Re: [mythtv-users] DataDirect schedule off by an hour (Vancouver) [RESOLVED]

2005-05-13 Thread Shaun Jackman
I upgraded to MythTV 0.18 and ran a mythfilldatabase --refresh-today and the schedule is good again! Thanks for your help, Shaun On 5/13/05, Shaun Jackman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm running MythTV 0.17-3 from mdz and Qt 3.3.4-3 from Debian. I'll try upgrading to MythTV 0.18 and see what

Re: [mythtv-users] Can't access setup after switching to Minimalist-wide on non wide screen

2005-05-13 Thread hary wilke
On May 13, 2005, at 3:41 AM, Matt wrote: On 5/12/05, hary wilke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was playing around with themes today and i got myself in a bit of a quandary. As the title suggests i changed my theme to Minimalist-wide and am stuck on it. After checking out the theme, i went up to the

Re: [mythtv-users] Confused about resolution for DVB-T

2005-05-13 Thread Phill Edwards
1) How come the recording settings only offer RTJPEG and MPEG4? I thought DVB was an MPEG2 stream which the DVB tuner card basically just dumps to disk. It is, so from my understandng all the settings in the recording profiles (resolution, encoding, everything) are ignored when using

Re: [mythtv-users] Should MythWeb WAP be working OK (0.18)?

2005-05-13 Thread Neil Bird
Around about 12/05/05 23:58, Peter Dash typed ... On 5/12/05, Joe Buckshin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: just html so your phone will need to support html. The WML theme supports most common phone browsers and works as of 0.17 (can't verify 0.18, I have yet to update my system). The big question is,

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Debian Packages for mythtv .18

2005-05-13 Thread Adam Egger
http://dijkstra.csh.rit.edu/~mdz/debian/dists/unstable/mythtv/ just put deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ unstable main into your /etc/apt/sources.list and apt-get update apt-get install mythtv On 5/13/05, Matthias Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Stef, Would you can put your

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Debian Packages for mythtv .18

2005-05-13 Thread Mark Boydell
shouldn't that be deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ unstable mythtv ? M On Fri, 2005-05-13 at 13:17 +0200, Adam Egger wrote: http://dijkstra.csh.rit.edu/~mdz/debian/dists/unstable/mythtv/ just put deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ unstable main into your

[mythtv-users] How to turn off commercial flagging?

2005-05-13 Thread Johannes Becker
Commercial flagging does not work for me here in Germany and I would like to turn that off. But I can't find the place what it would be. Can anyone point to the right spot? Johannes ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org

Re: [mythtv-users] Myth Video Time-Stretch Possible?

2005-05-13 Thread Bryan Niederberger
Kevin Kuphal wrote: Bryan Niederberger wrote: The time stretching feature of myth has met with extremely high WAF in my household. My gf loves that fact that she can watch more tv in less time with this little gem. Now the gf is asking if the same thing can be done with the DVD rips she has in

[mythtv-users] Installed ATrpm 0.18 and now no Gnome/Metacity

2005-05-13 Thread David Whyte
Hi, Remembering that I am a relative linux noob, I was kinda looking for some help. I did an upgrade from 0.17 to 0.18 last night using synaptic and found that myth itself was running fine afterwards. For the upgrade to complete, a whole 39 packages were upgraded/downloaded/removed or

[mythtv-users] Re: Installed ATrpm 0.18 and now no Gnome/Metacity

2005-05-13 Thread David Whyte
Hmmm...please excuse my stupidity. It seems I uninstalled gnome without even realising. I simply reinstalled that package using synaptic and all is running finen again now (except for a few lost gnome applets). I have no idea why this happened, but it serves me right for not reading what

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Debian Packages for mythtv .18

2005-05-13 Thread Stef Coene
On Friday 13 May 2005 13:27, Mark Boydell wrote: shouldn't that be deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ unstable mythtv ? You need deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ unstable main to so statisfy some dependencies. Stef ___ mythtv-users

Re: [mythtv-users] Hardware Platforms

2005-05-13 Thread Anil Gupte
I thought the opposite was true. I read from people's posts that they dropped $800-1000 on building a system. I can get pre-built PCs (from Dell for example) for $300. Only, I cannot find anything that is aesthetically living room oriented. However, I know there is stuff out there that is

