RE: [mythtv-users] PVR-350 TVout issues

2005-10-06 Thread John Harvey
No the driver currently only supports running full screen * ivtv fb code will only run at 720x(576 or 480) at the moment. I have plans to change this but haven't had time to do it. It might well happen for the ivtv 0.5 stream along with some other performance enhancememnts for X. At the moment I am

Re: [mythtv-users] How to get best quality out of nuvexport?

2005-10-06 Thread Markus Döhla
Am DATE, schrieb AUTHOR: Markus Döhla- > Am DATE, schrieb AUTHOR: Chris > Petersen- >>> What are your combinations of versions and encoding settings? >> >> I use the defau

[mythtv-users] Re: Buffer file not rolling

2005-10-06 Thread Dean
> Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2005 19:24:47 -0700 > From: Mitko Haralanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [mythtv-users] Buffer file not rolling > To: MythTV Users > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII > > I have an interesting situation here that I have been no

Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV error log Filled Hard drive.

2005-10-06 Thread Robert Johnston
On 06/10/05, Chris Gackstatter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OK I put a head on my headless machine and when I boot I can boot the system > in fail safe mode. When I do boot I also notice that MySql service fails to > start. Any thought on what this problem is. Any idea how I go about > finding v

[mythtv-users] Audio echo/stutter

2005-10-06 Thread Dean
Hi Users, I just upgraded from ivtv-0.3.3 to 0.3.8 and am getting an annoying echo in the audio of recorded programs. I can not track it down, but it *seems* to come from MythTV. I have a master backend with two pvr-500s and a frontened with an additional 500 for a total of 6 tuners. So this is

[mythtv-users] Setting Up Tuners

2005-10-06 Thread Peter Darley
Folks, I'm looking for some info from y'all. I've got my hardware ordered and I'm trying to plan on how to set everything up. On my master backend I'm going to have a PVR-500 and my main frontend is going to have a tuner as well (since the machine I'm using, a DigiMatrix, comes

[mythtv-users] Troubles with a PVR-350 and SuSE 9.3

2005-10-06 Thread Christopher Robbins
I've been using my Mythbox as a home pc after the death of my laptop (To hell with Dell!). I've recently found enough parts for another PC, so I've taken time to get my MythBox back up and running.  However, I'm having a hell of a time with ivtv.  I'm using the latest release of ivtv (0.3.2-rc3k),

RE: [mythtv-users] MythTV error log Filled Hard drive.

2005-10-06 Thread Chris Gackstatter
OK I put a head on my headless machine and when I boot I can boot the system in fail safe mode. When I do boot I also notice that MySql service fails to start. Any thought on what this problem is. Any idea how I go about finding very large files on my system? Chris -Original Message-

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-350 TV-Out with Xv support

2005-10-06 Thread Jeff Simpson
works now, Here's what I had to put in XF86Config:     Driver "ivtvdev"     Option    "fbdev" "/dev/fb2"     BusID "PCI:0:10:0" I apparently had ivtvdev_drv at one point, had removed the other options at one point, and /dev/fb/2 at one point, so once I got all the ducks in a row, it worked like a

Re: [mythtv-users] Need suggestion for Frontend only fanless solution

2005-10-06 Thread Ricardo Kleemann
Hi guys,   This is not a fanless solution, but what do you guys think of this? How does this hardware stack up for mythtv?   http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16856140003   It's only $125 with a rebate, just add the cpu, memory, disk. It already has a video card with TV-out...

Re: [mythtv-users] Please tell me if I'm losing my mind:

2005-10-06 Thread Jeff Simpson
Or more likely, something is spidering mythweb and thus clicking on every delete link in the processOn 10/6/05, Tj < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Mark Kundinger wrote:>Have I stumbled across a magical combination?  Has anyone else seen >this?>>I'm using SVN and so far no problems, yet..Do you have myth

Re: [mythtv-users] Please tell me if I'm losing my mind:

2005-10-06 Thread Tj
Mark Kundinger wrote: Have I stumbled across a magical combination? Has anyone else seen this? I'm using SVN and so far no problems, yet.. Do you have mythweb running? Is it protected from the Internet? Maybe some body has found your site on google and decide what you can see, and what y

[mythtv-users] Off Frontend window Behavior

2005-10-06 Thread Mark Gardner
I"m having a wierd problem with the frontend. I'm running a svn HEAD snapshot from a few days ago (last saturday IIRC). Whenever I finish watching a show the frontend moves down the screen, revealing the desktop behind. It's behaving as if the offset is getting reapplied every time the screen ref

