[mythtv-users] Re: Waited too long for ringbuffer pause

2006-01-01 Thread Allan McIntosh
I just noticed the following appeared in /var/log/messages at 15:32:59 then the ringbuffer errors appear immediatly after this Jan 1 15:32:59 nelson kernel: [ cut here ] Jan 1 15:32:59 nelson kernel: kernel BUG at lib/radix-tree.c:276! Jan 1 15:32:59 nelson kernel:

[mythtv-users] Waited too long for ringbuffer pause

2006-01-01 Thread Allan McIntosh
Hey, In the past couple of days mythtv-frontend-0.18.1-116.rhfc4.at has locked up on me 3 or 4 times during playback of recorded shows. This is the first time I have seen this behaviour and each time I was attempting to playback recorded movies at least 2 hours in length.. The shows were recor

Re: [mythtv-users] I'm getting TV-Out Flicker

2006-01-01 Thread Allan McIntosh
Jim Duda wrote: Does anyone have any ideas which might explain the flicker? I realize that "flicker" is hard to describe. When you say flicker, do you mean the playback stutters or pauses? The playback doesn't stutter or pause. What I see are white lines shooting across the image. The li

Re: [mythtv-users] I'm getting TV-Out Flicker

2005-12-31 Thread Allan McIntosh
Jim Duda wrote: I have a box which I use to run freevo. Fedora-core 4 running a 2.6.14 kernel. Freevo works fine. I've been playing with Mythtv because it's so sexy looking and I'm thinking about switching. I'm using the SIS driver (sis_drv.o). When I play videos from freevo, using mplay

Re: [mythtv-users] Newbie's Hardware any problems?

2005-12-23 Thread Allan McIntosh
Well, for starters you should be worried about your wallet and how you are going to fit 512 GB of memory on that mobo... /smirk ... That was really funny. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/

Re: [mythtv-users] Interesting false match

2005-12-21 Thread Allan McIntosh
time, any channel. That's exactly what it did. :) On Dec 21, 2005, at 10:32 PM, Allan McIntosh wrote: Hey, I have a record schedule for new episodes of the series House, which is set to record at any time on any channel. There is a movie on the IFC called House that I believe fa

[mythtv-users] Interesting false match

2005-12-21 Thread Allan McIntosh
Hey, I have a record schedule for new episodes of the series House, which is set to record at any time on any channel. There is a movie on the IFC called House that I believe falsely falls under this record schedule. ___ mythtv-users mailing list

Re: [mythtv-users] libexif mythplugins versioning info?

2005-12-18 Thread Allan McIntosh
Actually, when I looked at the code I realized a -DNEW_LIB_EXIF=1 would force the use of the newer libexif. So the fix: mythplugins]$ ./configure --enable-all --enable-exif ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-

Re: [mythtv-users] libexif mythplugins versioning info?

2005-12-18 Thread Allan McIntosh
Would someone that can successfully build the current release-0-18-fixes svn tell me what version of libexif they have installed? I build it with libexif 0.5.12. Cool thanks. I am using FC4 and 0.5.12 is the version in atrpms. However, I ended up with a newer version from release reposi

Re: [mythtv-users] libexif mythplugins versioning info?

2005-12-18 Thread Allan McIntosh
Would someone that can successfully build the current release-0-18-fixes svn tell me what version of libexif they have installed? Thanks. Allan McIntosh wrote: Is there some where I can check on current svn dependency version requirements? I have the following rpm installed which results

[mythtv-users] libexif mythplugins versioning info?

2005-12-17 Thread Allan McIntosh
Is there some where I can check on current svn dependency version requirements? I have the following rpm installed which results in the error below: libexif-devel i386 0.6.12-3 release make[2]: Entering directory `/home/al/src/mythplugins/mythgallery/mythgallery' g++ -c -pipe -Wall -W -O3 -m

Re: [mythtv-users] ivtv0 warning: ENC Stream 0 OVERFLOW

2005-12-16 Thread Allan McIntosh
Im running on 2 Gigs of dual channel memory so don't think that's the problem ;) will watch the list for a good time to recompile from svn :-) I also have a considerable amount of ram and disk space on my myth only system and see similar similar behaviour. My mythbackend system became

Re: [mythtv-users] Multiple time zone scheduling question

2005-12-11 Thread Allan McIntosh
A few responses place inline I see. This is an entirely different topic than your first post even hints at. You're not getting 3 episodes per day for "Grey's Anatomy" are you? I agree, the Simpson's situation was different from the Grey's Anatomy but it only became apparent through our

Re: [mythtv-users] Multiple time zone scheduling question

2005-12-11 Thread Allan McIntosh
I have a satallite (ExpressVu) which offers many channels in many time zones too choose from when recording. For example, typically I record Grey's Anatomy every sunday at 7pm using "Record this program in this time slot every week." Why? To what end? Record anytime on any channel and

[mythtv-users] Multiple time zone scheduling question

2005-12-11 Thread Allan McIntosh
Hey, I have a satallite (ExpressVu) which offers many channels in many time zones too choose from when recording. For example, typically I record Grey's Anatomy every sunday at 7pm using "Record this program in this time slot every week." This way we may watch it earlier than 10pm. Toni

[mythtv-users] Out of sync frames?

