Re: [mythtv-users] Fastest file system

2005-09-17 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sat, Sep 10, 2005 at 10:22:47PM +1000, ffrr wrote: > Yes. There are indeed DVB cards that also include svideo in, but they > have all the extra circuitry for analog video capture, and using them in Not really; many of the DVB cards use BT878 or CX2388x chips as the PCI interface, which give

[mythtv-users] "ERROR - No PIDS set" even though channels are present

2005-09-17 Thread richardjones
When I try to run mythtv and use Live TV, I get the following in the mythbackend: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# mythbackend -v channel 2005-09-18 16:07:36.889 New DB connection, total: 1 Starting up as the master server. 2005-09-18 16:07:37.018 New DB connection, total: 2 2005-09-18 16:07:37.062 DVB#0 DV

Re: [mythtv-users] mythburn... GUI? Or just web interface?

2005-09-17 Thread Jesse Guardiani
On Sunday 18 September 2005 12:06 am, Stephen Boddy wrote: > On Sunday 18 September 2005 02:03, Jesse Guardiani wrote: > > Hello, > > > > On this page, I see mythburn with > > what looks like an on-screen interface: > > http://mythburn.sourceforge.net/ > > > > But when I installed mythburn from >

[mythtv-users] knoppmyth, ledxmitd 0.7.0 & SMP

2005-09-17 Thread Jesse Guardiani
Hello, I get these in my dmesg constantly: BUG: using smp_processor_id() in preemptible [0001] code: ledxmit-ledxmit/1843 caller is ledxmit_ioctl+0x85/0x350 [ledxmit_serial] [] smp_processor_id+0x8c/0xa0 [] ledxmit_ioctl+0x85/0x350 [ledxmit_serial] [] irctl_ioctl+0x19a/0x200 [ledxmit_dev]

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: FF and REW lockups with PVR-350

2005-09-17 Thread Bennett Leve
Boleslaw, Thanks for the reply but I am on: ii mythtv 0.18.1-2_km_i5 A personal video recorder application (clien -Bennett Boleslaw Ciesielski wrote: Bennett Leve wrote: Any suggestions by anyone? Just curious if this is something I need to live with, or if there is a workaroun

[mythtv-users] Hauppauge USB

2005-09-17 Thread Todd Houle
I'm using a new myth install with a single tuner card (PVR-350). Now that I've got it up and working, I may be able to convince my wife to let me get another tuner (PVR500..?). I have a USB TV tuner from Eskape Labs (A division of Hauppauge) for Mac OS X. Is there a way to make this thin

[mythtv-users] Screen Cropping

2005-09-17 Thread Todd Houle
So thanks to all the great information on this list, I've got my new Mythbox up running under Fedora (thanks to wilsonet's step-by-step). I'm using the PVR-350 with TV out (the quality is excellent). This is sooo cool. I've still gotta do sound- It comes out fine, but i have no volume c

[mythtv-users] Which ivtv modules to load for pvr-150mce ?

2005-09-17 Thread Robin Gilks
Greetings I guess the subject says it all really. Many of the howtos revolve about the 250 (old) and 350 (with output). I'm trying to find out which modules should be loaded when I modprobe the ivtv module. I've already discovered that msp3400 doesn't get loaded (no dependency in modules.dep to t

Re: [mythtv-users] nuvexport problem?

2005-09-17 Thread Chris Petersen
fyi, this problem is now fixed.. Update nuvexport. -Chris ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

Re: [mythtv-users] mythburn... GUI? Or just web interface?

2005-09-17 Thread Stephen Boddy
On Sunday 18 September 2005 02:03, Jesse Guardiani wrote: > Hello, > > On this page, I see mythburn with > what looks like an on-screen interface: > http://mythburn.sourceforge.net/ > > But when I installed mythburn from > here: > http://knoppmythwiki.org/index.php?page=MythTVBurn_Scripts_HowTo

Re: [mythtv-users] mythburn - wow - this takes a LOOOONG time...

2005-09-17 Thread Derek Meek
beefy processors > * get an athlon 64 :D Jesse Guardiani wrote: >So, I bought a nice 8x DVD+R burner >for cheap, thinking that my biggest >problem would be speed issues when >I burn from a file stored over NFS. >But it turns out that is the LEAST >of my problems! > >I haven't even gotten to the

[mythtv-users] mythburn... GUI? Or just web interface?

2005-09-17 Thread Jesse Guardiani
Hello, On this page, I see mythburn with what looks like an on-screen interface: http://mythburn.sourceforge.net/ But when I installed mythburn from here: http://knoppmythwiki.org/index.php?page=MythTVBurn_Scripts_HowTo All I got was a mythweb interface. Does the latest version of mythburn c

[mythtv-users] mythburn - wow - this takes a LOOOONG time...

