[mythtv-users] Can't build lirc modules under FC4 - "wrong format"

2005-10-27 Thread Neil Bird
I've been using ATrpms' lirc RPMs for my Myth box, but I'd like to get an 'Igor' USB IR receiver; ATrpms don't include this kernel module so I want to prove I can do it myself before going ahead. I'm prototyping the process on my desktop FC4 box before interfereing with my FC3 Myth box,

Re: [mythtv-users] Mythweb listings painfully slow?

2005-10-27 Thread Niels Dybdahl
On 10/26/05, Al Puzzuoli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I am a newbie to Myth(TV) but finally have things up and running on a FC4 box.  The system is reasonably fast, an Intel 2.5GHZ with 512 megs of ram.  However, when I attempt to access Mythweb from other machines on the network, the process of o

Re: [mythtv-users] An LVM'd drive died! What do I do...

2005-10-27 Thread Neale Swinnerton
David Bennett wrote: ... fortunately this has not happened (yet!) but I am preparing for the worst. Unfortunately this happened to me last week, one of my drives in a 2 drive LVM started getting all sorts of weird timeouts. It hasn't been seen since :-( You can find all this in the docs. In

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

2005-10-27 Thread Kevin Damour
Hello Axel,      New to the MythTV community and first posting to the mailing list (hopefully I get this right).      I am having the same problem with my AMD64 machine and thought I would check if there was a solution besides rebuilding the application. My mythfrontend is 0.18.1.200505

Re: [mythtv-users] An LVM'd drive died! What do I do...

2005-10-27 Thread David Bennett
Wow... this is stressing me out. So basically by adding another drive to my LVM group (which I assume means I am not "striping" I increased the size of my drive at the cost of now giving 2 harddrives a chance to fail instead of one. (shooot especially considering my luck with hard drives.) I

Re: [mythtv-users] realtime commflag on hardware encoding ?

2005-10-27 Thread Robin Gilks
> Matt SF wrote: > >>i saw some old posts in the archive about some developers looking into >>the possibility of doing a realtime commercial flagging routine on the >>output from hardware-based encoders (e.g. a PVR-350) >> >>Does anyone know if progress was made in that area? thanks! >> >> > Ther

RE: [mythtv-users] An LVM'd drive died! What do I do...

2005-10-27 Thread David Maher
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of David Bennett Sent: Thursday, 27 October 2005 5:30 PM To: Discussion about mythtv Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] An LVM'd drive died! What do I do... Wow... this is stressing me out. So basically by adding ano

[mythtv-users] Wholesale changing of channel numbers - how and where? [UK Sky changes]

2005-10-27 Thread Neil Bird
Sky in the UK are going to, on (I believe) Tues. 22 Nov. this year completely re-organise nearly all of their channels' numbers. I've previously coped with their minor changes OK by fiddling with the channel and frequency via MythWeb, but this does mean that I've now several channels who

Re: [mythtv-users] 150 or 150MCE

2005-10-27 Thread Cougar
On Wed, 26 Oct 2005, Erik Pettersen wrote: > There is, as Carl points out a new model 1062 retail "kit" which is a > PVR150MCE card with a MCE compatible/certified USB IR > remote/blaster/etc... designed for MCE 2005. Btw, is anybody here who has this USB IR and it works with Linux? I mean work

Re: [mythtv-users] Wholesale changing of channel numbers - how and where? [UK Sky changes]

2005-10-27 Thread Ant Daniel
On 10/27/05, Neil Bird <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:    Sky in the UK are going to, on (I believe) Tues. 22 Nov. this yearcompletely re-organise nearly all of their channels' numbers.   I've previously coped with their minor changes OK by fiddling with the channel and frequency via MythWeb, but this d

Re: [mythtv-users] An LVM'd drive died! What do I do...

2005-10-27 Thread Martin Ebourne
On Wednesday, October 26, 2005 10:35 PM, Bryan Halter wrote: > As far as I know if you lose a disk in an LVM dies you're SOL. Wrong. At least for the LVM, obviously you've lost that disk. On Thu, 27 Oct 2005 13:41:28 +0900, David Bennett wrote: > I have seen the same article about reducing the s

[mythtv-users] What does make install actually do

2005-10-27 Thread David Watkins
I've compiled a few frontends from source, but my backend (18.1) was built using rpms. I'd now like to compile mythtv for the backend. I'm reasonably comfortable with doing the build, and I've read the upgradetoCVShowto (although I'll be using the 18.1 tarball), but I'm still a bit unclear on the

