[mythtv-users] Re: mythbrowser: character deleting using remote ( lirc )

2005-11-09 Thread Alessandro Peppino
Are you using the 0-9 keys in 'mobile text' mode? '1' should give a del as one of its options (and I only recently discovered 0 = CAPSLOCK). Neil thanks for the suggestion, what do you mean by 'mobile textmode' ? I succeded in deleting character with '1' key when entering url using the

Re: [mythtv-users] tv_grab_au: ninemsn obfuscating data

2005-11-09 Thread ffrr
Mary Wright wrote: can you put up a howto of what you did ... I am getting the same error you did before but I haven't a clue on howto fix it I discovered that when I went to the tv guide in the web page (go to http://minnie.tuhs.org/twiki/bin/view/TVGuide/ and click on the TV Guide link),

Re: [mythtv-users] HDTV digital static with DVB

2005-11-09 Thread ffrr
Preston Crow wrote: On Tue, 2005-11-08 at 17:14 +1000, ffrr wrote: I chased video glitches from my DVB setup for ages, and with a lot of help from the list, I finally nailed it. It was the Si 3112 SATA controller chip doing nasties on the PCI bus and corrupting the mpeg stream from the

Re: [mythtv-users] HDTV digital static with DVB

2005-11-09 Thread ffrr
Preston Crow wrote: On Tue, 2005-11-08 at 17:14 +1000, ffrr wrote: I chased video glitches from my DVB setup for ages, and with a lot of help from the list, I finally nailed it. It was the Si 3112 SATA controller chip doing nasties on the PCI bus and corrupting the mpeg stream from the

Re: [mythtv-users] My new MythTV box

2005-11-09 Thread ffrr
Folashade Adeyosoye wrote: I would like to openly give credit to Jarod C.Wilson’s website, I followed it to the “T” and it worked on the first try even my ATI remote. This all took my under 2 hours after building the computer That's amazing. Well done. I guess you were very familiar with

[mythtv-users] no editing for new recordings

2005-11-09 Thread Milos Prudek
MythTV suddenly stopped supporting the edit function. When I press E while playing new recordings, nothing happens. Old recordings (earlier than November 5) can be edited with E keys. I have not changed anything in Myth config within last few months. Two things happened just before editing

Re: [mythtv-users] no editing for new recordings

2005-11-09 Thread ffrr
Milos Prudek wrote: MythTV suddenly stopped supporting the edit function. When I press E while playing new recordings, nothing happens. Old recordings (earlier than November 5) can be edited with E keys. I have not changed anything in Myth config within last few months. Two things happened

[mythtv-users] Pinnacle MovieBox DV in Firewire ??

2005-11-09 Thread Vincèn
Hi, Did someone already used that product with MyThTV and got it successful ? It's a video acquisition box I would like to use with my Freebox here in france (freebox is a set top box used for TV on ADSL). Thanks in advance for your help

[mythtv-users] gentoo mythtv nova-t channel scan problem

2005-11-09 Thread Ben Edwards
I have managed to get a good picture in mplayer so I guess my dvb card is set up. When I go to scan shannels it just sits there for about a minute with 'no lock' and eventualy gives up and comes up with 'Error tuning to transport';( BTW All modules were loaded with coldplug and I am using

Re: [mythtv-users] XvMC with SVN revision 7738 and nvidia driver 6629

2005-11-09 Thread Darius Hardy
On Tue, 2005-11-08 at 23:54 -0500, Mark deJong wrote: Hello, I'm having a heck of a time trying to figure out how to get XvMC working with my nVidia 5200. I'm expecting a selection in TV settings for decoding via hardware XVMC but don't see the option anywhere. Just Standard,libmpeg2,

[mythtv-users] Re: tv_grab_au: ninemsn obfuscating data

2005-11-09 Thread Max Barry
Thanks for the patch. Very interesting, what they've done to try to hide the data. Just an idle thought: is it really a good idea for the immir script to announce itself to ninemsn.com.au so blatantly? It uses the default LWP UserAgent string, which I believe is libwww-perl/#.##. You only need

[mythtv-users] How do I edit mythvideo metadata?

