[mythtv-users] Prebuffer pause that never recovers

2005-03-04 Thread James Emmrich
Hi everyone, its me again... Well now that i have my sound going, the next big task is to actually be able to watch livetv in myth. whats happening is that as soon as i click on Watch Live Tv, i shows me about 1 second or so of video and sound, then completely pauses. I alt-tab to the terminal,

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR 350 - No Sound

2005-03-04 Thread James Emmrich
Thanks greg! Im using fedora 3 so im not sure of the differences... however i tried what you said and after a few reboots with different places i found it. I deleted that file like you said, then i went: cp /lib/modules/2.6.10-1.766_FC3/updates/drivers/media/video/msp3400-ivtv.ko /lib/modules

Re: [mythtv-users] DirectTV and Changing Channels on the Front End.

2005-03-04 Thread hondaman
Its a Hughes HAH-SA I verified I can control it with the low speed data port using the program at dtvcontrol.com Dean Vanden Heuvel wrote: what model DirecTV box? hondaman wrote: Ok. Been fighting with this whole setup for a while now, and im making progress. The problem I cant overcome now i

Re: [mythtv-users] Audio Device Error with PVR 350 - FIX

2005-03-04 Thread Maverick
> A fix (thanks to Mary from mtu.edu) is to load the > snd-dummy module. In my case, I simply issued the > command "modprobe snd-dummy". The module sets up a > dummy alsa device which then MythTV thinks it is > controlling, and voila, no more error messages. Cool, that was bothering me. Persona

Re: [mythtv-users] RE: FC3 kernel without CONFIG_4KSTACK and ivtv drivers

2005-03-04 Thread Jarod Wilson
On Friday 04 March 2005 18:49, Mitius Maximus wrote: > Rookie question here, trying to install mythtv per the instructions @ > http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/ is interesting when ivtv drivers won't > install. Question, maybe rather than using a stock kernel, thus > having modules created under the cor

Re: [mythtv-users] Dual HDTV Tuner Requirements

2005-03-04 Thread Jarod Wilson
On Friday 04 March 2005 22:05, Jonathan M. Cooper wrote: > I've been reading that HDTV decoding takes a substantial amount of > processing power. Note that this is only an issue at playback time. Recording is more or less a simple matter of writing the incoming mpeg2 stream to disk, very little c

Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV on Xbox - praise

2005-03-04 Thread Nav Jagpal
I'm told the installer to use the local hard disk for storage, and it seems to be going through the motions now. I'm not really sure why the Mythtv needs local storage anyways I guess for the picture viewer stuff. So I see that the DVD remote is required for MythTV on XBOX.. I don't have one

RE: [mythtv-users] PVR 350 - No Sound

2005-03-04 Thread greg
> I'm having what sounds like the same problems as andrew, mplayer > /dev/video0 plays video fine, but with no sound. > Make sure you using the IVTV msp3400 module and not the kernel one. Delete the msp3400.ko from /lib/modules//kernel/drivers/media/video you should have the ivtv msp3400 modu

Re: [mythtv-users] Bootsplash theme for MythTV?

2005-03-04 Thread David Collett
Debian users: I've just noticed there are now heaps of themes, including several mythtv ones such as GANT here: deb http://www.bootsplash.de/files/debian/ unstable main Dave On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 22:52:45 -0600, Tim Litwiller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Scott Rowe wrote: > > Sure.. it's back up..

[mythtv-users] Dual HDTV Tuner Requirements

2005-03-04 Thread Jonathan M. Cooper
I’ve been reading that HDTV decoding takes a substantial amount of processing power.  I was wondering if anyone has gotten 2 or more HDTV tuner cards working with myth, and, if so, what the CPU and memory requirements would be.  I’m considering replacing 2 UltimateTV boxes with myth.  The U

RE: [mythtv-users] PVR 350 - No Sound

2005-03-04 Thread Andrew
James, Not to be condescending (as I'm fairly new to Linux myself), but did you verify that your volume controls were not all set at 0%? I missed this at first. But under Sound & Tools I used Kmix. That is what initially allowed me to determine my sound was working. Unfortunately that was a fe

[mythtv-users] Database configuration doesn't save for frontend

2005-03-04 Thread Matt S.
Hi, Everytime I got into the settings for mythfrontend it asks me to enter the Database configuration, even though it can already access the database. If I manually enter the information, it still asks me for the info the next time. I'm running CVS from a few days ago. I've also seen someone

