Fedora Core 3, Dish Network, ir blaster, can't make it work.

2005-02-23 Thread Tyson Bryner
Thanks for the replies guys... Your guide is the one I've spent the most time with, since it seems to fit in with what I'm doing the best. As it stands I've removed everything and started over with your guide, trying to follow everything to the letter. LIRC doesn't seem to do much of anything..

Re: [mythtv-users] Recordings and Processing

2005-02-23 Thread Brad Templeton
On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 10:23:19PM -0700, Risto Treksler wrote: > Hi: > > For a given resolution, only a certain range of bitrates makes any sense!! > > According to the article which is about DVDs but applies to PVR-x50 cards too > http://www.mediachance.com/dvdlab/tutorial/bitrate.html > > For

Re: [mythtv-users] PCHDTV 3000 what to buy Intel p4 3.0+ or AMD 64

2005-02-23 Thread Brad Templeton
On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 09:06:37PM -0800, Jarod Wilson wrote: > On Wednesday 23 February 2005 10:32, David George wrote: > > And my Athlon XP 1800 *almost* cuts the mustard. It handles 720p playback > fine, stutters every now and again with 1080i content. Someone else has > reported success with

Re: [mythtv-users] Super Frustration

2005-02-23 Thread Byron Miller
I use firewire and i have the same issue - freezes when i change channels or through the later parts of a recording i am watching. -byron On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 22:04:21 -0500, Rick Ingersoll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The partition that I have the livetv buffer set for has plenty of > space. It

Re: [mythtv-users] HDTV Video card recommendations?

2005-02-23 Thread Brad Templeton
On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 11:23:20PM -0500, Byron Miller wrote: > I'm not sure any of those mentioned cards support HDMI.. would have to > get a DVI converter or component breakout box/converter for component. There is no such thing as a HDMI to DVI converter, fortunately. HDMI is a superset of DVI

Re: [mythtv-users] Added a second Tuner

2005-02-23 Thread Phill Edwards
> My second PVR250 (with remote) arrived yesterday. I didn't have time > to set it up, but was forced to this evening when I had a scheduling > conflict with only one PVR250 installed. I got it up and running, and > both shows recorded fine. However, still being a bit of a newb with > MythTV, I mus

subtitles Re: [mythtv-users] Reuters: FCC Overstepped Authority on Digital TV

2005-02-23 Thread Max Waterman
Joseph A. Caputo wrote: I don't want to come off as insensitive here, but... how about someone who was hearing impaired, and couldn't time shift programs from digital cable because they lose the subtitles embedded in the MPEG stream if they convert it to analog. My mpeg streams have subtitles em

Re: [mythtv-users] Gentoo - emerge MythDVD, but no MythDVD

2005-02-23 Thread Michael Haan
There is definitely a difference. What's the fix? On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 23:48:00 -0500, Jeff Muddy Waters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 23:20 -0500, Michael Haan wrote: > > I installed MythTV 0.17 by downloading source and compiling on Gentoo > > with kernel 2.6.10. Then I de

[mythtv-users] Re: ATRPMs CVS packages?

2005-02-23 Thread Robin Smith
Anyone? On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 23:41:18 -0500, Robin Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Before my upgrade to the final release of .17, I had stumbled across > the CVS versions of MythTV through Synaptic somehow (I thought it was > by switching my ATRPMs repositories "Sections" flag from at-stable to

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Need help from XORG guru

2005-02-23 Thread Robin Smith
This is a common problem, the nvidia drivers don't seem to allow for overscan correction when outputting via DVI. What you can do for Myth is setup a custom front end size. In Setup > Appearance there is a screen with GUI size and offset settings. It can take some messing around, but basically pla

Re: [mythtv-users] Commercial Skip

2005-02-23 Thread Robin Smith
> this happens. If I skip back to just before the bad jump, myth just > jumps again at the same spot, so that doesn't help. And bringing up > the menu to turn off auto-skipping is a bit of a pain. I too have noticed that since the upgrade to .17, the commercial skip logic will not let you jump

