[mythtv-users] XvMC / xrandr

2005-12-07 Thread Marius Schrecker
Just a quickie, I compiled Mythtv from svn yesterday with no major problems. I'm using an X300 graphics card with the fglrx driver (sorry aboiut the closed source nature of this). I thought I had understood that this supports XvMC, and enabled it in ./config but when I looked at the output I

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: remote control unresponsive

2005-12-07 Thread sarvinc
On Wednesday 07 December 2005 07:49 am, John Andersen wrote: I bet the Kernel recompile hozed your lircd. You need to recompile it after setting it up properly again for your remote. Are we talking about /etc/conf.d/lircd or /etc/lircd.conf ? Both appear to be exactly the same as before the

[mythtv-users] Easiest installation?

2005-12-07 Thread Casey Dunn
-quote- I want myth to co-exist on my regular desktop PC. I'm using Debian and the MythTV packages are currently not maintained. I don't know how to tweak the source or makefiles to compile, so is KnoppMyth my best options? -quote- Debian or Ubuntu are your best option. There are some issues

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: sorry to bother you about your xbox mythtv image

2005-12-07 Thread Robert Anderson
On 12/6/05, William [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message-Go ahead and download the torrent file from the following location: http://thepiratebay.org/details.php?id=3397792-I was finally able to download the file and it does work. I need to figure out how you

Re: [mythtv-users] Channel number assignment by mythbackend

2005-12-07 Thread Mitko Haralanov
On Mon, 5 Dec 2005 20:16:14 -0800 Mitko Haralanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am wondering how mythbackend assigns channel numbers to the channels found while doing the full scan on an HD3000: When I use atscscan, it finds 19 channels all with channel numbers corresponding to the

Re: [mythtv-users] New widescreen theme coming soon (a little OT)

2005-12-07 Thread Marius Schrecker
Ok folks. As promised, I've been beavering away converting my ProjectGrayhem theme to wide. There are some screenshots over at www.juski.co.uk/pg-wide It'll be out when it's ready, and not before, unlike the last theme I bashed out ;) Thoughts, opinions etc to the usual place...

Re: [mythtv-users] New widescreen theme coming soon (a little OT)

2005-12-07 Thread Justin Hornsby
Steve Adeff wrote: Justin, Theres a flickr thingy with caps of the newer Project Mayhem screens. Dunno if you've seen them but they've got some added eyecandy stuff for you to think about integrating. http://www.flickr.com/photos/cubicgarden/sets/587049/ main menu:

[mythtv-users] OT: V4L and DVB trees merged on Linuxtv

2005-12-07 Thread Adam Egger
From http://www.linuxtv.org/news.php?entry=2005-11-26-0.mchehab V4L and DVB trees merged. Dear DVB and V4L developers and users, We are proud to announce that both project trees will be joined. This will allow a faster development of hybrid analog and DVB cards and help to eliminate changes on

[mythtv-users] Re: some atrpms packages for x86_64 actually built for i686?

2005-12-07 Thread Axel Thimm
Re: some atrpms packages for x86_64 actually built for i686? No, the error messega below sais that the x86_64 version of mythtv looked under /usr/lib for the x86_64 version of qt. Unfortunately the only way around this is to remove your i386/i686 version of qt or fix mythtv's paths. On Tue,

[mythtv-users] Live TV with knoppixmyth liveCD

2005-12-07 Thread Angel Gabriel
I have a capture card with the bt878 chip on it - What I want to do, is to run a knoppixmyth live CD, and have this machine display the output of this card on screen. I don't want any recording, just direct output - Is this possible using the LIVE cd?

[mythtv-users][OT] - How grab VHS tapes?

2005-12-07 Thread Alessandro Boggiano
Hi all, usually if I want watch a VHS,I can use the antenna cable between the vcr and the tv (I know,the quality is bad),put channel 36 on my tv and it works! I'd like to do the same thing with my mythtv system in order to recorder the vhs tape: so I unplegged the antenna from the tv and

Re: [mythtv-users] LIRC not working within Myth

2005-12-07 Thread mythtv
John DiLorenzo wrote: FYI, the LIRCD service is DOA before I use it, it seems to need the modprobe lirc_i2c before it will do anything. Do you have i2c support in your kernel? Device Drivers - I2C support - * I2C support Device Drivers - I2C support - * I2C device interface The above worked

