Re: [mythtv-users] High-Definition Playback performance data

2005-04-04 Thread Will Dormann
Jarod Wilson wrote: On Monday 04 April 2005 08:57, John Kuhn wrote: is this using Xv or XvMC? Xv in all cases. I plan to play with XvMC a bit later this week, now that I've recompiled against the nvidia 7174 XvMC libs... Let us know if you experience any stability issues with this. I have trie

[mythtv-users] What's the best audio card for Myth

2005-04-04 Thread David Sonenberg
I'm going to buy a new audio card and wanted feedback out what cards people had success with. Ideally I'd like to be able to hook it up to my 5.1 channel receiver using optical spif, but that's not essential. -- David Sonenberg Systems / Network Administrator Stroz Friedberg, LLC 15 Maiden Lane 1

RE: [mythtv-users] Time change causes problems

2005-04-04 Thread Jim Turpin
I ended up rolling back qt, which required me to download and rollback quite a few packages. I downloaded a bunch of packages and ran the command: rpm -Uvh --oldpackage qt-3.3.3-8.i386.rpm qt-MySQL-3.3.3-8.i386.rpm kdelibs-3.3.0-5.i386.rpm kdebase-3.3.0-8.i386.rpm arts-1.3.0-4.i386.rpm kdeaddons-3

Re: [mythtv-users] Time change causes problems

2005-04-04 Thread Isaac Richards
On Monday 04 April 2005 03:25 pm, Jeff Simpson wrote: > So does anyone know if that will still work with qt < 3.3.4 after that > update? Yes, it works with older versions. > Is this more or less a permanent solution, or is it still going to > break again in the fall? No, I explicitly made it so

[mythtv-users] Seattle MUG meetup?

2005-04-04 Thread Chris Petersen
ok, I just found out that one of my favorite bands is coming back to Seattle, and thought that it'd be a great opportunity to see them AND get to know some of the other seattle-area mythtv users... Anyway, concert is on April 17th (that's a sunday) at the Fado Irish Pub. It starts around 9 PM,

Re: [mythtv-users] Time change causes problems

2005-04-04 Thread Jeff Simpson
> I'm guessing the following from the commits mailing list is > the fix for the problem. > > > Changes committed by ijr on Mon Apr 4 16:47:37 2005 > > Modified Files: >in mythtv/libs/libmyth: > util.cpp util

Re: [mythtv-users] Time change causes problems

2005-04-04 Thread Craig Partin
On Apr 4, 2005 3:11 PM, Jeff Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Did you rebuild mythtv and run mythfilldatabase again? That fixed the > problem for me on gentoo > > I had to pull some strings to make mythfilldatabase allow the > --dd-grab-all to work, but it's beautiful now > > - Jeff > > On

Re: [mythtv-users] Time change causes problems

2005-04-04 Thread Michael J. Lynch
Jeff Simpson wrote: Did you rebuild mythtv and run mythfilldatabase again? That fixed the problem for me on gentoo I had to pull some strings to make mythfilldatabase allow the --dd-grab-all to work, but it's beautiful now - Jeff On Apr 4, 2005 2:30 PM, Asher Schaffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Re: [mythtv-users] Time change causes problems

2005-04-04 Thread Jeff Simpson
Did you rebuild mythtv and run mythfilldatabase again? That fixed the problem for me on gentoo I had to pull some strings to make mythfilldatabase allow the --dd-grab-all to work, but it's beautiful now - Jeff On Apr 4, 2005 2:30 PM, Asher Schaffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Apr 3, 2005 4:

Re: [mythtv-users] Time change causes problems

2005-04-04 Thread Big Wave Dave
On Apr 4, 2005 12:03 PM, Andrew McNabb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Apr 03, 2005 at 11:06:56PM -0600, Jim Turpin wrote: > > I tried the Phoenix time zone in attempt as a temporary fix to the QT > > problem. However it sets my time an hour early. Which I guess is tolerable > > until there's

Re: [mythtv-users] Time change causes problems

2005-04-04 Thread Andrew McNabb
On Sun, Apr 03, 2005 at 11:06:56PM -0600, Jim Turpin wrote: > I tried the Phoenix time zone in attempt as a temporary fix to the QT > problem. However it sets my time an hour early. Which I guess is tolerable > until there's a patch for QT (which I hope is soon Coming). I tried to roll > back Qt an

[mythtv-users] C-Band Satellite with Myth?

2005-04-04 Thread Robert Denier
Has anyone setup myth to work with a C-band satellite system? In some ways the pictures on "ordinary" channels are better there, but then a lot of channels have moved away from C-band. The reason the pictures are better, of course, is its an uncompressed signal, at least for the older videocipher

Re: [mythtv-users] frontend only remote?