Re: [mythtv-users] Hardware Platforms

2005-05-13 Thread Anil Gupte
Compaq has always sucked and they have always bee a little proprietary. I gave up on them in 1987. Only when I was forced to support Compaq for a client did I even touch one after that. If only Carly had talked to me... :-) Important question: Is it necessary to configure the BIOS in some

Re: [mythtv-users] kworld tv878rf card - can't see chanels and can't get remote working FC3

2005-05-13 Thread garydawes
Hello all, I know this is a low end card, but thats what happens when you are living on a budget and just trying out MythTV. I have a kworld tv878rf card and I can't get any channels to work on it, either for cable or for broadcast and I am wondering if anyone has one or got one

Re: [mythtv-users] Slave backend setup

2005-05-13 Thread Robert Kulagowski
No response before. Keeping it simple. What applications are minimum to set up a slave backend? i.e. mythbackend is obvious, but anything else. Also mysql. Is the server piece required or just the client? Only the mysql client is required. ___

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR350 or PVR150

2005-05-13 Thread Jason Werpy
On 5/12/05, Klaubert Herr da Silveira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: People, I want to build my MythTV and feel a great enphasis in Hauppage board in site and mailing-list. But I'm in doubt about what board buy. PVR350 or PVR150. The question is: - 350 has a decoder in hardware that help

Re: [mythtv-users] Hardware Platforms

2005-05-13 Thread Richard Garnish
I have given myself the challenge of fitting a fully self-contained myth box (mini-itx board, tuner card, HDD, optical drive, etc.) into the form factor of my mini separates (8.5 width, no taller than 3.5). I wanted something completely fanless, and that would not look out of place in the living

Re: [mythtv-users] Scary times ahead

2005-05-13 Thread Robert Kulagowski
Well, almost not needed. The first time you try to put mythfilldatabase into crontab, you'll be smacked in the head with vi. I still don't know how to do more than quit vi, but I do know how to change my default editor now! crontab honors the EDITOR shell variable. You could: $ export

Re: [mythtv-users] freeview, aspect ratios and mythtv annoyance

2005-05-13 Thread Richard Garnish
Set DisplaySize in your X config to 400x225 (even though this is probably not the actual physical size of your screen, the on-screen fonts become unreadable if you set the size higher than this.) Freeview broadcasts display correctly this way with my TV set to Wide, whether the source is 4:3 or

[mythtv-users] scratched DVDs?

2005-05-13 Thread Andrew Gallatin
I have a DVD that I'm trying to view, but it is either scratched or has some bad sectors on it. The disk in question is one disk in a full-season of a TV series, with 4 episodes on each side of the disk. I can't rip it in Myth, it locks up my cheap standalone DVD player, and my powerbook also

Re: [mythtv-users] freeview, aspect ratios and mythtv annoyance

2005-05-13 Thread Frank Visser
On 13 May 2005 15:22:53 +0100, Richard Garnish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Set DisplaySize in your X config to 400x225 (even though this is probably not the actual physical size of your screen, the on-screen fonts become unreadable if you set the size higher than this.) Freeview broadcasts

[mythtv-users] Re: DVB-T from PVR350 - Cant play nuv files in Windows Media Player

2005-05-13 Thread MyTV
belcampo wrote: On 5/11/05, MyTV [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I've been using MythTV with a PVR350 (FC1) for quite some time now (without any issues:) .. but at the weekend my hard disk failed, so I thought now would be an ideal time to put in a new disk, upgrade to FC3 and install a Nova

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: How to upgrade to 0.18?

2005-05-13 Thread Larry K
Having read some threads since this one was created, I see that the 0.18 mythbackend automatically detects that the sql database needs to be upgraded and takes care of that. On 5/11/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Thanks for the replies. I do feel a little sheepish that the answer

[mythtv-users] MythStreamTV - NUV File Support?

2005-05-13 Thread Patrick Kirchner
Hello, I've been struggling with MythStreamTVfor months now and still can't get it to work. I'm wondering if anyone has had any luck with MythStreamTV on a system that DOESN'T have a PVR150/250/350 card in it? I'm using a Bt878 basedATI TV Wondercard. Even with the latest VLC snapshot

Re: [mythtv-users] Hardware Platforms

2005-05-13 Thread John Hannan
On 5/10/05, Anil Gupte [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My project to create my own MythTV box has run into some trouble from the boss. My wife does not want a big ugly computer next to the TV. Any suggestions on manufacturers of boxes that look good? Basically, a nice looking horizontal PC. I

[mythtv-users] Mythbackend Seg Faulting

2005-05-13 Thread Derek Battams
Running v0.18 on FC3 with all of the RPMs from Axel's repository. I've sent a couple of emails over the last few days describing a crash, but now I've been able to confirm that it's definitely a seg fault in the backend by sticking an strace on the backend process. Once again, the backend seg

Re: [mythtv-users] How to turn off commercial flagging?

