Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV.org Wiki

2006-01-20 Thread Stef Coene
On Friday 20 January 2006 03:22, Steve Adeff wrote: I just want to emphasize the fact that the official MythTV.org wiki is up at http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page The site still has a lot of room to grow, adding hardware setup, work on the User Manual, etc. It also has a lot of

Re: [mythtv-users] Missing .nuv files?

2006-01-20 Thread John Andersen
On 1/19/06, Michael Still [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John Andersen wrote: Who knows why it happened. Could have been anything. But if you are smart enough to figure out how to run SVN then you are smart enough to learn knoda mysqladmin or any of the other mysql clients (ore even the

Re: [mythtv-users] How to boost niceness of both front and backends?

2006-01-20 Thread Niels Dybdahl
My myth machine also serves are my mail filter and I have noticed that whenfetchmail receives mail it causes livetv to pause briefly. Is there a way to boost the niceness of both the front and backends? Or to makefetchmail/spamassassin/clamav behave better on disk i/o? I am running FC2with a pair

[mythtv-users] Bitrate oddity

2006-01-20 Thread f-myth-users
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 21:40:17 + From: Nick [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 19/01/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Still looking for suggestions on easy ways to either reencode what I've already got at slightly lower rates, or to cut it in ways that will

[mythtv-users] Changing width resolution for PVR-250/350's

2006-01-20 Thread f-myth-users
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 16:49:00 -0800 From: Drew Tomlinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've found the info at this site helpful http://www.mediachance.com/dvdlab/tutorial/bitrate.html Gosh, that's a pretty diagram. :) I eventually settled on 3200kbits/sec as being just about as good

Re: [mythtv-users] Missing .nuv files?

2006-01-20 Thread Tomi Makinen
I cannot be sure if you have same problem as I do. Sometimes my DVB-C (ttpci) driver does something wrong and it has to be restarted to get recordings again. Just stop backend, unload and load the driver and start backend. On 1/20/06, John Andersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/19/06, Michael

Re: [mythtv-users] Myth Remote Control

2006-01-20 Thread Ben Suffolk
Mark, I just bought myself a Sky Commander Remote from ebay. Only cost £10 new inc postage. Basically its a sky+ remote that flips open to contain a qwerty keyboard. This is the URL of the one I bought (auction now ended, but I'm sure there are lots more on ebay). I'm including it as it

Re: [mythtv-users] AC3 and/or S/PDIF (again)

2006-01-20 Thread Ben Suffolk
I changed my device to ALSA:spdif and the mixer to default and BAM! I've got dolby digital coming out. I'm using Jarod's .asoundrc file and it seems to be working great. Thanks everyone! Do you have volume control via myth with this method? I can get all my audio output through the

[mythtv-users] Myth - Mplayer focus

2006-01-20 Thread Stuart Fox
Hi all Simple question (i hope), do I need to run a window manager to make mplayer take the keyboard focus? I run mythfrontend direct out of my .xinitrc with no wm. This works fine for xine but seems not to for mplayer. Before we get into a xine/mplayer war :) I use xine for dvd and mplayer

Re: [mythtv-users] How to boost niceness of both front and backends?

2006-01-20 Thread William
Title: Message Do you know if it is the recording or the playing that pauses ? You might try doing it on a recording instead of livetv...Which kind of tuner do you have ? Does it have onboard encoding ? If not, you might try with onboard encoding instead.Niels Dybdahl

Re: [mythtv-users] Myth - Mplayer focus

2006-01-20 Thread Greg Estabrooks
Simple question (i hope), do I need to run a window manager to make mplayer take the keyboard focus? Running a minimal window manager is recommended to handle all focus issues. What you describe is common for users who don't run a window manager at all.

Re: [mythtv-users] ProjectGrayhem-wide theme version 1.2

2006-01-20 Thread James Armstrong
Justin Hornsby wrote: I fully understand the issues brought about by the miracle of overscan - infact I think I even remember pointing it out to somebody a long time ago. Probably to me ;) I've made a classic mistake in not practising what I preach, but I aim to put this right

[mythtv-users] Hosed VGforMyth?