2005-11-09 Thread Nick Rout
The mythvideo metadata editing screen does not allow you to change a whole lot of stuff like plot etc. Being able to put the imdb number in is fine for a movie, but for a downloaded tv series it is no good. I just end up with a whole lot of videos named the same, no episode numbers, no summary of

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Stupid Newbie Question about Linux

2005-11-09 Thread A JM
Glad it helped. AJM, ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

Re: [mythtv-users] gentoo mythtv nova-t channel scan problem

2005-11-09 Thread David Watkins
On 09/11/05, Ben Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have managed to get a good picture in mplayer so I guess my dvb card is set up. When I go to scan shannels it just sits there for about a minute with 'no lock' and eventualy gives up and comes up with 'Error tuning to transport';( What

[mythtv-users] Schedule by regexp

2005-11-09 Thread Alex Polite
Hi. I wan't to match programs to record by a regexp. How do I do that? alex -- Alex Polite http://flosspick.org - finding the right open source ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org

[mythtv-users] Re: HDTV digital static with DVB

2005-11-09 Thread sean . walsh
I chased video glitches from my DVB setup for ages, and with a lot of help from the list, I finally nailed it. It was the Si 3112 SATA controller chip doing nasties on the PCI bus and corrupting the mpeg stream from the DVB card. I've recently had a similar issue migrating to FC4 and a new

Re: [mythtv-users] How do I edit mythvideo metadata?

2005-11-09 Thread David Watkins
On 09/11/05, Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The mythvideo metadata editing screen does not allow you to change a whole lot of stuff like plot etc. Being able to put the imdb number in is fine for a movie, but for a downloaded tv series it is no good. I just end up with a whole lot of

Re: [mythtv-users] tv_grab_au: ninemsn obfuscating data

2005-11-09 Thread Riscy
Here is a cleaner patch, with config that works. I think yours changes should work too. Michael It works a treat! I feel like I should give you something for fixing this. I was almost going to start using another option instead of this scraper but NO other option gives me the complete TV

[mythtv-users] Realistic?

2005-11-09 Thread Lonnie Borntreger
I have a P3-500 with 256M RAM (500M swap) with a PVR-500. It can handle recording two shows while feeding a video stream to a single frontend without any problems. Can I realistically expect this to handle a second PVR-500 and a couple more frontends, or would I need more horsepower? Lonnie

Re: [mythtv-users] gentoo mythtv nova-t channel scan problem

2005-11-09 Thread Ben Edwards
On 11/9/05, David Watkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 09/11/05, Ben Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have managed to get a good picture in mplayer so I guess my dvb card is set up. When I go to scan shannels it just sits there for about a minute with 'no lock' and eventualy gives up and comes

Re: [mythtv-users] How do I edit mythvideo metadata?

2005-11-09 Thread Nick Rout
On Wed, 9 Nov 2005 11:36:01 + David Watkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 09/11/05, Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The mythvideo metadata editing screen does not allow you to change a whole lot of stuff like plot etc. Being able to put the imdb number in is fine for a movie, but

Re: [mythtv-users] XvMC with SVN revision 7738 and nvidia driver 6629

2005-11-09 Thread Cymen Vig
On 11/8/05, Mark deJong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I'm having a heck of a time trying to figure out how to get XvMC working with my nVidia 5200. I'm expecting a selection in TV settings for decoding via hardware XVMC but don't see the option anywhere. Just Standard,libmpeg2, Standard

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: HDTV digital static with DVB

2005-11-09 Thread ffrr
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I chased video glitches from my DVB setup for ages, and with a lot of help from the list, I finally nailed it. It was the Si 3112 SATA controller chip doing nasties on the PCI bus and corrupting the mpeg stream from the DVB card. I've recently had a similar issue

Re: [mythtv-users] gentoo mythtv nova-t channel scan problem

2005-11-09 Thread David Watkins
On 09/11/05, Ben Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/9/05, David Watkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 09/11/05, Ben Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have managed to get a good picture in mplayer so I guess my dvb card is set up. When I go to scan shannels it just sits there for

Re: [mythtv-users] tv_grab_au: ninemsn obfuscating data

2005-11-09 Thread Michael Cowell
Riscy wrote: Here is a cleaner patch, with config that works. I think yours changes should work too. Michael It works a treat! I feel like I should give you something for fixing this. I was almost going to start using another option instead of this scraper but NO other option gives

Re: [mythtv-users] tv_grab_au: ninemsn obfuscating data

2005-11-09 Thread David Whyte
On 11/9/05, Riscy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here is a cleaner patch, with config that works. I think yours changes should work too. Michael It works a treat! Hmmm. Another new thing tried tonight...patching. I got the latest version from immir's site, which seems to be 1.39

Re: [mythtv-users] Realistic?

