Re: [mythtv-users] TV-Out

2005-10-01 Thread Robert Denier
You probably want to get an nvidia card. I have some ati 7k cards and they do work, well when you recompile xorg-x11 with the ati tv out patches from gatos, but overscan isn't supported at all. On Sun, 2005-09-25 at 15:52 -0700, DSanchez wrote: Ok, So my video card is an ATI 7000 with

[mythtv-users] Is this because bitrate was slightly too low?

2005-10-01 Thread ffrr
I just used nuvexport to export a show, then made a DVD from it. It all works quite well. One thing though, really fast movements, like a drummer's hands, tend to break up into horizontal lines. Is this just because the video bitrate was a touch too low? I used the default that nuvexport

Re: [mythtv-users] [OT] Remote Help

2005-10-01 Thread Niels Dybdahl
Did /dev/lirc exist before you started irw ? Did you set the access rights on the lirc* devices ? Niels Dybdahl - Original Message - From: Steve To: Discussion about mythtv Sent: Saturday, October 01, 2005 7:39 AM Subject: [mythtv-users] [OT] Remote Help A

Re: [mythtv-users] Is this because bitrate was slightly too low?

2005-10-01 Thread ffrr
Niels Dybdahl wrote: This is what happens if you show interlaced contents on a non-interlaced display without deinterlacing. Niels Dybdahl I see. Except this time, I chose not to deinterlace it, because I am watching it on a normal interlaced TV (playing it on a commercial DVD

Re: [mythtv-users] [OT] Remote Help

2005-10-01 Thread Marius Schrecker
Did /dev/lirc exist before you started irw ? Did you set the access rights on the lirc* devices ? Niels Dybdahl - Original Message - From: Steve To: Discussion about mythtv Sent: Saturday, October 01, 2005 7:39 AM Subject: [mythtv-users] [OT] Remote Help A friend of

Re: [mythtv-users] another mythplugins make problem -- FIXED: uglyhack

2005-10-01 Thread Marius Schrecker
I had the exact same problem, and I was able to compile and install by first copying mythconfig.make to subfolders like mythdvd/mythdvd, mythdvd/mtd, mythdvd/i18n, mythmusic/mythmusic, etc. I also had my source in a home directory of a user. I wonder if the makefiles don't like something

[mythtv-users] Mac support ?

2005-10-01 Thread Vincèn
Hi, I would appreciate to know what is status of mythtv with Mac OSX ? Is it possible to get mythtv working correctly on Mac OSX ? If so, is it difficult to install or not ?? Thanks for your helpful tips and ideas Vincèn___

Re: [mythtv-users] mythtv 0.18.1-5 and mythplugins 0.18.1-2

2005-10-01 Thread Marius Schrecker
I had similar problems the first time I tried to build mythtv: #apt-get build-dep mythtv ..gives unsatisfied dependency for liblame-dev, but this is replaced by liblame0-dev In the end I used equiv to build a dummy package for liblame-dev which I made dependant on liblame0-dev

[mythtv-users] Frontend / backend setup recommendations

2005-10-01 Thread Kevin Barsby
Hi, My Myth box cooked it's disk earlier this week, and I've been pondering the best wat to setup a backend / frontend system. The two options I'm considering are: - Frontend only + backend on separate PC - Frontend + Backend on 1 machine with networked storage on second machine The main reason

Re: [mythtv-users] Where did my recordings go!!

2005-10-01 Thread Robin Gilks
There is a perl script in the contrib folder of the distribution that will locate your nuv files and insert them into the database if needed. It's called myth.rebuilddatabase.pl On 9/26/05, Robin Gilks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just changed capture cards, so I deleted the old card,

Re: [mythtv-users] another mythplugins make problem -- FIXED: uglyhack

2005-10-01 Thread Robin Gilks
I had the exact same problem, and I was able to compile and install by first copying mythconfig.make to subfolders like mythdvd/mythdvd, mythdvd/mtd, mythdvd/i18n, mythmusic/mythmusic, etc. I also had my source in a home directory of a user. I wonder if the makefiles don't like something

Re: [mythtv-users] Where did my recordings go!!

