Re: [mythtv-users] MythWeb Disc Usage calculation

2005-09-24 Thread Chris Petersen
I started out with 150GB of disk space, but I recently increased that to 300GB. Problem is, the machine information under mythweb is still reporting the old disk limit (150), not the new limit (300). I looked throught the mysql database but was unable to find anything that suggests this number is

[mythtv-users] How to use NVRAM-Wakeup with Mythtv

2005-09-24 Thread Jim Gifford
I have spent several weeks getting nvram-wakeup to work perfectly with my Mythtv Setup. I have made my notes now available for everyone to review and comment. I will only stress on important point, test nvram-wakeup first, if you have a current motherboard you should have no issues, but if you

[mythtv-users] Picture quality question

2005-09-24 Thread Dag Nygren
Hi there list! Finally got a working setup of my MythTV and have some questions to you experts: The setup is a Twinhan DVB-T board, Prosavage display controller and a Viewsonic 16:9 LCD TV using the VGA input. The picture is otherwise fine, but in darker areas with shades it seems like the

Re: [mythtv-users] Picture quality question

2005-09-24 Thread ffrr
Dag Nygren wrote: Hi there list! Finally got a working setup of my MythTV and have some questions to you experts: The setup is a Twinhan DVB-T board, Prosavage display controller and a Viewsonic 16:9 LCD TV using the VGA input. I have a Twinhan DVB-T card, and a cheapy nvidia TNT2 card,

Re: [mythtv-users] Accessing MythWEB from Docomo I-mode

2005-09-24 Thread Ciaran
For what its worth the HTML theme is styled/formatted similarly to the WML version, so personally I would start with that and modify it to meet the cHTML requirements, Ideally you'd try something of here http://www.palowireless.com/imode/browsers.asp point it to your mytthweb connection and see

[mythtv-users] Where can i get KnoppMythR5A17.iso

2005-09-24 Thread Folashade Adeyosoye
Anyone know where I can get Where can i get KnoppMythR5A17.iso ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

[mythtv-users] Can not get my HD-3000 to work

2005-09-24 Thread Folashade Adeyosoye
I believe I have everything setup right, am able to go to the Phone page and view live TV in the upper left had corner but when I select Watch TV, nothing comes up on my computer monitor (800x600). These are my settings; System: KnoppMyth Mythtv-setup Capture card setup

[mythtv-users] link request

2005-09-24 Thread Blake
Could someone repost that link that showed what OTA channels were available by region (ZIP?). I've been scouring the list for the past 20 minutes unable to find it. Thanks! ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org

RE: [mythtv-users] Can not get my HD-3000 to work

2005-09-24 Thread Marc Tousignant
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Folashade Adeyosoye Sent: Saturday, September 24, 2005 7:33 AM To: 'Discussion about mythtv' Subject: [mythtv-users] Can not get my HD-3000 to work  I believe I have everything setup right, am

RE: [mythtv-users] Where can i get KnoppMythR5A17.iso

2005-09-24 Thread Marc Tousignant
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Folashade Adeyosoye Sent: Saturday, September 24, 2005 7:32 AM To: 'Discussion about mythtv' Subject: [mythtv-users] Where can i get KnoppMythR5A17.iso Anyone know where I can get   Where can

[mythtv-users] use MythTV as Media Player without tuner-card?

2005-09-24 Thread Kai Hörner
Hello everyone, i am new to MythTV and am struggling with the following: i want to use mythtv as a media player (or HTPC) in my living room, but do not have a digital tuner-card (and dont want to buy one in the near future). i have a cheap digital receiver, and thats enough for TV (i dont like

[mythtv-users] Trouble recording BW movies (old WinTV card)

2005-09-24 Thread Wendy Seltzer
I'm capturing analog NTSC with an old WinTV card (Bt 878). It seems to work fine for everything except old black white movies. Recent attempts to record Notorious and Arsenic and Old Lace on different days both failed, capturing only broken blocks of video and chyopped audio -- although color

[mythtv-users] Mythweb thumbnail images

2005-09-24 Thread Michael Sherman
Just upgraded to the newest SVN, and I noticed that with the newer recordings (now with the .mpg extension), mythweb doesn't seem to correctly grab the preview thumbnail image. In the recordings store directory, I can see the thumbnail png file, and it looks normal. In the mythweb

Re: [mythtv-users] link request

2005-09-24 Thread PAUL WILLIAMSON
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 09/24/05 8:03 AM Could someone repost that link that showed what OTA channels were available by region (ZIP?). I've been scouring the list for the past 20 minutes unable to find it. Thanks! Check out antennaweb.org. Paul

Re: [mythtv-users] use MythTV as Media Player without tuner-card?