[mythtv-users] Hard disk access

2005-12-07 Thread CHRIS KOTTING
I think I just had an AHA! moment. I've been wondering why my MythBox (combined frontend/backend) keeps accessing the hard drive. Is it the database being queried for jobs? Chris K. Chris Pinkham said, in part... The default check frequency is 60 seconds, but it goes down to 10 or up to

Re: [mythtv-users] Live TV with knoppixmyth liveCD

2005-12-07 Thread Dewey Smolka
On 12/7/05, Angel Gabriel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a capture card with the bt878 chip on it - What I want to do, is to run a knoppixmyth live CD, and have this machine display the output of this card on screen. I don't want any recording, just direct output - Is this possible using the

Re: [mythtv-users] RE: xbox dvd remote on xebian 1.1.4

2005-12-07 Thread Daniel Walton
I had to install liblircclient-dev in order for myth to compile lirc support. By default myth tries to build lirc (shouldn't need to specify --enable-lirc) but even then my remote still wasn't working. I tried compiling 18.1 instead of svn and that did the trick!! I'll see if I can figure out

Re: [mythtv-users][OT] - How grab VHS tapes?

2005-12-07 Thread Jeff Simpson
On 12/7/05, Alessandro Boggiano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all,usually if I want watch a VHS,I can use the antenna cable between thevcr and the tv (I know,the quality is bad),put channel 36 on my tv andit works!I'd like to do the same thing with my mythtv system in order to recorder the vhs tape:

[mythtv-users] Nvidia 8174 driver released

2005-12-07 Thread Ross Campbell
Haven't tried it yet, but for those so inclined... http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_ia32_1.0-8174.html -Ross Linux Display Driver - IA32 Version: 1.0-8174 Operating System: Linux IA32 Release Date: December 5, 2005 Release Highlights Fixed GeForce 7800 GTX clocking problem that

Re: [mythtv-users][OT] - How grab VHS tapes?

2005-12-07 Thread Jim Reith
At 09:05 AM 12/7/2005, you wrote: On 12/7/05, Alessandro Boggiano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, usually if I want watch a VHS,I can use the antenna cable between the vcr and the tv (I know,the quality is bad),put channel 36 on my tv and it works! I'd like to do the same thing with my

RE: [mythtv-users] Nvidia 8174 driver released

2005-12-07 Thread David Ellis
Funny - tried it and had TERRIBLE playback (Jittery playback). Not using XVMC, just XV on a AMD64 with 5700.interested to see if anyone else tried it? For now - I've moved back to the 7676 build (which works flawlessly on my setup). David -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [mythtv-users] Nvidia 8174 driver released

2005-12-07 Thread Stephen Williams
On 12/7/05, David Ellis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Funny - tried it and had TERRIBLE playback (Jittery playback). Not using XVMC, just XV on a AMD64 with 5700.interested to see if anyone else tried it? For now - I've moved back to the 7676 build (which works flawlessly on my setup).

Re: [mythtv-users] Why does /dev/dvb reset permisions on boot?

2005-12-07 Thread R. Geoffrey Newbury
On Tue, 06 Dec 2005 18:59:10 +1000, ffrr wrote: Weston, Toby wrote: Hi folks, Probably an obvious question (bit of Linux newbie here I'm afraid) but why would the permissions on my dvb devices reset to allow just root access each time I reboot? Myth can't access them as the 'mythtv' user

Re: [mythtv-users] Nvidia 8174 driver released

2005-12-07 Thread Steve Adeff
On Wednesday 07 December 2005 09:41, Stephen Williams wrote: On 12/7/05, David Ellis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Funny - tried it and had TERRIBLE playback (Jittery playback). Not using XVMC, just XV on a AMD64 with 5700.interested to see if anyone else tried it? For now - I've moved

Re: [mythtv-users] LIRC not working within Myth

2005-12-07 Thread John DiLorenzo
Which version of LIRC are you running Roy? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

Re: [mythtv-users][OT] - How grab VHS tapes?

