[mythtv-users] [OT] MyOSS(Open Source) Magazine - Edition 4 Available Now!

2005-08-01 Thread Ow Mun Heng
Hi All, Just wanted to announce that MyOSS Magazine - Edition 4 (The Penguins Are Coming Home) is now officially hitting the street. This is a community driven project which aims to publish monthly. (Sorry if this is considered as spam). Promoting FLOSS There are more than one way to skin a

Re: [mythtv-users] MythDVD offline Archive or Catalog?

2005-08-01 Thread Michael T. Dean
Roman Romaniuk wrote: I have a fairly large DVD collection, but nowhere near sufficient disk space to be able to host all of it on my backend server. Is there any way to maintain the DVD listing within mythdvd, but have a note pop up requesting that the user insert the appropriate DVD (and

Re: [mythtv-users] atrpms mplayer audio issue

2005-08-01 Thread Michael T. Dean
On 07/31/05 21:42, jason bright wrote: Anybody else on FC3 using atrpms having mplayer issues? I recently did a full system update and now mplayer had developed the annoying problem of the audio running slightly behind the video (probably 0.25 - 0.5 seconds). I have a very bare bones audio

Re: [mythtv-users] slave backend can't connect to database

2005-08-01 Thread Greg Baker
Fix ~greg/.mythtv/mysql.txt or cd out of the directttory that contains a ./mysql.txt . Yup. That got the backend started. Thanks for the help. -- Greg Baker, Lecturer School of Computing Science Simon Fraser University Burnaby, BC, V5A 1S6 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[mythtv-users] Re: atrpms mplayer audio issue

2005-08-01 Thread Axel Thimm
On Mon, Aug 01, 2005 at 03:20:08AM -0400, Michael T. Dean wrote: On 07/31/05 21:42, jason bright wrote: Anybody else on FC3 using atrpms having mplayer issues? I recently did a full system update and now mplayer had developed the annoying problem of the audio running slightly behind the

Re: [mythtv-users] Archiving Shows to DVD

2005-08-01 Thread Monkey Pet
I started on a project to develop a plugin that will do the simple task of burning shows to a DVD readable by any dvd player. However, this will probably not be as advanced as nuvexport, mythburn, or anything else out there. My goal is to make it integrated into myth as a plugin, easy to use and

[mythtv-users] Mythfilldatabase stopped working ...

2005-08-01 Thread Till Harbaum
Hi, in the last few weeks i have assembled a HTPC based on Knoppmyth and while there were a few things that didn't work out of the box i finally managed to get everything to work. MythTV is really a great thing, thanks for that! I yesterday noticed, that the box stopped being able to update

Re: [mythtv-users] Mythfilldatabase stopped working ...

2005-08-01 Thread Frank Muenchow
Till Harbaum schrieb: Hi, I yesterday noticed, that the box stopped being able to update the program data. As you see, i am using the german script tv_grab_de_tvtoday. I just can't figure out what goes wrong. The same worked fine just a week ago.

Re: [mythtv-users] Archiving Shows to DVD

2005-08-01 Thread Fredrik Karlsson
Hi, May I suggest that you reuse the scripts in mythburn? They do the job nicelly and only need a QT frontend. /Fredrik On 8/1/05, Monkey Pet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I started on a project to develop a plugin that will do the simple task of burning shows to a DVD readable by any dvd player.

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-350 XMame

2005-08-01 Thread Ian Armstrong
On Monday 01 Aug 2005 01:36, Martin Ravell wrote: Am I correct in thinking that if I am using X out on my PVR-350 that I will be unable to use the Myth MAME integration? It works fine from within Myth. If you have a recent version of both the ivtv and X driver, xmame can use also use xv for

[mythtv-users] Black and White

2005-08-01 Thread Martin Ravell
Im getting black and white out of the SVideo output on my PVR-350. The composite out is in color but I dont want to use this. The rig is FC3, ATRPMs from Jarods Guide. TV Out via the PVR-350 Is there a setting somewhere that I have set wrong (to composite for example)? If so,

Re: [mythtv-users] Black and White

2005-08-01 Thread David Watkins
On 01/08/05, Martin Ravell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm getting black and white out of the SVideo output on my PVR-350. The composite out is in color but I don't want to use this. The rig is FC3, ATRPM's from Jarod's Guide. TV Out via the PVR-350 Is there a setting somewhere

Re: [mythtv-users] Mythfilldatabase stopped working ...