2005-11-09 Thread Stef Coene
On Wednesday 09 November 2005 12:43, Lonnie Borntreger wrote: I have a P3-500 with 256M RAM (500M swap) with a PVR-500. It can handle recording two shows while feeding a video stream to a single frontend without any problems. Can I realistically expect this to handle a second PVR-500 and a

Re: [mythtv-users] Strange PVR-350 TV-out issue

2005-11-09 Thread Bob Wiegand
David Blevins wrote: So I've been using my PVR-350's tv-out fine with no issues for about two months now, however recently it's started to misbehave. Once every day or two, the screen will slowly start flipping from right to left and the colors will become a very separated deep blue, red,

Re: [mythtv-users] tv_grab_au: ninemsn obfuscating data

2005-11-09 Thread Phill Edwards
I got the latest version from immir's site, which seems to be 1.39 according to the header, and tried to apply Michael's patch but got... [EMAIL PROTECTED] tv_grab_au]# patch tv_grab_au tv_grab_au.immir.patch (Stripping trailing CRs from patch.) patching file tv_grab_au Hunk #1 FAILED at

Re: [mythtv-users] XvMC with SVN revision 7738 and nvidia driver 6629

2005-11-09 Thread Mark deJong
Thanks! It's confusing because Standard XvMC is an option even though I didn't compile with nvidia XvMC the first few times. Also, I've been reading that people have been getting good results using XvMC with there HD content at 1080i. Mine, on the other hand, is rather choppy at 520p. Anyone have

Re: [mythtv-users] tv_grab_au: ninemsn obfuscating data

2005-11-09 Thread David Whyte
On 11/9/05, Phill Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I got the latest version from immir's site, which seems to be 1.39 according to the header, and tried to apply Michael's patch but got... [EMAIL PROTECTED] tv_grab_au]# patch tv_grab_au tv_grab_au.immir.patch (Stripping trailing CRs

[mythtv-users] Front End Link to Back End

2005-11-09 Thread Gerald J. Berg
Dear All, I have built an FC4 BackEnd and an FC4 FrontEnd using Jarod's wonderful guide. Linux to Linux and Linux to Internet is working fine on both machines across a generic network. I have setup static IP addresses and unique host names specifically for this configuration. Should I expect a

Re: [mythtv-users] Front End Link to Back End

2005-11-09 Thread Dewey Smolka
Should I expect a MySql connection to the BackEnd to be created when running the FrontEnd setup? There is no frontend setup per se. On the FE, you only need to run mythfrontend. The first time you'll be prompted for the IP address of the backend. If all is well, you'll connect and everything is

Re: [mythtv-users] Laptop tuner card

2005-11-09 Thread Josh Burks
On 11/8/05, Brandon Sherman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello everybody, I'm eyeing an old laptop to use as a MythTV box, but without PCI slots, I need a PCMCIA card. I found this one: http:// store.yahoo.com/saveateaglestore/mtvcbmcew.html? ovchn=OTHERovcpn=Froogleovcrn=MTVCBMCEWovtac=CMP

Re: [mythtv-users] Laptop tuner card

2005-11-09 Thread Jeff volckaert
Any thoughts on T.V. tuners other than PCI and USB? What about USB tuners? I've never used them myself and I don't if USB 1.1 is fast enough for decent video, but it's just a thought. Jeff ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org

Re: [mythtv-users] Laptop tuner card

2005-11-09 Thread Alex Cruz
On Wednesday 09 November 2005 07:51 am, Josh Burks wrote: On 11/8/05, Brandon Sherman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello everybody, I'm eyeing an old laptop to use as a MythTV box, but without PCI slots, I need a PCMCIA card. I found this one: http://

Re: [mythtv-users] Realistic?

2005-11-09 Thread Jonathan Link
I had trouble with two frontends watching simultaenously while recording two different shows with 2-PVR-250s. Watching on one front end was fine, the second one really drug it down. -Jonathan On 11/9/05, Lonnie Borntreger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a P3-500 with 256M RAM (500M swap) with

Re: [mythtv-users] Laptop tuner card

2005-11-09 Thread Abre Chase
I've been using the Plextor ConvertX with Myth. It does have linux drivers. I've been using it with Suse 9.3. http://oss.wischip.com/ MythTV supports the Plextor out of the box...so to speak. One limitation I've found is that although the unit can natively encode mpeg2, MythTV only supports

Re: [mythtv-users] Long term stability?