2005-04-04 Thread cythrault
On Apr 4, 2005 2:05 PM, David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Stef Coene wrote: > > >On Monday 04 April 2005 19:02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > >>Tis would be great. Especially as I have a grey Hauppauge remote doing > >>nothing. Anyone care to tell how to build a receiver, or point to a how

Re: [mythtv-users] High-Definition Playback performance data

2005-04-04 Thread Jarod Wilson
On Monday 04 April 2005 08:57, John Kuhn wrote: > is this using Xv or XvMC? Xv in all cases. I plan to play with XvMC a bit later this week, now that I've recompiled against the nvidia 7174 XvMC libs... > >I've lost track of the thread where I said something about trying a > > GeForce 6200 in p

OT: Gyration receiver reset? (was: e: [mythtv-users] Wireless Keyboard Comments)

2005-04-04 Thread Joseph A. Caputo
On Monday 04 April 2005 12:25, Ryszard wrote: > oh yeah, go the gyration. its small, RF, and works well. > > (it does chew the battereis tho') BTW, for you folks with a Gyration, do you find that you have to re-teach the receiver any time you reboot? I do. Everything seems to work fine acces

Re: [mythtv-users] View all upcoming movies without duplicates?

2005-04-04 Thread John Patrick Poet
On Sun, 3 Apr 2005, Bruce Markey wrote: > John Patrick Poet wrote: > ... > > I just submitted a patch to the dev list which uses the 1/2 keys to > > switch between the normal "All" view and a "Unique" view. This works > > for Movies, Categories and Channels. > > > > Not being a SQL expert, the a

Re: [mythtv-users] frontend only remote?

2005-04-04 Thread Graham Dunn
On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 02:16:13PM -0400, David George wrote: > On 4/4/2005 1:47 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >Quoting "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > >>Don't forget about the ATi Remote Wonder, it has worked very nicely for > >>me. > >> > >> > > Also, it is an RF remo

Re: [mythtv-users] How well does commercial detection work?

2005-04-04 Thread Ramon Redondo
> I could also mention Jeopardy!. Commercial detection is flawless for my > recordings of Jeopardy!, with the one exception being that it misses > the end of the commercial break before Final Jeopardy. So my wife and > I have to remember to NOT skip that break, or we end up at the end of > the sh

Re: [mythtv-users] Time change causes problems

2005-04-04 Thread PAUL WILLIAMSON
"Asher Schaffer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 04/04/05 2:30 PM >>> > > On Apr 3, 2005 4:40 PM, Michael Haan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm also on Gentoo, so I tried just rolling back to the old version of > > QT (3.3.3). However, this doesn't seem to have fixed the problem. Do > > I need to do s

Re: [mythtv-users] Mythtv playback problem with NVIDIA videoa cceleration - HELP! (still unsolved)

2005-04-04 Thread Brian Stults
Jarod Wilson wrote: On Friday 01 April 2005 14:52, Jarod Wilson wrote: On Friday 01 April 2005 07:35, Brian Stults wrote: Jarod Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 29 March 2005 09:52, Jarod Wilson wrote: Can't wait to bench my new workstation -- Athlon 64 3500, PCI-Exp. GeForce 6600GT. :-) For the record, ju

Re: [mythtv-users] Time change causes problems

2005-04-04 Thread Asher Schaffer
On Apr 3, 2005 4:40 PM, Michael Haan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm also on Gentoo, so I tried just rolling back to the old version of > QT (3.3.3). However, this doesn't seem to have fixed the problem. Do > I need to do something more? Same here, I went back to 3.3.3 on Gentoo, and it didn't

Re: [mythtv-users] Wireless Keyboard Comments

2005-04-04 Thread Ryszard
no flame from me. i've got my receiver sitting next to an 802.11g AP and a bluetooth dongle, and across the room from a cordless phone. i had to change teh channel on the gyration once, but other than that, no problems. (except getting used to typing on a small keyboard.. ;-) ) On Apr 4, 2005 6:

Re: [mythtv-users] frontend only remote?

2005-04-04 Thread David George
On 4/4/2005 1:47 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Don't forget about the ATi Remote Wonder, it has worked very nicely for me. I would love to hear some options on this. It is pretty cheap and might be a good solution. Does it work with FC3? Rep

Re: [mythtv-users] High-Definition Playback performance data

2005-04-04 Thread Alan Hagge
Jarod, This is all GREAT information, especially for folks looking to purchase/upgrade hardware to use MythTV. Hopefully you'll find time to organize this, HTML-ize (table format?) it and put if up on your website. As John Kuhn pointed out, it'd be fantastic if you could re-do the tests with

Re: [mythtv-users] frontend only remote?