2005-05-13 Thread Tim Hamer
in the backend settings, (mythtv-setup) under General, uncheck the box that says 'Allow Commercial Flagging Jobs'. do this on each backend. Johannes Becker wrote: Commercial flagging does not work for me here in Germany and I would like to turn that off. But I can't find the place what it would

Re: [mythtv-users] Mythbackend Seg Faulting

2005-05-13 Thread Kevin Kuphal
Derek Battams wrote: Running v0.18 on FC3 with all of the RPMs from Axel's repository. I've sent a couple of emails over the last few days describing a crash, but now I've been able to confirm that it's definitely a seg fault in the backend by sticking an strace on the backend process. Once

Re: [mythtv-users] Mythbackend Seg Faulting

2005-05-13 Thread Derek Battams
Quoting Kevin Kuphal [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Derek Battams wrote: Running v0.18 on FC3 with all of the RPMs from Axel's repository. I've sent a couple of emails over the last few days describing a crash, but now I've been able to confirm that it's definitely a seg fault in the backend by sticking

Re: [mythtv-users] Mythbackend Seg Faulting

2005-05-13 Thread Kevin Kuphal
Derek Battams wrote: Quoting Kevin Kuphal [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Derek Battams wrote: Running v0.18 on FC3 with all of the RPMs from Axel's repository. I've sent a couple of emails over the last few days describing a crash, but now I've been able to confirm that it's definitely a seg fault in the

Re: [mythtv-users] Hardware Platforms

2005-05-13 Thread Lane Schwartz
On 5/13/05, John Hannan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ahanix builds some nice boxes. http://www.ahanix.com/ I agree. I have an Ahanix Micro-ATX case. I like it - unfortunately they no longer sell them. The new Ahanix mini-ATX case looks interesting: http://www.ahanix.com/ahanix_product.asp?pid=19

Re: [mythtv-users] Hardware Platforms

2005-05-13 Thread Anil Gupte
Is heat a big issue? Since everything else is standard, I would think the TV Tuner cards are causing heat problems - is this so? I would have thought noise would be more of a problem. Also, was it not possible to install heat sinks in the Silverstone LC02? P.S. What is WAF? Thanx, Anil Gupte

Re: [mythtv-users] Hardware Platforms

2005-05-13 Thread Robert Johnston
On 5/13/05, Anil Gupte [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is heat a big issue? Since everything else is standard, I would think the TV Tuner cards are causing heat problems - is this so? I would have thought noise would be more of a problem. Also, was it not possible to install heat sinks in the

Re: [mythtv-users] Hardware Platforms

2005-05-13 Thread Andrew Close
On 5/13/05, Anil Gupte [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is heat a big issue? Since everything else is standard, I would think the TV Tuner cards are causing heat problems - is this so? I would have thought noise would be more of a problem. noise is only a problem with small, high speed fans. if

Re: [mythtv-users] Scary times ahead

2005-05-13 Thread Cory Papenfuss
crontab honors the EDITOR shell variable. You could: $ export EDITOR=/bin/nano if that makes things easier. ... or do what I have been doing on all my sytems: $ sudo ln -s /usr/bin/nano /usr/bin/pico $ export EDITOR=/bin/pico I can't retrain my brain to type anything other than 'pico'

Re: [mythtv-users] Hardware Platforms

2005-05-13 Thread David George
On 5/13/2005 12:07 PM, Anil Gupte wrote: P.S. What is WAF? Others have already answered this, but I believe in teaching someone to fish rather than giving them a fish (to paraphrase a popular quote). :-) http://www.gaarde.org/acronyms/ P.S. I found this site using http://google.com ;-) --

Re: [mythtv-users] Hardware Platforms

2005-05-13 Thread Kyle Rose
P.S. What is WAF? Others will tell you it means Wife Acceptance Factor, but the single among us know it really represents Whipped and Foolish. :) Cheers, Kyle ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org

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

2005-05-13 Thread Joe Barnhart
--- Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sure it's the right question. The subject line asks how much space an *HD* recording takes...! Not to prolong the confusion, but HD is ambiguous by itself. It could be interpreted as hard disk as in how much space does a hard disk recording take?

