[mythtv-users] P4 HyperThreading SMP Kernel and HDTV playback

2005-05-05 Thread Xiaotian Sun
Hi, I have a P4 3.0E GHz CPU in the Pundit-R. It's running the latest 2.6.11 smp kernel from FC3. When I try to play HDTV, the CPU usage for mythfrontend is 97%. However the total CPU usage is only around 75%. The playback quanlity is really bad, even worse than my other computer, a P4 2.4

[mythtv-users] Export to DVD help needed

2005-05-05 Thread Lonnie Borntreger
Need some help exporting to DVD format. I had the -f dvd not supported problem, so I grabbed the latest ffmpeg from cvs and built it. Here are the options used. - ffmpeg ffmpeg version 0.4.9-pre1, build 4754, Copyright (c) 2000-2004 Fabrice Bellard configuration: --enable-mp3lame

[mythtv-users] Language? Listings? and Buttons?

2005-05-05 Thread Scott S.
Hello, I have 3 issues with my MythTV box right now and I think they all started around daylight savings time, but that's most likely a coincidence. Here are the issues: 1. I upgraded the MythTV 0.18 and somehow my language changed, I'm not sure what the language is, but it's not English.

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: DVD recording sync issues with PVR 350

2005-05-05 Thread John Kondis
--- Boleslaw Ciesielski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John Kondis wrote: To burn to DVD, I have a script crafted after the mythtv docs ala the blurb at the end of http://mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-22.html. This involves splitting the audio and video streams with mpeg2desc,

[mythtv-users] Recoding in native TS format and Setup with ATSC as DVB card

2005-05-05 Thread Andrew Chung
Hi everyone. I just started exploring MythTV so please bear with me if I ask a question that has already been answered. I've tried Googling and reading as much as I can but my eyes are starting to bleed! Is it possible to have MythTV record to a raw .TS file instead of its native .nuv

Re: [mythtv-users] Export to DVD help needed

2005-05-05 Thread Lonnie Borntreger
On Wed, 2005-05-04 at 23:43 -0700, Lonnie Borntreger wrote: The debug shows: To encode: Great Performances: Eric Clapton: Crossroads Guitar Festival Use the following commands: system call: mkdir -m 0755 /tmp/fifodir_6278/ forking: /bin/nice -n19

[mythtv-users] xine causes mythtv menu selections to disappear

2005-05-05 Thread Paul Fielding
I've got xine configured to do DVD and Video playback. Works like a charm. Except that when I exit xine and go back to the MythTV menus, select buttons have disappeared. At first glance, it looks like the menus are fine, but anything that requires either a cursor, or some button presses

[mythtv-users] Myth music and cddb

2005-05-05 Thread Barker Thomas
Does anyone else have this problem or is it just me? When I insert a cd into mythmusic it can never retrieve the details off cddb. I have deleted ~/.cddb/ and ~/.cdserverrc (or whatever it is called). When mythtv does try and look it up, it just fills a ~./cddb/unknown/unknown in.

RE: [mythtv-users] Myth music and cddb

2005-05-05 Thread Barker Thomas
Thanx, I am quite sure I tried the uk server and then the random one, it did occasionally work. Will retry this dinner time. Thanx From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Patrick @ Mythtv Sent: 05 May 2005 10:18 To: 'Discussion about mythtv' Subject:

Re: [mythtv-users] xine causes mythtv menu selections to disappear

2005-05-05 Thread Paul Bender
Paul Fielding wrote: I've got xine configured to do DVD and Video playback. Works like a charm. Except that when I exit xine and go back to the MythTV menus, select buttons have disappeared. At first glance, it looks like the menus are fine, but anything that requires either a cursor, or

Re: [mythtv-users] xine causes mythtv menu selections to disappear

2005-05-05 Thread Chris Picton
On Thu, 2005-05-05 at 03:24 -0700, Paul Bender wrote: Paul Fielding wrote: I've got xine configured to do DVD and Video playback. Works like a charm. Except that when I exit xine and go back to the MythTV menus, select buttons have disappeared. At first glance, it looks like the

Re: [mythtv-users] P4 HyperThreading SMP Kernel and HDTV playback

2005-05-05 Thread Doug Larrick
Xiaotian Sun wrote: Hi, I have a P4 3.0E GHz CPU in the Pundit-R. It's running the latest 2.6.11 smp kernel from FC3. When I try to play HDTV, the CPU usage for mythfrontend is 97%. However the total CPU usage is only around 75%. The playback quanlity is really bad, even worse than my