2005-09-24 Thread Josh Burks
On 9/24/05, Kai Hörner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello everyone, i am new to MythTV and am struggling with the following: i want to use mythtv as a media player (or HTPC) in my living room, but do not have a digital tuner-card (and dont want to buy one in the near future). i have a cheap

Re: [mythtv-users] MythWeb Disc Usage calculation

2005-09-24 Thread Larry K
I have rebooted the backend numerous times, as you guessed. Regarding the status in mythfrontend, I can never see the entire output because it doesn't fit on the display. It gets truncated with elipses (...) so I only see the first part of the output. I have found no way to scroll to the right

Re: [mythtv-users] MythWeb Disc Usage calculation

2005-09-24 Thread Todd Houle
I was going to pull out my 80GB drive and put in a 180 that I have it. I don't (yet) care about losing my recorded shows so I thought I'd delete the recorded shows in Myth, then swap the drives. I found that once I deleted the recorded shows in Myth, I still had about 20GB of video still

Re: [mythtv-users] Trouble recording BW movies (old WinTV card)

2005-09-24 Thread Carl Fongheiser
On 9/24/05, Wendy Seltzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm capturing analog NTSC with an old WinTV card (Bt 878). It seems to work fine for everything except old black white movies. Recent attempts to record Notorious and Arsenic and Old Lace on different days both failed, capturing only broken

[mythtv-users] Silencing mythfilldatabase

2005-09-24 Thread Dave Sherohman
What does it take to eliminate all non-error output from mythbackend? I'm using mythtv 0.18.1, as packaged for Debian at http://dijkstra.csh.rit.edu/~mdz/debian and mythfilldatabase is being run by anacron from /etc/cron.daily/mythtv-backend with the following script: --- cut here --- #!/bin/sh

Re: [mythtv-users] burning audio CDs

2005-09-24 Thread Jesse Guardiani
On Friday 23 September 2005 7:43 pm, Chad wrote: [...] dvdrtools is the package you want. It's a modified/forked version of cdrtools that works well with 2.6.x kernels. Both of these contain the cdrecord tool you are referring to. It doesn't use scsi emulation, you specify the device with

[mythtv-users] Re: PVR-350 TV-out problems

2005-09-24 Thread P.O. Siggerud
-Opprinnelig melding- Fra: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] På vegne av Nick Sendt: 24. september 2005 02:37 Til: Discussion about mythtv Emne: Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-350 TV-out problems On 23/09/05, P.O. Siggerud [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all! This is my first post

[mythtv-users] dmesg PVR250 shows up as a 150?

2005-09-24 Thread mark
I am getting this on FC4 with a PVR250. Any idea why? /bin/dmesg |grep Initialized ivtv: Initialized WinTV PVR 150, card #0 ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

Re: [mythtv-users] dmesg PVR250 shows up as a 150?

2005-09-24 Thread mark
The reason I ask is that I have a successfull install of Myth on FC4 that did not survive a reboot If I cat the /dev/video0 device into a file ( cat /dev/video0 /tmp/ test_capture.mpg ) I get a zero byte file. I have /sbin/rmmod ivtv # /sbin/modprobe ivtv and still the same. IVTV is the

Re: [mythtv-users] dmesg PVR250 shows up as a 150?