2005-10-01 Thread Lonnie Borntreger
On Sat, 2005-10-01 at 21:51 +1200, Robin Gilks wrote: There is a perl script in the contrib folder of the distribution that will locate your nuv files and insert them into the database if needed. It's called myth.rebuilddatabase.pl On 9/26/05, Robin Gilks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: [mythtv-users] Mac support ?

2005-10-01 Thread Dave
Vincèn wrote: Hi, I would appreciate to know what is status of mythtv with Mac OSX ? Is it possible to get mythtv working correctly on Mac OSX ? If so, is it difficult to install or not ?? The frontend has been ported. http://www.mythtv.info/moin.cgi/MythOnMacOsx Works well, I

Re: [mythtv-users] Mac support ?

2005-10-01 Thread Joshua King
On 1/10/05 6:44 PM, Dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I thought the backend was in progress but I do not know what the status is. PCs are cheap though. :) The backend compiles and runs on Tiger, so you can use it on a laptop to get rid of warnings from the frontend but there is no capturing

[mythtv-users] hdtv modelines

2005-10-01 Thread Marius Schrecker
Hi, Next thing to set up is my xorg.conf for dvi out. I have to say I'm very confused about how dvi modelines work. I've never used anything other than analogue monitors before. Perhaps someone can correct my assumtions as I ramble along: My tv will support 480p-60Hz, 576p-50Hz, 720p-50Hz,

[mythtv-users] Tuner numbers - 1 3 (no 2)?

2005-10-01 Thread Matthew Carle
Hi, I have 2 DVB-T tuner cards and recently had to exhange one which was faulty. When I put the new replacement in, it showed up as encoder 3. I no longer have an encoder 2. This doesn't cause any problems to the functionality but it would be nicer if the numbers were correct. Any ideas on how

Re: [mythtv-users] Tuner numbers - 1 3 (no 2)?

2005-10-01 Thread Nick Rosier
On 01/10/05, Matthew Carle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have 2 DVB-T tuner cards and recently had to exhange one which was faulty. When I put the new replacement in, it showed up as encoder 3. I no longer have an encoder 2. This doesn't cause any problems to the functionality but it would

Re: [mythtv-users] hdtv modelines

2005-10-01 Thread Marius Schrecker
Hi, Next thing to set up is my xorg.conf for dvi out. I have to say I'm very confused about how dvi modelines work. I've never used anything other than analogue monitors before. Perhaps someone can correct my assumtions as I ramble along: My tv will support 480p-60Hz, 576p-50Hz,

RE: [mythtv-users] Tuner numbers - 1 3 (no 2)?

2005-10-01 Thread Matthew Carle
Thanks Nick, Option 1 doesn't work so it looks like I'll have to edit the database. Just have to figure out how... My SQL knowledge is very patchy. Matthew. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nick Rosier Sent: Saturday, 1 October 2005

Re: [mythtv-users] Mac support ?

2005-10-01 Thread mark
Frontend is easy to install. On Oct 1, 2005, at 2:57 AM, Vincèn wrote: Hi, I would appreciate to know what is status of mythtv with Mac OSX ? Is it possible to get mythtv working correctly on Mac OSX ? If so, is it difficult to install or not ?? Thanks for your helpful

[mythtv-users] Re: GeForce MX 4000

2005-10-01 Thread Jonathan Markevich
On Friday 30 September 2005 7:15 pm, Jonathan Markevich wrote: I (finally) got a GeForce MX4000 (3D Fuzion) and am trying to transition from my ancient ATI Rage II card to this, but am completely unable to get TV-out working, I just have a blue TV screen. I am using the last but one

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: GeForce MX 4000

2005-10-01 Thread Carl Fongheiser
On 10/1/05, Jonathan Markevich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for responding, that will be helpful for reference..but I discovered the weak point in my system was the switchbox I*presumed* would take a SVideo in and output composite.Instead I needto get an adapter or cable to find out if it's

Re: [mythtv-users] Where did my recordings go!!