Re: [mythtv-users] xine causes mythtv menu selections to disappear

2005-05-05 Thread Allan Stirling
Chris Picton wrote: On Thu, 2005-05-05 at 03:24 -0700, Paul Bender wrote: Paul Fielding wrote: I've got xine configured to do DVD and Video playback. Works like a charm. Except that when I exit xine and go back to the MythTV menus, select buttons have disappeared. At first glance, it looks

[mythtv-users] Remote control weirdness - Avermedia DVB-T 771

2005-05-05 Thread stan
Hi All Sorry for the very long post, but this problem requires a lot of explanation! I have just completed my first MythTV install - mythtv 0.18 on Gentoo. The hardware I am using is an Epia ME6000 motherboard with 512mb RAM and an Avermedia DVB-T 771 card. All Epia and unichrome patches are

Re: [mythtv-users] DVD recording sync issues with PVR 350

2005-05-05 Thread Cory Papenfuss
I am writing some of my MythTV recordings to DVD and I get a-v sync drifts during the DVD recording, up to a second or two near the end of a two-hour recording (playing within myth is fine, though). I've noticed that many people have this problem, but all the solutions I've tried that people

Re: [mythtv-users] Recoding in native TS format and Setup with ATSC as DVB card

2005-05-05 Thread Howard Cokl
--- Andrew Chung [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everyone. I just started exploring MythTV so please bear with me if I ask a question that has already been answered. I've tried Googling and reading as much as I can but my eyes are starting to bleed! Is it possible to have MythTV record to

[mythtv-users] OT: Via VT6122 Gigabit NIC in FC2 and/or FC3

2005-05-05 Thread James Pifer
Anyone have any luck installing a Via VT6122 Gigabit card in FC2? I'm trying to get it installed and having some problems. I downloaded some drivers that are suppose to work with FC2. The install process is at the bottom. Also, anyone know if FC3 will recognize this card? I have another one to

[mythtv-users] [mythtv] recording split files every minute

2005-05-05 Thread eRik Robnik
Hello! Recording splits files every 1 minute... example: five files for 5 min of recording has commflag: No has cutlist: No is editing: No auto-expire: No has bookmark: No I allso get this errors Warning at /var/www/html/mythweb/includes/mythbackend.php, line 237: is_file(): Stat failed

Re: [mythtv-users] [mythtv] recording split files every minute

2005-05-05 Thread eRik Robnik
Sorry: I'm using mythtv 0.18 version eRik Robnik wrote: Hello! Recording splits files every 1 minute... example: five files for 5 min of recording has commflag: No has cutlist: No is editing: No auto-expire: No has bookmark: No I allso get this errors Warning at

[mythtv-users] Aspect ratio (16:9 anamorphic)

2005-05-05 Thread Richard Garnish
I'm not sure whether this belongs here or if I should take it to the developers' list. I have been setting up a VIA EPIA MII with MythTv, using a Hauppauge DVB-T tuner card (receiving UK Freeview DTT), and the EPIA's Svideo output (720x576 PAL) connected to a 16:9 PAL TV. My DisplaySize in

[mythtv-users] Blank Screen on Watch TV

2005-05-05 Thread Boardman, Robert
Hi, I've just installed Myth TV for the first time, Everything seems OK until I try to watch Live Tv and the screen goes blank for a couple of seconds then returns to the menu. The capture card I'm using (SAA7134) works fine in the TVTime application. just cannot get it to dispaly within

Re: [mythtv-users] Burning NUV files to DVD

2005-05-05 Thread Robert Kulagowski
Stuff like this needs to get migrated in to some sort of real FAQ, even if the FAQ contains nothing but links to the *useful* postings in the archive. Then people can be told to look in the FAQ instead of the archives, and they'll get better results when they look there. Sounds like you just

Re: [mythtv-users] xine causes mythtv menu selections to disappear

2005-05-05 Thread thor
On Thursday 05 May 2005 07:48 am, Allan Stirling wrote: This is alledgedly fixed in current Xine CVS. My cheap and nasty 'solution' to this issue is to set DVDPlayerCommand to: There is a bug in most recent versions of xine where it forces a focus return to the root window on exit. You can

Re: [mythtv-users] Blank Screen on Watch TV

2005-05-05 Thread Todd Flinders
My screen was mostly black and would crash because my vbidevice column of my capturecard table was set to null for some reason. Of course, I'm using a different capture card than you are. I'm using a PVR-350. On Thursday 05 May 2005 06:20 am, Boardman, Robert wrote: Hi, I've just installed

Re: [mythtv-users] Nvidia picture size (SVIDEO)