[mythtv-users] mythtv frontend

2005-10-27 Thread Robert Manning
Hi, I have not tried it myself but there is a Myth Knoppix dist that might be what you are after: http://mysettopbox.tv/knoppmyth.html If you have an EPIA-M mobo there is a mini-myth proj for running mythtv on a disk less system: http://linpvr.org/ (which I have not tried). My MythTV backend (als

[mythtv-users] Hacked Sleek to have recording_options because it's very fast

2005-10-27 Thread ffrr
*I have hacked the sleek theme for mythtv because it is so much faster than the default and quite a few others. It's only problem, so far, for me is it lacked the recording_options that comes up when you select a show in the tv guide. So, I cut & pasted the section from ui.xml (copied belo

Re: [mythtv-users] 150 or 150MCE

2005-10-27 Thread Robin Gilks
> > On Wed, 26 Oct 2005, Erik Pettersen wrote: > >> There is, as Carl points out a new model 1062 retail "kit" which is a >> PVR150MCE card with a MCE compatible/certified USB IR >> remote/blaster/etc... designed for MCE 2005. > > Btw, is anybody here who has this USB IR and it works with Linux? I

Re: [mythtv-users] An LVM'd drive died! What do I do...

2005-10-27 Thread Robin Gilks
[snip] > You can find out how your logical volumes are split by using: > > lvdisplay -m > > That lists the mapping to physical volumes. > > You can give a physical volume name to lvcreate and lvextend to control > the placement in future. You can use pvmove to fix any split logical > volumes you

[mythtv-users] Swedish myth list?

2005-10-27 Thread Alex Polite
Is there a specific mailing list for swedish myth users? alex -- Alex Polite http://flosspick.org - finding the right open source ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

Re: [mythtv-users] realtime commflag on hardware encoding ?

2005-10-27 Thread James Grant
On Wednesday 26 October 2005 11:27 pm, Michael T. Dean wrote: > Matt SF wrote: > >i saw some old posts in the archive about some developers looking into > >the possibility of doing a realtime commercial flagging routine on the > >output from hardware-based encoders (e.g. a PVR-350) > > > >Does anyo

Re: [mythtv-users] Swedish myth list?

2005-10-27 Thread Janek Hellqvist
Alex Polite wrote: > Is there a specific mailing list for swedish myth users? Yes there is! Join the list at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mythtv-sweden/ or through [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- | Janek Hellqvist | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | ___ mythtv-users

Re: [mythtv-users] Really simple multiple capture card question

2005-10-27 Thread Phill Edwards
> I am setting up a system with an old bttv card and a new PVR-150 installed. > > How do I figure out which card corresponds to which device? I.e. is the > PVR-150 /dev/video0, /dev/video1, /dev/video24, or /dev/video32? Maybe you could note which device you're using, watch Live TV and then remo

Re: [mythtv-users] Looking to get a remote

2005-10-27 Thread Phill Edwards
> Anyone have any suggestions about what kind of remote I should get for my > new frontend? I bought a Packard Bell remote off eBay and it is excellent and very cheap. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailma

Re: [mythtv-users] What does make install actually do

2005-10-27 Thread Phill Edwards
> > I've noticed that make install puts the binaries into /usr/local/, > whereas the rpm binaries are currently in /usr/local/bin, so am I > correct in thinking that nothing would get overwritten and I manually > move files or adjust the order of the path to enable the compiled > versions? I think

Re: [mythtv-users] realtime commflag on hardware encoding ?

2005-10-27 Thread Phill Edwards
> There's a "near-real-time commercial flagging" capability in SVN, but > it's completely independent of the capture card. It uses the same > mythcommflag that has always been used, but it starts the process a few > minutes after the recording begins so that it completes shortly after > the record

Re: [mythtv-users] An LVM'd drive died! What do I do...

2005-10-27 Thread Jan Ophey
David Bennett wrote: (And on another note, is a 2 disk raid even worth it? If one of the hard drives develops an error, will that not corrupt its partner?) What does everyone think? Help me develop the poor mans backup... (not only do I keep my Video files on the LVM (which I can afford to los

Re: [mythtv-users] What does make install actually do

2005-10-27 Thread David Watkins
On 27/10/05, Phill Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I've noticed that make install puts the binaries into /usr/local/, > > whereas the rpm binaries are currently in /usr/local/bin, so am I > > correct in thinking that nothing would get overwritten and I manually > > move files or adjust t

Re: [mythtv-users] An LVM'd drive died! What do I do...

