[mythtv-users] Unicode for mythvideo working?

2005-07-16 Thread Andrew Chuah
Hi, Just wanted to check if unicode is supported for mythvideo in list mode? I am trying to watch some Chinese movies, and the characters show up fine in Konqueror (using UTF-8 encoding), but show up in Mythvideo as junk characters... Anyone have any words of advice on how to make this work? th

[mythtv-users] Preview images not generated for imported recordings

2005-07-16 Thread Louie Ilievski
Hi all. A few days ago I started from scratch with a new machine and created my new myth box. Before doing so I backed up most of my recordings using nuvexport. They imported just fine on the new box by passing the sql statements generated by nuvexport into the new mysql. My problem is that

Re: [mythtv-users] nuv to DVD?

2005-07-16 Thread John P. Mitchell
You might try this: http://www.mythtv.info/moin.cgi/ArchiveRecordingsToDvdHowTo I had to compile all the pieces to do it, but it was not that hard. Have made a couple of test DVDs without too much trouble. Had to shift the audio a bit to get it synched up, but nothing real hard. > Finally I have

Re: [mythtv-users] mediamvp sync issues

2005-07-16 Thread Tim Fenn
On Sat, Jul 16, 2005 at 10:41:43PM -0300, Greg Estabrooks wrote: > > I've been using mvpmc on my mediamvp for awhile and it seems to be > > You'd have more luck addressing this to the mvpmc mailing list :) > I did: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=11638376 No bites. :(

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Re: Video streams as a "channel"?

2005-07-16 Thread Nick Rout
On Sat, 2005-07-16 at 23:18 -0400, Mike Frisch wrote: > I just figured something like this might be useful. I'll miss the > shuttle launch (whenever it happens) and it'd be nice to have a > recording. Same goes for various other web "events". Speaking of which, when are they thinking of launchin

Re: [mythtv-users] hijack?

2005-07-16 Thread chris
On Sun, Jul 17, 2005 at 01:12:34PM +1000, ffrr wrote: > >would you please STOP hijacking threads. > Sorry, I was completely unaware that I was. I just replied to an > existing message, but changed the subject and all the text. Looks OK in > my email client, but if it causes problems for others,

[mythtv-users] Re: Getting a Plasma, Scared of Burn-In

2005-07-16 Thread Mike Frisch
On Sat, Jul 16, 2005 at 11:46:37PM -0500, Pete Buelow wrote: > I didn't want to come off sounding like "D'uh, don't be an idiot, turn > off your tv!", so I added the disclaimer. You're right, just turn off > the TV and save the juice. The sleep timer is a great feature for those who fall asleep

Re: [mythtv-users] Getting a Plasma, Scared of Burn-In

2005-07-16 Thread Pete Buelow
Greg wrote: Interesting point, and since I'm always in the mood to buy a new TV, this is something to reconsider. Anyway, what I do now is treat it like a TV. I don't leave it on all the time. Granted, this is a bit of an ale statement, but the reality is that my TV is kinda an electricit

Re: [mythtv-users] LIRC problem...

2005-07-16 Thread Pete Buelow
Pete Clarke wrote: Hi there, Almost MythTV related :-) I am currently running Debian testing, with MythTV 0.18. Everything works except for lirc. I have a PVR250 with remote .. I followed the instructions for building lirc, and it builds and installs fine. However, when running I get seve

Re: [mythtv-users] No output from IRW

2005-07-16 Thread Pete Buelow
Eric Jensen wrote: Eric Jensen wrote: I have a Universal Remote Control MX-500 and am trying to get it to work with an Irman. I hooked it up to a Windows box and get output just fine, so the irman does support the signal from my remote. When I run lircd and then irw or irrecord I don't ge

[mythtv-users] Using transcode on NUV files

2005-07-16 Thread Pete Buelow
Does anyone know why transcode would fail out turning Myth NUV files into anything else? These files were copied and saved just before my first myth hard drive bit the dust, so they aren't in the database anymore (or on the same puter for that matter), so nuvexport and mythtranscode might be to

Re: [mythtv-users] Disappointing audio-sync problems with exported vcd using ffmpeg/nuvexport