2005-05-05 Thread Joseph A. Caputo
On Wednesday 04 May 2005 17:08, Mark Smith wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Joseph A. Caputo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: IIRC, S-Video is only capable of outputting a 4:3 picture. I'm not sure whether it's capable of signalling a 16:9 picture. There certainly appears be no

Re: [mythtv-users] Nvidia picture size (SVIDEO)

2005-05-05 Thread James Stembridge
On 5/5/05, Joseph A. Caputo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You might be able to have X output a 16:9 display size to the video card, but the TV encoder chip is still going to convert the signal to standard NTSC (or PAL) resolution, which is 4:3. That's why I mentioned the TV's 'strectch' mode; you

Re: [mythtv-users] xine causes mythtv menu selections to disappear

2005-05-05 Thread Paul Bender
thor wrote: On Thursday 05 May 2005 07:48 am, Allan Stirling wrote: This is alledgedly fixed in current Xine CVS. My cheap and nasty 'solution' to this issue is to set DVDPlayerCommand to: There is a bug in most recent versions of xine where it forces a focus return to the root window on exit.

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-250 records only one channel

2005-05-05 Thread Mark Knecht
Is your card connection set to the tuner or possibly to something else? (/dev/video - /dev/v4l/vid... -composite) I didn't have the exact problem you describe but things didn't work correctly until I made that change. Good luck, Mark On 5/4/05, Leo Przybylski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All, I

Re: [mythtv-users] Pundit-r TV-out

2005-05-05 Thread Marcel Janssen
On Thursday 05 May 2005 02:16, Marcel Janssen wrote: 2) the ATI latest drivers don't compile for me somehow (FC3). Is there any good documentation to make it work or better to not use them ? OK, got the ATI drivers to work (or at least loading :-)) I've managed to get TV-out, but the image

Re: [mythtv-users] Streaming to Windows Machine

2005-05-05 Thread Bill Smith
Dave Ansell wrote: Yes, I tried that too a while back with 0.17 and it crashed. Might try again I guess. It was certainly easy enough to install. - Original Message - From: Mudit Wahal [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Discussion about mythtv mythtv-users@mythtv.org Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2005

[mythtv-users] Cannot change channel and low FPS problems

2005-05-05 Thread Rickard Borgmäster
Hello, Could someone please explan what is what of: * Channel ID * Channel number * Channel callsign This is what it looks like in my database: mysql use mythconverg; mysql select chanid, channum, freqid, sourceid, callsign, name from channel;

Re: [mythtv-users] Pundit-r TV-out

2005-05-05 Thread Nick
On 5/5/05, Marcel Janssen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 05 May 2005 02:16, Marcel Janssen wrote: 2) the ATI latest drivers don't compile for me somehow (FC3). Is there any good documentation to make it work or better to not use them ? OK, got the ATI drivers to work (or at least

Re: [mythtv-users] Aspect ratio (16:9 anamorphic)

2005-05-05 Thread Donavan Stanley
On 05 May 2005 14:08:57 +0100, Richard Garnish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a magic option I have not found yet, or does the UI always assume that pixels are square? If so, then that assumption is never right as long as you are driving a TV at normal PAL or NTSC resolutions - even in

Re: [mythtv-users] Pundit-r TV-out

2005-05-05 Thread Marcel Janssen
Hello Nick, Welcome to the Pundit-R TV-out pain ... :-) Your story covers about all steps I've done in the past hourse. It's not easy to get it to work but finally I've got an image on my TV (which actually doesn't look bad at all). If you are after a cheap GFX card with TV, try a GeForce

Re: [mythtv-users] is my PVR-350 propperly configured?

2005-05-05 Thread Nick
On 5/4/05, Scott Francis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/4/05, iwan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ? Hi, when I issue this command : # /sbin/lspci -v I get this output for the PVR-350: 00:10.0 Multimedia video controller: Internext Compression Inc iTVC15 MPEG-2 Encoder (rev 01)

Re: [mythtv-users] Aspect ratio (16:9 anamorphic)

2005-05-05 Thread Richard Garnish
On Thu, 2005-05-05 at 15:37, Donavan Stanley wrote: On 05 May 2005 14:08:57 +0100, Richard Garnish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a magic option I have not found yet, or does the UI always assume that pixels are square? If so, then that assumption is never right as long as you are

Re: [mythtv-users] Recording overlap on same channel

2005-05-05 Thread Nick
On 5/4/05, Ralph Little [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, This is either a request for help or a feature request. :D I record Star Trek Enterprise on Sundays in the UK. 2 episodes are broadcast one after the other on Channel 4. However, because of clock skew etc, it is impossible to

Re: [mythtv-users] Aspect ratio (16:9 anamorphic)

