Re: [mythtv-users] Broadcast flag thrown out

2005-05-09 Thread Brad Templeton
On Mon, May 09, 2005 at 01:49:32PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 11:17:37AM -0600, Brandon Beattie wrote: On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 01:14:17PM -0400, Brian J. Murrell wrote: As far as I understand it, correct. Asset owners could put any number of whatever flags they

Re: [mythtv-users] Recordings spontaneously slow down

2005-05-09 Thread Craig Read
Craig Read wrote: Philip Nelson wrote: I've been having a problem for a while (but only since switching to .17), where occasionally, partway through recording something, it will suddenly slow down -- the video slows to about 70% normal speed, and the audio drops in pitch accordingly. It

Re: [mythtv-users] Mythvideo no controls while playing

2005-05-09 Thread Colin Humphreys
Scott Arthur wrote: I've just installed 0.17 and when I play a video in Mythvideo, mplayer doesn't respond to any keys. If I run mplayer directly through .xinitrc it works fine with normal mplayer keys, but when it's called through mythvideo, there's no response from any keys?? Any ideas?

Re: [mythtv-users] Unable to pull up MythWeb

2005-05-09 Thread Chris Petersen
I've got MythWeb running but am unable to get to the administration page or scehduler. Is there some security setting that I need to change in SQL or Apache order to make this work? Error logs? -Chris ___ mythtv-users mailing list

Re: [mythtv-users] Using MythTV for viewing both TV recordings and video's in seperate directories?

2005-05-09 Thread Brad Benson
On 5/8/05, Chad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I did that, but in order to view the videos by clicking the file links was to create the video_dir symlink in the /mythweb directory. This symlink must point to the directory containing the video files in order for it to work properly. The same is so

[mythtv-users] Re: Palm video from mythtv nuv - TCPMP

2005-05-09 Thread scunacc
Dear All, Has anyone a suggestion for converting a .nuv file to use with the Core Pocket Media Player on a Palm? Have you tried nuvexport? The first thing I'd try would be nuvxeport to divx. Thanks for that tip, but it seems *awfully* slow... (esp. to get started). I started it nearly

[mythtv-users] Front End - Back End? Diffrence?

2005-05-09 Thread Mr AG!!
Forgive me for being naive, but what does the front end and back end do in relation to each other? is it possible to have one main myth installation, and then have other 'front ends' running in other rooms? ___ mythtv-users mailing list

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

2005-05-09 Thread Nigel Metheringham
On Sat, 2005-05-07 at 19:54 +1000, Phill Edwards wrote: So I'm assuming that from a o/s perspective the card is working, but for some reason myththv cant find it. The permissions on the device files are as follows: [~/.mythtv]$ ls -l /dev/dvb/adapter0/ crw-rw-rw- 1 root mythtv 212, 4 May

Re: [mythtv-users] Front End - Back End? Diffrence?

2005-05-09 Thread Bryan Halter
Mr AG!! wrote: Forgive me for being naive, but what does the front end and back end do in relation to each other? is it possible to have one main myth installation, and then have other 'front ends' running in other rooms?

Re: [mythtv-users] Current state of a HushPC frontend?

2005-05-09 Thread James Stembridge
On 5/7/05, Paul Fielding [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I found some stuff talking about issues using a HushPC as a frontend. The problems that seemed to be present (at least for the Mini ITX variety) are: - quality of the built in S-Video out I'm incredibly pleased with the s-video quality

[mythtv-users] Re: Making best use of spare PCs

2005-05-09 Thread Daniel Howell
Why are you transcoding these files when they're MPEG2 to start with? Here's a quick test - transfer one of your DVB recordings to a Windows machine, rename it to .mpg, and try to play it. If you've got MPEG2 codecs installed, you should see crystal clear video. Yes, I'd thought that, but a

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

2005-05-09 Thread Phill Edwards
So I'm assuming that from a o/s perspective the card is working, but for some reason myththv cant find it. The permissions on the device files are as follows: [~/.mythtv]$ ls -l /dev/dvb/adapter0/ crw-rw-rw- 1 root mythtv 212, 4 May 7 16:57 demux0 crw-rw-rw- 1 root mythtv 212, 5

Re: [mythtv-users] Unable to pull up MythWeb

2005-05-09 Thread a M
Chris, point me in the direction for the logs and I'll post them. Thanks, From: Chris Petersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Discussion about mythtv mythtv-users@mythtv.org To: Discussion about mythtv mythtv-users@mythtv.org Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Unable to pull up MythWeb Date: Sun, 08 May

Re: [mythtv-users] Current state of a HushPC frontend?