Re: [mythtv-users] mythfrontend can't connect to database

2005-03-04 Thread Matt S.
I have the same issues. I'm not sure how to troublesolve them either and I posted it to the list as well with no responce. I too am running CVS from a few days ago. Matt On Tue, 01 Mar 2005 14:23:59 -0500, sean darcy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Original Message Follows > From: K

[mythtv-users] can't change channels

2005-03-04 Thread greg
I have a WinTV 350. The driver is working because I can change channels with the supplied chann.c. I also know that us-cable works. however when I set mythtv to use us-cable, all I get is one channel and it's fuzzy. It's as if mythtv doesn't know how to set the frequency on the card properly. how c

Re: [mythtv-users] the ultimate setup

2005-03-04 Thread Ken Mink
Hey Dan, The motherboard is an Asus A7N8X-VM/400. I picked up the s-video/composite add-on for it. I'm using the on-board video and sound. The processor is an AMD 2600XP(Barton). That may be a little overkill. I'm using an Artic Cooling heatsink/fan. It's damn quiet as well. I don't remember the e

Re: [mythtv-users] the ultimate setup

2005-03-04 Thread Daniel Wellman
Ken, What motherboard, chip, and TV encoder did you end up using for this box? I'm also sitting on the line here deciding what to build -- I need to build a front end/back end combo for space reasons, and would sure love to make this as quiet as possible for my studio apartment. I can hig

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR 350 - No Sound

2005-03-04 Thread James Emmrich
Hi Aaron, I'm having what sounds like the same problems as andrew, mplayer /dev/video0 plays video fine, but with no sound. Here is my modprobe file, is it missing something? alias eth0 sis900 alias snd-card-0 snd-emu10k1 options snd-card-0 index=0 install snd-emu10k1 /sbin/modprobe --ignore-inst

Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV on Xbox - praise

2005-03-04 Thread Brian Meehan
I'm using FC3 (stock per Jarod's guide) as the backend. I read a quick NFS tutorial and really only made a quick edit to the exports file. I told the xbox installer to take /video, and I made an NFS share on the backend at that point, thus making /video/recordings and /video/buffer available. (rw,

Re: [mythtv-users] the ultimate setup

2005-03-04 Thread Jeff Wormsley
Yan-Fa Li wrote: Expensive, but I like my A-Tech 3000 case (black with silver buttons/Powermate). http://www.atechfabrication.com/ HOLY SCHNIKE! $650 for just the case!!! This is like the Ferrari Moderna of cases... Beautiful work though. I'm guessing you dropped about $1K on your case

Re: [mythtv-users] Scheduled recordings disappearing

2005-03-04 Thread Scott Minneman
That's the method I used to set it up. I followed all of those instructions exactly, and it works for the rest of that day, but clears out after that. I run mythfilldatabase at night, so I think that's the culprit. Not running mythdatabase, however, is obviously not an option. I could reduc

Re: [mythtv-users] Scheduled recordings disappearing

2005-03-04 Thread Phill Edwards
> I'm having problems with my scheduled recordings disappearing. I set > several search rules, to find and record a number of shows whenever > they're on, as well as grabbing baseball games. However, every night > everything is cleared out, and nothing gets recorded the following day. > > I saw

[mythtv-users] Removing AGP from kernel

2005-03-04 Thread Phill Edwards
I recently recompiled my kernel to take out AGPGART so that X would use the nVidia AGP driver rather than the one built into the kernel (NvAGP 1 in xorg.conf). Some past threads suggested this may reduce CPU usage, but I was a bit disappointed to find no difference in CPU usage or picture quality.

[mythtv-users] Scheduled recordings disappearing

2005-03-04 Thread Scott Minneman
I'm having problems with my scheduled recordings disappearing. I set several search rules, to find and record a number of shows whenever they're on, as well as grabbing baseball games. However, every night everything is cleared out, and nothing gets recorded the following day. I saw that ther

Re: [mythtv-users] How slow can we go, cpu wise? P2-333?

2005-03-04 Thread Phill Edwards
> After reading that Tivo CPUs are around 33 MHz, I was surprised to > read on EFFs PVR Cookbook(1) that a P4 3GHz cpu is required, along > with a video card that has a hardware mpeg codec. > > This is disappointing and hard to believe. Is EFF on crack? I was > hoping to recycle some old P2s by

Re: [mythtv-users] Autostart frontend ONLY on manual startup?

2005-03-04 Thread Phill Edwards
> Has anyone figured out an elegant way to do the following: > > - Have Myth frontend start up automatically if and only if the machine > was started manually > > Specifically, the frontend should autostart if I walk up to the > computer and press the power button on the machine. The frontend > s

[mythtv-users] database authentication issues - how do I change usernames?

