Re: [mythtv-users] mythbackend identity crisis!

2005-12-01 Thread Michael T. Dean
Gerald Schepens wrote: I am having trouble with my mythbackend. For some reason, it can connect to my mysql database just fine when started manually, but when started as a service, it attempts to connect as mythtv which is not how I set it up. Why does it think it needs to use different

Re: [mythtv-users] Commercial Flagging - whats it all about

2005-12-01 Thread ffrr
Phill Edwards wrote: Ditto - I noticed a drop in accuracy when I went to DVB-T. However, my success rate is probably around 60+% - certainly not as low as 5%. This is in Australia. Regards, Phill True, but the success rate wasn't enough to make it worth using. I just set the skip

[mythtv-users]Help on implementing myth on multiple/various TV's

2005-12-01 Thread Chad
Evenin! I have been killing myself trying to figure out a solution for the following: A semi-large to large network of 25+ TV's with various inputs on a mythTV network. One of the biggest problems being that several of these TV's will only have RF inputs. The second biggest problem being that

[mythtv-users] mute doesn't work, tuner stays on composite, small problems

2005-12-01 Thread Xamindar
I asked this on mythtvtalk.com but didn't get any answers so I'll try here. Hey I love mythtv! Everything works great but there are just a couple of things I am having trouble configuring. 1) The main tuner I am using is a pvr-150 it is perfect except I can't mute the sound. Volume controls

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Mythbackend losing sql connection on the start of some recordings

2005-12-01 Thread Xamindar
I have been having this problem recently as well. Only I don't have to restart mythbackend, I just have to wait a little while and it will come back. Mythfrontend on the otherhand needs to be restarted. I am using mysql5 now, it didn't happen with mysql4. But then again I have reinstalled

[mythtv-users] Do DVB card encode?

2005-12-01 Thread Weston, Toby
Hi Folks, Might be a silly question, but my PVR-250 had a hardware encoder (or is it decoder!?) which was great, I'm wondering if DVB cards have/need the same thing? I kind of thought that because the signal is digital that it doesn't need to encode it so no hardware encoder was needed? Having

Re: [mythtv-users] Do DVB card encode?

2005-12-01 Thread ffrr
Weston, Toby wrote: Hi Folks, Might be a silly question, but my PVR-250 had a hardware encoder (or is it decoder!?) which was great, I'm wondering if DVB cards have/need the same thing? No. I kind of thought that because the signal is digital that it doesn't need to encode it so no

RE: [mythtv-users] Do DVB card encode?

2005-12-01 Thread Weston, Toby
ffrr wrote: Weston, Toby wrote: Hi Folks, Might be a silly question, but my PVR-250 had a hardware encoder (or is it decoder!?) which was great, I'm wondering if DVB cards have/need the same thing? No. I kind of thought that because the signal is digital that it doesn't need

[mythtv-users] cd ripping slow? - What's to be expected.

2005-12-01 Thread Ronald Wielink
Dear all, I've recently put together a setup with fairly decent specifications, see below. As far as I can judge right now everything works ok. However, ripping CDs (to mp3) takes quite a while, about 10 minutes. I would say that at 48x speed this could be done much faster. SinceI can't do much

[mythtv-users] tv_grab_au Syntax Error

2005-12-01 Thread Jeff_Logica
I've fixed the problem. It was due to the way I copied the file from the website. This copy didn't accurately reproduce the file. I have since replaced it with an accurate copy and all is working fine. Excellent script, I'm finally back to getting all TV Stations and a full 7 days worth.

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Mythbackend losing sql connection on the start of some recordings

2005-12-01 Thread Sasha Z
*sigh* it sounds like I might rebuild everything on my system for mysql4. On 12/1/05, Xamindar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been having this problem recently as well. Only I don't have to restart mythbackend, I just have to wait a little while and it will come back. Mythfrontend on the

RE: [mythtv-users] Are there any xbox mythtv distros stillbeingsupported?

