Re: [mythtv-users] Removing DVB-channels

2005-10-11 Thread ffrr
Peter Martens wrote: Hi guys Can anyone help me with removing all the DVB channel info (channels, transports...) from the database, so I can start over with scanning for channels. Scanning now takes a long time because MythTV is trying to scan all transports (most of them do not contain

Re: [mythtv-users] Auto expire setting ambiguity

2005-10-11 Thread ffrr
Peter Darley wrote: On Oct 10, 2005, at 7:59 AM, Joseph A. Caputo wrote: However, all is not lost: it's not necessary to change the control to a checkbox. All that is needed to remove ambiguity is to change the text to read Auto Expire is ON and Auto Expire is OFF, or something

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

2005-10-11 Thread Michael Stevens
I had this exact problem. The issue was GCC 4.0. I originally compiled mythtv with GCC 3.3, and recently had to recompile it. Unbeknownst to me, Debian had upgraded the default GCC to 4.0. Once I changed the symlinks back to 3.3, it compiled fine again. I'm not running x64 though, but I suspect

Re: [mythtv-users] Removing DVB-channels

2005-10-11 Thread Peter Martens
Can anyone help me with removing all the DVB channel info (channels, transports...) from the database, so I can start over with scanning for channels. Scanning now takes a long time because MythTV is trying to scan all transports (most of them do not contain channels). As mythtv-setup

Re: [mythtv-users] Removing DVB-channels

2005-10-11 Thread John Pullan
On 11/10/05, Peter Martens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone help me with removing all the DVB channel info (channels, transports...) from the database, so I can start over with scanning for channels. Scanning now takes a long time because MythTV is trying to scan all transports (most of

[mythtv-users] mythweb on PDA says Empty beers ?

2005-10-11 Thread chris
I haven't started digging into the PHP (nor have I been drinking, although this might drive me to start :-P). For some reason, when I use my PDA running the Pocket PC version of Internet Explorer and connect to the mythweb/status.php page, the text navigation bar has replaced Scheduled Recordings

Re: [mythtv-users] Removing DVB-channels

2005-10-11 Thread Peter Martens
2005/10/11, John Pullan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 11/10/05, Peter Martens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone help me with removing all the DVB channel info (channels, transports...) from the database, so I can start over with scanning for channels. Scanning now takes a long time because

Re: [mythtv-users] diskless backend?

2005-10-11 Thread Stef Coene
On Monday 10 October 2005 23:00, Alberto Alonso wrote: The TV out issues where mythtv related or laptop related? Laptop related. I had to connet the tv and put the tv on the right input when powering up the laptop. Even the, from time to time, it was not working (most of the theme it was not

Re: [mythtv-users] Removing DVB-channels

2005-10-11 Thread John Pullan
On 11/10/05, Peter Martens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2005/10/11, John Pullan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 11/10/05, Peter Martens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone help me with removing all the DVB channel info (channels, transports...) from the database, so I can start over with scanning

Re: [mythtv-users] Removing DVB-channels

2005-10-11 Thread Peter Martens
2005/10/11, John Pullan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 11/10/05, Peter Martens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Where in the world are you and what flavour of dvb are you using ? DVB-C in the Netherlands. ___ Not using a twinham card are you by any chance ?

[mythtv-users] Automatic tuner change with a PVR-250 and a DVB card

2005-10-11 Thread vala ki
Should the latest SVN provide support for this. I managed to get it working perfecly with both cards, channels and everything, but I still have to press Y if I want to change to a different tuner card. I tried to check the logs, but it seems, that it does'nt even try to change the tuner. Maybe I

Re: [mythtv-users] Australian Digital TV Cards

2005-10-11 Thread Craig Tinson
Philip Shead wrote: The bright side of the VP card I got was it has a usb remote which can be moved independently of the card. The downside of the Kworld is that as said above the remote is a bit flimsy (not sure how many more keys people want? 32 the same as the VP) and what annoys me most is

Re: [mythtv-users] For UK MythTV users - More4 XMLTV info enclosed

2005-10-11 Thread Kim Wall
Nick wrote: I'd intentionally tried to cut out all of the DVB channel numbers (missed that one) as they are irrelevant when setting up the channels in MythTV. Assuming of course that you're using a DVB card, as opposed to a STB connected to an analogue capture card[1] :) Kim. [1] Hardly

Re: [mythtv-users] mythweb on PDA says Empty beers ?

