Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV Installer Usability: An Analysis

2005-11-04 Thread ffrr
Dewey Smolka wrote: SHOWSTOPPERS: (S-1) The installer, by default, picked a 15 GB size for my ringbuffer, but picked a 12 GB size for the /cache partition in which it's stored. This means that, after 5.3 hours of sitting in Watch TV, the machine blew up. (The disk thrashed -continuously- and

[mythtv-users] Yet another ugly bit of usability surfaces

2005-11-04 Thread f-myth-users
...nd, back to my least-favorite form: Capture Cards. Here I am, sitting in Capture Cards in my misconfigured R5A22: Capture cards (New capture card) [ MPEG : /dev/video0 ] [ MPEG : /dev/video0 ] [ MPEG : /dev/video0 ] [ MPEG : /dev/video0 ] [ MPEG : /dev/video0 ]

[mythtv-users] MythTV Installer Usability: An Analysis

2005-11-04 Thread f-myth-users
Date: Fri, 04 Nov 2005 18:32:51 +1000 From: ffrr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Is this because the ringbuffer file seems to continually grow? I have noticed this. Why does it do that? If you are not paused, surely the file size should remain stable? Yes. The ringbuffer grows monoto

[mythtv-users] tv_grab_au problem

2005-11-04 Thread Mark Cornwell
Hello all I have successfully installed Myth on FC4 using Jarod's Howto & advice from list & have been happily running for a couple of months. Recently had MySQL problems which improved with repair as in http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=1043&; Now tv_grab_au (immir version) whic

Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV Installer Usability: An Analysis

2005-11-04 Thread Ant Daniel
On 11/4/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:    Date: Fri, 04 Nov 2005 18:32:51 +1000   From: ffrr <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >   Is this because the ringbuffer file seems to continually grow?  I have   noticed this.  Why does it do that? If you are not paused, surely the   file size should r

[mythtv-users] MythTV Installer Usability: An Analysis

2005-11-04 Thread f-myth-users
Date: Fri, 04 Nov 2005 18:32:51 +1000 From: ffrr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Is this because the ringbuffer file seems to continually grow? I have noticed this. Why does it do that? If you are not paused, surely the file size should remain stable? Yes. The

Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV Installer Usability: An Analysis

2005-11-04 Thread ffrr
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the current case, the installer defaults to behavior that will cause the machine to livelock and explode if the user has the bad luck to leave the UI on the wrong screen and go to bed. Whoops. P.S. The current installer's default of such a large ringbuffer and ext

RE: [mythtv-users] tv_grab_au problem

2005-11-04 Thread Matthew Carle
Not sure about this error message but the ninemsn website is currently missing channels. ACT only has SBS and Nine showing, Sydney has 4 of them. This could be the cause of your current problems. Hopefully ninemsn fixes it quickly or we will be without guide data. Matthew. > -Original Messa

Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV Installer Usability: An Analysis

2005-11-04 Thread Rudy Zijlstra
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Fri, 04 Nov 2005 18:32:51 +1000 From: ffrr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Is this because the ringbuffer file seems to continually grow? I have noticed this. Why does it do that? If you are not paused, surely the file size should remain stable? Ye

Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV Installer Usability: An Analysis

2005-11-04 Thread ffrr
Rudy Zijlstra wrote: Hmm, this is a case where i actually agree with the knoppmyth installer. I have several tuners (6 total) and when 5 (current concurrent max) are recording at the same time, i do not want the IO from the live buffer on the same disk-set. Also, for demo purposes i sometim

Re: [mythtv-users] SUID not working

2005-11-04 Thread Pascal Favre
The reason this is a problem is because the mythfrontend binary is frequently installed with user:group set to root:root, and if you launch it as a regular user then you're really launching it via the 'other' bits. The solution is to 'chown root:users mythfrontend' and then do the chmod a+s t

Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV Installer Usability: An Analysis

2005-11-04 Thread Rudy Zijlstra
ffrr wrote: Rudy Zijlstra wrote: Hmm, this is a case where i actually agree with the knoppmyth installer. I have several tuners (6 total) and when 5 (current concurrent max) are recording at the same time, i do not want the IO from the live buffer on the same disk-set. Also, for demo purpo

Re: [mythtv-users] performance problem on old PC

2005-11-04 Thread Stef Coene
On Friday 04 November 2005 03:45, Chris Ribe wrote: > Bitrate and resolution matter a lot here, too. Given comprable video > quality levels, MPEG4 takes significantly more CPU to encode. Mhh, I can not tell the different on my old television between. Maybe I can feed it with a test signal on the

Re: [mythtv-users] IR Blaster and COM Ports

2005-11-04 Thread Claude Boucher
To my knowledge, the IR Blaster included with 150 (I have one of these, model 1047) doesn't connect to a serial port and should be controlled by the lirc_i2c instead of lirc_serial. If you have one of those transmitter/receiver unit, check this site (http://www.blushingpenguin.com/mark/blog/?p=

[mythtv-users] FC3 DVB driver installed in kernel?