2005-12-07 Thread David Watkins
On 07 Dec 2005 06:29:13 -0800, Jim Reith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 09:05 AM 12/7/2005, you wrote: On 12/7/05, Alessandro Boggiano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, usually if I want watch a VHS,I can use the antenna cable between the vcr and the tv (I know,the quality is bad),put channel 36

Re: [mythtv-users] New widescreen theme coming soon (a little OT)

2005-12-07 Thread Raphael Pooser
Graeme Hilton wrote: Justin Hornsby wrote: I've thought of doing a half-way house for people like me who have wide TVs but are using a 4:3 screen resolution - i.e. make amorphic images where you really notice them being stretched. What does everyone else think? That's a great idea

Re: [mythtv-users] LIRC not working within Myth

2005-12-07 Thread mythtv
John DiLorenzo wrote: Which version of LIRC are you running Roy? I checked mine out of CVS, so it claims to be 0.8.0, but it's really a pre-release. The problem I encounted was that the current stable version (0.7.2) won't work with newer kernels (2.6.13) because of some changes in the kernel

Re: [mythtv-users] XvMC / xrandr

2005-12-07 Thread Daniel Kristjansson
On Wed, 2005-12-07 at 09:02 +0100, Marius Schrecker wrote: I compiled Mythtv from svn yesterday with no major problems. I'm using an X300 graphics card with the fglrx driver (sorry aboiut the closed source nature of this). I thought I had understood that this supports XvMC, and enabled it

RE: [mythtv-users][OT] - How grab VHS tapes?

2005-12-07 Thread Dave Packham
Any way to detect good signal? I have seen a lot of software that will stop capture on BAD signal or snow but how about starting capture on good signal? Anyone seen anything like this? Dave P -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David

[mythtv-users] red_eye script

2005-12-07 Thread Craig Tinson
If Neil Bird's listening I was wondering if he'd managed to get his channel changing digibox app to compile and work under FC4? We discussed this a few months ago but I didn't have any luck - it just seg faults and if I remember correctly when I debug'd it it was something to do with

Re: [mythtv-users] Slave times out connecting to master

2005-12-07 Thread Cecil Watson
Nick wrote: On 05/12/05, Cecil Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've ran into an anomalous issue reorganizing my home entertainment system this weekend. I have a master and a slave backend. Unfortunately, my slave cannot connect to the master. I get a string of: 2005-12-04 17:39:48.266

[mythtv-users] XBox Media Center Question

2005-12-07 Thread Michael Tiller
OK, I softmodded my XBox and got XBMC installed (thanks to all of you who sent me tips, etc). There doesn't appear to be a way to access the Videos aspect of MythTV. The point is that it would be nice to be able to watch all the movies I have stored in my Videos directory on Myth. I know I can

Re: [mythtv-users] XBox Media Center Question

2005-12-07 Thread Daniel Walton
There is a python script for XBMC that will talk to your myth backend and let you play your shows: http://sourceforge.net/projects/xbmcmythtv/ Daniel On Wed, 7 Dec 2005, Michael Tiller wrote: OK, I softmodded my XBox and got XBMC installed (thanks to all of you who sent me tips, etc).

Re: [mythtv-users] LIRC not working within Myth

2005-12-07 Thread Nick
On 07/12/05, John DiLorenzo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, no luck. I'm going to try to rebuild mythtv from the tarball and see what I get. FYI, the LIRCD service is DOA before I use it, it seems to need the modprobe lirc_i2c before it will do anything. lircrc and lircd.conf files look

Re: [mythtv-users] Live TV with knoppixmyth liveCD

2005-12-07 Thread Angel Gabriel
If I am to understand this correctly, in any myth setup, from one machine to 50 machines, any type of input signal, needs to go through a backend?On 12/7/05, Dewey Smolka [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/7/05, Angel Gabriel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a capture card with the bt878 chip on it -

[mythtv-users] [may be OT] Linksys NSLU2 for streaming videos (SD and HD) ?

2005-12-07 Thread Mudit Wahal
Hi, Has anyone successfully used NSLU2 stream recordings off the external USB 2.0 hard drive ? I'm thinking to use NSLU2 as nfs mounted external storage device to keep my recordings. Then just use softlinks from machines to stream the SD and HD contents. I'll be installing OpenSlug or UnSlung on

Re: [mythtv-users] XBox Media Center Question

2005-12-07 Thread Michael Tiller
OK, my bad. I should have provided a bit more detail. I have the mythtv scripts for XBMC. The problem is that while it lets me watch live tv and recorded shows, it does not provide access to my video library. I was wondering how people address that with XBMC? Sorry for not being clearer the

Re: [mythtv-users] red_eye script

2005-12-07 Thread Craig Tinson
Craig Tinson wrote: If Neil Bird's listening I was wondering if he'd managed to get his channel changing digibox app to compile and work under FC4? We discussed this a few months ago but I didn't have any luck - it just seg faults and if I remember correctly when I debug'd it it was