2005-10-11 Thread David Whyte
On 10/11/05, Phill Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I haven't started digging into the PHP (nor have I been drinking, although this might drive me to start :-P). For some reason, when I use my PDA running the Pocket PC version of Internet Explorer and connect to the mythweb/status.php

Re: [mythtv-users] ITX vs ATX for dual-DVB system

2005-10-11 Thread R. Geoffrey Newbury
On Sun, 9 Oct 2005 00:05:28 +0100, Nick wrote: On 08/10/05, Jules Bean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anybody have any feedback on this? It's the PCI riser I'm most scared about, I don't understand PCI deeply enough at the hardware level to know if they provide good enough performance for two

Re: [mythtv-users] Video lasts for only 1 second on live TV

2005-10-11 Thread Allan Mcintosh
I was seeing buffer prepause when attempting live tv playback. It would pause if mythbackend was started using /etc/init.d/mythbackend init script. It looks as though there's an issue when started via 'su' . so I created an alias in ~/.bashrc alias mythbackend='mythbackend -v

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

2005-10-11 Thread Jules Gosnell
Axel Thimm wrote: 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...

Re: [mythtv-users] choppy sound on per-program basis.... (XvMC problem ?)

2005-10-11 Thread Jules Gosnell
Nick Parkinson wrote: 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

Re: [mythtv-users] choppy sound on per-program basis.... (XvMC problem ?)

2005-10-11 Thread Jules Gosnell
Jules Gosnell wrote: Nick Parkinson wrote: 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

Re: [mythtv-users] Blank screen on live tv with pvr 150

2005-10-11 Thread Kirk Bocek
Does anyone have a hint for John? I've run into the same thing and would love to hear any suggestions. My PVR-350 *was* working fine, live tv, recording, and everything. I tried to add an saa7133 based card which I am now going to give up on. But now my PVR-350 gives a black screen when

[mythtv-users] MythTV / ivtv (PVR350) Audio out

2005-10-11 Thread Sebastian Nerz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I have a strange problem ... Whenever I plug the Audio-Out of my PVR350 in my MIC-In I get some strange sounds - audio of I dont know what TV-Channel. That audio stays the same whatever channel I tune in .. If I send some MPEG2-Video to my TV via

Re: [mythtv-users] which is better, using S-Video or VGA?

2005-10-11 Thread Carl Fongheiser
On 10/11/05, Ricardo Kleemann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi,If I have a LCD TV/Monitor, that has both S-Video input and VGA input, whichis better to use, for quality of playback? In most circumstances, the VGA input should be much better. However, I've seen enough goofy behavior on some LCD monitors

Re: [mythtv-users] Australian Digital TV Cards

2005-10-11 Thread Paul Andreassen
On Tue, 11 Oct 2005 08:47 pm, Craig Tinson wrote: Philip Shead wrote: The bright side of the VP card I got was it has a usb remote which can be moved independently of the card. The downside of the Kworld is that as said above the remote is a bit flimsy (not sure how many more keys

Re: [mythtv-users] which is better, using S-Video or VGA?

2005-10-11 Thread Ricardo Kleemann
Would you say, then, that if I just want to watch SD (iow I don't need an HD-ready TV monitor) I'm better off connecting the mythtv frontend to a good computer monitor than having an S-Video TV monitor? I'm want to buy a decent 19" LCD monitor for TV viewing, and I was wondering whether

Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV / ivtv (PVR350) Audio out

2005-10-11 Thread David Watkins
On 11/10/05, Sebastian Nerz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I have a strange problem ... Whenever I plug the Audio-Out of my PVR350 in my MIC-In I get some strange sounds - audio of I dont know what TV-Channel. That audio stays the same whatever

RE: [mythtv-users] which is better, using S-Video or VGA?