2005-11-04 Thread A JM
I did an install from Jarods guide and want to add a Nexus-s card to my system. Can anyone tell me if the DVB drivers are installed in the Kernel already or do I need to do an install for them seperately or recompile the Kernel,  I'm currently running FC3 2.6.12-1.1372?   Also, is there a "how-to"

Re: [mythtv-users] SUID not working

2005-11-04 Thread Doug Larrick
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Yeah - that's a workaround. I already saw that. But as a long-time UNIX > admin, > I can't see why the standard SUID bit wouldn't work. > > If nothing else turns up, I may try the rlimit / PAM approach. Because what MythTV is doing is technically not quite right (I c

Re: [mythtv-users] Re:Is gentoo the way to go?

2005-11-04 Thread Bryan Halter
I have 3 Gentoo boxen and wondered the same thing.  I've taken the approach of sharing the tree over NFS.  This doesn't give me the cache updates so searches take forever on the remote boxes but I can do updates. Alexander Petkov wrote: = A little bit of time? Don't you mean alo

Re: [mythtv-users] UC: Recording fine but watching live tv dies

2005-11-04 Thread Chris Rouch
On 11/3/05, Barker Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Does anyone have any idea why when I watch live tv it wont tune and my frontend dies, but when I tell it to record the same program and I watch the recording all works fine? Setup lets you configure these to go in different d

Re: [mythtv-users] myth protocol or backend API docs/examples?

2005-11-04 Thread Chris Rouch
On 11/3/05, Greg Estabrooks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I wish to cobble up a commandline script that can report tuner status, > > much the same way as MythWeb does, so I can direct it to lcdproc. > > Actually it's built in. Just telnet to the status port (default is 6544 > but you can c

Re: [mythtv-users] myth protocol or backend API docs/examples?

2005-11-04 Thread Greg Estabrooks
> Or GET /xml for the .xml file, which IMO is easier to parse programmatically. Cool. I hadn't noticed that one. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

Re: [mythtv-users] Re:Is gentoo the way to go?

2005-11-04 Thread Fredrik Karlsson
> The ~900MB size for > the portage tree was a turnoff though... Hi, 900 MB for Portage seems a bit much. I have 449 MB. You should clean out your distfiles directory. /Fredrik -- My Gentoo + PVR-350 + IVTV + MythTV blog is on http://gentoomythtv.blogspot.com/ _

[mythtv-users] DVB EPG kills Manual Schedule

2005-11-04 Thread Andrew Meredith
Hi Folks, I'm having strange problems, but more of that later. I have/had a manual program in for the full morning weather forecast. It goes in just fine. It shows up in the "Upcoming" listings and all looks well. Then come the day, it has vapourised. I put it back in again and it goes away a

Re: [mythtv-users] DVB EPG kills Manual Schedule

2005-11-04 Thread Stuart Auchterlonie
On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 02:06:11PM +, Andrew Meredith wrote: > Hi Folks, > > I'm having strange problems, but more of that later. > > I have/had a manual program in for the full morning weather forecast. It > goes in just fine. It shows up in the "Upcoming" listings and all looks > well. Th

Re: [mythtv-users] Skip forward doesn't work correctly anymore

2005-11-04 Thread Steve Briggs
Darrem Hart wrote: > I have run the above [mysqlcheck] and came up with no errors. I have run the > repair on > recordedmarkup. I have checked the /etc/localtime symlink. I even went so > far > as to delete all the contents of the recordedmarkup table. Still, the total > time fluxuates u

Re: [mythtv-users] HD Stuttering

2005-11-04 Thread Steve Malenfant
My video looks jerky from time to time here, mostly after fast forwarding but it comes back a few seconds and goes away. I run mythtvfrontend on a P4 2.4Ghz with an FX5200. I started seeing these problems and never went away since : - I removed my Sound Blaster Live (used the snd-intel8x0 onboard

Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV Installer Usability: An Analysis

2005-11-04 Thread Michael Bochynski
On Fri, 2005-11-04 at 00:47 -0500, Dewey Smolka wrote: [...] > Yes, I know you probaby get tons of requests for > this and that random program, but really, Emacs is the most likely > non-vi editor that someone might want, instantly upon or even during > the installation, in order to edit file

Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV Installer Usability: An Analysis

2005-11-04 Thread Dewey Smolka
On 11/4/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2005 00:47:42 -0500 > From: Dewey Smolka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Just a meta-comment here: If you dismiss every possible complaint > with, "you're a moron for even suggesting that this is a problem," > then, no, I

[mythtv-users] RE: nForce4 Audio on FC4, it plays some of the time...