[mythtv-users] Added a second Tuner

2005-02-23 Thread Garry Cook
My second PVR250 (with remote) arrived yesterday. I didn't have time to set it up, but was forced to this evening when I had a scheduling conflict with only one PVR250 installed. I got it up and running, and both shows recorded fine. However, still being a bit of a newb with MythTV, I must admit I

Re: [mythtv-users] lirc in Myth w/PVR 350

2005-02-23 Thread Jarod Wilson
On Tuesday 22 February 2005 09:43, Marcel Janssen wrote: > On Monday 21 February 2005 21:12, Michael Smith wrote: > > name grayHauppauge > > > > begin > > prog = mythtv > > button = Off > > config = Esc > > end > > I think it should read this : > > begin > remote= grayHauppauge >

[mythtv-users] Firewire Compilation

2005-02-23 Thread Jeff Wormsley
I'm trying to build a firewire capable system from CVS. I managed to find and install libraw1394 and libiec61883, but I still can't compile myth. Here's the last few lines of the failure point. /usr/include/libiec61883/iec61883.h: In destructor `virtual FirewireRecorder::~FirewireRecorder()':

Re: [mythtv-users] Recordings and Processing

2005-02-23 Thread Risto Treksler
Hi: For a given resolution, only a certain range of bitrates makes any sense!! According to the article which is about DVDs but applies to PVR-x50 cards too http://www.mediachance.com/dvdlab/tutorial/bitrate.html For 352x480 MPEG-2 we will get: Min: 2500-2800, Average: 3300, Max: 4200 For 720x48

[mythtv-users] database error after upgrade

2005-02-23 Thread Preston Crow
I just upgraded from slightly pre-0.17 CVS code to today's CVS code, and when I try to start mythbackend, it tells me: 2005-02-23 23:51:29.651 New DB connection, total: 1 2005-02-23 23:51:29.656 Upgrading to schema version 1072 2005-02-23 23:51:29.658 DB Error (Performing database upgrade):

Re: [mythtv-users] ivtv Not starting at boot

2005-02-23 Thread Jarod Wilson
On Tuesday 22 February 2005 12:15, Chance wrote: > Here is my problem. I just installed .17, I was using knoppmyth but > I switched because I wanted more options. I am running a pvr-250 off of > Jarods Guide. I get through everything and I goto reboot (after I > configured automatic startup)

Re: [mythtv-users] Problems with installing apt

2005-02-23 Thread Carl Reynolds
Yan-Fa Li wrote: Carl Reynolds wrote: When I run rpm -qa, I get a lot of duplicate packages with the same version number. Should I remove these packages? If I use rpm -e packagename, will it remove both packages or just the first one it gets to? Carl. Use the -f option on apt-get while updatin

Re: [mythtv-users] HDTV Video card recommendations?

2005-02-23 Thread Blair
I'm using an nVidia 6600GT with no more issues than anyone else on this list. It's all workable as far as I'm concerned. With the pcHDTV HD-3000 tuner card it appears I'm getting the onboard MPEG encoder. with XvMC the motion is great but there seem to be stability issues. I've reverted to

Re: Re: [mythtv-users] HDTV Video card recommendations?

2005-02-23 Thread kedlm
> > I'm not sure any of those mentioned cards support HDMI.. would have to > get a DVI converter or component breakout box/converter for component. > > As far as hdtv is concerned, i don't record much of it in myth, but it > works fine on my ATI 9800 pro with suse 9.2 x64 (latest drivers) using >

Re: [mythtv-users] PCHDTV 3000 what to buy Intel p4 3.0+ or AMD 64

2005-02-23 Thread Jarod Wilson
On Wednesday 23 February 2005 10:32, David George wrote: > On 2/23/2005 1:25 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >Every thread I've seen about minimum hardware says a p4 3.0Ghz intel with > >Hyperthreading is needed to watch HDTV. These same threads are usually > >older. > > > >So can I use a AMD 64 32

Re: [mythtv-users] rc.sysinit-mm.diff from wilson FC3 guide?