2005-10-11 Thread Simpson, Richard
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Andrew Wilson Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2005 9:43 AM To: Discussion about mythtv Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] which is better, using S-Video or VGA? This is what I was going to do (replace my TV

Re: [mythtv-users] Australian Digital TV Cards

2005-10-11 Thread Craig Tinson
Paul Andreassen wrote: On Tue, 11 Oct 2005 08:47 pm, Craig Tinson wrote: Philip Shead wrote: The bright side of the VP card I got was it has a usb remote which can be moved independently of the card. The downside of the Kworld is that as said above the remote is a bit flimsy (not sure

[mythtv-users] Fine tuning picture quality

2005-10-11 Thread Allan Mcintosh
Hey, Can anyone suggest an application or procedure to fine tune picture quality. IE Adjusting brightness, contrast color's and so forth? I am unable to do this manually. Are there any linux apps to do this? Something similar to Avia. Thanks ___

[mythtv-users] Not your everyday newbie questions

2005-10-11 Thread R. Stavros Bezas
For the last few weeks I have been browsing every single website I can possibly imagine that deals with creating your own HD PVR HTPC. Without owning a HD set or service presently I find myself a touch limited when it comes to specific hardware connections/setups. I am well versed with the

Re: [mythtv-users] which is better, using S-Video or VGA?

2005-10-11 Thread Robert Denier
On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 16:42 +0100, Andrew Wilson wrote: This is what I was going to do (replace my TV with my good quality LCD computer monitor) until I tried it out. The picture quality is simply FAR better on a TV than on a monitor. While a monitor may expose flaws in the tv signal to a

Re: [mythtv-users] Fine tuning picture quality

2005-10-11 Thread Brad Fuller
Allan Mcintosh wrote: Hey, Can anyone suggest an application or procedure to fine tune picture quality. IE Adjusting brightness, contrast color's and so forth? I am unable to do this manually. Are there any linux apps to do this? Something similar to Avia. For manual procedure:

Re: [mythtv-users] For UK MythTV users - More4 XMLTV info enclosed

2005-10-11 Thread Nick
On 11/10/05, Kim Wall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nick wrote: I'd intentionally tried to cut out all of the DVB channel numbers (missed that one) as they are irrelevant when setting up the channels in MythTV. Assuming of course that you're using a DVB card, as opposed to a STB connected to

RE: [mythtv-users] Not your everyday newbie questions

2005-10-11 Thread Simpson, Richard
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of R. Stavros Bezas For the last few weeks I have been browsing every single website I can possibly imagine that deals with creating your own HD PVR HTPC. Without owning a HD set or service presently I find myself a touch

Re: [mythtv-users] Not your everyday newbie questions

2005-10-11 Thread R. Stavros Bezas
Robert, I appreciate your quick response, analyzing this setup is aggravating me as much as it excites me. I always love a good challenge. To address a few of your replies: Upon looking at costs/feasibility/implementation I am leaning more towards Comcast. The ability to potentially use

[mythtv-users] Re: Fedora Mythtv, pcHDTV and Comcast?

2005-10-11 Thread Mark Linford
Oh, I'm close. I'm sooo close ... On 10/10/05, Mark Linford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -- Forwarded message -- From: Mark Linford [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Oct 10, 2005 5:42 AM Subject: Re: Fedora Mythtv, pcHDTV and Comcast? To: Discussion about mythtv mythtv-users@mythtv.org

[mythtv-users] S-video TV-out to TV's composite input (solution)

2005-10-11 Thread Richard Reiner
In a change from the most common form of posting on this list, I thought I'd share a solution rather than a problem: Challenge: connect my new secondary front-end, which has an Nvidia card with s-video TV output, to an older TV with only composite inputs. Solution: build this circuit:

Re: [mythtv-users] mythweb on PDA says Empty beers ?

2005-10-11 Thread chris
On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 11:05:09PM +1000, David Whyte wrote: Q: Crikey, 10 acres, how long does it take to mow this lawn? A: Aww, about 2 six-packs. Well, I did manage to find the Australian translation package for mythweb so I knew that my system wasn't hacked, but now that leaves me wondering

RE: [mythtv-users] Re: Fedora Mythtv, pcHDTV and Comcast?

2005-10-11 Thread Simpson, Richard
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Mark Linford Oh, I'm close. I'm sooo close ... On 10/10/05, Mark Linford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -- Forwarded message -- From: Mark Linford [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Oct 10, 2005 5:42 AM Subject: Re:

[mythtv-users] OT: MythTV Home Automation

2005-10-11 Thread Mat Kyne
I have come to assume that the people that frequent this list have interests similar to my own. (The ever-persistent desire to make one thing do many things). So I am looking for some advice. I would like to automate various appliances around my house using X-10 modules, but have them

Re: [mythtv-users] Mac OSX Fronted Crashes?