2005-11-09 Thread Mark J. Small
On November 8, 2005 06:33 pm, Robert Denier wrote: Does anyone have a backend that runs for a week or more under reasonably heavy use? By run, I mean with no manual intervention or cron jobs resetting things/etc. I still have to occasionally do a /etc/init.d/mythbackend restart although I'm

[mythtv-users] watch recordings crash and sound clicks in recordings

2005-11-09 Thread Yemu
hi i've been using mythtv for some time now, and it works quite good but still i experirence two problems: - strange clicks in sound (both on livetv and during recordings) - mythfrontend crashes after trying to play the recording for the third time in a row (i play, i exit, i play different or

Re: [mythtv-users] tv_grab_au: ninemsn obfuscating data

2005-11-09 Thread Paul Andreassen
I wonder if it took them as long to build, as for us to bypass. Paul -- ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

[mythtv-users] sound delay in fc4, realtek ALC 655 audio

2005-11-09 Thread Bart Nagel
i'm new to both linux and mythtv so bear with me! i've just built a new machine and installed fedora core 4. i've noticed that all sound has a slight delay (somewhere between a third and a half of a second), whether with movie playback or such things as error sounds from KDM. i'm using the

Re: [mythtv-users] No Audio on PVR-350 but available when 350 not selected

2005-11-09 Thread James Grant
On Wednesday 09 November 2005 1:31 am, Paul Fielding wrote: Hi all, I'm setting up a new MythTV box using a PVR-350 and KnoppMyth, which I've had good luck with before. This time around, however, I'm having audio troubles. When myth is installed, after setting up ivtv and editing XF86,

Re: [mythtv-users] Laptop tuner card

2005-11-09 Thread Brandon Sherman
Interesting... So, a USB 2.0 card (would also allow a card reader to work for photos, etc.) and the Plextor? MythTV supports the Plextor out of the box...so to speak. One limitation I've found is that although the unit can natively encode mpeg2, MythTV only supports mpeg4 on the Plextor.

[mythtv-users] MYTHTV Atlantic Scientific 8300 HD-dvr

2005-11-09 Thread Serge.Zwikker
My cable guy has told me that I can use my 8300 with a firewire cable and MYTHTV box. Is this true? If so have any of you guys seen a how to doc. I am looking all over the web but no luck. Thanks, serge ___ mythtv-users mailing list

[mythtv-users] ATI Wonder Remote

2005-11-09 Thread Folashade Adeyosoye
What am I missing, I tried following (http://www.litwiller.net/mythtv/remote.html) these instructions but for each button that I press on the remote, it repeats 4 times. For example if I hit the 3 button I get What might I be missing? Thanks

Re: [mythtv-users] XvMC with SVN revision 7738 and nvidia driver 6629

2005-11-09 Thread Darius Hardy
On Wed, 2005-11-09 at 08:09 -0500, Mark deJong wrote: Thanks! It's confusing because Standard XvMC is an option even though I didn't compile with nvidia XvMC the first few times. Also, I've been reading that people have been getting good results using XvMC with there HD content at 1080i. Mine,

Re: [mythtv-users] MYTHTV Atlantic Scientific 8300 HD-dvr

2005-11-09 Thread Abre Chase
I use Brighthouse/TWC in Central Florida and they disable the firewire port on the SA 8300. This box also has very ugly output on the s-video port for 16:9 HD channels. It puts gray boxes on the top/bottom for the widescreen. On 11/9/05, Serge.Zwikker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My cable guy has

RE: [mythtv-users] MYTHTV Atlantic Scientific 8300 HD-dvr

2005-11-09 Thread Serge.Zwikker
I know that my firewire port is active. So would this be the way for me to go if it is possible? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Abre Chase Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2005 10:58 AM To: Discussion about mythtv Subject: Re:

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

2005-11-09 Thread Fredrik Karlsson
On 11/5/05, Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The performance improvement is pretty much a myth (no pun intended). The beauty of gentoo is in it's package management and flexibility. The conventional wisdom at present seem to be that you might notice a performance improvement on very low end

Re: [mythtv-users] ATI Wonder Remote

2005-11-09 Thread Raphael Pooser
I use ati_remote which is included as a module in the ubuntu distribution. Should be included in all recent distributions though. After that, you can use xmodmap to map all the common myth commands. Most of them are already here on the remote, like up/down, left/right, enter. Anyway, the

Re: [mythtv-users] XvMC with SVN revision 7738 and nvidia driver 6629

2005-11-09 Thread Mark deJong
On 11/9/05, Darius Hardy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2005-11-09 at 08:09 -0500, Mark deJong wrote: Thanks! It's confusing because Standard XvMC is an option even though I didn't compile with nvidia XvMC the first few times. Also, I've been reading that people have been getting good results