2005-02-23 Thread Jarod Wilson
On Wednesday 23 February 2005 10:43, Jurgen Kramer wrote: > Can someone help me getting the rc.sysinit-mm.diff from wilsonet.com? > The link mentioned in the guide doesn't seem to be working. How 'bout mentioning that to the person that runs the site? However, I just double-checked, and all the l

Re: [mythtv-users] OSD and XvMC

2005-02-23 Thread Blair
Seeing the same behavior on a 6600GT with XvMC compiled in, went back to Xv for now. On Wednesday 23 February 2005 20:32, Blammo wrote: > > When I enable XvMC, the OSD text and graphics all appear to go grayscale. > > Also, whenever any OSD item is displayed, it seems to only appear on > > every

[mythtv-users] program information

2005-02-23 Thread Tim Joiner
When I change channels and the program information displays at the bottom of the screen, it lists the duration of the programs like "30 minutes mins" or "120 minutes mins". It's saying minutes and mins. Is anyone else getting this or have I buggered something? ___

Re: [mythtv-users] Commercial Skip

2005-02-23 Thread Phill Edwards
> I automatically flag commercials and have myth set to automatically > skip commercials, since usually the flagging it pretty good. But > sometimes I miss a bit of the show, and I wonder what others do when > this happens. If I skip back to just before the bad jump, myth just > jumps again at th

Re: [mythtv-users] Gentoo - emerge MythDVD, but no MythDVD

2005-02-23 Thread Jeff \"Muddy\" Waters
On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 23:20 -0500, Michael Haan wrote: > I installed MythTV 0.17 by downloading source and compiling on Gentoo > with kernel 2.6.10. Then I decided I wanted MythDVD and decided to > get it by emerging it. So I did. The emerge also pulled down mythtv, > and all went weill in the b

Re: [mythtv-users] HDTV Video card recommendations?

2005-02-23 Thread Byron Miller
I'm not sure any of those mentioned cards support HDMI.. would have to get a DVI converter or component breakout box/converter for component. As far as hdtv is concerned, i don't record much of it in myth, but it works fine on my ATI 9800 pro with suse 9.2 x64 (latest drivers) using DVI out. Cert

[mythtv-users] Gentoo - emerge MythDVD, but no MythDVD

2005-02-23 Thread Michael Haan
I installed MythTV 0.17 by downloading source and compiling on Gentoo with kernel 2.6.10. Then I decided I wanted MythDVD and decided to get it by emerging it. So I did. The emerge also pulled down mythtv, and all went weill in the build process. However, after the fact, I cannot find anyway to

Re: Re: [mythtv-users] [OT] Air2PC card died

2005-02-23 Thread kedlm
> > Anyone know how to really reset the card so it goes back what it should be? > > I'll pull it out and try another slot shortly. > Well, I'm excited and perplexed that changing slots fixed it! Maybe it did pull loose even though I reseated it before... Oh well, it lives again! buahahaha W

[mythtv-users] Audio card debug help.

2005-02-23 Thread Junaid Qazi
Hi I have a Creative Sound Blaster live (Made by Dell) /usr/bin/aplay /usr/share/sounds/KDE_Startup.wav does not give me any sound at the card output. I have installed alsa drivers and utils. ---

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-350 displays OSD but not video - .17 apt-get upgrade

2005-02-23 Thread Mark Matula
On Tue, 22 Feb 2005, Mark Matula wrote: > I've seen a lot of different issues with the 350 since folks have upgraded > but none of them exactly match what happened to my box. I've search the > archives since the .17 release, but haven't wrapped my mind around a > solution. > > My 350 TV out was w

Re: [mythtv-users] Release 0.17 has serious database issue with HDTV

2005-02-23 Thread Rich Hall
Michael J. Lynch reportedly babbled: > Ok so several of the replies in this thread mention how hard it is for > *NIX to > become mainstream because of problems with packages. Furthermore, most > of these comments reference how when one gets a package for M$ or OSX it > just installs and works. >

[mythtv-users] Please help -- recording profiles gone nuts!