2005-05-09 Thread David Watkins
James wrote I'm incredibly pleased with the s-video quality I'm getting from an M10k. I'm using XvMC VLD decoding, bob deinterlacing and Terry Barnaby's 720x576Noscale mode: http://www.kingcot.eclipse.co.uk/unichrome/unichromeTvOut.html Are you using rpm versions of the drivers, or CVS?

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Making best use of spare PCs

2005-05-09 Thread Jonathan Link
On 5/9/05, Daniel Howell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why are you transcoding these files when they're MPEG2 to start with? Here's a quick test - transfer one of your DVB recordings to a Windows machine, rename it to .mpg, and try to play it. If you've got MPEG2 codecs installed, you should

[mythtv-users] DVB problems

2005-05-09 Thread Phill Edwards
I've got a Kworld VStream Xpert PCI card installed and have done channel scans. Now I've got a whole load of new channels listed but I can't watch any of them. When I try to watch LiveTV I get a blank screen with this is mythbackend.log: 2005-05-09 20:57:29.248 Changing from None to

Re: [mythtv-users] Current state of a HushPC frontend?

2005-05-09 Thread James Stembridge
On 5/9/05, David Watkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are you using rpm versions of the drivers, or CVS? Neither, deb packages of cvs from http://www.csd.uwo.ca/~mfgalizi/epia/ . ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org

[mythtv-users] Bus Error? Hard drive failing?

2005-05-09 Thread James Pifer
I had a strange thing happen on my mythbackend. It's running FC3 (kernel 2.6.10-1.737_FC3) with 2 Maxtor 160gig drives in a logical volume. Sometime early Saturday morning, between 3 and 4 AM, the machine seemed to die. I already had a terminal session open on my laptop and if I tried to do

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: pcHDTV3000 - Anyone installed and use this?

2005-05-09 Thread Robert Tsai
If you feel like debugging, it looks like you don't have all the modules compiled and/or installed; cx88-dvb depends on some other module that provides tveeprom_xxx, etc. More simply, the pchdtv.com website says the drivers are already included with 2.6.12 I'm using ubuntu 2.6.12-rc4 with

Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV and EM8300

2005-05-09 Thread Greg Estabrooks
firmware uploads and I get a blank screen on the S-Video connection to my TV. Any ideas? I seem to get output on the VGA connection, but despite telling MythTV to use Hardware Accelerate out, it seems to ignore it completely and does plain old software out. There seems to be nothing being

Re: [mythtv-users] Current state of a HushPC frontend?

2005-05-09 Thread David Watkins
On 09/05/05, James Stembridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/9/05, David Watkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are you using rpm versions of the drivers, or CVS? Neither, deb packages of cvs from http://www.csd.uwo.ca/~mfgalizi/epia/ . ___ mythtv-users

Re: [mythtv-users] DVB problems

2005-05-09 Thread Nigel Metheringham
On Mon, 2005-05-09 at 21:52 +1000, Phill Edwards wrote: I've got a Kworld VStream Xpert PCI card installed and have done channel scans. Now I've got a whole load of new channels listed but I can't watch any of them. I had something like this when I started my system. It appears that if you

[mythtv-users] ATI remote (keys instead of the mouse)

2005-05-09 Thread Micah F. Galizia
Hello all, I've attached a little hack I made to the ATI remote driver. It can generate key events instead of mouse events for the dpad (and the l/r mouse buttons). I don't know if anyone else will find this useful, but for me its more useful with myth. Details are in the README. Enjoy! --

[mythtv-users] DVB problems

2005-05-09 Thread Ben McKeegan
Hi, I'm using the Debian Mythtv v0.17 packages on Debian Sarge with a couple of Nova-T DVB cards (one each of Conexant and Philips chipsets), and I'm having an annoying issue when channel hopping with my Nova-T DVB cards in LiveTV. The problem is that if I accidentally switch onto a channel for

Re: [mythtv-users] Australian TV grabber (tv_grab_au)

2005-05-09 Thread Phill Edwards
*sigh* As usual I missed, the release version is at: http://immir.com/tv_grab_au Only really foxtel channel list has been extended, so no need to download it if you don't use foxtel. Michael. Michael - this is really excellent. Thanks very much for doing this for us Aussies. I

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: pcHDTV3000 - Anyone installed and use this?