2005-05-05 Thread Doug Larrick
There are two concepts at work here: 1. normal Myth themes are based on 4:3 aspect ratio. As you've seen the -wide themes are based on 16:9 aspect ratio 2. MythTV GUI (Qt toolkit, really) assumes square pixels. You could pre-stretch a theme's images in the opposite direction, but the text will

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-250 records only one channel

2005-05-05 Thread Nick
On 5/5/05, Leo Przybylski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All, I figured out why it would only play for a few seconds. I needed to enable libmpeg2 decoding. Still having the other problem though. I can only watch channel 4.. Even with LiveTV (now that I have it working.) Leo Przybylski Leo

Re: [mythtv-users] Aspect ratio (16:9 anamorphic)

2005-05-05 Thread James Stembridge
On 5/5/05, Doug Larrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There are two concepts at work here: 1. normal Myth themes are based on 4:3 aspect ratio. As you've seen the -wide themes are based on 16:9 aspect ratio 2. MythTV GUI (Qt toolkit, really) assumes square pixels. You could pre-stretch a theme's

Re: [mythtv-users] Cannot change channel and low FPS problems

2005-05-05 Thread Leigh
On Thursday 05 May 2005 15:31, Rickard Borgmäster wrote: I have probems chaning channels in myth. Picture is displayed OK and I can use ivtv:s ptune.pl -c SE16 to watch MTV. If I try to change channel in myth, picture freezes for a second or two and then the same channel is still displayed.

Re: [mythtv-users] Third Attempt At Installing MythTV

2005-05-05 Thread Nick
On 5/4/05, Drew Tomlinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to build a MythTV box. I've been using FreeBSD for around 4 years but I have no experience with Linux. So my first attempt was to build Myth on FreeBSD but there were lots of problems and eventually I gave up. Since MythTV was

Re: [mythtv-users] Aspect ratio (16:9 anamorphic)

2005-05-05 Thread Doug Larrick
James Stembridge wrote: On 5/5/05, Doug Larrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There are two concepts at work here: 1. normal Myth themes are based on 4:3 aspect ratio. As you've seen the -wide themes are based on 16:9 aspect ratio 2. MythTV GUI (Qt toolkit, really) assumes square pixels. You could

Re: [mythtv-users] Aspect ratio (16:9 anamorphic)

2005-05-05 Thread James Stembridge
On 5/5/05, Doug Larrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But are your pixels square? 720x480 is pretty close to square pixels on a 16:9 set. I wouldn't think so, I'm using 720x576 too. I'll have a closer look tonight. James. ___ mythtv-users mailing list

Re: [mythtv-users] DVD recording sync issues with PVR 350

2005-05-05 Thread Nick
On 5/5/05, Cory Papenfuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am writing some of my MythTV recordings to DVD and I get a-v sync drifts during the DVD recording, up to a second or two near the end of a two-hour recording (playing within myth is fine, though). I've noticed that many people have

[mythtv-users] Installing mythtv-xbox failing

2005-05-05 Thread ghuntress
I'm trying to build a MythTV frontend on an X-box. I thought I was seeing the light at the end of the tunnel but now I'm stuck on the very last step, installing mythtv-xbox itself. I have a hardware modded xbox (I'll spare you the details of how I spilled conductive paste on the motherboard

Re: [mythtv-users] No sound from ripped dvd

2005-05-05 Thread Nick
On 5/5/05, Jamie Swindall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am having trouble ripping dvd's and getting sound. I get sound on some dvd's but not others. I'm sure it has something to do with DTS. Even if I don't choose DTS when I rip the dvd, If I get out of Mythtv and run mplayer from a

Re: [mythtv-users] Nvidia picture size (SVIDEO)

2005-05-05 Thread Stuart Morgan
On Wednesday 04 May 2005 22:03, Mark Smith wrote: If have a Monitor section which defines the setup for my PAL TV, primarily for UK DVB-T which tends to use 720 x 576 and 704 x 576 video resolutions: snip HorizSync15.625 VertRefresh 50 ModeLine 704x576 13.625

[mythtv-users] many thanks.. upgrade success story

2005-05-05 Thread Brian Boyle
Hey folks. So I took the plunge and upgraded my back end and front end machines last night and it was for the most part painless. The back end went perfectly (p3 1 gig with two pvr-250s) the front end was basically fine (amd64 3500 )the only problem was with the YUM upgrade as it did

Re: [mythtv-users] DVD recording sync issues with PVR 350

2005-05-05 Thread Nick
On 5/5/05, Nick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/5/05, Cory Papenfuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am writing some of my MythTV recordings to DVD and I get a-v sync drifts during the DVD recording, up to a second or two near the end of a two-hour recording (playing within myth is fine,

Re: [mythtv-users] What is the correct version of Qt to use on FC3?