[mythtv-users] Multiple Client Install

2005-05-13 Thread Colter Bowman
Hello All, I want to setup a network that will manage multiple installations of MythTV. Basically I would like each floor of our office to have an installation. Based on the current network configuration we have a couple closets on each floor. Is it possible to manage the clients from

Re: [mythtv-users] Hardware Platforms

2005-05-13 Thread Richard Garnish
The Hauppauge Nova-T I have gets warm but never hot; other cards do get a lot hotter that this. The majority of the heat in my system comes from the CPU, which needs shifting in some way (and the 40mm heatsink fans are far too loud for me) hence the heatpipe approach (I like the Hush systems but

[mythtv-users] Pundit-R mythbox random freeze

2005-05-13 Thread Xiaotian Sun
Hi, I'm experiencing a similar random freeze problem as the one described here http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=4302; The difference is that I'm using a Asus Pundit-R (Asus P4R8L motherboard), not a Via. It usually happens when the PVR-500 is recording and I'm watching DVDs. I

Re: [mythtv-users] HDTV to DVD w/o decode and encode

2005-05-13 Thread Brad Templeton
On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 01:45:33AM -0700, Joe Barnhart wrote: Thanks for your response, Scott. I'd really like to see a good description of the MPEG2 format and its variations (PS, ES, TS, etc.). Even if the translator has to decode the macroblocks, wouldn't it still save time if it could

[mythtv-users] Re: Call for testers of release-0-18-fixes branch

2005-05-13 Thread Karsten Jeppesen
Hello Jarod, OK- so I have it all up running. Because of the evr/eversion screwup (on my part) I will probably in the end have to wipe this machine, but that is what it is for anyway. First off I noticed two things: 1: (he he this is a repeat) ALSA input support would be nice. The capture card

Re: [mythtv-users] Anyone using DVB on Durris?

2005-05-13 Thread Richard Garnish
The initial frequency for Durris should be 54600. No idea about any of the other parameters though. On Tue, 2005-05-10 at 22:47, Neil Davidson wrote: Anyone got the frequency for tuning into Durris (up in Aberdeen) through Myth? I've just installed KnoppMyth (wow! Amazing distro, well

[mythtv-users] TV playback zoomed in on top-left corner

2005-05-13 Thread Shaun Jackman
Upon upgrading from 0.17 to 0.18, all TV playback (live and recorded) is now zoomed in on the top-left corner. I'd guess it's probably exactly 2x magnification. This doesn't affect the menus or video playback using mplayer. Any ideas what's gone wrong, or how I should troubleshoot? The output

[mythtv-users] Can mythstreamtv view live tv

2005-05-13 Thread Dan Goldberg
Hi List, I installed mythstreamtv and it seems to work quite well for my recordings. However, I saw in the readme that it can view live tv. How does one go about doing that? I didn't see a way to select live tv or choose a channel or anything like that. Am I misinterpreting that feature? Thanks

[mythtv-users] ATrpms mythweather

2005-05-13 Thread Reggie Braswell
Just went through .18.109 update now mythweather states: mythweather plugin was compiled against libmyth version: 0.18.20050409-01, but the installed libmyth is at version 0.18.20050510-1. Anyone else seen this? apt-get install mythweather already at most current version. Thanks Regg

RE: [mythtv-users] Can mythstreamtv view live tv

2005-05-13 Thread Shaun Bryant
This may not be the away it is meant to be used, but the way I do it is to use mythweb to start recording a program and then watch the recording live. Shaun From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Dan Goldberg Sent: Fri 5/13/2005 12:06 PM To: 'Discussion about

Re: [mythtv-users] Can mythstreamtv view live tv

2005-05-13 Thread Rick Ingersoll
Just set it to start recording the program you want to watch, then you can begin to stream it. Dan Goldberg wrote: Hi List, I installed mythstreamtv and it seems to work quite well for my recordings. However, I saw in the readme that it can view live tv. How does one go about doing that? I

[mythtv-users] How to scale MAME for 16:9?