2005-12-01 Thread William
Yes please. It would be greatly appreciated. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ben Holt Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2005 12:20 AM To: Discussion about mythtv Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Are there any xbox mythtv distros

[mythtv-users] Adding movies to MythTV

2005-12-01 Thread Felix Rubinstein
Hello everybody!I'd like to add external movies in different formats, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, etc. to MythTV.The same goes for mp3 and photos.I couldn't find any documentation related to how can I do it.Thanks. ___ mythtv-users mailing list

Re: [mythtv-users] Adding movies to MythTV

2005-12-01 Thread Phill Edwards
I'd like to add external movies in different formats, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, etc. to MythTV. The same goes for mp3 and photos. I couldn't find any documentation related to how can I do it. For music you need to use the MythMusic application. For photos you need MythGallery. For external movies it's

Re: [mythtv-users] Adding movies to MythTV

2005-12-01 Thread ffrr
Felix Rubinstein wrote: Hello everybody! I'd like to add external movies in different formats, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, etc. to MythTV. The same goes for mp3 and photos. I couldn't find any documentation related to how can I do it. Thanks. Other parts of myth (plugins) handle media that's not

Re: [mythtv-users] Adding movies to MythTV

2005-12-01 Thread Richard Smith
Phill Edwards wrote: I'd like to add external movies in different formats, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, etc. to MythTV. The same goes for mp3 and photos. I couldn't find any documentation related to how can I do it. For music you need to use the MythMusic application. For photos you need MythGallery.

[mythtv-users] Re: Help with new Kernel

2005-12-01 Thread Axel Thimm
On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 03:40:41PM -0800, Jonathan Tidmore wrote: You should be very careful about updating to new kernels. I try to wait 3-4 weeks after a new kernel is released before upgrading so ATRPMs can catch up and release new kernel modules for the latest kernel. You probably mean

Re: [mythtv-users] OT:? GeForce MX4000 and TV Out oddness

2005-12-01 Thread SpEnT
On 11/30/05, Joseph A. Caputo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 30 November 2005 16:20, SpEnT wrote: I really wish there was an internal player that used Myth's GUI setting for playing movies Just specify Internal as the player command for MythVideo. Holy I need to slow daown and read

[mythtv-users] Fedora MythTV HowTo and VisionPlus HDTV Card

2005-12-01 Thread Hurgh
Hi All, A little while back i purchased a Digital Terrestrial TV Tuner VisionPlus (also know as TwinhanDTV Mini Ter) - Model VP3020C. I have been following the Fedora MythTV HowTo which is located here -- http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/fcmyth.php -- I am up to the section where I need to get and

Re: [mythtv-users] mythtv on 2 monitors with different resolutions.

2005-12-01 Thread Simon Tennant
On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 05:18:44PM +0100, Petr Stehlik wrote: Telling a program to output to other screen should be as easy as DISPLAY=:0.1 program Are you suggesting doing Xinerama then? The problem I have with it is the inflexibility. I would have to change my mythtv configuration

Re: [mythtv-users] mythtv on 2 monitors with different resolutions.

2005-12-01 Thread Petr Stehlik
Simon Tennant píše v Čt 01. 12. 2005 v 14:34 +0100: On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 05:18:44PM +0100, Petr Stehlik wrote: Telling a program to output to other screen should be as easy as DISPLAY=:0.1 program Are you suggesting doing Xinerama then? Nope. It's not xinerama, the screens are

Re: [mythtv-users] Dish Network and MythTV

2005-12-01 Thread Steve Adeff
On Wednesday 30 November 2005 18:14, Robert La Ferla wrote: Nothing illegal. I would just like high quality video and definitely under Linux. How does the card reader work? Steve Adeff wrote: On Wednesday 30 November 2005 12:21, Robert La Ferla wrote: I am thinking about switching from

Re: [mythtv-users] Dish Network and MythTV

2005-12-01 Thread Steve Adeff
On Wednesday 30 November 2005 19:14, Robert La Ferla wrote: Steve Adeff wrote: As well, you won't get any HD channels with the PC tuner cards and when they do the switch to MPEG4 you won't be able to tune those channels either. Tell me more about the switch including the timeframe,

Re: [mythtv-users] Fedora MythTV HowTo and VisionPlus HDTV Card

2005-12-01 Thread Tom Hughes
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A little while back i purchased a Digital Terrestrial TV Tuner VisionPlus (also know as TwinhanDTV Mini Ter) - Model VP3020C. I have two VisionPlus tuners in my box which is running FC3 currently. I have been following the Fedora

Re: [mythtv-users] mixer being mucked with

2005-12-01 Thread Trent Albright
Ah ok. I'll look for that setting, thanks.On 12/1/05, Michael T. Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Trent Albright wrote: When I launch MythTV, I execute the following command prior: /usr/sbin/alsactl restore If I then jump straight to using MythVideo, and watch a video with mplayer, the sound level

