Re: [mythtv-users] The Race to Change the Channel

2005-10-18 Thread W.Kenworthy
The alternative view: in Australia (Perth) the program info is lousy, missing or plain wrong. Channel surfing is where its at (we only have a small handful of channels - not counting the dups), and the delays are a real pain, as is the OSD jitter which seems endemic, and the lockups, ...

Re: [mythtv-users] The Race to Change the Channel

2005-10-18 Thread Robert Denier
I tend to more or less agree that changing channels super fast is not too important. Small dish receivers haven't ever done this fast. Of course adding the myth layer slows things down a little, but for quite practical reasons and its no big deal. Now if one wanted a trivial way to flip

Re: [mythtv-users] WinTV-PVR-350 hardware decoder only works for TV out?

2005-10-18 Thread Andy Leung
--- Nick Rosier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 17/10/05, Andy Leung [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sounds like the hardware decoder only kicks in when you're using a TV set for display. Is that really the case when using MythTV and PVR-350? I only plan on watching tv on a computer monitor. In

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: mythstreamtv Errors Please Help

2005-10-18 Thread Phill Edwards
I added this option to the mythstreamtv.sh script. In case anyone has the same problem. --http-src /var/www Did you mean that or should it be --http-src=/var/www ? Regards, Phill ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org

Re: [mythtv-users] (Slightly OT) Multi room Multimedia playback

2005-10-18 Thread Robert Rozman
- Original Message - From: Robert Denier [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Discussion about mythtv mythtv-users@mythtv.org Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2005 1:30 AM Subject: [mythtv-users] (Slightly OT) Multi room Multimedia playback I'm curious if anyone has ever heard of a good solution to say

[mythtv-users] Starting to think I should use Kaffeine instead of Mythtv

2005-10-18 Thread ffrr
Really getting tiresome having glitchy live and recorded TV. Kaffeine's picture and sound is much cleaner from the same DVB card using the same channels.conf file for tuning parameters. What is myth doing differently? Also, sick of mythfrontend just quitting outright (seg fault) trying to

Re: [mythtv-users] The Race to Change the Channel

2005-10-18 Thread David Watkins
On 18/10/05, W.Kenworthy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The alternative view: in Australia (Perth) the program info is lousy, missing or plain wrong. Channel surfing is where its at (we only have a small handful of channels - not counting the dups), and the delays are a real pain, as is the OSD

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: lircd starts fine, but crashes as soon as something tries to use it

2005-10-18 Thread David Watkins
On 18/10/05, Jon Kunze [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, here's what happens when i try to reinstall lirc [EMAIL PROTECTED] mythtv]# yum install ivtv-kmdl-$KVER Setting up Install Process Setting up repositories atrpms100% |=| 951 B00:00

Re: [mythtv-users] [SOLUTION] USB ir-receiver compatible with lirc

2005-10-18 Thread Neil Bird
Around about 13/10/05 16:26, Oscar Curero typed ... Just in case anyone has problems with the ir-receiver that come with the pvr cards, I bought a usb receiver IgorUSB AVR and is working fine (really plugplay) with lirc.I'm using 0.7.1 with suse. Where did you get it from? Did you get the

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Slightly OT: Recording AV inputs on a DVB-T card

2005-10-18 Thread David Watkins
On 15/10/05, David Whyte [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/16/05, David Whyte [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know the avermedia cards have a video AV slot, but was wondering how I could record that to my PC. How do I get the sound in, and how does it all come to be synchronised. Just to

Re: [mythtv-users] Starting to think I should use Kaffeine instead of Mythtv

2005-10-18 Thread Alex Cruz
I suppose it all depends on what you are looking for. If you want a HTPC, then MythTV is one option. There's also Freevo under Linux and several free one's under Windows. As for picture quality in LiveTV and recording, what I am watching is acceptable for non-HD television. On my system I use

Re: [mythtv-users] Starting to think I should use Kaffeine instead of Mythtv

2005-10-18 Thread Phill Edwards
Despite this, I keep hearing that a new version of myth isn't warranted yet? What do I have to do - get an SVN version (not really a good option)? None , or very few, responses to the messages and problems I have recently posted about. Do I take this to mean noone really knows much about

Re: [mythtv-users] Starting to think I should use Kaffeine instead of Mythtv

2005-10-18 Thread ffrr
Alex Cruz wrote: I suppose it all depends on what you are looking for. If you want a HTPC, then MythTV is one option. There's also Freevo under Linux and several free one's under Windows. Yes I tried Freevo. Not too bad. Mythtv has many more features, but if the basics don't work