2005-11-04 Thread Jason Sharpe
Well I tried your start up script and your .asoundrc file and it didn't see to work.   I think I am missing something from the start up script. When KDE boots up the optical port on the MOBO won't light up until I open gamixer and turn on the IEC958 Playback button. After I check that box, the op

RE: [mythtv-users] Re: LVM and a new hard drive

2005-11-04 Thread C. R. Oldham
> I know a lot of folks here use LVM but you might want to > reconsider it. For me, one of ther biggest problems is that > if one of the drives fails in an LVM, you stand a pretty good > chance of losing everything in the volume. I don't think I would ever run an LVM setup without RAID underne

Re: [mythtv-users] Re:Is gentoo the way to go?

2005-11-04 Thread Trey Boudreau
On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 08:00:22AM -0500, Bryan Halter wrote: > > I have 3 Gentoo boxen and wondered the same thing. I've taken the > approach of sharing the tree over NFS. This doesn't give me the cache > updates so searches take forever on the remote boxes but I can do updates. > My boxes sh

Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV Installer Usability: An Analysis

2005-11-04 Thread Michael T. Dean
ffrr wrote: Anyway, I still don't understand why it [the LiveTV ringbuffer] continues to grow. If I am staying a fixed time behind 'live' then the buffer should be a fixed length. Rewind... LiveTV isn't simply the ability to "pause" LiveTV, but also to rewind... And, in the future (after

[mythtv-users] Power Search Category oddness

2005-11-04 Thread Steve Adeff
I'm trying to make a power search to match what shows as "Category: Sports event, Soccer" in the program details. Some have ", Playoff sports" or other things after this. So one would think program.category LIKE '%Soccer%' would work. it doesn't. program.category LIKE '%Sports event%' shows al

Re: [mythtv-users] AC3 recording for digital cable boxes.

2005-11-04 Thread Steve Adeff
On Wednesday 02 November 2005 23:57, Robert Macaulay wrote: > I have a PVR 150 and a PVR 500 on my myth box. I have my digital cable > plugged into one of these via svideo and RCA audio. > > My cable box has a digital output on it--coax, and my mythbox has 2 digital > ports. -- one optical and one

Re: [mythtv-users] Mythtv on Xbox

2005-11-04 Thread Vladan Bato
Ben Dash wrote: If only I could get that lirc working! I don't know whether it's the same problem I had, but I thought I should mention it just in case. I don't have the original microsoft remote, but a cheap aftermarket one, which doesn't have a valid device ID. The result of this was, th

[mythtv-users] xBox TV NV keystone correction

2005-11-04 Thread Ben Dash
Does anyone know if there is a setting to adjust for the keystone effect in xorg.conf for the nv driver on xBox? I posted to xbox-linux-users but I was just curious if anyone here knows... Thanks! Ben __ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Edito

Re: [mythtv-users] Good tuner card?

2005-11-04 Thread Steve Adeff
On Friday 04 November 2005 00:20, Greg Woods wrote: > On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 15:53 -0500, Dewey Smolka wrote: > > There are an awful lot of postings on the list, mostly from new users, > > about live TV. The fact is that Myth can do live TV, but it is not > > really what Myth is for, and once you be

Re: [mythtv-users] Skip forward doesn't work correctly anymore

2005-11-04 Thread Michael T. Dean
Darren Hart wrote: I am having a similar problem (maybe the same problem?). I have run the above and came up with no errors. I have run the repair on recordedmarkup. I have checked the /etc/localtime symlink. I even went so far as to delete all the contents of the recordedmarkup table.

Re: [mythtv-users] what does xmltv error code 512 mean?

2005-11-04 Thread Michael T. Dean
ffrr wrote: I am getting a 512 error when mythtv runs mythfilldatabase overnight, but not when I run it manually. This is on a Knoppmyth R5A22 install. Is there anywhere I can look up these error codes, and/or can someone tell me what it means please? http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/m

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: ATI GPU Transcoding...