2006-01-20 Thread Adam Propeck
Alright. I had to do a restore from backup (True Image) tonight and all of a sudden my LVM is not found. I get a message that says /dev/VGforMyth/video is not valid or not found or something like that. I'm going nuts. What can I do (FC4) to get this back? I'd LOVE to not lose my recordings. Thanks

Re: [mythtv-users] AC3 and/or S/PDIF (again)

2006-01-20 Thread Adam Propeck
If/when I get my VGforMyth volume to recreate/mount I can check this.On 1/20/06, Ben Suffolk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I changed my device to ALSA:spdif and the mixer to default and BAM! I've got dolby digital coming out. I'm using Jarod's .asoundrc file and it seems to be working great. Thanks

Re: [mythtv-users] ProjectGrayhem-wide theme version 1.2

2006-01-20 Thread Justin Hornsby
On 20/01/06, James Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think 5% should be enough. I think that is what I used on my theme I played with along time ago. The text on most screens is just at the edge, it is all visible (I think, going by memory), but the box borders are off the screen. The

Re: [mythtv-users] AC3 and/or S/PDIF (again)

2006-01-20 Thread William Lewis
Do you have volume control via myth with this method? I can get all my audio output through the spdif connector, but can not find anyway of controlling the volume via myth (this would be my preferred option as I like the on screen volume display). My amp is in a different room (as is the myth

Re: [mythtv-users] Myth - Mplayer focus

2006-01-20 Thread Joseph A. Caputo
On Friday 20 January 2006 7:33, Greg Estabrooks wrote: Simple question (i hope), do I need to run a window manager to make mplayer take the keyboard focus? Running a minimal window manager is recommended to handle all focus issues. What you describe is common for users who don't run a

Re: [mythtv-users] HD3000 DVB Recordings - Freezes on Playback

2006-01-20 Thread Michael Haan
On 1/20/06, frank s [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I am a newbie to mythtv and have a setup thatis working fairly well, but is having a problem withfreezes under certain conditions.I have been searching the board for MythTV users whoare having a problem similar to what I am experiencing and have

Re: [mythtv-users] Simple kernel upgrade question

2006-01-20 Thread Michael Haan
On 1/20/06, mrwester [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks. Just did as you said and got:[EMAIL PROTECTED] v4l-dvb]# modprobe dvb-bt8xx WARNING: Error inserting bttv (/lib/modules/2.6.14- 1.1656_FC4/kernel/drivers/media/video/bttv.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)WARNING:

Re: [mythtv-users] HD3000 DVB Recordings - Freezes on Playback

2006-01-20 Thread William Lewis
Well, the good news is that now I am not an isolated incident of this. I am experiencing almost exactly what you are. I say almost because I haven't broken down the circumstances under which it may freeze. But, when it does happen, my experience is exactly the same as yours. My current

Re: [mythtv-users] Simple kernel upgrade question

2006-01-20 Thread Michael Haan
On 1/20/06, Michael Haan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/20/06, mrwester [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks. Just did as you said and got:[EMAIL PROTECTED] v4l-dvb]# modprobe dvb-bt8xx WARNING: Error inserting bttv (/lib/modules/2.6.14- 1.1656_FC4/kernel/drivers/media/video/bttv.ko): Unknown symbol

[mythtv-users] mythvideo

2006-01-20 Thread Piers Kittel
Hello all, I've got the following systems: a MythTV backend without a frontend a few MythTV frontends a server containing some files and several non MythTV videos. Currently, if I want to watch the movies on the frontends, I usually mount the server's hard drive via NFS and use something like

Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV.org Wiki

2006-01-20 Thread Alexander Fisher
An additional note - I'll be adding an official link from the main mythtv.org website as soon as 0.19's released (ie., one week-ish) Isaac Yes!! We finally have a wiki! Forget the wiki, 0.19 is going to be released! :) So what's the plan? A release candidate first, or just a

Re: [mythtv-users] HD3000 DVB Recordings - Freezes on Playback

2006-01-20 Thread Neil Spring
On Jan 20, 2006, at 2:51 AM, frank s wrote: Hello, I am a newbie to mythtv and have a setup that is working fairly well, but is having a problem with freezes under certain conditions. Yup. I get freezes too, where mythfrontend leaks memory until it dies. I've started to try to record

Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV.org Wiki

2006-01-20 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 11:20:35PM -0500, Jeff Simpson wrote: But the ettiquite question is still out there - are there guidelines to be posted somewhere for what pages should contain / shouldn't contain? It's more a question of style and where to put pages; I'll be working on

Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV.org Wiki

2006-01-20 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 09:33:31AM +0100, Stef Coene wrote: What's the best way to on include a script? I can not find a way to attach somthing, so I copied it in the text. But that's looking fine. If you indent material on a space, it will be set in fixed pitch and boxed. The Help link

Re: [mythtv-users] Missing .nuv files?