[mythtv-users] Request: mythbackend to not autotune externally tuned sources (e.g. Cable over S-Video)

2005-12-07 Thread Nick
Should probably be directed to the dev list, but I wanted to see if it's just me that has this issue or if other users with similar setups also experience it. BACKGROUND: My backends each have PVR-x50 cards with S-Video/composite input from digital cable boxes, controlled via IR blasters from

Re: [mythtv-users] XBox Media Center Question

2005-12-07 Thread Daniel Segel
Just share the directory via SAMBA or NFS and configure XBMC to get at it that way. I actually have my video library on a separate server and both XBMC and MythTV access it via NFS. Daniel Segel Michael Tiller wrote: OK, my bad. I should have provided a bit more detail. I have the mythtv

RE: [mythtv-users] Is common Interface supposed to work?

2005-12-07 Thread Wim Fokkens
Wim, It works for me on DVB-C in Sweden. I'm running 0.18.1 on Debian on my backend. A Technotrend C2300 with CI and CAM(Viaccess RED v4.84) What does the mythbackend log say? How do I generate a log? (I am a linux/mythtv newbie) How many CAM-slots do you have? The KNC1 has only one CI slot. I

Re: [mythtv-users] XBox Media Center Question

2005-12-07 Thread Ben Dash
I didn't realise that you could watch LiveTV with it. To think that I went through all the trouble to get Gentoo on my xBox. It was a good learning experience though! --- Michael Tiller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, my bad. I should have provided a bit more detail. I have the mythtv

Re: [mythtv-users] XBox Media Center Question

2005-12-07 Thread Michael Tiller
Just to be clear, you don't get any information about the video that way right? I'm talking about the kind of great information I get in MythTV where it shows the images and information from IMDB. In the case you are talking about, you just get the name of the .vob file right? --MikeOn 12/7/05,

Re: [mythtv-users] XBox Media Center Question

2005-12-07 Thread Michael Tiller
I should add that I have not used the live TV option, I just saw it among the options.I might still install MythTV on there if I can't find a good solution to the Videos issue. --MikeOn 12/7/05, Ben Dash [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I didn't realise that you could watch LiveTV with it.To think that I

RE: [mythtv-users] Is common Interface supposed to work?

2005-12-07 Thread Johan Kihlström
Wim, You could try running myhtbackend with: mythbackend -v siparser /var/log/mythbackendsi.txt for a while and then take a look at that text file. Hopefully there should be some pointers to what's wrong, otherwise post it here and we'll try to help Best regards Johan On Wed, 2005-12-07

Re: [mythtv-users] Live TV with knoppixmyth liveCD

2005-12-07 Thread Dewey Smolka
On 12/7/05, Angel Gabriel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I am to understand this correctly, in any myth setup, from one machine to 50 machines, any type of input signal, needs to go through a backend? Yes. In short, the BE manages tuner/recording devices and maintains the MySQL database. The FE

Re: [mythtv-users][OT] - How grab VHS tapes?

2005-12-07 Thread Alessandro Boggiano
David Watkins wrote: On 07 Dec 2005 06:29:13 -0800, Jim Reith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 09:05 AM 12/7/2005, you wrote: On 12/7/05, Alessandro Boggiano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, usually if I want watch a VHS,I can use the antenna cable between the vcr and the tv (I know,the quality is

Re: [mythtv-users][OT] - How grab VHS tapes?

2005-12-07 Thread Nick
On 07/12/05, Alessandro Boggiano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David Watkins wrote: On 07 Dec 2005 06:29:13 -0800, Jim Reith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 09:05 AM 12/7/2005, you wrote: On 12/7/05, Alessandro Boggiano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, usually if I want watch a VHS,I can use the

Re: [mythtv-users] pvr 250 and 500 combo problems

2005-12-07 Thread Steve
I had a problem similar to this while using gentoo. What I did was uninstalled both cards then uninstalled anything related to ivtv, and ivtv itself. Then I placed both cards back in and reinstalled the removed software/drivers... And it magically grabbed all three tuners for me. Instead on only

Re: [mythtv-users] XBox Media Center Question

2005-12-07 Thread Kevin Ruse
On 12/7/05, Michael Tiller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just to be clear, you don't get any information about the video that way right? I'm talking about the kind of great information I get in MythTV where it shows the images and information from IMDB. In the case you are talking about, you just