2005-02-23 Thread Johnson, Thor
[Erf.  Apologies in advance if this is going to be html.  I don't know whether or not OutlookWebAccess will honor the plain text setting...]  Argh... is anyone else having database issues with 0.17?   First time, it kept thinking the db needed upgrading, but failing on already exists (fixed by

Re: [mythtv-users] Air2PC problems

2005-02-23 Thread Tom Dombrosky
> If I do try running mythtv (v0.17), I get a blank screen when I try to > watch live TV. During mythsetup, I get the following when I try adding > the card: > Card name: Could not get card info for card #0! > Card type: invalid argument > If I change card number to 1 and then back to 0, the card n

[mythtv-users] Re: Remote frontend hiccups CURED

2005-02-23 Thread Adam Felson
On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 07:27 -0700, Adam Felson wrote: > Thursday I have an 8 port switch arriving so I can eliminate a hub > that's on my network. I'll also try minimizing the network then -- > removing the router to the internet and removing a wireless hub. > Swapping the hub out for another swi

Re: [mythtv-users] OSD and XvMC

2005-02-23 Thread Blammo
> When I enable XvMC, the OSD text and graphics all appear to go grayscale. > Also, whenever any OSD item is displayed, it seems to only appear on every > other field and also causes some weird jumpiness in the video itself. When > there is no OSD, the video looks fine. If I disable XvMC, the OSD

[mythtv-users] Air2PC problems

2005-02-23 Thread Walter Collins
I seem to be able to receive channels just fine, but I can't view them. I've given up on trying to view them under mythtv for the moment and would be happy just to get the streams off the card. Here's all the data I can think of. I'm running gentoo and the 2.6.11_rc4 kernel with the skystar2 compi

[mythtv-users] Compiling for backend or frontend use only

2005-02-23 Thread cythraul
Hi, Compiling mythtv in the recent days made me wonder if it was possible to select exactly what we want to compile depending on the function of the host. That would save some time when we checkout a new version from CVS... Thanks! cyth ___ mythtv-user

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: PVR-350 tuning problems

2005-02-23 Thread Chris Manning
Thanks I'll give this a try tomorrow morning when I'm not recording stuff :) Chris Erik Barton wrote: This is occuring because your ivtv and lirc modules are not being loaded at the appropriate time during boot, due to missing udev entries. Jared has posted a patch for this on his How-To (just t

[mythtv-users] OSD and XvMC

2005-02-23 Thread Moasat
I'm not sure if this has been reported yet. I thought I saw something about this go by a few days ago but I can't find it now. I thought I'd report it just in case. When I enable XvMC, the OSD text and graphics all appear to go grayscale. Also, whenever any OSD item is displayed, it seems to onl

[mythtv-users] Re: PVR-350 tuning problems

2005-02-23 Thread Erik Barton
This is occuring because your ivtv and lirc modules are not being loaded at the appropriate time during boot, due to missing udev entries. Jared has posted a patch for this on his How-To (just two days ago). See the first paragraph of the How-To and also the section below "Get and Install Lir

Re: [mythtv-users] Air2PC helper script and azap modified for a little easier antenna aiming.

2005-02-23 Thread Blammo
On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 13:52:42 -0700, Blammo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 13:27:41 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > Here is a little script and changes to apply to azap.c to scan channels > > while aiming your antenna. Maybe someone will find it useful.

Re: [mythtv-users] Commercial Skip

2005-02-23 Thread Dan Christensen
I automatically flag commercials and have myth set to automatically skip commercials, since usually the flagging it pretty good. But sometimes I miss a bit of the show, and I wonder what others do when this happens. If I skip back to just before the bad jump, myth just jumps again at the same spo

Re: [mythtv-users] Super Frustration

2005-02-23 Thread Rick Ingersoll
The partition that I have the livetv buffer set for has plenty of space. It happens after I switch channels. It also freezes while watching recordings jonr wrote: Rick Ingersoll wrote: I am still having the problem with the pvr-350 freezing after wathcing through the decoder for a while. The

Re: [mythtv-users] Super Frustration

2005-02-23 Thread jonr
Rick Ingersoll wrote: I am still having the problem with the pvr-350 freezing after wathcing through the decoder for a while. The pvr-350 records fine, but it seems an issue with the decoder is freezing. Sometime it works again after I kill the backend and frontend and restart, sometime I have

[mythtv-users] Super Frustration

2005-02-23 Thread Rick Ingersoll
I am still having the problem with the pvr-350 freezing after wathcing through the decoder for a while. The pvr-350 records fine, but it seems an issue with the decoder is freezing. Sometime it works again after I kill the backend and frontend and restart, sometime I have to restart all toget

[mythtv-users] HDTV Video card recommendations?