2005-05-09 Thread Michael Haan
On 5/9/05, Robert Tsai [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you feel like debugging, it looks like you don't have all the modules compiled and/or installed; cx88-dvb depends on some other module that provides tveeprom_xxx, etc. More simply, the pchdtv.com website says the drivers are already

[mythtv-users] Kernel problem when accessing Watch Recordings page in MythTV

2005-05-09 Thread Phill Edwards
I've just installed a DVB card in my MythTV box. To ensure support for the DVB drivers I upgraded my kernel to 2.6.11-1.14_FC3. Most things are working now except for when I go into the Watch Recordings page. When I do this I get this (just one line, nothing else) in /var/log/messages: May 9

[mythtv-users] Weird seeking problems

2005-05-09 Thread Mark J. Small
Hi Everybody, Something weird just starting happening to me on the weekend. On Saturday I noticed that my backend had rebooted itself while recording South Park at 1:00 in the morning. Ever since then, I haven't been able to seek properly while watching recorded programs. Sometimes, when I

Re: [mythtv-users] Weird seeking problems

2005-05-09 Thread Mark J. Small
On May 9, 2005 11:03 am, Mark J. Small wrote: Hi Everybody, Something weird just starting happening to me on the weekend. On Saturday I noticed that my backend had rebooted itself while recording South Park at 1:00 in the morning. Ever since then, I haven't been able to seek properly while

Re: [mythtv-users] Weird seeking problems

2005-05-09 Thread Phill Wiggin
It sounds like your recordedmarkup table in your database is messed up. You might want to run a check on your database tables (check the MySQL website for info). Also, try running mythcommflag from the commandline (it'll need to reflag all of your recordings.. check 'mythcommflag --help' for

[mythtv-users] Best O/S

2005-05-09 Thread Anil Gupte
Hi: I am a newbie at MythTV. I want to create a stable MythTV system that I can actually use and forget like an appliance. What is the best Linux version I should use? By that I mean the most stable, and having the most drivers. I have used Debian and Slackware in the past, although I am

RE: [mythtv-users] Best O/S

2005-05-09 Thread Scott Farrand
You mean Distribution? The easiest to setup is likely knoppmyth (http://www.mysettopbox.tv). I really don't get into which is best. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:mythtv-users- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Anil Gupte Sent: Monday, May 09, 2005 7:18 AM To:

Re: [mythtv-users] Weird seeking problems

2005-05-09 Thread Preet Khalsa
Mark J. Small wrote: Hi Everybody, Something weird just starting happening to me on the weekend. On Saturday I noticed that my backend had rebooted itself while recording South Park at 1:00 in the morning. Ever since then, I haven't been able to seek properly while watching recorded programs.

Re: [mythtv-users] Best O/S

2005-05-09 Thread Scott Francis
On 5/9/05, Scott Farrand [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You mean Distribution? The easiest to setup is likely knoppmyth (http://www.mysettopbox.tv). I really don't get into which is best. Also look in the archives...the distribution wars have been argued time and time again. Each have their

Re: [mythtv-users] Broadcast flag (tell me why myth users should care technically?)

2005-05-09 Thread Endaf Jones
Wendy Seltzer wrote: The BF requires compliant devices not to transmit unencrypted high-def streams over any user-accessible bus. Instead, they must implement the flag in a manner robust against user modification -- so if they'd seen the flag, they could only allow down-rez'd signals over the

Re: [mythtv-users] Best O/S

2005-05-09 Thread Colin Smillie
On 5/9/05, Anil Gupte [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi: I am a newbie at MythTV. I want to create a stable MythTV system that I can actually use and forget like an appliance. What is the best Linux version I should use? By that I mean the most stable, and having the most drivers. I have used

Re: [mythtv-users] DVB problems

2005-05-09 Thread John Pullan
On 09/05/05, Ben McKeegan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anybody else had this problem? Is this something that has already Yes (it's in bugzilla) http://www.mythtv.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=261 http://www.mythtv.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=271 been fixed in more recent versions? No (ir's on

Re: [mythtv-users] DVB problems

2005-05-09 Thread John Pullan
Quick thought, have you got your initial channel set to something sensible ? -- John ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