2005-07-16 Thread zoiks2004-ivtv
I don't know how much of a solution this is, but you might try hitting the "m" and "n" keys while playing in kaffeine. This is supposed to adjust the audio/video sync by an offset in xine. Of course, I'm assuming this will work in kaffeine, which is supposed to be based on xine, so the keys might

Re: [mythtv-users] venetian blind picture

2005-07-16 Thread Greg Woods
On Sat, 2005-07-16 at 11:16 -0600, Chad wrote: > You could try passing parameters to your playback > software to deinterlace Can anyone explain exactly now I would do this? I have tried checking "deinterlace during playback" but it has no effect. Old recordings still look fine, new ones look lik

[mythtv-users] Re: Re: Video streams as a "channel"?

2005-07-16 Thread Mike Frisch
On Sun, Jul 17, 2005 at 03:04:46PM +1200, Nick Rout wrote: > OK I see your point. There are ways to get, for example, mplayer to > record a stream to the hard drive, like: > > mplayer -dumpstream -dumpfile record_here.avi \ > http://url.of.org/stream.avi > > Coupled with cron you'd have a method

[mythtv-users] Disappointing audio-sync problems with exported vcd using ffmpeg/nuvexport

2005-07-16 Thread ffrr
I have tried using nuvexport with ffmpeg and transcode (exporting from a DVB mpeg capture/recording), and in both cases the audio is quite out of sync with the video when I view them in kaffeine. I even burned one to a vcd and tried it in a standalone player, and the audio is still out of sync

Re: [mythtv-users] hijack?

2005-07-16 Thread ffrr
Nick Rout wrote: would you please STOP hijacking threads. Sorry, I was completely unaware that I was. I just replied to an existing message, but changed the subject and all the text. Looks OK in my email client, but if it causes problems for others, I'll do it differently.

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Video streams as a "channel"?

2005-07-16 Thread Nick Rout
On Sat, 2005-07-16 at 22:25 -0400, Mike Frisch wrote: > On Sun, Jul 17, 2005 at 12:23:12PM +1000, Phill Edwards wrote: > > You could use MythStream and set up an entry for this in its > > streams.res file. You don't get full screen, though. > > No full screen is no good. I want these streams trea

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Video streams as a "channel"?

2005-07-16 Thread Nick Rout
On Sat, 2005-07-16 at 22:24 -0400, Mike Frisch wrote: > On Sun, Jul 17, 2005 at 12:00:48PM +1200, Nick Rout wrote: > > Its easy to do from mythvideo - see the recent thread on Nasa TV. > > > > It relies on the fact that you can set up any arbitrary command to watch > > a video file. > > But this

[mythtv-users] can't seek anymore

2005-07-16 Thread Robert Brewer
I was happily running myth 0.17 with the ivtv drivers unders Debian sid for the past few months. Then tonight, I found I could no longer seek when streaming any of my videos across the network. Seeking seems to work ok on the local myth box. When I seek on my network box, it takes a really long

Re: [mythtv-users] Disappointing audio sunc problems with exported vcd mpg

2005-07-16 Thread Nick Rout
would you please STOP hijacking threads. On Sun, 2005-07-17 at 11:18 +1000, ffrr wrote: > I have tried using nuvexport with ffmpeg and transcode (exporting from a > DVB mpeg capture/recording), and in both cases the audio is quite out of > sync with the video when I view them in kaffeine. I eve

[mythtv-users] Re: Video streams as a "channel"?

2005-07-16 Thread Mike Frisch
On Sun, Jul 17, 2005 at 12:23:12PM +1000, Phill Edwards wrote: > You could use MythStream and set up an entry for this in its > streams.res file. You don't get full screen, though. No full screen is no good. I want these streams treated like regular channels. _

[mythtv-users] Re: Video streams as a "channel"?

2005-07-16 Thread Mike Frisch
On Sun, Jul 17, 2005 at 12:00:48PM +1200, Nick Rout wrote: > Its easy to do from mythvideo - see the recent thread on Nasa TV. > > It relies on the fact that you can set up any arbitrary command to watch > a video file. But this doesn't allow me to record the stream, does it? I'd like to setup t

Re: [mythtv-users] Plug in issues?? Myth - DVD, Gallery, Game

2005-07-16 Thread Nick Rout
Are they different versions? I have seen this trying to run (e.g) mythvideo 0-16 with mythtv 0.18 And you might notice the answer to a similar question within the last week on this list. On Sat, 2005-07-16 at 21:06 -0400, A JM wrote: > I'm getting a similar error messages for the 3 mentioned plug

Re: [mythtv-users] Video streams as a "channel"?