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-350 TV-Out with Xv support

2005-10-06 Thread Jeff Simpson
I got ivtv-fb back - turns out the ebuild is a little buggy. I got the framebuffer device back, I had to modprobe ivtv cardtype=2 to get ivtv-fb to load but still no fbdev or ivtvdev_drv working in X, same error about not having a "ModuleData data object"  - JeffOn 10/6/05, Jeff Simpson <[EMAIL P

Re: [mythtv-users] Need suggestion for Frontend only fanless solution

2005-10-06 Thread Robert Denier
For the truly desperate to be noise free, well water cooling can do it. That is assuming you can do something with the water lines. In the best case scenario perhaps you can slip them down in the basement and do the other half of your loop there, assuming you have a basement and all that. Persona

[mythtv-users] Please tell me if I'm losing my mind:

2005-10-06 Thread Mark Kundinger
Here's a problem I've been having on my Myth box for the last couple of weeks: Every few days, even though I have about 100GB of disk space, and auto-expire is set to "none", a lot of my recordings (sometimes all of them) will get deleted. Not only that, but the box suddenly think it has recordin

[mythtv-users] Re: No audio from mythvideo except from digital sources

2005-10-06 Thread Jason McMillon
For some reason my .asoundrc was truncated.  Here is the whole thing: # Override the default output used by ALSA.# If you do not override the default, your default# device is identical to the (unmixed) analog device# shown below. If you prefer mixed and/or digital# output, uncomment the appropriat

[mythtv-users] vertical overscan

2005-10-06 Thread Ricardo Kleemann
Hi, I configured a 5% vertical overscan in the Playback config, but I'm still not getting 100% vertical extension of the video. Is there something else I must do to get it working? Is it perhaps something in my X config that needs to be set? I'm running a PVR-150 for capture and GeForce4 MX

[mythtv-users] No audio from mythvideo except from digital sources

2005-10-06 Thread Jason McMillon
I am afraid I am over my head with this one.  I managed to get my digital out to work on my Asus P4P800-E motherboard using info from http://www.mythtv.info/moin.cgi/DigitalSoundHowTo . I get no sound from non-digital sound sources using MythVideo.  I prefer using xine as my default player, but ha

Re: [mythtv-users] Positive Experience with pcHDTV

2005-10-06 Thread Chuck Lloyd
I don't use an antenna. I use the dvb drivers to receive QAM directly from my cable. My cable modem, TVs, and PVR-250 seem to be fine so I don't suspect a problem there. How would you suggest I test the grounding to be sure. On 10/6/05, Michael T. Dean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Chuck Lloyd wrote:

[mythtv-users] Watch Recording icons not appearing

2005-10-06 Thread Matt
Hi,      For some reason I've noticed that the icons at the bottom of the screen in the watch recordings menu that show cutlists, jobs, commercial flagging, etc do not show up anymore on one of my frontends.  Any clue as to why that might be or how I could troubleshoot it?  I'm running SVN from abo

[mythtv-users] Buffer file not rolling

2005-10-06 Thread Mitko Haralanov
I have an interesting situation here that I have been noticing lately. Last time I reinstalled my myth box, I decide to make a dedicated partition for the buffer files. That way, no matter how much I have already recorded, I always have the same amount of LiveTV buffer. What I noti

Re: [mythtv-users] How to issue command when starting a new recording?

2005-10-06 Thread Jack Wrobbel
On Thu, 2005-10-06 at 17:23, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I saw this with my BT card quite a while ago. The following > patch > seemed to fix it for me. It unmutes the card whenever a > recording > starts. YMMV > > > This patch is sounds like the r

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-350 TV-Out with Xv support

2005-10-06 Thread Jeff Simpson
HELP!! I recompiled and installed ivtv 0.3.8, x.org 6.8.2-r5 and the 0.10.6 xdriver. they all compiled perfectly, but now I can't get tvout to work. Symptoms: ivtv-fb is missing now. It's not in ivtv-0.3.8, so I assume it got replaced by some other module? What should I be loading? What changes

Re: [mythtv-users] Need suggestion for Frontend only fanless solution

2005-10-06 Thread Reza Naima
As it's unix, you can run a native mythtv install on it. However, I also tried it with a linux ppc install, and they both were lacking. My advice is to look elsewhere, but ymmv. Reza On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 03:53:24PM -0700, Brad Fuller sent me this... > Jon Vanderwoude wrote: > > >I've got a m