2005-05-05 Thread dave
I ran into trouble the first time I updated Qt on my fc3 box. Mythtv still has issues after downgrading with buttons not displaying correctly under Qt 3.3.3-8. I just upgraded my Qt to 3.3.4-10.0.3.kde. Seems to be acting the same with the additional requirement of using ALT-ENTER to

Re: [mythtv-users] Confusing 6200 issue...

2005-05-05 Thread The Great Skeeve
Matt, Did you ever get anywhere on this? I've encountered the very same issue in my configuration as well. (I'm running 0.18) Very hit-or-miss as far as capturing HD or SD over the firewire. I also have a similar problem when watching live tv over the firewire tuner. When I can access the

[mythtv-users] PVR-250 composite sound OK, No sound on tuner!

2005-05-05 Thread Dave Pearson
I have a PVR-250, which is working perfectly for the composite-0 input, I get a very good picture and good sound. Unfortunately I cannot get any sound out of the tuner-0 input, only a (good) picture. I also have a Twinhan DVB card in the system which is working fine too. This is what my

Re: [mythtv-users] MythMusic compile failure

2005-05-05 Thread Craig Read
jmk wrote: To answer my own post... removing mad-0.14.2b and installing libmad-0.15.1b and libid3tag-0.15.1b fixed my mythmusic compile errors. Stupid old RH9 box. Joe Thanks Joe, That also resolved the compile problem for mythmusic on my frontend. I will have to get around to upgrading the

Re: [mythtv-users] Streaming to Windows Machine

2005-05-05 Thread dave
Prereqs for WinMyth include: -Making sure you're properly set up for remote frontends (RTFM) -Making sure any firewalls are properly configured (or disabled if you're brave, or is that stupid?) -Having the DSMyth stuff installed and working -Having the .Net runtime installed I had to

[mythtv-users] Re: Streaming to Windows Machine

2005-05-05 Thread Gregg
What about mythstreamtv. I havent tried it yet, but that may be what you are looking for. -Gregg Dave Ansell wrote: Yes, I tried that too a while back with 0.17 and it crashed. Might try again I guess. It was certainly easy enough to install. - Original Message - From:

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-250 composite sound OK, No sound on tuner!

2005-05-05 Thread Nick
On 5/5/05, Dave Pearson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a PVR-250, which is working perfectly for the composite-0 input, I get a very good picture and good sound. Unfortunately I cannot get any sound out of the tuner-0 input, only a (good) picture. I also have a Twinhan DVB card in the system

Re: [mythtv-users] Xbox Versions

2005-05-05 Thread Will
Mark Knecht wrote: I got the XBox modified by a nice guy here in San Jose. He installed a DuoX2 chip and put some sort of bootable BIOS on it. I had been able to boot GentooX and Gentoo-XBox after that work was done. After looking at Xebian, GentooX, Gentoo-xbox I finally decided that since I

RE: [mythtv-users] Installing mythtv-xbox failing

2005-05-05 Thread Shaun Bryant
Use mythtv-xbox.0.4.5-beta.tar.gz the 0.4.4 is broken. Shaun From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thu 5/5/2005 9:32 AM To: mythtv-users@mythtv.org Subject: [mythtv-users] Installing mythtv-xbox failing I'm trying to build a MythTV

Re: [mythtv-users] OT: Via VT6122 Gigabit NIC in FC2 and/or FC3

2005-05-05 Thread James Pifer
On Thu, 2005-05-05 at 08:24, James Pifer wrote: Anyone have any luck installing a Via VT6122 Gigabit card in FC2? I'm trying to get it installed and having some problems. I downloaded some drivers that are suppose to work with FC2. The install process is at the bottom. Also, anyone know if

RE: [mythtv-users] network drive for music

2005-05-05 Thread Dean Collins
Thanks geoff, I got tied up last night so never implemented it but thanks for letting me know this is the right idea. Cheers, Dean -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:mythtv-users- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Geoff Scott Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2005 12:56 PM To:

Re: [mythtv-users] Aspect ratio (16:9 anamorphic)

2005-05-05 Thread Michael Haan
On 5/5/05, James Stembridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/5/05, Doug Larrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But are your pixels square? 720x480 is pretty close to square pixels on a 16:9 set. I wouldn't think so, I'm using 720x576 too. I'll have a closer look tonight. James.