2005-07-16 Thread Phill Edwards
> Has the topic of using the web/Internet as a video source ever been > tossed around? This would allow defining "channels" which are actually > streams from other network locations. > > At GUADEC, for example, there were live streams of the conference. It > would've been cool to watch these und

Re: [mythtv-users] osd-theming questions

2005-07-16 Thread Phill Edwards
> 2. Reading the release notes for Myth 0.16 is says that OSD text can > be in colour. However I can only get shades of gray. I think this might be because you're using XvMC. You only get grey OSD if you are. Regards, Phill ___ mythtv-users mailing li

Re: [mythtv-users] lightweight xbox linux frontend

2005-07-16 Thread Phill Edwards
> Recently there was a thread that went around about using x-dsl as a > lightweight mythtv frontend for the xbox. It seems that this turned out > to be a lot of effort for not a lot of reward, so I'ms looking at > alternatives. > > Basically, I don't believe that xbmcmythtv is there yet as an > al

Re: [mythtv-users] mediamvp sync issues

2005-07-16 Thread Greg Estabrooks
> I've been using mvpmc on my mediamvp for awhile and it seems to be You'd have more luck addressing this to the mvpmc mailing list :) ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

[mythtv-users] mediamvp sync issues

2005-07-16 Thread Tim Fenn
I've been using mvpmc on my mediamvp for awhile and it seems to be working fine. Sometimes, however, the OSD seems to lose sync with the TV (picture roll, distorted image) - this effect is most pronounced when the picture is mostly black, which makes me think the sync pulse signal off the mediamvp

[mythtv-users] Disappointing audio sunc problems with exported vcd mpg

2005-07-16 Thread ffrr
I have tried using nuvexport with ffmpeg and transcode (exporting from a DVB mpeg capture/recording), and in both cases the audio is quite out of sync with the video when I view them in kaffeine. I even burned one to a vcd and tried it in a standalone player, and the audio is still out of sync

[mythtv-users] Plug in issues?? Myth - DVD, Gallery, Game

2005-07-16 Thread A JM
I'm getting a similar error messages for the 3 mentioned plugins, /usr/lib/mythtv/plugins/lib[name of module here].so: undefined symbol: _ZN18ConfigurationGroup-4loadEP12SsqlDatabase Unable to initialize plugin '[module name here]'. Unable to run plugin '[module name here]': not intialized Any

Re: [mythtv-users] Annoying blue lines on playback.

2005-07-16 Thread Joe Votour
It is very important what card you have. The nvtv driver and are meant for older cards. Compatibility with newer cards isn't guaranteed, due to different TV-out chips. I have a GeForce 5200FX, and use the xvattr fix myself, - it works fine. A search through the archives might give you more usef

[mythtv-users] Re: [mythtv] Support for Fusion HDTV 5 Card for OTA HDTV ?

2005-07-16 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sat, Jul 16, 2005 at 10:37:20AM -0700, Mudit Wahal wrote: > Sorry for crossposting to both lists. > > I'm wondering if there is support for the new Fusion HDTV 5 card ? Its You should ask on linux-dvb@linuxtv.org instead. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [mythtv-users] Will this solution work? PVR-250 w/ svideo? Before I spend the $$$

2005-07-16 Thread Robin Smith
While you won't be capturing true HD, you should be capturing a considerable better quality signal than SD via analog cable. The res you can capture will max out a 720x480 (the max capabilities of the PVR250), which is not HD. A friend with non-HD satellite (Bell ExpressVu) captured an episode of

[mythtv-users] nuv to DVD?

2005-07-16 Thread Teruel de Campo
Finally I have running mythtv and it is working great including a second frontend in a wireless laptop. Now I want to make dvd's to play in a dvd player from the nuv files. What is the best path to do it? I assume is installing mythdvd correct? TIA -=terry(Denver)=- ___

[mythtv-users] Firewall Setup and MythTV

2005-07-16 Thread Teruel de Campo
ref: Desktop with SuSE 9.3 and firewall active. There I have MythTV backend and mysql. Running the frontend there works fine. Laptop wireless (ibmx40) with SuSE 9.3 and firewall active. I installed a second front end. Problem If I stop the firewall in the desktop the frontend in the laptop w

Re: [mythtv-users] Video streams as a "channel"?