Re: [mythtv-users] Nvidia 8174 driver released

2005-12-07 Thread Tom Lichti
David Ellis wrote: Funny - tried it and had TERRIBLE playback (Jittery playback). Not using XVMC, just XV on a AMD64 with 5700.interested to see if anyone else tried it? I tried it as well, and I have the same problem. It's better with XvMC, but just barely. I get lots and lots of

[mythtv-users] Q for XML guru - extracting selected channel info from XMLTV grabber file

2005-12-07 Thread Nick
BACKGROUND If mythfilldatabase is run against a video source using an XML listings file containing channels not defined for the source, it automatically creates new channels with the XMLTVID information from the XML listings. Questions about this non-intuitive behaviour frequently pop up on this

RE: [mythtv-users] Is common Interface supposed to work?

2005-12-07 Thread Wim Fokkens
Wim, You could try running myhtbackend with: mythbackend -v siparser /var/log/mythbackendsi.txt for a while and then take a look at that text file. Since I am a absolute Linux newbie could you explain this to me like you would explain it to a 5 year old. So to what terminal do I have to go, do

Re: [mythtv-users][OT] - How grab VHS tapes?

2005-12-07 Thread Alessandro Boggiano
Nick wrote: If you connect your VCR to your TV in the same manner, what channel does your TV tune to in order to watch something on the VCR? I'd also strongly recommend using S-Video or composite instead of your antenna coax. When I was young (playing with the sinclair zx81 ;) ) I used to

[mythtv-users][OT] - How grab VHS tapes?

2005-12-07 Thread f-myth-users
Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2005 09:32:10 -0700 From: Dave Packham [EMAIL PROTECTED] Any way to detect good signal? I have seen a lot of software that will stop capture on BAD signal or snow Can you be more specific about this? I asked a few days ago if anyone had any ideas on how to

Re: [mythtv-users] XBox Media Center Question

2005-12-07 Thread Mlists
I thought I would give XBMC a try with the python scripts. What streaming version is this working with? I don't mind downgrading from my svn version if the picture quality is decent. I'm getting this error -- 2005-12-07 15:12:57.825 TVRec(1) Error: Seek(42004556816580608, 0, 1) err when I

[mythtv-users] lightweight TV user-interface

2005-12-07 Thread Jason Baker
Hi, I'm not a mythTV user, but I am considering a series of hardware upgrades that will place a reasonably fast computer next to my TV. I'm not interested in DVR features so much as I am playing normal computer content (avi movies, mp3s, mp3 and realaudio radio webcasts, and realvideo TV

[mythtv-users] nVidia 8174 and HDTV

2005-12-07 Thread Keith C
Just a note for anyone crazy enough to try 8174 this soon : It does not appear to support native HD output. Myself and several others with component outputs (mine are on a 6200) can no get any HD modes to work - they are all reported as Not valid TV modes. So, stick with 7676 if you use a

Re: [mythtv-users] XBox Media Center Question

2005-12-07 Thread Michael Tiller
To be honest I have a hard time figuring out exactly what XMBC is doing just by looking at the user interface. It asks for the protocol version but it also wants the video files to be mountable across an SMB connection. As far as I can tell, it isn't streaming anything (in the mythtv://... sense)

Re: [mythtv-users] nVidia 8174 and HDTV

2005-12-07 Thread Cory Papenfuss
Just a note for anyone crazy enough to try 8174 this soon : It does not appear to support native HD output. Myself and several others with component outputs (mine are on a 6200) can no get any HD modes to work - they are all reported as Not valid TV modes. So, stick with 7676 if you use a

Re: [mythtv-users] Is common Interface supposed to work?

2005-12-07 Thread Niels Dybdahl
You could try running myhtbackend with:mythbackend -v siparser /var/log/mythbackendsi.txt for a while and then take a look at that text file.Since I am a absolute Linux newbie could you explain this to me like youwould explain it to a 5 year old. So to what terminal do I have to go, do Ihave to

Re: [mythtv-users] Manual zoom in 1920x1080?

2005-12-07 Thread Niels Dybdahl
Get a new email account and I may reply.I'm not certain tour question was intended for me, so I had to delete it (and all copies) immediately.I have the same problem and no such restriction on my email account.I'd love to hear your reply.Sorry the information is privileged and confidential. You

Re: [mythtv-users] XBox Media Center Question

2005-12-07 Thread Justin Hornsby
Michael Tiller wrote: To be honest I have a hard time figuring out exactly what XMBC is doing just by looking at the user interface. It asks for the protocol version but it also wants the video files to be mountable across an SMB connection. As far as I can tell, it isn't streaming anything

Re: [mythtv-users] DVB EPG in MythTV?