2005-11-04 Thread Steve Adeff
On Thursday 03 November 2005 10:28, Andrew Close wrote: > On 11/3/05, Mike Frisch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It just goes to show that the gaming industry is far larger and more > > controlling than those wanting to use their PCs for reliable DVD/video > > playback... I thought the two would g

Re: [mythtv-users] Setup advice

2005-11-04 Thread Steve Adeff
On Thursday 03 November 2005 00:55, James C. Dastrup wrote: > A relatively cheap all-inclusive frontend is the Roku HD1000 for under $300 > - http://www.rokulabs.com, and the frontend software, mythroku, at > http://mythroku.blogspot.com/. It's by no means full-featured, but I use > it for an addi

Re: [mythtv-users] AC3 recording for digital cable boxes.

2005-11-04 Thread Michael T. Dean
Steve Adeff wrote: On Wednesday 02 November 2005 23:57, Robert Macaulay wrote: I have a PVR 150 and a PVR 500 on my myth box. I have my digital cable plugged into one of these via svideo and RCA audio. My cable box has a digital output on it--coax, and my mythbox has 2 digital ports. -- one

RE: [mythtv-users] MythTV Installer Usability: An Analysis

2005-11-04 Thread Chris Down
Fri, 4 Nov 2005 Dewey Smolka wrote >This still ignores the point that you're not using your appliance in >the recommended fashion. You could also complain that leaving your >coffee machine on overnight causes the caraffe to become uncleanable >and ruined. It may be true, but that is not how you'r

Re: [mythtv-users] Simultaneous recordings fail spectacularly[SOLVED!]

2005-11-04 Thread Steve Adeff
On Thursday 03 November 2005 23:50, Peter Darley wrote: > Folks, > Not that I can speak for the developers, but it seems clear to me that > the > interface is designed to work well with a remote, which tend to have keys > synonymous with the arrow keys, but don't tend to have keys synonymous

Re: [mythtv-users] Simultaneous recordings fail spectacularly [SOLVED!]

2005-11-04 Thread Josh Burks
On 11/3/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Consider: I've spent 30+ years in the field---in compiler design, > artificial intelligence, hardware hacking, software agents, computer > security, cryptography, and even (wait for it...) user interface > usability testing. And yet I -s

[mythtv-users] Problems with AC3 sound

2005-11-04 Thread Curtis Stanford
Hey everybody, I'm scratching my head over this AC3 thing. I have mpeg2 files coming directly over firewire from my DCT-6200 cable box. Audio on normal channels work fine (shows as AC3 2-channel) but on HD channels, the audio sometimes becomes crackly and stuttery (especially on 6-channel A

Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV Installer Usability: An Analysis

2005-11-04 Thread Dewey Smolka
On 11/4/05, Chris Down <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Fri, 4 Nov 2005 Dewey Smolka wrote > > >This still ignores the point that you're not using your appliance in > >the recommended fashion. You could also complain that leaving your > >coffee machine on overnight causes the caraffe to become unclean

[mythtv-users] Configuring GUI display for HD

2005-11-04 Thread Drew Zerdecki
Hello, I am trying to get the Myth GUI and video to display correctly on my HDTV CRT TV (right now the desktop is too big).   Can anyone recommend a framework for doing so?  Should I first find a modeline so that X fits perfectly on the screen then proceed to tweak Myth's x,y offsets et

Re: [mythtv-users] Is gentoo the way to go?

2005-11-04 Thread Paul V. Gratz
On Thursday 03 November 2005 05:29 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 09:07:24PM +0800, William Kenworthy wrote: > > There seems to be a lot of gentoo users here! > > And maybe one of them can help me. I have a Xebian/Debian mix on my > xbox right now and effectively can't use

Re: [mythtv-users] Is gentoo the way to go?

2005-11-04 Thread Mark Knecht
On 11/3/05, Myth Lists <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mark Knecht wrote: > > >I'm a Gentoo user... > > > >I have Gentoo running two backend server, 4 frontend only boxes, and a > >couple more PCs where I occasionally watch TV. I run Celeron, P4-HT, > >Athlon and AMD64 systems. They all work great. >

RE: [mythtv-users] Configuring GUI display for HD

2005-11-04 Thread James C. Dastrup
entechtaiwan.net's Monitor Asset Manager on a Windows PC should give you a pretty good modeline. Or, just google around for what modeline's others with your same TV have used. I could be wrong, but the modeline is all about your display, and should not really be different from one driver to the