2005-10-27 Thread Greg
On 10/27/05, Martin Ebourne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wednesday, October 26, 2005 10:35 PM, Bryan Halter wrote:> As far as I know if you lose a disk in an LVM dies you're SOL.Wrong. At least for the LVM, obviously you've lost that disk.On Thu, 27 Oct 2005 13:41:28 +0900, David Bennett wrote: >

Re: [mythtv-users] Mythweb won't delete programs

2005-10-27 Thread Chris Rouch
On 10/21/05, Chris Petersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ok, to put all fears to rest about this being a code issue, I can > confirm that it works perfectly for me as of SVN revision 7538 (current). > > On to the next set of problems.. why this is happening to Neil. Is it an selinux issue? A loo

[mythtv-users] mythgame problems with catver.ini?

2005-10-27 Thread Pat Vaughan
I've just started working on getting mythgame working, and am having some success. If I don't use a catver.ini file the mythgame rom browser shows me the system genre and gamename (I took out year). If I use a populated catver.ini, I get system and genre, but I can't go past genre to select the g

[mythtv-users] OT: suspend to disc....

2005-10-27 Thread Jules Gosnell
I try not to leave unnecessary electrical stuff running overnight, but my mythfrontend takes quite a while to boot/shutdown. I have been looking at what it would take to be able to suspend-to and resume-from disc. It's a Via Epia Ezra (i586) running FC3 with the latest FC3 kernel. This looks

RE: [mythtv-users] An LVM'd drive died! What do I do...

2005-10-27 Thread Simpson, Richard
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Bryan Halter > > As far as I know if you lose a disk in an LVM dies you're > SOL. If you > need redundancy and want a scheme that allows you to have a > huge folume > look into RAID-5. It allows yo

Re: [mythtv-users] Satellite, RF or IR

2005-10-27 Thread Calvin Harrigan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey guys, great forum, very helpful so far. I have Dish Network with 1 box for 2 TVs. One signal is controlled by an IR remote, the other with an RF remote. I'm trying to decide on the best setup and which signal to put the myth box on. My concerns are if I put it on

[mythtv-users] TV out video card

2005-10-27 Thread David Wallace
Hi, I just went shopping for a GeFroce fx 4000 card. The only one I found was pci based. But, for $18.00 more the had a fx 5200 agp with 256 meg of ram with TV and DVI out. Will this work as good/easy as the 4000 card? I haven't opened the box yet, just in case the list says it won't work! Davi

[mythtv-users] nexus-s; card semi-broken?

2005-10-27 Thread Christoph Bueeler
Hi all I'm running mythtv on debian sid with a nexus-s card tuned to astra and eutelsat (two single LNB). Now i upgraded the LNBs to twin-LNBs (diseq-switch is still the same - 1.1) : On the dedicated satellite receiver, everything runs smoothly but on my mythbox both myth and szap don't see a

Re: [mythtv-users] Really simple multiple capture card question

2005-10-27 Thread Michael T. Dean
Chris Ribe wrote: I am setting up a system with an old bttv card and a new PVR-150 installed. How do I figure out which card corresponds to which device? I.e. is the PVR-150 /dev/video0, /dev/video1, /dev/video24, or /dev/video32? a) logs (i.e. your system log--something like /var/log/mess

Re: [mythtv-users] An LVM'd drive died! What do I do...

2005-10-27 Thread Brandon Beattie
On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 11:26:47PM -0500, Korey Fort wrote: > As far as I know if you lose a disk in an LVM dies you're SOL. If you Untrue, you only lose everything if it is the first drive (Unless something really odd happens). I've tested just pulling a drive and shrinking the lvm and it did

Re: [mythtv-users] TV out video card

2005-10-27 Thread Lee Koloszyc
David Wallace wrote: Hi, I just went shopping for a GeFroce fx 4000 card. The only one I found was pci based. But, for $18.00 more the had a fx 5200 agp with 256 meg of ram with TV and DVI out. Will this work as good/easy as the 4000 card? I haven't opened the box yet, just in case the list

Re: [mythtv-users] NVidia Dual XScreen and Gnome Panel

2005-10-27 Thread Paul Andreassen
On Wed, 26 Oct 2005 09:48 am, Brian J. Murrell wrote: > On Wed, 2005-10-26 at 09:41 +1000, Graeme Woollett wrote: > > I have a dual head/X screen setup. > > I'm wanting to use screen0 as an ordinary computer > > desktop. > > I'm wanting to use screen1 as an output for mythtv. > > Problem is that I

Re: [mythtv-users] Satellite, RF or IR

2005-10-27 Thread Michael T. Dean
Calvin Harrigan wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have Dish Network with 1 box for 2 TVs. One signal is controlled by an IR remote, the other with an RF remote. I'm trying to decide on the best setup and which signal to put the myth box on. My concerns are if I put it on the IR signal, the