Re: [mythtv-users] Xbox Versions

2005-05-05 Thread Mark Knecht
Will, Hi. Yes, pretty much everything below is exactly what I've learned over the last two days. I hope it helps folks in the future. There is one thing I will add at this point, again to help people in the future: ** Cromwell-2.40 and earlier, as supplied here:

Re: [mythtv-users] network drive for music

2005-05-05 Thread Geoff Scott
On 5/5/05, gLaNDix (Jesse Kaufman) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: why not do it via /etc/fstab? coming from the linux admin side of things, i definitely prefer having all mounts coming from the same file so i don't have to manage multiple files each doing mounts in their own way -g- Indeed,

Re: [mythtv-users] Cannot change channel and low FPS problems

2005-05-05 Thread Bruce Markey
Rickard Borgmäster wrote: Hello, Could someone please explan what is what of: * Channel ID * Channel number * Channel callsign This is what it looks like in my database: mysql use mythconverg; mysql select chanid, channum, freqid, sourceid, callsign, name from channel;

[mythtv-users] Hauppauge WinTV 401 and alsa sound problem(s)

2005-05-05 Thread karsten
If you know this - then it is probably simple. I am new to Alsa so for me - not. The setup is a minimum FC3 running Xorg directly. Video is not the problem :-) Not knowing if this is a good idea or what I am attempting to capture the sound directly from the WinTv using the snd_bt87x module.

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-250 records only one channel

2005-05-05 Thread Michael T. Dean
Tom Lichti wrote: Nick wrote: On 5/5/05, Leo Przybylski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I figured out why it would only play for a few seconds. I needed to enable libmpeg2 decoding. Are there any errors in the backend log when you try and change to another channel? I'd also double check the other

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-250 records only one channel

2005-05-05 Thread Tom Lichti
Michael T. Dean wrote: Tom Lichti wrote: Nick wrote: On 5/5/05, Leo Przybylski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I figured out why it would only play for a few seconds. I needed to enable libmpeg2 decoding. Are there any errors in the backend log when you try and change to another channel? I'd also double

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-250 records only one channel

2005-05-05 Thread przybyls
Thanks much for all the help. I found out what it was. It's really silly. Let me break it down: I. I went from bt878 card to ivtv card (this is where it started.) 2. Had to change Television to Tuner 0 for Capture Card Settings. 3. Live TV works, but only one channel. I read the backend output

Re: [mythtv-users] Aspect ratio (16:9 anamorphic)

2005-05-05 Thread Joseph A. Caputo
On Thursday 05 May 2005 13:10, Michael Haan wrote: On 5/5/05, James Stembridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/5/05, Doug Larrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But are your pixels square? 720x480 is pretty close to square pixels on a 16:9 set. I wouldn't think so, I'm using 720x576

Re: [mythtv-users] Aspect ratio (16:9 anamorphic)

2005-05-05 Thread Richard Garnish
On Thu, 2005-05-05 at 18:10, Michael Haan wrote: On 5/5/05, James Stembridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/5/05, Doug Larrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But are your pixels square? 720x480 is pretty close to square pixels on a 16:9 set. I wouldn't think so, I'm using 720x576 too. I'll

RE: [mythtv-users] network drive for music

2005-05-05 Thread Gavin Haslett
The only times you'll hit a problem with this sort of setup are (a) times of heavy network and/or CPU utilization and (b) if your file server goes down! The reason for (a) is that SMB is actually a very heavy protocol; that is it has a lot of stuff that gets wired across the network with the

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-250 composite sound OK, No sound on tuner!

2005-05-05 Thread Michael T. Dean
Dave Pearson wrote: I have a PVR-250, which is working perfectly for the composite-0 input, I get a very good picture and good sound. Unfortunately I cannot get any sound out of the tuner-0 input, only a (good) picture. ... This is what my modprobe.conf in Mandrake 10.1 looks like: ... #for ivtv

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-250 records only one channel

2005-05-05 Thread Nick
On 5/5/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks much for all the help. I found out what it was. It's really silly. Let me break it down: I. I went from bt878 card to ivtv card (this is where it started.) 2. Had to change Television to Tuner 0 for Capture Card Settings. 3. Live

Re: [mythtv-users] Aspect ratio (16:9 anamorphic)

2005-05-05 Thread Richard Garnish
On Thu, 2005-05-05 at 18:40, Joseph A. Caputo wrote: On Thursday 05 May 2005 13:10, Michael Haan wrote: On 5/5/05, James Stembridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/5/05, Doug Larrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But are your pixels square? 720x480 is pretty close to square pixels on

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-250 composite sound OK, No sound on tuner!