2005-03-04 Thread Justin Gombos
I'm having troubles connecting to the database. If I run: mysql -umythtv -pmythtv mythconverg I get a prompt, and if I type 'show tables;' I get Empty set (0.00 sec) So it seems the database exists and I can get authenticated, but when I run mythtv or setup, I get: Access denied for us

[mythtv-users] RE: FC3 kernel without CONFIG_4KSTACK and ivtv drivers

2005-03-04 Thread Mitius Maximus
Rookie question here, trying to install mythtv per the instructions @ http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/ is interesting when ivtv drivers won't install. Question, maybe rather than using a stock kernel, thus having modules created under the correct /lib/modules/ and therefor having drivers work, is it po

[mythtv-users] Re: How slow can we go, cpu wise? P2-333?

2005-03-04 Thread Justin Gombos
* Andrew Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-03-04 21:31]: > mindfuq at fairfieldi.com wrote > > > I am going to make a webpage documenting this > install > > as it was a lot of fun. > > I think it's important to note that your capture card > has an MPEG-2 > chip. So are you using it to capture your

Re: [mythtv-users] RE: Auto-commercial cutlisting

2005-03-04 Thread Phill Edwards
> 2) Scriptable such that is automatically runs after the recording is > complete. You could use the new job queue functionality in 0.17. Regards, Phill ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/myt

[mythtv-users] Re: How slow can we go, cpu wise? P2-333?

2005-03-04 Thread Andrew Lynch
mindfuq at fairfieldi.com wrote > I am going to make a webpage documenting this install > as it was a lot of fun. I think it's important to note that your capture card has an MPEG-2 chip. So are you using it to capture your content, or are you using your CPU to crunch video into MPEG-4? I'm gue

Re: [mythtv-users] IR blaster questions

2005-03-04 Thread Pete Stagman
Scott, There are a bunch of options, including building your own blaster, it's really not that hard. Check out the how-to's Andy and I have made. www.lircsetup.com for multiple blasters check this page www.lircsetup.com/lirc/multi/ although I'm in the process of updating the multi page, you'll ge

[mythtv-users] Mandrake RPMs with Air2PC support available

2005-03-04 Thread Boleslaw Ciesielski
I have recompiled the Thac's Mandrake RPMs (http://rpm.nyvalls.se/index10.1.html) with the latest DVB headers (CVS as of 2/28) to add the Air2PC support. If anyone is interested I posted them at http://home.comcast.net/~mythtv/ I made no changes to the source, just the following patch to the spe

[mythtv-users] Audio Device Error with PVR 350 - FIX

2005-03-04 Thread John Kondis
A few people (including myself, since a few days after the release of 0.17) have noticed audio device errors using Hauppauge 350s with no sound card on MythTV 0.17. Generally, in this configuration, when you try to watch TV or view a recording, you get an error message stating the device /dev/dsp

Re: [mythtv-users] the ultimate setup

2005-03-04 Thread Yan-Fa Li
Jeff Wormsley wrote: Expensive, but I like my A-Tech 3000 case (black with silver buttons/Powermate). http://www.atechfabrication.com/ HOLY SCHNIKE! $650 for just the case!!! This is like the Ferrari Moderna of cases... Beautiful work though. I'm guessing you dropped about $1K on your c

Re: [mythtv-users] the ultimate setup

2005-03-04 Thread Jeff Wormsley
Sarah Roberts wrote: I was wondering what kind of recommendations folks had for nice looking a/v style cases, preferably with quiet power supplies and adequate PCI slots. Expensive, but I like my A-Tech 3000 case (black with silver buttons/Powermate). http://www.atechfabrication.com/ Jeff. ___

Re: [mythtv-users] DirectTV and Changing Channels on the Front End.

2005-03-04 Thread Dean Vanden Heuvel
what model DirecTV box? hondaman wrote: Ok. Been fighting with this whole setup for a while now, and im making progress. The problem I cant overcome now is how do I change the channel for Direct TV? My setup: Backend computer running fc3, pvr-250, and a serial-to-rj12 cable from the DTV recie

[mythtv-users] Re: Mythtv, nvidia and DVI mystery

2005-03-04 Thread Neil
Brad Templeton writes: On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 03:54:56PM -0600, Neil wrote: Brad Templeton writes: It's totally different from interlace artifacts. Here is an example of how I am understanding on what you meant by interlaced artifacts - http://neuron2.net/LVG/inthead.jpg Please correct me i

Fwd: [mythtv-users] HD3000 FC3 Install guide

2005-03-04 Thread Eric Gilbert
whoops... this didn't make it onto the list [snip] > Aha. /etc/hotplug/blacklist didn't work. The kernel inserted the module > before udev. But I mv cx88_blackbird and cx8800 out of /lib/modules. dmesg > now gives: > > Linux video capture interface: v1.00 > cx2388x dvb driver version 0.0.4

[mythtv-users] DirectTV and Changing Channels on the Front End.