2005-09-17 Thread Jesse Guardiani
So, I bought a nice 8x DVD+R burner for cheap, thinking that my biggest problem would be speed issues when I burn from a file stored over NFS. But it turns out that is the LEAST of my problems! I haven't even gotten to the point where I can attempt a burn. My poor 733mhz CPU is still transcoding m

Re: [mythtv-users] TV out issues on ATI 9550 with FC3

2005-09-17 Thread Michael Kalus
On 17-Sep-05, at 17:21, Nick wrote:Make sure you are using the latest ATI fglrx driver (or at least >=8.12). It could be the TV-out bug in older drivers (definitely presentin PAL-land, but maybe NTSC too). There was a bug whereby the PLLvalues were incorrect, giving a completely useless TV-Out pict

Re: [mythtv-users] nuvexport problem?

2005-09-17 Thread Craig Tinson
Chris Petersen wrote: but that didn't have any effect - and I know Chris Peterson will say turn off nuvdenoise (which I presume those instructions do) but if I'm wrong I don't know where to turn if off You're wrong there. (and it's Petersen, btw)... The division by zero error is completel

[mythtv-users] nuvexport and current svn

2005-09-17 Thread Mark Cooke
Hi all, I noticed current myth SVN is writing files from my mpeg2 capture board as _.mpg rather than __.nuv. This breaks the older nuvexport version[*] I hacked up and have been using, as it parses up the recordings directory for filenames of the __.nuv format rather than querying t. Attached is

Re: [mythtv-users] validate my expatiation please

2005-09-17 Thread Nick
On 17/09/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > All > > I have been play Knopix version of MythTV and have a backend/frontend server > up with an old ATI TV Wonder VE. I also have a Frontend (almost only) for > viewing. I have lots of little issues > > chronicled at http://www.cossabo

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: where is skystar module in linux 2.6.13.1?

2005-09-17 Thread Brian Foddy
On Saturday 17 September 2005 05:43 pm, Boleslaw Ciesielski wrote: > Brian Foddy wrote: > > I tried to upgrade my server from 2.6.12.2 to 2.6.13.1 today to > > hopefully fix a NFS hang problem and discovered the > > skystar2 module needed for the air2pc card is simply gone. > > No config option, no

Re: [mythtv-users] TV out issues on ATI 9550 with FC3

2005-09-17 Thread Nick
On 17/09/05, Michael Kalus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I have a rather strange problem with my current setup. I could > install FC3 and MythTV fine, but the moment the the XServer starts up > my TV Out is completely distorted, almost like the refresh frequency > is too high? > > A goo

Re: [mythtv-users] OT: Swapping processors

2005-09-17 Thread Martin Ebourne
On Fri, 16 Sep 2005 21:10:39 -0400, Robin Smith wrote: > <...> > Wipe the thermal compund off the CPU (with it still in the mobo) with a > paper towel, getting it good and clean. > <...> > Clean off the heatsink and place it back over the cpu and screw/click/lock > it in place (there are different

Re: [mythtv-users] Problems with different languages and DVB

2005-09-17 Thread Martin Ebourne
On Sat, 17 Sep 2005 11:42:50 +0200, Dirk Aust wrote: > Hello all, > I have a problem with stations transmitting audio in different > languages, namely the german-french channel Arte in Germany, it seems > that MythTV randomly chooses the french or german audio for recording. > > Is there any possi

Re: [mythtv-users] Noise and whether to split the client and server

2005-09-17 Thread James L. Paul
Darren Hart wrote: I have been running a client/server combo myth box for a while using NFS root and recording storage (no local disk) because it was just too darn loud. Now I am looking at upgrading hardware and was curious what people think about modern disks, power supplies, case fans, et

[mythtv-users] DVB-S channel scan problem with 18.1, Astra 19.2, skystar2

2005-09-17 Thread Bob Honzik
Hi, I just installed MythTV on my Gentoo desktop with skystar2 DVB-S card pointed to Astra 19.2E. The broadcast reception works fine with mplayer. But I have problems with channel scanning in mythtv. During the scan the channels and dtv_multiplex tables in mythconverg are filled, but dvb_channel a

[mythtv-users] Re: where is skystar module in linux 2.6.13.1?