Re: [mythtv-users] Fast Forward not working properly with PVR-350/ivtv 0.4.0

2005-11-09 Thread Raphael Pooser
I have the same issue, intermittantly. Sometimes the FF, RW works properly and sometimes it works as you described. Almost always on the first use of the FF function I geet this problem. Using it again it works correctly. This is just to tell you it's probably not related to your pvr 350

Re: [mythtv-users] MYTHTV Atlantic Scientific 8300 HD-dvr

2005-11-09 Thread Abre Chase
The SA8300 is not listed as a supported firewire device, but its worth a shot. The SA3250 is supported. There are good instructions for getting the firewire capture working here: http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/fcmyth.php Look for this section FireWire capture from a supported cable box - Abre On

[mythtv-users] scheduled recordings yield occasional oddball

2005-11-09 Thread Don Lesniakowski
I'm running Mythtv ver 0.18.1.20050523-1 with FC4 on an Dell Intel P4. I run a scheduled recording (Letterman) M-F and automatically transcode. Problem is that there is almost always a recording of the five weekly that is between 37 and 38 minutes in length versus the norm of 60 minutes. I

Re: [mythtv-users] ATI Wonder Remote

2005-11-09 Thread David Watkins
On 09/11/05, Folashade Adeyosoye [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What am I missing, I tried following (http://www.litwiller.net/mythtv/remote.html) these instructions but for each button that I press on the remote, it repeats 4 times. For example if I hit the 3 button I get What might

[mythtv-users] Stupid overscan question

2005-11-09 Thread Ben Dash
Could someone please explain to me how overscan works? I'm using the nv driver for my xBox and the top of the displayed screen is a little narrower than the bottom, i.e. the bottom reaches the screen edge and the top is inset a little. I'm thinking that I need to set some overscan settings in

[mythtv-users] simple overscan question

2005-11-09 Thread Ben Dash
Could someone please explain how overscan is configured with the nv xorg driver? My TV Out is slightly more narrow at the top than at the bottom. After hunting around for keystone correction I have decided that I probably need to do some degree of overscan. I'm currently using 640x480 NTSC.

[mythtv-users] Question about PVR350 TVout quality

2005-11-09 Thread lars olsson
Hi. I am using the latest ivtv drivers and Xdriver together with my mythtv box. The PVR350 TVOut function is enabled in the Playback settings For a long time I have wondered why I do have a blurred picture when watching livetv and my recordings. Recently I did disable the 350

[mythtv-users] USB on the cable box

2005-11-09 Thread Michael Bochynski
Hi, I want to use USB port on my cable box (Scientific Atlanta 2100) for Myth TV to change channels. According to SC2100 this port is designed to be used for remote. My question is, if I get usb-to-serial cable, do I still have to install lirc to change channels? Can I use only those scripts

RE: [mythtv-users] MYTHTV Atlantic Scientific 8300 HD-dvr

2005-11-09 Thread Serge.Zwikker
Would I still need a pvr-350 (or any pvr-card) if I am going to use firewire? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Abre Chase Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2005 11:21 AM To: Discussion about mythtv Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] MYTHTV Atlantic

[mythtv-users] myth browser keyboard question

2005-11-09 Thread Ben Dash
I have noticed that my D and backspace keys are not working in myth browser although they work fine in the cosole window. Have these keys been assigned as hotkeys for something and, if so, does anyone know if there is a way that I can chage that? Thanks!

Re: [mythtv-users] HDTV digital static with DVB

2005-11-09 Thread Chris Trown
Preston Crow wrote: On Tue, 2005-11-08 at 17:14 +1000, ffrr wrote: I chased video glitches from my DVB setup for ages, and with a lot of help from the list, I finally nailed it. It was the Si 3112 SATA controller chip doing nasties on the PCI bus and corrupting the mpeg stream from the DVB

[mythtv-users] Bad sound quality with Plextor M402U

2005-11-09 Thread Nathan Allen Stratton
I just setup my first mythtv box 0.18.1 with 2 plextor M402Us, video quality is great, but audio quality even with highest MP3 quality sucks. Any ideas? Nathan Stratton nathan at robotics.net http://www.robotics.net ___ mythtv-users mailing list

Re: [mythtv-users] Laptop tuner card

2005-11-09 Thread Abre Chase
I'm using the Plextor on an old P3-500 and the motherboard is a total piece of crap (Acer). I've got 384MB RAM. Suprisingly, it all works really well. Since the Plextor does hardware encoding, you don't need too much horsepower. I did upgrade my video card to an nvidia 5200 ($35), which is