2005-03-04 Thread hondaman
Ok. Been fighting with this whole setup for a while now, and im making progress. The problem I cant overcome now is how do I change the channel for Direct TV? My setup: Backend computer running fc3, pvr-250, and a serial-to-rj12 cable from the DTV reciever (data port) to the serial port on th

Re: [mythtv-users] Audio Authority 9A60 questions

2005-03-04 Thread Jarod Wilson
On Friday 04 March 2005 15:45, Robert Tsai wrote: > > If his set can do 1080i, there's no reason it shouldn't be able to > > do 1080i over either DVI or component, is there? Granted, he may run > > into the interlace bug... > > The manual *claims* that the DVI can accept 1080i, but many other > for

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR 350 - No Sound

2005-03-04 Thread Aaron Aguilar
Andrew, Put this near the beginning of your /etc/modprobe.conf file: alias msp3400-ivtv msp3400 Anything that you recorded previous to doing this will have no sound as it wasn't captured. Log out and log back in just for good measure too. Have fun with your system. Aaron On Fri, 4 Mar 2005

[mythtv-users] IR blaster questions

2005-03-04 Thread Scott Roland
I am setting up a machine to work with a Sky Italia satellite receiver. I am trying to decide on which IR blaster to get. Although the USB-UIRT looks like it has the best engineering: http://www.usbuirt.com/ I really like the idea of the Red-Eye serial sitting right in front of the IR receive

Re: [mythtv-users] Slightly OT: MythTV as Senior Project?

2005-03-04 Thread Brad Templeton
On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 06:35:03PM -0600, Andrew Close wrote: > On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 16:29:03 -0800, Ross Campbell > > > A mythweb interface > > that would allow scheduling of on/off events would be very nice, and > > it would be very cool to have a trigger for X10 events before and > > after watch

[mythtv-users] Are transcoded files supposed to play in mplayer?

2005-03-04 Thread Brad Templeton
I recently transcoded a variety of shows using the internal myth transcoder, scaling down to 352x480 mp4 from pvr-250 recorded mp2 files. They play fine in myth's internal player, but I had intended to move them over to be long term videos, and I find that mplayer has all sorts of problems with t

Re: [mythtv-users] Slightly OT: MythTV as Senior Project?

2005-03-04 Thread Andrew Close
On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 16:29:03 -0800, Ross Campbell > A mythweb interface > that would allow scheduling of on/off events would be very nice, and > it would be very cool to have a trigger for X10 events before and > after watching recordings and livetv - you know... dim the lights, > turn off hallway

Re: [mythtv-users] Slightly OT: MythTV as Senior Project?

2005-03-04 Thread Ross Campbell
> My friend also though of maybe the possibility of > creating a plugin to handle X10 equipment? I don't know how many of you > use it (I sure don't, but it would be a neat new set of toys to have), > but I think it is a possible candidate. At the most basic level, you can add a static menu with

Re: [mythtv-users] Commercial cutting & DVD burning

2005-03-04 Thread Ross Campbell
> After spending a few hours digging thru the archives on this topic, I > still didn't find any discussion that had concise steps to cutting > commercials and burning dvd. I would suggest that you get the latest mythtvburn CVS code - it has recently introduced cutlist support code in the web inte

Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV on Xbox - praise

2005-03-04 Thread Nav Jagpal
Now Xebian is freezing when ".. . Mounting remote filesystems ..." Guess I didn't setup NFS correctly. I installed nfs-user-server on debian and added a directory int he exports file, restarted the nfs server, and opened 2049 port on the machine's firewall.. still no go.. ANy ideas? On Fri,

Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV on Xbox - praise

2005-03-04 Thread Nav Jagpal
Indeed there was a spot in the evox.ini file that I could manually add the e: drive. sweet -- n On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 15:35:57 -0800, Nav Jagpal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > C: System crap and XBMC XBE & XML file > > D: (This is the active XBE's home folder) > > E: Apps and Game saves. Also h

Re: [mythtv-users] Audio Authority 9A60 questions

2005-03-04 Thread Robert Tsai
On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 11:42:33AM -0800, Jarod Wilson wrote: > On Friday 04 March 2005 11:29, Brad Templeton wrote: > > > But given that my TV does have a DVI input, are you saying that > > > the 9A60 won't give me anything better than what I can do with > > > DVI today, or is it possible that the