2005-09-17 Thread Boleslaw Ciesielski
Brian Foddy wrote: I tried to upgrade my server from 2.6.12.2 to 2.6.13.1 today to hopefully fix a NFS hang problem and discovered the skystar2 module needed for the air2pc card is simply gone. No config option, no source files, no nothing. Anyone know what's going on? It has been rewritten a

Re: [mythtv-users] TV out issues on ATI 9550 with FC3

2005-09-17 Thread Kevin Kuphal
Michael Kalus wrote: Hello, I have a rather strange problem with my current setup. I could install FC3 and MythTV fine, but the moment the the XServer starts up my TV Out is completely distorted, almost like the refresh frequency is too high? A google for the problem seemed to suggest i

[mythtv-users] TV out issues on ATI 9550 with FC3

2005-09-17 Thread Michael Kalus
Hello, I have a rather strange problem with my current setup. I could install FC3 and MythTV fine, but the moment the the XServer starts up my TV Out is completely distorted, almost like the refresh frequency is too high? A google for the problem seemed to suggest it was set to the wrong

Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV Presentation

2005-09-17 Thread Nick
On 17/09/05, Mike Ryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > All > > I recently gave a presentation on MythTV at Open Tech 2005 > (http://www.ukuug.org/events/opentech2005/schedule/) and have now been invited > to speak at the World Summit on Free Information Infrastructures which is > taking place on Satu

Re: [mythtv-users] TV-out: GUI but no video - on ATI 9800SE

2005-09-17 Thread Nick
On 17/09/05, jonny Linux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm running FC3 with an ATI 9800SE graphics card, with the ATI linux > drivers. > > I've got an SVIDEO->Composite converter, from the back of the graphics card > to the TV. > > Everything is working well, but when I play a recor

Re: [mythtv-users] Charlie Rose via PVR-350

2005-09-17 Thread Mark Knecht
On 9/17/05, Mercury Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bear with me. I'm looking for anyone else who might observe the following: > > For weeks now, I have recorded Charlie Rose on KTCI, in Minnesota. > In every show, at random points, the audio and video get out of sync > by a few seconds.

[mythtv-users] where is skystar module in linux 2.6.13.1?

2005-09-17 Thread Brian Foddy
I tried to upgrade my server from 2.6.12.2 to 2.6.13.1 today to hopefully fix a NFS hang problem and discovered the skystar2 module needed for the air2pc card is simply gone. No config option, no source files, no nothing. Anyone know what's going on? Brian ___

Re: [mythtv-users] nuvexport problem?

2005-09-17 Thread Greg Estabrooks
> I don't know how to fix this particular problem. I can't reproduce it > on any of my systems, so I'm stuck waiting for someone to send me a patch. Since it happening for me I can take a whack at it when I get home later tonight. ___ mythtv-users m

[mythtv-users] Charlie Rose via PVR-350

2005-09-17 Thread Mercury Morris
Bear with me.  I'm looking for anyone else who might observe the following: For weeks now, I have recorded Charlie Rose on KTCI, in Minnesota. In every show, at random points, the audio and video get out of sync by a few seconds.  The show is still listenable, but watching the screen is like Water

[mythtv-users] Re: FF and REW lockups with PVR-350

2005-09-17 Thread Boleslaw Ciesielski
Bennett Leve wrote: Any suggestions by anyone? Just curious if this is something I need to live with, or if there is a workaround or would changing the motherboard to another chipset and CPU to AMD help? Try upgrading to latest Myth 0.18.x (post 0.18.1). This fixed it for me. Also make sure

[mythtv-users] Re: 250 thinks it is a 150

2005-09-17 Thread Mark Knecht
Yep. Same solution we found here. Thanks, Mark On 9/17/05, Reggie Braswell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Saw this thread about dmesg thinking the PVR-250 was a PVR-150. I had the > same problem. I saw your work around, however I don't know if you ever > noticed it only happens on a warm reboot. If

[mythtv-users] Re: 250 thinks it is a 150

2005-09-17 Thread Reggie Braswell
Saw this thread about dmesg thinking the PVR-250 was a PVR-150. I had the same problem. I saw your work around, however I don't know if you ever noticed it only happens on a warm reboot. If you shut off your computer each time you do a shutdown it will query the card correctly. Not sure what is up

Re: [mythtv-users] What is impact of mythbackend restart on

2005-09-17 Thread Chris Pinkham
> If mythbackend is restarted while mythcommflag or mythtranscode are > running, what is the impact? Does it have to start those processes > again, does it cause irreparable damage or does it have no impact? Since mythtranscode and mythcommflag are run using a system() call inside mythbackend, if

[mythtv-users] MythTV Presentation

2005-09-17 Thread Mike Ryan
All I recently gave a presentation on MythTV at Open Tech 2005 (http://www.ukuug.org/events/opentech2005/schedule/) and have now been invited to speak at the World Summit on Free Information Infrastructures which is taking place on Saturday 1st & Sunday 2nd of October at Limehouse Town Hall in Eas

Re: [mythtv-users] nuvexport problem?