2005-08-01 Thread Till Harbaum
On Monday 01 August 2005 10:56, Frank Muenchow wrote: http://de.mythtvtalk.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=178 Thanks! I tried googling the error message, but google obviously didn't read that thread yet ... Ciao, Till -- Dr.-Ing. Till Harbaum Tel.: +49 721 4998963 BeeCon

Re: [mythtv-users] Xine / libdvdcss can't handle dual-sided discs

2005-08-01 Thread Till Harbaum
Hi, On Saturday 30 July 2005 02:09, Michael Haan wrote: Has anyone else seen this and have an idea for a fix? For the PC/Player/DVD-Drive a dual sided DVD isn't any different from two different single sided ones. When playing one side none of the involved parts sees the second side or has any

[mythtv-users] image on my TV

2005-08-01 Thread Iwan
? Hi, I am allmost finished with setting up my MythTV box. The only 2 things that I need to do to finish the initial configuration are: - Get the remote control working with INFRA RED - Get the image on my TV trough SCART Now for the last one i need some help. I connected the A/V output

Re: [mythtv-users] image on my TV

2005-08-01 Thread David Watkins
On 01/08/05, Iwan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ? Hi, I am allmost finished with setting up my MythTV box. The only 2 things that I need to do to finish the initial configuration are: - Get the remote control working with INFRA RED - Get the image on my TV trough SCART Now for the last

Re: [mythtv-users] RE: Archiving Shows to DVD

2005-08-01 Thread Cory Papenfuss
1. Demux/Cut MPEG2 content from MythTV with Java based ProjectX. You can download ProjectX from http://www.doom9.org/DigiTV/projectx.htm . This application not only has the ability to cut the MPEG (only on keyframes) without reencoding, but it appears to have fixed all of the audio sync

RE: [mythtv-users] image on my TV

2005-08-01 Thread Iwan
Title: Re: [mythtv-users] image on my TV ? Hi, I am using the video out of my Haupauge PVR-350. Forgot to include that... Iwan HoogendoornCCIE # 13084 E-mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] FAX# 084-736 0329 GSM# 06-47968935 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of David WatkinsSent: Mon

Re: [mythtv-users] Archiving Shows to DVD

2005-08-01 Thread Cory Papenfuss
On Mon, 1 Aug 2005, Monkey Pet wrote: I started on a project to develop a plugin that will do the simple task of burning shows to a DVD readable by any dvd player. However, this will probably not be as advanced as nuvexport, mythburn, or anything else out there. My goal is to make it

[mythtv-users] A few minor issues

2005-08-01 Thread Jo Shields
Hi This is a combination message, covering a few issues I have with various bits bobs: * In MythWeb, under the Music section, clicking on a track title returns me to the same page, with all images/stylesheets missing, and a funny URL which includes most of the path to the file in question.

Re: [mythtv-users] Black and White

2005-08-01 Thread Cory Papenfuss
1. Your TV input is set to compsite (try the tv settings menu) 2. Your cable is only a composite video cable, not an S-Video one. Not sure how a composite video cable can be confused with an s-vid cable, since the cable ends are different and not interchangeable. Perhaps what you meant

RE: [mythtv-users] Black and White

2005-08-01 Thread Marty Ravell
Here's the thing. I can tell the difference between an SVideo cable and composite. The pins are not bent at either end of the SVideo cable. Am I correct in thinking that the PVR-350 outputs both Composite and SVideo at the same time (on their respective output plugs) and that there are no

Re: [mythtv-users] Putting the Computer to sleep (low-power)

2005-08-01 Thread Marius Schrecker
Ian Wrote: it's not so much putting a machine into suspend mode that's difficult; it's the selective power-down modes (i.e. HD poweroff) that are really difficult to configure; when you want your machine to drop down to low power consumption without shutting it off. I would also love to know

Re: [mythtv-users] Putting the Computer to sleep (low-power)

2005-08-01 Thread Marius Schrecker
Mike wrote: ... http://www.ma.utexas.edu/users/stirling/computergeek/powersaving.html Did you even read the post you just found? ;) AAh! sorry, That will teach me (not) to read posts in reverse order! ... one of lifes great mysteries solved! ;) Marius Registered Linux user

Re: [mythtv-users] LIRC problem in Mythdvd/Mythvideo (lircd sends twice)

2005-08-01 Thread Mark Schuren
a small follow-up: meanwhile i have two mandrake 10.2 systems at home (one myth master backend, one frontend-only). both have the same problem with lirc when using external players like xine or mplayer from within mythvideo/mythdvd. on one of the boxes i tried it and uninstalled the mdk lirc

Re: [mythtv-users] MythDora Won't Boot

2005-08-01 Thread flim
Hi Dennis, My housemate was getting pretty cross with me for constantly saying 'cool!' throughout the install, so nice work there. ;-p I can't actually remember what video card I'm using in this machine, but I just ticked the 'Install Everything' box, so the drivers should be there.