RE: [mythtv-users] TV out video card

2005-10-27 Thread Simpson, Richard
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of David Wallace > > Hi, > > I just went shopping for a GeFroce fx 4000 card. The only one I found > was pci based. But, for $18.00 more the had a fx 5200 agp with 256 meg > of ram with TV and DVI out. >

Re: [mythtv-users] TV out video card

2005-10-27 Thread Allan Mcintosh
I use the FX5200 with NVIDIA drivers for my myth set up, I don't bother with TwinView (both monitor and TV connected) I have only a TV connected. My Device section from /etc/X11/xorg.conf Section "Device" Identifier "Card0" Driver "nvidia" VendorName "NVidia" BoardName "GeF

Re: [mythtv-users] What does make install actually do

2005-10-27 Thread Michael T. Dean
David Watkins wrote: I've compiled a few frontends from source, but my backend (18.1) was built using rpms. I'd now like to compile mythtv for the backend. I'm reasonably comfortable with doing the build, and I've read the upgradetoCVShowto (although I'll be using the 18.1 tarball), but I'm st

Re: [mythtv-users] An LVM'd drive died! What do I do...

2005-10-27 Thread Kevin Kuphal
David Bennett wrote: Wow... this is stressing me out. So basically by adding another drive to my LVM group (which I assume means I am not "striping" I increased the size of my drive at the cost of now giving 2 harddrives a chance to fail instead of one. (shooot especially considering my luc

Re: [mythtv-users] An LVM'd drive died! What do I do...

2005-10-27 Thread Michael T. Dean
Martin Ebourne wrote: Key points to learn from this to save your data: ... 3. Don't split logical volumes over physical volumes unless you absolutely have to. Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't the LV for the recordings directory have to be split over physical volumes to create a recording

Re: [mythtv-users] An LVM'd drive died! What do I do...

2005-10-27 Thread David Bennett
I must admit you have me quite intrigued by this RAID 5. So heres the deal, I am going to go out and buy some disks. Anything I need to know before I start? How (and what) do I need to know to setup a software Raid 5 on my linux? Any guides etc.? Also, I wonder if there is any easy way to get th

[mythtv-users] Mythburn Log File Errors

2005-10-27 Thread Mike Daugird
Here is my mythburn log file: # cat mythburn.log MythBurn Script is running as user mythtv Video format = ntsc Background image = /mythtv/backup/burn/mythburn/images/backgrounds/plasma-fractal.png Background music = /mythtv/backup/burn/mythburn/music/menumusic.mp2 Make ISO image = yes Burn to DVD

[mythtv-users] (slightly OT) improving wireless connections

2005-10-27 Thread Nelson Tang
Hello list members, I've been following the list for awhile, and hopefully this isn't too far OT for the list: I use to live in a two-story townhouse and had my Myth BE/FE downstairs, connected via 802.11g to a FE running on my desktop machine upstairs. My wireless signal was great, and I could w

Re: [mythtv-users] Mythburn Log File Errors

2005-10-27 Thread Carl Fongheiser
ProjectX 0.90 doesn't work right with mythburn.  Use 0.82.1 instead. Carl Fongheiser ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

Re: [mythtv-users] (slightly OT) improving wireless connections

2005-10-27 Thread Kevin Kuphal
Nelson Tang wrote: Hello list members, I've been following the list for awhile, and hopefully this isn't too far OT for the list: I use to live in a two-story townhouse and had my Myth BE/FE downstairs, connected via 802.11g to a FE running on my desktop machine upstairs. My wireless signal wa

Re: [mythtv-users] mythtv frontend

2005-10-27 Thread Nathan Hesson
It depends 1.   Do you want SD or HD 2.   Do you want a full frontend or just something to watch tv on. 3.   How are you recording tv (pvr encoder or framegrabber) I use a MediaMVP for viewing tv in my bedroom and it works great.  No fluff, just TV.  Alot of ppl use xbox as a frontend.  There is w

Re: [mythtv-users] An LVM'd drive died! What do I do...