Re: [mythtv-users] 20+ GB .nuv files

2005-03-04 Thread Mark Emery
Hi, When I first set up MythTV 0.16 I had massive .nuv files. When I set the picture size to be smaller they became reasonable. I put it down to the CPU not being able to keep up (Was 700MHz then with WinTV card, writing to /myth/tv over 100Mbps NFS mount, now 1.5GHz CPU). If it can't keep up

[mythtv-users] PVR 350 - No Sound

2005-03-04 Thread Andrew
Video works fine.  But audio does not work at all.  If I do cat  /dev/video0 > test.mpg I get no sound when I play test.mpg back.  I get no sound when doing mplayer /dev/video0 either.   Sound definitely works on the system though.   Any advice?  This is my first MythTV install I’ve done

Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV on Xbox - praise

2005-03-04 Thread Nav Jagpal
> > C: System crap and XBMC XBE & XML file > D: (This is the active XBE's home folder) > E: Apps and Game saves. Also had my Emulators on here, but no ROMs. Xebian > is here in E:\Apps\Linux > F: Game images and movies Problem is my apps are on F and savegames are on E. So when I tried to instal

Re: [mythtv-users] HD3000 FC3 Install guide

2005-03-04 Thread sean darcy
I need a brilliant idea. ... ls -l /dev/dvb drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 200 Mar 3 14:06 adapter0 Looks like initially still a permissions issue. My guess would be that since the adapter directories are owned by the root group, if you chown -R root:video /dev/dvb it would solve your issue. Go

Re: [mythtv-users] Washed out color with nVidia 5200

2005-03-04 Thread Will Dormann
Carl Alexander wrote: I second this plea. My nVidia 5700 just doesn't match straight TV. I'm not sure how much this is the nVidia, and how much is the PVR 350 doesn't do as good a job rendering the NTSP signal to digital as the analogue tuner in the TV does. Here are the settings I use in my .n

Re: [mythtv-users] Washed out color with nVidia 5200

2005-03-04 Thread Brandon Beattie
Have you tried teh nvidia-settings tool? I'm not sure if there's color, brightness, contrast, gamma, sharpness etc control for TV, but I know there is for VGA and even more for DVI. --Brandon On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 02:51:53PM -0800, Carl Alexander wrote: > I second this plea. My nVidia 5700 jus

Re: [mythtv-users] Slightly OT: MythTV as Senior Project?

2005-03-04 Thread Simon Kenyon
On Friday 04 March 2005 21:34, Joseph A. Caputo wrote: > Simple text can be entered using the remote, as with a cell phone > keypad. If the search text boxes don't support this, they should be > converted to use the Myth text input widget that handles this. there are several places where a remote

Re: [mythtv-users] Washed out color with nVidia 5200

2005-03-04 Thread Carl Alexander
I second this plea. My nVidia 5700 just doesn't match straight TV. I'm not sure how much this is the nVidia, and how much is the PVR 350 doesn't do as good a job rendering the NTSP signal to digital as the analogue tuner in the TV does. Anyone? --- Carl Bill Smith wrote: I've read some comme

Re: [mythtv-users] Slightly OT: MythTV as Senior Project?

2005-03-04 Thread Louie Ilievski
Thanks to every one of you for your suggestions so far. They are greatly appreciated. I am seeing some interesting ideas here, and I will be going over some of these with my partner and see if we can make them "proposable" to our professor. I think, whether or not he has heard of MythTV, it'll s

Re: [mythtv-users] dtvsignal shows strong - but mythbackend can't tuneHD3000

2005-03-04 Thread Brandon Beattie
Double check you're using the correct frequency table (In the mythsetup program). Also check your channels and the frequencies in the channel editor to make sure they are correct. Everything looks like it's working fine except you're not tuning to the right channel. --Brandon On Fri, Mar 04, 20

Re: [mythtv-users] Commercial cutting & DVD burning

2005-03-04 Thread John Williams
The answer to this is, you didn't find it in the archives because it doesn't exist. The copy to Windows is about the best answer I'v run across, and I agree too much work so I haven't done it. The next answer you'll get is the devs don't burn shows so they won't code it because they don't want it.

Re: [mythtv-users] Is it legal to archive and collect episodes?

