[mythtv-users] Infrared MCE keyboard

2005-10-03 Thread David Maher
Has anyone tried to get the windows media center edition infrared keyboard working with lirc/Myth? I feel a bit guilty linking to a MS url, but here is one. http://www.microsoft.com/hardware/mouseandkeyboard/productdetails.aspx?pid=038 ___ mythtv-users

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

2005-10-03 Thread Andrew Morley
At 08:36 +0200 2/10/05, Jesper Sörensen wrote: However, the PS code will most likely be killed after 0.19 is out since it is broken in many ways, so this will not work forever. If some cards really need PS for *playback* then the PS transform should probably be implemented as a specific

Re: [mythtv-users] EPIA SP8000E questions

2005-10-03 Thread Andrew Morley
At 11:46 -0500 2/10/05, R. Geoffrey Newbury wrote: I have the SP13000 board. For the small difference in cost, go to the SP13000. Go up to 512M memory. You only have one DIMM slot so make you decision now. I don't think the small difference in cost is the issue- it is the small difference in

Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV presentation at WSFII

2005-10-03 Thread Björn Svartengren
Dewey Smolka wrote: I was a bit curious though when you mentioned businesses selling pre-built Myth systems and Myth accessories. I've seen systems for sale on ebay and such, and have seen some pretty poorly disguised Myth systems sold through dodgy web sites, but am unaware of any (legitimate)

[mythtv-users] sensors.conf, it87 and fan speed.

2005-10-03 Thread Marius Schrecker
Hello again, A new week, and many myth related challenges. Before the box can be moved to the sitting room, one of the fundemental WAF challenges is to get it as quiet as possible when it's idling. Has anyone got lmsensors/pwm working with it8712 controlled fans? I know these fans are

Re: [mythtv-users] No Audio

2005-10-03 Thread David Maher
On Sun, 2005-10-02 at 17:23 -0400, Brandon Gawronski wrote: Hi… I’ve searched for a few weeks now and haven’t found any situations similar to mine. I try to do everything one step at a time. I’ve installed Fedora 4 Core and got my Hauppauge PVR 150 working with tvtime tunes in all my

Re: [mythtv-users] hdtv modelines

2005-10-03 Thread Marius Schrecker
On 10/2/05, Marius Schrecker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I define some lower res 16:9 lines can I use these to get special zoom ratios without impacting cpu usage? Is that better than using the aspect ratios from within myth?? Marius, I don't know about the scaling... I imagine that your

AW: [mythtv-users] Re: Please help, S-Video out on PVR-150 -- SORRY it's an MX440

2005-10-03 Thread pschormeir
Hi ! I'm using a 440mx with TV-out, too. I think you need two additional options : Option TwinView On Option TwinViewOrientation Clone Regards Fritz -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Auftrag von Ricardo Kleemann Gesendet:

Re: [mythtv-users] Calling all Kiwi - Daylight Saving Time?

2005-10-03 Thread Robin Gilks
Thank you kindly - I'd just patched my shell script with a sed s/+1200/+1300/g as I picked up your reply :-)) Cheers I'm in CHCH - anything I can do to resusitate your myth boxen? Yeah I was a little slow off the mark doing the change on the grabber. Run a epg load again and everything

[mythtv-users] Re: mythfrontend xine

2005-10-03 Thread belcampo
f I use xine directly it work fine and I can view my dvd on /dev/hdc In Mythfrontend go to Setup Media Settings DVD Settings General Settings and there you can tell that your dvd is on /dev/hdc Henk Schoneveld ___ mythtv-users mailing list

[mythtv-users] WinTV PVR 150 vs WinTV PVR 350

2005-10-03 Thread Tomas Roos
Hello. I am about to order a new PVR card since I am not able to use the hardware encoding on my Winfast PVR2000 card. Which one of these two cards would anyone of you recommend? WinTV PVR 150 or WinTV PVR 350 Does both work with hardware encoding in MythTV? I have no use for the extra

Re: [mythtv-users] WinTV PVR 150 vs WinTV PVR 350

2005-10-03 Thread Robert Denier
You probably want the 150 MCE since, as you said, you are only using it as a backend. Amazon has it slightly cheaper than newegg, but then newegg is almost certain to get it to your door faster. I suppose if your sure you want 2 of the devices you might get a 500, which has two on a card. I see

Re: AW: [mythtv-users] Re: Please help, S-Video out on PVR-150 -- SORRY it's an MX440