Re: [mythtv-users] Need suggestion for Frontend only fanless solution

2005-10-06 Thread Reza Naima
I used myhthv on my mini, and it sucked at 1600x1200. I think it's way under powered for mythtv, personally. I sold my mini and bought a pundit-r, but that's too loud to use as a frontend. So I'm looking for something else now. Reza On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 07:13:11PM -0400, Todd Houle sent me

Re: [mythtv-users] New MythMusic Theme - 4 bins

2005-10-06 Thread John Erickson
On 10/6/05, Isaac Richards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Meaning, pretty much what the existing playlist editor does? =) Scrolling > through a single list of thousands of items, even with pageup/pagedown just > doesn't work. Pretty much. I'm looking at ~5000 artists. So page up/down helps, but i

Re: [mythtv-users] Positive Experience with pcHDTV

2005-10-06 Thread Michael T. Dean
Chuck Lloyd wrote: I just had a great service experience with pcHDTV. I bought an HD-3000 about four months ago. A few weeks ago it died. I sent an email to pcHDTV and Jack sent me a new one and a box to ship the old one back (with shipping label.) Piece of cake. Nice job. Good deal, and, BT

Re: [mythtv-users] Need suggestion for Frontend only fanless solution

2005-10-06 Thread Alex Brekken
Well I'm not sure I'd call the Mini inexpensive (maybe compared to other Mac's), but the form factor is pretty tough to beat.  Is HD even a remote possibility on a Mini, or is it out of the question?  I assume you can't use hardware acceleration like XvMC  If it can't do HD, is the CPU the prob

Re: [mythtv-users] cable box woes

2005-10-06 Thread Michael T. Dean
David Watkins wrote: On 06/10/05, Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: my cable box uses cable out, so I'm going with that but in only inputs on channel 3. Meaning the tuner card needs to stay on channel 3. How do I make it do this? OK - I misunderstood you. That's not a setup I'm familiar

[mythtv-users] No more worky job queue

2005-10-06 Thread Mark Gardner
None of my shows are getting comflagged. It looks like I have two transcode jobs stuck in the queue. What now? -- _\ | /_ (@ @) -oOOo-(_)-oOOo- ~ Mark Gardner ~ ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@myt

[mythtv-users] No input from firewire capture from DCT-6200

2005-10-06 Thread Azmat
Hi,   I just hooked up my MythTV box to do firewire capture in addition to capturing from my PVR350.  I have the Motorola DCT-6200 digital cable box from my cable company and have it hooked into an Adaptec FireConnect card.  I followed Jarod's guide for getting it working and everything seemed like

Re: [mythtv-users] Positive Experience with pcHDTV

2005-10-06 Thread Brad Fuller
Chuck Lloyd wrote: I just had a great service experience with pcHDTV. I bought an HD-3000 about four months ago. A few weeks ago it died. I sent an email to pcHDTV and Jack sent me a new one and a box to ship the old one back (with shipping label.) Piece of cake. Nice job. This is GOOD BUSIN

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

2005-10-06 Thread Larry K
Joe,  Thanks for the info.  That fact that the buttons can have arbitrary names explains a lot. I'm wondering how I will know what kernel modules support this 3rd party IR receiver?  The seller said it works with mythtv, so it probably does.  If I hack my Hauppauge IR sensor to connect via seria

[mythtv-users] Positive Experience with pcHDTV

2005-10-06 Thread Chuck Lloyd
I just had a great service experience with pcHDTV. I bought an HD-3000 about four months ago. A few weeks ago it died. I sent an email to pcHDTV and Jack sent me a new one and a box to ship the old one back (with shipping label.) Piece of cake. Nice job. __

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

2005-10-06 Thread Joe Votour
1. No, it will not work the same. You will need to load in different kernel modules that support the new IR receiver. 2. You program those codes into the remote. Since you have an All-For-One remote, you would use these instructions (which I copied from my website): a) Press the device button you

Re: [mythtv-users] Need suggestion for Frontend only fanless solution

2005-10-06 Thread Jake
i remember seeing someone post somewhere, can't remember if it was this list or irc or what, that had built the mac mini into their tv housing. he had a website with pictures, i think he had some sort of big dlp tv but apparently that worked and i thought it was pretty cool at the time. __

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

2005-10-06 Thread Larry K
Based on recommendations I found here, I bought the One For All URC-8910 remote from Amazon.com.  Nice remote. Then, following Jarod's instructions at http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/remotes.php, I set everything up and it works just fine. Since Jarod's site conveniently spoon-fed all the configuratio

[mythtv-users] More reasons to use Linux and Mythtv (with Roku Photobridge maybe)