2005-10-27 Thread Steve Adeff
On Wednesday 26 October 2005 19:43, David Bennett wrote: > ... fortunately this has not happened (yet!) but I am preparing for the > worst. > > Jarod's MythTV guide recommends LVM as an option to create nice and > big MythTV partitions. I followed the guide and have recently added > another 250G to

Re: [mythtv-users] HD Frontend hardware: cases for enclosed spaces

2005-10-27 Thread Steve Adeff
On Wednesday 26 October 2005 21:53, Sean Cier wrote: > Mark Kundinger wrote: > > Well, the one thing that might be a sticker is how intensively you plan > > on using it as a DVD player. If you use that a lot, then I'd recommend > > putting the Mythbox in the exposed location, for easy access. > >

[mythtv-users] Parallels.com: Slow but interesting

2005-10-27 Thread Mark Paulus
I heard about the new Parallels 2.0 Beta from another list, and immediately thought of Myth as an application. I have a backend box in the basement, and I'm planning on using a Hauppauge MediaMVP running mvpmc as my front end (when I get the wiring in place to the main room, and some other sma

Re: [mythtv-users] Installing projectX from source?

2005-10-27 Thread Steve Adeff
On Wednesday 26 October 2005 11:46, Michael T. Dean wrote: > Robin Gilks wrote: > >Getting there... now I get the error: > >Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: > >net/sourceforge/dvb/projectx/common/X > > > >Googling shows lots of people with the same error but so far I've no

Re: [mythtv-users] An LVM'd drive died! What do I do...

2005-10-27 Thread Bryan Halter
On Oct 27, 2005 03:02 PM, David Bennett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I must admit you have me quite intrigued by this RAID 5. > >So heres the deal, I am going to go out and buy some disks. >Anything I need to know before I start? > >How (and what) do I need to know to setup a software Raid 5 on my

Re: [mythtv-users] An LVM'd drive died! What do I do...

2005-10-27 Thread Brian C. Huffman
On Thu, 2005-10-27 at 11:42 -0400, Bryan Halter wrote: > Well to start with for RAID you need to have disks that are all the same > size (preferably the same model). I believe Linux supports growing > software RAID volumes and I'm sure someone will correct me if it > doesn't. Personally I'd go o

[mythtv-users] Re: MyIRBlaster - Myth Issues Only??

2005-10-27 Thread Dan Wilga
I have also experienced problems using LIRC to send IR signals through the serial port. I believe the reason is LIRC's reliance on the (low priority) RTC interrupt for timing. LIRC toggles a single serial port control line up to 56,000 times per second, to directly turn an LED on/off. If anothe

Re: [mythtv-users] Really simple multiple capture card question

2005-10-27 Thread Dan Wilga
At 7:05 PM -0400 10/26/05, Chris Ribe wrote: I am setting up a system with an old bttv card and a new PVR-150 installed. How do I figure out which card corresponds to which device? I.e. is the PVR-150 /dev/video0, /dev/video1, /dev/video24, or /dev/video32? If you're using a newer version of

Re: [mythtv-users] Satellite, RF or IR

2005-10-27 Thread Dan Wilga
At 11:12 PM +0200 10/26/05, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Controlling this signal with Myth shouldn't be hard since I have the IR blaster that comes with the hauppauge card; why did they make that cord so short?!?! Think again. Unless they've changed things recently, what comes with the Hauppauge

Re: [mythtv-users] OT: suspend to disc....

2005-10-27 Thread Bryan Niederberger
Jules Gosnell wrote: I try not to leave unnecessary electrical stuff running overnight, but my mythfrontend takes quite a while to boot/shutdown. I have been looking at what it would take to be able to suspend-to and resume-from disc. It's a Via Epia Ezra (i586) running FC3 with the latest

Re: [mythtv-users] An LVM'd drive died! What do I do...

2005-10-27 Thread David
To answer the OP's question. "Tough. You WILL have lost data - maybe not everything." You should have used RAID5 then the answer would have been: "take the dead disk out and put in a replacement, wait a few hours and you're good to go" Brandon Beattie wrote: quite a bit that I happen to disag

Re: [mythtv-users] What does make install actually do

2005-10-27 Thread Joseph A. Caputo
On Thursday 27 October 2005 8:16, David Watkins wrote: > On 27/10/05, Phill Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > I've noticed that make install puts the binaries into /usr/local/, > > > whereas the rpm binaries are currently in /usr/local/bin, so am I > > > correct in thinking that nothin

Re: [mythtv-users] An LVM'd drive died! What do I do...

2005-10-27 Thread Alexander Fisher
On 10/27/05, David Bennett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I must admit you have me quite intrigued by this RAID 5. > > So heres the deal, I am going to go out and buy some disks. > Anything I need to know before I start? 250GB disks currently seem to give the most GB per $ or £ > How (and what) do

Re: [mythtv-users] OT: suspend to disc....