Re: [mythtv-users] Multiple ATI Remote Wonders

2005-11-04 Thread Mercury Morris
On 11/3/05, Robert Johnston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Tried seeing what irw reports as you press keys on the remote? I have now tried the command "irw", it reports absolutely nothing during those times when the following line is in effect (in /etc/modprobe.conf): options lirc_atiusb unique=1 de

RE: [mythtv-users] MythTV Installer Usability: An Analysis

2005-11-04 Thread Chris Down
On Fri, 4 Nov 2005 Dewey Smolka wrote > >Sorry for the confusion. The coffee analogy applied to the OP who was >complaining about a Knoppmyth bug where it sets a ring buffer larger >than the partition designed to handle it, which will cause a crash. >The example he used was leaving Live TV on all

Re: [mythtv-users] Multiple ATI Remote Wonders

2005-11-04 Thread Michael T. Dean
Mercury Morris wrote: I have now tried the command "irw", it reports absolutely nothing during those times when the following line is in effect (in /etc/modprobe.conf): options lirc_atiusb unique=1 debug=1 mask=0x0002 I also tried mask=0x00FF - same results, still no "irw" output. I have al

[mythtv-users] My take on MythTV...

2005-11-04 Thread Colin McGregor
Just to note, I have done a write-up about MythTV for the Linux Journal website, and they have "published" it at: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8658 Enjoy :-) . Colin McGregor ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mytht

[mythtv-users] Usability Issues: WAS Re: Simultaneous recordings fail spectacularly [SOLVED!]

2005-11-04 Thread R. Geoffrey Newbury
On Thu, 3 Nov 2005 21:48:08 -0500 (EST), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >SOLVED! (And man, somebody ain't gonna like -this-... :) >How could this happen? Because mythtv-setup is the absolute -mother- >of all usability screwups. >We can do better. I'm sure we can. And the first >step do doing >bette

Re: [mythtv-users] frontend segmentation fault

2005-11-04 Thread Robert Callicotte
Greetings,   I have decided to rebuild Mythtv form scratch rather than relying on a pre-compiled binary.  I' ve been extemely busy at work so I haven't had a chance to do so yet.  I'll make sure to check the compatibility of QT & KDE libs for this install!!   RobertStuart Auchterlonie <[EMAIL PROTE

[mythtv-users] Re: Usability Issues: WAS Re: Simultaneous recordings fail spectacularly [SOLVED!]

2005-11-04 Thread Mike Frisch
On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 12:42:28PM -0500, R. Geoffrey Newbury wrote: > Thank you for opening this can of worms. I thought it was just me. Glad to > know I'm not alone. Nope, you're definitely not alone. > We CAN do better. > If someone points me to the right place in the code, at least I can > pr

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: MythTV Installer Usability: An Analysis

2005-11-04 Thread R. Geoffrey Newbury
On Fri, 4 Nov 2005 00:33:41 -0500 (EST), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Date: Fri, 04 Nov 2005 04:36:58 GMT >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >:? Dude, you've describe nothing about "MyhtTV Installer" in this thread. >Issues w/ KnoppMyth should be posted KnoppMyth forum and NOT on the MythTV

Re: [mythtv-users] FC3 DVB driver installed in kernel?

2005-11-04 Thread cardboil
Not sure.  Do an... # lsmod | more and see if dvb-core, dvb-ttpci, stv0299, etc. is on the list of loaded modules.  Also, you can check /usr/src/2.6.12-1.1372/drivers/media/dvb to see if directories like common, frontend, dvb-ttpci, etc. exist.  If they don't exist, you need to get dvb-kernel ins

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: MythTV Installer Usability: An Analysis

2005-11-04 Thread Isaac Richards
On Friday 04 November 2005 01:09 pm, R. Geoffrey Newbury wrote: > On Fri, 4 Nov 2005 00:33:41 -0500 (EST), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >Date: Fri, 04 Nov 2005 04:36:58 GMT > >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > >:? Dude, you've describe nothing about "MyhtTV Installer" in this > >: thread.

Re: [mythtv-users] Multiple ATI Remote Wonders

2005-11-04 Thread Mercury Morris
On 11/4/05, Michael T. Dean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Mercury Morris wrote:> I have now tried the command "irw", it reports absolutely nothing> during those times when the following line is in effect (in> /etc/modprobe.conf):>> options lirc_atiusb unique=1 debug=1 mask=0x0002 >> I also tried mask=

RE: [mythtv-users] Re: Usability Issues: WAS Re: Simultaneousrecordings fail spectacularly [SOLVED!]