2005-05-13 Thread John Clabaugh
I've recently received my 16:9 aspect TV and I am trying to get MAME to scale properly. It currently looks like a 16:9 image squished inside a 4:3 frame running on a 16:9 TV. Not pretty. I have read several man pages and I see there is a displayaspectratio 1.77 option that looks like it should

[mythtv-users] Dual-head video card suggestions for MythTV

2005-05-13 Thread Shaun Jackman
Hello, My MythTV setup has a DVI LCD on the primary head, and an S-Video NTSC television on the second head. I currently have a Matrox G550 video card, but it only supports DVI up to 1280x1024, whereas my new LCD supports 1600x1200. Any suggestions for a new video card that is well supported

RE: [mythtv-users] Can mythstreamtv view live tv

2005-05-13 Thread Joshua Ebel
Dan, The LiveTV feature is sort of 'half baked' for now. You must start recording a program to stream it. I would love to add better support for live TV. If anyone has some ideas on how to implement it please let me know. Thanks, -Joshua Ebel [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From:

RE: [mythtv-users] Can mythstreamtv view live tv

2005-05-13 Thread Dan Goldberg
The LiveTV feature is sort of 'half baked' for now. You must start recording a program to stream it. I would love to add better support for live TV. If anyone has some ideas on how to implement it please let me know. I was thinking that's what it meant by live tv. I wonder how hard it

[mythtv-users] Streaming mp3s from another machine?

2005-05-13 Thread Justin Mason
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all -- I've been looking around for a way to get my mythbox playing mp3s from another server, without requiring it NFS-mount the mp3s dir in its entirety. (the mythbox' network interface is unreliable wifi.) SlimServer --

Re: [mythtv-users] Streaming mp3s from another machine?

2005-05-13 Thread Kevin Kuphal
Justin Mason wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all -- I've been looking around for a way to get my mythbox playing mp3s from another server, without requiring it NFS-mount the mp3s dir in its entirety. (the mythbox' network interface is unreliable wifi.) SlimServer --

[mythtv-users] Re: Slave backend setup

2005-05-13 Thread Reggie Braswell
Got the slave up and going. Says it connected successfully to the master server. Now I'm confused. Do I have to go back into the master and set it up to recognize the slaves tuner? I go into information/status/tuners and I see the one for my master, but nothing else. Is this all transparent to my

Re: [mythtv-users] Mythmusic Gentoo e-build AAC

2005-05-13 Thread Jeff Simpson
Once that's done, aac needs to be among your USE flags. For FAAD2 2.0, you also need to unpack the tarball and copy faad2/common/mp4ff/mp4ff_int_types.h to /usr/include (the FAAD2 ebuild should be fixed), or else the ebuild will fail. I just fixed the faad2 ebuild, there's a patch here:

[mythtv-users] South African MythTv Users

2005-05-13 Thread Peter Judge
Hi, Is anyone using MythTv in S Africa, and with what sort of setup? Thanks, Peter ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Slave backend setup

2005-05-13 Thread Robert Kulagowski
Did you read section 9.3 of the HOWTO? All access to the backends is transparent to the frontend once everything has been configured correctly. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

Re: [mythtv-users] Streaming mp3s from another machine?

2005-05-13 Thread Justin Mason
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kevin Kuphal writes: Justin Mason wrote: I use mt-dappd running on my Mythbox to stream music to iTunes using DAAP. *to* iTunes? I'm looking for the other direction -- from a server *to* the Mythbox. BTW, I should note, playlist editing on the

[mythtv-users] firewire capture and broadcast flag

2005-05-13 Thread Neil
I may confusing myself with broadcast flag. But I've read somewhere that it doesn't only apply to OTA. Anyways, I've read from eff.org site and saw from a television news that DC court shutdown FCC's request about it. Am I correct that assuming if I get comcast DCT6200 box and request for a

Re: [mythtv-users] Streaming mp3s from another machine?