2005-02-23 Thread Villalovos, John L
Just wondering if people have recommendations for a video card to be used for output to an HDTV? I am using an HDTV which has HDMI and component video inputs. I guess I would prefer to use HDMI as the input, since I am thinking an all digital path is best. Any thoughts? ATI? Nvidia? http://w

Re: Re: [mythtv-users] [OT] Air2PC card died

2005-02-23 Thread kedlm
> > 00:08.0 Network controller: Techsan Electronics Co Ltd B2C2 FlexCopII > DVB chip / Technisat SkyStar2 DVB card (rev 02) > Subsystem: Techsan Electronics Co Ltd B2C2 FlexCopII DVB chip > / Technisat SkyStar2 DVB card > Flags: bus master, slow devsel, latency 128, IRQ 5 >

Re: [mythtv-users] how to decrease time needed for switchchannelsinlive-TV ?

2005-02-23 Thread David Shay
- Original Message - From: "Uwe Schmidt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 3:57 PM Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] how to decrease time needed for switchchannelsinlive-TV ? > >Why bother. Just put an EXECTV program in your menu wherever you want it > >and have it

Re: [mythtv-users] How to enable XvMC in 0.17?

2005-02-23 Thread Tako Schotanus
Blammo wrote: On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 12:57:23 +0100, Tako Schotanus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Does anybody know how to enable XvMC support in verision 0.17? Or is it something that is enabled automatically if it's available? Cheers, -Tako If you installed via apt-get or yum, you'll have to co

[mythtv-users] .deb's available for 0.16-2?

2005-02-23 Thread Mark Matula
http://dijkstra.csh.rit.edu:8088/~mdz/debian Only has the 0.17 files up any longer. Does anyone happen to have the 0.16-2 (I think was the latest) packages for Debian? I forgot to save them from my cache before apt nuked them to make room for 0.17. Google was fruitless as was an attempt to cont

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Air2PC card died

2005-02-23 Thread Neil Rubin
> I'm curious, has anyone got the Air2PC to work with cable company video > feeds? I have Charter specifically and while I saw lots of signal the one > time I tried a scan, it never found any channels. Does your cable feed include any local OTA channels in digital form? If not, I think there i

[mythtv-users] PVR-350 tuning problems

2005-02-23 Thread Chris Manning
Hi everyone. I decided to upgrade to .17 using Jarod's guide last week. After sorting out some little problems here and there, the biggest problem I still have left to resolve is related to tuning. I'm not sure what started the problem, but I started getting this message in the mythbackendlog

Re: [mythtv-users] Recordings and Processing

2005-02-23 Thread Phill Edwards
> So I can do an initial recording that is smaller, but is there a > feature to process the recording after it's been recorded to shrink > it, sorta like converting a wave file to an mp3? Yes - Mythfrontend --> Utilities/Setup --> Setup --> TV Setings --> Recording Profiles --> Transcoders. I thin

Re: [mythtv-users] Release 0.17 has serious database issue with HDTV

2005-02-23 Thread Maverick
> No, it's more - "If you want to ensure that bugs get fixed, use CVS." I can't > quite fix bugs that don't ever happen to me and aren't reported. If people > don't test CVS, then they're not going to report bugs until a release is > made. Maybe more frequent releases is the solution. Sure, ther

Re: [mythtv-users] [OT] Air2PC card died

2005-02-23 Thread Blammo
On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 16:32:39 -0500, Andrew Gallatin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The human readable vendor id and device name are pulled from a table > (/usr/share/hwdata/pci.ids on my distro) based on the > vendor_id:device_id tuple from PCI config spac

Re: [mythtv-users] PCHDTV 3000 what to buy Intel p4 3.0+ or AMD 64

2005-02-23 Thread Joe Barnhart
--- Donavan Stanley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have no problem watching HD in myth on a 1.8ghz > AMD box. Though > I've not tried 1080i, I know folks who ARE watching > 1080i wihout have > 3ghz HT CPUs or 64 bit CPUs What resolution is your output modeline? Are you using Xv or XvMC? ___

Re: [mythtv-users] Please help me update my address book on Ringo

2005-02-23 Thread Phill Edwards
> I'm updating my address book. Please click on the link below and enter your > contact info for me: > > http://ringo.com/i?uid=ljzFzQG7ZtQgrS6k&; > > I'm using a new, free service where I put in my contact info for you, you > put in your contact info for me, and everyone stays up to date > auto

Re: [mythtv-users] how to decrease time needed for switch channels in live-TV ?