2005-10-06 Thread Charles H. Chapman
> This link: > > > http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/04/AR200510040 > 0287.html > > tells us that the 'locked-down-closed-box-you'll-watch-what-we-let-you' > has not gone away... A *new* scheme to be broken or just circumvented by > using linux"DVD Johanson, c

Re: [mythtv-users] Need suggestion for Frontend only fanless solution

2005-10-06 Thread Todd Houle
The Mac Mini is a low cost Macintosh ($500).  It is just a small computer (2inches x 6.5 in x 6.5 in.).  It does not come with a keyboard, mouse, monitor or enough RAM.  It is designed to be fully functional, but inexpensive- and it's quiet.  I think it comes with a bit small of a hard drive and no

[mythtv-users] Re: xbox linux distros

2005-10-06 Thread Robert Anderson
Cool! I'm glad to give back anything I can to the community. I am out of town unitl Monday, so I'll try to create and post the torrent as soon as I get back. -Rob A On 10/5/05, Frank Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 10/5/05, Robert Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On 10/4/05, Phil

Re: [mythtv-users] Need suggestion for Frontend only fanless solution

2005-10-06 Thread Brad Fuller
Jon Vanderwoude wrote: I've got a mini-mac I've used as a front end, technically there is supposedly a fan in there but I've never heard it and I can't feel any air moving around the vents in the back unless I put a cd/dvd in there. Do people with mac-minis put Linux on them? Or do you run O

[mythtv-users] LIRC, but not LIRCD under FC4

2005-10-06 Thread Soren Christensen
Hi Myth users   I have been trying to get a LIRC configuration working with my FC4 setup for a while. But I can not get this to work. Here is what I can observe.   The system is build according to Jarod’s fantastic guide (or at least I think it is). Myth works with all aspects – even t

Re: [mythtv-users] How to issue command when starting a new recording?

2005-10-06 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I saw this with my BT card quite a while ago.  The following patchseemed to fix it for me. It unmutes the card whenever a recording starts.  YMMV This patch is sounds like the right solution, but I installed my MythTV from rpms using Jarod's guide.  Plus, I'm not that familiar with how to patch the

Re: [mythtv-users] Need suggestion for Frontend only fanless solution

2005-10-06 Thread Carl Fongheiser
On 10/6/05, Ricardo Kleemann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thanks Todd,   Which version of the mac is the "mini"? I'm sorry I'm not too familiar with Macs, I'm just interested in finding out more about different alternatives for frontends. Is this an older mac? Does it already come with an a

Re: [mythtv-users] Need suggestion for Frontend only fanless solution

2005-10-06 Thread Ricardo Kleemann
Thanks Todd,   Which version of the mac is the "mini"? I'm sorry I'm not too familiar with Macs, I'm just interested in finding out more about different alternatives for frontends. Is this an older mac? Does it already come with an appropriate video card?   It's awesome to think mythtv can ru

Re: [mythtv-users] hi guys, newbie here!

2005-10-06 Thread Phill Edwards
> thanks for your reply and have had a quick read of the actical but i have > heard that it is quite hard for a newbee. I have found a suse package with > instrution I have heard that suse is better for hardware or do you think > that Iam wrong, cheers if could anwser and i will leave you alone but

Re: [mythtv-users] Need suggestion for Frontend only fanless solution

2005-10-06 Thread Todd Houle
I'm running a front end (not to TV) on my Mac G4 laptop (1.6Ghz)- which has a hair more power than the mini.  Here, I'm using 33% of my CPU when watching a show.  The show is recorded with a PVR350 at high quality (720x480?).  Seeing as the mini is only a little less brainy than this machine, I thi

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-350 TVout issues

2005-10-06 Thread Richard Smith
It seems to me that Christopher raises an issue which many of us have faced and failed to find answers. TV out using x-windows does not fit the screen. Yes, we can make mythtv fit, but anything running under X will not fit. It makes it very hard to manae configuration issues if you do not h

Re: [mythtv-users] hi guys, newbie here!

2005-10-06 Thread Kiss4her
thanks for your reply and have had a quick read of the actical but i have heard that it is quite hard for a newbee. I have found a suse package with instrution I have heard that suse is better for hardware or do you think that Iam wrong, cheers if could anwser and i will leave you alone but b

Re: [mythtv-users] hi guys, newbie here!

