Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV demo

2005-11-23 Thread Asher Schaffer
On 11/23/05, Jules Bean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Fredrik Karlsson wrote: > > Wouldn't the safe bet be the last stable release? > > > > However, on another note, how many people are using the SVN version now? > > Is it usable..? Compared to the 0.18.1 release, is it stable? > > If you consider L

Re: [mythtv-users] Proliant server as a backend...

2005-11-10 Thread Asher Schaffer
On 11/10/05, Pete Clarke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Proliant 8500r > Quad PIII Xeon 700/2MB CPU's > 2GB Ram; > 2 x 1000SX Fiber NIC; > 1 x Dual 10/100 backup NIC > 4 x 73GB U160 SCSI drives, RAID (0/1/5); > 2 x PVR250 PAL Tuners; The PVR250 I have will only fit in a 32Bit PCI slot, it isn't keye

Re: [mythtv-users] program guide font size

2005-10-25 Thread Asher Schaffer
On 10/25/05, James Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Okay here's a stupid question -- how do you change the size of the font in the > Program Guide? in Settings->Appearance->Font Size seems to only change the > font-size of the menus... I thought it might auto-adjust if i changed the # > of ch

[mythtv-users] Troubleshooting prebuffer pauses

2005-10-21 Thread Asher Schaffer
I know this topic has been brought up many a time. I'm trying to troubleshoot my prebuffer pauses and I'd appreciate it if anyone can offer some ideas as for what to test out. My backend is a 3Ghz Xeon w/ 3 SATA HDs in RAID5 1GB RAM 1 PVR250, 1 PVR500 connected to a gigabit lan switch The fronte

Re: [mythtv-users] which dial-up modem?

2005-10-20 Thread Asher Schaffer
On 10/20/05, Chris Trown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Asher Schaffer wrote: > > Only internal PCI modems can be winmodems, as long as it is external > > you are fine. > > > > If you are saying that *all* internal modems are winmodems, that > is simply not

Re: [mythtv-users] which dial-up modem?

2005-10-20 Thread Asher Schaffer
On 10/20/05, Chris Trown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There used to be a time(LONG time ago when I was taking care of > dialup modem banks) that I pushed modems with Lucent chipsets. These > days, however, it just does'nt matter. So long as it's not a winmodem Only internal PCI modems can

Re: [mythtv-users] Way OT but...

2005-10-20 Thread Asher Schaffer
On 10/17/05, Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OK so there are threads on here about the video ipod so I thought this > one is ok too. > > My son was recently given a little mp3 player sourced in Hong Kong. It > has a little screen and can play videos as well as music. There is a > sample vide

Re: [mythtv-users] Way OT but...

2005-10-19 Thread Asher Schaffer
On 10/17/05, Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OK so there are threads on here about the video ipod so I thought this > one is ok too. > > My son was recently given a little mp3 player sourced in Hong Kong. It > has a little screen and can play videos as well as music. There is a > sample vide

Re: [mythtv-users] Wireless or 10/100 BaseT?

2005-10-05 Thread Asher Schaffer
On 10/5/05, James Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When using a seperate back/front end for mythtv, is it possible to have > these running across a reasonable wireless connection? > > I'm talking about watching an averagely encoded file. If not, could I > use an old 10baseT ethernet card, or do

Re: [mythtv-users] livetv buffer in backend?

2005-10-05 Thread Asher Schaffer
On 10/5/05, Ricardo Kleemann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm assuming it is the backend which controls the liveTV buffer. If that is > correct, does the backend keep the buffer even if there are no frontends > connected watching tv? > > In other words, if I startup the frontend and watch t

Re: [mythtv-users] make failure

2005-09-22 Thread Asher Schaffer
On 9/22/05, R. G. Newbury <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I' m trying to rebuild mythtv with some more features enabled. What features did you change? Maybe post the output from configure? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv

Re: [mythtv-users] Fastest file system

2005-09-09 Thread Asher Schaffer
On 9/9/05, Stef Coene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Currently, I have a 70 GB partition formatted as ext3. It's a bit slow when > deleting big files so I want to reformat it. But what's the best choice? > XFS is good, but what's the file system check speed? Running fsck on my ext3 > file

Re: [mythtv-users] noob remote question

2005-08-22 Thread Asher Schaffer
On 8/22/05, Robert D. Mathews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have slogged through many how-to's and with wilsons guide and have > gotten myself a working mythtv setup. happage 150, fedora core3 etc. I > know i may be missing something in the doc's, but everything works with > the exception of the

Re: [mythtv-users] Ready for use?