Re: [mythtv-users]Help on implementing myth on multiple/various TV's

2005-12-01 Thread Eric S
Chad - On RF Only Inputs - Video Composite to RF convertors are simple and cheap to buy at Radio Shack or the like . . . . Not sure if anyone has ever tired to scale Myth on the level you are talking, would be interesting. Start with one Master Backend, make all other backend slaves. Probably

Re: [mythtv-users] OT:? GeForce MX4000 and TV Out oddness

2005-12-01 Thread Tom Lichti
SpEnT wrote: On 11/30/05, Joseph A. Caputo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (I still have to look into possibly setting the dimentions for full screen play with either xine or mplayer ... maybe there's a way to make it fit in the init line). You can tweak pretty much anything with MPlayer.

Re: [mythtv-users] Are there any xbox mythtv distros still beingsupported?

2005-12-01 Thread Tom Lichti
William wrote: I just got done installing mythtv on the xbox using the xebian distro. Hopefully, this will help you: http://www.xbox-linux.org/wiki/MythTV_on_Xebian_HOWTO Also take a look at the reference links at the bottom. That distro fails when it cannot find any files at deb

Re: [mythtv-users] Adding movies to MythTV

2005-12-01 Thread Raphael Pooser
Richard Smith wrote: Phill Edwards wrote: I'd like to add external movies in different formats, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, etc. to MythTV. The same goes for mp3 and photos. I couldn't find any documentation related to how can I do it. For music you need to use the MythMusic application. For

Re: [mythtv-users] Gentoo n00b needing advice!

2005-12-01 Thread Raphael Pooser
Paul V. Gratz wrote: On Wednesday 30 November 2005 08:25 pm, stephen wrote: Yup - that's what I'm running. Now if I can only figure out how to get it to auto-login and startx automatically. I'm using evilwm for a window manager on gentoo, and used some info from this site to get

Re: [mythtv-users] How big is your database?

2005-12-01 Thread Neil Bird
Around about 01/12/05 05:36, Claude Boucher typed ... ... I usually optimize my database once a week, removing deleted data with phpMyAdmin. Any chance you could expand on this? My box has been in solid use for 9-odd months, but all I do is backup the SQL [currently every night, with a

RE: [mythtv-users] Help with new Kernel

2005-12-01 Thread Kirk Davis
Thanks for the information. I'll try and switch back to the older kernel. Where are new kernels announced? How do you monitor or know that if you do a yum upgrade that it will upgrade to a new kernel. Kirk From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of

Re: [mythtv-users] Gentoo n00b needing advice!

2005-12-01 Thread Nedim Cholich
More of a Gentoo question then Mythtv. Looking at your USE flags you have both -gtk and gtk. Remove gtk, you don't need it. I tend to agree with Steve about KDE, but then again I love KDE and am running it on a Celeron 700Mhz laptop. The trick is not to emerge entire kde, but just kdebase-meta,

Re: [mythtv-users] mythtv on 2 monitors with different resolutions.

2005-12-01 Thread Simon Tennant
On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 02:40:48PM +0100, Petr Stehlik wrote: I know what you mean. I use it for LCD + occassional TV. How do you switch between these two different ways of viewing? Manually? S. -- Simon Tennant http://imaginator.com/~simon/contact

Re: [mythtv-users] LIRC with USB remote control: how?

2005-12-01 Thread Enrico Ballarin Dolfin
- Original Message - From: David Watkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Discussion about mythtv mythtv-users@mythtv.org Sent: Thursday, November 24, 2005 4:19 PM Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] LIRC with USB remote control: how? I'm using my HP Pavilion w5180.ch running SuSE 9.3. How can I

Re: [mythtv-users] How big is your database?

2005-12-01 Thread Ian Campbell
On Thu, 2005-12-01 at 15:34 +, Neil Bird wrote: My box has been in solid use for 9-odd months, but all I do is backup the SQL [currently every night, with a back-up file per day of the week; if it's going to start getting *really* big I'll have to drop that (it's bz-compressed)].

Re: [mythtv-users] mythtv on 2 monitors with different resolutions.