2005-03-04 Thread Brad Templeton
On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 05:18:28PM -0500, Sean Cier wrote: > Brad Templeton wrote: > > > >If the flag is > >set, you have protected content. A tuner is forbidden from handing > >protected content in digital form to a device that is not "trusted" > >to further honor the protection. > > > >Some thi

[mythtv-users] Commercial cutting & DVD burning

2005-03-04 Thread Praveen Shenoy
After spending a few hours digging thru the archives on this topic, I still didn't find any discussion that had concise steps to cutting commercials and burning dvd. I am sure people out there are doing this. I have a PVR-350 and I want to burn the movies I record to a dvd after cutting the com

Re: [mythtv-users] Is it legal to archive and collect episodes?

2005-03-04 Thread Sean Cier
Brad Templeton wrote: If the flag is set, you have protected content. A tuner is forbidden from handing protected content in digital form to a device that is not "trusted" to further honor the protection. Some things you can do: [...] e) Put out digital audio, but at no better than CD quality

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Mythtv, nvidia and DVI mystery

2005-03-04 Thread Brad Templeton
On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 03:54:56PM -0600, Neil wrote: > Brad Templeton writes: > > > It's totally different from interlace artifacts. Here is an example of how > I am understanding on what you meant by interlaced artifacts - > http://neuron2.net/LVG/inthead.jpg Please correct me if I am wrong.

Re: [mythtv-users] PIDs missing along with dvb_channel data

2005-03-04 Thread ikke
On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 12:35:57PM +0100, Jesper Sörensen wrote: > Do yourself a favor and forget about "mythfilldatabase --manual" and > entering data manually. Do a truncate on the channel and dtv_multiplex thanks, I did that and for a while I even got a picture. Without usin mythfilldatabas

Re: [mythtv-users] Slightly OT: MythTV as Senior Project?

2005-03-04 Thread Brad Templeton
On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 04:34:15PM -0500, Joseph A. Caputo wrote: > On Friday 04 March 2005 14:19, Brad Templeton wrote: > > Excepting, of course, the search facilities which use a keyboard > Simple text can be entered using the remote, as with a cell phone > keypad. If the search text boxes don'

Re: [mythtv-users] Is it legal to archive and collect episodes?

2005-03-04 Thread sschaefer1
Seems to be a lot of responses concerning the broadcast flag in digital airings. My question is more basic than that. Even with a the broadcast flag you'll still be able to record the episode at a lower resolution, and to include analog broadcasts. I remember when VHS was fairly new, family fri

[mythtv-users] Re: Mythtv, nvidia and DVI mystery

2005-03-04 Thread Neil
Brad Templeton writes: On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 06:27:20AM -0600, Neil wrote: Hey guys, I've done some testing regarding the mystery I'm experiencing with mythtv, nvidia and DVI. Check it out at http://restricted.dyndns.org/mystery.html comments are greatly appreciated... So I

Re: [mythtv-users] Comerical Flagging...

2005-03-04 Thread Kevin Kuphal
Andrew Ziobro wrote: I have turned off the comerical flagging job on the back end, but comericals are still being flagged. The mythbackendlog show no records of the flagging, but comerical skip works fine on the frontend. Where is the flagging happening? Does it happen as it records? The commeri

Re: [mythtv-users] Broadcast Flag Article mentions MythTV and quotes Issac

2005-03-04 Thread Shawn Willden
Andrew Close wrote: i still don't quite get this. if i invite 20 ppl over to watch 'Lost' on Weds night isn't that a group showing? i'm not profiting, peddling or gaining in any way other than enjoying a show with a 'group' of friends. As I understand it, technically it's illegal to show your

[mythtv-users] Comerical Flagging...

2005-03-04 Thread Andrew Ziobro
I have turned off the comerical flagging job on the back end, but comericals are still being flagged. The mythbackendlog show no records of the flagging, but comerical skip works fine on the frontend. Where is the flagging happening? Does it happen as it records? I am running cvs as of last week.

Re: [mythtv-users] 20+ GB .nuv files

2005-03-04 Thread Garry Cook
On Fri, 04 Mar 2005 16:29:45 -0500, MB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Garry Cook wrote: > > >Well, it looks like I tweaked something that I shouldn't have, > >probably in the setup/utilities, maybe in mythtvsetup, or this could > >possibly be due to the apt-get dist-upgrade that I did the other day.

[mythtv-users] edit on mac frontend

2005-03-04 Thread Rob Nichols
I setup my mac mini as a frontend. Watching recordings works great, and is very cool. Thanks!!! When I try to edit a show (edit the cutlist) it freezes. Have other people seen this? Hints? Thanks, Rob ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@my

Re: [mythtv-users] Slightly OT: MythTV as Senior Project?