2005-09-17 Thread Chris Petersen
but that didn't have any effect - and I know Chris Peterson will say turn off nuvdenoise (which I presume those instructions do) but if I'm wrong I don't know where to turn if off You're wrong there. (and it's Petersen, btw)... The division by zero error is completely unrealted to the "broke

Re: [mythtv-users] emu10k1 unable to capture?

2005-09-17 Thread Chad
On 9/17/05, Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't suppose you're using knoppmyth are you? My most recent install > using knoppmyth > killed the sblive input functionality as well. > > Chad wrote: > > >Hello! > > > >I am having quite the time here trying to configure an SB Live to > >capture

[mythtv-users] make errors "compile dialogbox.cpp on localhost failed"

2005-09-17 Thread Scott Hubbard
Hi, I'm trying to make MythTv 0.18.1, and I get these error about dialogbox.cpp not compiling. I have installed Qt 4.0.1. I'm running Slackware 10.1 Hauppage WinTV 350 There is a very long make output with a lot of errors before it finally quits with these errors.  Please let me know if you want t

Re: [mythtv-users] FF and REW lockups with PVR-350

2005-09-17 Thread Bennett Leve
Any suggestions by anyone? Just curious if this is something I need to live with, or if there is a workaround or would changing the motherboard to another chipset and CPU to AMD help? -Bennett Bennett Leve wrote: All, I am experiencing the issues described in the list archives: http://ww

Re: [mythtv-users] Live TV on all desktops?

2005-09-17 Thread Robert Johnston
On 17/09/05, Gary Montalbine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have just installed Mythtv. I am able to get live TV on one desktop. > However I use multiple desktops and would like to watch TV on whatever > desktop I happen to be in. Is this possible? I can not find anything in > the documentation. I

Re: [mythtv-users] Movie & Category lists empty...

2005-09-17 Thread Bruce Markey
Jules Gosnell wrote: Bruce Markey wrote: Jules Gosnell wrote: Since upgrading my server to FC4 and moving up to 0.18, I seem to have lost the contents of these two under manageRecordings/ScheduleRecordings/SearchLists mythfilldatabase seems to be working happily and regularly and all

Re: [mythtv-users] A station in my area changed to a different channel

2005-09-17 Thread Robert Anderson
Thanks, That worked great.-- Rob Anderson[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

[mythtv-users] Live TV on all desktops?

2005-09-17 Thread Gary Montalbine
I have just installed Mythtv. I am able to get live TV on one desktop. However I use multiple desktops and would like to watch TV on whatever desktop I happen to be in. Is this possible? I can not find anything in the documentation. I am using ML 2005LE and mythtv 0.18.1. Seems like an excelle

Re: [mythtv-users] TV-out: GUI but no video - on ATI 9800SE

2005-09-17 Thread Derek Meek
IIRC you can only have Video Overlay on Monitor0 by default with ATI's drivers jonny Linux wrote: > Hi, > > I'm running FC3 with an ATI 9800SE graphics card, with the ATI linux > drivers. > > I've got an SVIDEO->Composite converter, from the back of the graphics > card to the TV. > > Everything i

[mythtv-users] HD-3000 audio recording problem

2005-09-17 Thread john sturgeon
My HD-3000 card is configured to capture using DVB.  My channels are set up and everything works fine.  There is one channel;however, that I never recorded anything on until recently.  When I record, the audio is very choppy (yes, it is a bad stream being recorded, not just playback).  I was able t

[mythtv-users] TV-out: GUI but no video - on ATI 9800SE

2005-09-17 Thread jonny Linux
Hi, I'm running FC3 with an ATI 9800SE graphics card, with the ATI linux drivers. I've got an SVIDEO->Composite converter, from the back of the graphics card to the TV. Everything is working well, but when I play a recording, or watch TV, the video is only displayed on the monitor, and the TV g

Re: [mythtv-users] Knoppix Install fails

2005-09-17 Thread Lee
I just started to install MythTV using the Knoppix distro. It fails with the error message "No such device or address when trying to determine file system size". I know knoppix will fail if the hard drive is not /dev/hda and methinks that is the problem. My CD-Rom is connected as IDE1 (the

[mythtv-users] remote frontend and mtd

2005-09-17 Thread brian boyle
Hey folks.    I have looked in the archives but the search strings i tried sis not reveal anything useful. i have a remote frontend in my living room and the backend is in the basement. I want to be able to rip dvds into my movie archive but when i run the MTD daemon on the backend or the frontend

Re: [mythtv-users] Best remote control

2005-09-17 Thread Paul Woodward
On 9/17/05, Paul Woodward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 9/16/05, Jarod Wilson < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On May 20, 2005, at 14:34, Jarod Wilson wrote:> On Friday 20 May 2005 14:24, Patrick Kirchner wrote: I couldn't be happier with my Radio Shack 8-in-1 universal >> learning remote.