2005-05-13 Thread Kevin Kuphal
Justin Mason wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kevin Kuphal writes: Justin Mason wrote: I use mt-dappd running on my Mythbox to stream music to iTunes using DAAP. *to* iTunes? I'm looking for the other direction -- from a server *to* the Mythbox. Ah, I see now. The

[mythtv-users] Non-digital cable noob questions

2005-05-13 Thread Dan H Orlic
Hello all, I am getting ready to take the leap into the mythtv fray. I have gotten 2 pvr-150 cards and going to get a supported video card with s-video out capabilities. The cable set up is non-digital comcast tv with two physical cables, an A and B cable. My hope is to connect the A cable

[mythtv-users] OT: Seagate 200gig IDE, $60

2005-05-13 Thread Jeff Simpson
http://shop1.outpost.com/product/4008252 $60 after rebate, 200gig seagate ATA100 drive Rebate form is here: http://image.ak.outpost.com/art/rebates_pdf/4008252-051305.pdf -- email me if you want a gmail invite, I have some invites ___ mythtv-users

Re: [mythtv-users] Non-digital cable noob questions

2005-05-13 Thread Jeff Simpson
On 5/13/05, Dan H Orlic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, I am getting ready to take the leap into the mythtv fray. I have gotten 2 pvr-150 cards and going to get a supported video card with s-video out capabilities. The cable set up is non-digital comcast tv with two physical cables,

Re: [mythtv-users] Streaming mp3s from another machine?

2005-05-13 Thread Justin Mason
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kevin Kuphal writes: Ah, I see now. The MFD architecture that thor is working on will do this kind of thing but it is not part of the released codebase. Have you looked at MythStream (http://home.kabelfoon.nl/~moongies/streamtuned.html).

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Slave backend setup

2005-05-13 Thread Bob Cottingham
Robert Kulagowski wrote: Did you read section 9.3 of the HOWTO? All access to the backends is transparent to the frontend once everything has been configured correctly. The encoder on my slave backend wasn't picked up by my master backend until the master backend was restarted. After that,

Re: [mythtv-users] OT: Seagate 200gig IDE, $60

2005-05-13 Thread Andrew Close
On 5/13/05, Jeff Simpson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://shop1.outpost.com/product/4008252 $60 after rebate, 200gig seagate ATA100 drive Rebate form is here: http://image.ak.outpost.com/art/rebates_pdf/4008252-051305.pdf Thanks for the info and the link to the rebate. for some reason

[mythtv-users] Some dvb recordings plays back in extremely high speed

2005-05-13 Thread Peter Andersson
When i record on some encrypted channels the recordings play back at atleast 30x the speed in fullscreen. When watching them in the preview window the recordings play back at normal speed. Has anyone has these problems and resolved them? /Peter Hw and sw info: Graphics Nvidia GT6600 with latest

Re: [mythtv-users] How to scale MAME for 16:9?

2005-05-13 Thread Bryan Murphy
I've had overscan issues with MAME which are not too far removed from what you are experiencing. I solved my problems by having MythTV display the GUI in 640x480 resolution, while running videos at their appropriate native resolutions (720p, 1080i, 480ip, etc.). You can change what

Re: [mythtv-users] Non-digital cable noob questions

2005-05-13 Thread Tim Hamer
this was just mentioned in a recent thread, but the 150 comes in 2 versions, MCE and retail. the MCE does not have a remote, but the retail version does. Dan H Orlic wrote: Hello all, I am getting ready to take the leap into the mythtv fray. I have gotten 2 pvr-150 cards and going to get a

Re: [mythtv-users] Myth Video Time-Stretch Possible?

2005-05-13 Thread Tom Lichti
Bryan Niederberger wrote: the least amount of time. (Her normal viewing speed is between 1.5 - 1.7. It's exhausting to try to pay attention to what they're saying at that speed.) Holy crap! I find 1.2 good, 1.3 gets a little annoying. I can't even fathom 1.7!

Re: [mythtv-users] OT: Seagate 200gig IDE, $60

2005-05-13 Thread Jeff Simpson
little note -- you have to have the rebate form *postmarked* before that date. I got diddled out of a Seagate rebate a few months ago on that count. Also, I would say take a look at http://www.google.com/search?num=100q=seagate+rebate first. lots of people reporting trouble with those

Re: [mythtv-users] Myth Video Time-Stretch Possible?

2005-05-13 Thread Andrew Close
On 5/13/05, Tom Lichti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bryan Niederberger wrote: the least amount of time. (Her normal viewing speed is between 1.5 - 1.7. It's exhausting to try to pay attention to what they're saying at that speed.) Holy crap! I find 1.2 good, 1.3 gets a little annoying.

Re: [mythtv-users] Non-digital cable noob questions

2005-05-13 Thread Anthony Valentine
Seems like a good time to throw out this question: Is the lack of a remote and inclusion of an FM tuner the only difference between the MCE and retail versions of the Hauppauge WinTV cards? I would like to get the WinTV-PVR-500MCE for it's dual tuners, however I am concerned with the MCE part.