2005-10-11 Thread Todd Houle
There's a folder in the root of your home called .mythtv which you may want to delete and let it recreate. Perhaps the version formats are different? I found when I changed the IP of my backend, I had to delete that directory. Todd On Oct 10, 2005, at 11:46 AM, Michael Jones wrote:

Re: [mythtv-users] Not your everyday newbie questions

2005-10-11 Thread Robert Denier
On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 13:56 -0400, R. Stavros Bezas wrote: Robert, In regards to the 1:1 pixel mapping idea you suggested: Do you have any more information regarding this so I can look further into it, I am curious to find out more about it. 1:1 mapping only applies to discrete devices

Re: [mythtv-users] OT: MythTV Home Automation

2005-10-11 Thread Thom Paine
On 10/11/05, Mat Kyne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have come to assume that the people that frequent this list have interestssimilar to my own. (The ever-persistent desire to make one thing do manythings). So I am looking for some advice. I would like to automate various appliances around my house

Re: [mythtv-users] which is better, using S-Video or VGA?

2005-10-11 Thread Niels Dybdahl
Would you say, then, that if I just want to watch SD (iow I don't need an HD-ready TV monitor) I'm better off connecting the mythtv frontend to a good computer monitor than having an S-Video TV monitor? The horizontal refresh rate is also important. If you are in PAL-country with 50 half-frames

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

2005-10-11 Thread Steve Adeff
On Tuesday 11 October 2005 03:28, Michael Stevens wrote: I had this exact problem. The issue was GCC 4.0. I originally compiled mythtv with GCC 3.3, and recently had to recompile it. Unbeknownst to me, Debian had upgraded the default GCC to 4.0. Once I changed the symlinks back to 3.3, it

Re: [mythtv-users] OT: MythTV Home Automation

2005-10-11 Thread Brad Fuller
On 01:38 PM Thom Paine wrote: Since this isn't anything to do with mythtv, feel free to email me off list and I'll gladly help you out all I can. I'm interested though! Can you keep it on the list? Or, is there a list to monitor? ___

Re: [mythtv-users] OT: MythTV Home Automation

2005-10-11 Thread Richard Bronosky
Thom Paine wrote: On 10/11/05, Mat Kyne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have come to assume that the people that frequent this list have interests similar to my own. (The ever-persistent desire to make one thing do many things). So I am looking for some advice. I would like to automate various

Re: [mythtv-users] OT: MythTV Home Automation

2005-10-11 Thread Phill Wiggin
Include me in the wanna know more department. I'd love to do this kind of thing My wife might kill me, but what the heck, I might as well spend my remaining days in geek-heaven, right? --Phill Brad Fuller wrote: On 01:38 PM Thom Paine wrote: Since this isn't anything to do with

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Comcast being coy?

2005-10-11 Thread Chris Ribe
I'm pleased to report that I found a Moto DCT6200 waiting for me when I arrived home from work today. The install guy was confused enough that he called me, but I just told him that I was going to hook it up to a computer and he was fine with that. I am also pleased to report that I get ESPNHD,

[mythtv-users] FC4 and HD-3000 - my steps to success... and a couple questions.

2005-10-11 Thread ToadMazter
After months of lurking around this forum, and after a several failed installations, I FINALLY havewatched someHDTV via Myth! WooHoo I'm not out the woods yet, nor even close to being able to present this project to my wife, but I thought I would share some of the extra steps I had to do make

Re: [mythtv-users] Configuring IR transmitter for changing channels

2005-10-11 Thread Nick
On 11/10/05, Tomas Roos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello. Since I use my Digital Terrestrial receiver to recieve television I only use the composite or S-video input (not the tuner) on my PVR-150 card to record programs (which by the way works excellent). Identical to users having digital

Re: [mythtv-users] OT: MythTV Home Automation

2005-10-11 Thread Kevin Kuphal
Mat Kyne wrote: I have come to assume that the people that frequent this list have interests similar to my own. (The ever-persistent desire to make one thing do many things). So I am looking for some advice. I would like to automate various appliances around my house using X-10 modules, but