2005-04-04 Thread David
Stef Coene wrote: On Monday 04 April 2005 19:02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tis would be great. Especially as I have a grey Hauppauge remote doing nothing. Anyone care to tell how to build a receiver, or point to a how to on it? http://lnx.manoweb.com/lirc/?partType=section&partName=introduc

RE: [mythtv-users] Use internal player for mpeg files

2005-04-04 Thread Patrick @ Mythtv
Adam, I'm also trying to get video's working wit PVR350. I've tried the Internal player, but i've no picture. What are your settings. Thanks Patrick > -Oorspronkelijk bericht- > Van: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Namens Adam Siegel > Verzonden: zondag 3 april 2005 21:4

Re: [mythtv-users] Optimizing MythTV for AMD64

2005-04-04 Thread Kyle Rose
I would think a larger portion of HD TVs are 1080i native. This may be true, but the vast majority of non-CRT based HDTV's are 720p native: plasma, DLP, and LCD are mostly 720p. I expect the proportion of CRT's to all HDTV displays will go down over time as people want larger, thinner displays.

Re: [mythtv-users] frontend only remote?

2005-04-04 Thread mark
How about the Snapstream Firfly? I see USB versions that look pretty good. Any experiences with this remote? Quoting "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Don't forget about the ATi Remote Wonder, it has worked very nicely for me. > > > > On Apr 4, 2005 10:30 AM, Chris Picton <[EMAIL

Re: [mythtv-users] frontend only remote?

2005-04-04 Thread Stef Coene
On Monday 04 April 2005 19:02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Tis would be great. Especially as I have a grey Hauppauge remote doing > nothing. Anyone care to tell how to build a receiver, or point to a how to > on it? http://lnx.manoweb.com/lirc/?partType=section&partName=introduction Stef _

Re: [mythtv-users] frontend only remote?

2005-04-04 Thread mark
I would love to hear some options on this. It is pretty cheap and might be a good solution. Does it work with FC3? Quoting "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Don't forget about the ATi Remote Wonder, it has worked very nicely for me. > > > > On Apr 4, 2005 10:30 AM, Chris Picton <[EM

Re: [mythtv-users] Media Monitor not monitoring my cdrom device

2005-04-04 Thread Chris Picton
> > > I have 'Monitor CD/DVD' enabled in my preferences, but it is not > > > working. > > > > > > > > > Does anyone know how to fix this/tell it what device to monitor? > > > > > > Chris > > > > > > > You need to add the devices to your /etc/fstab, like so: > > > > /dev/sr0/mn

Re: [mythtv-users] frontend only remote?

2005-04-04 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Don't forget about the ATi Remote Wonder, it has worked very nicely for me. On Apr 4, 2005 10:30 AM, Chris Picton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 11:03 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Care to share how to make the receiver? > > You can start at: > > http://www.lirc.org/r

Re: [mythtv-users] ERROR: file I/O problem in 'safe_read()': Invalid argument

2005-04-04 Thread Ken Mink
There currently isn't a fix for this problem. I am in the same boat as you. It is the only thing keeping mythtv from being wife ready. The best work around to date is to ceate a large livetv buffer. I have mine set to 10gb. Then remember to change channels every once in a while and to pop out to th

Re: [mythtv-users] XvMC - less stable on 0.17 and latest CVS compared to 0.16

2005-04-04 Thread Will Dormann
John Kuhn wrote: I have the same issues as well.. i had to disable it.. Thanks for the input. Even 0.17CVS with XV doesn't match the quality of 0.16 with XvMC on my system. There's a slight amount of "jitter" with the former. I guess I'll stick with 0.16. I'm learning to live with the flas

Re: [mythtv-users] frontend only remote?

2005-04-04 Thread Chris Picton
On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 11:03 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Care to share how to make the receiver? You can start at: http://www.lirc.org/receivers.html Regards Chris -- Chris Picton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@

Re: [mythtv-users] Media Monitor not monitoring my cdrom device

2005-04-04 Thread Chris Picton
On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 17:42 +0100, Allan Stirling wrote: > Chris Picton wrote: > > Hi all > > > > I have 'Monitor CD/DVD' enabled in my preferences, but it is not > > working. > > > > > > Does anyone know how to fix this/tell it what device to monitor? > > > > Chris > > > > You need to add th

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: datadirect hack problem

2005-04-04 Thread Curtis Stanford
On Apr 4, 2005, at 8:43 AM, Boleslaw Ciesielski wrote: Bill Oberman wrote: I did the datadirect.cpp hack to fix my daylight savings problem, see: http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/122546 > [...] And, it seemed like it worked, but there is a problem. I lose all listings from 11:0