2005-10-03 Thread Stef Coene
On Monday 03 October 2005 11:14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi ! I'm using a 440mx with TV-out, too. I think you need two additional options : Option TwinView On Option TwinViewOrientation Clone Regards I also have a 440mx and I use nvtv to enable the tv-out. This is my

[mythtv-users] Large-scale myth farm

2005-10-03 Thread Illtud Daniel
Hi, At the National Library of Wales we're looking to implement an off-air recording system to ingest into our digital asset management system, and we're interested in MythTV as a front- end (as it has all the scheduling smarts etc.) then ingesting the datastreams metadata from MythTV into our

[mythtv-users] Lost /dev/video0 after update

2005-10-03 Thread Javier Perez
hi. I did a yum -y update of my system and now I lost /dev/video0. I cannot record, i cannot watch live tv. I have a PVR250 and it was working fine. Here is my IVTV content ivtv: START INIT IVTV ivtv: version 0.3.8 (tagged release) loading ivtv: Linux

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

2005-10-03 Thread Dave Sp
Chris, Thanks -- that did the trick! --davesp Chris Pinkham wrote: 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

Re: [mythtv-users] Optical encoder for MythTV scrolling

2005-10-03 Thread Itai Tavor
On 02/10/2005, at Sun 02/10 7:04PM, Itai Tavor wrote: Hi, I'm designing a front panel for a MythTV frontend, which will include buttons for basic actions (up/down, left/right, play, pause, menu, enter). Instead of using up/down buttons for navigating in menus and lists, I'd like to use a

Re: [mythtv-users] Picture Scaling Question

2005-10-03 Thread Michael T. Dean
Peter Darley wrote: I'm building a frontend box to go with a tv that is 1080i capable. I'm not planning on tuning HDTV, and I'm not likely to play dvds through the myth box, so I don't have a compelling reason to drive the tv as an HDTV. The question is: For regular format

Re: [mythtv-users] Large-scale myth farm

2005-10-03 Thread Rob Willett
Illtud, Intersting to see a UK government org taking an interest in MythTV. I'll try and answer your questions with my experience, I can help with some aspects but not others of your questions. Quoting Illtud Daniel [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, At the National Library of Wales we're looking to

[mythtv-users] choppy sound on per-program basis....

2005-10-03 Thread Nick Parkinson
Your choppy sound problem sounds like it may be caused by commercial skipping/flagging or whatever. I have a via epia mii and was told that commercial skipping on a low processor system such as epia would cause trouble. I suggest you disable it in the settigns. I think there is an option in

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

2005-10-03 Thread Greg Estabrooks
ISTR the Hauppauge MVP Myth viewer needs PS rather than TS, so until the conversion is Currently it only handles PS, but I believe people are working on setting up the TS support, The mpeg decoder on the MVP's can handle it, support just needs to be put in place.

Re: [mythtv-users] Xbox as FE

2005-10-03 Thread Vladan Bato
Ben Holt wrote: Works fine for me (NTSC resolution). I'm using xebian (can't remember the version off hand) and the mythtv install was a simple process of updating my /etc/apt/sources.list to include the mythtv repository and then running 'apt-get update' followed by 'apt-get install

Re: [mythtv-users] Large-scale myth farm

2005-10-03 Thread Dewey Smolka
Multiple backends - I can't see an overview of how this works - is there one? From what I can understand, you configure additional backends with additional capture cards, and the master backend farms out the capture work to the others - correct? Where does transcoding take place? Are

[mythtv-users] dumb low power backend... questions on proposed setup

2005-10-03 Thread Andrew Wilson
I'm considering rearranging my setup as follows, and I need some advice. Currently I have a single box, with 2x DVB cards, which is on all of the time. In order to reduce noise and power consumption, I want to build another v. low power backend box to accomodate these cards and hibernate when not

[mythtv-users] Master - Slave Backend Polling

2005-10-03 Thread Paul K
What is suppose to happen when a slave backend dies quietly? Does the master backend poll for connectivity every so often to ensure the tuners are available? Or is there a way to turn on/adjust the polling time that I'm missing? I have a slave with a PVR350/500 setup that dies every day or so and

Re: [mythtv-users] Large-scale myth farm

2005-10-03 Thread Fred Squires
There seem to be a number of different DVB cards that people use. I persoanllyuse the Nebula DVB card, though other people report success with the Avermedia 771 card. One major issue with DVB cards is that manufacturers do changechipsets with little or no notice but don't change their model

