Re: [mythtv-users] Slave Backend Configuration obscure

2005-12-08 Thread Nick
On 09/12/05, John Andersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have my Master Backend & Frontend working quite nicely with .18.1 and > wanted to add another machine. This second machine works fine as > a remote frontend. > > But I wanted to slap another tuner in this remote machine and use it > als

Re: [mythtv-users] Touchscreen

2005-12-08 Thread Peter Osterberg
Raphael Pooser wrote: Dean Collins wrote: you might be interested in PlutoHome, not sure how much functionality you can drive from your mobiel handset though. Cheers, Dean *From:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of R. Geof

Re: [mythtv-users] Touchscreen

2005-12-08 Thread Peter Osterberg
I've looked at Pluto some months ago. It seemed very simple to setup up but I never managed to. I used my Myth server box for those experiments but the rest of the family complaind when they wanted to look at TV so I couldn't finnish experimenting. Pluto look really neet! Dean Collins wrote:

Re: [mythtv-users] Touchscreen

2005-12-08 Thread Peter Osterberg
R. Geoffrey Newbury wrote: On Tue, 29 Nov 2005 16:52:30 +0100, Peter Osterberg wrote: Jeff Simpson wrote: I have serious thoought of buying one of those expensive boxes with a built in touchscreen. This is mainly because I find it annoying to have to light up my project

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

2005-12-08 Thread Kichigai Mentat
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Dec 8, 2005, at 23.38, Michael Weinbergs - Network Administrator wrote: >Well, I'm in America, so we don't have the advantage of those fancy >DVB cards you get. I'm working with a "dumb" capture card (Digital- to- >analog card). Should still

Re: [mythtv-users] STAY AWAY FROM WI-FI !!!

2005-12-08 Thread W.Kenworthy
google helps here: there are tools that inject a packet that disconnects a client. On reconnect, they try and get in first using the spoofed mac address - if they win, they have knocked your "connected" client off the air and taken its place. Finding the mac address is also easy: kismet etc. Use

Re: [mythtv-users] HDTV questions

2005-12-08 Thread Todd Ignasiak
In the U.S., HDTV is broadcast as MPEG2. The articles I have read about HDTV in Europe have said MPEG4 (probably H.264 / MPEG4.10 / AVC) will be used. H.264 takes much more CPU horsepower to decode. A 3GHz P4 may not ave the horsepower to decode it. On 12/8/05, Steve Adeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Start of Cut Points not Honored In Recordings.

2005-12-08 Thread Chris Pinkham
> Does anyone see this issue? I just updated to 8166 last night and I used > nuvexport (with cutlist option yes'ed) to export some episodes and all the > cut starts were early. Anyone? Do you know if the recording has FPS changes like if the commercials are at one FPS and the show is at another?

Re: [mythtv-users] Is it possible to have two channels appear on one channel??

2005-12-08 Thread Paul Andreassen
On Thu, 8 Dec 2005 09:48 pm, Stephen Dolan wrote: > On 12/8/05, Niels Dybdahl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I think you could implement it in two different ways: > > > > 1. Create a script which takes the output from your xmltv grabber and > > joins the two channels to one. > > > > 2. Place the

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Start of Cut Points not Honored In Recordings.

2005-12-08 Thread michaelf
> On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 06:59:22PM -0700, Greg Grotsky wrote: > seem to be correct. I'm using svn 8042, and using a DVB-T card. I > also seem to get strange commercial cutpoints, though I have no idea Hi, What DVB-T card do you happen to be using? I had a DVICO Plus and had some number of pro

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Start of Cut Points not Honored In Recordings.

2005-12-08 Thread Peter Schachte
On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 06:59:22PM -0700, Greg Grotsky wrote: > Does anyone see this issue? I just updated to 8166 last night and I used > nuvexport (with cutlist option yes'ed) to export some episodes and all the cut > starts were early. Anyone? > > -Greg > > On 12/2/05, Greg Grotsky <[EMAIL P

Re: [mythtv-users] mythbackend can't find channel is database

2005-12-08 Thread Brad Fuller
Mitko Haralanov wrote: On Thu, 08 Dec 2005 19:28:11 -0800 Brad Fuller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: nope, you should have those filled in. You should see what I did in the msg that I referred you to in the last thread. It has what I filled in and how I did it. freqid also needs to