2005-09-24 Thread mark
Here is the version info on ivtv installed: ivtv-firmware-dec-2.02.023-4.at ivtv-firmware-1.8a-4.at ivtv-kmdl-2.6.12-1.1456_FC4-0.3.8-97.rhfc4.at ivtv-0.3.8-97.rhfc4.at ivtv-firmware-enc-2.04.024-4.at On Sep 24, 2005, at 9:10 AM, mark wrote: I am getting this on FC4 with a PVR250. Any idea

Re: [mythtv-users] Can not get my HD-3000 to work

2005-09-24 Thread Greg Woods
The only way I could get my HD-3000 to work with ANALOG cable input was to use the V4L drivers. I'm not saying that's a definitive answer, it was just my experience. But Marc is right that it does depend on what kernel version you are using. I tried to use the DVB drivers that I downloaded from

[mythtv-users] problem with theme + Torrentocracy

2005-09-24 Thread Ashu Desai
Hello, I installed torrentocracy on my perfectly working MythTV. I had the DVR theme by default. However I couldn't see the torrent button and so I thought of changing the theme to default and see if I got the button there. (I had edited the mainmenu.xml and main_settings.xml of

Re: [mythtv-users] Picture quality question

2005-09-24 Thread Craig Tinson
Dag Nygren wrote: Hi there list! Finally got a working setup of my MythTV and have some questions to you experts: The setup is a Twinhan DVB-T board, Prosavage display controller and a Viewsonic 16:9 LCD TV using the VGA input. The picture is otherwise fine, but in darker areas with shades

Re: [mythtv-users] dmesg PVR250 shows up as a 150?

2005-09-24 Thread Mark Prinz
Try a cold reboot. I've had problems in the past where on a soft reboot would not fix the problem, but when I would shut it down and start it up again, it recognizedthe cardcorrectly. On 9/24/05, mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here is the version info on ivtv

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

2005-09-24 Thread Craig Tinson
Michael T. Dean wrote: 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

Re: [mythtv-users] dmesg PVR250 shows up as a 150?

2005-09-24 Thread mark
You were right.  That was it.  Thanks muchOn Sep 24, 2005, at 10:14 AM, Mark Prinz wrote:Try a cold reboot.  I've had problems in the past where on a soft reboot would not fix the problem, but when I would shut it down and start it up again, it recognized the card correctly.   On 9/24/05, mark

[mythtv-users] 68% filesize increase after transcode!

2005-09-24 Thread Greg Grotsky
Hi everyone, I just started experimenting with transcoding (again) as I want to be able to archive good shows after chopping out the commercials and shrink them down so they aren't so massive. I'm recording with an HD-3000 using DVB so I'm getting videos that are in resolutions like 1280x720 and

Re: [mythtv-users] Can not get my HD-3000 to work

2005-09-24 Thread Erik Pettersen
I think we need more information.. I assume you want to tune ATSC OTA HDTV (hows that for acronym soup!) and not analog/NTSC. I assume you've been to a resource like http://www.antennaweb.org and found out whether or not there are HDTV stations broadcasting in your area, and have a sufficient

[mythtv-users] re-import nuv files after re-install?

2005-09-24 Thread mark
I have just re-installed a fresh version. I did not re-use the old DB though I still have it. I think the old DB was a bit messed up so I do not want to import it. However, I have about 150 nuv files that would be nice to have access to again through the frontend. Is there anyway to get

Re: [mythtv-users] lirc problems

2005-09-24 Thread Jon Kunze
I'm having this same problem on a fresh FC4 install. When I reboot, lircd is dead, and the only think I've found to get it running again without crashing, is to remove and then reinstall via yum. Then, when you reboot, it's dead again and you repeat. Has anyone had this problem, or found a

Re: [mythtv-users] 68% filesize increase after transcode!

2005-09-24 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Sat, Sep 24, 2005 at 10:38:12AM -0600, Greg Grotsky wrote: Is RTjpeg not a good compression algorithm? It must be worse then MPEG2, since the video was almost exactly 31 minutes and is now 21 minutes and much larger in size. I'm not scaling it down (yet) so it's still in it's native size

[mythtv-users] Air2PC/Airstar HD-5000 channel setup and Myth

2005-09-24 Thread Seth Heckard
I received my HD-5000 card the other day and got it working with little problem thanks to the guide on http://www.hd5000.com/. By working, I mean that the drivers load and I can azap channels and occasionally watch them in mplayer. I am using QAM256 and Comcast cable. My problem is that I get

Re: [mythtv-users] re-import nuv files after re-install?