[mythtv-users] Blurred motion (ATI Radeon 9200SE)

2005-04-04 Thread Neil Vince
Hi All, I'm struggling with blurred motion everything appears time until you get high speed motion (moving cars) or scrolling text on the screen. I am sure this is to do with the frame rate but I have the ATI fglrx modules/drivers built and running against a 2.6.11.2 kernel so not really sure

Re: [mythtv-users] mythfilldatabase full refresh

2005-04-04 Thread aaron
On Apr 4, 2005 8:39 AM, aaron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hm, something else occurs to me... I have not tried this. But it might > be as simple as: > mysql> DELETE FROM program; > > And then run mythfilldatabase. But again, I have not tried this. Take > a backup first. ;) Okay, I just tried

[mythtv-users] heads up: dropping RH7.3 mythtv rpms

2005-04-04 Thread Axel Thimm
Subject says it all. It has become too much of a burden to support it, mythtv requires a qt that doesn't even build anymore on RH7.3. -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net pgpMDrvYM8SgT.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@my

Re: [mythtv-users] Wireless Keyboard Comments

2005-04-04 Thread Kevin Kuphal
Louis Adamich wrote: Tried that. The wife hated it so went back to a remote. Louis Chris Gardner wrote: I am thinking of going the wireless keyboard route for my MythTV setup. What are people using? Any recommendations? Any problems? Agreed. I have a wireless keyboard for when I need to do con

Re: [mythtv-users] frontend only remote?

2005-04-04 Thread mark
Care to share how to make the receiver? Mark Quoting Louis Adamich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I'm using the remote from my 250. The 250 is in a server under the > stairs so I couldn't use the remote there. I used the receiver that > came with it to make one of the "do it yourself serial receiver

Re: [mythtv-users] frontend only remote?

2005-04-04 Thread mark
Tis would be great. Especially as I have a grey Hauppauge remote doing nothing. Anyone care to tell how to build a receiver, or point to a how to on it? Thank you, Mark Quoting David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >On a frontend only machine, ( no capture card ) what is

Re: [mythtv-users] Optimizing MythTV for AMD64

2005-04-04 Thread Brian Foddy
On Sun, 3 Apr 2005, Brad Templeton wrote: > On Sun, Apr 03, 2005 at 10:53:46PM -0600, Brian Foddy wrote: > > I would think a larger portion of HD TVs are 1080i native. The older > > generation of Rear Projection analog TVs were almost all 1080i native. > > Mine can do both, but 720p is up/down (h

Re: [mythtv-users] Wireless Keyboard Comments

2005-04-04 Thread Louis Adamich
Tried that. The wife hated it so went back to a remote. Louis Chris Gardner wrote: I am thinking of going the wireless keyboard route for my MythTV setup. What are people using? Any recommendations? Any problems? Thanks, Chris. ___ mythtv-users mailin

Re: [mythtv-users] frontend only remote?

2005-04-04 Thread Louis Adamich
I'm using the remote from my 250. The 250 is in a server under the stairs so I couldn't use the remote there. I used the receiver that came with it to make one of the "do it yourself serial receivers". Works fine. You can also use it with one of the Packard Bell receivers you see on Ebay al

Re: [mythtv-users] High-Definition Playback performance data

2005-04-04 Thread Joe Barnhart
--- Brad Templeton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We should try to build a list of all the things that > can go wrong in > making HD work smoothly. There are many. > > They include: > > > a) Right drivers for card with your kernel > b) Proper AGP bus speed and AGP interface driver >

Re: [mythtv-users] XvMC - less stable on 0.17 and latest CVS compared to 0.16

2005-04-04 Thread Brian Foddy
On Mon, 4 Apr 2005, John Kuhn wrote: > Will Dormann wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > Has anybody noticed stability problems with XvMC and 0.17 or later? > > When I fast forward a lot or press the pause button and let it go for > > a while, when I unpause it my machine is locks up. > > > > I should

[mythtv-users] 1.6b XBox (Xebian Myth0.17) won't playback recordings

2005-04-04 Thread Greg Mitchell
After seeing some people have success with using the 1.6 XBoxes as frontends, I took the plunge and picked one up. After a disasterous attempted soft-mod (note to self, 3AM is not the correct time to be answering questions such as "do you want to format your hard drive?") I got a chip installed

Re: [mythtv-users] frontend only remote?