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

2005-10-03 Thread Robert Kulagowski
ISTR the Hauppauge MVP Myth viewer needs PS rather than TS, so until the conversion is enabled as a playback option, it won't be possible to watch DVB recordings unsing the MVP. Or am I mistaken? I believe that they've implemented a TS-PS parser, but check the archives of the mvpmc mailing

Re: [mythtv-users] Optical encoder for MythTV scrolling

2005-10-03 Thread Itai Tavor
On 03/10/2005, at Mon 03/10 11:13PM, Andrew Wilson wrote: Have you thought about using a Griffn Powermate? I'm building a case for a MiniMyth-based frontend, so everything in it will be custom made... ___ mythtv-users mailing list

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

2005-10-03 Thread Robert Kulagowski
Check that. It is possible (probable) that there is a capturecard entry for 2 that needs to be removed before the update would work: $ killall mythbackend $ mysqldump -u mythtv -pmythtv mythconverg -c mythtv_backup.sql $ mysql -u mythtv -pmythtv mythconverg mysql delete from capturecard where

Re: [mythtv-users] Optical encoder for MythTV scrolling

2005-10-03 Thread Andrew Wilson
Nice. Are you cannibalising a mouse to get the wheel? I thought about doing that, ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

Re: [mythtv-users] Large-scale myth farm

2005-10-03 Thread Illtud Daniel
A useful link I found to help me understand mythtv's distributed nature: http://wiki.cs.uiuc.edu/cs427/MythTV+Architecture -- Illtud Daniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Uwch Ddadansoddwr Systemau Senior Systems Analyst Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru

[mythtv-users] Australian channel scan

2005-10-03 Thread Jim Householder
Hi I'm making some progress with mythtv. Using the excellent guidance at http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/fcmyth.php I have 0.18.1-114 running on FC4. Hardware: V-Stream DTV DVB-T, 2.4GHz P4, 1GB ram I can watch the composite input from a VCR ok, but no digital yet. I adjusted the permissions

Re: [mythtv-users] Large-scale myth farm

2005-10-03 Thread chris
On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 09:00:25AM -0400, Dewey Smolka wrote: There is no restriction on the number of backends in a Myth cluster. Simply put, any machine that captures content is a backend, any machine that displays content is a frontend. The only requirement is that one backend needs to be

Re: [mythtv-users] Xbox as FE

2005-10-03 Thread Tom Dombrosky
Thanks to everyone who replied so far - I am going to try Phill'ssuggestion as I like the idea of not have to reboot into Linux to run the front end. I already have a GentooX install on the Xbox that I coulduse if I find xbmcmythtv doesn't fit the bill for some reason.I don't think I'm using

Re: [mythtv-users] Xbox as FE

2005-10-03 Thread A JM
I also tried the scripts on http://bit.blkbk.com/, but the lastversion is from a few months ago, based on xebian-1.1.0, which wasbefore sarge became debian-stable, and they don't work anymore. If youmodify the installation script in a text editor fromhttp://bit.blkbk.com/and replace the

Re: [mythtv-users] WinTV PVR 150 vs WinTV PVR 350

2005-10-03 Thread Greg Woods
On Mon, 2005-10-03 at 05:55 -0500, Robert Denier wrote: I see no advantage for the 500 over a couple 150's, other than saving a pci card slot. The 500 is likely to be cheaper than two 150's, and you don't have to split the signal. --Greg ___

[mythtv-users] Re: Large-scale myth farm

2005-10-03 Thread Derek Meek
On 10/3/05, Fred Squires [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There seem to be a number of different DVB cards that people use. I persoanlly use the Nebula DVB card, though other people report success with the Avermedia 771 card. One major issue with DVB cards is that manufacturers do change

Re: [mythtv-users] Large-scale myth farm

2005-10-03 Thread Illtud Daniel
Rob Willett wrote: Intersting to see a UK government org taking an interest in MythTV. ...Welsh government org, if you please! We're doing this on behalf of the National Screen Sound Archive of Wales, who have agreements with broadcasters about recording reference copies of broadcast

[mythtv-users] REPOST: PVR-500 dmseg - PLEASE NEED HELP DEBUGGING

2005-10-03 Thread Folashade Adeyosoye
Please can you go thru my dmesg, my card does not seem to work. I followed these instructions. PVR-500 Using knoppmyth R5A16 and ivtv: version 0.3.9 http://www.bitbenderforums.com/~ralpha6/knoppmyth/knoppmythtv.htm Thanks ivtv: START INIT IVTV