2005-02-23 Thread Bruce Markey
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... So, if I just want to surf through the channels for half an hour before bedtime, what do I do? Record any to all of the shows that you know you actaully want to see so that you can spend that time watching something you enjoy rather than wasting time seeing fragments o

Re: [mythtv-users] Mythtv on Munich DVB test signals?

2005-02-23 Thread Simon Tennant
Thanks. I will try tomorrow once the box is running again. S. On Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 10:09:58AM +0100, Adam Egger wrote: > > Should I be manually tuning and if so does anyone have a initial tuning > > data file for me? > > Yes you have to enter a initial frequency first and often the bandwidth

Re: [mythtv-users] how to decrease time needed for switch channels in live-TV ?

2005-02-23 Thread Jeff Simpson
That's what I was going to suggest, too. I was irritated enough with the delay even on my digital cable box to use browse mode. It's an even longer delay on myth, since it adds to the delay of the digital cable box and the time it takes for the serial line to type in the channel number. On Wed, 23

Re: [mythtv-users] how to decrease time needed for switch channels in live-TV ?

2005-02-23 Thread Brad Templeton
On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 04:14:57PM -0500, Brad Benson wrote: > On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 14:40:53 -0600, M S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I also watch news and sports. You guys telling me that you record > > news? Or that you always record sports (most of which extend beyond > > or well short of t

Re: [mythtv-users] Release 0.17 has serious database issue with HDTV

2005-02-23 Thread Paul Leppert
On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 15:42:45 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (snipped) > The people that make MythTV get to decide who their target audience is and > what they will and won't do to support that audience. Its their work, their > project and their right. No matter how much w

Re: [mythtv-users] Release 0.17 has serious database issue with HDTV

2005-02-23 Thread Brad Templeton
On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 05:27:04PM -0400, Greg Estabrooks wrote: > > This is exactly what a lot of users don't get. NO ONE CARES if you or I use > it. It is NOT a PRODUCT. It is a collection of code put together by people > with > a common interest. AKA, a HOBBY. Just because they make it avail

Re: [mythtv-users] Why doesn't direct channel jumping in the EPG work? [Was: how to decrease time needed for switch channels in live-TV ?]

2005-02-23 Thread Dan Wilga
At 2:40 PM -0600 2/23/05, M S wrote: I'd personally like to see the ability to enter numbers in the guide (I thought this was implemented already?? but it doesn't seem to work for some of my numbers that are used to navigate like 2 and 4 and so on), but that's another issue at hand. The problem is

Re: [mythtv-users] Install MAC OSX Frontend

2005-02-23 Thread Peter Loron
Pascal Hos wrote: You could also try to install mysql using fink (http://fink.sourceforge.net/index.php). Then follow the instructions on the mythtv documentation section for mysql (http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-6.html) Pascal Or you can run an installer package from MySQL: http://dev.mys

Re: Non-live surfing Re: [mythtv-users] how to decrease time needed for switch channels in live-TV ?

2005-02-23 Thread Brad Templeton
On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 04:27:57PM -0500, Brad Benson wrote: > On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 12:30:56 -0800, Brad Templeton > In theory I think this is an excellent idea. However, the biggest > problem I see is lack of sufficient tuners to support this feature. I Yes, but if some surfer-lover wanted to co

Re: [mythtv-users] lirc, Fedora Core 3, Dish Network, ir blaster, can't make it work.