2005-12-07 Thread Niels Dybdahl
I'd like to use this, because otherwise I'd have to use many different grabbers (for UK and German TV), and would have to associate the channel IDs from the grabbers with the channel IDs from the channel database table. BTW, how do people do this association?Because for me the association

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: remote control unresponsive

2005-12-07 Thread John Andersen
On 12/6/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 07 December 2005 07:49 am, John Andersen wrote: I bet the Kernel recompile hozed your lircd.You need to recompile it after setting it up properly again for your remote.Are we talking about /etc/conf.d/lircd or /etc/lircd.conf

[mythtv-users] MythRadio and SVN?

2005-12-07 Thread Steve Adeff
Anyone here using MythRadio with more recent SVN releases? I'm looking at using it and want to see where its at first. -- thanks, Steve ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

Re: [mythtv-users] RE: xbox dvd remote on xebian 1.1.4

2005-12-07 Thread R. Geoffrey Newbury
On Tue, 6 Dec 2005 21:07:44 -0500 (EST), Daniel Walton wrote: ahh, now we're getting somewhere. When I run configure it says no for lirc support even if I do --enable-lirc. There must be something that I need to install that is missing. I'll do some digging. There seems to be an error in

Re: [mythtv-users] Channel number assignment by mythbackend

2005-12-07 Thread R. Geoffrey Newbury
On Wed, 7 Dec 2005 00:25:42 -0800, Mitko Haralanov wrote: On Mon, 5 Dec 2005 20:16:14 -0800 Mitko Haralanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am wondering how mythbackend assigns channel numbers to the channels found while doing the full scan on an HD3000: When I use atscscan, it finds 19

Re: [mythtv-users] XBox Media Center Question

2005-12-07 Thread Michael Tiller
Just to be clear, I was not suggesting that MythTV and XMBC become one. I see them as quite different (XMBC doesn't record at all, right?). I just think that as a viewer, XMBC is damn fine.I guess the only point I'm trying to make is that I hope the people adding Myth support for XMBC feel

Re: [mythtv-users] XBox Media Center Question

2005-12-07 Thread Steve Adeff
On Wednesday 07 December 2005 17:26, Michael Tiller wrote: P.S. - It is a damn shame that using XBMC isn't as simple as burning an ISO and sticking it into the XBox. That would be awesome. ah, but it is. well, you have to have a hacked xbox, but you can just burn it to a cd as an xiso and it

[mythtv-users] pvr-150 image looks soft

2005-12-07 Thread Steve Adeff
like a smoothing filter is being used. it looks just a tad softer than the source. I also notice that during scenes with movement it looks as though the frame rate was dropping by 5-10. this is all coming from the svideo output of my digital cable box, so it could just be the output from the

Re: [mythtv-users] nVidia 8174 and HDTV

2005-12-07 Thread Keith C
On Dec 7, 2005, at 3:41 PM, Cory Papenfuss wrote: Just a note for anyone crazy enough to try 8174 this soon : It does not appear to support native HD output. Myself and several others with component outputs (mine are on a 6200) can no get any HD modes to work - they are all reported as

Re: [mythtv-users] XBox Media Center Question

2005-12-07 Thread Michael Tiller
Really. I didn't realize that. Of course, just because you can doesn't mean finding the image will be easy. Is such a thing possible with MythTV for the XBox?!? Any pointers to such things would be interesting. -- MikeOn 12/7/05, Steve Adeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 07 December 2005

Re: [mythtv-users] Manual zoom in 1920x1080?

2005-12-07 Thread Drew Tomlinson
Get a new email account and I may reply. I'm not certain tour question was intended for me, so I had to delete it (and all copies) immediately. I have the same problem and no such restriction on my email account. I'd love to hear your reply. Sorry the information is

Re: [mythtv-users] lightweight TV user-interface

2005-12-07 Thread Ross Campbell
On 12/7/05, Jason Baker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not interested in DVR features so much as I am playing normal computer content (avi movies, mp3s, mp3 and realaudio radio webcasts, and realvideo TV webcasts). That's what you think *NOW*... MythTV looks like a very slick system (the

Re: [mythtv-users] pvr-150 image looks soft

2005-12-07 Thread Steve Hodge
On 12/8/05, Steve Adeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: like a smoothing filter is being used. it looks just a tad softer than the source. I also notice that during scenes with movement it looks as though the frame rate was dropping by 5-10. so are there any secret settings I can look for or