2005-12-01 Thread Petr Stehlik
Simon Tennant píše v Čt 01. 12. 2005 v 17:10 +0100: On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 02:40:48PM +0100, Petr Stehlik wrote: I know what you mean. I use it for LCD + occassional TV. How do you switch between these two different ways of viewing? Manually? As I said earlier in this thread, any X

Re: [mythtv-users] Help with new Kernel

2005-12-01 Thread Jonathan Tidmore
Fedora Announce List shows all new packages released: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-announce-listWhen I do a 'yum update' it will ask to confirm the update, I say N if I see any major changes like new kernels or ivtv versions etc. I do wait 3-4 WEEKS minimum before updating a

Re: [mythtv-users] Filename confusion - .nuv and .mpg

2005-12-01 Thread Matt
On 11/29/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 10:44:06AM -0600, Matt wrote: hmmm, but if I click the copy of the recording in IE it won't stream the file because it doesn't think it's an http stream. You can change the URL format in mythweb's

Re: [mythtv-users] Adding movies to MythTV

2005-12-01 Thread Nathan Allen Stratton
On Thu, 1 Dec 2005, Phill Edwards wrote: I'd like to add external movies in different formats, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, etc. to MythTV. The same goes for mp3 and photos. I couldn't find any documentation related to how can I do it. For music you need to use the MythMusic application. For photos

Re: [mythtv-users] Gigabyte video card

2005-12-01 Thread Len Reed
Matt Mossholder wrote: I've run into this one before... the problem with your FX5200 may be that the TV expects HDCP to be supported by the video card. My Panasonic is that way... I just get black screens on a FX5200 while DVI out of the cablebox works fine. If so, you need to go

Re: [mythtv-users] mythweb-svn problem

2005-12-01 Thread Chris Petersen
People who run unstable code have no right to bitch about things not being documented. However, I don't necessarily take feedback on these lists as 'bitching' at least not all the time ;) Yes. I made that as a general comment. Didn't mean it to be directed at this thread specifically, and

Re: [mythtv-users] Gentoo n00b needing advice!

2005-12-01 Thread Greg Oliver
I have just recently built a myth box on gentoo (going for gentoox on xbox next), you can see my make.conf here: http://ghost.homeunix.com/make.conf.html It has all the goodies to include all of the codecs to allow playing of anything and storing to any format. Some of the stuff is P4 related,

[mythtv-users] backend won't record - MYTH_PROTO_VERSION problems

2005-12-01 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, I take care of two back end machine. One is here at my place, the other is remote. At the remote location mythbackend has stopped making recordings. When I run the frontend in a terminal I see this: 2005-12-01 09:29:28.705 ReadStringList timeout (quick). 2005-12-01 09:29:28.705 Unexpected

Re: [mythtv-users] Gigabyte video card

2005-12-01 Thread Steve Adeff
On Thursday 01 December 2005 00:02, Matt Mossholder wrote: I've run into this one before... the problem with your FX5200 may be that the TV expects HDCP to be supported by the video card. My Panasonic is that way... I just get black screens on a FX5200 while DVI out of the cablebox works

Re: [mythtv-users] More HD stuttering

2005-12-01 Thread Jean Connelly
Regarding: The system is a 3.06 GHz P4 running Fedora Core 3.The video Cardis a NVidia 5200FX.For capture, all I have is a HD3000.I've checked that DMA is working on all the drives.I built mythtv from stablesource, 0.18.1.I used the following configure options:--enable-xvmc --enable-opengl-vsync

Re: [mythtv-users] More HD stuttering

2005-12-01 Thread Curtis Stanford
On Dec 1, 2005, at 10:53 AM, Jean Connelly wrote: Regarding: The system is a 3.06 GHz P4 running Fedora Core 3. The video Card is a NVidia 5200FX. For capture, all I have is a HD3000. I've checked that DMA is working on all the drives. I built mythtv from stable source,

[mythtv-users] yet another mythtv theme RETRO

2005-12-01 Thread gerhard aldorf
Hi Here is my attemped to create a theme for mythtv. This is just a start and only the main theme.xml and most of the watermarks are done. Unpack it in your mythtv themes directory an give it a try. It should work nicely with the isthmus OSD which I made some time ago. You can find it at

[mythtv-users] Re: backend won't record - MYTH_PROTO_VERSION problems

2005-12-01 Thread Mark Knecht
On 12/1/05, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I take care of two back end machine. One is here at my place, the other is remote. At the remote location mythbackend has stopped making recordings. When I run the frontend in a terminal I see this: 2005-12-01 09:29:28.705

Re: [mythtv-users] yet another mythtv theme RETRO

2005-12-01 Thread Matt
On 12/1/05, gerhard aldorf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Here is my attemped to create a theme for mythtv. This is just a start and only the main theme.xml and most of the watermarks are done. Unpack it in your mythtv themes directory an give it a try. It should work nicely with the isthmus