2005-10-06 Thread joe . white
The easiest way to get MythTV ontoyour PC is to pay someone copious amounts of cash (pick me! pick me!) to install it for you.  If you have more sense than cents then you might try Jarod's HOW-TO at http://www.wilsonet.com/mythtv/. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/06/2005 04:3

Re: [mythtv-users] cable box woes

2005-10-06 Thread David Watkins
On 06/10/05, Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Wow thats sounds alot harder than it looks :( > > > On 10/6/05, David Watkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > That's pretty much correct. The steps are: > > > > 1) You tell the mythtv frontend that you want to change channel. > > 2) The frontend t

Re: [mythtv-users] hi guys, newbie here!

2005-10-06 Thread Dewey Smolka
On 10/6/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > first of all it nice to be here and thanks, can could you please tell how to > search the forum so i don't keep asking silly question and what is the > easiest way of putting myth tv onto the pc thanks chris http://www.gossamer-threads.c

Re: [mythtv-users] hi guys, newbie here!

2005-10-06 Thread Richard Bronosky
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: first of all it nice to be here and thanks, can could you please tell how to search the forum so i don't keep asking silly question and what is the easiest way of putting myth tv onto the pc thanks chris ___

Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV error log Filled Hard drive.

2005-10-06 Thread George Nincehelser
This might have been caused by having /var, /, and your recordings being all on the same disk partition (i.e. everything is on the / partition).   I don't think many people partition this way anymore, but I like to have /var, /home, and anything else that might get filled up with data on a differen

[mythtv-users] hi guys, newbie here!

2005-10-06 Thread Kiss4her
first of all it nice to be here and thanks, can could you please tell how to search the forum so i don't keep asking silly question and what is the easiest way of putting myth tv onto the pc thanks chris ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@my

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

2005-10-06 Thread Axel Thimm
On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 10:19:44AM -0700, Alan Hagge wrote: > Alan Hagge wrote: > > >FYI, I'm having almost the same problem (using FC4 rpms on x86_64 > >architecture). Mine works if mythphone is installed (though I don't > >use it), but mythgallery & mythmusic cause mythfrontend to die with >

[mythtv-users] Re: Dependency problems w/atrpms, extras, freshrpms

2005-10-06 Thread Axel Thimm
On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 04:51:11PM +0200, Darren Black wrote: > I realize this is pretty much the wrong place to be posting this, but I > given the popularity of Jarod's guide I expect there are a number of people > here who have run into this situation... > > I just rebuilt my mythbox from scratc

Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV error log Filled Hard drive.

2005-10-06 Thread E Norm One
Chris Gackstatter wrote: In the process of installing a PVR-500, I got MythTV caught is some sort of loop. Prior to this I had about 235 GB free on my hard drive. When Myth stopped working I checked the mythbackend log that is out put on the screen and a saw repeating messages saying my hard dr

Re: [mythtv-users] Help - autoexpire not working

2005-10-06 Thread Bob Cottingham
On 10/6/05, Joseph A. Caputo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ever since my last 2 SVN upgrades, auto-expire has not been working, andmy disk has been filling up regularly.  My last good working was from 8/13 (sorry I don't have an SVN revision; my build system is still setup to use date-name directories

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-350 TV-Out with Xv support

2005-10-06 Thread Jeff Simpson
Do you have xorg built with the 'sdk' USE flag? You should... Yeah, it's in there. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-350 TV-Out with Xv support

2005-10-06 Thread Jeff Simpson
On 10/5/05, R. Geoffrey Newbury <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, 5 Oct 2005 16:34:21 -0400, Jeff Simpson wrote:You might check out: http://groundstate.ca/c3mythtvDown a ways there is a discussion about compiling the Xv, and XVmc drivers for a VIA motherboard... But the process will be exactly the

[mythtv-users] More reasons to use Linux and Mythtv (with Roku Photobridge maybe)

2005-10-06 Thread R. Geoffrey Newbury
This link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/04/AR200510040 0287.html tells us that the 'locked-down-closed-box-you'll-watch-what-we-let-you' has not gone away... A *new* scheme to be broken or just circumvented by using linux"DVD Johanson, come on down!" Ge

Re: [mythtv-users] cable box woes

2005-10-06 Thread Steve
Wow thats sounds alot harder than it looks :( On 10/6/05, David Watkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: That's pretty much correct.  The steps are:1) You tell the mythtv frontend that you want to change channel. 2) The frontend tells the backend, which calls a channel changescript, which you have provid

RE: [mythtv-users] Need suggestion for Frontend only fanless solution

2005-10-06 Thread Chris Gackstatter
I run MythRoku on a Roku Photobridge HD. What is there is easy to install and works great. MythRoku can use some more work but it is the only HiDef solution out there. Right now MythRoku only plays recorded shows and you can pause live TV. You will need a front end on another machine to schedul

Re: [mythtv-users] mythbackend hardware suggestions?