Re: [mythtv-users] OT: MythTV Home Automation

2005-10-11 Thread Thom Paine
My nightly cron included (I didn't have a garage door ) a script to make sure appropriate lights were off, I'd make all the lights come on that were turned on with motion sensors brighten to 50% and dim back to 0%. The software would tell you the state of a given module with the status command. I

RE: [mythtv-users] OT: MythTV Home Automation

2005-10-11 Thread Simpson, Richard
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of PAUL WILLIAMSON [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/11/05 4:49 PM On 01:38 PM Thom Paine wrote: Since this isn't anything to do with mythtv, feel free to email me off list and I'll gladly help you out all I can. I'm interested

[mythtv-users] Controlling a cable box that outputs only on a single channel.

2005-10-11 Thread Steve
I have a strange predicament, or at least I haven't stumbled upon anyone else with it yet. I have a Scientific Atlanta 4200HD box. I am using the cable out on the back of my cable box and it goes into my second tuner card (PVR-250). Here's the problem: The cable box's cable out only broadcasts

RE: [mythtv-users] OT: MythTV Home Automation

2005-10-11 Thread John Harvey
I once considered whether we should just look at adding a GUI to something like misterhouse (http://www.misterhouse.net ) rather than re-inventing everything. I looked at it briefly a while ago and it looked like it could do most things and maybe just needs a frontend launching some application or

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Comcast being coy?

2005-10-11 Thread Steve Adeff
On Tuesday 11 October 2005 16:57, Chris Ribe wrote: I'm pleased to report that I found a Moto DCT6200 waiting for me when I arrived home from work today. The install guy was confused enough that he called me, but I just told him that I was going to hook it up to a computer and he was fine

Re: [mythtv-users] FC4 and HD-3000 - my steps to success... and a couple questions.

2005-10-11 Thread Mark Linford
Last question I really want to use my PVR-500 with the two HD-3000's. But last time I installed the ivtv drivers it broke the DVB drivers. Anyone else able to share their steps to success with the two cards? This is fun (?) I just had a similar problem with a PVR-150 and a HD-3000.

Re: [mythtv-users] OT: MythTV Home Automation

2005-10-11 Thread Kevin Kuphal
John Harvey wrote: I once considered whether we should just look at adding a GUI to something like misterhouse (http://www.misterhouse.net ) rather than re-inventing everything. I looked at it briefly a while ago and it looked like it could do most things and maybe just needs a frontend

Re: [mythtv-users] Controlling a cable box that outputs only on a single channel.

2005-10-11 Thread Kevin Kuphal
Steve wrote: I have a strange predicament, or at least I haven't stumbled upon anyone else with it yet. I have a Scientific Atlanta 4200HD box. I am using the cable out on the back of my cable box and it goes into my second tuner card (PVR-250). Here's the problem: The cable box's cable out

Re: [mythtv-users] ITX vs ATX for dual-DVB system

2005-10-11 Thread Simon Kenyon
On Sunday 09 October 2005 00:05, Nick wrote: On 08/10/05, Jules Bean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The system will be for watching DVB-T digital broadcast TV, as well as DVDs. This means that it presumably doesn't need to be terribly powerful from a CPU point of view? No encoding or transcoding

Re: [mythtv-users] which is better, using S-Video or VGA?

2005-10-11 Thread Andrew Wilson
Of course, you're correct and I agree with you that displaying non-TV output is far superior on a monitor. I was talking about the quality of the TV picture. The fast response time of the picture on a monitor is actually a disadvantage when displaying a 25Hz interlaced TV picture, especially for

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Comcast being coy?

2005-10-11 Thread Kevin Kuphal
Chris Ribe wrote: I'm pleased to report that I found a Moto DCT6200 waiting for me when I arrived home from work today. The install guy was confused enough that he called me, but I just told him that I was going to hook it up to a computer and he was fine with that. I am also pleased to

RE: [mythtv-users] FC4 and HD-3000 - my steps to success... and a couple questions.

2005-10-11 Thread Simpson, Richard
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Mark Linford Last question I really want to use my PVR-500 with the two HD-3000's. But last time I installed the ivtv drivers it broke the DVB drivers. Anyone else able to share their steps to

Re: [mythtv-users] Controlling a cable box that outputs only on a single channel.