Re: [mythtv-users] Weird seeking problems

2005-05-09 Thread Mark J. Small
On May 9, 2005 11:32 am, Preet Khalsa wrote: Mark J. Small wrote: Hi Everybody, Something weird just starting happening to me on the weekend. On Saturday I noticed that my backend had rebooted itself while recording South Park at 1:00 in the morning. Ever since then, I haven't been able

Re: [mythtv-users] Weird seeking problems

2005-05-09 Thread Nate Thompson
On 5/9/05, Mark J. Small [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On May 9, 2005 11:32 am, Preet Khalsa wrote: Mark J. Small wrote: Hi Everybody, Something weird just starting happening to me on the weekend. On Saturday I noticed that my backend had rebooted itself while recording South Park at

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: pcHDTV3000 - Anyone installed and use this?

2005-05-09 Thread Kyle Rose
I've tried on a few occasions to upgrade my kernel beyond 2.6.9. Unfortunately, doing so seems to break support for my onboard SATA controllers. Which driver are you using? SCSI (libata) or the IDE driver? Kyle ___ mythtv-users mailing list

Re: [mythtv-users] Weird seeking problems

2005-05-09 Thread Preet Khalsa
Thanks, I fixed the errors in the recorded markup table using mysqlcheck, and I also ran mythcommflag --rebuild. But I still can't seek properly. The recorded length is correct or at least consant now, but skipping only moves a couple of seconds. Anything else I can try? I found that the

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: pcHDTV3000 - Anyone installed and use this?

2005-05-09 Thread Michael Haan
On 5/9/05, Kyle Rose [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've tried on a few occasions to upgrade my kernel beyond 2.6.9. Unfortunately, doing so seems to break support for my onboard SATA controllers. Which driver are you using? SCSI (libata) or the IDE driver? Kyle I don't recall the name,

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: pcHDTV3000 - Anyone installed and use this?

2005-05-09 Thread Kyle Rose
I don't recall the name, but whichever is the more current. I tried it with the older one, and got a whole bunch of unexpectedness, so switched back. It's odd, but with 2.6.9 it all just works, but anything above that and the machine seems to freeze (though it's not really frozen) at the

[mythtv-users] Re:Myth Game issue????

2005-05-09 Thread Reggie Braswell
Try it with the full path. i.e. xmame /home/mythtv/games/xmame/roms/pacman I had a similar issue and my roms would work with the full path expression. Don't quite know why. Didn't dig that far as after dinking with this some mysql all of a sudden took a nose dive for some reason and I lost the

Re: [mythtv-users] Weird seeking problems

2005-05-09 Thread Mark J. Small
On May 9, 2005 12:05 pm, Nate Thompson wrote: On 5/9/05, Mark J. Small [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On May 9, 2005 11:32 am, Preet Khalsa wrote: Mark J. Small wrote: Hi Everybody, Something weird just starting happening to me on the weekend. On Saturday I noticed that my backend

Re: [mythtv-users] Unable to pull up MythWeb

2005-05-09 Thread Chris Petersen
Chris, point me in the direction for the logs and I'll post them. well, they're usually stored somewhere like /var/log/httpd/error_log -- but that depends on your apache setup. -Chris ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org

Re: [mythtv-users] Weird seeking problems

2005-05-09 Thread Phill Wiggin
I found that the recording made while the table was corrupt were that way and stayed that way. Recordings before and after were fine. Unless someone else has an idea there is nothing you can do for past history. Preet I don't have access to my mythbox right now.. but in my particular

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: pcHDTV3000 - Anyone installed and use this?

2005-05-09 Thread Michael Haan
On 5/9/05, Kyle Rose [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't recall the name, but whichever is the more current. I tried it with the older one, and got a whole bunch of unexpectedness, so switched back. It's odd, but with 2.6.9 it all just works, but anything above that and the machine seems to

[mythtv-users] myth .18 external channel problem

2005-05-09 Thread travis eddy
ok for a very long time i have been using a program a friend wrote for me. very basic accpets 3 numbers and then sends them to a custom channel changer i built on the paralle port. now with this new myth, it seems to have a fit and continue to change channels just randomly sending numbers. dose

[mythtv-users] Same channel in different sources, always record from lowest numbered channel?

2005-05-09 Thread Victor Perez
I have ESPN on channel 33 (Cable) and channel 140 (Dish Network). If I set a recording from channel 140 It always activates another tuner card on channel 33 instead, even if I am watching channel 140 in live tv and hit record. Any way to force Mythtv to record from channel 140 without removing

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: pcHDTV3000 - Anyone installed and use this?