2005-10-06 Thread Allan Mcintosh
Depends on what capture cards you want to use with it. The ivtv capture cards has (historically) had some problems with via chipsets. But then again, my EPIA (via) backend now runs several months non-stop until it crashes on the ivtv driver. I will be using the ivtv with pvr-250. I

[mythtv-users] MythTV error log Filled Hard drive.

2005-10-06 Thread Chris Gackstatter
In the process of installing a PVR-500, I got MythTV caught is some sort of loop.  Prior to this I had about 235 GB free on my hard drive.  When Myth stopped working I checked the mythbackend log that is out put on the screen and a saw repeating messages saying my hard drive is full or some

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-350 TVout issues

2005-10-06 Thread Andrew Plumb
It's been a while since I've touched these settings, but have a look at the instructions a few of us captured here: http://mythtv.info/moin.cgi/HardWare/VideoCaptureCards/PvR350/HintsAndTips Enjoy! Andrew.On 10/6/05, Christopher Sink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Joe-On 10/6/05, Joe Votour <[EMA

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Trouble getting component outputs to work with nVidia 6200

2005-10-06 Thread Thom Sturgill
Actually, the first parameter after the name is the pixel-clock, and while it affects the horizontal sync it is not  the actual HorizontalSync  value.  My system accepts  a Horizontal Sync range starting at 30. I raised the pixel clock to 26.9 and achieved 30.1, which made this mode acceptable (I

Re: [mythtv-users] running mythtv backend on VIA EPIA VT-310DP

2005-10-06 Thread Scot L. Harris
On Thu, 2005-10-06 at 14:02, R. Geoffrey Newbury wrote: > On Thu, 6 Oct 2005 12:02:01 -0400, Andrew Plumb wrote: > Has anyone had a chance to install+run MythTV, specifically the backend, > on > one of the new EPIA VT-310DP dual-proc/SMP boards? > > http://www.viaembedded.com/product/epia_dp_spec.

Re: [mythtv-users] mythbackend hardware suggestions?

2005-10-06 Thread Erik Andersson
Allan Mcintosh wrote: I have Nvidia GeForce FX5200 TV-Out card Hauppauge pvr250 I was looking at either of the following combinations: AMD Sempron 2500+ 64 + MSI K8N NEO-V Or AMD Sempron 2500+ 64 + ASUS K8V-X-SE Any specific's to avoid? I was looking through the PVR Hardware database but

[mythtv-users] mythbackend hardware suggestions?

2005-10-06 Thread Allan Mcintosh
I have Nvidia GeForce FX5200 TV-Out card Hauppauge pvr250 I was looking at either of the following combinations: AMD Sempron 2500+ 64 + MSI K8N NEO-V Or AMD Sempron 2500+ 64 + ASUS K8V-X-SE Any specific's to avoid? I was looking through the PVR Hardware database but there is no motherboar

[mythtv-users] running mythtv backend on VIA EPIA VT-310DP

2005-10-06 Thread Andrew Plumb
[forgot to include the list on my reply]Hi Geoff, Reply inline... On 10/6/05, R. Geoffrey Newbury <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, 6 Oct 2005 12:02:01 -0400, Andrew Plumb wrote:Has anyone had a chance to install+run MythTV, specifically the backend,onone of the new EPIA VT-310DP dual-proc/SMP

Re: [mythtv-users] New MythMusic Theme - 4 bins

2005-10-06 Thread Isaac Richards
On Thursday 06 October 2005 09:24 am, John Erickson wrote: > On 10/2/05, Nick Parkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have designed a new layout for MythMusic which uses > > 4 bins on the screen. This design is orientated > > towards people with large mp3 collections of complete > > albums for e

Re: [mythtv-users] minimum memory on backend?

2005-10-06 Thread E Norm One
Andrew Wilson wrote: Wow! I didn't expect the numbers to be so high. I just checked on my own combined FE/BE system, and the backend is over 400MB. What's all that memory doing? 1614 mythtv16 0 405m 214m 31m S 0.0 45.5 0:01.80 mythbackend 1651 www-data 16 0 144m 7924 139m S 0.