Re: [mythtv-users] MYTHTV Atlantic Scientific 8300 HD-dvr

2005-11-09 Thread Abre Chase
You'd be aquiring the video in digital form through firewire, so you wouldn't need a capture card. The capture card converts the analog signal to digital, and you won't need to do that. Any manipulation of the digital stream would be done by software/mythtv. Since mythtv doesn't advertise

[mythtv-users] 0.18.1 or SVN on Etch

2005-11-09 Thread C. R. Oldham
Greetings, I've been a Debian user for a long time, as I approach setting up Myth on a new machine I'm considering using Etch. The gcc 3.3-4.0 and C++ ABI breakage concerns me--is anyone running Myth on Etch? It seems the prevalance of Myth users are either on recent Fedora Core releases (3 and

Re: [mythtv-users] MYTHTV Atlantic Scientific 8300 HD-dvr

2005-11-09 Thread Steve Adeff
On Wednesday 09 November 2005 11:58, Serge.Zwikker wrote: Would I still need a pvr-350 (or any pvr-card) if I am going to use firewire? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Abre Chase Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2005 11:21 AM To:

Re: [mythtv-users] 0.18.1 or SVN on Etch

2005-11-09 Thread Stuart Auchterlonie
On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 10:18:02AM -0700, C. R. Oldham wrote: Greetings, I've been a Debian user for a long time, as I approach setting up Myth on a new machine I'm considering using Etch. The gcc 3.3-4.0 and C++ ABI breakage concerns me--is anyone running Myth on Etch? It seems the

Re: [mythtv-users] Realistic?

2005-11-09 Thread Steve Adeff
On Wednesday 09 November 2005 09:01, Jonathan Link wrote: I had trouble with two frontends watching simultaenously while recording two different shows with 2-PVR-250s. Watching on one front end was fine, the second one really drug it down. -Jonathan On 11/9/05, Lonnie Borntreger [EMAIL

Re: [mythtv-users] 0.18.1 or SVN on Etch

2005-11-09 Thread Steve Adeff
On Wednesday 09 November 2005 12:20, Stuart Auchterlonie wrote: On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 10:18:02AM -0700, C. R. Oldham wrote: Greetings, I've been a Debian user for a long time, as I approach setting up Myth on a new machine I'm considering using Etch. The gcc 3.3-4.0 and C++ ABI

Re: [mythtv-users] USB on the cable box

2005-11-09 Thread Erik Karlin
On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 11:54:29AM -0500, Michael Bochynski wrote: Hi, I want to use USB port on my cable box (Scientific Atlanta 2100) for Myth TV to change channels. According to SC2100 this port is designed to be used for remote. My question is, if I get usb-to-serial cable, do I still

[mythtv-users] TV out card for frontend

2005-11-09 Thread Devan Lippman
Shopping for a new tv-out for my frontend and came across this at a very reasonable price: JATON Geforce4 MX440 Video-198PCI-64TV Video Card I was thinking about it though and this probably will not do any hardware decoding for video? It does however have a PCI interface with svideo and composite

[mythtv-users] how many streams can a single HD sustain?

2005-11-09 Thread Raphael Pooser
I have a question about just how much you can do under myth with just one HD. If you have a 7200RPM ata133 HD assuming DMA is working right, it seems that you can really do a lot. For example I read a review that says if you have enough processing power you can record and software encode,

Re: [mythtv-users] USB on the cable box

2005-11-09 Thread Michael Bochynski
On Wed, 2005-11-09 at 12:36 -0500, Erik Karlin wrote: On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 11:54:29AM -0500, Michael Bochynski wrote: Hi, I want to use USB port on my cable box (Scientific Atlanta 2100) for Myth TV to change channels. According to SC2100 this port is designed to be used for remote.

Re: [mythtv-users] Moving scheduled recordings to new DB / LVM2 group failure

2005-11-09 Thread Cory Zerwas
Just a follow up on the LVM bit, which I opened a thread for in linux-lvm, regarding re-creating the partiton. Apparently re-creating the partition worked and now I can see the once-missing PV. However, upon getting the previously missing PV back my formerly established-to-be-OK PV disappeared.