2005-07-16 Thread Nick Rout
Its easy to do from mythvideo - see the recent thread on Nasa TV. It relies on the fact that you can set up any arbitrary command to watch a video file. On Sat, 2005-07-16 at 18:00 -0400, Mike Frisch wrote: > Has the topic of using the web/Internet as a video source ever been > tossed around? T

Re: [mythtv-users] mythtv - tv viewer app

2005-07-16 Thread Donavan Stanley
On 7/16/05, antec <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > what is the software thatmythtv uses to view tv? is it possible to run it on > its own without mythtv and are there any editable config files? > Heh is this a trick question? This isn't freevo there's no other apps needed to watch tv. You h

Re: [mythtv-users] Connecting to DirecTV Reciever

2005-07-16 Thread Donavan Stanley
On 7/15/05, Drew Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > After you make the cable as described on the dtvcontrol web site, then > you need to find the proper perl script that changes channels for your > DirecTV box. For example, my box is an RCA 4th gen receiver so I tried > the RCA.pl script. No

Re: [mythtv-users] MythBrowser Setup

2005-07-16 Thread Donavan Stanley
On 7/16/05, Mercury Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > After compiling MythBrowser without any errors, > I restarted mythfrontend, expecting to see something > either on the first screen with Watch TV, etc., or maybe > down inside Setup. MythBrowser is in the Information Center. It's confiruatio

[mythtv-users] Video streams as a "channel"?

2005-07-16 Thread Mike Frisch
Has the topic of using the web/Internet as a video source ever been tossed around? This would allow defining "channels" which are actually streams from other network locations. At GUADEC, for example, there were live streams of the conference. It would've been cool to watch these under Myth.

[mythtv-users] mythtv - tv viewer app

2005-07-16 Thread antec
what is the software thatmythtv uses to view tv? is it possible to run it on its own without mythtv and are there any editable config files?   Trying to debug my tv. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mail

Re: [mythtv-users] Annoying blue lines on playback.

2005-07-16 Thread Michael Jones
The card I have is an nvidia.. I'm using the testing version of the ivtv driver. If it's important I can probably find the exact versions. I'd rather use the nvtv application if I can get it to work, but if I have to xvattr might be the only way.. > From: Joe Votour <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: IVTV, FC4 & PVR-250 broken?

2005-07-16 Thread Mike
Jeff volckaert wrote: On 7/15/05, Gambit Declined <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 7/14/05, Jeff volckaert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Nobody is using a PVR-250 with FC4? Is it just that not alot of people have moved to FC4? I have the same setup and couldn't get ivtv to modprobe

[mythtv-users] OT: Hooking up to my HDTV using DVI

2005-07-16 Thread Mark Frey
I'm having no luck at all getting my Myth to display on my HDTV. I'm using the DVI out on my FX5200 to connect to the HDMI on my TV using a DVI-HDMI cable. I've tried all the modelines listed by Jarrod, and many other modelines I've found searching around the web (see xorg.conf stuff below). I've

Re: [mythtv-users] venetian blind picture

2005-07-16 Thread Greg Woods
Chad, thanks for responding. On Sat, 2005-07-16 at 11:16 -0600, Chad wrote: > > It reads to me like you are describing interlacing. When I first > fired up a recording with my pchdtv 3000 interlacing stuck out like a > sore thumb. You could try passing parameters to your playback > software to

Re: [mythtv-users] Recommended OS

2005-07-16 Thread Cecil Watson
Hello Ravi Malghan wrote: Hi: I couldn't find this info. Wondering which OS (name and version) is recommended to run mythTV? Thanks Ravi Linux. You can find more requirements here: http://www.mythtv.org/modules.php?name=MythInfo Regards, Cecil _

Re: [mythtv-users] Patents again

2005-07-16 Thread Matthew Watson
http://news.com.com/Forgent+sues+cable+companies+over+DVR+patent/2100-1047_3-5788649.html Now Forgent claims they have a patent on "how to build a computer-controlled video system that can play back video while recording," originally intended for video conferencing. MW On 4/13/05, Joseph A. Capu

Re: [mythtv-users] blue/dvd-ui.xml doesn't exist?