Re: [mythtv-users] Australian channel scan

2005-10-06 Thread Jim Householder
Jim Householder wrote: BTW - I use the same cards as you. Would you mind sharing how you got them to take input from a VCR as that's something I want to do as well. That's a bit of a problem now... I have the RCA video out connected to the composite input of the card, and the audio directly t

Re: [mythtv-users] running mythtv backend on VIA EPIA VT-310DP

2005-10-06 Thread R. Geoffrey Newbury
On Thu, 6 Oct 2005 12:02:01 -0400, Andrew Plumb wrote: Oooppps, its the nano-itx board using the same processor which has the VT1625 HDTV out. The dual processor board does not appear to have any TV out.. Geoff R. Geoffrey Newbury [EMAIL PROTECTED] Barrister and Solicit

Re: [mythtv-users] Australian channel scan

2005-10-06 Thread Jim Householder
Phill Edwards wrote: The tzap pointer has helped a lot. tzap showed me the card was working, and data from the channel.conf* files got me through the channel scan - sort of. I get SBS 1, 2, and EPG, but I need to use the browse function to switch between them. The arrow keys don't work. After

Re: [mythtv-users] running mythtv backend on VIA EPIA VT-310DP

2005-10-06 Thread R. Geoffrey Newbury
On Thu, 6 Oct 2005 12:02:01 -0400, Andrew Plumb wrote: Has anyone had a chance to install+run MythTV, specifically the backend, on one of the new EPIA VT-310DP dual-proc/SMP boards? http://www.viaembedded.com/product/epia_dp_spec.jsp?motherboardId=3D321 Any known gotchas running this with a PVR-5

Re: [mythtv-users] Need suggestion for Frontend only fanless solution

2005-10-06 Thread Brad Fuller
Todd Ignasiak wrote: One frontend I've been looking into is the "Roku Photobridge HD" ( http://www.rokulabs.com/products/photobridge/index.php ). It's a media player for HDTV's. It is Linux based, and has a hardware MPEG2 decoder onboard. They encourage open source developement on their p

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-350 TVout issues

2005-10-06 Thread Christopher Sink
Hi Joe- On 10/6/05, Joe Votour <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > MythTV can be made to fit by using the GUI X/Y size > and displacement options. Ah, of course. I remember seeing those options (then promptly forgetting about them). I'll try that out. When mplayer plays will it be cut off as well or sta

Re: [mythtv-users] Need suggestion for Frontend only fanless solution

2005-10-06 Thread Ricardo Kleemann
Does this mini-mac solution work well for a frontend? What model / version of the mac is this? Ricardo - Original Message - From: "Jon Vanderwoude" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Discussion about mythtv" Sent: Thursday, October 06, 2005 7:39 AM Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Need suggestion for

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: New MythMusic Theme - 4 bins

2005-10-06 Thread Paul Leppert
On 10/5/05, Brad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: - I know I'm totally dreaming, but if MythMusic could read theplaylist files generated by iTunes, particularly "smart" playlists,I'd be in heaven. I just store my entire iTunes library on my Myth box and connect to it over the network from my computer (wo

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-350 TVout issues

2005-10-06 Thread John Harvey
That is fixed in latest SVN version. John --- Joe Votour <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > Sounds like you're using Xv instead of the MPEG-2 > decoder. The Xv support requires that some MPEG-2 > be > played through the MPEG-2 decoder before it will > work > (I do it in rc.local). Otherwise you w

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-350 TVout issues

2005-10-06 Thread Joe Votour
MythTV can be made to fit by using the GUI X/Y size and displacement options. Other applications need to support something similar, or they will run off of the screen. Alternatively, you can try to use a window manager that will pad windows and make them fit, but this may cause some problems (I w

[mythtv-users] Re: New MythMusic Theme - 4 bins

2005-10-06 Thread Nick Parkinson
1. As for 'maybe this is strange behaviour' maybe I need to re-train myself. No, I think that is pretty common behaviour. Maybe I'd queue a few albums up, starting with Rage Against The Machine, then someone comes in who hates Rage, so I'd add a handful of tracks or an album he likes, then when

[mythtv-users] PVR-350 TVout issues

2005-10-06 Thread Christopher Sink
Hi all. I've searched for answers for these two issues but am still unclear what's causing them or what to do about them. I've followed the Fedora Myth(TV)ology but have obviously missed something. Any advice would be appreciated: - TV output (X) appears larger than TV screen. Parts of the desktop

Re: [mythtv-users] minimum memory on backend?