Re: [mythtv-users] yet another mythtv theme RETRO

2005-12-01 Thread Steve Adeff
On Thursday 01 December 2005 13:04, gerhard aldorf wrote: Hi Here is my attemped to create a theme for mythtv. This is just a start and only the main theme.xml and most of the watermarks are done. Unpack it in your mythtv themes directory an give it a try. It should work nicely with the

Re: [mythtv-users] yet another mythtv theme RETRO

2005-12-01 Thread Greg Estabrooks
and only the main theme.xml and most of the watermarks are done. Unpack it in your mythtv themes directory an give it a try. It should work Sweet, looks nice! I'll have to give that one a try. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org

Re: [mythtv-users] mythtv on 2 monitors with different resolutions.

2005-12-01 Thread Brandon Beattie
On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 05:23:02PM +0100, Petr Stehlik wrote: Simon Tennant p??e v ?t 01. 12. 2005 v 17:10 +0100: On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 02:40:48PM +0100, Petr Stehlik wrote: I know what you mean. I use it for LCD + occassional TV. How do you switch between these two different ways

Re: [mythtv-users] OT:? GeForce MX4000 and TV Out oddness

2005-12-01 Thread SpEnT
The internal Myth player can play DVD's, and xine has menu support. For full screen: you can specify Internal on the Myth DVD player settings? I never tried it only because I never saw the option in the info text at the bottom of the screen in the DVD player settings ... I'll try that next,

Re: [mythtv-users] DCT-6200 Firewire issue

2005-12-01 Thread David Rudder
Unfortunately, my P2P connections are definitely not working correctly. I tried your advice and connected the firewire cable into the other node on the DCT box, but I still get nothing over broadcast, and the same problems with P2P. There's a little history with my cable box. The DCT-6412

Re: [mythtv-users] OT:? GeForce MX4000 and TV Out oddness

2005-12-01 Thread Tom Lichti
SpEnT wrote: The internal Myth player can play DVD's, and xine has menu support. For full screen: you can specify Internal on the Myth DVD player settings? I never tried it only because I never saw the option in the info text at the bottom of the screen in the DVD player settings ... I'll

Re: [mythtv-users] backend won't record - MYTH_PROTO_VERSION problems

2005-12-01 Thread Michael T. Dean
Mark Knecht wrote: I take care of two back end machine. One is here at my place, the other is remote. At the remote location mythbackend has stopped making recordings. When I run the frontend in a terminal I see this: 2005-12-01 09:29:28.705 ReadStringList timeout (quick). 2005-12-01

Re: [mythtv-users] Uncool surprise... coming back from vacation, shows not recorded.

2005-12-01 Thread James Howison
On Dec 1, 2005, at 12:45 AM, Jeff Simpson wrote: Another mistake that might be tough to find is a schedule discrepancy. This sunday, for example, the football game ran long and Family Guy failed to record (combined with my idea of hey, I'll tell it not to record and instead just tune to it

[mythtv-users] My TV turned into the Hulk!

2005-12-01 Thread Joey Moe
I had a successful mythbox install( using the Slackware 9.1 instructions ) which was hacked a couple of moths ago. I decided to rebuild, so I updated the mainboard, processor, and memory. The system now has a AMD 2600 Processor, 1 GB of RAM, 2 - 300Gb HD, and a WinTV PVR 350. I the install

Re: [mythtv-users] Moving TV shows

2005-12-01 Thread Michael Tiller
Excellent...thanks.--MikeOn 11/30/05, Josh Burks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/30/05, Michael Tiller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:P.S. - Is there a way to get the normal MythTV player to run a video.I know you can put a custom command in, but what would that command be?!? Internal (note the uppercase

[mythtv-users] Mutiple Backends on different Cable TV systems

2005-12-01 Thread Dave Packham
Can I install a backend at work with one cable channel lineup and my main back/front-end at home with another cable channel lineup and have them work together? They both have different channel lineups. Any Ideas? Dave Packham ___ mythtv-users mailing

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[mythtv-users] dvb hdtv capture resolution limited to 720x480 in mythtv? DViCO FusionHDTV 5 Lite

2005-12-01 Thread mrwester
Hi- Forgive me if I missed something in the archives regarding these topics... I just added a DViCO FusionHDTV 5 Lite card to my working mythtv setup (18.1 from Axel's RPMs). The system already has 1 x PVR-350 and 1 x PVR-500. I'm using DVI out of a fx5200 to native resolution of my widescreen

Re: [mythtv-users] How big is your database?