2005-02-23 Thread Andy Long
Can you describe a little more for me about what you've tried. 1) Does LIRC work at all for anything? If you open /usr/bin/irw does it actually open and recognize your signals from your remote? 2) I am one of the authors of lircsetup.com, and am most comfortable using that method. Just a hea

Re: [mythtv-users] lirc, Fedora Core 3, Dish Network, ir blaster, can't make it work.

2005-02-23 Thread Pete Stagman
It's working great for me, I have 2 dishnetwork receivers running. Shameless plug: www.lircsetup.com <- have you tried this one? Andy Long and I wrote it, it's geared to FC3, mythtv, lirc and DishNetwork receivers. If you STILL can't get it to work, send me an e-mail off list and I'll help where

Re: [mythtv-users] DVI to HDMI

2005-02-23 Thread Brad Templeton
On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 04:35:06PM -0500, Sean Cier wrote: > Brad Templeton wrote: > >Well, here's an odd failure story. I picked up a cable -- perhaps it > >was too cheap, but the sense I get with HDMI and cheap cables is that as > >a digital standard it either works or it doesn't. > > Which is

[mythtv-users] lirc, Fedora Core 3, Dish Network, ir blaster, can't make it work.

2005-02-23 Thread Tyson Bryner
I've built a mythtv system using jerod's guide, and have everything working great except for lirc. I'm trying to make it change channels on a dish network receiver using a blaster bought from www.irblaster.info I've tried using the rpm's as well as compiling it, no matter what I do when trying to

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Release 0.17 has serious database issue with HDTV

2005-02-23 Thread Matt Grommes
Brad Templeton wrote: That's not true. Once a package reaches a certain user base size -- and I think mythtv has reached that size though I don't know for sure -- it develops a core of people who will indeed download and test a release candidate (but who won't compile from CVS.) Among the most po

Re: [mythtv-users] how to decrease time needed for switchchannelsin live-TV ?

2005-02-23 Thread Uwe Schmidt
>Why bother. Just put an EXECTV program in your menu wherever you want it >and have it call xawtv or tvtime. That will even reserve the tuner >correctly so as to not generate conflicts inside of myth. Search the >archives/help for EXECTV syntax in the XML menus. ... nice idea. but - the backen

Re: [mythtv-users] DVI to HDMI

2005-02-23 Thread Gregorio Gervasio, Jr.
> Brad Templeton writes: b> Well, here's an odd failure story. I picked up a cable -- perhaps it b> was too cheap, but the sense I get with HDMI and cheap cables is that as b> a digital standard it either works or it doesn't. b> So I plugged it into my TV and ran at 720p, same modeline I was

Re: [mythtv-users] DVI to HDMI

2005-02-23 Thread Sean Cier
Brad Templeton wrote: Well, here's an odd failure story. I picked up a cable -- perhaps it was too cheap, but the sense I get with HDMI and cheap cables is that as a digital standard it either works or it doesn't. Which is a common myth or misunderstanding. Each bit being either 0 or 1 doesn't m

Re: [mythtv-users] [OT] Air2PC card died

2005-02-23 Thread Andrew Gallatin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > A few thoughts come to mind: > > > > - Really bad ground loops. Unplug the antenna from the card and try > > lspci again. > Already tried; no joy. > > > > - The card is unseated possibly due to the cable plulling on it. Try > > reseating it. > >

Re: [mythtv-users] how to decrease time needed for switch channelsin live-TV ?

2005-02-23 Thread David Shay
> So, if I just want to surf through the channels for half an hour before > bedtime, what do I do? > > Actually, I boot Windows and run Dscaler in that case... I've been > meaning to have a look at TVtime (which uses some of the excellent > Dscaler code) but just haven't gotten around to it. > > Ma

Re: Non-live surfing Re: [mythtv-users] how to decrease time needed for switch channels in live-TV ?

2005-02-23 Thread Brad Benson
On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 12:30:56 -0800, Brad Templeton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > However, if you want to help the surfers, here is something you could > code. > > People are making the mistake that channel surfing has to be LIVE. It > might not be.So write a program that uses all available tun

[mythtv-users] Re: how to decrease time needed for switch channels in live-TV ?