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

2005-12-08 Thread Paul Andreassen
On Fri, 9 Dec 2005 01:31 am, Steve Adeff wrote: > On Thursday 08 December 2005 10:03, Steve Adeff wrote: > > On Thursday 08 December 2005 01:26, Paul Andreassen wrote: > > > On Thu, 8 Dec 2005 11:58 am, Mike Frisch wrote: > > > > On 7-Dec-05, at 7:13 PM, Steve Hodge wrote: > > > > > On 12/8/05, Ste

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

2005-12-08 Thread Michael Weinbergs - Network Administrator
Title: RE: [mythtv-users] Building a Basic MythTV box >Well, I'm in America, so we don't have the advantage of those fancy  >DVB cards you get. I'm working with a "dumb" capture card (Digital-to- >analog card). Should still work. I have analogue card working too... Just get much better recep

Re: [mythtv-users] STAY AWAY FROM WI-FI !!!

2005-12-08 Thread John Andersen
On 12/8/05, Todd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:  Not to fan the flames here...but...1.  MAC filtering is a joke, any bored 12 year old kid can spoof a trustedMAC.  So is thinking you are hidden by turning off broadcast SSID..etc.  Ifyou have a machine talking to your AP, the snoop can see all they need

[mythtv-users] Slave Backend Configuration obscure

2005-12-08 Thread John Andersen
I have my Master Backend & Frontend working quite nicely with .18.1 and wanted to add another machine.  This second machine works fine as a remote frontend.  But I wanted to slap another tuner in this remote machine and use it also as a slave backend (I'd put both cards in the Master If I had th

Re: [mythtv-users] mythbackend can't find channel is database

2005-12-08 Thread Paul Andreassen
On Thu, 8 Dec 2005 05:53 pm, Mitko Haralanov wrote: > After playing with the channel setup and number, I finally have > all the channels that I can receive over the air with their correct > channel number in the database and Zap2It with the correct listings. > > However, now I am having

Re: [mythtv-users] STAY AWAY FROM WI-FI !!!

2005-12-08 Thread John Andersen
On 12/8/05, Raphael Pooser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:  Um, linux isn't really that bad with wifi as people seem to think.  Allyou need is a good chipset.  ANYTHING RALINK WILL DO.  Why? because theyhave provided the source for their drivers to the linux community and now there are good high quality

[mythtv-users] How to obtain serviceids and atscsrcid

2005-12-08 Thread Mitko Haralanov
I am trying to set up my channel table (I was missing the mplexid, serviceid and atscsrcid) but I having trouble getting the serviceid and atscsrcid. The Full Scan in mythtv-setup left the fields empty when doing the scan for the HD3000 card. I managed to get the mplexid from the dt

[mythtv-users] Re: Myth/Debian distribution

2005-12-08 Thread Casey Dunn
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:I'm using Ubuntu and it's mythtv packages and it works great.  bt878 and Air2PC HDTV.   I had a little trouble with breezy and a mismatch between the plugin and backend versions (I need mythweb).  But I don't think that is still an issue.  I'm currently running dappe

Re: [mythtv-users] mythbackend can't find channel is database

2005-12-08 Thread Brad Fuller
Mitko Haralanov wrote: On Wed, 7 Dec 2005 23:53:42 -0800 Mitko Haralanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: After playing with the channel setup and number, I finally have all the channels that I can receive over the air with their correct channel number in the database and Zap2It with t

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Myth/Debian distribution

2005-12-08 Thread Isaac Richards
On Thursday 08 December 2005 21:06, Mike Robinson wrote: > Mike Robinson wrote: > > I was considering using Debian (or Ubuntu) for my new Myth box, but then > > I saw that the distribution isn't being supported anymore: > > > > http://dijkstra.csh.rit.edu/~mdz/debian/dists/unstable/mythtv/README >

Re: [mythtv-users] mythbackend can't find channel is database

2005-12-08 Thread Mitko Haralanov
On Wed, 7 Dec 2005 23:53:42 -0800 Mitko Haralanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > After playing with the channel setup and number, I finally have > all the channels that I can receive over the air with their correct > channel number in the database and Zap2It with the correct listings. > >

Re: [mythtv-users] Myth/Debian distribution

2005-12-08 Thread Steve Adeff
On Thursday 08 December 2005 20:53, Mike Robinson wrote: > I was considering using Debian (or Ubuntu) for my new Myth box, but then > I saw that the distribution isn't being supported anymore: > > http://dijkstra.csh.rit.edu/~mdz/debian/dists/unstable/mythtv/README > > Does this mean that I'm SOL f

Re: [mythtv-users] HDTV questions

2005-12-08 Thread Steve Adeff
On Thursday 08 December 2005 13:19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Well seeing as HDTV looks to be coming to the UK next year > ( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/12/01/telewest_goes_live_with_hdtv/ ) > and we're looking at buying a new HDTV 'ready' TV[1] (1080i) I'm planning > to get HDTV playback se

[mythtv-users] Make problem Transcode

2005-12-08 Thread A JM
I'm having a bit of a make problem, can anyone help? make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/mythtv/mythtv/mythplugins/mythcontrols' cd mythdvd && make -f Makefile make[1]: Entering directory `/home/mythtv/mythtv/mythplugins/mythdvd' cd mythdvd && make -f Makefile make[2]: Entering directory `/home/myt

Re: [mythtv-users] STAY AWAY FROM WI-FI !!!

2005-12-08 Thread Jeff Wormsley
Franco wrote: 2) an environment where the signal transmits bad. It may be the walls, it may be electromagnetical noise, it may be something else but I'm not the only one and you can't tell until you try. Do you by chance have plaster walls and ceilings? If so, there is probably a metal mesh

Re: [mythtv-users] frontend

2005-12-08 Thread Steve Adeff
On Thursday 08 December 2005 21:08, Chris Ribe wrote: > Steve, > Out of curiosity, why would you recommend using a 350 and TV out to > somebody whose TV has a VGA input? Using a PVR-150 and the VGA put should > save money and headaches, no? completely missed that part ;-) if its got VGA in get

Re: [mythtv-users] Correcting overscan in MythVideo/mplayer

2005-12-08 Thread Keith C
On Dec 8, 2005, at 8:25 PM, korebantic wrote: The trouble seems to be with using the "-fs" option. No matter what I scale the output to, the PVR350 overscan still cuts off the subtitles. Is this just endemic with the PVR350 or am I doing something wrong here? The only thing that doesn't cut of

Re: [mythtv-users] XBox Media Center Question

2005-12-08 Thread Kichigai Mentat
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Dec 8, 2005, at 18.18, Mlists wrote: On Thu, 2005-08-12 at 09:38 -0600, Kichigai Mentat wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Dec 8, 2005, at 04.01, Phill Edwards wrote: I think I have a bigger issue with my XBMC install. I

Re: [mythtv-users] frontend

2005-12-08 Thread korebantic
Personally, I'm getting a bit disullisioned with using the PVR350 for output. For me at least it has had problems with overscanning from the very beginning. Trying to work around it has been a big headache. On 12/8/05, Chris Ribe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Steve, >Out of curiosity, why would

Re: [mythtv-users] Correcting overscan in MythVideo/mplayer

2005-12-08 Thread korebantic
The trouble seems to be with using the "-fs" option. No matter what I scale the output to, the PVR350 overscan still cuts off the subtitles. Is this just endemic with the PVR350 or am I doing something wrong here? The only thing that doesn't cut off the subtitles that I could get to work was the f

Re: [mythtv-users] frontend

2005-12-08 Thread Chris Ribe
Steve,   Out of curiosity, why would you recommend using a 350 and TV out to somebody whose TV has a VGA input?  Using a PVR-150 and the VGA put should save money and headaches, no? On 12/8/05, Steve Adeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thursday 08 December 2005 10:52, Chris wrote:> > > I'm going

[mythtv-users] Re: Myth/Debian distribution

2005-12-08 Thread Mike Robinson
Mike Robinson wrote: I was considering using Debian (or Ubuntu) for my new Myth box, but then I saw that the distribution isn't being supported anymore: http://dijkstra.csh.rit.edu/~mdz/debian/dists/unstable/mythtv/README Does this mean that I'm SOL for Myth on a Debian distribution? Would i

Re: [mythtv-users] Myth/Debian distribution

2005-12-08 Thread Tony Godshall
According to Mike Robinson, > I was considering using Debian (or Ubuntu) for my new Myth box, but then > I saw that the distribution isn't being supported anymore: > > http://dijkstra.csh.rit.edu/~mdz/debian/dists/unstable/mythtv/README > > Does this mean that I'm SOL for Myth on a Debian distri

[mythtv-users] Re: Start of Cut Points not Honored In Recordings.

2005-12-08 Thread Greg Grotsky
Does anyone see this issue?  I just updated to 8166 last night and I used nuvexport (with cutlist option yes'ed) to export some episodes and all the cut starts were early.  Anyone? -GregOn 12/2/05, Greg Grotsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I've been watching some programming info that I've recorded

[mythtv-users] Myth/Debian distribution

2005-12-08 Thread Mike Robinson
I was considering using Debian (or Ubuntu) for my new Myth box, but then I saw that the distribution isn't being supported anymore: http://dijkstra.csh.rit.edu/~mdz/debian/dists/unstable/mythtv/README Does this mean that I'm SOL for Myth on a Debian distribution? Would it be much more difficu

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

2005-12-08 Thread Bob
Chad wrote: 8< snip want S3 graphics card with open source drivers but can't find them except on VIA motherboards but would rather not buy a new MB. As for 'not wanting to get a new motherboard' I wouldn't worry too much (depending on why you are concerned ;) ). I have found a couple of outl

Re: [mythtv-users] STAY AWAY FROM WI-FI !!! DEVOLO PERFORMANCE IS BAD

2005-12-08 Thread Robert Johnston
On 12/8/05, Anthony Vito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Be aware when speaking in Mbps, this is also used for advertisements, is > > that it contains > > the overhead within it. > > Oh it's much worse (philsophically) then that. Yes, it contains the > overhead, but then even with that it would sti

Re: [mythtv-users] RE: STAY AWAY FROM WI-FI !!!

2005-12-08 Thread zoiks2004-ivtv
In agreement, my setup uses .11g, with the mythbox connected via cat5 to a Belkin AP/bridge, connected using WPA encryption to my Linksys wireless router/AP. I also have laptops (running ubuntu) that connect via the version 300x Belkin PCMCIA cards (which use the Ralink rt2500 chips) to the same n

Re: [mythtv-users] RE: STAY AWAY FROM WI-FI !!!

2005-12-08 Thread Fedor Pikus
On 12/8/05, Brad DerManouelian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: For the record, I have an encrypted 802.11g network consisting of aLinksys game adaptor on my MythTV box, a D-Link one on a Mac mini,and 802.11g on my laptop. I can watch streams from both remote frontends as well as on my MythTV box without

Re: [mythtv-users] HDTV questions

2005-12-08 Thread Chris Ribe
I'll try my best here to answer what I can 1) How is HDTV connected? Looking at the specs for the TV we're thinking of there's Composite (AV), Y/C (S-Video), ANT (RF), Component (Y/Pb/Pr) and SCART (which you don't have in the US). Equipment in the US can only transmit decoded HDTV over Compo

Re: [mythtv-users] Internal DVD player

2005-12-08 Thread jason bright
On 12/9/05, Dave Oxley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I've just seen issue #511, but I hadn't realised that Myth had its onlyDVD player. I currently use xine, but would like to try Myth's out. So acouple of questions:1. How to I enable it?2. What will I lose switching from Xine? i.e. Does it play menu

Re: [mythtv-users] Internal DVD player

2005-12-08 Thread mythtv
Steve Pugh wrote: > You can enable Xine as your DVD player of choice from within Myth - > within Setup, navigate your way to Optical Disc setup (forgive my > inaccuracy, I'm writing from work) and look for the DVD player command > textbox. From Jarod's Guide, here is a command string that might

Re: [mythtv-users] XBox Media Center Question

2005-12-08 Thread Mlists
On Thu, 2005-08-12 at 09:38 -0600, Kichigai Mentat wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Dec 8, 2005, at 04.01, Phill Edwards wrote: > > >> 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 pos

Re: [mythtv-users] STAY AWAY FROM WI-FI !!!

2005-12-08 Thread Franco
> Ok I get it, more help less flame, but Franco was not asking for help. > He was out posting depricated advice at best. At worst he was trying to > get people to stop using wifi because he is angry at the format due to > his bad past experiences. Franco just wanted to let people know how hap

Re: [mythtv-users] Internal DVD player

2005-12-08 Thread Steve Pugh
Dave Oxley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I've just seen issue #511, but I hadn't realised that Myth had its only DVD player. I currently use xine, but would like to try Myth's out. So a couple of questions:1. How to I enable it?2. What will I lose switching from Xine? i.e. Does it play menus? Hi Dav

[mythtv-users] Internal DVD player

2005-12-08 Thread Dave Oxley
I've just seen issue #511, but I hadn't realised that Myth had its only DVD player. I currently use xine, but would like to try Myth's out. So a couple of questions: 1. How to I enable it? 2. What will I lose switching from Xine? i.e. Does it play menus? Cheers, Dave. __

Re: [mythtv-users] RE: STAY AWAY FROM WI-FI !!!

2005-12-08 Thread Brad DerManouelian
For the record, I have an encrypted 802.11g network consisting of a Linksys game adaptor on my MythTV box, a D-Link one on a Mac mini, and 802.11g on my laptop. I can watch streams from both remote front ends as well as on my MythTV box without much problem. Kick down my bitrate a bit and i

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

2005-12-08 Thread Raphael Pooser
korebantic wrote: I knew what you meant, it was clear enough for me to find it =p On 12/8/05, Raphael Pooser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: korebantic wrote: Arggh, that's where its hiding! Thanks. LOL, I even misread you're last email and thought it said "arrgh where's that hid

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

2005-12-08 Thread korebantic
I knew what you meant, it was clear enough for me to find it =p On 12/8/05, Raphael Pooser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > korebantic wrote: > > >Arggh, that's where its hiding! Thanks. > > > >On 12/8/05, Raphael Pooser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >>korebantic wrote: > >> > >> > >> > >>>I'm

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

2005-12-08 Thread Raphael Pooser
korebantic wrote: Arggh, that's where its hiding! Thanks. On 12/8/05, Raphael Pooser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: korebantic wrote: I'm getting a bit lost in the settings with MythTv -- where do you setup automatic transcoding? I figured out how to transcode after a recording has alrea

Re: [mythtv-users] MythRadio and SVN?

2005-12-08 Thread Steve Adeff
On Thursday 08 December 2005 16:28, korebantic wrote: > You might have more luck here: > > http://woogie.net/mailman/listinfo/mythradio > > I have no idea on the status of the project, just found it on google. > > On 12/7/05, Steve Adeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Anyone here using MythRadio wi

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

2005-12-08 Thread Chad
On 12/8/05, Todd Ignasiak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For more info on the S3 graphics, check out the OpenChrome project and > mailing lists. They have a lot of info on the various chips and the subtle > differences in features/support. > > I think the easiest (maybe only) way to go is to get a m

Re: [mythtv-users] STAY AWAY FROM WI-FI !!! DEVOLO PERFORMANCE IS BAD

2005-12-08 Thread Anthony Vito
> Be aware when speaking in Mbps, this is also used for advertisements, is that > it contains > the overhead within it. Oh it's much worse (philsophically) then that. Yes, it contains the overhead, but then even with that it would still give great data rates. The problem is bigger then that. Tran

[mythtv-users] RE: STAY AWAY FROM WI-FI !!!

2005-12-08 Thread Mark deJong
>Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2005 16:26:24 +0100 (CET) >From: Franco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: [mythtv-users] STAY AWAY FROM WI-FI !!! >To: mythtv-users@mythtv.org >Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > >Hello, Hello Audience. Meet troll. Obviously a unwarranted plu

Re: [mythtv-users] where's the patch to stop DVB from automatically scanning and adding channels?

2005-12-08 Thread Nick
On 08/12/05, Andy Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm loathe to ask this because I know the answer is somewhere on this > mailing list, but I can't find it for the life of me. > > There was a discussion quite some time ago about the dvb 'feature' that > automatically interrogates the cu

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

2005-12-08 Thread korebantic
Arggh, that's where its hiding! Thanks. On 12/8/05, Raphael Pooser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > korebantic wrote: > > >I'm getting a bit lost in the settings with MythTv -- where do you > >setup automatic transcoding? I figured out how to transcode after a > >recording has already occured... > > >

Re: [mythtv-users] MythRadio and SVN?

2005-12-08 Thread korebantic
You might have more luck here: http://woogie.net/mailman/listinfo/mythradio I have no idea on the status of the project, just found it on google. On 12/7/05, Steve Adeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anyone here using MythRadio with more recent SVN releases? I'm looking at > using it and want to

Re: [mythtv-users] Correcting overscan in MythVideo/mplayer

2005-12-08 Thread korebantic
That gives me something to start with, thank you sir ;-] On 12/8/05, Keith C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Dec 8, 2005, at 11:38 AM, korebantic wrote: > > > It looks like my overscanning problems with the PVR350 are comming > > back to bother me again in MythTV. All the videos I watch happen to

Re: [mythtv-users] STAY AWAY FROM WI-FI !!! DEVOLO PERFORMANCE IS BAD

2005-12-08 Thread Pascal Favre
The maximum I got with Devolo Hispeed was 3.4MBytes. Two rooms near each other. From one room to the opposite room 1.2Mbyte. From one room the the basement (cellar, 1 floor below) only 340Kbyte). Actually they were just 3 meters from each other :) Be aware when speaking in Mbps, this is also

Re: [mythtv-users] STAY AWAY FROM WI-FI !!!

2005-12-08 Thread Raphael Pooser
Todd wrote: Not to fan the flames here...but... uh oh. :) 1. MAC filtering is a joke, any bored 12 year old kid can spoof a trusted MAC. So is thinking you are hidden by turning off broadcast SSID..etc. If you have a machine talking to your AP, the snoop can see all they need to know.

Re: [mythtv-users] STAY AWAY FROM WI-FI !!!

2005-12-08 Thread Raphael Pooser
Franco wrote: ANYTHING RALINK WILL DO because you didn't do and RESEARCH before trying your wifi network. Well, 1-2 years ago, I researched and found the prism54 to be the recommended solution, so I went for that Ok I'll admit 1-2 years it was not where it was today. So why are

Re: [mythtv-users] STAY AWAY FROM WI-FI !!!

2005-12-08 Thread Jack R. Hyde
My experience closely mirrors your own, there is just too much interference from neighbor's networks, phones, microwaves, etc not to mention a mostly vertical living arrangement. It works ok for my laptop for ssh, remote control, etc, but that's only because I went with a thinkpad, their wifi a

Re: [mythtv-users] Buffalo Network Storage?

2005-12-08 Thread Jonathan Tidmore
I've been looking for a RAID-5 NAS solution myself.  I was leaning toward making my own NAS (slower box with a raid-5 card and slap Linux on it to nfs/smb/http/ftp share).  But then I found the ReadyNAS 600.  Looks nice.  Reviews are spectacular.  It is a bit pricy.  The only downside is it only ta

[mythtv-users] Buffalo Network Storage?

2005-12-08 Thread Nathan Hesson
Has anyone had any luck using a Buffalo TerraStation as Recording storage.  It can be mounted via smb but the reviews i have read say it is kinda slow.Nathan ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/

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

2005-12-08 Thread Greg Estabrooks
> OK. Here's a simple customization. Democracy Now is available each > weekday after 12pm eastern. The video link is (currently) of the form > http://play.rbn.com/?url=demnow/demnow/demand/%Y/%b/video/dnB%Y%m%da.rm&proto=rtsp > (at least in english language locales). I would like to have a menu

Re: [mythtv-users] STAY AWAY FROM WI-FI !!!

2005-12-08 Thread Blammo
On 12/8/05, Franco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > just wanted to tell everybody that now I have a working > network at home so I can start experimenting with > multiple frontend/backend configuration. > > PLEASE STAY AWAY FROM WI-FI. Without quoting everyone on this thread, let me throw in my 2cents

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

2005-12-08 Thread Jason Baker
Dewey Smolka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > My question for the list is two-fold. First, is my impression of > > MythTV wrong? And second, what other programs are out there that work > > well with TVs and remote controls? > > What do you want your machine to do? Play .avi, .mp3, and streaming

Re: [mythtv-users] STAY AWAY FROM WI-FI !!! DEVOLO PERFORMANCE IS BAD

2005-12-08 Thread Franco
Yes, in fact, as I wrote in my previous mail, even though devolo is advertised for 85 Mbps, I only got 10+ Mbps. This is enormously faster than I got before, 811.g is advertised for 54 Mbps and I was getting 1 Mbps when I was very lucky. Typical transfer rate for me was 30 KB/sec (intermittent). I

Re: [mythtv-users] STAY AWAY FROM WI-FI !!!

2005-12-08 Thread Franco
> ANYTHING RALINK WILL DO > because you didn't do and RESEARCH before trying your wifi network. Well, 1-2 years ago, I researched and found the prism54 to be the recommended solution, so I went for that > Let me ask you this then. If wifi is so bad and has so many > disadvantages, why did

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

2005-12-08 Thread Mudit Wahal
Well, I was hedging my bet. I also posted it in avsforum too :-) Finally got a reply from someone in avsforum who is running overclocked slug with wizd and streaming HD (high definition) contents to his Snazio HD dvd player. I saw your USB ATSC tuner post earlier. I'm currently running HD3000 and

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

2005-12-08 Thread Jason Baker
Ross Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 12/7/05, Jason Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > if I want to tweak the interface to the music and movie libraries, I > > need to do it in C++. > > You should check out the different options for the default layouts for > the MythVideo first. That

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

2005-12-08 Thread Alan Hagge
Mudit Wahal wrote: 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 O

Re: [mythtv-users] STAY AWAY FROM WI-FI !!!

2005-12-08 Thread Todd
- Original Message - From: "Raphael Pooser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Discussion about mythtv" Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2005 10:30 AM Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] STAY AWAY FROM WI-FI !!! Franco wrote: I have an 802.11g wireless network at home, and it works perfectly. you probabl

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

2005-12-08 Thread Todd Ignasiak
For more info on the S3 graphics, check out the OpenChrome project and mailing lists.  They have a lot of info on the various chips and the subtle differences in features/support.I think the easiest (maybe only) way to go is to get a motherboard with Unichrome video. Also,  I think S3 Graphics is o

[mythtv-users] where's the patch to stop DVB from automatically scanning and adding channels?

2005-12-08 Thread Andy Foster
Hi,I'm loathe to ask this because I know the answer is somewhere on this mailing list, but I can't find it for the life of me.There was a discussion quite some time ago about the dvb 'feature' that automatically interrogates the currently tuned-in dvb stream for other channels and adds them to the

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

2005-12-08 Thread Raphael Pooser
korebantic wrote: I'm getting a bit lost in the settings with MythTv -- where do you setup automatic transcoding? I figured out how to transcode after a recording has already occured... One way is in the job settings section of the recording options. When you go to schedule a new recording,

Re: [mythtv-users] Correcting overscan in MythVideo/mplayer

2005-12-08 Thread Keith C
On Dec 8, 2005, at 11:38 AM, korebantic wrote: It looks like my overscanning problems with the PVR350 are comming back to bother me again in MythTV. All the videos I watch happen to be subtitled anime, and the subtitles are being cutoff at the bottom of my screen. Any suggestions on settings fo

Re: [mythtv-users] STAY AWAY FROM WI-FI !!!

2005-12-08 Thread Raphael Pooser
Franco wrote: I have an 802.11g wireless network at home, and it works perfectly. you probably have either very thick walls, lots of metal around Yes, I have a 3-floors house, with very thick walls/floors/ceilings made of iron and concrete. Are you saying that you were just unable to

Re: [mythtv-users] STAY AWAY FROM WI-FI !!! DEVOLO PERFORMANCE IS BAD

2005-12-08 Thread Pascal Favre
Here is a SYSTRAN Translation of my previous mail: Mail to Devolo: I got mine on Tuesday 05.07.2005 DL on Highspeed starter package. The installation ran problem-free. In differently areas I have measurements through-taken. Results are ernuechternd. The consideration to the purchase was the b

Re: [mythtv-users] STAY AWAY FROM WI-FI !!!

2005-12-08 Thread Andy Rabin
On 12/8/05, Ben Dash <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- Richard Bronosky wrote: > > I'm actually hoping to look into this solution to > > create a semi-WAN > > between my home and my in-laws home across the cul > > de sac. If I can get > > good enough speeds, I'm going to try to share my > > MythTV

[mythtv-users] HDTV questions

2005-12-08 Thread mythtv-users
Well seeing as HDTV looks to be coming to the UK next year ( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/12/01/telewest_goes_live_with_hdtv/ ) and we're looking at buying a new HDTV 'ready' TV[1] (1080i) I'm planning to get HDTV playback set up on my myth box. Only problem is I don't know where to start!

Re: [mythtv-users] STAY AWAY FROM WI-FI !!! DEVOLO PERFORMANCE IS BAD

2005-12-08 Thread Pascal Favre
Hello I did thorough testing with the devolo HiSpeed produkt at my new home. Please find a reply form the devolo-support and my mail in german; I am sorry. There are also some figures within it, you might understand. Please find also the used commands and the throughput figures as seperate files

[mythtv-users] Cannot tune channels above 55

2005-12-08 Thread Dan
Apologies if this is a driver issue rather than a MythTV issue, but I have been unable to tune channels above 55. 55 itself is snowy, from 55-60, I get reminents of Ch 55, and above 60, I get static. My setup is Fedora Core 3, Hauppauge PVR-500, and ivtv 0.4 driver. I followed the instructions a

Re: [mythtv-users] MythPhone compatibility

2005-12-08 Thread David Rudder
MythPhone is based on SIP, which is a standard for VoIP. It appears to use the G711 codec for audio, which is totally standard and should be supported by pretty much every SIP compatible voip phone out there. I *think* the video codec is H263, which is also pretty standard. There's a Java pr

Re: [mythtv-users] STAY AWAY FROM WI-FI !!!

2005-12-08 Thread Ben Dash
--- Richard Bronosky wrote: > I'm actually hoping to look into this solution to > create a semi-WAN > between my home and my in-laws home across the cul > de sac. If I can get > good enough speeds, I'm going to try to share my > MythTV backend with them. Do you get "Everybody Loves Raymond" the

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

2005-12-08 Thread Mike Frisch
On Thu, December 8, 2005 1:26 am, Paul Andreassen said: > Have you tried increasing the bitrate? Go nuts and see if it makes a > difference. I use 6400/8000 which is much better than the analog signal > out > of a digital satellite set top box. I am actually running 9000/8000 (or something simil

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

2005-12-08 Thread Kichigai Mentat
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Dec 8, 2005, at 11.32, MythTV wrote: As mentioned it is normal. You can adjust the data rate in the recording profiles. If you are recording analog from the air, then you might reduce the horizontal resolution from 720 pixels to 400 and reduce

[mythtv-users] Correcting overscan in MythVideo/mplayer

2005-12-08 Thread korebantic
It looks like my overscanning problems with the PVR350 are comming back to bother me again in MythTV. All the videos I watch happen to be subtitled anime, and the subtitles are being cutoff at the bottom of my screen. Any suggestions on settings for mplayer (or maybe it needs to be somewhere else)

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

2005-12-08 Thread MythTV
>> As mentioned it is normal. You can adjust the data rate in the >> recording profiles. If you are recording analog from the air, then you >> might reduce the horizontal resolution from 720 pixels to 400 and >> reduce the datarate accordingly. >> And you can transcode to MPEG4 to reduce the dat

[mythtv-users] ATTN: users of the uk_rt XMLTV grabber

2005-12-08 Thread Nick
Dear all, I've just put through a lot of updates to the channel_ids file which brings the grabber support bang up to date with what's available on the BBC's site. This adds support for new channels like ITV4 and More4 and adds descriptions for all channels to aid initial setup of the grabber. If

[mythtv-users] Epia SP / VIA Unichrome Pro / HDTV - getting it to work.

2005-12-08 Thread Bradley A. Thornton
Good morning all- I'll post this question here, although I suspect it'll end up in the dev list. I've already appoached the Openchrome folks and this appears to be related to Myth. This is in an attempt to build a Myth frontend. On an Epia SP1300 I installed Slackware 10.2, upgraded to kernel

[mythtv-users] Epia SP / VIA Unichrome Pro / HDTV - getting it to work.

2005-12-08 Thread Bradley A. Thornton
Good morning all- I'll post this question here, although I suspect it'll end up in the dev list. I've already appoached the Openchrome folks and this appears to be related to Myth. This is in an attempt to build a Myth frontend. On an Epia SP1300 I installed Slackware 10.2, upgraded to kernel

Re: [mythtv-users] keyspan remote - about to buy

2005-12-08 Thread dsnider
> I am about to purchase a Keyspan remote control. It's a USB remote > control using RF. I have a Mac running the Myth frontend and I'd > love to get rid of the long keyboard wire. If anyone knows this to > not work as expected, please let me know. Or if there is a > significantly better soluti

Re: [mythtv-users] frontend

2005-12-08 Thread Steve Adeff
On Thursday 08 December 2005 10:52, Chris wrote: > > > I'm going to build a new frondend machine. What would be the way to > > > go. > > > PVR 350 with tvout or just use the vga out. Suggestions for a nice > > > quiet > > > vga card ? > > > > > > I'm connecting it to an lcd tv that has both VGA and

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

2005-12-08 Thread korebantic
I'm getting a bit lost in the settings with MythTv -- where do you setup automatic transcoding? I figured out how to transcode after a recording has already occured... On 12/8/05, Neil Bird <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Around about 08/12/05 09:34, Ant Daniel typed ... > > I 'tuned' (ok bad use of

Re: [mythtv-users] frontend

2005-12-08 Thread Kichigai Mentat
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 "A company is like a monster. And it's my job to find smaller monsters for it to eat." --Charlotte Pickles, "The Rugrats" On Dec 8, 2005, at 09.52, Chris wrote: I'm going to build a new frondend machine. What would be the way to go. PVR 350

Re: [mythtv-users] STAY AWAY FROM WI-FI !!!

2005-12-08 Thread mythtv-users
On Thursday 08 December 2005 15:56, Todd Houle wrote: > I successfully use WiFi networking at home. It was been working > great except when the microwave is on or someone is using our > cordless telephone. I had it at 802.11b and it was a bit jumpy > (until I lowered the quality). When I moved t

Re: [mythtv-users] STAY AWAY FROM WI-FI !!!

2005-12-08 Thread N Dugas
Franco wrote: I have an 802.11g wireless network at home, and it works perfectly. you probably have either very thick walls, lots of metal around Yes, I have a 3-floors house, with very thick walls/floors/ceilings made of iron and concrete. Are you saying that you were just unable to get eno

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