2005-09-24 Thread Cory Papenfuss
There are threads in the archive on how to do this. It amounts to grepping for a few strings in the backup .sql file from the old database... Four of them IIRC. grep oldrecorded old_db.sql new_sql_stub.sql grep oldrecordedmarkup old_db.sql new_sql_stub.sql ... something like

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR 500MCE worth the trouble yet?

2005-09-24 Thread Larry K
Now that the ivtv 0.3.x driver has been promoted to stable, I would think that the PVR-500 might become a much more popular choice. I know I was waiting for the kinks to be worked out before I tried using a 500On 7/22/05, Joe Votour [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Interestingly enough, I'm using

[mythtv-users] PVR 500 and nforce2 chipset

2005-09-24 Thread Larry K
I am thinking about making the plunge on the PVR-500, but I thought I better ask if there are any problems getting this card to work on an nforce2 system before I jump in. Can anyone weigh in? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org

Re: [mythtv-users] Choppy Video on Playback and LiveTV, not with mplayer

2005-09-24 Thread Stephen Atkins
Stephen Atkins wrote: Nick wrote: On 22/09/05, Lee Koloszyc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, I am having a problem with mythtv 0.18.1 on Gentoo kernel 2.6.12-r10 on both livetv and playing pre-recorded videos. The play back is supper choppy and pauses about every 2 seconds. Playing

Re: [mythtv-users] pvr 250 and pvr 500 in same box

2005-09-24 Thread orion
I tried your method, now when I go to 'watch tv' the frontend locks up. I posted on how to do this a couple of days ago if you want more details but the short and sweet of it is: To get the sound working you have to update the firmware with this

Re: [mythtv-users] Air2PC/Airstar HD-5000 channel setup and Myth

2005-09-24 Thread Erik Pettersen
After I basically did it the hard/painful manual way... I found Christiaan Lutzers excellent little utility... http://www.ece.ualberta.ca/~lutzer/dvb/ found via this discussion http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/136823 It scan through all the pids and stuff and when it found a

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR 500 and nforce2 chipset

2005-09-24 Thread Robert Denier
As you can see, my pvr150 seems fine. I'm not really using the bt878 based card, although I need to get another 150 and it will be as if I was running a 500, more or less. I forgot some of the details I went through to get it working, but I may be able to figure them out if you have a

[mythtv-users] Seeking Remote Control Advice for PVR-500

2005-09-24 Thread Larry K
Please bear with me as I show my total ignorance regarding universal remote controls. :) I am pondering whether or not to slap a PVR-500 into my system (one of my 250s died, so now I'm down to one tuner), So, if I get the PVR-500 and pull out the 250s, I'm gonna need a remote control. I

Re: [mythtv-users] dmesg PVR250 shows up as a 150?

2005-09-24 Thread Mark Knecht
I see you have solved this. I've had this same problem on one of our backend server. To be clear, it's not a MythTV or ivtv problem. If you do an lspci -x after a warm boot and a cold boot you will see that the config space has different identification for the card, or at least it's true on my

RE: [mythtv-users] Where can i get KnoppMythR5A17.iso

2005-09-24 Thread Folashade Adeyosoye
I found a post by Cesman (http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=33934highlight=;) About testing R5A17, I was just wondering where I can get my hands on one. thanks -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Marc Tousignant Sent: Saturday,

RE: [mythtv-users] Can not get my HD-3000 to work

2005-09-24 Thread Folashade Adeyosoye
I was using whatever came with KnoppMyth R5A16 (Debian) Yes I was using the DVB driver. Thanks 2 questions. Which kernel are you using? Are you using the DVB driver or the V4L driver? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Marc Tousignant

RE: [mythtv-users] Can not get my HD-3000 to work

2005-09-24 Thread Marc Tousignant
Ok, I think I know the problem but I have never used knoppmyth. The DVB Driver is configured via the DVB section of myth-setup. Not the V4L or the HD-2000/3000 section. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:mythtv-users- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Folashade