2005-07-16 Thread Donavan Stanley
On 7/16/05, Chad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello! > > I get messages similar to this throughout my myth experience: > > XMLParse::LoadTheme(): Can't open: /usr/share/mythtv/themes/blue/dvd-ui.xml > XMLParse::LoadTheme(): Using default theme file > > I am not sure if it's a problem on my end,

[mythtv-users] MythBrowser Setup

2005-07-16 Thread Mercury Morris
After compiling MythBrowser without any errors, I restarted mythfrontend, expecting to see something either on the first screen with Watch TV, etc., or maybe down inside Setup. There was no sign of MythBrowser in mythfrontend. So, after a little trial-and-error, I exited mythfrontend and entered

Re: [mythtv-users] Apache 2 Config & MythWeb

2005-07-16 Thread Drew Tomlinson
On 7/16/2005 10:36 AM Chris Petersen wrote: Drew Tomlinson wrote: I'm running Myth 0.18 on a Gentoo box. I've successfully gotten mythweb installed and can access the scheduling pages. However when I attempt to click on the weather page, I get this error: Warning at /var/www/localhost/htd

Re: [mythtv-users] Linux Compatable USB dongles

2005-07-16 Thread Bearcat M. Sandor
Todd, Thank you for the link, that's a good start, but not quite what i'm looking for. I don't really need the remote control and the form that the usb dongle takes is importsnt. I'm trying to aviod wires, you see and it interferes with the look of my set up. I'm thinking more along the lines o

[mythtv-users] Support for Fusion HDTV 5 Card for OTA HDTV ?

2005-07-16 Thread Mudit Wahal
Hi All, Sorry for crossposting to both lists. I'm wondering if there is support for the new Fusion HDTV 5 card ? Its based on LG's 5th Gen Tuner. The Lite version (without USB remote, which I dont need) is just $99 at digital connection http://www.digitalconnection.com/products/video/fusion5lt.a

Re: [mythtv-users] Apache 2 Config & MythWeb

2005-07-16 Thread Chris Petersen
Drew Tomlinson wrote: I'm running Myth 0.18 on a Gentoo box. I've successfully gotten mythweb installed and can access the scheduling pages. However when I attempt to click on the weather page, I get this error: Warning at /var/www/localhost/htdocs/mythweb/weather.php, line 104: file(): URL

Re: [mythtv-users] venetian blind picture

2005-07-16 Thread Chad
On 7/16/05, Greg Woods <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > All of a sudden, my video on recordings I make is screwed up. > Previously-made recordings look fine and xawtv works fine, so I suspect > I have messed something up in the recording setup parameters, but I > cannot figure it out. > > What happens

[mythtv-users] blue/dvd-ui.xml doesn't exist?

2005-07-16 Thread Chad
Hello! I get messages similar to this throughout my myth experience: XMLParse::LoadTheme(): Can't open: /usr/share/mythtv/themes/blue/dvd-ui.xml XMLParse::LoadTheme(): Using default theme file I am not sure if it's a problem on my end, or if the theme (blue) doesn't have this file and myth is ju

[mythtv-users] Apache 2 Config & MythWeb

2005-07-16 Thread Drew Tomlinson
I'm running Myth 0.18 on a Gentoo box. I've successfully gotten mythweb installed and can access the scheduling pages. However when I attempt to click on the weather page, I get this error: Warning at /var/www/localhost/htdocs/mythweb/weather.php, line 104: file(): URL file-access is disabled

[mythtv-users] venetian blind picture

2005-07-16 Thread Greg Woods
All of a sudden, my video on recordings I make is screwed up. Previously-made recordings look fine and xawtv works fine, so I suspect I have messed something up in the recording setup parameters, but I cannot figure it out. What happens is, the audio is fine, but the video kind of looks like venet

Re: [mythtv-users] Recommended OS

2005-07-16 Thread Paul V. Gratz
Hmmm, are you meaning Linux vs Mac vs Windows? In that case I think its mostly Linux although I hear there is a MythWin project and possibly a similar Mac project as ports from the linux version. If you are asking what distribution of Linux, I think there is a fairly wide range. I and several