2005-05-05 Thread Aaron Stewart
Make sure that you only have one msp3400 module.. I got stuck with something similar and it was because when I installed the bttv drivers (to get tuner.ko) it built its own, which won't work. Michael T. Dean wrote: Dave Pearson wrote: I have a PVR-250, which is working perfectly for the

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-250 records only one channel

2005-05-05 Thread Michael T. Dean
Tom Lichti wrote: Michael T. Dean wrote: Tom Lichti wrote: I would also verify that the tuner type is set correctly. I had a similar problem where if I manually set the tuner type, I could see one channel, but that was it. If I let it auto-detect and set the tuner, it works flawlessly. ... In

Re: [mythtv-users] network drive for music

2005-05-05 Thread gLaNDix (Jesse Kaufman)
Gavin Haslett wrote: My solution? UNIX Services for Windows... which I already had installed. It was free anyway. Well, I set up my MP3's as an NFS share instead, and put an entry in my /etc/fstab to mount it (soft) on boot. Since I was also upgrading to 0.18 and didn't have any significant

[mythtv-users] Serious performance issues with Fedora Core 3 MythTV

2005-05-05 Thread Matt Merkey
Within the past couple weeks I upgraded from MythTV 0.17 to 0.18, and got several updates for FC3 as well. After that, mythtv's performance just went straight to crap. I'm seeing much higher CPU usage, jumpy video (when the CPU usage spikes at 100%) and really awful crackling sound. I did a

Re: [mythtv-users] Aspect ratio (16:9 anamorphic)

2005-05-05 Thread James Stembridge
On 5/5/05, Doug Larrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But are your pixels square? 720x480 is pretty close to square pixels on a 16:9 set. Ok, you're quite right. The DisplaySize doesn't affect the font rendering in anyway, I guess I just took the stretched fonts as how they were meant to look.

Re: [mythtv-users] No signal on TV with Audio Authority

2005-05-05 Thread Mitko Haralanov
On Wed, 4 May 2005 12:11:01 -0700 (PDT) Howard Cokl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think if it works with a monitor attached but doesn't show anything when booting, your problem may be with the AA. Unfortunately the Audio Authority doesn't have a power light like the RCA transcoder. Did you

Re: [mythtv-users] No signal on TV with Audio Authority

2005-05-05 Thread Cory Papenfuss
If you, guys, have any other ideas of things that I should/ could check, don't hesitate... Thanx Did you check an actual NTSC-spec (frequency) modeline? Modeline 480i 14.349 720 760 824 912 480 484 492 525 interlace

RE: [mythtv-users] Installing mythtv-xbox failing

2005-05-05 Thread a M
Shaun is correct use the beta 0.4.5, no problems here with it. After extracting the files I had to switch to the extracted directory and run the setup if I recall correctly or at least use the correct pathing. AJM, From: Shaun Bryant [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Discussion about mythtv

Re: [mythtv-users] Hauppauge WinTV 401 and alsa sound problem(s)

2005-05-05 Thread Nick
On 5/5/05, karsten [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you know this - then it is probably simple. I am new to Alsa so for me - not. The setup is a minimum FC3 running Xorg directly. Video is not the problem :-) Not knowing if this is a good idea or what I am attempting to capture the sound

Re: [mythtv-users] No signal on TV with Audio Authority

2005-05-05 Thread Cory Papenfuss
Did you check an actual NTSC-spec (frequency) modeline? I will do that tonight when I get home but I thought that HD is ATSC and not NTSC? -- You're trying to find out if you transcoder works, right? HD is 1080i or 720p. EDTV is 480p. SDTV is 480i. The transcoder should be able to do them

Re: [mythtv-users] Setting up a DVB Card

2005-05-05 Thread Geek . Lists . MythTV
On Tue, 03 May 2005 10:36:38 +0100, Nigel Metheringham [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Actually what I use is the FC3/update kernel (2.6.11-1.14_FC3) with the following additional packages:- * bttv-kmdl-2.6.11-1.14_FC3 * video4linux-kmdl-2.6.11-1.14_FC3 *

Re: [mythtv-users] Third Attempt At Installing MythTV

2005-05-05 Thread Drew Tomlinson
On 5/5/2005 8:11 AM Nick wrote: On 5/4/05, Drew Tomlinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to build a MythTV box. I've been using FreeBSD for around 4 years but I have no experience with Linux. So my first attempt was to build Myth on FreeBSD but there were lots of problems and eventually

[mythtv-users] Re: DVD recording sync issues with PVR 350

2005-05-05 Thread Boleslaw Ciesielski
Cory Papenfuss wrote: Notable programs that definately *are* broken are any scripts that strip A/V and remux, or those that use avidemux. Avidemux cannot deal with varying sync. Do you know if remuxing in one step using mencoder -of mpeg -mpegopts format=dvd still suffers from this