Re: [mythtv-users] REPOST: PVR-500 dmseg - PLEASE NEED HELP DEBUGGING

2005-10-03 Thread Kevin Kuphal
Folashade Adeyosoye wrote: Please can you go thru my dmesg, my card does not seem to work. I followed these instructions. PVR-500 Using knoppmyth R5A16 and ivtv: version 0.3.9 http://www.bitbenderforums.com/~ralpha6/knoppmyth/knoppmythtv.htm

Re: [mythtv-users] Large-scale myth farm

2005-10-03 Thread Greg Cope
We'd only be recording some programmes. We've enough experience of enterprise systems to build a resilient backend (though we'd have to look at how we'd do failover on the master backend - the SPoF of the system). How many quad opterons (Sun do the nice v40z) would it take to transcode say

Re: [mythtv-users] Large-scale myth farm

2005-10-03 Thread Rob Willett
Illtud, Whoops, sorry about confusing the UK government with the Welsh. Quoting Illtud Daniel [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Rob Willett wrote: Intersting to see a UK government org taking an interest in MythTV. ...Welsh government org, if you please! We're doing this on behalf of the National

Re: [mythtv-users] REPOST: PVR-500 dmseg - PLEASE NEED HELP DEBUGGING

2005-10-03 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 09:49:34AM -0500, Kevin Kuphal wrote: You might want to try on the ivtv mailing lists for the best support on ivtv problems. Specifically, I would suggest ivtv-devel. I've had poor luck with the ivtv-users list. -- The freedoms that we enjoy presently are the most

Re: [mythtv-users] Large-scale myth farm

2005-10-03 Thread Illtud Daniel
Greg, LOL - fantastic! Lend me one and I'll tell you :-) :) I'll have to buy it first. We've some dual opteron systems we can start testing on. Most servers could probably handle lots of DVB cards, as this is only PCI bandwidth and disk IO speed. PCI bus is probably you next problem as

[mythtv-users] crashes when trying to watch live TV

2005-10-03 Thread C White
I've been looking for about 3 days now and I can't seem to find the answer to my problem. Whenever I try to watch live tv in myth the the screen goes black and it simply crashes. here is the message: sh-3.00$ mythfrontend 2005-10-03 10:41:29.773 New DB connection, total: 1 Total desktop

[mythtv-users] Mythtv - database; MySQL good - Myth Lost -

2005-10-03 Thread Jeremy Thompson
ALL, I got MySQL running at startup, point to the mythconverg database. Here is my.cnf: Here is my.cnf: [quote] [mysqld] datadir=/var/lib/mysql/mythconverg socket=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock skip-innodb [mysql.server] user=mysql basedir=/var/lib key_buffer = 16M table_cache = 128

Re: [mythtv-users] Mythtv - database; MySQL good - Myth Lost -

2005-10-03 Thread Greg Woods
On Mon, 2005-10-03 at 15:19 +, Jeremy Thompson wrote: Here is my.cnf: [quote] [mysqld] datadir=/var/lib/mysql/mythconverg Generally, you want datadir=/dev/lib/mysql, assuming that mythconverg is a subdirectory that contains .MYI and .MYD files. --Greg

[mythtv-users] Audio channels (+/-) on XBOX frontend?

2005-10-03 Thread David Bennett
Is there anyway to change the audo channel (for multilingual programs) on the Xbox frontend? I was told that it is +/- on the frontend, but my XBOX does not have a keyboard and I cannot find it on the menus. Any ideas? Thanks in advance. David ___

Re: [mythtv-users] Australian channel scan

2005-10-03 Thread David Watkins
On 03/10/05, Jim Householder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I'm making some progress with mythtv. Using the excellent guidance at http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/fcmyth.php I have 0.18.1-114 running on FC4. Hardware: V-Stream DTV DVB-T, 2.4GHz P4, 1GB ram I can watch the composite input from a

Re: [mythtv-users] Mythtv - database; MySQL good - Myth Lost -

2005-10-03 Thread Jeremy Thompson
Not really sure what you are meaning by that. mythconverg is what I named the database to be when I set it up with the following directions found at http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/fcmyth.php#mysql (fedora guy)- $ mysql -u root -p /usr/share/doc/mythtv-0.18.1/database/mc.sql (enter the password

Re: [mythtv-users] Mythtv - database; MySQL good - Myth Lost -

2005-10-03 Thread Greg Woods
On Mon, 2005-10-03 at 15:39 +, Jeremy Thompson wrote: Just check in var/lib/mysql/mythconverg and it's full of .MYID files. should I change the cnf to datadir=/var/lib/mysql/ Yes (without the trailing slash). That's what mine has. MySQL can handle multiple databases, so datadir is set