2005-10-27 Thread Jules Gosnell
Bryan Niederberger wrote: Jules Gosnell wrote: I try not to leave unnecessary electrical stuff running overnight, but my mythfrontend takes quite a while to boot/shutdown. I have been looking at what it would take to be able to suspend-to and resume-from disc. It's a Via Epia Ezra (i586)

Re: [mythtv-users] realtime commflag on hardware encoding ?

2005-10-27 Thread Matt SF
On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 11:27:19PM -0400, Michael T. Dean wrote: > There's a "near-real-time commercial flagging" capability in SVN, but > it's completely independent of the capture card. It uses the same > mythcommflag that has always been used, but it starts the process a few > minutes after

Re: [mythtv-users] What does make install actually do

2005-10-27 Thread George Nassas
On 27-Oct-05, at 12:07 PM, Joseph A. Caputo wrote: Managing simultaneous RPM-based and locally compiled installations of any software package is pretty tricky. You might find it easier to simply manage multiple locally-compiled versions, with one of them being a stable release (say 0.18.1) that

[mythtv-users] How to increae video storage.. LVM?? or LVM2

2005-10-27 Thread Nada De nada
Hi I installed Mythtv on Fedora 4 using the information from HOW TO...I now want to increase the video storage and I am planning on adding an other hard drive.. I do not have much experience using linux and have been reading about LVM or LVM2 to as a mean to expand the video partition. Can an

Re: [mythtv-users] TV out video card

2005-10-27 Thread Jesse Guardiani
Simpson, Richard wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of David Wallace Hi, I just went shopping for a GeFroce fx 4000 card. The only one I found was pci based. But, for $18.00 more the had a fx 5200 agp with 256 meg of ram with TV and DVI

Re: [mythtv-users] An LVM'd drive died! What do I do...

2005-10-27 Thread Steve Adeff
On Thursday 27 October 2005 11:51, Brian C. Huffman wrote: > On Thu, 2005-10-27 at 11:42 -0400, Bryan Halter wrote: > > Well to start with for RAID you need to have disks that are all the same > > size (preferably the same model). I believe Linux supports growing > > software RAID volumes and I'm

Re: [mythtv-users] An LVM'd drive died! What do I do...

2005-10-27 Thread Erik Karlin
On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 05:07:50PM +0100, Alexander Fisher wrote: > On 10/27/05, David Bennett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I must admit you have me quite intrigued by this RAID 5. > > > > So heres the deal, I am going to go out and buy some disks. > > Anything I need to know before I start? > >

Re: [mythtv-users] An LVM'd drive died! What do I do...

2005-10-27 Thread Steve Adeff
On Thursday 27 October 2005 12:07, Alexander Fisher wrote: > Other hints ... > Don't put more than one ide drive on a single ide channel. A failing > drive often takes out the bus. SATA drives make sense, but SMART > support for SATA is still under development. You should also make > sure that

RE: [mythtv-users] TV out video card

2005-10-27 Thread Simpson, Richard
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jesse Guardiani > > Simpson, Richard wrote: > > > >> -Original Message- > >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of David Wallace > >> > >> Hi, > >> > >> I just went s

Re: [mythtv-users] TV out video card

2005-10-27 Thread Steve Adeff
On Thursday 27 October 2005 12:35, Jesse Guardiani wrote: > Simpson, Richard wrote: > >> -Original Message- > >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of David Wallace > >> > >> Hi, > >> > >> I just went shopping for a GeFroce fx 4000 card. The only one I found > >>

Re: [mythtv-users] OT: suspend to disc....

2005-10-27 Thread Bryan Niederberger
Jules Gosnell wrote: Bryan Niederberger wrote: Jules Gosnell wrote: I try not to leave unnecessary electrical stuff running overnight, but my mythfrontend takes quite a while to boot/shutdown. I have been looking at what it would take to be able to suspend-to and resume-from disc. It's

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: MyIRBlaster - Myth Issues Only??

2005-10-27 Thread Dr. Doug L. Hoffman
I've been using a MyBlaster with my DishTV receiver for some time now with no problems. The receiver sometimes gets hung up, but that happens with the hand remote as well:-) I use a Pundit and dual PVR-250s. On Thu, 2005-10-27 at 11:41 -0400, Dan Wilga wrote: > I have also experienced problems us

Re: [mythtv-users] How to increae video storage.. LVM?? or LVM2

2005-10-27 Thread Andrew Close
On 10/27/05, Nada De nada <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi > > I installed Mythtv on Fedora 4 using the information > from HOW TO...I now want to increase the video storage > and I am planning on adding an other hard drive.. I do > not have much experience using linux and have been > reading abo

Re: [mythtv-users] An LVM'd drive died! What do I do...