2005-11-04 Thread James C. Dastrup
Although I think there's room for improvement, I think Myth does a darn good job at the UI. Anytime you take the features of a full keyboard-and-mouse system and port it to the buttons on a remote, you're going to have problems. But with that said, my wife (NOT a techie in anyway) and my kid (

[mythtv-users] tuner card for digital tv

2005-11-04 Thread Claude Gélinas agr.
Is there a card that can be used to get the digital TV from Illico services from Videotron in Montreal. -- - Claude Gélinas agr., dta Phyto Ressources inc. == Varennes, Québec, Canada Tél.: (450) 652 9764,

[mythtv-users] Re: Re: Usability Issues: WAS Re: Simultaneousrecordings fail spectacularly [SOLVED!]

2005-11-04 Thread Mike Frisch
On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 11:32:57AM -0700, James C. Dastrup wrote: > Although I think there's room for improvement, I think Myth does a > darn good job at the UI. Anytime you take the features of a full > keyboard-and-mouse system and port it to the buttons on a remote, > you're going to have pro

[mythtv-users] Re: A warning about Samsung HDDs

2005-11-04 Thread Tony Lill
I was kind of hoping for a guideline like each spinup is equavalent to X hour of idle spinning. You can do the math for power consuption, but I guess that wear and tear is a bit more difficult. I was looking at the specs for one of my drives and couldn't find a lifetime in hours or mtbf, but it d

RE: [mythtv-users] Re: Re: Usability Issues: WAS Re:Simultaneousrecordings fail spectacularly [SOLVED!]

2005-11-04 Thread James C. Dastrup
>As another example, using the menu to get to the EPG. That option >shouldn't even be there. Every modern day remote has an EPG/guide >button. Again, I am still a relative MythTV newbie so perhaps it's >just my config. > This works for me. In TV Playback, there is an Action called GUIDE. I assi

[mythtv-users] Simultaneous recordings fail spectacularly [SOLVED!]

2005-11-04 Thread f-myth-users
Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2005 10:27:36 -0600 From: Josh Burks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Then why aren't you the one fixing these "problems". For as much effort that you put into your posts to this list, you could have rewritten all the code/bugs you're constantly complaining about. Are you

Re: [mythtv-users] My take on MythTV...

2005-11-04 Thread Jason Garrett
On 11/4/05, Colin McGregor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just to note, I have done a write-up about MythTV for > the Linux Journal website, and they have "published" > it at: > > http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8658 > > Enjoy :-) . > > Colin McGregor > ___

[mythtv-users] Dumb Ethernet Question on Debian

2005-11-04 Thread cossaboon . mythtv
Where do you set the duplex and speed of your NIC in Debian (or Linux). My server is in half duplex (as I have collisions showing in ifconfig) and my through put sucks ((1.2 gig file is taking 60 hours!) I can not seem to find this anywhere? Thank you in advance. From: Kevin Cossaboon

Re: [mythtv-users] Dumb Ethernet Question on Debian

2005-11-04 Thread Kevin Kuphal
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Where do you set the duplex and speed of your NIC in Debian (or Linux). My server is in half duplex (as I have collisions showing in ifconfig) and my through put sucks ((1.2 gig file is taking 60 hours!) I can not seem to find this anywhere? Thank you in advance.

Re: [mythtv-users] Dumb Ethernet Question on Debian

2005-11-04 Thread cossaboon . mythtv
Thank you mii-tool -F 100baseTX-FD eth0 WORKED, and my 32 hours remaining in the copy flew by in just a few minutes Thank you again, I appreciate the sharing of your knowledge. On Nov 4, 2005, at 2:08 PM, Kevin Kuphal wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Where do you set the duplex and spee

Re: [mythtv-users] FC3 DVB driver installed in kernel?

2005-11-04 Thread R. Geoffrey Newbury
On Fri, 4 Nov 2005 07:51:33 -0500, A JM wrote: I did an install from Jarods guide and want to add a Nexus-s card to my system. Can anyone tell me if the DVB drivers are installed in the Kernel already or do I need to do an install for them seperately or recompile the Kernel, I'm currently running

Re: [mythtv-users] Good tuner card?

