[mythtv-users] Re:Front end choice: Mac Mini versus VIA EPIA. Mac OSX remote control?

2005-08-31 Thread Adam Felson
From: Fred Squires <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Front end choice: Mac Mini versus VIA > EPIA. Mac OSX remote control? >On 8/31/05, Andrew Morley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> While most people have the idea that Macs are expensive, it seems to >> me that a Mac

[mythtv-users] Re: plextor convertx tv-402u audio dying

2005-08-30 Thread Adam Felson
Nathan Lutchansky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 04:37:55AM -0700, Adam Felson wrote: > > > Nathan Lutchansky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 09:46:09PM -0700, Adam Felson wrote: > > > > I recently go

Re: [mythtv-users] plextor convertx tv-402u audio dying

2005-08-17 Thread Adam Felson
> Nathan Lutchansky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 09:46:09PM -0700, Adam Felson wrote: > > I recently got a plextor usb2 tv capture box and am having problems with > > the audio. It can barely go 20-40 minutes without dying. Once the > > re

[mythtv-users] plextor convertx tv-402u audio dying

2005-08-16 Thread Adam Felson
Ditto for both mandrake 10.2's linux-2.6.11-6mdk kernel and linux-2.6.12.5 downloaded from kernel.org. -- Adam Felson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

Re: [mythtv-users] Small Disto for FrontEnd

2005-03-27 Thread Adam Felson
6 at 00:52 -0500, Mario L wrote: > So then does the PXE boot run all the files off nfs, or does it cache > them locally in memory? > > On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 21:13:36 -0700, Adam Felson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, 2005-03-25 at 15:40 -0500, Mario L wrote: >

Re: [mythtv-users] Small Disto for FrontEnd

2005-03-25 Thread Adam Felson
On Fri, 2005-03-25 at 15:40 -0500, Mario L wrote: > Where have you been looking about PXE booting? I am considering > setting up PXEboot for my next upcoming frontend, and I was going to > go the gentoo route with it: > PXE booting was a snap for me using gentoo. Steps: set up dhcp server and

Re: [mythtv-users] VIA EPIA-M

2005-03-19 Thread Adam Felson
On Sat, 2005-03-19 at 20:03 +0100, Torsten Schenkel wrote: > Am Samstag, den 19.03.2005, 09:17 -0700 schrieb Adam Felson: > > Live TV doesn't record to the hard drive. > > Well it depends on your definition. It writes to disk and reads from > disk again. Wether you keep

Re: [mythtv-users] VIA EPIA-M

2005-03-19 Thread Adam Felson
uff at the same time, without ever going anywhere near > top use. But even then, a hardware "encoder" should certainly tip the > balance? > ___ > mythtv-users mailing list > mythtv-users@mythtv.or

[mythtv-users] Re: mythdvd rip quality can only be "perfect"

2005-03-10 Thread Adam Felson
ot;perfect" quality. Mythdvd was build on the backend machine with ./configure --enable-all How does mythdvd go about deciding what quality levels to offer? Why does one machine offer multiple quality levels while the other one doesn't? On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 20:30 -0700, Adam Fels

[mythtv-users] mythdvd rip quality can only be "perfect"

2005-03-08 Thread Adam Felson
s freetype2 dependent filter (text, subtitler) yes ------ -- Adam Felson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

[mythtv-users] Re: Remote frontend hiccups CURED

2005-02-23 Thread Adam Felson
On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 07:27 -0700, Adam Felson wrote: > Thursday I have an 8 port switch arriving so I can eliminate a hub > that's on my network. I'll also try minimizing the network then -- > removing the router to the internet and removing a wireless hub. > Swapping t

Re: [mythtv-users] Remote frontend hiccups

2005-02-23 Thread Adam Felson
On Tue, 2005-02-22 at 00:13 +, spook wrote: > On Mon, 2005-02-21 at 14:46, Adam Felson wrote: > > I'm building a diskless (root nfs mounted) epia frontend and am having > > some performance issues. While playing dvds or recorded tv, it never > > uses more than 60% o

[mythtv-users] Remote frontend hiccups

2005-02-21 Thread Adam Felson
might fix the problem. Or perhaps move the software to a laptop drive instead of running from an nfs partition? Has anybody else seen such behavior with a remote frontend? Is it possible to increase the amount of buffering? -- Adam Felson <[EM

Re: [mythtv-users] Need Unichrome & X background for M10K

2005-02-20 Thread Adam Felson
On Fri, 2005-02-18 at 08:14 -0500, Eric Webb wrote: > On Thursday 17 February 2005 10:06 pm, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > > > > > > You mean, patch Xorg 6.8.2? Did I miss the patches for Xorg? Where are > > > they? > > > > Yep.. Go to unichrome.sourceforge.net and take a look. > > Wow. I now have an un