Re: [mythtv-users] XBox Media Center Question

2005-12-07 Thread Mlists
The XBMC Python scripts for MythTV use MySQL to interrogate the database about recording names, channel IDs etc (so you see a pretty name for your recorded shows rather than just the bare filename). The protocol information (AFAIK) is only used to determine that it's really a Mythtv

Re: [mythtv-users] lightweight TV user-interface

2005-12-07 Thread Dewey Smolka
On 12/7/05, Jason Baker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: MythTV looks like a very slick system (the program guide and MythVideo library look especially appealing), but it also looks very hard to customize. It is a very slick system, and it's not hard to customize. MythVideo and MythMusic were the

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-250 and DCT2200

2005-12-07 Thread Dopey Dog
Thanks for all the info guys, but I already have it working using a serial cable for changing channels. I'm using an ATI Remote wonder and having no problems with it. I was just wondering if I still needed the DCT2200, guess I do. I currently only have a 'frame grabber' (ATI TV Wonder VE) and it

RE: [mythtv-users] Manual zoom in 1920x1080?

2005-12-07 Thread Buechler, Mark R
I have no control over my companies email policies other than to move my list subscription to another email address - which I plan to do. However, I'm still seeking a solution to this problem. I doubt MythTV is the problem in this case. I tend to think this may be a limitation to Xv. - Mark.

[mythtv-users] Re: pvr-150 image looks soft

2005-12-07 Thread Mike Frisch
On 7-Dec-05, at 7:13 PM, Steve Hodge wrote: On 12/8/05, Steve Adeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: like a smoothing filter is being used. it looks just a tad softer than the source. I also notice that during scenes with movement it looks as though the frame rate was dropping by 5-10. so are

Re: [mythtv-users] XBox Media Center Question

2005-12-07 Thread Mlists
I think I have a bigger issue with my XBMC install. I can't seem to play any video mpeg with mplayer. It locks up. It's possible that the build of XBMC that I got isn't the best. Anyone have suggestions on a place to get the binary downloads? Email me if you don't want to post to

RE: [mythtv-users] Re: pvr-150 image looks soft

2005-12-07 Thread Dave Packham
How do you turn off DNR on the 250's? Dave P -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike Frisch Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2005 6:58 PM To: Discussion about mythtv Subject: [mythtv-users] Re: pvr-150 image looks soft On 7-Dec-05, at 7:13

Re: [mythtv-users] alternative GPU - graphics cards with open sourcedrivers question

2005-12-07 Thread Bob
Bob wrote: Most people round here like Nvidia GPUs as the drivers (though closed) work and they support XvMC (as long as you're not 64 bit yet), I gather some of the older (R250) Radion chips work as well and have open source drivers, as does one of the old Matrox cards, but for people who

[mythtv-users] Re: XBox Media Center Question

2005-12-07 Thread Casey Dunn
--quote-- Actually I am using a T3CH version. Should it be a fairly new one? The one I have is dated August 7th. I'm downloading a 'PIMPED' version now to try. Norm --quote--T3CH builds are the best, a new one should show up about once a week. There are seveal bittorrent sites as well as

[mythtv-users] Re: pvr-150 image looks soft

2005-12-07 Thread Mike Frisch
On 7-Dec-05, at 9:46 PM, Dave Packham wrote: How do you turn off DNR on the 250's? from ivtv-0.4.0/doc/video-quality.txt: --- cut here --- dnr_mode: 0: spatial and temporal noise removal filters 1: temporal only 2: spatial only 3: no noise filter

[mythtv-users] MythRoku HD1000 Rev A or Rev B

2005-12-07 Thread MythTV
Do you need the Rev B HD1000 with the extra RAM or is the Rev A enough for MythRoku? Thanks, Todd ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: pvr-150 image looks soft

2005-12-07 Thread Sasha Z
Do those settings survive an ivtv reload? Or must they be specified each time? On 12/7/05, Mike Frisch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: so... $ ivtvctl -c dnr_mode=3 $ ivtvctl -c dnr_spatial=0 $ ivtvctl -c dnr_temporal=0 ___ mythtv-users mailing list

Re: [mythtv-users] Compro DVB-T300 and MythTV problems continued...