2005-10-01 Thread Brian Stults
Robin Gilks wrote: There is a perl script in the contrib folder of the distribution that will locate your nuv files and insert them into the database if needed. It's called myth.rebuilddatabase.pl On 9/26/05, Robin Gilks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just changed capture cards, so I deleted the

[mythtv-users] UI scaling

2005-10-01 Thread Andrew Herron
I just upgraded from atrpms mythtv-0.18.1-113.rhfc3.at to mythtv-0.18.1-114.rhfc3.at and the UI scaling is now a little off. Text location is too low vertically and getting cut off at the bottom. I'm using the Iulius theme, but similar things happen with a few others (I found titivillus works

[mythtv-users] Over/underscan issues using VGA-component adaptor

2005-10-01 Thread Brian Webb
I have an VIA EPIA/Unicrome based frontend that works fairly well using an svideo connection to a HDTV capable tube TV. I recently decided to try a VGA-component converter to try to improve the video quality. I only watch SDTV, so I'm trying to get it working at 480p. So far, the GUI looks

Re: [mythtv-users] Tuner numbers - 1 3 (no 2)?

2005-10-01 Thread Bruce Markey
Matthew Carle wrote: Thanks Nick, Option 1 doesn't work so it looks like I'll have to edit the database. Just have to figure out how... My SQL knowledge is very patchy. http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-22.html#ss22.5 $ killall mythbackend $ mysqldump -u mythtv -pmythtv mythconverg -c

RE: [mythtv-users] [OT] Remote Help

2005-10-01 Thread Steve G
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:mythtv-users- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Marius Schrecker Sent: Saturday, October 01, 2005 4:28 AM To: Discussion about mythtv Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] [OT] Remote Help Did /dev/lirc exist before you started irw ? Did you

Re: [mythtv-users] hdtv modelines

2005-10-01 Thread Greg Grotsky
The best thing to do, is hook up a windows machine and run Powerstrip. Then you can flip through all the resolutions that windows detects, (I was able to do about 45 different variations on my 1080p TV, each generated a specific modeline). Keep in mind that if you plan on using your myth

Re: [mythtv-users] Any words of wisdom for HDMI capable TVs

2005-10-01 Thread Greg Grotsky
It's like I just told Marcus: If you plan on using your myth machine to play games or do stuff that's not in myth using DVI you will be overscanning the screen fairly significantly. I was planning on doing everything over DVI on my setup but out of the three TVs that I've tried (in my home) they

[mythtv-users] mythtranscode silently dies

2005-10-01 Thread Andrew McNabb
I've had a problem with mythtranscode which has made it impossible to export recordings. It's been bothering me for a while, and with Google I've found people out there that have had similar problems but never a solution. When I try to run mythtranscode on a recording that's more than a few

[mythtv-users] Re: Over/underscan issues using VGA-component adaptor

2005-10-01 Thread Brian Webb
Replying to myself... Problem solved. It turns out that I didn't transfer my DisplaySize setting to the new Monitor section in my xorg.conf. After doing that it appears to be working very well. FWIW, I just added: DisplaySize 225 170 to the Section Monitor for the component video monitor,

Re: [mythtv-users] OT: Phone Concentrator(?)