2005-10-11 Thread Brad Benson
On 10/11/05, Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a strange predicament, or at least I haven't stumbled upon anyone else with it yet. I have a Scientific Atlanta 4200HD box. I am using the cable out on the back of my cable box and it goes into my second tuner card (PVR-250). Here's the problem:

Re: [mythtv-users] mythweb on PDA says Empty beers ?

2005-10-11 Thread Chris Petersen
Well, I did manage to find the Australian translation package for mythweb so I knew that my system wasn't hacked, but now that leaves me wondering what to *do* about it. The PocketIE that comes on the PDA doesn't allow me to change things like UserAgent, and the language is already set to

Re: [mythtv-users] Controlling a cable box that outputs only on a single channel.

2005-10-11 Thread Brian Bosch
On 10/11/05, Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The cable box's cable out only broadcasts on channel 3. So when Myth has a listing for lets say... channel 5, it tunes from 3 to 5. Now it only picks up static, however for it to work, it needs to stay tuned on 3. The cable box can be on whatever

Re: [mythtv-users] Not your everyday newbie questions

2005-10-11 Thread Chris Ribe
Without the firewire connection am I correct in assuming that there is no way to capture HD encrypted content like HD Espn, HD TNT, HD Discovery, etc? Is this a blanket problem or are there ways around it? The problem isn't encryption, as HD content over component output isn't encrypted, the

RE: [mythtv-users] OT: MythTV Home Automation

2005-10-11 Thread Scot L. Harris
On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 17:07, Simpson, Richard wrote: How about security cameras, with motion detection software initiating recordings? A good feature for MythTV! Take a look at zoneminder. http://www.zoneminder.com ___ mythtv-users mailing

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Fedora Mythtv, pcHDTV and Comcast?

2005-10-11 Thread Mark Linford
On 10/11/05, Simpson, Richard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark- Yes, you are very close! I have just recently succeeded in getting both a HD3000 and a PVR-150 to work in MythTV, and I believe the Myth part was the hardest. I first setup the Zap2it account with the OTA channels I wanted to

[mythtv-users] Re: Fedora Mythtv, pcHDTV and Comcast?

2005-10-11 Thread Mark Linford
On 10/11/05, Dennis Lou [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now, I start mythfrontend. I go to Watch TV, and pull of the onscreen guide. I select channel 707, but only get static. Thinking that it might be trying to use the PVR-150, I switch tuners Did you set up a separate line-up at zap2it for

[mythtv-users] Re: OT: MythTV Home Automation

2005-10-11 Thread Mat Kyne
I am glad to know that my assumption about the people on this list was correct. - Unfortunately Heyu and Heyu2 will not work for me (I have the Firecracker PC Module), but most importantly it won't do the part with the phone. That is the most important part for me. I can log onto my computer

[mythtv-users] DMA not enabled

2005-10-11 Thread Phil Strong
I recently replaced my mythbox with a shiny new machine that now has SATA drives. After initial install of OS and Myth ... I play live tv and it is slow and/or skips. I checked the hdparm for /dev/hda5 (/video) and find out that DMA is disabled :). How do I go about enabling DMA? If the answer

[mythtv-users] Re: Fedora Mythtv, pcHDTV and Comcast?

2005-10-11 Thread Mark Linford
On 10/11/05, Dennis Lou [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The 20 seconds of blank screen? That could be caused by not having a valid start channel (i.e. don't use the default '2' or '3'). I think you're right. After I manually set the start channel to a valid entry, Live TV worked Also, have you

[mythtv-users] US Broadcast Flag

2005-10-11 Thread Brad Fuller
Those in the US, might want to send your rep a msg about how you feel toward recent MPAA and RIAAs tactics. http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/004047.php the EFF article has a convenient way to contact your rep (see last link in article.) Or, you can always write your rep directly. --

[mythtv-users] Re: Fedora Mythtv, pcHDTV and Comcast?