Re: [mythtv-users] Seeking Remote Control Advice for PVR-500

2005-09-24 Thread PAUL WILLIAMSON
Larry K [EMAIL PROTECTED] 09/24/05 3:02 PM Please bear with me as I show my total ignorance regarding universal remote controls. :) Hey, we were all n00bs once! I am pondering whether or not to slap a PVR-500 into my system (one of my 250s died, so now I'm down to one tuner), So, if I

[mythtv-users] Audio buffer overflow

2005-09-24 Thread Paul
Hi I have mythtv working for the most part, the only problem i have is that every night something happens and the next day when i go to watch livetv or recordings the video and audio plays for less than a second then the video goes really slow and the audio goes off. The only error message

[mythtv-users] Question on viewing digital signals on non-digital TV

2005-09-24 Thread Blake
Thanks for the antennaweb.org link! Another simple question: Isn't there a device that one can attach to a non-digital-capable TV so that it can receive digital OTA channels? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org

Re: [mythtv-users] 68% filesize increase after transcode!

2005-09-24 Thread George Nassas
On 24-Sep-05, at 12:38 PM, Greg Grotsky wrote: Is RTjpeg not a good compression algorithm? Depends what you're after - from a compression point of view it's a terrible algorithm, from a speed of encoding point of view it's terrific. RTjpeg is mostly used by people with frame-grabber cards,

Re: [mythtv-users] Seeking Remote Control Advice for PVR-500

2005-09-24 Thread Joe Votour
This is slightly off-topic, but... Can somebody please confirm or deny the existance of a PVR-500 (non-MCE edition)? Hauppauge's own website doesn't list a PVR-500, only a PVR-500 MCE. They have a PVR-500MCE-Kit, which has a Windows Media Center remote control and an IR Blaster (they call it a

[mythtv-users] Channel change script

2005-09-24 Thread Michael Luich
Hey everyone, My hd crash last week, really bad no spin up! Well I got a new one (bigger of course) And so far so good, now al i need to do is reloacte the channel changing script I had for my rca directtv box. It was realy good, supported multiple box's and options including posting messages

Re: [mythtv-users] Seeking Remote Control Advice for PVR-500

2005-09-24 Thread John Clabaugh
On 9/24/05, Larry K [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please bear with me as I show my total ignorance regarding universal remote controls. :) I am pondering whether or not to slap a PVR-500 into my system (one of my 250s died, so now I'm down to one tuner), So, if I get the PVR-500 and pull out the

[mythtv-users] Re: DVB setup question

2005-09-24 Thread Johan Reinalda
Nick wrote: Since 0.17 these tables are not used any more. The only DVB-related table is the dtv_multiplex table, which interfaces with the channels table to tune to channels. I would check the dtv_multiplex table to make sure that the FEC values agree with your channels.conf file. I checked

[mythtv-users] Re: DVB setup question

2005-09-24 Thread Johan Reinalda
Quick follow up on my previous posting. This is the entry in my channels.conf that I am interested in (i care only for this one FTA channel on the IA5 sattelite): BVN TV:11929:v:0:22000:4021:4031:153 This tells me the freq is 11.929MHz, 22Mbps rate, vertical, audio pid 4021, vid 4031, and

[mythtv-users] Error while starting to record. WAF has hit rock bottom.

2005-09-24 Thread Moasat
I've got this error twice now. The first time was the season premiere of ER - not a good thing to miss in this household. A portion of the log file follows... And please, no jokes about the show it was trying to record. It wasn't for *me*. :) I'm running svn version from last Tuesday with

Re: [mythtv-users] Error while starting to record. WAF has hit rock bottom.

2005-09-24 Thread Isaac Richards
On Saturday 24 September 2005 07:14 pm, Moasat wrote: I've got this error twice now. The first time was the season premiere of ER - not a good thing to miss in this household. A portion of the log file follows... And please, no jokes about the show it was trying to record. It wasn't for

[mythtv-users] Motorola HD DVR, Firewire, OS X

2005-09-24 Thread Bob Lee
I noticed MythTV now has support for the Motorola HD DVR. Can I run a complete setup that records video using the DVR on a Mac Mini yet? The Motorola UI really sucks. Thanks, Bob ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org

[mythtv-users] Spontaneous Reboot w/ PVR-500/150

2005-09-24 Thread Brian M. Sperlongano
Out of curiousity, and I know this has been discussed before on the list... Is anyone else still experiencing spontaneous reboots with their PVR-500/150, even with the latest motherboard bios upgrade? I'm still seeing reboots on the order of anywhere from once every 15 minutes to once every 4

Re: [mythtv-users] mythcomflag - how do I set nice level?