2005-12-07 Thread Daehenoc
Whee, respond to own post... Greg Vickers wrote: Hi all, snip I've seen the instructions on http://www.overclockers.com.au/wiki/MythTV about the DVB-T300 but I assume they are fairly old seeing as how the saa7134 module is compiled by default with this 2.6.12 kernel... Please enlighten

[mythtv-users] Very low audio level after transcoding

2005-12-07 Thread f-myth-users
[Should I move this to the -dev list? This seems like a bug, and nobody here has said anything about it yet I'll move it to -dev and/or just open up a ticket if I don't hear anything.] Note: I found the Volume % slider in Transcode-MPEG2-Audio Quality and changed it from 90% to 100%. It

Re: [mythtv-users] Nvidia 8174 driver released

2005-12-07 Thread Greg Grotsky
Just confirming more of the same: I updated to 8174 as well and I played back Star Wars II (broadcast a couple weeks ago), it was broadcast in 1280x720. I played it back over a 10 minute period and saw solid 100% cpu usage (AMD64 939pin 3200+, 5700 ultra) and occasional hiccups in the video. I

Re: [mythtv-users] Nvidia 8174 driver released

2005-12-07 Thread Tj
Greg Grotsky wrote: Just confirming more of the same: I updated to 8174 as well and I played back Star Wars II (broadcast a couple weeks ago), it was broadcast in 1280x720. I played it back over a 10 minute period and saw solid 100% cpu usage (AMD64 939pin 3200+, 5700 ultra) and occasional

[mythtv-users] Building a Basic MythTV box

2005-12-07 Thread Kichigai Mentat
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello. I'm looking into making a basic MythTV box for now (with every intent of building a better one later when I have more money, so we're talking about minimal cash right now) out of an AMD Athlon 850 MHz and 256 MB RAM. I'm planning to use

[mythtv-users] What's your recording file size?

2005-12-07 Thread Shardayyy
Mine is PVR-500 30mins = 1.1 GB 1 hour = 2.2 GB Is this normal? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

[mythtv-users] Problems in load-balancing commflagging

2005-12-07 Thread f-myth-users
[Should I move this to -dev and/or open a ticket? I think I found a bug. Is there any point to bug-reporting 0.18.1, since SVN has diverged so far from it at this point?] I have new data. But I'd still -really- love it if somebody, anybody could answer any subset of the questions at the very

[mythtv-users] Is there any ordering dependency between transcoding and commflagging?

2005-12-07 Thread f-myth-users
In 0.18.1: I'd like to do commflagging and transcoding from MEGP2-MPEG4. I was originally thinking that I needed to commflag first, then transcode, but the behavior of Myth when I try (it does both at once, or tries to), makes me wonder if I need to worry about this ordering at all. So does

Re: [mythtv-users] What's your recording file size?

2005-12-07 Thread Josh Burks
On 12/7/05, Shardayyy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mine is PVR-500 30mins = 1.1 GB 1 hour = 2.2 GB Perfectly normal for MPEG2 recordings. Josh ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org

RE: [mythtv-users] Building a Basic MythTV box

2005-12-07 Thread Michael Weinbergs - Network Administrator
Title: RE: [mythtv-users] Building a Basic MythTV box I had this shoestring running for a while (actually - a 20Gb drive - but you get the picture - the more space you have the more you get for storage of recordings) running on a 800Mb Coppermine/128Mb ram (processor is more important than

[mythtv-users] Re: pvr 250 and 500 combo problems

2005-12-07 Thread David Montz
I had a problem similar to this while using gentoo. What I did was uninstalled both cards then uninstalled anything related to ivtv, and ivtv itself. Then I placed both cards back in and reinstalled the removed software/drivers... And it magically grabbed all three tuners for me. Instead on only

Re: [mythtv-users] Channel number assignment by mythbackend

2005-12-07 Thread Mitko Haralanov
On Wed, 07 Dec 05 17:23:04 -0500 R. Geoffrey Newbury [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was under the impression that the numbers etc returned by atscscan (the [01af] or [000a] at the beginning of the line, were the names given by the broadcaster (that is, the scan parses them out of the stream as it

Re: [mythtv-users] Nvidia 8174 driver released

2005-12-07 Thread Curtis Stanford
On Dec 7, 2005, at 9:15 PM, Tj wrote: Greg Grotsky wrote: Just confirming more of the same: I updated to 8174 as well and I played back Star Wars II (broadcast a couple weeks ago), it was broadcast in 1280x720. I played it back over a 10 minute period and saw solid 100% cpu usage (AMD64

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