2005-10-01 Thread Todd
I have been running asterisk for over a year now...some things I have learned... The X100P cards are WAY more trouble than they are worth if you are going to use to for more than CallerID. You will never get the echo out. If you want to answer the phone (via SIP or Myth) or you want to get

Re: [mythtv-users] another mythplugins make problem -- FIXED: uglyhack

2005-10-01 Thread Mark Kundinger
--- Robin Gilks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I had the exact same problem, and I was able to compile and install by first copying mythconfig.make to subfolders like mythdvd/mythdvd, mythdvd/mtd, mythdvd/i18n, mythmusic/mythmusic, etc. I also had my source in a home directory of a user.

Re: [mythtv-users] DVB - No PS Mode anymore :(

2005-10-01 Thread Paul Woodward
On 10/1/05, John-Paul Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I upgraded to the latest version of MythTV in CVS / SVN last night. I've got a PVR-350 (ivtv 3.8 drivers) and an AverTV DVB-T 771. Both were working fine in the stock 18.1 release, with the DVB ard set up to use PS instead of TS, which

Re: [mythtv-users] Another Harmony question

2005-10-01 Thread Paul Woodward
On 9/30/05, Andrew Golden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I set up my harmony remote (880 if it makes a difference) the website offers several places I could see adding a Myth box. I have added a Myth device as a Video Recorder, then at the next screen chose PVR, then chose MythTV as the

[mythtv-users] klogd consumes all cpu during recording

2005-10-01 Thread Peter Lee
Hi. I run out of svn, with updates about once per week or so, and have been keeping up with this for the past year or so. FC2, pvr-250, combo front/back end system with Athlon 1800+ cpu. WIth the latest svn (7371, I think), I am now seeing the load average go over 3.0 during recordings

[mythtv-users] Nuvexport Reports Non-Existent Programs

2005-10-01 Thread Dave Sp
When I run nuvexport, it says that I have more episodes of The Daily Show than are shown by either mythfrontend or mythweb. Mythfrontend and mythweb show four episodes, but nuvexport reports a total of six; the other two are from months ago. What is the best way to get those two ghost episodes

Re: [mythtv-users] mythtranscode silently dies

2005-10-01 Thread Andrew McNabb
On Sat, Oct 01, 2005 at 11:17:25AM -0600, Andrew McNabb wrote: I've had a problem with mythtranscode which has made it impossible to export recordings. It's been bothering me for a while, and with Google I've found people out there that have had similar problems but never a solution. When

[mythtv-users] TV - Just live sound : no record, no pause (

2005-10-01 Thread p\.crassous
When viewing TV, and hit P, the image pauses but not the sound. When recording, sound does not get recorded. When I quit mythtv, the TV sound continues to play until I stop the alsa daemon. On the next system start, it starts to play as soon as the alsa daemon starts ! I read the myth howto

Re: [mythtv-users] Hauppauge IR and LIRC problems

2005-10-01 Thread Andrew Nagel
I had been having similar problems and my remote seems to be working well now though when I place the receiver at certain spots it stops working again. A EE friend of mine thinks the problem could be interference from my computer or other equipment I am using. When the receiver does not

Re: [mythtv-users] Nuvexport Reports Non-Existent Programs

2005-10-01 Thread Chris Pinkham
When I run nuvexport, it says that I have more episodes of The Daily Show than are shown by either mythfrontend or mythweb. Mythfrontend and mythweb show four episodes, but nuvexport reports a total of six; the other two are from months ago. What is the best way to get those two ghost

[mythtv-users] Myth playlist... how do you use it?

2005-10-01 Thread Mike
So I've been wondering for a long time how you actually 'play' a playlist... I can add recordings to the playlist and they turn yellow, but I am lost to how to actually 'play' the list. Any ideas? -Mike ___ mythtv-users mailing list

Re: [mythtv-users] mythtranscode silently dies

2005-10-01 Thread Chris Pinkham
I've gotten a little farther. By poking through mythtranscode's source for a second, I saw that I could specify mythtranscode -v all. Running the mythtranscode line again, I got the following error message: Attempted to transcode myth://:/1013_20050123172800_20050123175800.nuv. Mythtranscode

[mythtv-users] nuvexport/transcode problem

2005-10-01 Thread Brad
I'm trying to transcode a recording with nuvexport but it keep stopping part way through a specific recording (I've done others successfully). I used --debug and run the resulting command directly with the same results, so i guess this is really a problem with transode. At any rate, I've

[mythtv-users] Re: How do I Disable the Media Handlers on the Frontend?