Re: [mythtv-users] Mythtv - database; MySQL good - Myth Lost -

2005-10-03 Thread Jeremy Thompson
Ok, Changed it, restarted mysql (worked!), however I now get this error: [EMAIL PROTECTED] etc]# mythtv 2005-10-03 18:16:30.848 New DB connection, total: 1 Total desktop width=1024, height=768, numscreens=1 2005-10-03 18:16:30.857 Using screen 0, 1024x768 at 0,0 2005-10-03 18:16:30.897 Switching

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

2005-10-03 Thread Bruce Markey
Robert Kulagowski wrote: Check that. It is possible (probable) that there is a capturecard entry for 2 that needs to be removed before the update would work: $ killall mythbackend $ mysqldump -u mythtv -pmythtv mythconverg -c mythtv_backup.sql $ mysql -u mythtv -pmythtv mythconverg mysql

Re: [mythtv-users] Channel 5 and 6, Black and White

2005-10-03 Thread Will
After spending a whole bunch of time on this I have found the following: Comcast in MA says they use Standard cable frequency table, however it appears that channels 5 and 6 are 2 MHz above the standard cable (us-cable) frequencies, thus it seems Comcast in MA uses the IRC frequency table.

Re: [mythtv-users] Xbox as FE

2005-10-03 Thread Fred Squires
On 10/3/05, Vladan Bato [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 3 Oct 2005 10:08:33 -0400A JM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you modify the installation script in a text editor from http://bit.blkbk.com/ and replace the reference to the version of xebian you have it should work. For instance in the script

AW: [mythtv-users] Large-scale myth farm

2005-10-03 Thread Martin Bene
HI Rob, We'd only be recording some programmes. We've enough experience of enterprise systems to build a resilient backend (though we'd have to look at how we'd do failover on the master backend - the SPoF of the system). How many quad opterons (Sun do the nice v40z) would it take to

Re: [mythtv-users] Another Harmony question

2005-10-03 Thread tgate
If it helps, I have the same remote which I use with an Ahanix VFD/ IR board. I used the MythTV/MythTV setup and taught it all of the command from my remote - it doesn't take long. The main advantage is that virtually all of the myth functions are already defined so you just have to teach

[mythtv-users] Re: Large-scale myth farm

2005-10-03 Thread Derek Meek
one quad opteron system could easily commflag and transcode four at once - and probably capture at least one and display one at the same time trancoding is niced at 17 so if something like capture and/or display is going on it looses CPU to the more important process and simply takes longer to

Re: AW: [mythtv-users] Large-scale myth farm

2005-10-03 Thread Illtud Daniel
Martin, Thanks for the input. Very interesting. My current system has 4 DVB-S cards, no problems at all with 4 simultaneous recordings. Single P4 2.4Ghz. If you want to keep these recordings as references copies I'd advice you not to transcode; after all you do lose quality in the process, and

[mythtv-users] Re: REPOST: PVR-500 dmseg - PLEASE NEED HELP DEBUGGING

2005-10-03 Thread Derek Meek
the gentoo PVR-500 wiki may help http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_PVR_500_Setup On 10/3/05, Folashade Adeyosoye [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please can you go thru my dmesg, my card does not seem to work. I followed these instructions. PVR-500 Using knoppmyth R5A16 and ivtv: version 0.3.9

[mythtv-users] Re: mythtv-suite-0.18.1-55.at on x86_64 - mythfrontend SEGV

2005-10-03 Thread Axel Thimm
On Sun, Oct 02, 2005 at 06:43:24PM +0100, Jules Gosnell wrote: just updated my x86_64 frontend from atrpms... rather than just install the frontend packages, I found that the dependency tree for mythtv-suite was complete, so installed that - result is a SEGV on mythfrontend startup...

[mythtv-users] Re: libmyth-0.18.1-114.rhfc4.at VLD fails an my Via ...

2005-10-03 Thread Axel Thimm
On Sun, Oct 02, 2005 at 11:10:50PM +0100, Jules Gosnell wrote: Just upgraded my Via Epia to latest myth build from atrpms-stable, but had to roll back libmyth from libmyth-0.18.1-114.rhfc4.at to libmyth-0.18.1-113.rhfc3.at in order to get my VLD support working again... can't remember

Re: [mythtv-users] Mythtv - database; MySQL good - Myth Lost -

2005-10-03 Thread Greg Woods
Sounds like you have not yet set up MySQL according to the installation directions. See http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-6.html ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

[mythtv-users] Re: Xbox as FE

2005-10-03 Thread Adam Anderson
I laid out all the steps on this forum: http://www.mythtv-xbox.org/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=36 This is to install mythtv v0.18.x in xebian v1.1.4. So it might be worth a look. The main holdback right now I think is the packages. The last install I did was on 8-14-05 and it worked perfectly.