2005-11-04 Thread R. Geoffrey Newbury
On Fri, 4 Nov 2005 10:52:14 -0500, Steve Adeff wrote: >On Friday 04 November 2005 00:20, Greg Woods wrote: >> Same thing again. My ivtv startup script runs the necessary ivtvctl >> commands to make this work. Could you post your init script please? I'm having some difficulty with my 500 and I ha

RE: [mythtv-users] MythTV Installer Usability: An Analysis

2005-11-04 Thread Frank Simorjay
> > SHOWSTOPPERS: > > > > (S-1) The installer, by default, picked a 15 GB size for my > > ringbuffer, but picked a 12 GB size for the /cache partition in which > > it's stored. This means that, after 5.3 hours of sitting in Watch TV, > > the machine blew up. (The disk thrashed -continuously- and

[mythtv-users] MythTV Installer Usability: An Analysis

2005-11-04 Thread f-myth-users
Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2005 09:55:53 -0500 From: Dewey Smolka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Also you're going a bit scattershot with issues that are specific to MythTV, specific to Knoppmyth, specific to Knoppix-Debian, and specific to your hardware without really thinking about the

Re: [mythtv-users] Good tuner card?

2005-11-04 Thread Greg Woods
> > Could you post your init script please? I could, but not without a few disclaimers. I don't claim that using this script is the cleanest or best way to do things. Not all the commands in the script may really be needed. And most of all, the commands here may not work on your system because i

[mythtv-users] Re: MythTV Installer Usability: An Analysis

2005-11-04 Thread f-myth-users
Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2005 13:15:07 -0500 From: Isaac Richards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Friday 04 November 2005 01:09 pm, R. Geoffrey Newbury wrote: > On Fri, 4 Nov 2005 00:33:41 -0500 (EST), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >Date: Fri, 04 Nov 2005 04:36:58 GMT > >From: [EMAIL P

Re: [mythtv-users] keyboard key for Adjust Audio Sync

2005-11-04 Thread Allan Wilson
Did you try the + and - key. I know that is what does it during movies. I have a few home movies that are avi's that always start a little off. Is there any way to specify in a config file where to start the audio? Thanks AllanOn 11/2/05, Sergio P. Cesar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What is the kbd k

Re: [mythtv-users] FC3 DVB driver installed in kernel?

2005-11-04 Thread A JM
"and see if dvb-core, dvb-ttpci, stv0299, etc. is on the list of loaded modules. "   They do apear when grep for them. "but you need new firmware "   I'm good on the firmware as I installed it yesterday.  "/usr/src/2.6.12-1.1372/drivers/media/dvb "   I'm not seeing a directory similar to this?   "A

Re: [mythtv-users] FC3 DVB driver installed in kernel?

2005-11-04 Thread A JM
On another note, if just upgrading the kernel will also install the DVB drivers I guess it's just as easy to install an update???     ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

[mythtv-users] manual scheduling -> "no upcoming recordings"

2005-11-04 Thread f-myth-users
Well, this is new & different. So after my little debacle with Capture Cards, and discovering (for example) that there's no way to DELETE a single card from the list without nuking ALL of them and starting over (geez, what happens if somebody moves a card to a different machine? guess they just de

Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV Installer Usability: An Analysis

2005-11-04 Thread Greg Estabrooks
> things to be changed (fix the installer not to guess wrong; fix the UI First being as this is a MythTV list, and there are appropriate KnoppMyth lists lets clarify for all reading that the installer you are referring to is a part of KnoppMyth and not mythtv. > thinking last night that one way

Re: [mythtv-users] Selling my PVR-250 (TV Tuner)

2005-11-04 Thread Sasha Z
I wouldn't want a card that's been on a Van de Graff generator anyway. On 11/3/05, Sam Krupa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Isaac, > > I'm sorry if I broke any rules. I am justing posting about my MythTV tuner > card. > > > On 11/3/05, Isaac Richards <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > > On Thursday 03 N

Re: [mythtv-users] manual scheduling -> "no upcoming recordings"

2005-11-04 Thread Greg Estabrooks
> (for example) that there's no way to DELETE a single card from I'm pretty sure that you can just Highlight the card and hit Menu (M). Then pick delete. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listi

[mythtv-users] manual scheduling -> "no upcoming recordings"

2005-11-04 Thread f-myth-users
Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2005 17:07:41 -0400 From: Greg Estabrooks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > (for example) that there's no way to DELETE a single card from I'm pretty sure that you can just Highlight the card and hit Menu (M). Then pick delete. Such a pity, then that the UI gave me NO

Re: [mythtv-users] Good tuner card?