RE: [mythtv-users] Black and White

2005-08-01 Thread Cory Papenfuss
I can tell the difference between an SVideo cable and composite. I didn't mean to be condescending... just that the 2. point didn't seem to make sense. The pins are not bent at either end of the SVideo cable. OK... I just threw that out there because lots of folks have been screwed by

[mythtv-users] Re: Black and White

2005-08-01 Thread Boleslaw Ciesielski
Marty Ravell wrote: Am I correct in thinking that the PVR-350 outputs both Composite and SVideo at the same time Yes, by default, but just in case play with these ivtvctl options (for example try to set it to S-Video only): -N, --list-outputs display video outputs -L, --get-output

Re: [mythtv-users] YPrPb component out for MythTV

2005-08-01 Thread Richard Bronosky
Thanks for the link to a SQUATTER SITE! But the first statement in the beginning of this thread was begging people DO NOT SUGGEST ALTERNATIVES! I don't want an additional piece of hardware (that requires it's own transformer) hanging off the back of a SFF HTPC! todd bailey wrote: allow me

Re: [mythtv-users] Black and White

2005-08-01 Thread Ant Daniel
On 8/1/05, Cory Papenfuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can tell the difference between an SVideo cable and composite. I didn't mean to be condescending... just that the 2. point didn't seem to make sense. The pins are not bent at either end of the SVideo cable. OK... I

Re: [mythtv-users] Archiving Shows to DVD

2005-08-01 Thread Fredrik Karlsson
Sorry for the nag.. :-), but I urge you all to have a look at the scrips in the CVS for mythburn (http://sourceforge.net/projects/mythburn/). Screenshots of the results at http://mythburn.sourceforge.net/. Although the package is driven by MythWeb addon scripts, the scripts doing the work are

Re: [mythtv-users] image on my TV

2005-08-01 Thread David Watkins
On 01/08/05, Iwan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ? Hi, I am using the video out of my Haupauge PVR-350. Forgot to include that... You need to give more detail on what your are doing if you want to anyone to spot what you're doing wrong. In broad terms you need to: 1. Modify your

RE: [mythtv-users] ALSA Sound and Video Modes

2005-08-01 Thread Brandon Rogers
Yup -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael Ford Sent: Sunday, July 31, 2005 9:34 PM To: Discussion about mythtv Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] ALSA Sound and Video Modes Do you have 'IEC958 Output' turned on in Alsamixer? Mike Ford On

Re: [mythtv-users] Archiving Shows to DVD

2005-08-01 Thread Cory Papenfuss
On Mon, 1 Aug 2005, Fredrik Karlsson wrote: Sorry for the nag.. :-), but I urge you all to have a look at the scrips in the CVS for mythburn (http://sourceforge.net/projects/mythburn/). Screenshots of the results at http://mythburn.sourceforge.net/. Although the package is driven by MythWeb

Re: [mythtv-users] Experiences with XvMC

2005-08-01 Thread Donavan Stanley
On 7/31/05, Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oh yeah, one more thing :) I thought I read that some or all of the unichrome chips had a limitation on video out where they could not output 1280x720 (720p) video or above. Obviously this is a problem if you're trying to hook your unichrome based

Re: [mythtv-users] Experiences with XvMC

2005-08-01 Thread Donavan Stanley
On 7/31/05, Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I had two issues that for me are critical. When using xvmc with Xine none of the OSD overlays would work. This meant no on screen information, subtitles, or closed captions during playback. I didn't investigate this to much however I think it

[mythtv-users] Segmentation fault?

2005-08-01 Thread Tate Austin
Hey, I am a gentoo user who just used portage to install mythtv. I started up mysql and configured it as appropriate, but when I attempt to run 'myth-setup' it immediately segmentation faults. Is this a known issue with certain configurations or what?