2005-10-27 Thread Brandon Beattie
On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 05:07:50PM +0100, Alexander Fisher wrote: > Other hints ... > Don't put more than one ide drive on a single ide channel. A failing > drive often takes out the bus. SATA drives make sense, but SMART > support for SATA is still under development. You should also make > sur

Re: [mythtv-users] An LVM'd drive died! What do I do...

2005-10-27 Thread Kevin Kuphal
Brandon Beattie wrote: On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 05:07:50PM +0100, Alexander Fisher wrote: Other hints ... Don't put more than one ide drive on a single ide channel. A failing drive often takes out the bus. SATA drives make sense, but SMART support for SATA is still under development. You

Re: [mythtv-users] What does make install actually do

2005-10-27 Thread Joseph A. Caputo
On Thursday 27 October 2005 12:20, George Nassas wrote: > On 27-Oct-05, at 12:07 PM, Joseph A. Caputo wrote: > > > Managing simultaneous RPM-based and locally compiled installations > > of > > any software package is pretty tricky. You might find it easier to > > simply manage multiple locally-

Re: [mythtv-users] An LVM'd drive died! What do I do...

2005-10-27 Thread Steve Adeff
On Thursday 27 October 2005 12:42, Erik Karlin wrote: > On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 05:07:50PM +0100, Alexander Fisher wrote: > > On 10/27/05, David Bennett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I must admit you have me quite intrigued by this RAID 5. > > > > > > So heres the deal, I am going to go out and

Re: [mythtv-users] Capturing legacy VHS tapes

2005-10-27 Thread Trevor Kramer
Is it possible to setup mythtv to capture mpeg2 from the ConvertX? I don't see that option in the setup program. Trevor On Oct 18, 2005, at 9:28 PM, Steve Hodge wrote: On 10/19/05, Nathan Lutchansky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 11:16:49PM -0200, Manuel Lemos wrote:

Re: [mythtv-users] An LVM'd drive died! What do I do...

2005-10-27 Thread Steve Adeff
On Thursday 27 October 2005 13:02, Brandon Beattie wrote: > On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 05:07:50PM +0100, Alexander Fisher wrote: > > Other hints ... > > Don't put more than one ide drive on a single ide channel. A failing > > drive often takes out the bus. SATA drives make sense, but SMART > > supp

Re: [mythtv-users] An LVM'd drive died! What do I do...

2005-10-27 Thread Kevin Kuphal
Steve Adeff wrote: does raid10 do parity? I thought raid 10 required a backup harddrive for every drive in the array? RAID 10 is stripping across mirrored sets, no parity, just mirrors. Kevin ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org

AW: [mythtv-users] An LVM'd drive died! What do I do...

2005-10-27 Thread Martin Bene
> > Also, I wonder if there is any easy way to get the info off from my > > current 2 drive LVM onto the raid? (I would like to use > some of these > > LVM drives to be put in this raid). > > This could be tricky. I can't think of a way to do this at > the moment. If you can consolidate this

Re: [mythtv-users] Wholesale changing of channel numbers - how and where? [UK Sky changes]

2005-10-27 Thread Nick
On 27/10/05, Ant Daniel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On 10/27/05, Neil Bird <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >Sky in the UK are going to, on (I believe) Tues. 22 Nov. this year > > completely re-organise nearly all of their channels' numbers. > > > >I've previously coped with thei

[mythtv-users] Re: An LVM'd drive died! What do I do...

2005-10-27 Thread Jonathan Markevich
It happened to me. I got a new Maxtor 120GB drive, joined my existing puny 30G partition and... a week later it konked out. I lost it all... I couldn't restore or mount or anything, since the majority of the data was on the dead drive. I believe I tried the -P switch but late enough that it

Re: [mythtv-users] realtime commflag on hardware encoding ?

2005-10-27 Thread Michael T. Dean
Matt SF wrote: On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 11:27:19PM -0400, Michael T. Dean wrote: There's a "near-real-time commercial flagging" capability in SVN, but it's completely independent of the capture card. It uses the same mythcommflag that has always been used, but it starts the process a few m

Re: [mythtv-users] KnoppMyth site to be down

2005-10-27 Thread Cecil Watson
Again my apologies... Seems Edison is quite done with thier work. The site will be down tomorrow for 7:00 AM PST to 3:00 PM PST. Best regards, Cecil ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/myt