Re: [mythtv-users] OT: Seagate 200gig IDE, $60

2005-05-13 Thread Justin Mason
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andrew Close writes: On 5/13/05, Jeff Simpson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://shop1.outpost.com/product/4008252 $60 after rebate, 200gig seagate ATA100 drive Rebate form is here:

[mythtv-users] All Remote Connections To My Myth Box Eventually Die

2005-05-13 Thread Geoff Scott
Apologies if this is OT... I recently upgraded to 0.18, was running 0.17. Myth is running on FC2, ATRPMs. When I updated, I only update mythtv-suite, and not a distro update. MythTV is working fine... sort of. If I use MythWeb, VNC, or SSH, I can establish a connection and use it without any

Re: [mythtv-users] Myth Video Time-Stretch Possible?

2005-05-13 Thread Tom Lichti
Andrew Close wrote: On 5/13/05, Tom Lichti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bryan Niederberger wrote: the least amount of time. (Her normal viewing speed is between 1.5 - 1.7. It's exhausting to try to pay attention to what they're saying at that speed.) Holy crap! I find 1.2 good, 1.3

Re: [mythtv-users] Streaming mp3s from another machine?

2005-05-13 Thread Kevin Kuphal
Justin Mason wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kevin Kuphal writes: Ah, I see now. The MFD architecture that thor is working on will do this kind of thing but it is not part of the released codebase. Have you looked at MythStream

[mythtv-users] re:Anyone using DVB on Durris?

2005-05-13 Thread myth tv
Neil, Sorry about the delay... Run mythtv-setup run Scdan for Channels. Select a valid video source, DVB card and Full Scan On the next screen enter Frequency 54600 Bandwidth 8Mhz Inversion Auto Constellation QAM16 LP Coderate 3/4 HP coderate 3/4 Trans.Mode : 2K Guard Interval: 1/32

Re: [mythtv-users] Myth Video Time-Stretch Possible?

2005-05-13 Thread aaron
On 5/13/05, Tom Lichti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I watch everything at 1.2 times, and yes, with commercials cut and timestretch a 1 hour show takes about 35 minutes. I watch many things at 1.3x, but Jeopardy and MythBusters I watch at 1.5x (and amazingly I can still get some questions before

[mythtv-users] [Fwd: Broadcast Flag 2 - Electric Bugaloo]

2005-05-13 Thread Brad Fuller
y'all see this on Slashdot? http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/05/13/1526206from=rss ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

Re: [mythtv-users] kworld tv878rf card - can't see chanels and can't get remote working FC3

2005-05-13 Thread Bill Smith
Lance Grover wrote: Hello all, I know this is a low end card, but thats what happens when you are living on a budget and just trying out MythTV. I have a kworld tv878rf card and I can't get any channels to work on it, either for cable or for broadcast and I am wondering if anyone has one

[mythtv-users] Possible issue with debian package mythdvd

2005-05-13 Thread Robert Wilson
I am not sure if this is package related or not, but I can not figure out exactly how to fix this problem. After upgrading to the debian packages for 0.18. I was no longer able to import a DVD. After doing some trouble shooting I was able to determine that problem was related to the

Re: [mythtv-users] Any Plextor PX-TV402U-NA users?

2005-05-13 Thread Nathan Lutchansky
On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 10:31:41PM -0400, Tim Sailer wrote: On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 08:15:20PM -0400, Nathan Lutchansky wrote: MPEG4 codecs. If you push it much lower, the bitrate control in the hardware has trouble maintaining consistency and the quality will suck. Don't expect to run

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

2005-05-13 Thread u235sentinel
Where is this setting? romname = 'default' I haven't see that one before. Is it a xmame setting you are referring to? I'm still a beginner with xmame myself. Just purchased an X-Arcade (the dual) for my family and we're having problems. Apparently my system doesn't send enough power to the

Re: [mythtv-users] commercials in Canberra ACT Australia?

2005-05-13 Thread Vincent Parrett
On Thu, 12 May 2005 17:48:17 +1000, Michael Smith wrote:  Hey guys,  Anyone got commercial flagging working well for TEN in Canberra  Australia?! I've found the possible problem with PS/TS modes (PS is  apparently no longer supported so we must record in TS mode otherwise  time sync goes off),

Re: [mythtv-users] Streaming mp3s from another machine?