2005-10-11 Thread Mark Linford
On 10/11/05, Mark Linford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/11/05, Dennis Lou [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also, have you tried recording a program rather than Live TV? Ah, I didn't even think of that. I'll try that now ... Nope, output still jumpy, nothing but static from audio :( Mark

[mythtv-users] No Remote after restart

2005-10-11 Thread Todd Houle
 I have a PVR 350 running Fedora 4 setup with Jarrod's guide about a month ago.  It's working great.  In fact, I need to upgrade the hard disk, but my family loves it and won't let me take it down to replace the HD :)   Thanks Jarrod!One thing I can't figure out though - when it power cycles, it

RE: [mythtv-users] FC4 and HD-3000 - my steps to success... and a couple questions.

2005-10-11 Thread Simpson, Richard
1. When attempting to configure my capture cards in mythtvsetup, I would get Could not open card #0 and Permission denied errors in the capture card settings. What I eventually figured out was that the mythtv user did not have permissions to access the DVB devices. I found a hint on the

Re: [mythtv-users] Australian Digital TV Cards

2005-10-11 Thread Craig Read
Hurgh wrote: Hi All, I have been around the list for a while, and in the past have asked a few questions. I have started setting up a new PVR and am looking at putting in a Digital (as appose to the analog one i have now) TV card. Can people in australia please let me know 1) What card

[mythtv-users] PVR-350 Was Working, Now Isn't

2005-10-11 Thread Kirk Bocek
My PVR-350 was working fine, recording and watching live TV. Then I tried to add a second capture card. I gave up on the second card but now the PVR-350 stopped working. All I get is a black screen. The copy /dev/video0 file.mpg test works fine -- the card is receiving a signal on the tuner0

Re: [mythtv-users] Returning to playback speed 1X doesn't play at 1X

2005-10-11 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 10/9/05, Chris Ribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Put a stopwatch on a 2 minute commercial break and report the results. The problem is, how do you know exactly how long a commercial break is? If the typical commerical is 30 seconds long, a difference of 10% in speed would only be 3 seconds, but how

[mythtv-users] External CD drivers under Xebian

2005-10-11 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sorry for posting this here, but I don't know where else to look. I have an XBox running as a MythTV remote frontend. It is running Xebian 1.0.3. The built-in XBox DVD drive is quite picky about reading CD-R media, so I installed a CD-RW drive into a USB2 5.25 enclosure. I then plugged the

Re: [mythtv-users] Controlling a cable box that outputs only on a single channel.

2005-10-11 Thread Joe Votour
Disclaimer: I don't even have a cable STB, since I have analog cable. If the STB will only provide output on channel 3 (I am presuming that you are using a F-type coaxial cable to connect your PVR-250 to it based on this fact), then you will likely need to get the IRBlaster working now, and not

Re: [mythtv-users] Controlling a cable box that outputs only on a single channel.

2005-10-11 Thread Carl Fongheiser
On 10/11/05, Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a strange predicament, or at least I haven't stumbled upon anyone else with it yet. I have a Scientific Atlanta 4200HD box. I am using the cable out on the back of my cable box and it goes into my second tuner card (PVR-250). Here's the problem:

Re: [mythtv-users] OT: MythTV Home Automation

2005-10-11 Thread chris
On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 10:12:04PM +0100, John Harvey wrote: I once considered whether we should just look at adding a GUI to something like misterhouse (http://www.misterhouse.net ) rather than re-inventing everything. I looked at it briefly a while ago and it looked like it could do most

[mythtv-users] ivtv 4.x compatible with HD-3000 DVB?

2005-10-11 Thread ToadMazter
I just noticed that the ivtv 4.x drivers are now on ATRPMS. Has anyone been succesful with these and the PVR-150/500, and can it co-reside with the HD-3000 DVB drivers? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org

Re: [mythtv-users] mythweb on PDA says Empty beers ?

2005-10-11 Thread Michael T. Dean
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 11:05:09PM +1000, David Whyte wrote: Q: Crikey, 10 acres, how long does it take to mow this lawn? A: Aww, about 2 six-packs. Well, I did manage to find the Australian translation package for mythweb so I knew that my system wasn't

[mythtv-users] LInksys NSLU2 as low power master backend?

2005-10-11 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have read that you can install Linux on a Linksys NSLU2 network-attached-storage device. If you were to attach some high capacity hard drives to the USB2 ports, would it be possible to use this device as a master backend? As for the tuner cards, put them in another machine and have this backend

Re: [mythtv-users] Video lasts for only 1 second on live TV

2005-10-11 Thread Phil Strong
So just as a follow up you did restart the mythbackend service after the backend came up. The service not the machine. For I had to add a sleep command after loading ivtv before I started the backend. Obviously a hack but a good one :) -PhilOn 10/11/05, Allan Mcintosh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I

Re: [mythtv-users] which is better, using S-Video or VGA?