Re: [mythtv-users] Nvidia TwinView Clone Mode Help

2005-07-16 Thread A Thomson
A Thomson wrote: >I'm having trouble getting Xorg to display in Clone mode. > >I can get a decent display on my Plasma screen with this xorg.conf >file: http://alunt.homelinux.org/files/xorg.confPlasma > >I can also get a display on my LCD monitor with this conf: >http://alunt.homelinux.org/files

Re: [mythtv-users] ex-freevo user trying mythtv

2005-07-16 Thread Greg Estabrooks
> It works just fine with xmame 0.97, actually. It's more likely that That's what I get for just not looking close enough. I saw "versionchk >= 83" and thought versionchk == 83" :) Either way that requirement is gone from the latest source so eventually this error will disappear into

[mythtv-users] Recommended OS

2005-07-16 Thread Ravi Malghan
Hi: I couldn't find this info. Wondering which OS (name and version) is recommended to run mythTV? Thanks Ravi Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs

Re: [mythtv-users] [SOLVED] ivtv troubles

2005-07-16 Thread Matthew Daubenspeck
On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 08:58:40AM -0400, Jeff volckaert wrote: > Please post if this works for you. I have a FC4 system with 2.6.12 > and an old PVR-250 card which has such a jumpy picture I can watch it. > I have been very frustrated trying various version of the IVTV driver > without success.

Re: [mythtv-users] ex-freevo user trying mythtv

2005-07-16 Thread Carl Fongheiser
On 7/16/05, Greg Estabrooks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > mythgame: unsupported version of mame? wtf? latest xmame 0.97, emerged > > from gentoo. > > This xmame/version stuff has all been removed in the latest svn version > of mythgame and replaced with a much more generic system to add any gam

[mythtv-users] Nvidia TwinView Clone Mode Help

2005-07-16 Thread A Thomson
I'm having trouble getting Xorg to display in Clone mode. I can get a decent display on my Plasma screen with this xorg.conf file: http://alunt.homelinux.org/files/xorg.confPlasma I can also get a display on my LCD monitor with this conf: http://alunt.homelinux.org/files/xorg.confSamsung I just

[mythtv-users] finetune channel

2005-07-16 Thread leszek
I would like to finetune a channel with mythtv. Is there a way to finetune a channel while playing ? if i change the finetune parameter of a channel with mythweb, when will the change appear ? if i change the channel and come back ? or have i to restart mythtv ?? thanks, Leszek __

Re: [mythtv-users] Missing data from DataDirect

2005-07-16 Thread Michael Carland
On Jul 16, 2005, at 5:51 AM, aaron wrote: On 7/16/05, Michael Carland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Searching in gossamer, I didn't find anyone else having this type of problem since 2004. Is anyone else seeing this? Did zap2it change the number of days of data that they carry? If you have da

Re: [mythtv-users] Issue running make on xmame for Mythgame

2005-07-16 Thread harywilke
Do you have expat installed? http://expat.sourceforge.net you could also check the makefile for xmame to see if BUILD_EXPAT=1 is uncommented. I seem to remember something about debian and expat and this setting. I'm not familiar at all with xebian. you should probably check the xmame mailing

Re: [mythtv-users] experience for belgium + problems

2005-07-16 Thread leszek
> Do you enter the frequency in the channel setup ? > I don't know if you use mythweb, but it's really handy for entering channel > information. > i entered the channels using a xawtv file then i updated the database by hand (with phpmyadmin). i didn't know mythweb it would have me save t

Re: [mythtv-users] experience for belgium + problems

2005-07-16 Thread Stef Coene
On Saturday 16 July 2005 13:09, leszek wrote: > the tv_grabber works well Ok. > the frequencies are the good ones ( i took them from my provider ) > http://www.coditel.be/Default.aspx?tabid=73 > they are also the same as scantv of xawtv gave me > > these channels display fine on xawtv and others t

Re: [mythtv-users] experience for belgium + problems

2005-07-16 Thread leszek
Le samedi 16 juillet 2005 à 11:01 +0200, Stef Coene a écrit : > On Saturday 16 July 2005 09:44, leszek wrote: > > > I noticed that they are the channels with the lower frequencies ! > > I already got a little noise on these channels so maybe there is a noise > > detection mechanism which trigger t