Re: [mythtv-users] Archiving Shows to DVD

2005-08-01 Thread Fredrik Karlsson
On 8/1/05, Cory Papenfuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just looked through this a bit. I must admit I haven't tried it, but as far as I can tell from reading through the code, it starts out by demuxing/remuxing the MPEG stream. That will break audio sync on arbitrary ivtv captures.

Re: [mythtv-users] Archiving Shows to DVD

2005-08-01 Thread Cory Papenfuss
On Mon, 1 Aug 2005, Fredrik Karlsson wrote: On 8/1/05, Cory Papenfuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just looked through this a bit. I must admit I haven't tried it, but as far as I can tell from reading through the code, it starts out by demuxing/remuxing the MPEG stream. That will

Re: [mythtv-users] Ripping excellent DVDs in latest ATRPMs

2005-08-01 Thread Donavan Stanley
On 7/31/05, Pat Vaughan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Whew! I thought I was alone! I don't know what the transcode command line that mtd runs is, but running transcode by hand against a perfect ripped file creates a perfectly usable MPEG file. You can look in the mtd log file for the transcode

[mythtv-users] CPU recommendation instead of EPIA?

2005-08-01 Thread Craig Hagerman
I am planning on building a mythTV box and need a recommendation regarding CPU. My original plan was to build around a mini-itx EPIA system (EPIA M-1 or M-12000). However, after reading through this board (and having a previous question answered) I think that I should consider another system.

Re: [mythtv-users] A few minor issues

2005-08-01 Thread chris
On Mon, Aug 01, 2005 at 11:57:06AM +0100, Jo Shields wrote: * In MythWeb, under the Music section, clicking on a track title returns me to the same page, with all images/stylesheets missing, and a funny URL which includes most of the path to the file in question. What is the correct

Re: [mythtv-users] Putting the Computer to sleep (low-power)

2005-08-01 Thread chris
On Mon, Aug 01, 2005 at 01:16:49PM +0200, Marius Schrecker wrote: I would also love to know how to get this to work in Linux. It's not so much putting the disk to sleep as keeping it there. I've never managed to get a HD to powerdown (using hdparm) for more than half a second without being

Re: [mythtv-users] Video Pixelation

2005-08-01 Thread Michael T. Dean
Jason Lee wrote: Michael T. Dean wrote: Even after you fix the corrupted table, the problem will persist until you rebuild the seektable entries using mythcommflag. I thought I had done that, but after I sent my last email, I realized I hadn't done that *after* I restored my backup. I ran

Fwd: [mythtv-users] 6200 Firewire issues

2005-08-01 Thread Alex Brekken
No, I'm running FC3 installed from ATRPM's - so I'm not sure about the version of gcc. Let me know if I can be of any help as it sure would be great to nail this one - currently I'd say about 20% of my recordings done from FireWire fail for this reason. On 7/31/05, Mike Cannon [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [mythtv-users] Putting the Computer to sleep (low-power)

2005-08-01 Thread Nigel Metheringham
On Mon, 2005-08-01 at 07:10 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Aug 01, 2005 at 01:16:49PM +0200, Marius Schrecker wrote: I would also love to know how to get this to work in Linux. It's not so much putting the disk to sleep as keeping it there. I've never managed to get a HD to

Re: [mythtv-users] CPU recommendation instead of EPIA?

2005-08-01 Thread Nick Rosier
I'm running an AMD Sempron 3100+ as front/backend combo. It's the same core as the AMD64 minus 64bit extensions (don't need them) and has Cool 'n Quiet. 95% of the time the CPU is running at 1GHz @ 1.1V. When transcoding/commercial-detecting it switches to 1.8Ghz @ 1.4V. Enough CPU-power for me. I

Re: [mythtv-users] XvMC output not working

2005-08-01 Thread Ray Lischner
Anyone who has this working - What Video card are you using? (maybe I could just upgrade/downgrade the video). XvMC works for me (OSD sometimes causes jittery A/V, but that's the only problem I have) Myth 0.18.1 Suse 9.3 version 7167 of nVidia drivers nVidia FX 5200 (Asus) Athlon XP 2000+

[mythtv-users] Black Screen, White Bars with sound

2005-08-01 Thread Marc Maniscalco
I have been using MythTV for about a month now, and it was all working pretty good. Last night I was fast forwarding and my picture just went out. The screen is black with 2 thick white bar going down. I still hear the sound. This is all going out a PVR350. I can get to the GUI fine and see

Re: [mythtv-users] Archiving Shows to DVD

2005-08-01 Thread Michael T. Dean
Cory Papenfuss wrote: On Mon, 1 Aug 2005, Fredrik Karlsson wrote: On 8/1/05, Cory Papenfuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just looked through this a bit. I must admit I haven't tried it, but as far as I can tell from reading through the code, it starts out by demuxing/remuxing the

[mythtv-users] Divx 6 new format?