2005-05-09 Thread Kyle Rose
I would have been able to tell you had I been at home. Sorry. My motherboard is the EpOX EP-9NDA3+ (http://www.epox.com/USA/product.asp?id=EP-9NDA3plus). Well, from looking at the specs, I can suggest the following: Two S-ATA ports from nForce3 Ultra with up to 150MBps bandwidth Two S-ATA

[mythtv-users] Deleting old recordings when storage fills up

2005-05-09 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, I imagine that there is a setting for this somewhere. My wife wanted a movie recorded that didn't make it due to the allocated disk space being used up. I thought that Myth was just going to delete older recordings by default to make room but it didn't. Where would I configure this sort

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: pcHDTV3000 - Anyone installed and use this?

2005-05-09 Thread Michael Haan
On 5/9/05, Kyle Rose [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would have been able to tell you had I been at home. Sorry. My motherboard is the EpOX EP-9NDA3+ (http://www.epox.com/USA/product.asp?id=EP-9NDA3plus). Well, from looking at the specs, I can suggest the following: Two S-ATA ports from

Re: [mythtv-users] Bus Error? Hard drive failing?

2005-05-09 Thread Nick
On 5/9/05, James Pifer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I had a strange thing happen on my mythbackend. It's running FC3 (kernel 2.6.10-1.737_FC3) with 2 Maxtor 160gig drives in a logical volume. Sometime early Saturday morning, between 3 and 4 AM, the machine seemed to die. I already had a terminal

RE: [mythtv-users] myth .18 external channel problem

2005-05-09 Thread Khanh Tran
Are you using the external channel change script variable, set up from the backend? Most people use change-channel-lirc.sh from contrib. MythTV sends that script the digits, which in turn makes the external channel change. In the case of that script, it's a lirc command. -Khanh -Original

Re: [mythtv-users] Same channel in different sources, always record from lowest numbered channel?

2005-05-09 Thread Nick
On 5/9/05, Victor Perez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have ESPN on channel 33 (Cable) and channel 140 (Dish Network). If I set a recording from channel 140 It always activates another tuner card on channel 33 instead, even if I am watching channel 140 in live tv and hit record. Any way to

Re: [mythtv-users] Deleting old recordings when storage fills up

2005-05-09 Thread Nick
On 5/9/05, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I imagine that there is a setting for this somewhere. My wife wanted a movie recorded that didn't make it due to the allocated disk space being used up. I thought that Myth was just going to delete older recordings by default to make room

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: pcHDTV3000 - Anyone installed and use this?

2005-05-09 Thread Kyle Rose
So, in your post I see that Intel PIIX/ICH SATA support was selected - is that what you think will provide support for those other two drive ports? I'm sorry; I should have proofread before cut-and-paste. No, you want NVIDIA support for the first chip. For the Marvell chip, things appear to

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Making best use of spare PCs

2005-05-09 Thread Nick
On 5/9/05, Jonathan Link [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/9/05, Daniel Howell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why are you transcoding these files when they're MPEG2 to start with? Here's a quick test - transfer one of your DVB recordings to a Windows machine, rename it to .mpg, and try to play it.

[mythtv-users] Re: [ATrpms-users] Kernel problem when accessing Watch Recordings page in MythTV

2005-05-09 Thread Marcel Janssen
On Monday 09 May 2005 16:02, Phill Edwards wrote: Does anyone have any idea how I can fix this as I can't use MythTV while this problem persists? Have you tried switching off XV controls ? What happens if you play in a window instead of full screen (perhaps mythtv is using XVidModeExtension

Re: [mythtv-users] Best O/S

2005-05-09 Thread Nick
On 5/9/05, Colin Smillie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/9/05, Anil Gupte [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi: I am a newbie at MythTV. I want to create a stable MythTV system that I can actually use and forget like an appliance. What is the best Linux version I should use? By that I mean the

Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV and EM8300

2005-05-09 Thread Nick
On 5/9/05, Greg Estabrooks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: firmware uploads and I get a blank screen on the S-Video connection to my TV. Any ideas? I seem to get output on the VGA connection, but despite telling MythTV to use Hardware Accelerate out, it seems to ignore it completely and does

Re: [mythtv-users] Mythvideo no controls while playing

2005-05-09 Thread Nick
On 5/7/05, Scott Arthur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've just installed 0.17 and when I play a video in Mythvideo, mplayer doesn't respond to any keys. If I run mplayer directly through .xinitrc it works fine with normal mplayer keys, but when it's called through mythvideo, there's no response

Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV and EM8300

2005-05-09 Thread Marcel Janssen
On Monday 09 May 2005 19:31, Nick wrote: It may be possible to use the Hollywood+ card as a regular X display (without acceleration) for a myth system (as is currently the case with the PVR350). I don't think that is supported on the dxr3/H+ card. Framebuffer was never implemented for this

Re: [mythtv-users] Have PVR350 Output working - final few questions...