[mythtv-users] Xv and s-video out

2005-10-03 Thread Matt Carless
I'm running mythfrontend on a laptop spec AMD 3000+ 64bit 512MB RAM Radion 9600 video card. When playing through the laptop top with Xv turned on the video doesnt miss a beat. It plays rock solid with no audio video sync problems. My problem arises when I wanted to play through the TV so I

Re: [mythtv-users] Mythtv - database; MySQL good - Myth Lost -

2005-10-03 Thread Paul Barker
Jeremy Thompson wrote: Ok, Changed it, restarted mysql (worked!), however I now get this error: [EMAIL PROTECTED] etc]# mythtv 2005-10-03 18:16:30.848 New DB connection, total: 1 Total desktop width=1024, height=768, numscreens=1 2005-10-03 18:16:30.857 Using screen 0, 1024x768 at 0,0

Re: [mythtv-users] Mythtv - database; MySQL good - Myth Lost -

2005-10-03 Thread Jeremy Thompson
K, good call. I started the back end. Thought I had it set to start on boot. Guess not =-(. Must have turned off when MySQL wouldn't start. I replied to you directly and the mailing list. There is a thread in the mailing list there if you would like to see it. Currently I am getting this error:

Re: [mythtv-users] Mythtv - database; MySQL good - Myth Lost -

2005-10-03 Thread Jeremy Thompson
K, Went through and checked everything. Nieither mythbackend or mysql were running. Started both. Started mythtv and it passed through the database portion. Now, got a new problem (of course). I am still working on it, but have built the database before, so it's not hooked up to TV feed. It won't

[mythtv-users] pvr-500

2005-10-03 Thread james
Hello, I have a pvr-500 and I have it working, sort of. I get picture and sound on both tuners but I cannot change the channels, when I use the number pad or the arrows it says it is going to the next channel or whatever I select. But it stays on the same channel all the time, the new channel data

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

2005-10-03 Thread Robert Kulagowski
As I recall, you had something like card number 14 at one time. Yes, and I'm proud to now have my cards numbered 1 to 5 and then 11. :) ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

Re: [mythtv-users] WinTV PVR 150 vs WinTV PVR 350

2005-10-03 Thread Greg Estabrooks
The 500 is likely to be cheaper than two 150's, and you don't have to It's not. In fact it's usually more expensive than 2 150's ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

[mythtv-users] Re: pvr-500

2005-10-03 Thread Derek Meek
is mythtv using tuner0 on both parts as the tuner what are your permissions on the appropriate /dev/video have you made sure your console.perms files are setup correctly? On 10/3/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I have a pvr-500 and I have it working, sort of. I get

Re: [mythtv-users] WinTV PVR 150 vs WinTV PVR 350

2005-10-03 Thread Carl Fongheiser
On 10/3/05, Greg Estabrooks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The 500 is likely to be cheaper than two 150's, and you don't have to It's not. In fact it's usually more expensive than 2 150's Well, newegg charges $72 for a PVR-150MCE, and $138 for a PVR-500MCE. It's not a lot cheaper, but it *is* cheaper

RE: AW: [mythtv-users] Large-scale myth farm

2005-10-03 Thread Neil Davidson
Without requirement for CI modules I'd probably stick with the terratec cards; small, don't run too hot and no problems so far. 'scuse my ignorance - what's a CI module? This is only relevant to Satellite capture cards really. The CI module looks like a PCMCIA slot and allows you to

RE: [mythtv-users] Re: pvr-500

2005-10-03 Thread Folashade Adeyosoye
Are you splitting cables? If so is it before or after? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Derek Meek Sent: Monday, October 03, 2005 2:10 PM To: Discussion about mythtv Subject: [mythtv-users] Re: pvr-500 is mythtv using tuner0 on both

Re: [mythtv-users] Large-scale myth farm

2005-10-03 Thread Martin Bene
Hi, 'Reference copies' may be a misleading term to those outside the broadcasting/archiving world. They're the lowest quality, intended only for viewing to find material. They're currently being done on VHS, some on long play - the space saving (and faster fetching from tape library backend)

[mythtv-users] Will compilinginstalling from source destroy my current mythtv settings ?