2006-01-20 Thread Tom Lichti
Michael Still wrote: Michael Still wrote: So, I have a couple of questions about this: - why did it happen? - I can't delete the recordings from the UI now because of an error message. How do I rerecord these episodes? I'm running a SVN snapshot from Christmas day last year if

Re: [mythtv-users] HD3000 DVB Recordings - Freezes on Playback

2006-01-20 Thread Michael Haan
On 1/20/06, Neil Spring [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 20, 2006, at 2:51 AM, frank s wrote: Hello, I am a newbie to mythtv and have a setup that is working fairly well, but is having a problem with freezes under certain conditions.Yup.I get freezes too, where mythfrontend leaks memory until it

Re: [mythtv-users] A foolish question abut Knoppmyth auto-install

2006-01-20 Thread Andrew Close
On 1/19/06, Curtis Preston [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It shouldn't be doing that. You should post this question in the knoppmyth forum board at www.mysettopbox.tv . -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joe Marcom Sent: Thursday, January

Re: [mythtv-users] Myth - Mplayer focus

2006-01-20 Thread chris
On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 12:25:00PM -, Stuart Fox wrote: I run mythfrontend direct out of my .xinitrc with no wm. This works fine for xine but seems not to for mplayer. If you are using mythfrontend as the foreground program to keep the X session open, then simply install ratpoison

Re: [mythtv-users] HD3000 DVB Recordings - Freezes on Playback

2006-01-20 Thread Drew Tomlinson
On 1/19/2006 11:51 PM frank s wrote: Hello, I am a newbie to mythtv and have a setup that is working fairly well, but is having a problem with freezes under certain conditions. I have been searching the board for MythTV users who are having a problem similar to what I am experiencing and have

Re: [mythtv-users] HD3000 DVB Recordings - Freezes on Playback

2006-01-20 Thread Steve Adeff
On Friday 20 January 2006 10:47, Drew Tomlinson wrote: On 1/19/2006 11:51 PM frank s wrote: Hello, I am a newbie to mythtv and have a setup that is working fairly well, but is having a problem with freezes under certain conditions. I have been searching the board for MythTV users who are

Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV.org Wiki

2006-01-20 Thread Steve Adeff
On Friday 20 January 2006 03:33, Stef Coene wrote: On Friday 20 January 2006 03:22, Steve Adeff wrote: I just want to emphasize the fact that the official MythTV.org wiki is up at http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page The site still has a lot of room to grow, adding hardware

Re: [mythtv-users] HD3000 DVB Recordings - Freezes on Playback

2006-01-20 Thread Michael Haan
On 1/20/06, Steve Adeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 20 January 2006 10:47, Drew Tomlinson wrote: On 1/19/2006 11:51 PM frank s wrote: Hello, I am a newbie to mythtv and have a setup that is working fairly well, but is having a problem with freezes under certain conditions. I have been

Re: [mythtv-users] Myth - Mplayer focus

2006-01-20 Thread Stuart Fox
On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 12:25:00PM -, Stuart Fox wrote: I run mythfrontend direct out of my .xinitrc with no wm. This works fine for xine but seems not to for mplayer. If you are using mythfrontend as the foreground program to keep the X session open, then simply install ratpoison

Re: [mythtv-users] HD3000 DVB Recordings - Freezes on Playback

2006-01-20 Thread Steve Adeff
On Friday 20 January 2006 11:14, Michael Haan wrote: On 1/20/06, Steve Adeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 20 January 2006 10:47, Drew Tomlinson wrote: On 1/19/2006 11:51 PM frank s wrote: Hello, I am a newbie to mythtv and have a setup that is working fairly well, but is having a

Re: [mythtv-users] HD3000 DVB Recordings - Freezes on Playback

2006-01-20 Thread Michael Haan
On 1/20/06, Steve Adeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 20 January 2006 11:14, Michael Haan wrote: On 1/20/06, Steve Adeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 20 January 2006 10:47, Drew Tomlinson wrote: On 1/19/2006 11:51 PM frank s wrote: Hello, I am a newbie to mythtv and have a setup

Re: [mythtv-users] AC3 and/or S/PDIF (again)

2006-01-20 Thread Jarod Wilson
On Friday 20 January 2006 05:11, William Lewis wrote: Do you have volume control via myth with this method? I can get all my audio output through the spdif connector, but can not find anyway of controlling the volume via myth (this would be my preferred option as I like the on screen volume

Re: [mythtv-users] HD3000 DVB Recordings - Freezes on Playback

2006-01-20 Thread Drew Tomlinson
On 1/20/2006 8:27 AM Steve Adeff wrote: On Friday 20 January 2006 11:14, Michael Haan wrote: On 1/20/06, Steve Adeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 20 January 2006 10:47, Drew Tomlinson wrote: On 1/19/2006 11:51 PM frank s wrote: Hello, I am a newbie to mythtv and