2005-12-01 Thread Joseph A. Caputo
On Wednesday 30 November 2005 23:26, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can somebody give me an idea of how large a database typically is after Myth has been used a long while, or how fast it grows? 56 MB after 3+ years. -JAC ___ mythtv-users mailing list

Re: [mythtv-users] Mutiple Backends on different Cable TV systems

2005-12-01 Thread R. Geoffrey Newbury
On Thu, 1 Dec 2005 12:43:14 -0700, Dave Packham wrote: Can I install a backend at work with one cable channel lineup and my main back/front-end at home with another cable channel lineup and have them work together? They both have different channel lineups. No reason that separate backends

Re: [mythtv-users] How big is your database?

2005-12-01 Thread Cory Papenfuss
On Thu, 1 Dec 2005, Joseph A. Caputo wrote: On Wednesday 30 November 2005 23:26, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can somebody give me an idea of how large a database typically is after Myth has been used a long while, or how fast it grows? 56 MB after 3+ years. -JAC Timely subject... I just

Fw: [mythtv-users] LIRC with USB remote control: how?

2005-12-01 Thread Enrico Ballarin Dolfin
I have found which USB remote control I have: it's an XPC-RC01 Hewlett Packard / Intervideo (possibly delivered also with ASUS TV 7134 card) as described here: http://64.233.183.104/search?q=cache:d6ZafAc7IfcJ:www.techexcess.net/-interv

Re: [mythtv-users] Moving TV shows

2005-12-01 Thread Nick Rout
On Wed, 30 Nov 2005 21:27:17 -0500 Michael Tiller wrote: I've recorded several movies. I thought I would move the .nuv (and rename to .mpg) files to my videos directory, rename them, look up there IMDB info and just store them as videos. Is there any downside or barrier to doing this?

Re: [mythtv-users] How big is your database?

2005-12-01 Thread Paul K
There might be rebuild script, but I usually just make a 0 bit length ascii file with the same name as the non-existing recordings. Then you can remove them within myth. My 20 month long database is about 70Mb uncompressed... ? PaulOn 12/1/05, Cory Papenfuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 1 Dec

Re: [mythtv-users] How big is your database?

2005-12-01 Thread Cory Papenfuss
On Thu, 1 Dec 2005, Paul K wrote: There might be rebuild script, but I usually just make a 0 bit length ascii file with the same name as the non-existing recordings. Then you can remove them within myth. My 20 month long database is about 70Mb uncompressed... ? I don't record all

Re: [mythtv-users] Help with new Kernel

2005-12-01 Thread Trent Albright
Also, at least in my setup of FC4, if you log on as root and read your email, you will see daily messages that describe which packages are available for updates. You can also use /etc/yum.conf to automatically exclude named packages, for example mine looks like this: $ less /etc/yum.conf [main]

Re: [mythtv-users] dvb hdtv capture resolution limited to 720x480 in mythtv? DViCO FusionHDTV 5 Lite

2005-12-01 Thread Jesper Sörensen
mrwester wrote: However, when I go into recording profiles, the max I can set is 720x480, thereby limiting me to digital SD on the card. Those settings are not used for DVB recordings. Myth will record the raw MPEG-2 stream in whatever format it is. The digital DVB tuner however has black

Re: [mythtv-users] How big is your database?

2005-12-01 Thread Les Gondor
Cory Papenfuss wrote: On Thu, 1 Dec 2005, Joseph A. Caputo wrote: On Wednesday 30 November 2005 23:26, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can somebody give me an idea of how large a database typically is after Myth has been used a long while, or how fast it grows? 56 MB after 3+ years. -JAC

Re: [mythtv-users] My TV turned into the Hulk!

2005-12-01 Thread Jeff Simpson
On 12/1/05, Joey Moe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I had a successful mythbox install( using theSlackware 9.1 instructions ) which was hacked a coupleof moths ago. I decided to rebuild, so I updated themainboard, processor, and memory.The system now has a AMD 2600 Processor, 1 GB of RAM, 2 -300Gb

Re: [mythtv-users] Uncool surprise... coming back from vacation, shows not recorded.