Re: [mythtv-users] Update on using epia m10000 for a frontend

2005-02-16 Thread Adam Felson
On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 07:42 +, Ivor Hewitt wrote: > On Wednesday 16 Feb 2005 01:20, Adam Felson wrote: > > On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 05:39 +, Ivor Hewitt wrote: > ..snump.. > > > Well your experience is just your experience isn't it? > > > With 5MBs DVB-T my

Re: [mythtv-users] Update on using epia m10000 for a frontend

2005-02-16 Thread Adam Felson
On Tue, 2005-02-15 at 18:20 -0700, Adam Felson wrote: > I tried xine with -V xxmc and it works fine. Tried to compile mythtv > with xvmc and the link balks that it can't find the XvMC library. > Checked /usr/X11R6/lib and it's there: > # ls /usr/X11R6/lib/libXvMC* >

Re: [mythtv-users] Update on using epia m10000 for a frontend

2005-02-15 Thread Adam Felson
On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 05:39 +, Ivor Hewitt wrote: > On Monday 14 Feb 2005 04:41, Adam Felson wrote: > > On Sun, 2005-02-13 at 02:56 -0500, Eric Webb wrote: > > > On Saturday 12 February 2005 08:28 pm, Adam Felson wrote: > > > I left settings.pro alone (stock).. w

Re: [mythtv-users] Update on using epia m10000 for a frontend

2005-02-15 Thread Adam Felson
On Tue, 2005-02-15 at 00:21 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 12:41, Adam Felson wrote: > > On Sun, 2005-02-13 at 02:56 -0500, Eric Webb wrote: > > > On Saturday 12 February 2005 08:28 pm, Adam Felson wrote: > > > > You're using a relatively old

Re: [mythtv-users] Update on using epia m10000 for a frontend

2005-02-14 Thread Adam Felson
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Re: [mythtv-users] Update on using epia m10000 for a frontend

2005-02-13 Thread Adam Felson
On Sun, 2005-02-13 at 02:56 -0500, Eric Webb wrote: > On Saturday 12 February 2005 08:28 pm, Adam Felson wrote: > > You're using a relatively old version of mythtv -- from the looks to me, > > the middle of november 2004. I was using that for a while and saw > > lo

Re: [mythtv-users] Update on using epia m10000 for a frontend

2005-02-12 Thread Adam Felson
areana howto's instruct. On Sat, 2005-02-12 at 20:10 -0500, Eric Webb wrote: > On Saturday 12 February 2005 03:49 pm, Adam Felson wrote: > > The m1 is fast enough not to need the hardware mpeg-2 decoder. > > Xorg's cvs version has a via driver with XVideo support that wo

Re: [mythtv-users] Which Window Manager?

2005-02-12 Thread Adam Felson
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[mythtv-users] Update on using epia m10000 for a frontend

2005-02-12 Thread Adam Felson
The m1 is fast enough not to need the hardware mpeg-2 decoder. Xorg's cvs version has a via driver with XVideo support that works perfectly with mythtv. Xine and mythtv never miss a frame at 640x480 resolution. -- Adam Felson <[EMAIL P

Re: [mythtv-users] Mixer Error in 0.17

2005-02-12 Thread Adam Felson
That was it. Thanks! On Sat, 2005-02-12 at 12:25 -0500, David George wrote: > On 02/12/2005 11:22 AM, Adam Felson wrote: > > >I'm having the same problem. I'm setting up a mythfrontend on an epia > >box running gentoo and gentoo's alsa-oss doesn't work

Re: [mythtv-users] Mixer Error in 0.17

2005-02-12 Thread Adam Felson
mms), and I can use alsamixer without any > problems. > > Does anyone have any ideas of what could have caused this or how to fix > it? Thanks a ton. > > ___ > mythtv-users mailing list > mythtv-users@mythtv.org > http://mythtv.org/

[mythtv-users] epia how-to needed

2005-02-01 Thread Adam Felson
hardware mpeg-2 decoding could write up a quick how-to, or at least a list of what to install, it would be of great value to people still struggling to get an epia frontend working. The new mythtv 0.17 release needs to document what epia drivers versions work with it. -- Adam

Re: [mythtv-users] Are either of these tuners viable for use?

2005-01-11 Thread Adam Felson
On Tue, 2005-01-11 at 10:47 +0100, Maarten wrote: > On Tuesday 11 January 2005 06:24, Adam Felson wrote: > > On Mon, 2005-01-10 at 22:26 +0100, Maarten wrote: > > > On Monday 10 January 2005 21:27, Tim Smoot wrote: > > > > Hey all, > > > > I use bt878 ca

Re: [mythtv-users] Are either of these tuners viable for use?