2005-03-04 Thread Joseph A. Caputo
On Friday 04 March 2005 14:19, Brad Templeton wrote: > On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 10:39:09AM -0500, Joseph A. Caputo wrote: > > On Friday 04 March 2005 0:11, Brad Templeton wrote: > > > If you don't already, get one of the super cheap lite-on or acer > > > IR keyboards. Under 30 bucks and work great,

Re: [mythtv-users] 20+ GB .nuv files

2005-03-04 Thread MB
Garry Cook wrote: Well, it looks like I tweaked something that I shouldn't have, probably in the setup/utilities, maybe in mythtvsetup, or this could possibly be due to the apt-get dist-upgrade that I did the other day. My .nuv files are now sized at about 20GB per hour. I've got one that is a half

Re: [mythtv-users] Can't believe this hasn't been written already....

2005-03-04 Thread Jason Donahue
Worked like a champ - THANKS! On Fri, 2005-03-04 at 14:43 -0600, Kevin Kuphal wrote: > Jason Donahue wrote: > > >Anyone have a patch, or example code for adding a menu item to Myth that > >launches arbitrary commands ? > > > >I would think this would be a piece of cake. Just create a menu button,

Re: [mythtv-users] Is it legal to archive and collect episodes?

2005-03-04 Thread Brad Templeton
On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 02:57:53PM -0600, Andrew Close wrote: > On Fri, 04 Mar 2005 15:42:01 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is it legal to archive and collect episodes? > > > > I've read alot of references that it is and that it isn't, legal. > > I can see how we have fa

Re: [mythtv-users] HDTV tvout

2005-03-04 Thread Jarod Wilson
On Friday 04 March 2005 12:46, Matthew Schumacher wrote: > Erick Stubbs wrote: > > Hello, I am new to the mailing list, so forgive me if this has been > > asked and answered 1000 times already. However I am curious if any of > > the HDTV capable mythtv cards have the ability to output to a HDTV s

Re: [mythtv-users] Is it legal to archive and collect episodes?

2005-03-04 Thread Roy Murphy
On Fri, 04 Mar 2005 15:42:01 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is it legal to archive and collect episodes? > > I've read alot of references that it is and that it isn't, legal. There is some dicta in the Sony decision which seems to say that recording for the purpose of colle

Re: [mythtv-users] Is it legal to archive and collect episodes?

2005-03-04 Thread Brad Templeton
On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 03:42:01PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Is it legal to archive and collect episodes? > > I've read alot of references that it is and that it isn't, legal. > I can see how we have fair use to record a show for our personal use, but > doesn't collecting episodes go beyo

Re: [mythtv-users] Is it legal to archive and collect episodes?

2005-03-04 Thread Andrew Close
On Fri, 04 Mar 2005 15:42:01 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is it legal to archive and collect episodes? > > I've read alot of references that it is and that it isn't, legal. > I can see how we have fair use to record a show for our personal use, but > doesn't collecting ep

Re: [mythtv-users] "prebuferring pause" - very high CPU - "strange error flushing buffer" - EPIA M card

2005-03-04 Thread Tom Dombrosky
On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 00:12:44 +0100, jerome lacoste <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > I am setting up my first mythtv box. So running into loads of > problems, and slowly sorting them out :) > > I looked at various docs and list archives but am getting stuck. > > So far I can play music well. Th

Re: [mythtv-users] HDTV tvout

2005-03-04 Thread Matthew Schumacher
Erick Stubbs wrote: Hello, I am new to the mailing list, so forgive me if this has been asked and answered 1000 times already. However I am curious if any of the HDTV capable mythtv cards have the ability to output to a HDTV set? Another way to do this is to use an Xbox frontend with the xbox hd

Re: [mythtv-users] "prebuferring pause" - very high CPU - "strange error flushing buffer" - EPIA M card

2005-03-04 Thread James Emmrich
Hi everyone, im still struggling on this prebuffer pause thing. From all the postings ive read, its a very common thing, however i cant seem to find any fixes for it (maybe i missed it?) Its very strange in that, if i use mplayer /dev/video0 it plays from the capture flawlessly with very fluid

Re: [mythtv-users] Can't believe this hasn't been written already....

2005-03-04 Thread Kevin Kuphal
Jason Donahue wrote: Anyone have a patch, or example code for adding a menu item to Myth that launches arbitrary commands ? I would think this would be a piece of cake. Just create a menu button, and associate it with an application to run. The reason I am asking is because I am about to start putt

[mythtv-users] Is it legal to archive and collect episodes?

2005-03-04 Thread sschaefer1
Is it legal to archive and collect episodes? I've read alot of references that it is and that it isn't, legal. I can see how we have fair use to record a show for our personal use, but doesn't collecting episodes go beyond that? Especially when the same series is retailed on DVD... I guess, vic

Re: [mythtv-users] Can't believe this hasn't been written already....