2005-02-23 Thread Uwe Schmidt
Erhm, sorry for coming again, but - I didn't want to ask for a new feature. It's clear to me that some (most ?) of you are not interested in having this "feature". I also know / learned from many other threads, that most of you do not use liveTV at all - at least they say so. But, back to the roo

Re: [mythtv-users] Release 0.17 has serious database issue with HDTV

2005-02-23 Thread Greg Estabrooks
> > Actually it's more accurate to say we don't care if it doesn't works > > for non-contributers. > >That attitude is exactly why a package becomes an undesirable product. You want >people to use your neat product. This is exactly what a lot of users don't get. NO ONE CARES if you or I use it

Re: [mythtv-users] how to decrease time needed for switch channels in live-TV ?

2005-02-23 Thread Risto Treksler
> So, if I just want to surf through the channels for half an hour before > bedtime, what do I do? xawtv or similar, i guess ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

RE: [mythtv-users] PVR-350, TVOut Bigger than the TV

2005-02-23 Thread John Harvey
These registers affect the vertical and horizontal offsets that the 7127 uses for timing etc. I believe (but I may be wrong) that they will affect the horizontal and vertical offsets of both the OSD and the mpeg playback. What we really want is something that just moves the OSD. The chip works by

Re: [mythtv-users] how to decrease time needed for switch channels in live-TV ?

2005-02-23 Thread Brad Benson
On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 14:40:53 -0600, M S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I also watch news and sports. You guys telling me that you record > news? Or that you always record sports (most of which extend beyond > or well short of the exact program time)? I can't stand watching > something that's supp

Re: [mythtv-users] how to decrease time needed for switch channels in live-TV ?

2005-02-23 Thread match
On 23 Feb 2005 at 12:16, Risto Treksler wrote: > > > Why not have it be an option in the settings? Live TV could toggle > > between surf and PVR modes. That is, if someone feels like adding the > > code. > > > > this is a pvr for crying out loud > it should not have options to disable pvr func

Re: Re: [mythtv-users] Air2PC helper script and azap modified for a

2005-02-23 Thread kedlm
> Forgive my ignorance, but no form of patch -px will apply this patch. > Can you post the syntax you used to apply it? > > h I re-read the original email from the users list. Copied the patch section. Pasted it into a file diff1 joined the long lines in the usage section (my email program

RE: [mythtv-users] Modeline fixed in IVTVout

2005-02-23 Thread John Harvey
I don't believe it can be done. I'll reply to the other mail with more detail though. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:mythtv-users- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dan Wilga > Sent: 23 February 2005 16:58 > To: Johannes Becker; Discussion about mythtv > Subject: Re:

[mythtv-users] Re: S-video & composite inputs with 0.17?

2005-02-23 Thread swan_1_
Nudge. Anyone have any guesses? I’ve tried redoing setup from scratch with no luck. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

Re: [mythtv-users] Release 0.17 has serious database issue with HDTV

2005-02-23 Thread Brad Templeton
On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 03:48:54PM -0500, Dan Lanciani wrote: > Brad Templeton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > |My own MythTV experience, as I noted, explains this. I got a pcHDTV > |got it working on its own then installed Myth. And the first thing I found > |was that it crashed to a black scr

[mythtv-users] overscan issue

2005-02-23 Thread Neil
Is it possible to get rid of the overscan issue in HDTVs? I'm losing about 3-5% on all 4 sides of the program I've recorded. I guess, it's not myth's issue but rather television people/group that started this. Can someone please help me on how I will be able to view in 1920x1080 in myth just lik

Re: [mythtv-users] how to decrease time needed for switch channels in live-TV ?

2005-02-23 Thread Peter Lee
On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 14:29:37 -0500, Isaac Richards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 23 February 2005 02:16 pm, Risto Treksler wrote: > > 2) i set the "live tv" to always use "browse mode" > > ie - when you hit the channel change button > > it just pops up info about the next

Re: [mythtv-users] Air2PC helper script and azap modified for a little easier antenna aiming.

2005-02-23 Thread Blammo
On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 13:27:41 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here is a little script and changes to apply to azap.c to scan channels while > aiming your antenna. Maybe someone will find it useful. Forgive my ignorance, but no form of patch -px will apply this patch. Can you

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