2005-05-09 Thread Nick
On 5/9/05, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Live TV quality is incredible, but there are a few things to tweak. The 350 LiveTV quality is indistinguishable from my input source! The picture looks like it is a bit too large for the screen (overscanned) to the point where I cannot see the

Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV and EM8300

2005-05-09 Thread Greg Estabrooks
you enable it would not be used. It may be possible to use the Hollywood+ card as a regular X display As far as I know there are no X drivers for displaying X on the TV out of this card (VGA pass through is not the same as outputting to the TV) except for some experimental stuff I wrote a

Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV and EM8300

2005-05-09 Thread Greg Estabrooks
I don't think that is supported on the dxr3/H+ card. Framebuffer was never implemented for this card as far as I know. It's just an mpeg decoder card. Unfortunately there is no easy way to do this in an efficient manner that anyone has found so far. And Sigma Designs is not very open to

[mythtv-users] Working: FC3, Hauppauge WinTV 401, ALSA

2005-05-09 Thread karsten
I finally am looking at a working setup. My hardware setup is nothing special and it is insufficient for my intended use, but it is sufficient to prove that this works. I have a 1.1GHz AMD Athlon on a mobo with VIA sound (Fry's USD69 - he he). Hauppauge WinTV 401 (includes sound digitizer). My

Re: [mythtv-users] Best O/S

2005-05-09 Thread Mark H
Go with knoppmyth. There is nothing to compile/recompile. You just put a CD into the computer you want to install it on and let it do the rest. It will not install anything that myth doesn't need, thus saving alot of space and memory. www.mysettopbox.tv --- Anil Gupte [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [mythtv-users] Current state of a HushPC frontend?

2005-05-09 Thread Justin Mason
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Watkins writes: Thanks James. I hadn't seen that link before, and all information is usefull. I'm looking to take the PVR-350 out of my EPIA M1 combined front/backend, leaving the EPIA as a front end only, and put the 350 into a new

Re: [mythtv-users] pcHDTV3000 - Anyone installed and use this?

2005-05-09 Thread Jonathan Watmough
Google for 'gentoo linux-headers' or similar. I think you still may have the 2.4 kernel headers installed rather than the 2.6 headers. In this case, the drivers will build, and then fail when they see a different kernel, with different symbols etc. I had something similar on my machine.

Re: [mythtv-users] Current state of a HushPC frontend?

2005-05-09 Thread Stutty
I'm currently using a Hush PC (the smaller one - not extended) with EPIA MII 12K, and a PVR 350, and have no issues with overheating. I'm using the EPIA's TV-Out, which have to say is not a clear as that of the PVR350, but then I'm not using the NoScale patches as I'm only using the released

Re: [mythtv-users] pcHDTV3000 - Anyone installed and use this?

2005-05-09 Thread Michael Haan
On 5/9/05, Jonathan Watmough [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Google for 'gentoo linux-headers' or similar. I think you still may have the 2.4 kernel headers installed rather than the 2.6 headers. In this case, the drivers will build, and then fail when they see a different kernel, with different

Re: [mythtv-users] Deleting old recordings when storage fills up

2005-05-09 Thread Mark Knecht
Nick, Thanks. So I need to do this for every recording? The default is to always save unless I specifically set it up to allow deletion? No problem. Most of the stuff we do is weekly and it's not too hard to set that up. Cheers, Mark On 5/9/05, Nick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/9/05,

Re: [mythtv-users] Deleting old recordings when storage fills up

2005-05-09 Thread Robert Tsai
On Mon, May 09, 2005 at 11:52:50AM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: Thanks. So I need to do this for every recording? The default is to always save unless I specifically set it up to allow deletion? You *may* do this on a per-recording-schedule basis. However, there is an option to set the default

Re: [mythtv-users] record in HD, but watch in analog ?