2005-08-01 Thread Dave Packham
Any word on if the new Divx 6 format will be supported? Or did I miss that thread? http://www.divx.com/divx/dmf.php it's the new divx media format. Dave Packham ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org

Re: [mythtv-users] Archiving Shows to DVD

2005-08-01 Thread Jo Shields
Michael T. Dean wrote: Cory Papenfuss wrote: On Mon, 1 Aug 2005, Fredrik Karlsson wrote: On 8/1/05, Cory Papenfuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just looked through this a bit. I must admit I haven't tried it, but as far as I can tell from reading through the code, it starts out

Re: [mythtv-users] Xine / libdvdcss can't handle dual-sided discs

2005-08-01 Thread Robert Johnston
On 01/08/05, Till Harbaum [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, On Saturday 30 July 2005 02:09, Michael Haan wrote: Has anyone else seen this and have an idea for a fix? For the PC/Player/DVD-Drive a dual sided DVD isn't any different from two different single sided ones. When playing one side none

Re: [mythtv-users] XvMC output not working

2005-08-01 Thread Mark Schuren
works for me too on two boxes, great video quality and very low cpu load, but the OSD looks ugly and the video/audio starts stuttering for the time the OSD is displayed. Myth 0.18.1 Mandrake 10.2 NV driver version 7667 nVidia FX5600 (Gainward, 256MB DDR) / FX5200 (onboard, shared RAM) AthlonXP

[mythtv-users] UK Sky+ box with Pace rf2link

2005-08-01 Thread Julian Edwards
Hi folks I just moved out of an NTL cable area so had to reconfigure for a Sky+ box. I just built the hardware at this page: http://www.cornelius.demon.co.uk/lirc-sky-rflink-howto.html but the Sky+ box is just not responding to anything I send. I've got a multimeter on the cable and I can

Re: [mythtv-users] Archiving Shows to DVD

2005-08-01 Thread Cory Papenfuss
The best approach is to add code to avidemux2 (and probably mplex/replex/transcode/whatever) to handle varying A/V sync within the stream. Since most players (i.e. xine, MPlayer, and even Myth) can do so, it should be possible--the hard part is finding someone willing to make the time to make

Re: [mythtv-users] UK Sky+ box with Pace rf2link

2005-08-01 Thread Ant Daniel
On 8/1/05, Julian Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks I just moved out of an NTL cable area so had to reconfigure for a Sky+ box. I just built the hardware at this page: http://www.cornelius.demon.co.uk/lirc-sky-rflink-howto.html but the Sky+ box is just not responding to anything I

[mythtv-users] Aspect ratio troubles

2005-08-01 Thread Chris Martin
I'm using a Nova-T card with the tv output going through a PVR 350 tv out to a 4:3 tv. As far as I can tell all Uk digital broadcasts are 16:9, however the picture that is displayed on my tv fills the entire screen and is stectched vertically. It is quite possibly missing portions form the sides

Re: [mythtv-users] Aspect ratio troubles

2005-08-01 Thread Jo Shields
Chris Martin wrote: I'm using a Nova-T card with the tv output going through a PVR 350 tv out to a 4:3 tv. As far as I can tell all Uk digital broadcasts are 16:9, however the picture that is displayed on my tv fills the entire screen and is stectched vertically. It is quite possibly missing

Re: [mythtv-users] Mythweb probs

2005-08-01 Thread Chris Petersen
I am operating on a brand new FC4 install with yum having updated the system (and installed mythtv-suite). I couldn't find anything on this error in the mythtv.org website or on this list, has anyone run into this? Thanks! My best guess is that something got corrupted in the package or during

Re: [mythtv-users] LIRC problem in Mythdvd/Mythvideo (lircd sends twice)

2005-08-01 Thread Matthew K. Lee
snip begin prog = mythtv button = OFF config = Esc end begin prog = xine button = OFF config = Quit end is it a bad idea to use the same lirc key for two programs in general?? i hope not. i use mandrake

Re: [mythtv-users] Divx 6 new format?