2005-01-10 Thread Adam Felson
On Mon, 2005-01-10 at 22:26 +0100, Maarten wrote: > On Monday 10 January 2005 21:27, Tim Smoot wrote: > > Hey all, > > > > I have built the system up and getting ready to start installing the > > OS/etc. > > > > Question is: > > > > I have 2 tuner cards, and I am not sure which one (if either) woul

Re: [mythtv-users] shuttle + 2nd video card

2005-01-08 Thread Adam Felson
u to the via processors. I didn't go with simply because I didn't like the looks and didn't want anything with a floppy drive bay. -- Adam Felson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

Re: [mythtv-users] Unexplainable high CPU while watching MPEG2 - SOLVED (partly)

2005-01-07 Thread Adam Felson
> > with the same settings (resolution, bitrate), playing at 50% CPU total. > > > > Any hints? > > > > Thanks! > > > > Thomas > > > > ___ > > mythtv-users mailing list > > mythtv-users@mythtv.org > > http:

Re: [mythtv-users] Has anyone configured a "semi"-diskless frontend?

2005-01-07 Thread Adam Felson
or any of that stuff. This is > easy to implement and modestly secure against random attempts to > screw up your systems. > > _______ > mythtv-users mailing list > mythtv-users@mythtv.org > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-us

Re: [mythtv-users] Unexplainable high CPU while watching MPEG2 with NVidia TV-out

2005-01-06 Thread Adam Felson
On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 10:17 +0100, Thomas Börkel wrote: > HI! > > Adam Felson wrote: > > How about reducing the resolution? Unless you have HDTV, a normal TV > > has only 525x525 resolution. Running at 640x480 will reduce the load > > 25%. > > I can try that, b

Re: [mythtv-users] Front end hardware?

2005-01-05 Thread Adam Felson
rs@mythtv.org > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users -- Adam Felson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

Re: [mythtv-users] Unexplainable high CPU while watching MPEG2 with NVidia TV-out

2005-01-05 Thread Adam Felson
gt; > Thanks! > > Thomas > > ___ > mythtv-users mailing list > mythtv-users@mythtv.org > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > -- Adam Felson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

Re: [mythtv-users] Frontends all around the house

2004-12-12 Thread Adam Felson
ead as much as I'd like > on this issue.) > > So, in short, does a small, cheap, wi-fi (fanless?) box with enough cpu exist? > > Optionally, a pre-assembled box would be great. I've been building PCs > for years now and frankly, I'm tired of it. But if price is an

Re: [mythtv-users] Epia MII6K vs MII10K for a Frontend

2004-12-12 Thread Adam Felson
Phil Thompson wrote: > Thanks for that. How noisy is the 1? Can you slow the fan down? > > Phil > > On Sunday 12 December 2004 4:34 pm, Adam Felson wrote: > > The 600 has 3/10's the floating point performance. That cpu at equal > > clock speed has 1/2 the FP per

Re: [mythtv-users] Epia MII6K vs MII10K for a Frontend

2004-12-12 Thread Adam Felson
- the box will > replace a silent Pace dual tuner PVR. > > Thanks, > Phil > ___ > mythtv-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users -- Adam Felson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&

Re: [mythtv-users] EPIA-M Unichrome xvmc vld

2004-12-08 Thread Adam Felson
assume fairly old since > it hasn't worked with drm1.3 for quite some time. Its certainly worth trying > the latest drm and unichrome drivers. > -- Adam Felson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

Re: [mythtv-users] Lightweight window manager recommendation

2004-12-08 Thread Adam Felson
you all for a > wonderful project and community. > > -- Travis > ___ > mythtv-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users -- Adam Felson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

Re: [mythtv-users] Next release?

2004-12-05 Thread Adam Felson
? > Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Get it on your mobile phone. > http://mobile.yahoo.com/maildemo > ___ > mythtv-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users -- Adam Felson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [mythtv-users] Hardware selection and usage questions.

2004-12-01 Thread Adam Felson
On Wed, 2004-12-01 at 01:55 -0500, Randy Carpenter wrote: > > 2. I believe I remember a couple via epia systems that have s-video + > > spidif. > > Would these have enough power to play uncompressed DVD files ? >From what I've heard: The M6000 can play mpeg2s (like dvds) if it's hardware decode

Re: [mythtv-users] going from 0.16 to 0.15 or cvs?

2004-11-30 Thread Adam Felson
ead up on how to build > and install mythtv myself. > > Any suggestions about which way to go? > > > ___ > mythtv-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > -- Ada

RE: [mythtv-users] Frontend vs. backend: Which one needs to be faster?

2004-11-30 Thread Adam Felson
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