2005-11-04 Thread Michael T. Dean
Greg Woods wrote: Could you post your init script please? I could, but not without a few disclaimers. ... Not all the commands in the script may really be needed. ... #! /bin/bash # # chkconfig: 2345 9 85 # description: start and stop IVTV services # case "$1" in start) modprobe i

Re: [mythtv-users] DVB EPG kills Manual Schedule

2005-11-04 Thread Bruce Markey
Stuart Auchterlonie wrote: On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 02:06:11PM +, Andrew Meredith wrote: Hi Folks, I'm having strange problems, but more of that later. I have/had a manual program in for the full morning weather forecast. It goes in just fine. It shows up in the "Upcoming" listings and all

Re: [mythtv-users] manual scheduling -> "no upcoming recordings"

2005-11-04 Thread Isaac Richards
On Friday 04 November 2005 04:33 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2005 17:07:41 -0400 > From: Greg Estabrooks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > (for example) that there's no way to DELETE a single card from > > I'm pretty sure that you can just Highlight the card and hit Men

Re: [mythtv-users] manual scheduling -> "no upcoming recordings"

2005-11-04 Thread Phil Bridges
On 11/4/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2005 17:07:41 -0400 > From: Greg Estabrooks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > (for example) that there's no way to DELETE a single card from > > I'm pretty sure that you can just Highlight the card and hit Menu (M)

Re: [mythtv-users] Multiple ATI Remote Wonders

2005-11-04 Thread Mercury Morris
An update: I went ahead and tried "irrecord" using an ATI Remote Wonder configured to use unit code ID 4.  The resulting lircd.conf file was identical to the file generated previously using an ATI RW with the default configuration.  The fact that the files turned out to be exactly the same was a c

[mythtv-users] Searching for the perfect HDTV front-end box

2005-11-04 Thread Pete Ashdown
I'm looking for that small quiet HDTV front-end box for MythTV and there are couple possibilities and a lot of questions. I would like SVideo and DVI as a minimum. The Commell LV-667D looks nice except for the word that the DVI-D connector doesn't work under Linux. Is that still true? Also the

[mythtv-users] Can't see whole picture on playback or live TV

2005-11-04 Thread ffrr
Initially, the bottom 10% or more is missing, a bit too much to ignore. I tried adjusting the overscan/underscan in the playback setup section, but it doesn't seem to do what I expected. When I set it to about 10%, the top and bottom 5% or more of the picture are missing. In other words, maki

Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV Installer Usability: An Analysis

2005-11-04 Thread ffrr
Dewey Smolka wrote: At this point, it takes me only an hour or two to set up a Knoppmyth machine, while one based on Fedora takes the better part of a day. But my first attempt at MythTV, through Knoppmyth, took me more than a week to get running, and several weeks before I had it running how I

[mythtv-users] manual scheduling -> "no upcoming recordings"

2005-11-04 Thread f-myth-users
Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2005 17:01:42 -0500 From: Isaac Richards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I will repeat: You, sir, are way, WAY too close to the problem. You have no conception of what it's like to be a first-time user. Therefore, your opinions on what's "obvious" or "easy" are not to be trusted.

Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV Installer Usability: An Analysis

2005-11-04 Thread ffrr
Michael T. Dean wrote: ffrr wrote: Anyway, I still don't understand why it [the LiveTV ringbuffer] continues to grow. If I am staying a fixed time behind 'live' then the buffer should be a fixed length. Rewind... LiveTV isn't simply the ability to "pause" LiveTV, but also to rewind...

Re: [mythtv-users] manual scheduling -> "no upcoming recordings"

2005-11-04 Thread Josh Burks
On 11/4/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Maybe you should ask for your money back... :) ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

Re: [mythtv-users] Media MVP front end

2005-11-04 Thread Grant McChesney
On 11/3/05, Rusty McEacharn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: i think it is in-store only.  they are not listed online. It is in-store only.  I would definitely check availability before going.  It was hit and miss for me.  I went to three stores and came away with just two of them (SLC area). RadioShack

Re: [mythtv-users] what does xmltv error code 512 mean?

2005-11-04 Thread ffrr
Michael T. Dean wrote: ffrr wrote: I am getting a 512 error when mythtv runs mythfilldatabase overnight, but not when I run it manually. This is on a Knoppmyth R5A22 install. Is there anywhere I can look up these error codes, and/or can someone tell me what it means please? http://www.go

[mythtv-users] manual scheduling -> "no upcoming recordings"

2005-11-04 Thread f-myth-users
Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2005 16:45:55 -0600 From: Josh Burks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On 11/4/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Maybe you should ask for your money back... :) Maybe I should ask for my -time- back. Pity I spent all this money on this pile o' hardware over

Re: [mythtv-users] Power Search Category oddness

2005-11-04 Thread Bruce Markey
First, I apology for being a bit giddy. After finally deciding to do something even more obscure with Custom Record, it pays off a few days later. Let's first establish that you really are a different person an not me posting under alias just so I can show off, right? Steve Adeff wrote: I'm tryin

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