2005-10-11 Thread Michael T. Dean
Simpson, Richard wrote: From: Andrew Wilson This is what I was going to do (replace my TV with my good quality LCD computer monitor) until I tried it out. The picture quality is simply FAR better on a TV than on a monitor. Main difference is that a TV has a tuner, monitors don't.

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

2005-10-11 Thread MythTV
Do you need the Photobridge HD (HD1500) or is the HD1000 OK? The main difference I see is the HD1500 has 128MB RAM and the HD1000 is 64MB, but not sure if that is much a limitation. Thanks, Todd -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris

Re: [mythtv-users] Buffer file not rolling

2005-10-11 Thread Mitko Haralanov
On Sat, 08 Oct 2005 10:33:52 -0400 Joseph A. Caputo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What filesystem are you using on that partition? Some filesystems reserve a certain percentage of space to be writable only by the root user, so on a 10 GB partition you may only be able to write about 9 GB as a

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Comcast being coy?

2005-10-11 Thread Chris Ribe
I have to pay something like $6/month for the box and another $8/month for Digital Basic Access or some other such nonsense. The bottom line is that it is $14 more than the basic cable that I was getting. On 10/11/05, Kevin Kuphal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chris Ribe wrote: I'm pleased to report

Re: [mythtv-users] Blank screen on live tv with pvr 150

2005-10-11 Thread John Cartwright
On 10/11/05, John Cartwright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SOLVED (I guess) I just booted up my system for the um-teenth time and live tv is working. There seems to be pausing in the sound but I'll take that for now. My only guess is that maybe there is some inconsistency in the way my modules are

Re: [mythtv-users] Controlling a cable box that outputs only on a single channel.

2005-10-11 Thread Steve
Wow, thanks for all the help :). Now to get the IR Blaster functioning! On 10/11/05, Brian Bosch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/11/05, Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The cable box's cable out only broadcasts on channel 3. So when Myth has a listing for lets say... channel 5, it tunes from 3 to

[mythtv-users] Broadcast flag is back

2005-10-11 Thread Edward Rosinzonsky
Time to contact your senators. http://www.publicknowledge.org/action/night_of_the_broadcast_flag ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

Re: [mythtv-users] ivtv 4.x compatible with HD-3000 DVB?

2005-10-11 Thread Cecil Watson
ToadMazter wrote: I just noticed that the ivtv 4.x drivers are now on ATRPMS. Has anyone been succesful with these and the PVR-150/500, and can it co-reside with the HD-3000 DVB drivers? Not that I'm using Fedora, but yes. Regards, Cecil ___

[mythtv-users] DVB in SVN (7416): One channel has very poor audio

2005-10-11 Thread Greg Grotsky
I recieve about 8-10 channels over the air, using DVB. I find that one channel (FOX) has extremely poor audio, it's very scratchy and garbled... I can make out mostly what they are saying but it sounds like someone constantly talking through one of those tracheotomy cazoos. There are two audio

[mythtv-users] OT: upgrading kernel problems / atrpms fedora mirror repo problems?

2005-10-11 Thread Noel Murphy
I have gotten myself into a weird situation. I had a working FC4 / myth 18.1 box, but for some reason it somehow got messed up and would not boot. I have since just formatted the drives (after slapping the drives into a different machine and backing up some stuff) and did a fresh

[mythtv-users] Firewire and DCT-6200

2005-10-11 Thread Curtis Stanford
Is anyone seriously using firewire input with a dct-6200 receiver reliably? I just got mine working a few days ago and when it's working, it's great. However, more often than not, recordings come up short or the channel doesn't change. It hasn't made it through an hour long recording yet

Re: [mythtv-users] Video lasts for only 1 second on live TV

2005-10-11 Thread Alberto Alonso
I did indeed try to restart just the service (several times in fact) It didn't seem to work. As for Allan's suggestion I am about to try right now. It's been a long day and I just got to my home computers. Thanks, Alberto On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 17:32 -0400, Phil Strong wrote: So just as a

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