Re: [mythtv-users] Myth - Mplayer focus

2006-01-20 Thread Joseph A. Caputo
On Friday 20 January 2006 11:19, Stuart Fox wrote: On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 12:25:00PM -, Stuart Fox wrote: I run mythfrontend direct out of my .xinitrc with no wm. This works fine for xine but seems not to for mplayer. If you are using mythfrontend as the foreground program to

[mythtv-users] Cannot update ivtv

2006-01-20 Thread David R Robison
I am trying to update ivtv by yum install ivtv I get the following error: Error: Missing Dependency: /lib/modules/v4l-cx2341x-init-mpeg.bin is needed by package ivtv-kmdl-2.6.14-1.1653_FC4 Yet the file is in /lib/modules. What is also interesting is that the package being updated is

[mythtv-users] Installing new Firewire card

2006-01-20 Thread Drew Zerdecki
I installed the new card and test-mpeg2 -r 0 works reliably. However, recording in Myth does not work at all. I've tried both P2P and broadcast and Mythbackend reports "No Input in 15 seconds [P:0 N:0] (select). Are there specific plugctl commands I should test?

Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV.org Wiki

2006-01-20 Thread Jeff Simpson
Is there a place in the wiki where I can describe my setup ? Stef You folks can all add information I can't, from your own personal experience,etc. I have no problem going through articles and updating formating to givea more fluid look to the site. I think he meant like an

Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV.org Wiki

2006-01-20 Thread Kevin Kuphal
Jeff Simpson wrote: Is there a place in the wiki where I can describe my setup ? Stef You folks can all add information I can't, from your own personal experience, etc. I have no problem going through articles and updating formating to give a more

[mythtv-users] Debugging frontend freeze -- baby steps

2006-01-20 Thread John Biundo
Hi, I haven't had much luck (OK, zero responses, but I'm not complaining ;-) to my earlier queries about my frontend freeze problem. Googling around, trawling through Trac, etc., have been largely fruitless. Rather than search for an answer or a direct match to my problem, I'm hoping I can

[mythtv-users] Sync rates for Sharp 32 inch LCD

2006-01-20 Thread Richard Bronosky
I just want this information to be search locatable, which it currently is not. I have a Sharp Aquos LC-32D4U which does NOT have DVI in, and therefore Sharp gives no frequency info for it, so I looked for the info on one of their DVI capable models. Page 56 of

Re: [mythtv-users] HD3000 DVB Recordings - Freezes on Playback

2006-01-20 Thread Neil Spring
On Jan 20, 2006, at 11:09 AM, Steve Adeff wrote: - a particular recording will always freeze at the same point on multiple playback attempts - skipping past the freeze point does not cause a freeze, but audio is lost even though the video is good You guys should seriously consider

Re: [mythtv-users] AC3 and/or S/PDIF (again)

2006-01-20 Thread Michael T. Dean
On 01/19/06 22:25, Jarod Wilson wrote: On Thursday 19 January 2006 19:11, William Lewis wrote: Yeah. Shouldn't video as timebase be disabled if AC-3 Passthrough is enabled and there's an AC-3 stream? (Kind of like AC-3 is disabled when the user initiates timestretch--at least until Mark

Re: [mythtv-users] SVN 8625 Firewire capture glitching while test-mpeg2 doesn't

2006-01-20 Thread Brian Fischer
As an experiement, I ran a test-mpeg2 capture on the same channel (though the channel doesn't matter), grabbed 1.8GB and played through the internal player using MythVideo. This method results in a glitch free capture for the 17mins of video. I am not sure that this may be due to MythTV. Do

Re: [mythtv-users] Missing .nuv files?