2005-10-03 Thread Robert Rozman
Hi, I'm using mythtv under Debian Sarge. Since there are .deb files for quite some plugins missing - I'd like to compile them from source I have mythtv installed and setup from binaries. I certainly don't wamt to loose those video card and channel settings. Can I compile and install and

Re: [mythtv-users] MySQL: INNODB?

2005-10-03 Thread Dan Wilga
I've been running with InnoDB for the last year; IMHO more reliable in case of system crashes where MyISAM tables tend to corrupt more easily (esp. recordmarkup). I run a high-volume web site that uses MySQL for some pretty frequent tasks, and haven't had any data corruption problems. The

Re: AW: [mythtv-users] Large-scale myth farm

2005-10-03 Thread Illtud Daniel
Hi Neil, This is only relevant to Satellite capture cards really. Ah - like top-up TV? I doubt if we have the right to capture anything that's subscription based, only free to air. Another discussion about the way Myth handles the different forms of radio has just started over in the

Re: [mythtv-users] Will compilinginstalling from source destroy my current mythtv settings ?

2005-10-03 Thread Stef Coene
On Monday 03 October 2005 20:58, Robert Rozman wrote: Hi, I'm using mythtv under Debian Sarge. Since there are .deb files for quite some plugins missing - I'd like to compile them from source I have mythtv installed and setup from binaries. I certainly don't wamt to loose those video

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

2005-10-03 Thread Bruce Markey
Robert Kulagowski wrote: As I recall, you had something like card number 14 at one time. Yes, and I'm proud to now have my cards numbered 1 to 5 and then 11. :) Progress! If you mean you mean you have six cards you could use something like this to change 11 to 6. If you mean there are

Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV presentation at WSFII

2005-10-03 Thread Mike Ryan
Quoting Mike Ryan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Quoting Björn Svartengren [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Dewey Smolka wrote: I was a bit curious though when you mentioned businesses selling pre-built Myth systems and Myth accessories. I've seen systems for sale on ebay and such, and have seen some pretty poorly

[mythtv-users] mobile mythstreamtv?

2005-10-03 Thread tgate
Has anyone ever used RealPlayer to view recorded or live content using mythstreamtv? My phone (motorola a780) has a audio/video player from RealAudio on it which allows me to stream video to the phone. Now that I've got mythstreamtv working, it's got me wondering if I might be able to

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: I received the new air2pc cards(AirStar-HD5000) FINALLY!

2005-10-03 Thread Todd
Have you found any resolution to prebuffering pauses? I am seeing the same thing and can't seem to find a way to resolve it. It is starting to make me crazy. I have tried all kinds a transcoding setingsall kinds of stuff, nothing seems affect the problem. Thanks in advance, Todd -

Re: [mythtv-users] WinTV PVR 150 vs WinTV PVR 350

2005-10-03 Thread Mark Gardner
On 10/3/05, Greg Estabrooks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The 500 is likely to be cheaper than two 150's, and you It's not. In fact it's usually more expensive than 2 150's not a lot cheaper, but it *is* cheaper than 2 PVR-150's. What about configureation. Is it easier to get a couple of 150s

[mythtv-users] Can't play PVR-350 recordings in QuickTime any more

2005-10-03 Thread Eggert Thorlacius
Hello A few months ago I tried copying some MythTV recordings to my Mac and playing them in QuickTime (after changing the file extension from .nuv to .mpg) and they worked just fine, but now when I try, I get this error: QuickTime cannot open the file: 1087_2005092019.mpg it is not a

Re: [mythtv-users] WinTV PVR 150 vs WinTV PVR 350

2005-10-03 Thread Greg Woods
On Mon, 2005-10-03 at 14:13 -0600, Mark Gardner wrote: What about configureation. Is it easier to get a couple of 150s working or the 500? Since the ivtv drivers see the 500 as two 150's, it should be exactly the same. --Greg ___ mythtv-users

Re: [mythtv-users] WinTV PVR 150 vs WinTV PVR 350

2005-10-03 Thread Nick Rosier
On 03/10/05, Greg Woods [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2005-10-03 at 14:13 -0600, Mark Gardner wrote: What about configureation. Is it easier to get a couple of 150s working or the 500? Since the ivtv drivers see the 500 as two 150's, it should be exactly the same. In theory; if you

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: pvr-500

2005-10-03 Thread Steve
I've had this problem before. I could only change the channel by using ptune.pl. I didn't do anything than other than closing down mythfrontend then restarting the machine. Once I turned it back on everything worked fine. On 10/3/05, Folashade Adeyosoye [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are you splitting

Re: [mythtv-users] WinTV PVR 150 vs WinTV PVR 350

2005-10-03 Thread Jake
In theory; if you check the ivtv-list you'll find that there seems to be more problems getting the 500 working (only 1 tuner working or no sound etc...). i setup a friends mythbox with 1 pvr150 and it was basically identical to what i did to get my box with two pvr-500's going. the pvr-500,

Re: [mythtv-users] MySQL: INNODB?