2005-08-01 Thread Isaac Richards
On Monday 01 August 2005 10:58 am, Dave Packham wrote: Any word on if the new Divx 6 format will be supported? Or did I miss that thread? http://www.divx.com/divx/dmf.php it's the new divx media format. It's just avi, and retains all of avi's crappiness that makes it completely unsuitable

Re: [mythtv-users] UK Sky+ box with Pace rf2link

2005-08-01 Thread Julian Edwards
Ant Daniel wrote: Just a quick check, there's some sort of setting about power on/control on my Sky box (I have no idea where it is on a Sky+ box, and as I can't get access to my Sky box I couldn't tell you where it is there) This, as I understand it, needs to be switched on for the RF2link to

Re: [mythtv-users] LIRC problem in Mythdvd/Mythvideo (lircd sends twice)

2005-08-01 Thread Michael T. Dean
Mark Schuren wrote: so i think i have tried everything, replaced lirc, replaced the player application, recompiled mythtv. but problem is still exactly the same. so i guess it is a problem of mythfrontend... No. Works for me. or just a faulty configuration Probably. because i use the

Re: [mythtv-users] XvMC output not working

2005-08-01 Thread Todd Ignasiak
It's working for me with svn image 6963.Although, I have a persmissions problem I haven't debugged yet -- it only works when run as root. Gentoo x86-64 Athlon 64 3200+ Nvidia FX5200, 128MB, fanless Nvidia driver 7667 I also get the stuttering when the OSD is displayed. Sometimes the

RE: [mythtv-users] Divx 6 new format?

2005-08-01 Thread Dave Packham
Heh agreed -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Isaac Richards Sent: Monday, August 01, 2005 10:39 AM To: Discussion about mythtv Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Divx 6 new format? On Monday 01 August 2005 10:58 am, Dave Packham wrote: Any

Re: [mythtv-users] Experiences with XvMC

2005-08-01 Thread Scott
On Aug 1, 2005, at 9:15 AM, Donavan Stanley wrote: On 7/31/05, Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oh yeah, one more thing :) I thought I read that some or all of the unichrome chips had a limitation on video out where they could not output 1280x720 (720p) video or above. Obviously this is a

Re: [mythtv-users] Experiences with XvMC

2005-08-01 Thread Scott
On Aug 1, 2005, at 9:17 AM, Donavan Stanley wrote: On 7/31/05, Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I had two issues that for me are critical. When using xvmc with Xine none of the OSD overlays would work. This meant no on screen information, subtitles, or closed captions during playback. I

Re: [mythtv-users] OT: Reset Overscan after fullscreen apps

2005-08-01 Thread Greg Estabrooks
I added it to my pc games list and it works just fine but when it switches full screen it clears any and all overscan settings i have made with nvidia-settings. It does the same with my NES emulator. Is there any way, I've run into this myself with a few apps. The nvidia driver still

RE: [mythtv-users] Divx 6 new format?

2005-08-01 Thread Dave Packham
But it would be nice to have a DVD to divx6 converter that would keep all the menus etc etc.. And make a nice small file Someday Dave P -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Isaac Richards Sent: Monday, August 01, 2005 10:39 AM To: Discussion

Re: [mythtv-users] Experiences with XvMC

2005-08-01 Thread Donavan Stanley
On 8/1/05, Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You know, you *might* want to test with Myth instead of Xine since neither of those issues apply to Myth. I'm assuming by 'Myth' you are referencing the Myth Internal video player? Your stated goal was HDTV playback. Given that you're most likely

Re: [mythtv-users] MythDVD offline Archive or Catalog?

2005-08-01 Thread Michael T. Dean
Michael T. Dean wrote: Roman Romaniuk wrote: I have a fairly large DVD collection, but nowhere near sufficient disk space to be able to host all of it on my backend server. Is there any way to maintain the DVD listing within mythdvd, but have a note pop up requesting that the user insert

Re: [mythtv-users] Mythweb probs

2005-08-01 Thread Jan Grzymala-Busse
I solved the problem! Actually the problem is in the mythweb code (if you are using your web server/php with your own prefs, i.e. running other websites). There are quite a few cases of php short tags ? used instead of ?php. Since I have some other web apps that are XML driven (and hence depend

Re: [mythtv-users] LIRC problem in Mythdvd/Mythvideo (lircd sends twice)

2005-08-01 Thread Mark Schuren
thanks for your reply, added repeat = 3 for all buttons in ~/.lircrc and even repeat = 5 to the OFF button. i start xine through mythdvd, then just exit xine again using the OFF button, xine closes, and some millisecs later i see mythfrontend leave the CD/DVD menu :-( so still same issue. it is

Re: [mythtv-users] MythDVD offline Archive or Catalog?