[mythtv-users] Re: hdtv on low end hardware

2005-10-27 Thread jimoo
Hi Mike, Thanks for your response. I did read that section of the mythtv HOWTO but it seems to create even more questions. I think my confusion comes from having previous experience with the pvr 350. With the pvr 350, the encoder encoded the analog video to an mpeg2 file and the mpeg decoder

[mythtv-users] FYI How to get Dell 2405FPW LCD to work with DVI

2005-10-27 Thread Daniel Kristjansson
Just in case someone wants to get this working you should know that not all Single Link DVI is created the same. In particular my nice fanless GeForce FX5200 had a maximum pixel lock of 135Mhz over DVI: (--) NVIDIA(1): DFP-0: maximum pixel clock: 135 MHz (--) NVIDIA(1): DFP-0: Internal Single Link

Re: [mythtv-users] mythgame problems with catver.ini?

2005-10-27 Thread Carl Fongheiser
On 10/27/05, Pat Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I've just started working on getting mythgame working, and am having somesuccess.  If I don't use a catver.ini file the mythgame rom browser showsme the system genre and gamename (I took out year).  If I use a populated catver.ini, I get system an

Re: [mythtv-users] An LVM'd drive died! What do I do...

2005-10-27 Thread Brandon Beattie
On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 05:04:14PM +0100, David wrote: > > Raid to several of us who run TB+ LVM's for a myth box > >is a dumb idea. > > > No it's not. I said several, not everyone. :) My reasons for not doing raid are $100 for an extra HD drive that doesn't add raw space, matching partition si

[mythtv-users] Adding PVR 500 to 350 system

2005-10-27 Thread Todd Houle
Sorry for the newbie question, but I'm a little nervous about breaking this new Myth system now that my wife relies on it so much! I'm hoping to get this done in time to record ER for her tonight...I have a Fedora 4 system built about a month ago using Jarrod's guide and help from this list (thanks

[mythtv-users] Development update

2005-10-27 Thread Bryan Halter
Can someone give this list a quick update of new/improved features under development and an idea of how far out .19 is?  I love MythTV and would love to see it continue to grow, that's why I'm curious about this next release.  Also some idea of what LxM is up to would be nice too :) __

Re: [mythtv-users] (slightly OT) improving wireless connections

2005-10-27 Thread Todd Houle
I had a similar problem (I was using 802.11b) and downgraded the quality of the picture in my setup thanks to a recommendation on this list. I changed the bitrate down in the recording quality setup. I ended up saving disk space and making it work over my old 10MB connection just fine. Th

[mythtv-users] TV-out modeline nvidia issue

2005-10-27 Thread Marcel Janssen
Hi, I'm trying to get a setup working with two display devices connected. One is a CRT projected and the other one a CRT Television. I have the CRT projector working in 960x720 for all refresh rates that I need and that works well. Now I would like to add TV-out to that, but they have to use the

Re: [mythtv-users] Adding PVR 500 to 350 system

2005-10-27 Thread Jim Reith
At 02:33 PM 10/27/2005, you wrote: Sorry for the newbie question, but I'm a little nervous about breaking this new Myth system now that my wife relies on it so much! I'm hoping to get this done in time to record ER for her tonight... I have a Fedora 4 system built about a month ago using Jarrod's

Re: [mythtv-users] An LVM'd drive died! What do I do...

2005-10-27 Thread Brandon Beattie
On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 05:04:14PM +0100, David wrote: > (and shrinking - if you happen to be the one geek in the world who uses > less disk space over time) and reallocation of space. Let me explain my current setup and give you one of many reasons someone may want to shrink a FS, and why I'm no

Re: [mythtv-users] (slightly OT) improving wireless connections

2005-10-27 Thread Deyan Bektchiev
Since you already have the Sveasoft firmware you can enable WDS and use one WRT54G as an extender to the main one. How are the routers placed right now? I have a couple for Internet connectivity only that are ~60 feet apart and I get 20Mbps between endpoints. Also it would make sense if you

Re: [mythtv-users] (slightly OT) improving wireless connections

2005-10-27 Thread Lee Koloszyc
Nelson Tang wrote: So, my question is, is there a good way to improve my wireless signal? Any placement tips, antenna orientation, etc.? Any references online I can read? If it matters, the two stations are a Linksys WRT54G with a Sveasoft firmware (don't remember which version offhand) on

Re: [mythtv-users] Adding PVR 500 to 350 system

2005-10-27 Thread Todd Houle
I bought it through our local computer store on campus. I got it at their cost of $135. I help them with troubleshooting, so they let me buy stuff at cost. It came in quickly - about 2 days after ordering. Thanks for the info. I'll drop in the PVR500 and go straight to mythtv-setup and see what

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