Re: [mythtv-users] Serious performance issues with Fedora Core 3 MythTV

2005-05-05 Thread Nick
On 5/5/05, Matt Merkey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Within the past couple weeks I upgraded from MythTV 0.17 to 0.18, and got several updates for FC3 as well. After that, mythtv's performance just went straight to crap. I'm seeing much higher CPU usage, jumpy video (when the CPU usage spikes at 100%)

Re: [mythtv-users] Third Attempt At Installing MythTV

2005-05-05 Thread Jeff Simpson
Well as they say, the third time is the charm!. I went to the gentoo.org web site and like what I see. I have been completely frustrated with Fedora and the packages getting in my way. I've missed the simple 'portinstall port' and have the system build from source, optimized for my

Re: [mythtv-users] apt-get Transaction set check failed

2005-05-05 Thread Mitko Haralanov
On Thu, 28 Apr 2005 10:00:04 -0700 mark luntzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I believe I removed mythtv-suite-18 rpm, then that issue goes awaybut wait, its not over yet. this crops up: http://bugzilla.atrpms.net/show_bug.cgi?id=511 so be patient, I bet Axel isn't sleeping or eating until

Re: [mythtv-users] Serious performance issues with Fedora Core 3 MythTV

2005-05-05 Thread Matt Merkey
Nick wrote: On 5/5/05, Matt Merkey [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Within the past couple weeks I upgraded from MythTV 0.17 to 0.18, and got several updates for FC3 as well. After that, mythtv's performance just went straight to crap. I'm seeing much higher CPU usage, jumpy

Re: [mythtv-users] Serious performance issues with Fedora Core 3 MythTV

2005-05-05 Thread Kevin Kuphal
Matt Merkey wrote: I used yum in FC3 to upgrade after I did the clean installation, so I do have a log. The problem there is the list is rather extensive, as a stock-from-the-ISO installation is now rather out of date. I looked through the entire list, but unfortunately nothing really jumps out

Re: [mythtv-users] Recoding in native TS format and Setup with ATSC as DVB card

2005-05-05 Thread Jonathan Watmough
On 5/5/05, Howard Cokl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Andrew Chung [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everyone.I just started exploring MythTV so please bear with me if I ask a question that has already been answered.I've tried Googling and reading as much as I can but my eyes are starting to bleed! Is it

Re: [mythtv-users] apt-get Transaction set check failed

2005-05-05 Thread Tom E. Craddock Jr.
Mitko Haralanov wrote: On Thu, 28 Apr 2005 10:00:04 -0700 mark luntzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I believe I removed mythtv-suite-18 rpm, then that issue goes awaybut wait, its not over yet. this crops up: http://bugzilla.atrpms.net/show_bug.cgi?id=511 so be patient, I bet Axel isn't sleeping

Re: [mythtv-users] Serious performance issues with Fedora Core 3 MythTV

2005-05-05 Thread Matt Merkey
Kevin Kuphal wrote: Matt Merkey wrote: I used yum in FC3 to upgrade after I did the clean installation, so I do have a log. The problem there is the list is rather extensive, as a stock-from-the-ISO installation is now rather out of date. I looked through the entire list, but unfortunately

Re: [mythtv-users] Cannot change channel and low FPS problems

2005-05-05 Thread Bruce Markey
Rickard Borgmäster wrote: Hello, Could someone please explan what is what of: * Channel ID The database unique row number used to find that specific set of information. * Channel number The number on the dial (back when TV's had dials) that you twist to in order to receive that channel. * Channel

Re: [mythtv-users] Third Attempt At Installing MythTV

2005-05-05 Thread David Brieck Jr.
By tomorrow you probably mean over the course of the next week or so. Gentoo takes a long time to install, mainly because you have to do a lot of it by hand. The best way is to have a spare PC around that you can use for browsing the net and searching/posting gentoo forums for help as you

Re: [mythtv-users] xine causes mythtv menu selections to disappear

2005-05-05 Thread Paul Fielding
- Original Message - This is alledgedly fixed in current Xine CVS. My cheap and nasty 'solution' to this issue is to set DVDPlayerCommand to: xterm -e xine --no-splash -V xv -pfh

[mythtv-users] 1080i problem

2005-05-05 Thread Xiaotian Sun
Hi, I just built a Pundit-R with P4 3.0 GHz HT running 2.6.11 smp kernel from FC3. I'm using radeon driver and got 2000 fps when testing using glxgears. So I think why bother to switch to the ATI driver. Anyways, 720p HD stream plays fine. No problem at all. CPU usage around 50%. But I

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