Re: [mythtv-users] USB on the cable box

2005-11-09 Thread Erik Karlin
On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 01:04:42PM -0500, Michael Bochynski wrote: On Wed, 2005-11-09 at 12:36 -0500, Erik Karlin wrote: On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 11:54:29AM -0500, Michael Bochynski wrote: Hi, I want to use USB port on my cable box (Scientific Atlanta 2100) for Myth TV to change

Re: [mythtv-users] Schedule by regexp

2005-11-09 Thread chris
On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 12:24:12PM +0100, Alex Polite wrote: I wan't to match programs to record by a regexp. How do I do that? You can't really do it from MythWeb, but from the normal mythfrontend you go to Manage Recordings, Schedule Recordings, Custom Record. That screen allows you to

Re: [mythtv-users] XvMC with SVN revision 7738 and nvidia driver 6629

2005-11-09 Thread Darius Hardy
On Wed, 2005-11-09 at 11:12 -0500, Mark deJong wrote: I've got: p4 2.8 Ghz. 1 GB RAM The following shows up in the log, most noteably the following: snip [mpegvideo_xvmc @ 0xb74edfb0]Warning MVs not available [mpegvideo_xvmc @ 0xb74edfb0]00 motion_type at 114 26 [mpegvideo_xvmc @

Re: [mythtv-users] Bad sound quality with Plextor M402U

2005-11-09 Thread Abre Chase
There are some good threads about this on the DIVX forum. Here's one. http://forums.divx.com/groupee/forums/a/tpc/f/996105602/m/798106752 I had the same problem. Chaning the sampling rate to 48000 made a big difference for me. - Abre On 11/9/05, Nathan Allen Stratton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

[mythtv-users] Weather setpup

2005-11-09 Thread mythtv
I'm just getting started setting up a MythTV system and figured I'd use Knoppmyth to get acquainted with everything first. So far it seems to be coming along, but one thing I'm running into that I can't explain is configuring the weather. When I go into the Weather Settings button the only

Re: [mythtv-users] SVN mythplugins compile error

2005-11-09 Thread Paul Leppert
On 11/8/05, Christopher Rodd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paul, I struggled with this too. I think you need 3 edits of the source. http://cvs.mythtv.org/trac/attachment/ticket/478/mythdvd.patch and http://cvs.mythtv.org/trac/changeset/7511 That's the only difference between my source

Re: [mythtv-users] XvMC with SVN revision 7738 and nvidia driver 6629

2005-11-09 Thread Curtis Stanford
On Nov 9, 2005, at 11:34 AM, Darius Hardy wrote: On Wed, 2005-11-09 at 11:12 -0500, Mark deJong wrote: I've got: p4 2.8 Ghz. 1 GB RAM The following shows up in the log, most noteably the following: snip [mpegvideo_xvmc @ 0xb74edfb0]Warning MVs not available [mpegvideo_xvmc @ 0xb74edfb0]00

Re: [mythtv-users] SVN mythplugins compile error

2005-11-09 Thread Brian C. Huffman
On Wed, 2005-11-09 at 12:50 -0600, Paul Leppert wrote: Now I'm stuck on a missing mp4ff_int_types.h file for mythmusic. Based on another email on this list it sounds like maybe this should have been copied from the faad2 package into /usr/include but that the package is incorrect. I'll have

Re: [mythtv-users] Stupid overscan question

2005-11-09 Thread chris
On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 08:36:09AM -0800, Ben Dash wrote: Could someone please explain to me how overscan works? There's two types of overscan. The one you set from within MythTV's setup menu is really just crop and zoom. If you overscan by 2% then the original recording has the outer 2% of

Re: [mythtv-users] XvMC with SVN revision 7738 and nvidia driver 6629

2005-11-09 Thread Jerry Rubinow
On 09/11/05, Curtis Stanford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are you using firewire? I'm finding that my DCT-6200 box spits out some pretty bad mpeg streams. I get a lot of errors like you are seeing on HD channels. The weird thing is, some channels are better than others. The HD movie channel and

[mythtv-users] Re: mythtv-users Digest, Vol 33, Issue 213

2005-11-09 Thread jay [33-rpm.net]
bps/384kbps normal file is 16000 bps/128kbps Any idea what is happening? Thanks Don Lesniakowski -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-users/attachments/20051109/688f1425/attachment-0001.htm

Re: [mythtv-users] XvMC with SVN revision 7738 and nvidia driver 6629

2005-11-09 Thread Mark deJong
On 11/9/05, Curtis Stanford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 9, 2005, at 11:34 AM, Darius Hardy wrote: On Wed, 2005-11-09 at 11:12 -0500, Mark deJong wrote: I've got: p4 2.8 Ghz. 1 GB RAM The following shows up in the log, most noteably the following: snip [mpegvideo_xvmc @ 0xb74edfb0]Warning MVs