2005-03-04 Thread Jeff Simpson
It's already there, just edit the theme to include an extra item, it's all XML On Fri, 04 Mar 2005 15:38:49 -0500, Jason Donahue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anyone have a patch, or example code for adding a menu item to Myth that > launches arbitrary commands ? > > I would think this would be a

[mythtv-users] Can't believe this hasn't been written already....

2005-03-04 Thread Jason Donahue
Anyone have a patch, or example code for adding a menu item to Myth that launches arbitrary commands ? I would think this would be a piece of cake. Just create a menu button, and associate it with an application to run. The reason I am asking is because I am about to start putting together a carp

[mythtv-users] Xorg CVS screw up OpenGL

2005-03-04 Thread Pedro Sigwald
i've compiled the latest Xorg CVS for my EPIA MII and everything but MythGallery seems to work just fine. instead of pictures of my house, my wife and my daughter, i got white frames with no opengl transitions. i got this from frontend log file: Oops! I screw opengl calls somewhere. ¿? any ideas?

Re: [mythtv-users] Commercial Skip

2005-03-04 Thread Matt S.
I agree! And sometimes it works fine, but it'll cut off the last few frames before commercials and the first few frames after commercials. I've also notices that "Lost" as well as some other shows will go to black, but still have sound, or will come back with black and have sound before picture.

Re: [mythtv-users] HDTV tvout

2005-03-04 Thread Jarod Wilson
On Friday 04 March 2005 12:00, Erick Stubbs wrote: > If my HDTV doesnt have a DVI or vga connector, > and it only has component inputs and svideo, is there anyway to use a > mythtv box to output a High Definition signal to my Televsion? That one has definitely been covered numerous times. In the f

Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV review from a long-time TiVo user

2005-03-04 Thread Ben Giddings
Donavan Stanley wrote: Myth will allow your existing screensaver to kick in as needed, provided you have one of course. This doesn't appear to be entirely accurate to me. I believe that Myth only supports DPMS. If you turn on screensavers in KDE or use xscreensaver, the screensaver will kick in reg

Re: [mythtv-users] dtvsignal shows strong - but mythbackend can't tuneHD3000

2005-03-04 Thread john roberts
Anyone have any ideas on this? I've built 4 other mythtv boxes with HD3000's cards and I've never seen this. I'm using the 1.6 drivers from pcHDTV. Any ideas? Or should I try the DVB drivers/etc? -John - Original Message - From: "john roberts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: mythtv-users@myt

Re: [mythtv-users] Commercial Skip

2005-03-04 Thread Ben Giddings
Dan Christensen wrote: 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 jump

Re: [mythtv-users] HDTV tvout

2005-03-04 Thread Erick Stubbs
Ok thats what I thought. If my HDTV doesnt have a DVI or vga connector, and it only has component inputs and svideo, is there anyway to use a mythtv box to output a High Definition signal to my Televsion? On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 11:27:20AM -0800, Jarod Wilson wrote: > On Friday 04 March 2005 11:

RE: [mythtv-users] Understanding PVR 350 output options

2005-03-04 Thread John Harvey
For what is happening it has been discussed at length on the ivtv-dev list. Basically it is down to both X & myth accessing the frame buffer and the order being random. I really need to re-visit it and get my head round the problem but I have a half implemented addition to the X driver to a

Re: [mythtv-users] Audio Authority 9A60 questions

2005-03-04 Thread Jarod Wilson
On Friday 04 March 2005 11:29, Brad Templeton wrote: > > > http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/mythhd.php > > > > Ah. I see. > > > > Your HDTV has no DVI or VGA option, so you *had* to get some kind of > > component output adapter for anything better than S-Video or > > composite. Correct. > > But given t

Re: [mythtv-users] Understanding PVR 350 output options

2005-03-04 Thread Mark Schindel
John, I also have the "live tv blank on exit from guide" problem. And I have skills and time to help diagnose/fix the problem. Can you share your thoughts on what's happening? Mark. John Harvey wrote: Answers inserted below John --- jgmtfia Mr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have a PVR350 and h

Re: [mythtv-users] Audio Authority 9A60 questions

2005-03-04 Thread Brad Templeton
On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 08:47:05AM -0500, Robert Tsai wrote: > On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 09:04:33PM -0800, Jarod Wilson wrote: > > On Thursday 03 March 2005 20:15, Robert Tsai wrote: > > > I have a Toshiba 42H83 RPTV that will do a > > > severely-overscanned-but-presentable 960x540p (856x480 viewable

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