2005-09-24 Thread Mark Knecht
On 9/23/05, Mark Cooke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2005-09-23 at 15:55 -0500, Roman Romaniuk wrote: On 9/23/05, Ryan Steffes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think my problem resides somewhere in the NFS system. I also note looking at the output of ifconfig that both the backend side and

Re: [mythtv-users] Spontaneous Reboot w/ PVR-500/150

2005-09-24 Thread Robert Denier
It sounds like you have bad hardware or incompatible hardware to me. It could be software, but from the way you describe it, I'd tend to suspect hardware. In particular i.d do something like this.. 1) Check your voltages of your power supply via some monitoring software. 2) Run memtest86 and

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR 500 and nforce2 chipset

2005-09-24 Thread Larry K
Is there a drop-off in picture quality going from a pair of 250s to a 500? I seem to remember reading something about that.On 9/24/05, Larry K [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks! On 9/24/05, Robert Denier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As you can see, my pvr150 seems fine.I'm not really using the bt878

[mythtv-users] Guidance on MPEG-4 recording settings?

2005-09-24 Thread Mark Kundinger
I've been doing MPEG-4 transcoding for quite a while with Myth. However, I've never tweaked the video settings more than just adjusting the bitrate. What do settings like max quality, min quality, and max quality difference between frames actually mean? And what are the ramifications if I mess

Re: [mythtv-users] Error while starting to record. WAF has hitrock bottom.

2005-09-24 Thread PAUL WILLIAMSON
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 09/24/05 7:42 PM On Saturday 24 September 2005 07:14 pm, Moasat wrote: I've got this error twice now. The first time was the season premiere of ER - not a good thing to miss in this household. A portion of the log file follows... And please, no jokes about the

[mythtv-users] Cant access dvb card when mythbackend is running.

2005-09-24 Thread W.Kenworthy
I have a DIVICO Fusion-HDTV DVB Plus which works file in gxine and mplayer. Without the mythbackend running, I can successfully populate the channels with scan in mythfrontend. When mythbackend is running, xine, mplayer and mythtv itself all cannot access the DVB card. mythbackend and

[mythtv-users] database gone south

2005-09-24 Thread Greg Woods
Something is strange with the database, at least, the part that controls the Guide and is populated by mythfilldatabase. Neither MythWeb nor mythfrontend can see any scheduling data beyond today. Everything else (at least, watch TV and watch recordings) works. If I run mythfilldatabase, the

RE: [mythtv-users] Error while starting to record. WAF hashitrock bottom.

2005-09-24 Thread Moasat
Silly question, but if you are trying to achieve a high WAF, why are you running SVN? Unless there is something super important in svn, .18.1 works pretty well and I've got fairly high WAF (and KAF). Because the wife likes new features. She just doesn't like new features that fail to

Re: [mythtv-users] Error while starting to record. WAF hashitrock bottom.

2005-09-24 Thread Jonathan Link
Then she needs to understand the cost of those new features. C'mon. My wife likes new features, too, but she can usually wait for a release. On 9/24/05, Moasat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Silly question, but if you are trying to achieve a high WAF, why are you running SVN? Unless there is

[mythtv-users] Problems with mythtv-setup - freezing at Job-Queue screen

2005-09-24 Thread Jeffrey Rogers
Hi All, Having trouble with mythtv-setup. When I run mythtv-setup everything goes well until I get to the Job-Queue setup screen under the General menu. The screen name shows up in the top title bar and the buttons at the bottom (Next,Back) show up, as well as the general layout of the screen,

Re: [mythtv-users] Cant access dvb card when mythbackend is running.