Re: [mythtv-users] XvMC with SVN revision 7738 and nvidia driver 6629

2005-11-09 Thread Curtis Stanford
On Nov 9, 2005, at 11:58 AM, Jerry Rubinow wrote: On 09/11/05, Curtis Stanford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are you using firewire? I'm finding that my DCT-6200 box spits out some pretty bad mpeg streams. I get a lot of errors like you are seeing on HD channels. The weird thing is, some channels

Re: [mythtv-users] USB on the cable box

2005-11-09 Thread Michael Bochynski
On Wed, 2005-11-09 at 13:25 -0500, Erik Karlin wrote: On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 01:04:42PM -0500, Michael Bochynski wrote: On Wed, 2005-11-09 at 12:36 -0500, Erik Karlin wrote: On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 11:54:29AM -0500, Michael Bochynski wrote: Hi, I want to use USB port on my

Re: [mythtv-users] Stupid overscan question

2005-11-09 Thread Ben Dash
--- chris wrote: On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 08:36:09AM -0800, Ben Dash wrote: Could someone please explain to me how overscan works? There's two types of overscan... I'm using the nv driver for my xBox and the top of the displayed screen is a little narrower than the bottom, i.e.

Re: [mythtv-users] Schedule by regexp

2005-11-09 Thread Bruce Markey
Alex Polite wrote: Hi. I wan't to match programs to record by a regexp. How do I do that? I'll start from the premise that you just want to do a simple wildcard match. If so, go to Schedule Recordings-Search Words- Titles. Select New Phrase and enter your keyword and press Enter. If the

Re: [mythtv-users] Stupid overscan question

2005-11-09 Thread Cory Papenfuss
Positioning problems are more properly fixed by altering the modeline timings to reduce the retrace delay. Actually, they're more properly fixed by adjusting the monitor/TV so it doesn't overscan. Twiddling modelines is band-aiding a broken situation. Horiz direction easy to adjust. Vert

[mythtv-users] Unichrome (VT8378) with VGA-to-component cable

2005-11-09 Thread Joshua M. McClain
Hi all! Quick question. I've been using a GeForce5 FX5200, Svideo out, and am fairly happy with the picture quality. But the quality is nowhere near component out on my dvd player. (BTW, I'm still in standard def land -- Sony 27 Wega.) From reading the nvidia driver docs, it appears I cannot

[mythtv-users] A Novice Question about PVR-500 and Commerceial Flagging

2005-11-09 Thread Folashade Adeyosoye
Hi all, Am still new at all this (MythTV), I notices after recording my shows last night the commercial flagging began and some had finished. My question is what does this mean to me and how can I make use of this information. I viewed on of the flagged shows but the commercial was

Re: [mythtv-users] XvMC with SVN revision 7738 and nvidia driver 6629

2005-11-09 Thread Mark deJong
On 11/9/05, Darius Hardy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2005-11-09 at 11:12 -0500, Mark deJong wrote: I've got: p4 2.8 Ghz. 1 GB RAM The following shows up in the log, most noteably the following: snip [mpegvideo_xvmc @ 0xb74edfb0]Warning MVs not available [mpegvideo_xvmc @ 0xb74edfb0]00

Re: [mythtv-users] Schedule by regexp

2005-11-09 Thread Bruce Markey
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: .. For example, to get all of the Survivor reality shows but not the Survivorman outdoor show you could either limit the results by category or use an inverse match on the specific titles you don't want. The first method would end up looking like: program.title LIKE

Re: [mythtv-users] A Novice Question about PVR-500 and Commerceial Flagging

2005-11-09 Thread Josh Burks
On 11/9/05, Folashade Adeyosoye [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Am still new at all this (MythTV), I notices after recording my shows last night the commercial flagging began and some had finished. My question is what does this mean to me and how can I make use of this information.

Re: [mythtv-users] Backup LVM group (kinda OT)

2005-11-09 Thread James Oltman
On 11/8/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jim asked:snipThere is no way to format the other partitions without wiping out the LVM group is there?Yes, not a problem, just format the partitions you want to use and leave theLVM group, copy the /etc/fstab (hard copy probably a good idea)

RE: [mythtv-users] Laptop tuner card

2005-11-09 Thread C. R. Oldham
What about USB tuners? I've never used them myself and I don't if USB 1.1 is fast enough for decent video, but it's just a thought. 1.1 won't be fast enough, I don't think. --cro ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org

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