Re: [mythtv-users] Best remote control

2005-09-17 Thread Paul Woodward
On 9/16/05, Jarod Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On May 20, 2005, at 14:34, Jarod Wilson wrote:> On Friday 20 May 2005 14:24, Patrick Kirchner wrote: I couldn't be happier with my Radio Shack 8-in-1 universal>> learning remote. I was able to get rid of ALL of my stereo/TV/Cable/etc...

Re: [mythtv-users] emu10k1 unable to capture?

2005-09-17 Thread Mark
I don't suppose you're using knoppmyth are you? My most recent install using knoppmyth killed the sblive input functionality as well. Chad wrote: Hello! I am having quite the time here trying to configure an SB Live to capture within Myth. I know this is not indicative of anything, but with

Re: [mythtv-users] nuvexport problem?

2005-09-17 Thread Craig Tinson
Greg Estabrooks wrote: One problem I am having however is exporting my recordings - I've used nuxexport in the past successfully but not it refuses to work It's a known bug and is being looked into. Only occurs if you have i a single recording of a particular title. If you have multiple i

Re: [mythtv-users] nuvexport problem?

2005-09-17 Thread Greg Estabrooks
> One problem I am having however is exporting my recordings - I've used > nuxexport in the past successfully but not it refuses to work It's a known bug and is being looked into. Only occurs if you have i a single recording of a particular title. If you have multiple it doesn't happen. _

[mythtv-users] nuvexport problem?

2005-09-17 Thread Craig Tinson
Hey guys *finally* have my myth box up and running reliably again after a few hiccups over the last few months with my new pvr250 and a new remote. WAF is currently *very* high so am happy :) One problem I am having however is exporting my recordings - I've used nuxexport in the past success

[mythtv-users] validate my expatiation please

2005-09-17 Thread cossaboon . mythtv
AllI have been play Knopix version of MythTV and have a backend/frontend server up with an old ATI TV Wonder VE. I also have a Frontend (almost only) for viewing. I have lots of little issueschronicled at http://www.cossaboon.net So before I sink much more time into this is the following a reasonab

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: dual head setup getting screen size from first screen

2005-09-17 Thread Paul Andreassen
I've put a patch in the Mythtv trac system for this problem. If it goes in, it should show up in 0.18.2 or 0.19. http://cvs.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/347 Paul -- ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/list

[mythtv-users] Problems with different languages and DVB

2005-09-17 Thread Dirk Aust
Hello all, I have a problem with stations transmitting audio in different languages, namely the german-french channel Arte in Germany, it seems that MythTV randomly chooses the french or german audio for recording. Is there any possibility to choose the used audio channel? If yes, is this done

Re: [mythtv-users] MythStreamTV and RPMs

2005-09-17 Thread David Whyte
On 9/17/05, Phill Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been trying to get MythStreamTV working for weeks now with no joy. > > First question is has anyone got this working with binary RPM versions > of ffmpeg and vlc. I'm running FC3 and my versions are as follows: > > ffmpeg - > Version

[mythtv-users] What is impact of mythbackend restart on mythcommflag and mythtranscode?

2005-09-17 Thread Phill Edwards
If mythbackend is restarted while mythcommflag or mythtranscode are running, what is the impact? Does it have to start those processes again, does it cause irreparable damage or does it have no impact? Same for if mythfilldatabase is running? Regards, Phill ___

Re: [mythtv-users] Automatic downloading of album art

2005-09-17 Thread Stutty
On 9/15/05, Brandon Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 11:47:19PM +0100, Stutty wrote: > > I use this perl script and patch to automatically grab the cover art > > from amazon.co.uk, post CD rip. Resent to list (not just brandon): (curse on gmail) >>> I may not get round

[mythtv-users] MythStreamTV and RPMs

2005-09-17 Thread Phill Edwards
I've been trying to get MythStreamTV working for weeks now with no joy. First question is has anyone got this working with binary RPM versions of ffmpeg and vlc. I'm running FC3 and my versions are as follows: ffmpeg - Version : 0.4.9 Vendor: ATrpms.net Release