2005-04-04 Thread David
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On a frontend only machine, ( no capture card ) what is the best option for a remote control? Are there any inexpensive options to add a remote control to a PC that interfaces well with lirc/mythtv? Recomendations? Experiences? If you can solder and can figure out what

Re: [mythtv-users] Wireless Keyboard Comments

2005-04-04 Thread Matt Sullivan
Slightly off topic, has anyone used the Logitech Mediaplay cordless mouse with MythTV? Combining remote buttons with the mouse would save some table space, as well as be just plain cool... PAUL WILLIAMSON wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 04/04/05 12:28 PM >>> Ryszard On Apr 4, 2005 6:20 PM,

RE: [mythtv-users] Wireless Keyboard Comments

2005-04-04 Thread PAUL WILLIAMSON
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 04/04/05 12:28 PM >>> > > Ryszard > > > On Apr 4, 2005 6:20 PM, Chris Gardner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I am thinking of going the wireless keyboard route for my MythTV > > > setup. What are people using? Any recommendations? Any problems? > > > > > > Thanks, > > > C

Re: [mythtv-users] Media Monitor not monitoring my cdrom device

2005-04-04 Thread Allan Stirling
Chris Picton wrote: Hi all I have 'Monitor CD/DVD' enabled in my preferences, but it is not working. Does anyone know how to fix this/tell it what device to monitor? Chris You need to add the devices to your /etc/fstab, like so: /dev/sr0/mnt/cdrom autonoauto,user,ro

Re: [mythtv-users] can't find mythtvsetup

2005-04-04 Thread Ashish Ranjan
Thanks Joe. I found it. Do you see more difficulty if I go on this path for my installation & setup. Or rpms are recommended way for easy installation? -Ashish On Apr 3, 2005 9:22 PM, Joe Votour <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:--- Ashish Ranjan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> Hi,>> I downloaded mythtv

Re: [mythtv-users] DVD playback slightly jerky

2005-04-04 Thread Joseph A. Caputo
On Saturday 02 April 2005 16:55, leith wrote: > TV Playback and recording playback is perfect. > > DVD playback has no audio syncing issues at all, but it seems as there > is a frame jerk every so often that keeps the video on track with > things. > > it is a slight jerk, but it is noticeable.

RE: [mythtv-users] Wireless Keyboard Comments

2005-04-04 Thread Khanh Tran
I'm sure I'll get flamed for this, but my Gyration always lost RF sync with the receiver. I might have too much RF interference from other electronic stuff I have. I ditched the whole thing and just use a universal remote and LIRC. -Khanh -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [ma

Re: [mythtv-users] Wireless Keyboard Comments

2005-04-04 Thread Kevin Kuphal
Chris Gardner wrote: I am thinking of going the wireless keyboard route for my MythTV setup. What are people using? Any recommendations? Any problems? I have this one. Works great. Bought it on newegg before but couldn't find it on their site now: http://shop.store.yahoo.com/str8buy/skwi1

Re: [mythtv-users] Wireless Keyboard Comments

2005-04-04 Thread Ryszard
oh yeah, go the gyration. its small, RF, and works well. (it does chew the battereis tho') On Apr 4, 2005 6:20 PM, Chris Gardner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am thinking of going the wireless keyboard route for my MythTV > setup. What are people using? Any recommendations? Any problems? >

[mythtv-users] Wireless Keyboard Comments

2005-04-04 Thread Chris Gardner
I am thinking of going the wireless keyboard route for my MythTV setup. What are people using? Any recommendations? Any problems? Thanks, Chris. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-us

Re: [mythtv-users] frontend only remote?

2005-04-04 Thread PAUL WILLIAMSON
>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 04/04/05 11:24 AM >>> > On a frontend only machine, ( no capture card ) what is the > best option for a remote control? > Are there any inexpensive options to add a remote > control to a PC that interfaces well with lirc/mythtv? > > Recomendations? Experiences? > > Thank y

Re: [mythtv-users] XvMC - less stable on 0.17 and latest CVS compared to 0.16

2005-04-04 Thread John Kuhn
Will Dormann wrote: Hi all, Has anybody noticed stability problems with XvMC and 0.17 or later? When I fast forward a lot or press the pause button and let it go for a while, when I unpause it my machine is locks up. I should mention that I have *no* hard lockup problems with 0.16 What made me t

Re: [mythtv-users] High-Definition Playback performance data

2005-04-04 Thread John Kuhn
is this using Xv or XvMC? --John I've lost track of the thread where I said something about trying a GeForce 6200 in place of a GeForce 4 MX with an Athlon XP 1800 system, to see if that would give any significant playback performance boost with High Definition recordings. Well, the answer is no

Re: [mythtv-users] remote *receiver* ?