2005-05-13 Thread Matthew Phillips
On 14/05/2005, at 4:19 AM, Justin Mason wrote: I've been looking around for a way to get my mythbox playing mp3s from another server, without requiring it NFS-mount the mp3s dir in its entirety. (the mythbox' network interface is unreliable wifi.) This may not be what you're looking for, and

RE: [mythtv-users] MythStreamTV - NUV File Support?

2005-05-13 Thread Patrick Kirchner
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Phill Edwards Sent: Friday, May 13, 2005 8:40 PM To: Discussion about mythtv Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] MythStreamTV - NUV File Support? I'm wondering if anyone has had any luck with MythStreamTV

Re: [mythtv-users] MythStreamTV - NUV File Support?

2005-05-13 Thread Phill Edwards
Now I understand why I can't do this. I guess I missed that small, but very important, detail. I'm left wondering if I should scrap my BT878 card for a 250 or 350 or wait for streaming support for the RTJPEG format. I had a similar issue where I needed MPEG-2 format to play the files on an

Re: [mythtv-users] pink bar with air2pc and 1080i

2005-05-13 Thread Brad Templeton
On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 04:38:53PM -0700, Xiaotian Sun wrote: I don't know exactly what this implies, but when I run xvinfo, it tells me the maximum XvImage size is 2048x2048. Anyhow, I manage to work around the problem by writing a start-up script for mythfrontend and don't use xv. The

Re: [mythtv-users] Myth Video Time-Stretch Possible?

2005-05-13 Thread Brad Templeton
On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 07:10:45PM -0400, Donavan Stanley wrote: Even simpler use Internal as the player and you get OSD info and all that fun stuff as well plus you don't shell out to a seperate app. Why isn't that the default? Is it because mplayer handles more formats primarily? I

Re: [mythtv-users] firewire capture and broadcast flag

2005-05-13 Thread Brad Templeton
On Fri, May 13, 2005 at 02:20:55PM -0500, Neil wrote: I may confusing myself with broadcast flag. But I've read somewhere that it doesn't only apply to OTA. Anyways, I've read from eff.org site and saw from a television news that DC court shutdown FCC's request about it. Am I correct that

Re: [mythtv-users] kworld tv878rf card - can't see chanels and can't get remote working FC3

2005-05-13 Thread Lance Grover
Bill and Gary, thanks so much, that is all I needed. You know it is funny, you learn so much about linux and modules and you can never know everything, thanks su much for your help. I now love my MythTV box! -- Thanks, Lance Grover ___ mythtv-users

Re: [mythtv-users] Streaming mp3s from another machine?

2005-05-13 Thread Matthew Phillips
On 14/05/2005, at 12:17 PM, thor wrote: On Friday 13 May 2005 10:06 pm, Matthew Phillips wrote: I think the best way for this to happen would be for the Myth box to act as an AirTunes server, which means it would show up as a pair of remote speakers to iTunes and anything else that groks that

Re: [mythtv-users] pink bar with air2pc and 1080i

2005-05-13 Thread Xiaotian Sun
On 5/13/05, Brad Templeton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 04:38:53PM -0700, Xiaotian Sun wrote: The driver lies. It's not the only one, I found the IEG chips claimed a larger window too but could not draw more than 1280 wide as I recall. Until HDTV came along, nobody

[mythtv-users] MythTV Install/Config woes (I need your 'expert tootilage'!)

2005-05-13 Thread Jeff Artz
[warning -- long-winded post!] Ok, I'm wiping out my backend server to hopefully get a clean, working install now. This is my 3rd or 4th time installing from scratch on this machine -- the first couple of times were major learning experiences as I messed up the machine badly with numerous

Re: [mythtv-users] OT: backing up to hard drive

2005-05-13 Thread Chris Manning
pmb wrote: This is totally off topic, but it probably applies to a lot of people here who have too much data for tape backups. I support a linux file server for a client that is fed up with using tape backups and insists on setting up a back up to a hard drive. The whole package will need to be

[mythtv-users] keybindings failing in 0.18

2005-05-13 Thread Edward Rudd
I upgraded two different systems to 0.18 (using ATrpms rpms packages), both with a PVR 250 w/ the grey remote. Everything worked fine except the remotes stopped being able to change channels correctly.. Anytime I pressed one of the digit keys it would immediately goto that channel and not allow