Re: [mythtv-users] Starting to think I should use Kaffeine instead of Mythtv

2005-10-18 Thread Dag Nygren
Alex Cruz wrote: Truly, I was blaming the antenna and all sorts of things until I discovered Kaffeine doesn't suffer nearly as bad as myth. Kaffeine only show a glitch very occasionally. Other TV's and digital set top boxes in my house show virtually flawless pictures (we have a good

Re: [mythtv-users] Starting to think I should use Kaffeine instead of Mythtv

2005-10-18 Thread ffrr
Phill Edwards wrote: Despite this, I keep hearing that a new version of myth isn't warranted yet? What do I have to do - get an SVN version (not really a good option)? None , or very few, responses to the messages and problems I have recently posted about. Do I take this to mean noone really

[mythtv-users] Alsa only seems to work with Root user not mythtv user

2005-10-18 Thread Mark Rissberger
Hello All, First off, I'd like to thank everyone that helped me get LIRC working with the PVR150. It works like a dream now. The problem that I have now seems like it may be a permission issue but I'm not sure where. I can't use ALSA if I'm logged in as the mythtv user but it works fine

[mythtv-users] Building channels.conf for Exeter/Beacon Hill, UK

2005-10-18 Thread Ben Edwards
Hi, got fairly far setting up my MythTV box. How to I find out what transmitter I am using, I think it is Beacon Hill that is in Exmouth bot not certain, how can I find out? The other thing is I then need to find out the frequency. I found this whitch may be relevent:- I am testing my hardware

Re: [mythtv-users] Starting to think I should use Kaffeine instead of Mythtv

2005-10-18 Thread Niels Dybdahl
As for picture quality in LiveTV and recording, what Iam watching is acceptable for non-HD television. What is frustrating is that the picture from my DVB card is excellent,even in myth when it's not glitching. Myth must be using itdifferently to Kaffeine (which uses Xine) as obviously the

[mythtv-users] I will be in training on October 17, 2005. Please copy Steve Ardis all Choice/Branch/CTM/Configurator/ChannelBroker issues if an immediate response is needed. If you still need to get

2005-10-18 Thread JBorn
I will be out of the office starting 10/17/2005 and will not return until 10/19/2005. I will respond to your message when I return.___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

Re: [mythtv-users] Building channels.conf for Exeter/Beacon Hill, UK

2005-10-18 Thread David Watkins
On 18/10/05, Ben Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, got fairly far setting up my MythTV box. How to I find out what transmitter I am using, I think it is Beacon Hill that is in Exmouth bot not certain, how can I find out? The other thing is I then need to find out the frequency. I found

[mythtv-users] Picture quality, was Starting to think I should use Kaffeine instead of Mythtv

2005-10-18 Thread Peter Osterberg
Are there any guide available for optimizing picture quality. I see some annoying effects in pictures with a lot of motion i.e. scrolling after texts becomes VERY blurry. Anybody? At 12:44 2005-10-18, you wrote: I suppose it all depends on what you are looking for. If you want a HTPC, then

Re: [mythtv-users] Starting to think I should use Kaffeine instead of Mythtv

2005-10-18 Thread ffrr
Niels Dybdahl wrote: As for picture quality in LiveTV and recording, what I am watching is acceptable for non-HD television. What is frustrating is that the picture from my DVB card is excellent, even in myth when it's not glitching. Myth must be using it

Re: [mythtv-users] Starting to think I should use Kaffeine instead of Mythtv

2005-10-18 Thread ffrr
Dag Nygren wrote: Alex Cruz wrote: Truly, I was blaming the antenna and all sorts of things until I discovered Kaffeine doesn't suffer nearly as bad as myth. Kaffeine only show a glitch very occasionally. Other TV's and digital set top boxes in my house show virtually flawless

Re: [mythtv-users] Starting to think I should use Kaffeine instead of Mythtv

2005-10-18 Thread Peter Osterberg
It truely sounds like bad signal reception. On old police scanners there's a squelsh setting to tell the radio at what signal/noise level to cut audio to the speaker. I remeber one setting in Myth that has to do with something that could be compareable to this illustrative example. My guessing

Re: [mythtv-users] Starting to think I should use Kaffeine insteadof Mythtv

2005-10-18 Thread Laurie Odgers
- Original Message - From: ffrr [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Discussion about mythtv mythtv-users@mythtv.org Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2005 10:07 PM Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Starting to think I should use Kaffeine insteadof Mythtv Niels Dybdahl wrote: As for picture quality in

[mythtv-users] run transcode on selected programs schedules

2005-10-18 Thread Hamish Moffatt
Hi, I want to transcode some shows automatically, but not all. The frontend and mythweb allow you to specify per-schedule whether to run the commercial flagger or not, but I don't see any option for transcoding. The mythtv-setup program has an option to chose the order of commflag vs automatic

RE: [mythtv-users] Re: GPG Key error

2005-10-18 Thread Gerald J. Berg
Thanks Axel. That did it. Jerry ... The GPG keys listed for the Fedora Core 4 - i386 - Base repository are already installed but they are not correct for this package. Check that the correct key URLs are configured for this repository. Can someone offer a suggestion on how to resolve

Re: [mythtv-users] Starting to think I should use Kaffeine instead of Mythtv

2005-10-18 Thread Kalle Pokki
ffrr wrote: What I see is a sudden patch of digital noise / pixelisation, often associated with a chirping sound in the audio. This might happen every few seconds for a while then go away for a minute or two, only to return randomly. Also it is of various severities, sometimes just a minor

Re: [mythtv-users] Starting to think I should use Kaffeine instead of Mythtv

2005-10-18 Thread ffrr
Peter Osterberg wrote: It truely sounds like bad signal reception. On old police scanners there's a squelsh setting to tell the radio at what signal/noise level to cut audio to the speaker. I remeber one setting in Myth that has to do with something that could be compareable to this

Re: [mythtv-users] Starting to think I should use Kaffeine instead of Mythtv

2005-10-18 Thread ffrr
Kalle Pokki wrote: ffrr wrote: What I see is a sudden patch of digital noise / pixelisation, often associated with a chirping sound in the audio. This might happen every few seconds for a while then go away for a minute or two, only to return randomly. Also it is of various severities,

Re: [mythtv-users] Picture quality, was Starting to think I should use Kaffeine instead of Mythtv

2005-10-18 Thread Laurie Odgers
Something to do with deinterlacing perhaps? Ive noticed that there is a significant difference between linear blend and the kernel deinterlacer when watching something fast paced like football, the kernel deinterlacer looks much nicer Are there any guide available for optimizing picture

Re: [mythtv-users] The Race to Change the Channel

2005-10-18 Thread William Kenworthy
Unfortunately, I need XvMC as the processor is not quite up to the task otherwise (pegs at 100% in normal live TV, 40%-50% with XvMC). BillK On Tue, 2005-10-18 at 10:38 +0100, David Watkins wrote: On 18/10/05, W.Kenworthy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The alternative view: in Australia (Perth)

Re: [mythtv-users] Starting to think I should use Kaffeine instead of Mythtv

2005-10-18 Thread Kevin Kuphal
ffrr wrote: Phill Edwards wrote: Despite this, I keep hearing that a new version of myth isn't warranted yet? What do I have to do - get an SVN version (not really a good option)? None , or very few, responses to the messages and problems I have recently posted about. Do I take this to

Re: [mythtv-users] Picture quality, was Starting to think I should use Kaffeine instead of Mythtv

2005-10-18 Thread Peter Osterberg
Thank you! I'll look into this when I'm off work hours... At 14:50 2005-10-18, you wrote: Something to do with deinterlacing perhaps? Ive noticed that there is a significant difference between linear blend and the kernel deinterlacer when watching something fast paced like football, the kernel

Re: [mythtv-users] Starting to think I should use Kaffeine instead of Mythtv

2005-10-18 Thread Alex Cruz
Ah, DVB cards. There's a reason I decided to stick with the plain old PVR-250. Since I only have cable (I can't get Direct or Dish in my current location) and I've decided to wait until 2010 for HDTV to standardize (my theory of when the US will get it's crap together) the 250 was an obvious

Re: [mythtv-users] run transcode on selected programs schedules

2005-10-18 Thread Robert Tsai
On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 10:24:18PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: I want to transcode some shows automatically, but not all. The frontend and mythweb allow you to specify per-schedule whether to run the commercial flagger or not, but I don't see any option for transcoding. The mythtv-setup

[mythtv-users] Setting deinterlacers (was Re: Picture quality, was Starting to think I should use Kaffeine instead of Mythtv)

2005-10-18 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 10:50:08PM +1000, Laurie Odgers wrote: Something to do with deinterlacing perhaps? Ive noticed that there is a significant difference between linear blend and the kernel deinterlacer when watching something fast paced like football, the kernel deinterlacer looks much

Re: [mythtv-users] Video iPod

2005-10-18 Thread Joseph A. Caputo
On Monday 17 October 2005 19:02, Jeremy Palenchar wrote: Rather than spend a lot of time trying to hack a solution for this, why not just get Myth to act as a video podcasting station and let iTunes handle all of the formatting and transfer down to the iPod? Will iTunes do that?? I

Re: [mythtv-users] Starting to think I should use Kaffeine instead of Mythtv

2005-10-18 Thread Allan Mcintosh
What type of input are you using for cable in? Coax, S-Video, Composite? I have often been amazed with the increase in picture quality after replacing a cheap coaxial cable, or the difference from . I now use a short, direct unshared input (S-Video) straight in from the receiver. Are you

[mythtv-users] NVidia, Sony and fun with Powerstrip

2005-10-18 Thread Chris Trown
Greetings all! I'm trying to get a suitable setup for my Core 3 system. I tried most of the modelines I found out there trying to get something working, to no end. Hopefully someone can explain what is going on and point me in the right direction. First the setup. The system

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: lircd starts fine, but crashes as soon as something tries to use it

2005-10-18 Thread Jon Kunze
Sorry about that, I was trying a few different things, and copied the wrong command. As for the kernel idea, I thought of that late last night as well. Does anyone know if the FC4 kernel modules have been updated? If so, what do I need to do, just update my kernel and then the modules?On

Re: [mythtv-users] Firewire HDTV from TimeWarner in NYC?

2005-10-18 Thread Jon Kunze
I have TimeWarner in Central Ohio, and got a SA3250HD from them a while back. I haven't done a whole lot with it yet, since i'm outputting via s-video from my myth box, but I have hooked the firewire cable up, and do know that there is data being sent across the connection.On 10/17/05, Raf

Re: [mythtv-users] Alsa only seems to work with Root user not mythtv user

2005-10-18 Thread Michael T. Dean
Mark Rissberger wrote: First off, I'd like to thank everyone that helped me get LIRC working with the PVR150. It works like a dream now. The problem that I have now seems like it may be a permission issue but I'm not sure where. I can't use ALSA if I'm logged in as the mythtv user but it

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: lircd starts fine, but crashes as soon as something tries to use it

2005-10-18 Thread David Watkins
On 18/10/05, Jon Kunze [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry about that, I was trying a few different things, and copied the wrong command. As for the kernel idea, I thought of that late last night as well. Does anyone know if the FC4 kernel modules have been updated? If so, what do I need to do,

Re: [mythtv-users] Video iPod

2005-10-18 Thread Matt
On 10/18/05, Joseph A. Caputo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 17 October 2005 19:02, Jeremy Palenchar wrote: Rather than spend a lot of time trying to hack a solution for this, why not just get Myth to act as a video podcasting station and let iTunes handle all of the formatting and

Re: [mythtv-users] WinTV-PVR-350 hardware decoder only works for TV out?

2005-10-18 Thread Dewey Smolka
Nvidia geforce and fx cards work great through the S-vid out after you install the nvidia driver and configure xorg.conf to use that instead of the native nv driver. ATIs can be troublesome. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org

Re: [mythtv-users] xbox linux distros

2005-10-18 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 10/17/05, A JM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's a great help!Your above steps were how Ithought I read the install but was hoping someone had already given it shot. I'd stumbled across 404 a couple months ago but was unable to get my XBOX to boot from a CD so I was unable to do the install. A

Re: [mythtv-users] Building channels.conf for Exeter/Beacon Hill, UK

2005-10-18 Thread Ben Edwards
On 10/18/05, David Watkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 18/10/05, Ben Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, got fairly far setting up my MythTV box.How to I find out what transmitter I am using, I think it is Beacon Hill that is in Exmouth bot not certain, how can I find out?The other thing is I

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: lircd starts fine, but crashes as soon as something tries to use it

2005-10-18 Thread Ant Daniel
On 10/18/05, Jon Kunze [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry about that, I was trying a few different things, and copied the wrong command. As for the kernel idea, I thought of that late last night as well. Does anyone know if the FC4 kernel modules have been updated? If so, what do I need to do, just

[mythtv-users] Memory issues - A MythTV task always brings the memory to 99%

2005-10-18 Thread David Bennett
I've been noticing something odd. Whether I am sending a recording to a separate frontend, or recording something on a backend, as soon as MythTV starts doing its thing, the memory creeps up to 99% in a matter of minutes. The swap space doesn't really get used, but memory definitely goes up to

Re: [mythtv-users] Building channels.conf for Exeter/Beacon Hill, UK

2005-10-18 Thread Ben Edwards
On 10/18/05, David Watkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 18/10/05, Ben Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, got fairly far setting up my MythTV box.How to I find out what transmitter I am using, I think it is Beacon Hill that is in Exmouth bot not certain, how can I find out?The other thing is I

Re: [mythtv-users] run transcode on selected programs schedules

2005-10-18 Thread Chris Pinkham
I want to transcode some shows automatically, but not all. snip comments about using 0.18.1 version Do I need to use a user-job for this? If so can someone suggest a working command line? You'll need to make a shell script then run the shell script as the user job. The shell script needs

Re: [mythtv-users] Video iPod

2005-10-18 Thread Joseph A. Caputo
On Tuesday 18 October 2005 11:43, Matt wrote: On 10/18/05, Joseph A. Caputo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 17 October 2005 19:02, Jeremy Palenchar wrote: Rather than spend a lot of time trying to hack a solution for this, why not just get Myth to act as a video podcasting station

Re: [mythtv-users] xbox linux distros

2005-10-18 Thread Tom Lichti
Robert Anderson wrote: Correct. This is a xebian install. The distribution is a zip file of my entire e:\debian directory. And it works splendidly! I got my Xbox up and running MythTV in about 2 hours laste night. Well, early this morning actually... I've managed to start up and watch

Re: [mythtv-users] Memory issues - A MythTV task always brings the memory to 99%

2005-10-18 Thread Michael T. Dean
David Bennett wrote: I've been noticing something odd. Whether I am sending a recording to a separate frontend, or recording something on a backend, as soon as MythTV starts doing its thing, the memory creeps up to 99% in a matter of minutes. The swap space doesn't really get used, but memory

Re: [mythtv-users] Building channels.conf for Exeter/Beacon Hill, UK

2005-10-18 Thread Ben Edwards
On 10/18/05, David Watkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.wolfbane.com/ukdtt.htm Not sure if you can work out the frequency from it though?I used tzap, which did its own scan and created a conf file with the frequencies in. Now i'me a bit confused.I thought you needed the frequency

Re: [mythtv-users] WinTV-PVR-350 hardware decoder only works for TV out?

2005-10-18 Thread Andy Leung
--- Dewey Smolka [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nvidia geforce and fx cards work great through the S-vid out after you install the nvidia driver and configure xorg.conf to use that instead of the native nv driver. ATIs can be troublesome. Isn't s-video for output to TV? I want to watch TV on my

Re: [mythtv-users] xbox linux distros

2005-10-18 Thread Jason McMillon
Great idea. What MythTv version is it? I am currently running 0.18.1 on my backend...On 10/17/05, Robert Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/17/05, A JM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's a great help!Your above steps were how Ithought I read the install but was hoping someone had already

Re: [mythtv-users] xbox linux distros

2005-10-18 Thread Robert Anderson
On 10/18/05, Jason McMillon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Great idea. What MythTv version is it? I am currently running 0.18.1 on my backend... On 10/17/05, Robert Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/17/05, A JM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's a great help!Your above steps were how

Re: [mythtv-users] WinTV-PVR-350 hardware decoder only works for TV out?

2005-10-18 Thread Joseph A. Caputo
On Tuesday 18 October 2005 13:05, Andy Leung wrote: --- Dewey Smolka [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nvidia geforce and fx cards work great through the S-vid out after you install the nvidia driver and configure xorg.conf to use that instead of the native nv driver. ATIs can be troublesome.

RE: [mythtv-users] Video iPod

2005-10-18 Thread Jeremy Palenchar
Matt is correct. However, what I was really focusing on is the transfer of the data to the iPod. So we can use normal Myth transcode functionality to get the file into the correct format and then have Myth publish that file using RSS so that iTunes can locate it as a podcast and use iTunes

RE: [mythtv-users] WinTV-PVR-350 hardware decoder only works for TV out?

2005-10-18 Thread Simpson, Richard
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Isn't s-video for output to TV? I want to watch TV on my computer monitor but want to make use of hardware MPEG decoder. Do you know if MythTV can use such MPEG decoder (such as the one in Nvidia geforce) for VGA output? Play those

Re: [mythtv-users] Starting to think I should use Kaffeine instead of Mythtv

2005-10-18 Thread Isaac Richards
snip Why do people bother responding to this kind of crap? If someone is being so ignorant as to threaten to use another software package just to get some attention, let them. Seems like a good scheme to get a lot of replies, but I think it's pretty idiotic. Isaac

Re: [mythtv-users] Video iPod

2005-10-18 Thread Anthony Floyd
However, what I was really focusing on is the transfer of the data to the iPod. So we can use normal Myth transcode functionality to get the file into the correct format and then have Myth publish that file using RSS so that iTunes can locate it as a podcast and use iTunes functionality to

RE: [mythtv-users] WinTV-PVR-350 hardware decoder only works for TV out?

2005-10-18 Thread Andy Leung
--- Simpson, Richard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Isn't s-video for output to TV? I want to watch TV on my computer monitor but want to make use of hardware MPEG decoder. Do you know if MythTV can use such MPEG decoder (such as

Re: [mythtv-users] WinTV-PVR-350 hardware decoder only works for TV out?

2005-10-18 Thread Ant Daniel
On 10/18/05, Andy Leung [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Simpson, Richard [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Isn't s-video for output to TV? I want to watch TV on my computer monitor but want to make use of hardware MPEG decoder. Do you know if MythTV can

[mythtv-users] Shuttle M1000 like case?

2005-10-18 Thread Raf D'Halleweyn
Wow, has anybody seen the new Shuttle M1000 XPC. Looks very nice. However, this is not a barebones solution. Instead it is fully loaded with memory, disks, graphics, tuner cards, Windows Media Center, etc. As a results the price is close to $2000! Does anybody know anything similar as a

Re: [mythtv-users] run transcode on selected programs schedules

2005-10-18 Thread Niels Dybdahl
The frontend and mythweb allow you to specify per-schedule whether torun the commercial flagger or not, but I don't see any option for transcoding. You can select one of the quality schemes. I have set the Default scheme to automatically transcode to MPEG4, while the high quality scheme is set to

Re: [mythtv-users] WinTV-PVR-350 hardware decoder only works for TV out?

2005-10-18 Thread Andy Leung
--- Joseph A. Caputo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 18 October 2005 13:05, Andy Leung wrote: --- Dewey Smolka [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nvidia geforce and fx cards work great through the S-vid out after you install the nvidia driver and configure xorg.conf to use that

RE: [mythtv-users] WinTV-PVR-350 hardware decoder only works for TV out?

2005-10-18 Thread Simpson, Richard
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Andy Leung That's strange. In another part of the hauppauge site (http://www.hauppauge.com/pages/products/data_pvr350.html) - The encoded MPEG-2 video is sent over the PCI bus, where it is stored on

Re: [mythtv-users] New Digimatrix questions

2005-10-18 Thread Steve Adeff
On Tuesday 18 October 2005 01:42, Peter Darley wrote: Steve, The HDTV playback is great. I've got mine hooked up to my TV doing 1080i at 1280x1024px, which is the highest that the digimatrix does, tho it occures to me writing this that it may not be as large as 1080i allows. Didn't

[mythtv-users] Re: New Digimatrix questions

2005-10-18 Thread Mike Frisch
On Tue, October 18, 2005 3:22 pm, Steve Adeff said: was concerned more with processing power, but I think the Northwood can be had in speeds that will be able to playback this stream. 3.4GHz is the fastest S478 CPU that my local supplier carries, but that should be sufficient, shouldn't it? Is

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: New Digimatrix questions

2005-10-18 Thread James Oltman
On 10/18/05, Mike Frisch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, October 18, 2005 3:22 pm, Steve Adeff said: was concerned more with processing power, but I think the Northwood can be had in speeds that will be able to playback this stream.3.4GHz is the fastest S478 CPU that my local supplier carries,

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: New Digimatrix questions

2005-10-18 Thread Steve Adeff
On Tuesday 18 October 2005 15:34, Mike Frisch wrote: On Tue, October 18, 2005 3:22 pm, Steve Adeff said: was concerned more with processing power, but I think the Northwood can be had in speeds that will be able to playback this stream. 3.4GHz is the fastest S478 CPU that my local supplier

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: New Digimatrix questions

2005-10-18 Thread Mike Frisch
On Tue, October 18, 2005 3:55 pm, Steve Adeff said: thats more than enough to playback a single HD stream. even without XvMC my Athlon64 3200+ plays back HD (while running backend, frontend, sql, etc, etc.) with only about 40% cpu usage. What is a realistic minimum for running a frontend only

Re: [mythtv-users] Video iPod

2005-10-18 Thread Matt
On 10/18/05, Anthony Floyd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However, what I was really focusing on is the transfer of the data to the iPod. So we can use normal Myth transcode functionality to get the file into the correct format and then have Myth publish that file using RSS so that iTunes can

RE: [mythtv-users] WinTV-PVR-350 hardware decoder only works for TV out?

2005-10-18 Thread Andy Leung
--- Simpson, Richard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now that I think about it, the 350 does not have a VGA output, which means the video stream has to go through the normal video card to get to the monitor. So no hardware decoding for VGA. They must have let the marketing guys write the data sheet

Re: [mythtv-users] Shuttle M1000 like case?

2005-10-18 Thread Matt
On 10/18/05, Raf D'Halleweyn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wow, has anybody seen the new Shuttle M1000 XPC. Looks very nice. However, this is not a barebones solution. Instead it is fully loaded with memory, disks, graphics, tuner cards, Windows Media Center, etc. As a results the price is close

Re: [mythtv-users] WinTV-PVR-350 hardware decoder only works for TV out?

2005-10-18 Thread Lee Koloszyc
This is a planned setup. Yes I only intend to display video on a monitor and not a TV. To make use of the hardware decoding of a Nvidia card, I guess I need to set MythTV up to use XvMC. Do you have any pointer into how to do that? I'm new to this, any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Re: [mythtv-users] Shuttle M1000 like case?

2005-10-18 Thread Ant Daniel
On 10/18/05, Matt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/18/05, Raf D'Halleweyn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wow, has anybody seen the new Shuttle M1000 XPC. Looks very nice. However, this is not a barebones solution. Instead it is fully loaded with memory, disks, graphics, tuner cards, Windows Media Center,

Re: [mythtv-users] WinTV-PVR-350 hardware decoder only works for TV out?

2005-10-18 Thread Carl Fongheiser
On 10/18/05, Lee Koloszyc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am pretty sure it is as simple as checking a box in the setup screen.It is on the same setup page as for Using the PVR350 acceleration at the bottom.At least that is what I recall from the short time I had an Nvidia card. Yes, it is that easy,

Re: [mythtv-users] WinTV-PVR-350 hardware decoder only works for TV out?

2005-10-18 Thread Michael T. Dean
Simpson, Richard wrote: Isn't s-video for output to TV? I want to watch TV on my computer monitor but want to make use of hardware MPEG decoder. Do you know if MythTV can use such MPEG decoder (such as the one in Nvidia geforce) for VGA output? Play those videos onto your PC screen or

[mythtv-users] Re: Re: New Digimatrix questions

2005-10-18 Thread Mike Frisch
On Tue, October 18, 2005 3:49 pm, James Oltman said: I have been researching the Digimatrix for quite some time. It can ONLY ONLY ONLY use the Northwood core P4 procs. The max speed as I recall was only 2.8GHz (something like that). They stopped making these procs so finding My local store

Re: [mythtv-users] Building channels.conf for Exeter/Beacon Hill, UK

2005-10-18 Thread David Watkins
In mythtv-setup my channel scan is 'grayed out'. Do I need to enter the channels from above someware? I think that means that your dvb card is not available. What happened when you set up the card? Did it let you select dvb0? Make sure mythbackend is not running when you run mythtvsetup as

Re: [mythtv-users] Video iPod

2005-10-18 Thread Fred Squires
BTW, how come so much interest in this thread that was started after the thread I created 5 hours before it on the same subject?http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/155302lol...Matt Because someone saw this thread and replied to it before they saw yours.-- I probably still have a few

Re: [mythtv-users] Video iPod

2005-10-18 Thread John P. Mitchell
MythTV Users, On 10/18/05, Joseph A. Caputo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 17 October 2005 19:02, Jeremy Palenchar wrote: Rather than spend a lot of time trying to hack a solution for this, why not just get Myth to act as a video podcasting station and let iTunes handle all of the

RE: [mythtv-users] WinTV-PVR-350 hardware decoder only works for TV out?

2005-10-18 Thread Simpson, Richard
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Andy Leung This is a planned setup. Yes I only intend to display video on a monitor and not a TV. To make use of the hardware decoding of a Nvidia card, I guess I need to set MythTV up to use XvMC.

Re: [mythtv-users] (Slightly OT) Multi room Multimedia playback

2005-10-18 Thread Devan Lippman
On 10/17/05, Anthony Floyd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/17/05, Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK you got me - googling mfd/mfe goves me my favourite doll - got any more info or a pointer to what you are talking about?There are others who know better than I but ...MFD: Myth Frontend Daemon

Re: [mythtv-users] Starting to think I should use Kaffeine instead of Mythtv

2005-10-18 Thread Alex Cruz
Sometimes things are lost in translation. I've learned this from being married to someone that isn't Spanish like I am. Human nature is to lash out when frustrated with these types of situations. The thing about this thread is that we were able to extract a better description of the problem in

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Re: New Digimatrix questions

2005-10-18 Thread James Oltman
On 10/18/05, Mike Frisch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, October 18, 2005 3:49 pm, James Oltman said: I have been researching the Digimatrix for quite some time. It can ONLY ONLY ONLY use the Northwood core P4 procs. The max speed as I recall was only 2.8GHz (something like that). They stopped

Re: [mythtv-users] Video iPod

2005-10-18 Thread Joseph A. Caputo
On Tuesday 18 October 2005 16:43, John P. Mitchell wrote: MythTV Users, On 10/18/05, Joseph A. Caputo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 17 October 2005 19:02, Jeremy Palenchar wrote: Rather than spend a lot of time trying to hack a solution for this, why not just get Myth to

[mythtv-users] JumpPoints HowTo

2005-10-18 Thread Peter Meyland
Hi everyone Does somebody know how to create jumppionts in MythWEB? How do I enter the combination of i.e. Ctrl K? TIA Peter Meyland ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org

Re: [mythtv-users] Starting to think I should use Kaffeine instead of Mythtv

2005-10-18 Thread Graham Dunn
Alex Cruz wrote: [snip] The way I see it if we can maintain people, more people will join by word of mouth and the project will flourish. Let's not follow MS's lead in regards to customer service. Have a good one. Actually, Microsoft has one of the best customer service departments

Re: [mythtv-users] Starting to think I should use Kaffeine instead of Mythtv

2005-10-18 Thread match
On 18 Oct 2005 at 14:16, Isaac Richards wrote: snip Why do people bother responding to this kind of crap? If someone is being so ignorant as to threaten to use another software package just to get some attention, let them. Seems like a good scheme to get a lot of replies, but I think

RE: [mythtv-users] Video iPod

2005-10-18 Thread Steve Frank
Steve Frank wrote: Joseph A. Caputo wrote: On Tuesday 18 October 2005 16:43, John P. Mitchell wrote: MythTV Users, On 10/18/05, Joseph A. Caputo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 17 October 2005 19:02, Jeremy Palenchar wrote: Rather than spend a lot of time trying to hack a solution for

Re: [mythtv-users] JumpPoints HowTo

2005-10-18 Thread Matt SF
On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 11:11:27PM +0200, Peter Meyland wrote: Hi everyone Does somebody know how to create jumppionts in MythWEB? How do I enter the combination of i.e. Ctrl K? I believe the syntax is Ctrl+K Remember that if you want to do it from your remote control you'll need to bind

[mythtv-users] High Memory Learning Remote

2005-10-18 Thread Calvin Harrigan
Hi all, I've been reading through the archives looking for a suitable remote control to replace the one I'm using now. The main reason is that the current remote has such a small memory foot print. I'm using a learning remote control with a wireless keyboard pickup. This works great except

RE: [mythtv-users] Video iPod

2005-10-18 Thread John P. Mitchell
Joseph, Joseph A. Caputo wrote: On Tuesday 18 October 2005 16:43, John P. Mitchell wrote: MythTV Users, On 10/18/05, Joseph A. Caputo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 17 October 2005 19:02, Jeremy Palenchar wrote: Rather than spend a lot of time trying to hack a solution for this, why

Re: [mythtv-users] JumpPoints HowTo

2005-10-18 Thread Lee
Does somebody know how to create jumppionts in MythWEB? How do I enter the combination of i.e. Ctrl K? I believe the syntax is Ctrl+K Remember that if you want to do it from your remote control you'll need to bind the key in your mythtv .lircrc, too. Is is easy/possible to create a

Re: [mythtv-users] High Memory Learning Remote

2005-10-18 Thread Todd Ignasiak
The best price/performance remote controls I have found are the JP1 remotes. JP1 refers to the header that is left on the remote, which is used for factory programming and has been reverse engineered to allow for customization of the remote. They are sold under the Radio Shack name, or the One for

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