2005-10-03 Thread Jesse Guardiani
Dan Wilga wrote: I've been running with InnoDB for the last year; IMHO more reliable in case of system crashes where MyISAM tables tend to corrupt more easily (esp. recordmarkup). I run a high-volume web site that uses MySQL for some pretty frequent tasks, and haven't had any data corruption

[mythtv-users] Out-of-sync audio question

2005-10-03 Thread Brian Long
I'm setting up my first MythTV box. I am able to capture video and audio on both tuners of my PVR-500. I'm using Jarod's Fedora Mythology (FC4) guide. In section 10, he tells you how to use ptune and mplayer to verify channel changing and other things work. It is not clear if I need to

[mythtv-users] Re: Problem playing back some recordings on remote frontend

2005-10-03 Thread Obie Fayth
Just a follow up to a problem I posted a few months ago... The problem I had was that if I tried to watch any recordings on my remote front end that were longer than ~90 min. (or 2GB as it turns out) the recording would get all pixilated and freeze for a few moments if I tried to skip or fast

Re: [mythtv-users] Mythtv - database; MySQL good - Myth Lost -

2005-10-03 Thread Paul Barker
Jeremy Thompson wrote: K, Went through and checked everything. Nieither mythbackend or mysql were running. Started both. Started mythtv and it passed through the database portion. Now, got a new problem (of course). I am still working on it, but have built the database before, so it's

RE: [mythtv-users] mobile mythstreamtv?

2005-10-03 Thread Charles H. Chapman
Has anyone ever used RealPlayer to view recorded or live content using mythstreamtv? My phone (motorola a780) has a audio/video player from RealAudio on it which allows me to stream video to the phone. Now that I've got mythstreamtv working, it's got me wondering if I might be able to

Re: [mythtv-users] Australian channel scan

2005-10-03 Thread Phill Edwards
I'm making some progress with mythtv. Using the excellent guidance at http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/fcmyth.php I have 0.18.1-114 running on FC4. Hardware: V-Stream DTV DVB-T, 2.4GHz P4, 1GB ram I can watch the composite input from a VCR ok, but no digital yet. I adjusted the permissions on

Re: [mythtv-users] EPIA SP8000E questions

2005-10-03 Thread R. Geoffrey Newbury
On Mon, 3 Oct 2005 08:39:27 +0100, Andrew Morley wrote: At 11:46 -0500 2/10/05, R. Geoffrey Newbury wrote: I have the SP13000 board. For the small difference in cost, go to the SP13000. Go up to 512M memory. You only have one DIMM slot so make you decision now. I don't think the small difference

Re: [mythtv-users] Mythtv - database; MySQL good - Myth Lost -

2005-10-03 Thread R. Geoffrey Newbury
On Mon, 3 Oct 2005 18:24:50 +0200, Jeremy Thompson wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] etc]# mythtv 2005-10-03 18:16:30.848 New DB connection, total: 1 Total desktop width=3D1024, height=3D768, numscreens=3D1 2005-10-03 18:16:30.857 Using screen 0, 1024x768 at 0,0 2005-10-03 18:16:30.897 Switching to square

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: REPOST: PVR-500 dmseg - PLEASE NEED HELP DEBUGGING

2005-10-03 Thread R. Geoffrey Newbury
On Mon, 3 Oct 2005 12:12:44 -0500, Derek Meek wrote: the gentoo PVR-500 wiki may help http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_PVR_500_Setup On 10/3/05, Folashade Adeyosoye [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please can you go thru my dmesg, my card does not seem to work. ivtv: This is the first unit of a

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: mythtv-suite-0.18.1-55.at on x86_64 - mythfrontend SEGV

2005-10-03 Thread Alan Hagge
Axel Thimm wrote: On Sun, Oct 02, 2005 at 06:43:24PM +0100, Jules Gosnell wrote: just updated my x86_64 frontend from atrpms... rather than just install the frontend packages, I found that the dependency tree for mythtv-suite was complete, so installed that - result is a SEGV on

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