2005-05-09 Thread David George
On 5/9/2005 3:19 PM, Mudit Wahal wrote: I'm building a backend where I'm going to put one HD3000 card. My frontend is still up in the air (several variables). In the meantime, I still want to connect a basic frontend with tv-out (svideo) to analog TV. Will I be able to play the programs recorded

Re: [mythtv-users] Best O/S

2005-05-09 Thread Andrew Close
On 5/9/05, Mark H [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Go with knoppmyth. There is nothing to compile/recompile. You just put a CD into the computer you want to install it on and let it do the rest. It will not install anything that myth doesn't need, thus saving alot of space and memory.

Re: [mythtv-users] record in HD, but watch in analog ?

2005-05-09 Thread Trey Boudreau
On Mon, May 09, 2005 at 03:24:38PM -0400, David George wrote: On 5/9/2005 3:19 PM, Mudit Wahal wrote: I'm building a backend where I'm going to put one HD3000 card. My frontend is still up in the air (several variables). In the meantime, I still want to connect a basic frontend with tv-out

RE: [mythtv-users] pcHDTV3000 - Anyone installed and use this?

2005-05-09 Thread jack
Is there an easy way to tell which headers I've got? I'd be surprised if I had 2.4 as this box has never been a 2.4 box (just built it in January). ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org

Re: [mythtv-users] record in HD, but watch in analog ?

2005-05-09 Thread Joshua M. Thompson
On Mon, 2005-05-09 at 12:19 -0700, Mudit Wahal wrote: I'm building a backend where I'm going to put one HD3000 card. My frontend is still up in the air (several variables). In the meantime, I still want to connect a basic frontend with tv-out (svideo) to analog TV. Will I be able to play

Re: [mythtv-users] Dual-CPU/Core MythTV

2005-05-09 Thread Galen
Sounds like a neat setup... anybody else have thoughts/experiences? -Galen On May 7, 2005, at 6:19 PM, Devan Lippman wrote: I run dual CPUs on my backend and I think if you've got the cash its an awesome way to do things. I have two P3 Tualatin 1.3GHz CPUs and capture HDTV off my STB using

[mythtv-users] Problems with upgrading FC1 -- FC3, need help manually restoring Myth to a different version (.16 -- .18)

2005-05-09 Thread Brad Kerr
I am having many issues upgrading from FC1 to FC3 and thought it might be best to just do a fresh install. I am currently (use to be) running MythTv .16 on FC1 and have a backup of the database, configuration, and video files. Current State of Machine: I have gotten the system upgraded to FC3

Re: [mythtv-users] record in HD, but watch in analog ?

2005-05-09 Thread David George
On 5/9/2005 3:40 PM, Trey Boudreau wrote: On Mon, May 09, 2005 at 03:24:38PM -0400, David George wrote: On 5/9/2005 3:19 PM, Mudit Wahal wrote: Will I be able to play the programs recorded in HD in the backend on an analog TV (connected via a frontend-svideo) ? Yes, no problem. One

Re: [mythtv-users] record in HD, but watch in analog ?

2005-05-09 Thread Mario Limonciello
My wonder is this downscaling of the HD, can a lower power machine play these HD recordings after the downscaling? So i guess the better question is - which takes more power Downscaling to 800x600 or 1024x768 or Outputing at 720p or 1080i On 5/9/05, Joshua M. Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

[mythtv-users] Extract audio as Wav=

2005-05-09 Thread j2
If I want to extract the audio from a recorded show to a wav (to be chopped up and then mp3'd). WHats the best way to do so? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

[mythtv-users] Working. FC3 Hauppauge WinTV 401 and ALSA

2005-05-09 Thread Karsten Jeppesen
Something went wrong when I sent this one so I am trying again. I finally am looking at a working setup. My hardware setup is nothing special and it is insufficient for my intended use, but it is sufficient to prove that this works. I have a 1.1GHz AMD Athlon on a mobo with VIA sound (Fry's USD69

Re: [mythtv-users] record in HD, but watch in analog ?