2005-08-01 Thread Robert Johnston
On 01/08/05, Michael T. Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: # Prompt the user to insert the disc xterm -bg NavyBlue -fg White +sb -fs 18 -geometry 40x6 \ -e prompt Please insert ${MEDIA_TYPE}: ${DISC_NAME} Out of interest, where's that prompt command coming from? I don't seem to have it in

[mythtv-users] Record/playback dolby digital

2005-08-01 Thread Tony Lill
My new cable box has a coax digital out. Is anyone successfully recording the digital stream and playing it back? If so, what hardware/drivers are you using? Can you play it back on a frontend without digital audio out? -- Tony Lill, [EMAIL PROTECTED] President, A. J. Lill

Re: [mythtv-users] LIRC problem in Mythdvd/Mythvideo (lircd sends twice)

2005-08-01 Thread Mark Schuren
lots of thanks your in-depth answers! unfortunately nothing helps it. any more hints? Michael T. Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark Schuren wrote: so i think i have tried everything, replaced lirc, replaced the player application, recompiled mythtv. but problem is still exactly the same.

Re: [mythtv-users] MythDVD offline Archive or Catalog?

2005-08-01 Thread Michael T. Dean
Robert Johnston wrote: On 01/08/05, Michael T. Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: # Prompt the user to insert the disc xterm -bg NavyBlue -fg White +sb -fs 18 -geometry 40x6 \ -e prompt Please insert ${MEDIA_TYPE}: ${DISC_NAME} Out of interest, where's that prompt command coming from?

Re: [mythtv-users] Experiences with XvMC

2005-08-01 Thread Scott
On Aug 1, 2005, at 12:52 PM, Donavan Stanley wrote: Your stated goal was HDTV playback. Given that you're most likely going to be playing back HD content using Myth not xine then it stands to reason you'd actually test using Myth. But seeing as I don't yet have a HDTV capture card yet I ended

Re: [mythtv-users] Experiences with XvMC

2005-08-01 Thread Donavan Stanley
On 8/1/05, Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have the Myth developers considered adding the OSD grayscale work around from Xine to the Myth Internal Player or is that not something which is feasible? There's a patch which enables color OSDs with XvMC, but the real solution is to use a chromakeyed

Re: Re: [mythtv-users] Re: MythTV and Sky

2005-08-01 Thread mythtv guy
--- Allan Stirling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2005 21:40:34 +0100 From: Allan Stirling [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Discussion about mythtv mythtv-users@mythtv.org Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Re: MythTV and Sky Have a look at this.

[mythtv-users] HDTV Video Modes with MythTV

2005-08-01 Thread Brandon Rogers
At first, I thought the clarity of the 1080i (540p in some cases) is actually better than the NTSC output. However, after playing with things, I'm not sure this is the case. Most of the clarity seems to come from simply having such a low resolution (the text is huge). Sure, there are quite a bit

Re: [mythtv-users] HDTV Video Modes with MythTV

2005-08-01 Thread Robert Tsai
On Mon, Aug 01, 2005 at 11:53:16AM -0700, Brandon Rogers wrote: At first, I thought the clarity of the 1080i (540p in some cases) is actually better than the NTSC output. However, after playing with things, I'm not sure this is the case. Most of the clarity seems to come from simply having

Re: [mythtv-users] Xine / libdvdcss can't handle dual-sided discs

2005-08-01 Thread Michael Haan
On 8/1/05, Robert Johnston [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 01/08/05, Till Harbaum [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, On Saturday 30 July 2005 02:09, Michael Haan wrote: Has anyone else seen this and have an idea for a fix? For the PC/Player/DVD-Drive a dual sided DVD isn't any different from two

Re: [mythtv-users] Xine / libdvdcss can't handle dual-sided discs

2005-08-01 Thread Joseph A. Caputo
On Monday 01 August 2005 15:26, Michael Haan wrote: On 8/1/05, Robert Johnston [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 01/08/05, Till Harbaum [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, On Saturday 30 July 2005 02:09, Michael Haan wrote: Has anyone else seen this and have an idea for a fix? For the

Re: [mythtv-users] Black and White

2005-08-01 Thread Michael Jones
Title: Re: [mythtv-users] Black and White Martin, Check your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file. Should look Something like this in the device section. Section Device Identifier Videocard0 Driver nvidia VendorName Videocard vendor BoardName NVIDIA GeForce FX (generic) Option RenderAccel 1 # TV Out

Fwd: Re: Re: [mythtv-users] MythDora Won't Boot

2005-08-01 Thread flim
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[mythtv-users] Number of channels.