2005-10-06 Thread Andrew Wilson
Wow! I didn't expect the numbers to be so high. I just checked on my own combined FE/BE system, and the backend is over 400MB. What's all that memory doing? 1614 mythtv16 0 405m 214m 31m S 0.0 45.5 0:01.80 mythbackend 1651 www-data 16 0 144m 7924 139m S 0.0 1.6 0:03.21 apache

Re: [mythtv-users] Need suggestion for Frontend only fanless solution

2005-10-06 Thread Mark Gardner
> I've got a mini-mac I've used as a front end, technically there is > supposedly a fan in there but I've never heard it and I can't feel any > air moving around the vents in the back unless I put a cd/dvd in > there. Does the mac mini have the kahonies for HDTV? -- _\ | /_

[mythtv-users] running mythtv backend on VIA EPIA VT-310DP

2005-10-06 Thread Andrew Plumb
Hi Everyone, Has anyone had a chance to install+run MythTV, specifically the backend, on one of the new EPIA VT-310DP dual-proc/SMP boards? http://www.viaembedded.com/product/epia_dp_spec.jsp?motherboardId=321 Any known gotchas running this with a PVR-500? It's time for me to move the backend of

Re: [mythtv-users] cable box woes

2005-10-06 Thread David Watkins
On 05/10/05, Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a Scientific Atlanta Cable box that outputs cable via S-Video into my > PVR-500. I'm not sure exactly where I plug it into my PVR-500 and I'm also > not sure what settings need to be modified in mythtv-setup. (video0/s-video1 > or 2, video1/s-v

Re: [mythtv-users] minimum memory on backend?

2005-10-06 Thread David Watkins
On 06/10/05, E Norm One <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Niels Dybdahl wrote: > >>What's the least memory I can get away with on a slave backend with 2x > >>DVB tuners? The box will likely be a fanless EPIA 5000, and it won't > >>be doing anything else at all.. So, it'll only have kernel, DVB > >>d

Re: [mythtv-users] minimum memory on backend?

2005-10-06 Thread E Norm One
Niels Dybdahl wrote: What's the least memory I can get away with on a slave backend with 2x DVB tuners? The box will likely be a fanless EPIA 5000, and it won't be doing anything else at all.. So, it'll only have kernel, DVB drivers, network (inc WOL), mythbackend. Is 32MB sufficient, or do

Re: [mythtv-users] RC on frontend only

2005-10-06 Thread Tom Lichti
E Norm One wrote: Torbjørn Heltne wrote: I have nearly aquired all HW for a separate frontend, but I'm a bit uncertain about the remote control. In the combined back/frontend I have already I use the RC that came with the pvr-350 and it works just fine. Any recommendations on suitable remo

REPOST: RE: [mythtv-users] MythTV - PVR500 - Auto Reboots

2005-10-06 Thread Folashade Adeyosoye
I think and I pray that this is the problem.     OK, when my system starts up it complains that there is a bad line in /etc/fstab line 9, this is actually a bug in Redhat Bugzilla (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=159087)   And I think when it needs swap space this

Re: [mythtv-users] minimum memory on backend?

2005-10-06 Thread Niels Dybdahl
What's the least memory I can get away with on a slave backend with 2xDVB tuners? The box will likely be a fanless EPIA 5000, and it won't be doing anything else at all.. So, it'll only have kernel, DVBdrivers, network (inc WOL), mythbackend.Is 32MB sufficient, or do I need 64 (or 128?)  My gue

Re: [mythtv-users] Need suggestion for Frontend only fanless solution

2005-10-06 Thread Jon Vanderwoude
On 10/5/05, Reza Naima <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anyone know of a good, inexpensive fanless frontend barebones system I > get get for mythtv? Something with a bit of extra power would be good > for the HD viewing. And most importantly, something with some decently > supported hardware - I'm ti

Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV on Kanotix based Debian for HD-3000

2005-10-06 Thread Steve Adeff
i figured it out, I didn't realize I had to install mythtv first for it to work... Another question... I'm using the defualt 2.6.13 kernel drivers as I've read many places that they are good and proper to get this card to work. From there I tried to compile the xine-hd and pchdtvr apps with fai

[mythtv-users] ATI 9200SE and DVI->HDMI

2005-10-06 Thread Phill Wiggin
I just bought a new JVC 56" HDTV with the intention of getting my frontend up and running HD. I've got an ATI 9200SE with Svideo/DVI outputs. I've had SD working fine with it for quite a while with the S-video output, but I'm having issues with the DVI. Currently, I can get a clear linux con

Re: [mythtv-users] amixer settings changing suddenly

2005-10-06 Thread Ricardo Kleemann
Thank you! > Uncheck the option: > > Use internal volume controls > MythTV can control the PCM and master mixer volume. If you prefer to > use an external mixer "program, then disable this option. > > Although that means that you always have to use an external program to > change volume. > >

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