2005-09-24 Thread ffrr
W.Kenworthy wrote: I have a DIVICO Fusion-HDTV DVB Plus which works file in gxine and mplayer. Without the mythbackend running, I can successfully populate the channels with scan in mythfrontend. When mythbackend is running, xine, mplayer and mythtv itself all cannot access the DVB card.

Re: [mythtv-users] database gone south

2005-09-24 Thread ffrr
Greg Woods wrote: Something is strange with the database, at least, the part that controls the Guide and is populated by mythfilldatabase. Neither MythWeb nor mythfrontend can see any scheduling data beyond today. Everything else (at least, watch TV and watch recordings) works. If I run

RE: [mythtv-users] Cant access dvb card when mythbackend is running.

2005-09-24 Thread David Ellis
Change the advanced settings in MythSetup and enable Open on Demand (check my spelling I haven't set it in a while). As long as you aren't watching the tuner (or recording from the tuner) you can use any app you want. David -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: [mythtv-users] Problems with mythtv-setup - freezing at Job-Queuescreen

2005-09-24 Thread David Ellis
Are you running Gentoo? I had this problem with gentoo a LONG time ago, solved it with a emerge kde your probably missing a library or two. David -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jeffrey Rogers Sent: Saturday, September 24, 2005 10:03 PM

[mythtv-users] CD Library Plugin

2005-09-24 Thread David Ellis
I posted a few days ago about creating a CD Library Plug-in, specifically for my DC-300. Ive successfully reverse engineered the USB protocol and have a working command line utility for changing library disks. So this got me thinking about my proposed plug-in. Im creating a CD-Library

Re: [mythtv-users] database gone south

2005-09-24 Thread Greg Woods
On Sun, 2005-09-25 at 12:20 +1000, ffrr wrote: You can check the database with mysqlcheck -u mythtv -pmythtv mythconverg and can also repair it with mysqlcheck -r -u mythtv -pmythtv mythconverg After which (might need to run mythfilldatabase again) you should have the guide

Re: [mythtv-users] Question on viewing digital signals on non-digital TV

2005-09-24 Thread Erik Pettersen
There are ATSC/DTV set top boxes on the market (to service those HD Ready Tv's that don't have a tuner...) Sidenote: I also hear people are snatching up old VOOM satellite boxes (since VOOM the service is defunct now, right?) and just using the ATSC tuner part for a relatively cheap solution...

[mythtv-users] Audio problems with Asus P4S533 and Fedora Core 4

2005-09-24 Thread John T. Nissley
I am trying to use the on board audio with an ASUS P4S533 mother board. The Fedora core 4 installation appears to recognize the on board sound card exists but no sound is played through the speakers. Are there any drivers that I need to make the on board audio work or will I need to

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR150 card on Mandriva 2005LE

2005-09-24 Thread Michael T. Dean
Greg Cole wrote: I've recently obtained a PVR150 card for my PC and its not working. ... ivtv: version 0.2.0 (rc3f) loading Use ivtv 0.3.8+ ( http://ivtv.tv/ --click on unstable releases). Mike ___ mythtv-users mailing list

Re: [mythtv-users] database gone south

2005-09-24 Thread Greg Woods
On Sat, 2005-09-24 at 20:44 -0600, Greg Woods wrote: Thank you for the tip, but it didn't work. Still no data after 10pm today (which is only about an hour from now). I got the guide back. What worked was to go into mythtv-setup and delete all the channel data and redownload it. Then running

[mythtv-users] libdvdread can't find my DVD

2005-09-24 Thread Claude Gélinas agr.
When I try to listen a dvd via mythfrontend I get the following error message on the console: Voici xine (X11 gui) - un lecteur vidéo libre v0.99.3. (c) 2000-2004 L'Equipe de xine. libdvdread: Using libdvdcss version 1.2.8 for DVD access libdvdread: Attempting to use device /dev/hda2 mounted on /

RE: [mythtv-users] Problems with mythtv-setup - freezing at Job-Queuescreen

2005-09-24 Thread Warren Sturm
On Sat, 2005-09-24 at 22:23 -0400, David Ellis wrote: Are you running Gentoo? I had this problem with gentoo a LONG time ago, solved it with a emerge kde your probably missing a library or two. David -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf

Re: [mythtv-users] Cant access dvb card when mythbackend is running.