Re: [mythtv-users] ex-freevo user trying mythtv

2005-07-16 Thread Greg Estabrooks
> launching mythfrontend works fine, even edited the menus (I dont use > the TV-cruft), when launching media files (avi etc), mplayer loads, > however all the mplayer keybindings dont work anymore. Launching Question, are you using a window manager or just launching X and mythfrontend? This sound

Re: [mythtv-users] Missing data from DataDirect

2005-07-16 Thread aaron
On 7/16/05, Michael Carland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Searching in gossamer, I didn't find anyone else having this type of > problem since 2004. Is anyone else seeing this? Did zap2it change the > number of days of data that they carry? > If you have data for some channels then, no, zap2it

[mythtv-users] Nuvexport - size of vcd files?

2005-07-16 Thread ffrr
I am using nuvexport (using ffmpeg) to write a movie out to vcd format. The thing is, it didn't ask me about how to split the movie, and because it is 3 hours long, I expected to have to split it into at least 2 pieces for vcd. The output file is currently 880MB and it is still going.

Re: [mythtv-users] experience for belgium + problems

2005-07-16 Thread Stef Coene
On Saturday 16 July 2005 09:44, leszek wrote: > I noticed that they are the channels with the lower frequencies ! > I already got a little noise on these channels so maybe there is a noise > detection mechanism which trigger too fast. > what can i do ? I don't know, but let me tell what I did :)

Re: [mythtv-users] ex-freevo user trying mythtv

2005-07-16 Thread chris
On Sat, Jul 16, 2005 at 08:32:28PM +1200, Dudely Smith wrote: > however all the mplayer keybindings dont work anymore. Launching > mplayer from a regular X11 session works fine. I had the same problem. Although mplayer would start and run, all of the keystrokes were being passed back to Myth and

[mythtv-users] ex-freevo user trying mythtv

2005-07-16 Thread Dudely Smith
Ok, my first attempt at using mythtv instead of freevo, I've ran into some problems, launching mythfrontend works fine, even edited the menus (I dont use the TV-cruft), when launching media files (avi etc), mplayer loads, however all the mplayer keybindings dont work anymore. Launching mplayer fro

Re: [mythtv-users] Linux Compatable USB dongles

2005-07-16 Thread Todd Ignasiak
The FusionHDTV card comes with a USB IR receiver and remote, and there are patches to make it work with Linux and lirc. You can get the receiver+remote for $9 here: https://www.digitalconnection.com/store/Product_Details.asp?ProductCode=DFREMOTE Note: I can't say how well it works in Linux.. I

Re: [mythtv-users] Reliability problems when switching to view live tv

2005-07-16 Thread Todd Ignasiak
Thanks for the response. I tried adding that line to my xorg.conf, but I still get the video problems. I can always open the ringbuf file with vlc. So, I know the data is there, and VLC can reliably open the video output. It seems like a communications problem between the frontend and backe

[mythtv-users] experience for belgium + problems

2005-07-16 Thread leszek
hi all first i wanted to thanks all the people who contributed to this project cause it rocks ! The configuration process is rough tough and i had to manually change the database using phpmyadmin to make it work. xmltv hadn't any grabber for Belgium but pytvgrab got a grabber for me (pytvgrab-be_

Re: [mythtv-users] De-interlacing on a non-interlaced display

2005-07-16 Thread Mark Cooke
On Fri, 2005-07-15 at 21:04 -0400, Michael T. Dean wrote: > Mark Cooke wrote: > >Or try bob, but with a slight speed adjustment (M key then left/right > >arrows during playback). I see the bouncing at standard speed playback, > >but at x1.05 or x0.95, the bouncing is gone. > > > Are you talking a

Re: [mythtv-users] Live & Recorded TV hangs & failures on amd64

2005-07-16 Thread Todd Ignasiak
I am seeing very similar behavior on my Ubuntu x86-64 box (I sent a message about it yesterday). I have around a 20% success rate for getting video when starting the front end and going to live tv. Most of the time it just hangs in black screen. The backend appears to be working, as I can view