2005-10-01 Thread Greg Grotsky
Okay so really it's 20 seconds but it feels like forever because it shows the background but doesn't do anything else. Here's the timestamps that go around the other items. 2005-10-01 18:36:35.305 New DB connection, total: 2 2005-10-01 18:36:35.322 Registering MythDVD DVD Media Handler as a media

[mythtv-users] mythfrontend xine

2005-10-01 Thread Claude Gélinas agr.
If I use xine directly it work fine and I can view my dvd on /dev/hdc if I try via mythfrontend xine try to open /dev/hda2 which is my root filesystem vis libdvdread and I cant get any dvd configuration in mythfronend is pointing to /dev/hdc for dvd and I can´t see where libdvdread is finding

[mythtv-users] xine can't find dvd

2005-10-01 Thread Claude Gélinas agr.
when I start xine via mythfrontend I get the following message from xine can't find file or specified mrf and xine abort -- - Claude Gélinas agr., dta Phyto Ressources inc. == Varennes, Québec, Canada

Re: [mythtv-users] Ivtv dies when recording at 1am

2005-10-01 Thread Jon Vanderwoude
I think I got it fixed, I rolled back one version of firmware (one version back from what the ivtv wiki recommends) and now it seems to be working stably, I watched 4 hours of TV with out any issues so far... so maybe it was just the card not likeing the firmware I provided... On 10/1/05, Jon

Re: [mythtv-users] Myth playlist... how do you use it?

2005-10-01 Thread Mike
Chris Pinkham wrote: So I've been wondering for a long time how you actually 'play' a playlist... I can add recordings to the playlist and they turn yellow, but I am lost to how to actually 'play' the list. Any ideas? Use the MENU key and there will be a Playlist Options menu entry

Re: [mythtv-users] Mythfrontend seg faulting on initial run

2005-10-01 Thread Christopher Rodd
Ok. Some more info maybe some one has a clue to what's going. If I remove all the plugins I can actually get mythfrontend to run, setup sound, themes etc. Watch Live TV works great. However, reinstalling any of the plugins still give me the same seg fault so functionality is still limited.

[mythtv-users] Channel 2 and 4 video and audio

2005-10-01 Thread David Newman
Myth 0.18.1 on FC3, AverTV card Everything works ok except that: 1. Channel 2 video is terrible and there's no audio 2. Channel 4 video is subpar not as good as other stations) and again there's no audio. /etc/modules.conf already has thie line to deal with SAP: options bttv

[mythtv-users] channel 2 and 4 problems

2005-10-01 Thread David Newman
mythtv 0.18.1, FC3, avertv card Everything works OK except that when watching Live TV: 1. Channel 2 video is terrible and there's no audio 2. Channel 4 video is subpar (not as good as other channels) To deal with SAP, I have this line in /etc/modules.conf: options bttv audiomux=0xff44e

Re: [mythtv-users] [OT] Remote Help

2005-10-01 Thread Steve
Sooo can anyone help me? On 10/1/05, Steve G [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:mythtv-users- [EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Marius Schrecker Sent: Saturday, October 01, 2005 4:28 AM To: Discussion about mythtv Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] [OT]

Re: [mythtv-users] Channel 2 and 4 video and audio

2005-10-01 Thread ffrr
David Newman wrote: Myth 0.18.1 on FC3, AverTV card Everything works ok except that: 1. Channel 2 video is terrible and there's no audio 2. Channel 4 video is subpar not as good as other stations) and again there's no audio. /etc/modules.conf already has thie line to deal with SAP: