Re: [mythtv-users] KnoppMyth and cle266

2005-10-21 Thread Cecil Watson
Alberto Alonso wrote: Does KnoppMyth support hardware acceleration for cle266? I seem to remember a reference to this when I was booting once, but can't seem to find the right references now. I have an M6000 and it just doesn't have enough juice to be a front end without it. Thanks, Alberto

Re: [mythtv-users] (WAS) KnoppMyth (NOW) Sata problems

2005-10-21 Thread ffrr
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: not the SATA. I have found that I can provoke the glitches even in Knoppmyth, by writing the ringbuffer to a temp directory on one of the SATA drives instead of the IDE. I now officially dislike SATA drives. This was my first machine using them, and had

[mythtv-users] Nuvexport timing out on ffmpeg stage (can't open file)

2005-10-21 Thread Michael Jones
I'm kind of new to mythtv and multimedia on a unix box.. But not really new to unix/linux itself... I am currently running .18.1 on a FC3 machine. My machine used to be able to run nuvexport without any problem (or at least as far as I could tell) I was getting ready to archive a bunch of stuff

Re: [mythtv-users] mythtv supoprt for lcdproc/other lcds

2005-10-21 Thread Shaun Lowry
R. Geoffrey Newbury wrote: On Thu, 20 Oct 2005 14:11:40 +0100, Shaun Lowry wrote: Does anyone know if there are any VFD bay inserts available to fit a *floppy* bay? I'm using an SFF box for my frontend and obviously need the full size bay for a DVD drive, so the only space left on the front

Re: [mythtv-users] which dial-up modem?

2005-10-21 Thread Yann Lehmann
Asher Schaffer wrote: On 10/20/05, Chris Trown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Only internal PCI modems can be winmodems, as long as it is external you are fine. Some USB-Modems work like internal ones (in software, unlike serial attached modems). Yann

Re: [mythtv-users] Multiple frontend on one machine

2005-10-21 Thread Niels Dybdahl
I doubt many people use this, but I have aninterest on running multiple front end instances on a single machine.Is there an easy way to do this? I recently set up a system with both a TV and a monitor connected to one GeForce4 MX4... board. I wanted different content on the two displays: MythTV on

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: mythtv supoprt for lcdproc/other lcds

2005-10-21 Thread Shaun Lowry
Chad Delatte wrote: First question before I go into my ramble. Does LCDproc have a mailing list archive where I can search for problems and resolutions? My display goes haywire in about 3 hours. I am using version 0.5. http://lcdproc.omnipotent.net/mail.php3 Alright, now to answer

[mythtv-users] problem nuvexport ffmpeg xvid

2005-10-21 Thread bardinov
Hi, I would like to transcode my .nuv files with XviD codec. But when I run nuvexport, XviD is disabled. The program tells me my ffmpeg doesn't support encoding to XviD and I have to compile it with the --enable-xvid option. But this option seems to be inexistant. I tried different nuvexport and

Re: [mythtv-users] .nuv format, mythtv, xine, mplayer, unichrome compatibility....

2005-10-21 Thread Jules Gosnell
The saga continues The bad news - I'm still getting choppy sound on some recordings, only when played back on my frontend Via with XvMC enabled (I can't seem to disable it). The good news - now that I have switched to TS, MPEG2 recordings that show this issue can be transcoded into

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Xbox as FE

2005-10-21 Thread Vladan Bato
Quoting myself: However I think that it's a problem with the particular remote (or better, the remote dongle) that I have. By poking in the /proc/usb/devices, I discovered that the remote is actually seen as a gamepad and handled by the xpad driver. This also means that lirc never sees it. I

[mythtv-users] (no subject)

2005-10-21 Thread michel moalem
hi there all i'm a complete linux newbie and have tried the knopmyth cd yesterday for the first time. I like what it offers but had some problems allready. However before i will start takling the problems i encountered running some of the options i would like to know if there is a way if running

Re: [mythtv-users] (no subject)

2005-10-21 Thread ffrr
michel moalem wrote: hi there all i'm a complete linux newbie and have tried the knopmyth cd yesterday for the first time. I like what it offers but had some problems allready. However before i will start takling the problems i encountered running some of the options i would like to know if

Re: [mythtv-users] (WAS) KnoppMyth (NOW) Sata problems

2005-10-21 Thread Alex Cruz
On Friday 21 October 2005 01:49 am, ffrr wrote: Anybody want to buy a few 100 GB of SATA storage (250GB WD, and 2 80GB Seagates)? :-) Just joking.A new MB is almost as cheap as another SATA controller card (unless you buy a cheap one, and they seem to be early SI based often anyway). I

Re: [mythtv-users] mythtv supoprt for lcdproc/other lcds

2005-10-21 Thread Daniel Howell
Hi Shaun, Unfortunately, the iMON INSIDE (which fits into a floppy bay) appears to only be an IR receiver - it doesn't have the VFD display module. Ideally, I'l like both LCD/VFD and reveiver in one unit that fits in a 3.5 bay, but I'd be more than happy with just the display. CrystalFontz do a

Re: [mythtv-users] (WAS) KnoppMyth (NOW) Sata problems

2005-10-21 Thread ffrr
Alex Cruz wrote: On Friday 21 October 2005 01:49 am, ffrr wrote: Anybody want to buy a few 100 GB of SATA storage (250GB WD, and 2 80GB Seagates)? :-) Just joking.A new MB is almost as cheap as another SATA controller card (unless you buy a cheap one, and they seem to be early SI based

RE: [mythtv-users] (WAS) KnoppMyth (NOW) Sata problems

2005-10-21 Thread Simpson, Richard
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of ffrr Probably not a good idea. Maybe I should just sell the SATA drives on eBay and get SOME of my money back. I feel a bit ripped off by this whole SATA deal right now :-( My brother has been

Re: [mythtv-users] if (x!=rerun) {record}

2005-10-21 Thread Fred Squires
On 10/20/05, Todd Houle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need a little help running a reruns rule.I'd like the followingrule for recording, but I can't seem to find where/how to enter it.I'd like to record a show and keep at most 4 episodes of it.Ifthere's anymore, don't record them until I watch the

Re: [mythtv-users] Aligning The Channel Name Captions in EPG - v 0.19

2005-10-21 Thread Dan Wilga
At 6:40 PM +0100 10/20/05, Nick Parkinson wrote: Hi, On the EPG browser all of the channel names are aligned to the right of the caption boxes and slightly overflowing. Meanwhile the left inch of the box appears to crop the text. This depends upon the particular theme you are using. Changing

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: mythtv supoprt for lcdproc/other lcds

2005-10-21 Thread Dan Wilga
At 10:31 AM +0100 10/21/05, Shaun Lowry wrote: Maybe I will hijack this thread, can we make lcdproc or Myth use the 2 line display as 1 big line? That would be perfect! Anyone know what would be involved in doing this? I don't think there's any way to do this from the LCDproc side

[mythtv-users] IR blaster fails sometimes?

2005-10-21 Thread Mark J. Small
Hi everybody, I've got a recurring issue that is starting to really annoy me. On many weeknights I record two consecutive programs on the same channel. The first recording stops at at 00:35, and the second record starts at the same time. Quite often, the second recording gets tuned to the

Re: [mythtv-users] if (x!=rerun) {record}

2005-10-21 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 09:30:33AM -0400, Fred Squires wrote: It would be great if you could give new episodes a higher priority and then tell the scheduler to keep at most maybe 5 episodes and record new and expire old if the new episodes priority is greater than or equal to the older

Re: [mythtv-users] Choosing a Suitable DVB-T PCI Card

2005-10-21 Thread Phill Edwards
I am a beginner in DVB-T, and I would like to buy a DVB-T PCI Card to set up a MythTV in my Linux PC. I have tried to search the archive and google for a week, but I still cannot come to a final decision about it. I would like to ask what kind of DVB-T PCI Card is suitable for the Linux

Re: [mythtv-users] (WAS) Kaffeine (NOW) is KnoppMyth

2005-10-21 Thread Phill Edwards
want to just taking the plunge. My next step is to find a nicer looking case and to get a quieter fan for the CPU. It's amazing how noisey those damn little fans are :-) Zalman are great fans - extremely quiet. ___ mythtv-users mailing list

[mythtv-users] Troubleshooting prebuffer pauses

2005-10-21 Thread Asher Schaffer
I know this topic has been brought up many a time. I'm trying to troubleshoot my prebuffer pauses and I'd appreciate it if anyone can offer some ideas as for what to test out. My backend is a 3Ghz Xeon w/ 3 SATA HDs in RAID5 1GB RAM 1 PVR250, 1 PVR500 connected to a gigabit lan switch The

Re: [mythtv-users] (no subject)

2005-10-21 Thread Mercury Morris
On 10/21/05, michel moalem [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi there all i'm a complete linux newbie and have tried the knopmyth cd yesterday for the first time. I like what it offers but had some problems allready. However before i will start takling the problems i encountered running some of the

Re: [mythtv-users] Linux suspend mode WAS: (no subject)

2005-10-21 Thread Richard Bronosky
Mercury Morris wrote: On 10/21/05, michel moalem [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi there all i'm a complete linux newbie and have tried the knopmyth cd yesterday for the first time. I like what it offers but had some problems allready. However before i will start takling the problems i

[mythtv-users] transcoded recordings gets zoomed when played back

2005-10-21 Thread Bjarne Wichmann Petersen
Hi When I play back a transcoded recording (mpeg4), it sort of gets zoomed. 10-20% of the picture is outside the viewable screen. Untranscoded recordings plays just fine, and if I play the transcoded recording directly from mplayer there are no issues either. I'm using the TV-Out on my pvr

Re: [mythtv-users] (no subject)

2005-10-21 Thread David Peeters
If noise is the problem, go to www.silentpcreview.com they have lots of information on quieting a loud case. On 10/21/05, Mercury Morris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/21/05, michel moalem [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi there alli'm a complete linux newbie and have tried the knopmyth cd

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-500 Only one tuner works

2005-10-21 Thread Peter Darley
Folks, I guess I'll reply to my own message... On the ivtv-devel list I find: With Hans Verkuil's help, which was VERY much appreciated, my problem turned out to be that I was using the tuner that came with the linux kernel itself rather than the one that came with ivtv-0.3.9.

Re: [mythtv-users] if (x!=rerun) {record}

2005-10-21 Thread Michael T. Dean
Fred Squires wrote: On 10/20/05, *Todd Houle* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need a little help running a reruns rule. I'd like the following rule for recording, but I can't seem to find where/how to enter it. I'd like to record a show and keep at most 4

Re: [mythtv-users] if (x!=rerun) {record}

2005-10-21 Thread Michael T. Dean
Dave Sherohman wrote: On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 09:30:33AM -0400, Fred Squires wrote: It would be great if you could give new episodes a higher priority and then tell the scheduler to keep at most maybe 5 episodes and record new and expire old if the new episodes priority is greater than or

Re: [mythtv-users] if (x!=rerun) {record}

2005-10-21 Thread Michael T. Dean
Michael T. Dean wrote: Fred Squires wrote: On 10/20/05, *Todd Houle* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need a little help running a reruns rule. I'd like the following rule for recording, but I can't seem to find where/how to enter it. I'd like to record a

Re: [mythtv-users] if (x!=rerun) {record}

2005-10-21 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 11:05:31AM -0400, Michael T. Dean wrote: Dave Sherohman wrote: What I would *really* like to see is something comparable to Tivo's suggestions feature (it autorecords shows similar to things you've said you like when there's extra space available and those recordings

Re: [mythtv-users] OpenGL ATI Radeon MythMusic MythGallery Problem

2005-10-21 Thread Michael T. Dean
Sammo wrote: Has anybody managed to get (1) MythMusic gears visualization; (2) MythGallery opengl transitions; and (3) MythTV opengl vsync working with an ATI Radeon video card? I have an ATI Radeon 9550 using the latest ATI Proprietary Driver 8.18.6 for XFree86 4.3. I have the fglrx kernel

Re: [mythtv-users] Choosing a Suitable DVB-T PCI Card

2005-10-21 Thread Ben Edwards
On 10/21/05, Phill Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am a beginner in DVB-T, and I would like to buy a DVB-T PCI Card to set up a MythTV in my Linux PC. I have tried to search the archive and google for a week, but I still cannot come to a final decision about it. I would like to ask what kind of

Re: [mythtv-users] how do I assign XMLTVIDs (was mythfilldatabase problem)

2005-10-21 Thread Ben Edwards
On 10/20/05, Nick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 20/10/05, Ben Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ime using the uk_rt grabber.I have got the channels listed in mythtv-setup but they are all listed twice.There is hovever no listing data.Below is what I get when I run mythfilldatabase followed by a

Re: [mythtv-users] Choosing a Suitable DVB-T PCI Card

2005-10-21 Thread Paul Wheeler
I have a couple of avermedia dvb 771's that work out of the box in 2.6.13 (with the right dvb options turned on in the kernel ;-)). I found them fairly cheap and work well. I had a pinnacle card that had problems with it and the mt352 driver so i would stay away from them. PaulOn 10/21/05, Ben

Re: [mythtv-users] Choosing a Suitable DVB-T PCI Card

2005-10-21 Thread Justin Hornsby
Well, I've got three Leadtek LR6650 DVB-T tuner cards I picked up on Ebay for silly money. All of them work superbly, and I can even loop one aerial connection between them (they have loop-through aerial connections). The first cost me £30, the second cost me £25.. the last one was bought

Re: [mythtv-users] problem nuvexport ffmpeg xvid

2005-10-21 Thread Cecil Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I would like to transcode my .nuv files with XviD codec. But when I run nuvexport, XviD is disabled. The program tells me my ffmpeg doesn't support encoding to XviD and I have to compile it with the --enable-xvid option. But this option seems to be inexistant. I

[mythtv-users] Debian plugins

2005-10-21 Thread James Grant
Hey does anyone use the debian packages from: http://dijkstra.csh.rit.edu/~mdz/debian/dists/unstable/mythtv ? The 'core' components installed fine, but it looks like all the 'plugins' are out of date (mythvideo, mythmusic, etc).. all the dependencies are broken for them :( eg) its

Re: [mythtv-users] how do I assign XMLTVIDs (was mythfilldatabase problem)

2005-10-21 Thread Neale Swinnerton
Do you have XMLTVIDs associated with all the channels you want listings for, and do you have appropriate *.xmltv files for your video sources in your ~/.mythtv/ directory? I've got the .xmltv file but dont know anything about assigning XMLTVIDs. Did not c anything in the manual. Could

Re: [mythtv-users] Debian plugins

2005-10-21 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 12:16:18PM -0400, James Grant wrote: Hey does anyone use the debian packages from: http://dijkstra.csh.rit.edu/~mdz/debian/dists/unstable/mythtv ? The 'core' components installed fine, but it looks like all the 'plugins' are out of date (mythvideo, mythmusic,

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-500 Only one tuner works

2005-10-21 Thread Danesh
Hey, I had the same problem and fixing it took - downloading the patch from the following thread, - applying it to ivtv source, and - recompiling ivtv and then rebooting. http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/ivtv/devel/24322?search_string=second%20pvr-500;#24322 Ofcourse, remember to do the

Re: [mythtv-users] Debian plugins

2005-10-21 Thread James Grant
Cool I guess I'll give the tarball a try later i hate mixing debs and tarballs on the same system. maybe ill try to build new debs from the tarballs :) I'm still waiting for my PVR-350 to be delivered (damn canada post taking their time), so I've got lots of time to 'play' before i can

[mythtv-users] Plugin conflict? (segfault)

2005-10-21 Thread Dave Sherohman
OK, so now that I've got mythweb vs. mythbrowser straightened out and have mythweb up and running, I've gone on to setting up myth(gallery| video|weather). I initially had some problems with stuff not being found which turned out to be because I mixed the mythtv debs (which installed under

Re: [mythtv-users] how do I assign XMLTVIDs (was mythfilldatabase problem)

2005-10-21 Thread Ben Edwards
On 10/21/05, Neale Swinnerton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you have XMLTVIDs associated with all the channels you want listings for, and do you have appropriate *.xmltv files for your video sources in your ~/.mythtv/ directory? I've got the .xmltv file but dont know anything about assigning

Re: [mythtv-users] Debian plugins

2005-10-21 Thread Rodney D. Myers
On Fri, 21 Oct 2005 12:41:38 -0400 James Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Cool I guess I'll give the tarball a try later i hate mixing debs and tarballs on the same system. maybe ill try to build new debs from the tarballs :) I'm still waiting for my PVR-350 to be delivered (damn

Re: [mythtv-users] Debian plugins

2005-10-21 Thread James Grant
On Friday 21 October 2005 12:55 pm, Rodney D. Myers wrote: If you are running debian, or any distro, look at a program called checkinstall. It wan take a tar ball, and create deb's for your system. The you can easily remove them later. lappy:/home/james# apt-cache search checkinstall

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-500 Only one tuner works

2005-10-21 Thread Peter Darley
Danesh, Thanks for responding to this! Forgive my ignorance, but it looks like you're saying that if I recomplie ivtv, I won't need to recompile the kernel? Or is this a way to get ivtv compiled into the kernel correctly? I've never compiled a kernel, so I'm hoping that I won't

Re: [mythtv-users] OpenGL ATI Radeon MythMusic MythGallery Problem

2005-10-21 Thread Tim Fenn
On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 11:36:36AM +1000, Sammo wrote: Has anybody managed to get (1) MythMusic gears visualization; (2) MythGallery opengl transitions; and (3) MythTV opengl vsync working with an ATI Radeon video card? I have an ATI Radeon 9550 using the latest ATI Proprietary Driver

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Xbox as FE

2005-10-21 Thread Robert Anderson
On 10/21/05, Vladan Bato [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting myself: However I think that it's a problem with the particular remote (or better, the remote dongle) that I have. By poking in the /proc/usb/devices, I discovered that the remote is actually seen as a gamepad and handled by the xpad

Re: [mythtv-users] Debian plugins

2005-10-21 Thread shadestalker
On 10/21/05, James Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 21 October 2005 12:55 pm, Rodney D. Myers wrote: If you are running debian, or any distro, look at a program called checkinstall. It wan take a tar ball, and create deb's for your system. The you can easily remove them

Re: [mythtv-users] Debian plugins

2005-10-21 Thread James Grant
Hehe yes - I did that check on my laptop, which is running testing, not the mythtv box which is on unstable ... aparently there's only stable and unstable versions of checkinstall, and not testing :) hehe Thanks ill give it a try later on. James On Friday 21 October 2005 1:29 pm, [EMAIL

[mythtv-users] full scan does not ask me for a starting transport (dvb-t)

2005-10-21 Thread Ben Edwards
Full scan does not seem to do anything. The progress bar goes from 0-100% over about a minute but no channels seem to be found/added. It did not ask fr a starting transport/frequency. I am using a nova-t card and kaffeine works find. Any ideas? Ben-- Ben Edwards - Bristol, UK, EnglandWARNING:This

Re: [mythtv-users] OpenGL ATI Radeon MythMusic MythGallery Problem

2005-10-21 Thread Lee Koloszyc
IIRC, the ATI fglrx drivers don't let you use XV and OpenGL overlays during the same X session. So it will depend on the Option VideoOverlay on Option OpenGLOverlay off options in your xorg.conf file, which are mutually exclusive. So you can have 2D

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: mythmusic plays one song then stops

2005-10-21 Thread Dirk Beer
On 10/20/05, Sammo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, the fact that the problem happens with xmms as well probably means it's not a mythmusic problem. Maybe make your m3u playlist again? That's a good idea, thanks. Now it seems like it happens with locally stored music as well, so maybe there is

RE: [mythtv-users] (WAS) KnoppMyth (NOW) Sata problems

2005-10-21 Thread match
On 21 Oct 2005 at 8:29, Simpson, Richard wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of ffrr Probably not a good idea. Maybe I should just sell the SATA drives on eBay and get SOME of my money back. I feel a bit ripped off by this

Re: [mythtv-users] (WAS) KnoppMyth (NOW) Sata problems

2005-10-21 Thread Blastzone
For what it's worth, I had a hell of a time with SATA PATA drives in my ASUS Pundit-R. (250GB Maxtor midline SATA NEC DVD-RW or ASUS DVD-RW drives) DMA acceleration would not work on either PATA DVD drive, some FC3 kernels would segfault on startup, Knoppix or Gentoo LiveCDs would not boot, and

Re: [mythtv-users] KnoppMyth and cle266

2005-10-21 Thread Alberto Alonso
I seem to be using it wrong then (R5A16). When I boot from the cd and select watch TV the video plays and pauses continually. I thought that it didn't have hardware acceleration. I assume that the cle266 detection is automatic and I don't have to use a particular switch, right? I was trying to

[mythtv-users] Frontend freeze when deleting recording

2005-10-21 Thread Steve Pugh
Hello all, I am running my Myth system with a PVR-250 for capture, and a PVR-350 for capture and playback through the 350's framebuffer. Things are gorgeous, and I am thrilled to report that since upgrading ivtv to 0.4.0 I have yet to see a hard freeze during playback (previously, I would have

Re: [mythtv-users] KnoppMyth and cle266

2005-10-21 Thread Kim Wall
Alberto Alonso wrote: I seem to be using it wrong then (R5A16). When I boot from the cd and select watch TV the video plays and pauses continually. I believe Knoppmyth uses i586 mythtv binaries by default, and presumably when run from CD. I've noticed this makes all the difference in

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-500 Only one tuner works

2005-10-21 Thread Danesh
Peter, Yes.. The problem is with the kernel tveeprom being used instead of ivtv's version. So quite simply... - If you recompile your kernel, the tveeprom (ivtv version) will be overwritten with the kernel version and hence you will need to recompile ivtv AFTER recompiling your kernel. - If you

Re: [mythtv-users] if (x!=rerun) {record}

2005-10-21 Thread Bruce Markey
Michael T. Dean wrote: Fred Squires wrote: On 10/20/05, *Todd Houle* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need a little help running a reruns rule. I'd like the following rule for recording, but I can't seem to find where/how to enter it. I'd like to record a

Re: [mythtv-users] Frontend freeze when deleting recording

2005-10-21 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 11:16:03AM -0700, Steve Pugh wrote: However, I am still experiencing a solid framebuffer freezeup when, after watching a show, I choose either of the two delete options available to me. The machine itself is still running, and mythbackend continues to record, but the

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-500 Only one tuner works

2005-10-21 Thread Peter Darley
Folks, First, sorry for spamming the list with all this stuff. I feel like I'm getting a handle on things, but it's slow and plodding. When I go to get the source for 0.3.9 from svn as per the thread, I get a message saying it's not available: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ivtv]# svn co

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-500 Only one tuner works

2005-10-21 Thread Lonnie Borntreger
On Fri, 2005-10-21 at 11:35 -0700, Peter Darley wrote: So, my current question is: is there any way to override the kernel module with an external one, so the kerenel module doesn't load, or am I to the point where my only hope is to re-compile the kernel with the new module, or

[mythtv-users] Backend loses the database

2005-10-21 Thread Mickey Chandler
I've had a peculiar problem pop up lately. About once a day, my recorded programs listing goes away and starts reading No recorded programs available. Restarting the back end gets the listing back. The only error I'm seeing in the log is this: 2005-10-21 11:00:00.082 DB Error

Re: [mythtv-users] Frontend freeze when deleting recording

2005-10-21 Thread Steve Pugh
--- Dave Sherohman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 11:16:03AM -0700, Steve Pugh wrote: However, I am still experiencing a solid framebuffer freezeup when, after watching a show, I choose either of the two delete options available to me. The machine itself is still

Re: [mythtv-users] if (x!=rerun) {record}

2005-10-21 Thread Derek Battams
Quoting Bruce Markey [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Note: the rule for new episodes has to take precedence. The more specific type wins (Single beats Channel beats All) but in this case they are both All. Therefore the rule for new episodes needs to be created first to win the tie breaker for older rule.

Re: [mythtv-users] Backend loses the database

2005-10-21 Thread Steve Pugh
--- Mickey Chandler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've had a peculiar problem pop up lately. About once a day, my recorded programs listing goes away and starts reading No recorded programs available. Restarting the back end gets the listing back. The only error I'm seeing in the log is

Re: [mythtv-users] Frontend freeze when deleting recording

2005-10-21 Thread Mercury Morris
On 10/21/05, Steve Pugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all,I am running my Myth system with a PVR-250 forcapture, and a PVR-350 for capture and playbackthrough the 350's framebuffer.Things are gorgeous, and I am thrilled to report thatsince upgrading ivtv to 0.4.0 I have yet to see a hardfreeze

Re: [mythtv-users] KnoppMyth and cle266

2005-10-21 Thread John P. Mitchell
List, Alberto Alonso wrote: I seem to be using it wrong then (R5A16). When I boot from the cd and select watch TV the video plays and pauses continually. You might be able to check which libraries the mythfrontend binary is linked against with 'ldd `which mythfrontend`'. If the binary is

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-500 Only one tuner works

2005-10-21 Thread Peter Darley
Lonnie, Again, please pardon my ignorance. :) I thought that the kernel was monolithic and the modules were all compiled into one kernel binary? If so, what should I be renaming? When I do a locate ivtv, I get several sets of things that don't look like source or docs, any of

Re: [mythtv-users] Cannot scan with PVR500 in setup and ::data:: Column 3 out of range: error

2005-10-21 Thread R. Geoffrey Newbury
On Thu, 20 Oct 2005 15:16:41 -0600, Robert Johnston wrote: On 20/10/05, Simpson, Richard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The PVR-500 *is* a v4l capture card. For card type, IIRC you select PVR-250/350. AFAIK, the myth scanning feature only works for DVB cards. When you download your zap2it channel

[mythtv-users] Can anyone recomend a firewire card?

2005-10-21 Thread David Peeters
I just received a DCT 6200 box from my cable company and I would like to use a firewire connection to change the channel (not record from). I've been looking around and the only information I've managed to find on what brand of fire wire card to use was in Jarod's guide. He said both his Western

Re: [mythtv-users] if (x!=rerun) {record}

2005-10-21 Thread Bruce Markey
Derek Battams wrote: Quoting Bruce Markey [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Note: the rule for new episodes has to take precedence. The more specific type wins (Single beats Channel beats All) but in this case they are both All. Therefore the rule for new episodes needs to be created first to win the tie

Re: [mythtv-users] KnoppMyth and cle266

2005-10-21 Thread Kim Wall
John P. Mitchell wrote: If this is a VIA C3 processor attached to a CLE266 chipset, then I believe that i586 binaries are the correct version to use. I understand that certain features present in an i686 class processor are not present in the C3 and i686 binaries may not run correctly on a

Re: [mythtv-users] (NOW) Sata problems

2005-10-21 Thread match
On 21 Oct 2005 at 14:03, Blastzone wrote: For what it's worth, I had a hell of a time with SATA PATA drives in my ASUS Pundit-R. (250GB Maxtor midline SATA NEC DVD-RW or ASUS DVD-RW drives) DMA acceleration would not work on either PATA DVD drive, some FC3 kernels would segfault

Re: [mythtv-users] Choosing a Suitable DVB-T PCI Card

2005-10-21 Thread Christian Schuglitsch
Maybe I'm wrong but I think that I've read that the Avermedia card needs a firmware-file to be uploaded by hotplug. I wanted to have a card that worx with OSS software only. Regards Schugy Am 21.10.2005 17:53 schrieb Paul Wheeler: I have a couple of avermedia dvb 771's that work out of the

[mythtv-users] Scientific Atlanta channel change over firewire ?

2005-10-21 Thread Chad Delatte
Hey guys, It looks like the guys at the green button figured out how to do channel change over firewire for SCientific Atlanta. Here is the link: http://www.thegreenbutton.com/community/download.aspx?id=1295MessageID=104152 Hope this helps some Myth users Chad

Re: [mythtv-users] if (x!=rerun) {record}

2005-10-21 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 12:30:13PM -0700, Bruce Markey wrote: Derek Battams wrote: Quoting Bruce Markey [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Note: the rule for new episodes has to take precedence. The more specific type wins (Single beats Channel beats All) but in this case they are both All. Therefore the

RE: [mythtv-users] Cannot scan with PVR500 in setup and :: data:: Column 3 out of range: error

2005-10-21 Thread Simpson, Richard
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of R. Geoffrey Newbury This still leaves unanswered what you are supposed to use for a PVR150/500... None of the choices are particularly clear. I am presently trying using 'Mpeg capture card

Re: [mythtv-users] transcoded recordings gets zoomed when played back

2005-10-21 Thread Sasha Z
Have you tried changing the aspect ratio via the playback OSD? On 10/21/05, Bjarne Wichmann Petersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi When I play back a transcoded recording (mpeg4), it sort of gets zoomed. 10-20% of the picture is outside the viewable screen. Untranscoded recordings plays just

Re: [mythtv-users] Serial control of DirecTV of H10 (Solved)

2005-10-21 Thread Steve Adeff
On Thursday 20 October 2005 22:46, Dave wrote: Well, after some fiddling with the satcontrol code (svn trunk), I've gotten channel change working on the DirecTV H10 HD sat receiver. I'm going to clean up my changes and post some diffs. Dave are you able to then record the HD feeds with

[mythtv-users] Re: apt-get upgrade = borked mythtv

2005-10-21 Thread Tom Hines
On 10/15/05, Tom Hines [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello. I did an apt-get update; apt-get upgrade today and now my system is borked. I can't play any video files -- no recordings or Well, I thought I had it figured out. I see that the new xorg-x11 that got installed has new support for ivtv

Re: [mythtv-users] Cannot scan with PVR500 in setup and ::data:: Column 3 out of range: error

2005-10-21 Thread Michael T. Dean
R. Geoffrey Newbury wrote: On Thu, 20 Oct 2005 15:16:41 -0600, Robert Johnston wrote: On 20/10/05, Simpson, Richard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The PVR-500 *is* a v4l capture card. For card type, IIRC you select PVR-250/350. stuff This still leaves unanswered what you are

Re: [mythtv-users] Can anyone recomend a firewire card?

2005-10-21 Thread Jon Kunze
I bought a Western Digital Firewire card on Ebay for $0.99 plus shipping, and it works fine. Last I saw (a few months ago) there were plenty of them for sale.On 10/21/05, David Peeters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just received a DCT 6200 box from my cable company and I would like to use a firewire

[mythtv-users] Transcode to DVD-compatible MPEG-2 without quality loss?

2005-10-21 Thread Mike Frisch
I am using nuvexport (using ffmpeg) but the picture quality is taking a huge hit. My half hour TV show is a 1.??GB .nuv file but transcoded to MPEG-2 DVD is around 400MB and it shows it. What's the trick? Much appreciated. ___ mythtv-users mailing

Re: [mythtv-users] Transcode to DVD-compatible MPEG-2 without quality loss?

2005-10-21 Thread Ramon Redondo
I am using nuvexport (using ffmpeg) but the picture quality is taking a huge hit. My half hour TV show is a 1.??GB .nuv file but transcoded to MPEG-2 DVD is around 400MB and it shows it. What's the trick? Much appreciated. It would help if you mentioned what you use for capture... is it

Re: [mythtv-users] Choosing a Suitable DVB-T PCI Card

2005-10-21 Thread Lee
I'll second that, I have a pair of Avermedia 771's as well, they worked (after activating DVB) without any hassle using KnoppMyth R5A15... I don't remember seeing any firmware mentioned anywhere... Lee Maybe I'm wrong but I think that I've read that the Avermedia card needs a firmware-file

Re: [mythtv-users] which dial-up modem?

2005-10-21 Thread Scott Alfter
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jay R. Ashworth wrote: On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 11:17:34PM -0400, Aaron Aguilar wrote: Anyone have a suggestion on a dial up modem for me to buy? I think I am gonna go external and it looks like the cheapest I can get is around $30.

Re: [mythtv-users] which dial-up modem?

2005-10-21 Thread Scott Alfter
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Asher Schaffer wrote: On 10/20/05, Chris Trown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There used to be a time(LONG time ago when I was taking care of dialup modem banks) that I pushed modems with Lucent chipsets. These days, however, it just does'nt matter.

Re: [mythtv-users] transcoded recordings gets zoomed when played back

2005-10-21 Thread Bjarne Wichmann Petersen
On Friday 21 October 2005 22:03, Sasha Z wrote: Have you tried changing the aspect ratio via the playback OSD? By OSD you mean the menu I get when I press O? Yes, I've tried changing the aspect-ratio. The only thing that changes are the size/placement of the menu. The picture is unchanged.

Re: [mythtv-users] which dial-up modem?

2005-10-21 Thread Steve Adeff
On Friday 21 October 2005 17:27, Scott Alfter wrote: Asher Schaffer wrote: On 10/20/05, Chris Trown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There used to be a time(LONG time ago when I was taking care of dialup modem banks) that I pushed modems with Lucent chipsets. These days, however, it just

Re: [mythtv-users] how do I assign XMLTVIDs (was mythfilldatabase problem)

2005-10-21 Thread Neale Swinnerton
Ben Edwards wrote: Is this a DVB scan? Also don't I have to enter the first channel manualy? yes, I'd assumed you were using a DVB-T card, but I see you never said that. :-) If you are using some other type of card you'll have to create the channels yourself. You don't have to enter

Re: [mythtv-users] (WAS) KnoppMyth (NOW) Sata problems

2005-10-21 Thread ffrr
Simpson, Richard wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of ffrr Probably not a good idea. Maybe I should just sell the SATA drives on eBay and get SOME of my money back. I feel a bit ripped off by this whole SATA deal right now

Re: [mythtv-users] Debian plugins

2005-10-21 Thread Nate Carlson
On Fri, 21 Oct 2005, James Grant wrote: The 'core' components installed fine, but it looks like all the 'plugins' are out of date (mythvideo, mythmusic, etc).. all the dependencies are broken for them :( eg) its looking for libqt3c102-mt instead of libqt3-mt mythmusic has other dependency

Re: [mythtv-users] (WAS) KnoppMyth (NOW) Sata problems

2005-10-21 Thread ffrr
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: . Or maybe upgrade the bios. I was just looking at the ASUS site. Several of the bios updates for the board I'm using relate to the SATA chip. I'll bet the picture is similar at Abit Did that just recently to fix the problem of disk corruption. So I'm

Re: [mythtv-users] (NOW) Sata problems

2005-10-21 Thread ffrr
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 21 Oct 2005 at 14:03, Blastzone wrote: About 300GB recorded so far... when do you guys find time to watch all the stuff you record? Marvin I don't. I adopt the philosophy that I need a disk full of stuff that interests me. When I have the leisure time to

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: mythtv supoprt for lcdproc/other lcds

2005-10-21 Thread Darius Hardy
Dan Wilga wrote: At 10:31 AM +0100 10/21/05, Shaun Lowry wrote: Maybe I will hijack this thread, can we make lcdproc or Myth use the 2 line display as 1 big line? That would be perfect! Anyone know what would be involved in doing this? I don't think there's any way to do this from

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