2005-12-01 Thread Bruce Markey
James Howison wrote: ... I'd like to be able to say If it's Football or Golf (final day) then record 20% longer than usual (The subtitle for golf usually says final day and it's only then that there's likely to be a play-off). Uh, no it doesn't. I've been doing this for a long time.

[mythtv-users] Silent Fan for Socket A (AthlonXP 3000)

2005-12-01 Thread Jeff Simpson
I am upgrading the processor in my myth/desktop box from an AthlonXP 1600 to a 3000 (because it's the fastest processor my board can support and I was going to buy another 1600 for somebody else but opted to trade mine up and give them my old one instead). I need to get a new fan because the one I

Re: [mythtv-users] Silent Fan for Socket A (AthlonXP 3000)

2005-12-01 Thread Joe Votour
If your board has the four holes surrounding the CPU (which is apparently not required by AMD in Socket A designs), then you can use one of the Zalman flower designs. When the fan is turned down to the lowest, it's very quiet, and still does a good job of cooling. (I use them in all of my PCs,

Re: [mythtv-users] Uncool surprise... coming back from vacation, shows not recorded.

2005-12-01 Thread James Howison
On Dec 1, 2005, at 4:50 PM, Bruce Markey wrote: James Howison wrote: ... I'd like to be able to say If it's Football or Golf (final day) then record 20% longer than usual (The subtitle for golf usually says final day and it's only then that there's likely to be a play-off). Uh, no it

Re: [mythtv-users]Help on implementing myth on multiple/various TV's

2005-12-01 Thread Jeff Simpson
Now, in retrospect, a hospital could easily absorb the cost of thissetup, so picture this in a Dorm setting with starving students wanting this setup.They could still probably get the initial cost ofa couple (say 8-9?) backends that each have 6 pci's full of PVR-500's,and 2 or 3 rigs that are just

[mythtv-users] Re: Auto login as user and start Myth.

2005-12-01 Thread Steve Adeff
On 11/28/05, Robin Gilks g8ecj[at]gilks.org wrote: I'm running gentoo on a keyboardless/mouseless box so this is what I came up with. If not already using it, emerge mingetty and put the following into /etc/inittab - this will log you in as the mythtv user: c7:12345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty

Re: [mythtv-users] Are there any xbox mythtv distros still beingsupported?

2005-12-01 Thread Dave Hofstra
I also have had the xbox just sitting around because I cannot compile mythvideo or mythmusic. I have xebian, and have tried messing around with the repositories, but nothing seems to satisfy the dependancy problems. Does anyone have a working sources.list that allows compilation of 0.18.1? I

Re: [mythtv-users] Uncool surprise... coming back from vacation, shows not recorded.

2005-12-01 Thread Stuart Auchterlonie
On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 05:09:45PM -0500, James Howison wrote: In any case, no one knows how long a live event will go over. Not myth, not you, not the station or network or teams or league execs. Again, you are right. Anyone know if now and next EIT data on DVB tends to get updated

Re: [mythtv-users] Are there any xbox mythtv distros still beingsupported?

2005-12-01 Thread chris
On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 09:57:17AM -0500, Tom Lichti wrote: None of these solutions address using current SVN though. I cannot find a combination that works. And I also cannot compile it myself, because when I try and add the qt-dev tools (for qmake) it wants to upgrade everything and the

[mythtv-users] Re: yet another mythtv theme RETRO

2005-12-01 Thread gerhard aldorf
Love the direction of the OSD. Whats the direction/intent for the theme though? Retro makes me think old style stereo equipment, this just looks like old pictures? My intent was to make a simple and clean theme pluss I do like old rettro equipments from the estetics of it. All watermarks er

[mythtv-users] Re: yet another mythtv theme RETRO

2005-12-01 Thread gerhard aldorf
Love the direction of the OSD. Whats the direction/intent for the theme though? Retro makes me think old style stereo equipment, this just looks like old pictures? My intent was to make a simple and clean theme pluss I do like old rettro equipments from the estetics of it. All watermarks er

Re: [mythtv-users] yet another mythtv theme RETRO

2005-12-01 Thread Justin Hornsby
gerhard aldorf wrote: Hi Here is my attemped to create a theme for mythtv. This is just a start and only the main theme.xml and most of the watermarks are done. Unpack it in your mythtv themes directory an give it a try. It should work nicely with the isthmus OSD which I made some time ago.

RE: [mythtv-users] Are there any xbox mythtv distros stillbeingsupported?