2005-05-09 Thread Joshua M. Thompson
On Mon, 2005-05-09 at 16:03 -0400, Mario Limonciello wrote: My wonder is this downscaling of the HD, can a lower power machine play these HD recordings after the downscaling? So i guess the better question is - which takes more power Downscaling to 800x600 or 1024x768 or Outputing at

Re: [mythtv-users] Extract audio as Wav=

2005-05-09 Thread Jeff Simpson
I believe NUVExport has an option for exporting to MP3...you could convert back to wav, split it up, and re-encode to mp3 - Jeff On 5/9/05, j2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I want to extract the audio from a recorded show to a wav (to be chopped up and then mp3'd). WHats the best way

Re: [mythtv-users] Using MythTV for viewing both TV recordings and video's in seperate directories?

2005-05-09 Thread Chad
I recall going through this myself a while back. I just checked my mythweb directory and I have a symlink named video_dir that points to myth's recordings directory and a different symlink named video_url that points to the mythvideo directory. Then again, I'm running cvs from a few weeks

Re: [mythtv-users] record in HD, but watch in analog ?

2005-05-09 Thread Mudit Wahal
So which machine is downscaling ? frontend or backend ? My backend is going to be a sempron 3000+. Since I dont need much horsepower in the backend, I guess a sempron 3000+ should be ok (as per tomshardware.com mega cpu list, the sempron 3000+ is about 5-10% slower than athlon xp 3000+ for

Re: [mythtv-users] record in HD, but watch in analog ?

2005-05-09 Thread Robert Tsai
On Mon, May 09, 2005 at 03:56:07PM -0400, Joshua M. Thompson wrote: The only annoyance I've found so far is that some stations like to transmit 4:3 programs in a 16:9 signal with black bars and I'll have to manually adjust the aspect ratio on those to make it fill the screen. On the bright

Re: [mythtv-users] Extract audio as Wav=

2005-05-09 Thread greg
I believe NUVExport has an option for exporting to MP3...you could convert back to wav, split it up, and re-encode to mp3 There's software out there that will let you cut the MP3's without a decode/re-encode step. http://home.hccnet.nl/p.luijer/ - I think that's the one I've used in the past

Re: [mythtv-users] Front End - Back End? Diffrence?

2005-05-09 Thread Bruce Markey
Mr AG!! wrote: Forgive me for being naive, but what does the front end and back end do in relation to each other? is it possible to have one main myth installation, and then have other 'front ends' running in other rooms? Mythfrontend and mythbackend are processes that run on machines and not the

Re: [mythtv-users] record in HD, but watch in analog ?

2005-05-09 Thread Mudit Wahal
Joshua, The 16:9 programs recorded in HD, how do you play them on analog TV (4:3) ? Do they play with black bars on top and bottom (just like watching DVDs on a 4:3 TV) ? Also, if I connect frontend to an HDTV (which has 16:9 aspect ratio .. Panny DLP) using svideo, will I see the HD program in

[mythtv-users] how much space does an HD recording take?

2005-05-09 Thread JY
I'm trying to get a good idea of how much disk space I need. I want around 100 hrs. I tried to search but didn't come up with much exact figures. Something in the range of 6-10GB/hr? is this right? Thanks ___ mythtv-users mailing list

Re: [mythtv-users] Extract audio as Wav=

2005-05-09 Thread Jeff Simpson
There's software out there that will let you cut the MP3's without a decode/re-encode step. http://home.hccnet.nl/p.luijer/ - I think that's the one I've used in the past (it's been a long time, but I think that's it.) I don't know if something similar exists for linux or not though. I

Re: [mythtv-users] how much space does an HD recording take?

2005-05-09 Thread Anthony Floyd
That depends what format you're recording in, of course. Using a PVR 250/350 with default standard-definition settings, you'll probably get about 2.3 GB/hr as MPEG-2 video. You can transcode this to MPEG-4 to about 1 GB/hr without too much artefact generation. However, if you want to record

Re: [mythtv-users] how much space does an HD recording take?

2005-05-09 Thread Robert Kulagowski
I'm trying to get a good idea of how much disk space I need. I want around 100 hrs. I tried to search but didn't come up with much exact figures. Something in the range of 6-10GB/hr? is this right? You're not asking the right question, but I'll answer it anyways. 2GB/hr with a hardware MPEG-2

Re: [mythtv-users] how much space does an HD recording take?

2005-05-09 Thread Robert Tsai
On Mon, May 09, 2005 at 01:35:28PM -0700, JY wrote: I'm trying to get a good idea of how much disk space I need. I want around 100 hrs. I tried to search but didn't come up with much exact figures. Something in the range of 6-10GB/hr? is this right? I've been seeing about 7-8GB/hr. But you

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