2005-04-04 Thread Robert Tsai
On Sat, Apr 02, 2005 at 10:25:30PM -0500, PAUL WILLIAMSON wrote: > > I feel like I'm being really dense or something. The only other > > thing I can think of is that people just buy some cheap wireless > > keyboard and configure a remote to send signals to the keyboard's > > IR receiver. > > Yep.

[mythtv-users] Digital Broadcast Bitrates?

2005-04-04 Thread Joel Anderson
Hi all, Could anyone share what bitrates they typically see when capturing pure digital SD and HD signals such as via HD3000, DVB-S, or cable STB ala firewire? I found quite a bit of info in the archives regarding resolutions that are seen, but not much mention of the bitrates. Really I'm trying

Re: [mythtv-users] Mythweb Duplicates Deactivated Default Behavior

2005-04-04 Thread Chris Petersen
Syntax error on line 14 of /etc/apache2/conf.d/mythjdc.conf: CookieDomain values must begin with a dot in config/conf.php, set server_domain to your domain. Do not mess with any of the php stuff directly. -Chris ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-use

Re: [mythtv-users] frontend only remote?

2005-04-04 Thread MagicITX
I'm looking at using a wireless keyboard for this. It was discussed here last week that there are learning remotes that can learn the keyboard's IR codes. With this approach you don't need new hardware on the system or additional software. You can use the remote for normal stuff and still have a

[mythtv-users] ERROR: file I/O problem in 'safe_read()': Invalid argument

2005-04-04 Thread Andrew Meredith
Hi Folks, I know there has been a lot of discussion about this problem already, but I have yet to see any workarounds or indeed solutions. This is the issue some of us find when watching in LiveTV mode. All is well for a period of time and then the backend crashes out. Restarting the backend an

Re: [mythtv-users] Tried everything, and nothing works

2005-04-04 Thread Matthew K. Lee
On Apr 3, 2005 4:59 PM, Dave Fade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Again, trying to get mythtv to work on FC3. Used the > wilsonet tutorial to install everything. TV card > works, tried it out w/ tv time. The problem is, when i > got to "Watch TV", it goes to a black screen, and > nothing happens. The

[mythtv-users] Media Monitor not monitoring my cdrom device

2005-04-04 Thread Chris Picton
Hi all I have 'Monitor CD/DVD' enabled in my preferences, but it is not working. When mythfrontend starts up, it says: 2005-04-02 09:14:53.387 Registering Internal as a media playback plugin. 2005-04-02 09:14:53.420 Registering MythDVD DVD Media Handler as a media handler 2005-04-02 09:14:53.420

[mythtv-users] frontend only remote?

2005-04-04 Thread mark
On a frontend only machine, ( no capture card ) what is the best option for a remote control? Are there any inexpensive options to add a remote control to a PC that interfaces well with lirc/mythtv? Recomendations? Experiences? Thank you, Mark --

Re: [mythtv-users] app for determine HD resolution?

2005-04-04 Thread Lane Schwartz
On Apr 4, 2005 9:38 AM, Alan Hagge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anybody know of an app which will do any or all of: > > * Show the resolution (H x V or 480p, 720p, 1080i, 1080p, etc.) of a > specified dvb channel (ATSC) > * Show the resolution of a specified .nuv file? > * S

[mythtv-users] Please help cannot burn CD...

2005-04-04 Thread vuko
I am running my MSI Mega PC 651 Box with KnoppMyth R4V5 + PVR 350 + NVIDIA. Everything works fine, including MythMusic, cd ripping and playing of an audio cd. Except one: one problem I have, where I cannot find any solution: I cannot write MP3 CDs from within my Play List Manager in MythMusic.

Re: [mythtv-users] Old Grey Hauppauge Remote + Watch Video

2005-04-04 Thread Tim Hamer
i got the file for the new black and grey remote from jarod too, and i had to change a couple of the keys for mplayer to work with the remote. go through the file and make sure the button names match those in your lircd.conf file. Paul Harvey wrote: On Apr 3, 2005 4:46 PM, Jonathan Chapman <[EM

Re: [mythtv-users] datadirect hack problem

2005-04-04 Thread Jeff Simpson
> > And, it seemed like it worked, but there is a problem. I lose all listings > from 11:00 PM to midnight. > > I also saw postings in that thread about downgrading QT from 3.3.4 to 3.3.3. > I'm a little bit nervous about doing that, as quite a bit of things depend > on this library. > > Is

[mythtv-users] Re: datadirect hack problem

2005-04-04 Thread Boleslaw Ciesielski
Bill Oberman wrote: I did the datadirect.cpp hack to fix my daylight savings problem, see: http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/122546 > [...] And, it seemed like it worked, but there is a problem. I lose all listings from 11:00 PM to midnight. FWIW, I applied your hack and I do n

[mythtv-users] app for determine HD resolution?