2005-12-01 Thread William
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave Hofstra Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2005 5:15 PM To: Discussion about mythtv Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Are there any xbox mythtv distros stillbeingsupported? I also have had the xbox just sitting

Re: [mythtv-users] How big is your database?

2005-12-01 Thread chris
On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 03:22:24PM -0500, Joseph A. Caputo wrote: 56 MB after 3+ years. No doubt most of that is taken up by the previously recorded data. That could probably be reduced to just the series # and epsiode # if it wasn't for the forget old feature. The other thing that a good

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: yet another mythtv theme RETRO

2005-12-01 Thread Steve Adeff
On Thursday 01 December 2005 17:34, gerhard aldorf wrote: Love the direction of the OSD. Whats the direction/intent for the theme though? Retro makes me think old style stereo equipment, this just looks like old pictures? My intent was to make a simple and clean theme pluss I do like old

[mythtv-users] about transcoding and auto-transcoding

2005-12-01 Thread Alan
Hey all. Just wondering if transcoding and auto-transcoding has documentation somewhere, as I'm a bit fuzzy as to what it is and how it all works. My impression was that setting a recording to auto-transcode will convert (after finished recording of course) from native mpeg2 (large filesize)

Re: [mythtv-users] Silent Fan for Socket A (AthlonXP 3000)

2005-12-01 Thread Brad Fuller
Joe Votour wrote: If your board has the four holes surrounding the CPU (which is apparently not required by AMD in Socket A designs), then you can use one of the Zalman flower designs. When the fan is turned down to the lowest, it's very quiet, and still does a good job of cooling. (I use

Re: [mythtv-users] How big is your database?

2005-12-01 Thread andrew matthews
I use XFS it can be both grown and shrunk.I nearly lost a disk about 3 months ago, i shrunk the disk size move all the data from that code to the other drives, and then removed the disk, put in a new one, added it in the volume and then grew the partition again. XFS can do it all! :)

[mythtv-users] OT: Numb3rs wallpaper...

2005-12-01 Thread Steve Adeff
Odd question but to any fans of Numb3rs: I'm trying to find the wall paper Charlie Eppes uses on his powerbook. From what I can tell its similar to the graphic used for the intro/outro cuts. If anyone knows anything I'd appreciate the lead! (and yes, I've checked CBS's Numb3rs page, which is

RE: [mythtv-users] OT: Numb3rs wallpaper...

2005-12-01 Thread Shardayyy
Hmm Mythtv finding the connection..Numb3rs -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Adeff Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2005 6:19 PM To: mythtv-users@mythtv.org Subject: [mythtv-users] OT: Numb3rs wallpaper... Odd question but to

[mythtv-users] How big is your database?

2005-12-01 Thread f-myth-users
Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2005 15:17:53 -0800 From: andrew matthews [EMAIL PROTECTED] I use XFS it can be both grown and shrunk. My manpages and google both seem to disagree with you; neither xfs_growfs nor xfs_admin claim to be able to do this. If you've successfully shrunken an XFS

Re: [mythtv-users] Silent Fan for Socket A (AthlonXP 3000)

2005-12-01 Thread shadestalker
On 12/1/05, Jeff Simpson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So my question: Anybody have other suggestions for good silent SocketA fans that will be happy cooling an AthlonXP 3000? I'd like to keep cost under $30 and preferably have the noise rating close to or under 20dBA. Thanks I'm happy with the

Re: [mythtv-users] Silent Fan for Socket A (AthlonXP 3000)

2005-12-01 Thread Meatwad
Brad Fuller wrote: Joe Votour wrote: If your board has the four holes surrounding the CPU (which is apparently not required by AMD in Socket A designs), then you can use one of the Zalman flower designs. When the fan is turned down to the lowest, it's very quiet, and still does a good job of

[mythtv-users] Can't delete recordings since I set up slave back/front end

2005-12-01 Thread Jeff Clemens
At first I thought the issue was related to just the slave frontend. But I just tried it on my master too, and am getting the same result. I just recently added a second box to my Myth network. It's set up as a slave backend and frontend, with my previous box being the master backend. I never had

[mythtv-users] mythbackend fails on initial config

2005-12-01 Thread Scott Fones
I can't seem to start mythbackend. I have mysql version 4.1.15 and the mc.sql database inserted. I have qt version 3.3.4 and mythtv version .18.1. Heres what I get when I try to run mythbackend mythbackend 2005-12-01 19:25:38.261 New DB connection, total: 1 2005-12-01 19:25:38.267 Setting Lock

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