2006-01-20 Thread Michael T. Dean
On 01/19/06 23:32, Michael Still wrote: I have several recordings that have no .nuv file in the filesystem. The backend reports: 2006-01-19 20:26:04.515 MainServer::HandleQueryRecordings() Couldn't find backend for: The Simpsons : Home Away From

Re: [mythtv-users] Bitrate oddity

2006-01-20 Thread Michael T. Dean
On 01/20/06 04:24, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, I just had a total bombout on both ideas. I'm running Unbuntu Breezy, in case anyone has any suggestions. What follows are sketchy summaries; if someone wants more details to help debug, I can include precise versions and transcripts from my

Re: [mythtv-users] Installing new Firewire card

2006-01-20 Thread Steve Adeff
On Friday 20 January 2006 12:19, Drew Zerdecki wrote: I installed the new card and test-mpeg2 -r 0 works reliably. However, recording in Myth does not work at all. I've tried both P2P and broadcast and Mythbackend reports No Input in 15 seconds [P:0 N:0] (select). Are there specific

Re: [mythtv-users] SVN 8625 Firewire capture glitching while test-mpeg2 doesn't

2006-01-20 Thread Steve Adeff
On Friday 20 January 2006 13:14, Brian Fischer wrote: As an experiement, I ran a test-mpeg2 capture on the same channel (though the channel doesn't matter), grabbed 1.8GB and played through the internal player using MythVideo. This method results in a glitch free capture for the 17mins of

Re: [mythtv-users] mythvideo

2006-01-20 Thread Michael T. Dean
On 01/20/06 09:35, Piers Kittel wrote: I've got the following systems: a MythTV backend without a frontend a few MythTV frontends a server containing some files and several non MythTV videos. Currently, if I want to watch the movies on the frontends, I usually mount the server's hard drive via

Re: [mythtv-users] Missing .nuv files?

2006-01-20 Thread Michael Still
Michael T. Dean wrote: What error message do you get when you try to delete? SVN should allow you to delete a recording even without the original file. I'm not at home at the moment, so I don't have the exact message, but given that... The message happens when I hit right arrow on an

Re: [mythtv-users] Hosed VGforMyth?

2006-01-20 Thread Paul Barker
Adam Propeck wrote: Alright. I had to do a restore from backup (True Image) tonight and all of a sudden my LVM is not found. I get a message that says /dev/VGforMyth/video is not valid or not found or something like that. I'm going nuts. What can I do (FC4) to get this back? I'd LOVE to

Re: [mythtv-users] AC3 and/or S/PDIF (again)

2006-01-20 Thread William Lewis
How 'bout simply disabling 'use video as timebase' at run-time when passing raw AC3, regardless of what 'use video as timebase' is set to. Yeah. That's what I was trying to say (that's why I compared it to the runtime disabling of AC-3 passthrough with timestretch and why I said, [if] there's

[mythtv-users] SBLive!, Surround Sound Speakers, single volume control?

2006-01-20 Thread Howard P Holden
I have an SBLive 5.1 and Altec-Lansing GT-5051 speakers. If I try to control the volume of myhth music or mythtv or while playing a dvd, only one set of speakers -- the rear or Surround, I think -- is affected. The same is true if I use mplayer or aplay from the command line. Experimenting

Re: [mythtv-users] Miserable time installing Mythtv

2006-01-20 Thread Maverick
$ rpm -q --qf='%{name}.%{arch}\n' \*myth\* package *myth* is not installed Aw, crap, missed an option there. Should have been: rpm -qa --qf='%{name}.%{arch}\n' \*myth\* That worked a little better, # rpm -qa --qf='%{name}.%{arch}\n' \*myth\* libmyth.i386 mythtv-theme-MediaCenter.noarch

[mythtv-users] Changing channels on DCT2000 series/audio questions

2006-01-20 Thread John Brooks
Hi! I'm struggling with getting my MythTV box going- it's been a lot more difficult than I'd expected, but I'm really close. I have two issues in front of me now:1.) When I try to change channels, I end up getting static on every other channel except channel three. I'm guessing that this is

Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV.org Wiki

2006-01-20 Thread Phill Wiggin
If you click your username after registering on the top bar, you get a user specific page that you can edit. I think this would be a perfect place for describing your own box. Kevin I'm something of a novice when using wikis. Is there an easy way to see all the User pages, or does someone

Re: [mythtv-users] Using DVD VIDEO_TS directories on disk with MythTV?

2006-01-20 Thread Todd Ignasiak
On 1/19/06, Steve Hodge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/20/06, Todd Ignasiak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The file layout is something like:/XMas_2002/VIDEO_TS/{*.IFO, *.VOB}/Wedding/VIDEO_TS/{*.IFO, *.VOB} Where the top directory is the name of the DVD, the second is always VIDEO_TS, and the DVD data

Re: [mythtv-users] Using DVD VIDEO_TS directories on disk with MythTV?

2006-01-20 Thread Urban Nightmare
Todd Ignasiak wrote: On 1/19/06, *Steve Hodge* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/20/06, Todd Ignasiak [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The file layout is something like: /XMas_2002/VIDEO_TS/{*.IFO, *.VOB}

Re: [mythtv-users] Fusion Lite card and adding cable channels

2006-01-20 Thread Neil
Re: Fusion Lite card and adding cable channels Remove Highlighting I downloaded this morning 0.18.2 STABLE relese from cvs.mythtv.org but not the trunk version. Is the scanning facility not good on this version? Thanks Will! I have no idea, unfortunately. I do know that I have very few

Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV.org Wiki

2006-01-20 Thread Kevin Kuphal
Phill Wiggin wrote: If you click your username after registering on the top bar, you get a user specific page that you can edit. I think this would be a perfect place for describing your own box. Kevin I'm something of a novice when using wikis. Is there an easy way to see all the

Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV.org Wiki

2006-01-20 Thread Steve Adeff
On Friday 20 January 2006 14:37, Phill Wiggin wrote: If you click your username after registering on the top bar, you get a user specific page that you can edit. I think this would be a perfect place for describing your own box. Kevin I'm something of a novice when using wikis. Is

Re: [mythtv-users] Changing channels on DCT2000 series/audio questions

2006-01-20 Thread Mark J. Small
On January 20, 2006 03:35 pm, John Brooks wrote: Hi! I'm struggling with getting my MythTV box going- it's been a lot more difficult than I'd expected, but I'm really close. I have two issues in front of me now: 1.) When I try to change channels, I end up getting static on every other

Re: [mythtv-users] Fusion Lite card and adding cable channels

2006-01-20 Thread Steve Adeff
On Friday 20 January 2006 14:45, Neil wrote: Re: Fusion Lite card and adding cable channels Remove Highlighting I downloaded this morning 0.18.2 STABLE relese from cvs.mythtv.org but not the trunk version. Is the scanning facility not good on this version? Thanks Will! I have no idea,

Re: [mythtv-users] mythvideo

2006-01-20 Thread Justin Hornsby
One little tip I can offer here would be to make all the frontends mount the shared video directory to the same path. e.g. on frontend A, you could have it mount to /mnt/sharedvideos/ so on frontend B, you'd have to have it mount to /mnt/sharedvideos/ and so on. It took me a while to figure

Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV.org Wiki

2006-01-20 Thread Phill Wiggin
I'm something of a novice when using wikis. Is there an easy way to see all the User pages, or does someone need to make a List of Users with profile pages page that each person has to add themselves to? -- It is under special pages

Re: [mythtv-users] HD3000 DVB Recordings - Freezes on Playback

2006-01-20 Thread frank s
I'm using XFS. From the responses that I've seen to this thread, I conclude that: 1. The problem seems to be common 2. The problem is not file system or processor or signal source (over the air or cable) related. It doesn't appear that switching file systems or upgrading to 0.18.2 will fix

Re: [mythtv-users] Hosed VGforMyth?

2006-01-20 Thread Adam Propeck
Yeah, I tried about a hundred different scans and creates and checks. I decided it wasn't worth the trouble. Reformatted the partition. :-) On 1/20/06, Paul Barker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Adam Propeck wrote: Alright. I had to do a restore from backup (True Image) tonight and all of a sudden my

Re: [mythtv-users] SVN 8625 Firewire capture glitching while test-mpeg2 doesn't

2006-01-20 Thread Curtis Stanford
There's a patch I applied to kernel 2.6.14 that totally cleared up my firewire problems. If you use 2.6.15, it includes the patch. I believe it was made specifically for DCT-6200 issues. On Jan 20, 2006, at 11:34 AM, Steve Adeff wrote: On Friday 20 January 2006 13:14, Brian Fischer wrote:

Re: [mythtv-users] Changing channels on DCT2000 series/audio questions

2006-01-20 Thread John Brooks
Have you tried using the change channel script directly.As in/usr/bin/channel 24 Well, so far all I've done is done /usr/bin/channel 5from the shell while MythTV was not running. When I ran mythfrontend and watched LIVE tv, I didn't see any difference. Do you mean I should run MythTV, then try

[mythtv-users] Possible to fix data from zap2it?

2006-01-20 Thread Michael Norman
The last few times I've tried to schedule Commander in Chief, I have hadconflicts that do not make sense. After a little bit of digging, I realized thatthe problem is that the data from zap2it reports that the episode is 61 mins long (09:59 - 11:00 pm). This means that I can't schedule a 1 hr

[mythtv-users] DVB-T Transcode

2006-01-20 Thread Tim Milstead
It's not clear to me how to set up transcoding for DVB-T cards. I have an Avermedia 771 card and I am using Ubuntu 5.10. They both work well. In recording profiles there already exists a hardware dvb encoders entry and I also have the option to create a DVB entry. What is the difference? I

Re: [mythtv-users] which sound card to hook into surround system

2006-01-20 Thread Dan Gapinski
Hi Kevin, Thanks for this reply - mine is in the courier system now. What distro are you using? Did it take any extra effort for setup? I s'pose I should look this up myself, but I thought I'd ask anyway. Thanks, Dan --- Kevin Kuphal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dan Gapinski wrote: Hello,

Re: [mythtv-users] Changing channels on DCT2000 series /audio questions

2006-01-20 Thread Mark J. Small
On January 20, 2006 04:23 pm, John Brooks wrote: Have you tried using the change channel script directly. As in /usr/bin/channel 24 Well, so far all I've done is done /usr/bin/channel 5 from the shell while MythTV was not running. When I ran mythfrontend and watched LIVE tv, I

Re: [mythtv-users] which sound card to hook into surround system

2006-01-20 Thread Kevin Kuphal
Dan Gapinski wrote: Hi Kevin, Thanks for this reply - mine is in the courier system now. What distro are you using? Did it take any extra effort for setup? I s'pose I should look this up myself, but I thought I'd ask anyway. I'm on Redhat 9. Installing the ALSA drivers, etc. was enough

Re: [mythtv-users] AC3 and/or S/PDIF (again)

2006-01-20 Thread Jarod Wilson
On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 01:09:46PM -0500, Michael T. Dean wrote: On 01/19/06 22:25, Jarod Wilson wrote: On Thursday 19 January 2006 19:11, William Lewis wrote: Yeah. Shouldn't video as timebase be disabled if AC-3 Passthrough is enabled and there's an AC-3 stream? (Kind of like AC-3

Re: [mythtv-users] SBLive!, Surround Sound Speakers, single volume control?

2006-01-20 Thread Jarod Wilson
On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 02:21:45PM -0500, Howard P Holden wrote: I have an SBLive 5.1 and Altec-Lansing GT-5051 speakers. If I try to control the volume of myhth music or mythtv or while playing a dvd, only one set of speakers -- the rear or Surround, I think -- is affected. The same is

Re: [mythtv-users] Mythtv on Debian - is it dead?

2006-01-20 Thread drbob
drbob wrote: Thanks for all the responses. I think I'll try compiling from source. I don't want to disturb the sarge setup more than necessary. Well I've just compiled myth on my backend from the 0.18.1 tarball. After a bit of basic setup (lvm creation on my 200gb drive for video, custom

[mythtv-users] The perfect MythTV Motherboard at last

2006-01-20 Thread mike choy
I just spotted this Asus Motherboard Micro ATX Dual Core support for fast rips and transcodes Integrated DVI and VGA and Nividia graphics Integrated SPDIF OUT Integrated Firewire Gigabit ethernet Heres te review http://www.trustedreviews.com/article.aspx?art=2370 Anyone got any experience with

[mythtv-users] Archiving .NUV Files?

2006-01-20 Thread Matt Jordan
1. If I copy a show on a .nuv file for a show I want to keep elsewhere can I play it from MythTV's Video Player (Watch Videos in the Media Library) later? 2. Let's say that I want to watch a show on my laptop while on travel (from the HDD). How can I get the .nuv file into a format that I could

Re: [mythtv-users] AC3 and/or S/PDIF (again)

2006-01-20 Thread Jarod Wilson
On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 01:21:07PM -0600, William Lewis wrote: How 'bout simply disabling 'use video as timebase' at run-time when passing raw AC3, regardless of what 'use video as timebase' is set to. Yeah. That's what I was trying to say (that's why I compared it to the runtime

Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV.org Wiki

2006-01-20 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 11:41:36AM -0600, Kevin Kuphal wrote: If you click your username after registering on the top bar, you get a user specific page that you can edit. I think this would be a perfect place for describing your own box. It would, and I'm probably going to whip up an

Re: [mythtv-users] Changing channels on DCT2000 series/audio questions

2006-01-20 Thread John Brooks
Actually I meant to look at the LED display on the DCT2000 and see whathappens. Ah! Yeah, stupid me. I actually watched the cable box and didn't see anything happen, so what you're saying about an inactive serial port is entirely possible. I'll have to call them up and ask about it. Thanks! I

[mythtv-users] Ensuring SA3200 is Always On for Channel Change

2006-01-20 Thread Derek Battams
While changing the clock display on my Scientific Atlanta 3200 STB this afternoon, I came across a great discovery... The only problem I've ever had with IR blasting my SA3200 is that sometimes I've missed a recording due to the cable company rebooting my box periodically and when they do it

Re: [mythtv-users] SBLive!, Surround Sound Speakers, single volume control?

2006-01-20 Thread Howard P Holden
On Jan 20, 2006, at 3:42 PM, Jarod Wilson wrote: On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 02:21:45PM -0500, Howard P Holden wrote: I have an SBLive 5.1 and Altec-Lansing GT-5051 speakers. If I try to control the volume of myhth music or mythtv or while playing a dvd, only one set of speakers -- the rear or

Re: [mythtv-users] which sound card to hook into surround system

2006-01-20 Thread Dan Gapinski
Thank you for the help - I sure do appreciate the suggestions! Dan --- Kevin Kuphal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dan Gapinski wrote: Hi Kevin, Thanks for this reply - mine is in the courier system now. What distro are you using? Did it take any extra effort for setup? I s'pose I should

Re: [mythtv-users] A foolish question abut Knoppmyth auto-install

2006-01-20 Thread Joe Marcom
Andrew Close wrote: On 1/19/06, Curtis Preston [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It shouldn't be doing that. You should post this question in the knoppmyth forum board at www.mysettopbox.tv . -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joe Marcom Sent:

[mythtv-users] whats the best graphics card for HD playback?

2006-01-20 Thread Frank Lynch
Hi Folks, I' running myth on an AMD Athalon 3000 XP with an nvidia GeForce MX 4000 card (which only has 64MB of RAM). I can playback most HD streams with simple xv accelaration enabled (without XvMC), but 1080i streams stutter. When I enable XvMC I cannot even playback 720p streams, it stutters

Re: [mythtv-users] Possible to fix data from zap2it?

2006-01-20 Thread Harold Brown
On 1/20/06, Michael Norman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The last few times I've tried to schedule Commander in Chief, I have hadconflicts that do not make sense. After a little bit of digging, I realized that the problem is that the data from zap2it reports that the episode is 61 mins long (09:59 -

Re: [mythtv-users] Simple kernel upgrade question

2006-01-20 Thread mrwester
On 1/20/06, Michael Haan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/20/06, Michael Haan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/20/06, mrwester [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks. Just did as you said and got:[EMAIL PROTECTED] v4l-dvb]# modprobe dvb-bt8xx WARNING: Error inserting bttv (/lib/modules/2.6.14-

Re: [mythtv-users] Using DVD VIDEO_TS directories on disk with MythTV?

2006-01-20 Thread Michael T. Dean
On 01/20/2006 02:39 PM, Todd Ignasiak wrote: On 1/19/06, *Steve Hodge* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/20/06, Todd Ignasiak [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The file layout is something like: /XMas_2002/VIDEO_TS/{*.IFO,

Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV.org Wiki

2006-01-20 Thread Stef Coene
On Friday 20 January 2006 18:25, Jeff Simpson wrote: I think he meant like an everyone-makes-a-page-to-describe-their-own-mythbox. Is that an acceptable use? I think it would be neat to see, especially if some of the more creative boxes included photos and writeups, along with part lists, but

Re: [mythtv-users] Mac 7200

2006-01-20 Thread Matthew Geier
Urban Nightmare wrote: Hello all. I've just acquired an old Mac 7200. Since it doesn't run that latest Mac OS I've been considering making it into a Mythtv frontend. Has anyone tried this? Is it powerful enough. To old and wimpy for the application. The 7200 will be followed by a

Re: [mythtv-users] Miserable time installing Mythtv

2006-01-20 Thread Jarod Wilson
On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 02:30:01PM -0500, Maverick wrote: $ rpm -q --qf='%{name}.%{arch}\n' \*myth\* package *myth* is not installed Aw, crap, missed an option there. Should have been: rpm -qa --qf='%{name}.%{arch}\n' \*myth\* That worked a little better, # rpm -qa

Re: [mythtv-users] HD3000 DVB Recordings - Freezes on Playback

2006-01-20 Thread frank s
Some recordings work beautifully for me also. It seems to depend on whether I am watching live tv while the HDTV recording is being made or not. If the frontend is idle when the recording is made, I do not seem to havethe problem. Frank --- William Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, the

Re: [mythtv-users] Changing channels on DCT2000 series/audio questions

2006-01-20 Thread Steve Adeff
On Friday 20 January 2006 14:35, John Brooks wrote: Hi! I'm struggling with getting my MythTV box going- it's been a lot more difficult than I'd expected, but I'm really close. I have two issues in front of me now: 1.) When I try to change channels, I end up getting static on every other

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