2005-09-24 Thread ffrr
David Ellis wrote: Change the advanced settings in MythSetup and enable Open on Demand (check my spelling I haven't set it in a while). As long as you aren't watching the tuner (or recording from the tuner) you can use any app you want. David Thanks for that, I never noticed that

[mythtv-users] SVN MythTV doesn't accurately recognize duplicates?

2005-09-24 Thread Chad
Hello! I scheduled a Nova show: Nova: Mystery of the Megaflood And now, every following Nova show shows up as: This recording will be recorded at an earlier time instead For example, the following show produces the above result: Nova: Hunt for the Supertwister This info is all derived from

Re: [mythtv-users] database gone south

2005-09-24 Thread Greg Woods
On Sat, 2005-09-24 at 21:18 -0600, Greg Woods wrote: Now the tuner card on my frontend system won't change channels, but the two cards in the backend system do. Weird. Appears to be related to the database problem, as the mythbackend logs on the FE/BE system report problems accessing the

Re: [mythtv-users] database gone south

2005-09-24 Thread Greg Woods
On Sat, 2005-09-24 at 21:56 -0600, Greg Woods wrote: it's the backend process on the FE/BE system that is having trouble. I'll work on this more in the morning. Just checked: the MBE system is now hosed too; it won't change channels either. I suspect my database is just completely corrupted

RE: [mythtv-users] Error while starting to record. WAF hashitrock bottom.

2005-09-24 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Sat, 2005-09-24 at 20:40 -0500, Moasat wrote: Because the wife likes new features. She just doesn't like new features that fail to record her shows. I can't explain it any better than that. :) The wife likes new features? You sure it's the wife that likes them? Why does the wife even

[mythtv-users] OT: geforce 5200 and cables

2005-09-24 Thread Neil Cronin
Hi all, I have a video cabling question, and I haven't found the right answer anywhere else, so I thought I'd post it here since I'm sure that someone has run into this with mythtv. I'm looking for a way to remove some video interference in my current setup. My mythtv box has a geforce 5200

Re: [mythtv-users] OT: geforce 5200 and cables

2005-09-24 Thread Kevin Kuphal
Neil Cronin wrote: I'm currently using the svideo-out on the 5200 to the svideo-in on the tv, but there is way too much interference. I see about 100 grey lines running from the top right to the bottom left of the screen. I've tried various svideo cables (high quality and low quality

Re: [mythtv-users] OT: geforce 5200 and cables

2005-09-24 Thread Stephen Atkins
Kevin Kuphal wrote: Neil Cronin wrote: I'm currently using the svideo-out on the 5200 to the svideo-in on the tv, but there is way too much interference. I see about 100 grey lines running from the top right to the bottom left of the screen. I've tried various svideo cables (high quality

Re: [mythtv-users] 68% filesize increase after transcode!

2005-09-24 Thread Greg Grotsky
Dave, I tried transcoding the same episode to MPEG4 and it came out 40% larger than the original MPEG2 transmission. I don't know why anyone would use these methods if they want to keep their videos the same dimensions as they are broadcast, since it looks like they actually ballon in size instead

Re: [mythtv-users] 68% filesize increase after transcode!

2005-09-24 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Sat, Sep 24, 2005 at 10:51:52PM -0600, Greg Grotsky wrote: Dave, I tried transcoding the same episode to MPEG4 and it came out 40% larger than the original MPEG2 transmission. That's certainly odd... The only things I can think of are that either it's something to do with your working

[mythtv-users] Question about ticket #340 labeled Redo live-tv

2005-09-24 Thread Greg Grotsky
I have a problem with seeking in live-tv, it happens when I rewind a little, then attempt to fast forward back to ~realtime. Somehow the pointer for where I'm at in the live-tv buffer gets screwed up and shifts all the way back to the beginning of the stream. At this point the live-tv code thinks

[mythtv-users] torrentocracy problem

2005-09-24 Thread Ashu Desai
I installed torrentocracy and did what they told me to, yet can't see a button. Can anyone help me sort this out? thanks, ash. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users