2005-12-01 Thread Allan McIntosh
I am using myth 0.18.1.20050523-1 with ivtv 4.0. Pretty much every recording contains flashes of what appear to be out of sync frames scattered through out the recording. S annoying. Here is a 4sec snippet of a recording, there is flash at 3sec mark. http://allanmcintosh.com/pics/tmp/flas

Re: [mythtv-users] lircd responsiveness

2005-11-20 Thread Allan McIntosh
When the card is encoding and I am watching a recording the remote can be very slow. I should also add, that mythcomflag would be running also. I like it to run as soon as the recording starts. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv

[mythtv-users] lircd responsiveness

2005-11-20 Thread Allan McIntosh
Wa gwan, I am using hauppauge pvr250 with myth 0.18.1 with lircd 0.7.2. I find at times I have to press the buttons several times, press up/down buttons for several seconds before mythfrontend responds. Does anyone else notice a change in lirc response when the system is under even a mode

Re: [mythtv-users] OverScan / Vertical alignment

2005-11-08 Thread Allan McIntosh
There's also possibly a need for a setup screen to enable people to properly set their TV's brightness/contrast controls (or TV output).. This would include signals like PLUGE (for correct brightness & contrast) & colour bars (for correct colour temperature/saturation). This would be very si

Re: [mythtv-users] OverScan / Vertical alignment

2005-11-07 Thread Allan Mcintosh
Can any one suggest a way to move projected image down on TV-Out for playback of recordings and videos? I think the crop/zoom/displace stuff in Myth only applies to what portion of the recording Myth will play, not where on the TV it will be played. To move the actual output around on

[mythtv-users] OverScan / Vertical alignment

2005-11-05 Thread Allan McIntosh
Hey, Can any one suggest a way to move projected image down on TV-Out for playback of recordings and videos? I am using nvidia driver with my FX5200 TV-Out. I have raised the OverScan value of the Nvidia driver in xorg.conf and ~/.nvidia-settings-rc. I still have about a 1.5 - 2.0 cm strip

Re: [mythtv-users] TV out video card

2005-10-27 Thread Allan Mcintosh
shopping for a GeFroce fx 4000 card. The only one I found was pci based. But, for $18.00 more the had a fx 5200 agp with 256 meg of ram with TV and DVI out. Will this work as good/easy as the 4000 card? I haven't opened the box yet, just in case the list says it won't work! David -

Re: [mythtv-users] Starting to think I should use Kaffeine instead of Mythtv

2005-10-18 Thread Allan Mcintosh
What type of input are you using for cable in? Coax, S-Video, Composite? I have often been amazed with the increase in picture quality after replacing a cheap coaxial cable, or the difference from . I now use a short, direct unshared input (S-Video) straight in from the receiver. Are you sta

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: lircd starts fine, but crashes as soon as something tries to use it

2005-10-17 Thread Allan Mcintosh
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Re: [mythtv-users] Video lasts for only 1 second on live TV

2005-10-12 Thread Allan McIntosh
pause 2005-10-11 21:27:33.311 prebuffering pause 2005-10-11 21:27:38.243 prebuffering pause 2005-10-11 21:27:39.610 prebuffering pause 2005-10-11 21:27:41.937 prebuffering pause -Phil On 10/11/05, *Allan Mcintosh* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:

[mythtv-users] Fine tuning picture quality

2005-10-11 Thread Allan Mcintosh
Hey, Can anyone suggest an application or procedure to fine tune picture quality. IE Adjusting brightness, contrast color's and so forth? I am unable to do this manually. Are there any linux apps to do this? Something similar to Avia. Thanks ___

Re: [mythtv-users] Video lasts for only 1 second on live TV

2005-10-11 Thread Allan Mcintosh
I was seeing buffer prepause when attempting live tv playback. It would pause if mythbackend was started using /etc/init.d/mythbackend init script. It looks as though there's an issue when started via 'su' . so I created an alias in ~/.bashrc alias mythbackend='mythbackend -v channel,record

Re: [mythtv-users] mythbackend hardware suggestions?

2005-10-06 Thread Allan Mcintosh
Depends on what capture cards you want to use with it. The ivtv capture cards has (historically) had some problems with via chipsets. But then again, my EPIA (via) backend now runs several months non-stop until it crashes on the ivtv driver. I will be using the ivtv with pvr-250. I

[mythtv-users] mythbackend hardware suggestions?

2005-10-06 Thread Allan Mcintosh
I have Nvidia GeForce FX5200 TV-Out card Hauppauge pvr250 I was looking at either of the following combinations: AMD Sempron 2500+ 64 + MSI K8N NEO-V Or AMD Sempron 2500+ 64 + ASUS K8V-X-SE Any specific's to avoid? I was looking through the PVR Hardware database but there is no motherboar

Re: [mythtv-users] Tracking down

2005-10-05 Thread Allan Mcintosh
set size Sep 5 12:16:45 nelson kernel: saa7115: decoder disable output Sep 5 12:16:45 nelson kernel: saa7115: decoder enable output Allan Mcintosh wrote: My backend is a VIA KT266A motherboard (Epox 8KHA+, to be exact) and an AMD Athlon XP 1600+. I've got a fairly large fan/hea

Re: [mythtv-users] Tracking down

2005-10-05 Thread Allan Mcintosh
ivtv: In case of problems please include the debug info Sep 5 12:26:15 nelson kernel: ivtv: between the START INIT IVTV and END INIT IVTV lines when Allan Mcintosh wrote: My backend is a VIA KT266A motherboard (Epox 8KHA+, to be exact) and an AMD Athlon XP 1600+. I've go

[mythtv-users] Tracking down

2005-10-05 Thread Allan Mcintosh
My backend is a VIA KT266A motherboard (Epox 8KHA+, to be exact) and an AMD Athlon XP 1600+. I've got a fairly large fan/heatsink combo, as well as a 120mm exhaust fan right next to the CPU. I didn't want to go with the VIA motherboard, since I have had and heard of problems with VIA and Linux