2005-04-04 Thread Alan Hagge
Does anybody know of an app which will do any or all of: * Show the resolution (H x V or 480p, 720p, 1080i, 1080p, etc.) of a specified dvb channel (ATSC) * Show the resolution of a specified .nuv file? * Show the bandwidth (bps) of a given ATSC channel I'm trying to determine just wh

Re: [mythtv-users] widescreen TV out

2005-04-04 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 10:22:27AM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > Thanks; you're right. I trided that anyway and got it working on > Saturday. Once I put it my TV size (DisplaySize 660 370), turned off > aspect ratio override in Myth and put the TV in zoom mode, it works > fine. (Without zoom on th

Re: [mythtv-users] Mythtv playback problem with NVIDIA videoa cceleration - HELP! (still unsolved)

2005-04-04 Thread Alan Hagge
Jarod Wilson wrote: [ stuff about XvMC in ATrpms packages not working w/71xx nvidia driver ] On Tuesday 29 March 2005 01:53, Jarod Wilson wrote: So does it work in mythtv now, or not? NO it doesnt! :):) Same problem. All the rendering stuff was working all along its the first thing I

Re: [mythtv-users] MythMusic skipping on OGG files

2005-04-04 Thread Thomas Börkel
HI! James Smith wrote: I've just got MythTV installed happily, and am very pleased so far. I'm having a problem with MythMusic though - it seems to be reporting track lengths wrong (generally 20 seconds or so too long), and often skips ahead a few seconds at random while playing. Most of my music i

[mythtv-users] datadirect hack problem

2005-04-04 Thread Bill Oberman
I did the datadirect.cpp hack to fix my daylight savings problem, see: http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/122546   >I've come to the same conclusion. I've temporarily fixed mine by >changing line 78 in datadirect.cpp from: > >int timesecs = basedt.secsTo(UTCdt); > >to:

RE: [mythtv-users] mythfilldatabase full refresh

2005-04-04 Thread Jim Turpin
I think the easiest way might be to run the mythtvsetup and when it asks if you want to keep all channels select no (keep capture card settings when it asks), then reset up your capture card to point your input sources and just re-verify all is well, exit setup and then re-run mythfilldatabase --

Re: [mythtv-users] Mythweb Duplicates Deactivated Default Behavior

2005-04-04 Thread Dan Christensen
Chris Petersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> The CookieDomain docs say that it has to be a string starting with a >> dot and containing at least one more internal dot. Since I access >> my myth machine as simply "boots", I wasn't sure what to use here. > > Ahh, yeah, that might be an issue. Tho

Re: [mythtv-users] Anyone using commercial detection in the UK with success?

2005-04-04 Thread Christopher McEwan
On Apr 1, 2005 8:56 AM, David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Steve Christall wrote: > > > Anyone in the UK using detection with success? and if so, what > > channels! (and why?!) > > sucess - yes, but very limited! There's no way I could ever rely on it. > I think the logo detection method is the o

Re: [mythtv-users] Going Nuts re: Nvidia Setup

2005-04-04 Thread Larry K
Here is my nvidia xorg.conf.  I have confirmed that the Horiz and Vertical rates are correct per my Dell monitor. # Xorg configuration created by system-config-display Section "ServerLayout"     Identifier "Default Layout"     Screen  0  "Screen0" 0 0     InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePoi

Re: [mythtv-users] Mythweb - MythVideo on the web

2005-04-04 Thread Christopher McEwan
On 01 Apr 2005 02:50:37 -0500, jondz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2005-04-01 at 02:45, jondz wrote: > > On Fri, 2005-04-01 at 00:10, Sammo wrote: > > > MythVideo is great, I really like the feature to search IMDB for > > > posters and movie information. > > > > > > Is it possible to search

Re: [mythtv-users] mythfilldatabase full refresh

2005-04-04 Thread aaron
On Apr 4, 2005 9:22 AM, Bill Oberman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I got updated data for those days, but days 3 -> N are wrong. I don't see a > command for "refresh-all" or anything like that, is there? I assume you're using the DataDirect stuff? If so, there is a way to refresh everything, b

[mythtv-users] MySQL problem - Help urgently needed

2005-04-04 Thread Craig Cooper
Hi all, Could someone please save me from having to use Freevo :-) I cannot access mysql due to the NOTORIOUS ERROR 1045. I cannot access anything to do with mysql, password or not... I recently removed and reinstalled all rpms from original FC3 DVD, but that did not solve the problem. This so