2005-08-01 Thread Mark Gordon
I am gathering parts to make a MythTV machine. I noticed that the PVR-350 has a 125 channel cable ready tuner. I currently have digital cable and premium channels are in the 220+ range. Will I be able to receive these changes or just up to 125? As you can tell by this question, I am not

RE: [mythtv-users] Number of channels.

2005-08-01 Thread Micheal Havard
To get the channels above 125 you'll have to use your cable box. You'll also need to buy or build a irblaster to change the channels. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Gordon Sent: Monday, August 01, 2005 2:29 PM To:

[mythtv-users] Mythgame Emulation Setup Tutorial

2005-08-01 Thread Jochen Kühner
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Re: [mythtv-users] Number of channels.

2005-08-01 Thread Mark Gordon
The irblaster allows MythTV to change the channels on the cable box? Then the connection goes ... Wall - Cable Box - MythTV - TV? Thanks, Mark Micheal Havard wrote: To get the channels above 125 you'll have to use your cable box. You'll also need to buy or build a irblaster to change the

[mythtv-users] Grabbing EPG from DVB

2005-08-01 Thread Johan Kihlström
Hello all, I have a number of channels that I try to capture EPG from the DVB stream. 9 out of 10 times I get nothing and once in a while the dvb-grabber actually works and I get data. Does anyone have any ideas on how to improve the successrate? I'm running a 0.18 compiled for DVB-C with

RE: [mythtv-users] Number of channels.

2005-08-01 Thread Micheal Havard
Correct. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Gordon Sent: Monday, August 01, 2005 3:01 PM To: Discussion about mythtv Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Number of channels. The irblaster allows MythTV to change the channels on the cable box?

Re: [mythtv-users] Number of channels.

2005-08-01 Thread Phil Bridges
On 8/1/05, Mark Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The irblaster allows MythTV to change the channels on the cable box? Then the connection goes ... Wall - Cable Box - MythTV - TV? Thanks, Mark Micheal Havard wrote: To get the channels above 125 you'll have to use your cable box.

Re: [mythtv-users] A few minor issues

2005-08-01 Thread Jo Shields
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Aug 01, 2005 at 11:57:06AM +0100, Jo Shields wrote: * In MythWeb, under the Music section, clicking on a track title returns me to the same page, with all images/stylesheets missing, and a funny URL which includes most of the path to the file in question.

[mythtv-users] MythMusic playing mp3-CD

2005-08-01 Thread Robin Gilks
Greetings I've found loads of information about creating mp3s from CDs and burning the result to CD, but is it possible to play mp3-cds under MythMusic? My DVD cheap player manages to do it so I assume the autodetect of the media can't be that hard. Assuming its possible, are there any config

RE: [mythtv-users] Black and White

2005-08-01 Thread Marty Ravell
Title: Re: [mythtv-users] Black and White Hi Michael, Ill have a look at my config for the TVOutFormat option. Your email does however look like a setup for an nvidia card. Do you know if it is the same for a PVR-350? (Im doing everything on the tv-out of my 350) Regards

Re: [mythtv-users] HDTV Video Modes with MythTV

2005-08-01 Thread David Griffith
Rob wrote: Plain old SDTV analog cable is 480i (I think). I get HDTV over-the-air, and even when it is mythtranscode'd down to 720x480 (480p, I guess), the picture is still much better. I think what I am seeing is the difference between a clear digital signal and a noisy analog signal, and

[mythtv-users] Hang ups after Changing from RecordingOnly to None

2005-08-01 Thread John Johnson
I'm having a problem with my MythTV setup. The backend is hanging rather frequently (1 or more times per day). In the /var/log/mythtv/mythbackend.log, one of the times it hangs is after Changing from RecordingOnly to None. At that point, the frontend says No recordings scheduled, the backend

Re: [mythtv-users] Black and White

2005-08-01 Thread John Johnson
From: Martin Ravell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Discussion about mythtv mythtv-users@mythtv.org Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2005 19:23:58 +1000 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [mythtv-users] Black and White I’m getting black and white out of the SVideo output on my PVR-350. The composite out is in color

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