Re: [mythtv-users] MythMusic skipping on OGG files

2005-04-04 Thread Matthew Phillips
On 04/04/2005, at 10:15 PM, James Smith wrote: Hi all, I've just got MythTV installed happily, and am very pleased so far. I'm having a problem with MythMusic though - it seems to be reporting track lengths wrong (generally 20 seconds or so too long), and often skips ahead a few seconds at random

Re: [mythtv-users] mythfilldatabase full refresh

2005-04-04 Thread Mario L
The way I did was running mythtv-setup, and blowing my sources, and then rechoosing them.  Next time I ran mythfilldatabase, I got it all.On Apr 4, 2005 9:22 AM, Bill Oberman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi,   I was bit by the QT 3.3.4 bug + daylight savings, and have it fixed up with

[mythtv-users] mythfilldatabase full refresh

2005-04-04 Thread Bill Oberman
Hi,   I was bit by the QT 3.3.4 bug + daylight savings, and have it fixed up with one of the posted workarounds.  The problem is that I can’t figure out how to do a full refresh of mythfilldatabase.  If I run it with: --refresh-today or --refresh-second   I got updated data for those

[mythtv-users] Video input not working

2005-04-04 Thread Jeremy DeStefano
Title: Video input not working I'm following Jarod's HOWTO to setup MythTV.  I've got up to the point of configuring IVTV.  The various commands to check it are working fine.  My PVR-350 is connected to Video0.  However, I tried opening Xawtv to see if I was getting a signal from the cable.  I

[mythtv-users] Re: Hauppauge 350 not initializing.

2005-04-04 Thread Patrick Davila
Rudi, As a quick and dirty work around I have to manually initialize the card with: # /usr/lib/ivtv/ptune-ui.pl & # mplayer -vo xv /dev/video0 After that I can record and watch live tv. I have to do this every time I reboot. This is a fairly new problem since I upgraded the kernel to 2.6.10-1.770

Re: [mythtv-users] Simple LiveTV Question

2005-04-04 Thread Ivor Hewitt
Zach wrote: On Apr 4, 2005 8:03 AM, Ivor Hewitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Zach wrote: If I'm missing something or if i'm out on my own in thinking this matters, please let me know. Myth is nearly infinitely configurable (the Linux way) so maybe I've just missed a way to fix this. Yup there's an o

Re: [mythtv-users] New Configure Problems

2005-04-04 Thread Stuart Morgan
On Monday 04 Apr 2005 12:20, Stuart Morgan wrote: > The new configure script is unable to detect several libs on my machine > resulting in required features being disabled. > > In the following note that lirc support, xv support among others are > disabled despite both being available on the system

[mythtv-users] Re: High-Definition Playback performance data

2005-04-04 Thread SpikeyGG
We should try to build a list of all the things that can go wrong in making HD work smoothly. There are many. They include: a) Right drivers for card with your kernel b) Proper AGP bus speed and AGP interface driver in use c) Proper user of openGL sync for retrace d) Proper settings fo

[mythtv-users] Re: How well does commercial detection work?

2005-04-04 Thread SpikeyGG
Chris, I recorded "The Toy" the other night on ABC's SD channel, I was hoping that the commercial detection would work much better since the movie was full-frame instead of the bordered stuff I have been recording lately (I don't know if the commercial detection works well with it). I tried ru

[mythtv-users] MythMusic skipping on OGG files

2005-04-04 Thread James Smith
Hi all, I've just got MythTV installed happily, and am very pleased so far. I'm having a problem with MythMusic though - it seems to be reporting track lengths wrong (generally 20 seconds or so too long), and often skips ahead a few seconds at random while playing. Most of my music is in OGG forma

[mythtv-users] DVB recording length not accurate

2005-04-04 Thread Richard Holgate
Hi, I'm seeing some rather inconsistent recording lengths. Some recordings display the correct length and seek forward and backward correctly, however others display an incorrectly length - typically two and a half minutes (displayed) for 30 minutes (actual). Seeking forward and backward in such a

Re: [mythtv-users] Simple LiveTV Question

2005-04-04 Thread Zach
Okay I'll look for that this evening. Do you think it is in the keybindings in mythweb or is in in the setup area of the frontend interface? Thanks On Apr 4, 2005 8:03 AM, Ivor Hewitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Zach wrote: > > This is one of the things that has been bugging me since I've first

Re: [mythtv-users] Simple LiveTV Question

2005-04-04 Thread Ivor Hewitt
Zach wrote: This is one of the things that has been bugging me since I've first started working with Myth a few weeks ago. When browsing the EPG, intuitively I think ENTER or SELECT should take you to the channel that's currently highlighted, and R or RECORD should bring up recording options. Even

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