2005-07-21 Thread Asher Schaffer
On 7/21/05, Chris Lopeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All, > > I have been monitoring this mail list for a while now. And mythTV looks > very interesting. And I know it is not released yet. And to be clear I and > not trying to be insulting or start a fight. But... > > I am about to

Re: [mythtv-users] OpenGL vsync

2005-07-20 Thread Asher Schaffer
On 7/20/05, Tom Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Your driver has not declared OpenGl video sync support, so Myth is not > able to use it. That's what "GLX Video Sync extension not present" is > trying to tell you. > > If your drive did support it then you would see GLX_SGI_video_sync in > the l

Re: [mythtv-users] OpenGL vsync

2005-07-20 Thread Asher Schaffer
I'm not trying to hijack this thread, but I am having opengl vsync problems as well, but I'm on an epia. As far as I can tell opengl should be working okay, I can compile everything with opengl enabled, but the logs show: DRMVideoSync: VBlank ioctl did not work, unimplemented in this driver? Open

Re: [mythtv-users] MythShyte: One unhappy customer

2005-07-19 Thread Asher Schaffer
Maybe I just missed it, but did you mention if you had SUID mythfrontend? I had a friend who was having prebuffer pauses on a p4 2.8 and that cleared it right up. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/lis

Re: [mythtv-users] Video gets choppy when changing channels/opening prog. guide

2005-07-15 Thread Asher Schaffer
> 1. Whenever I change the channel, there is about a > 3-4 second pause while the channel changes. Is it > possible to eliminate this delay? That would be the buffer. When you change channels it buffers it for a couple of seconds. I think the delay should only be 2 seconds, but I could be wron

Re: [mythtv-users] [Slightly OT] LIRC, Xine strangeness

2005-06-26 Thread Asher Schaffer
On 6/26/05, John Harvey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Check that you have FFW & REW events being generated. Mine was configure to > produce Forward & Rewind. Changing .lircrc to match made this work. > > John Doh, that was it, I guess I never used it in Myth, I always used left and right, so I nev

[mythtv-users] [Slightly OT] LIRC, Xine strangeness

2005-06-25 Thread Asher Schaffer
Okay, so when using the Hauppauge Grey remote with LIRC, I can't fast forward or rewind. Other controls seems to work okay for the most part (Pause, Stop, Exit, Menu, Volume etc), but anything that has to do with jumping around in the video does not work, ideas? Keyboard controls for fast forward

Re: [mythtv-users] MythMovieTime not able to do anything but configure it

2005-05-07 Thread Asher Schaffer
On 5/7/05, Donavan Stanley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sounds like there might be an issue with the data from your area... > Can you send me the zip code and radius you're using? > Guess it was a glitch, it is working when I try it now. Zip 94611 Radius 25 __

Re: [mythtv-users] MythMovieTime not able to do anything but configure it

2005-05-07 Thread Asher Schaffer
On 5/7/05, Donavan Stanley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There was a bug in the way it was auomaticly grabbing the user ID and > password that wasn't affecting those of us that had been using it whil > it was in development. If you grab the lastest from CVS you'll find > it's been fixed. > Okay,

Re: [mythtv-users] MythMovieTime not able to do anything but configure it

2005-05-07 Thread Asher Schaffer
On 5/7/05, Donavan Stanley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Do you have a data source defined for LxM? MythMovieTime uses the > login information from your LxM datasource to acess the Movie Data. > I have an LxM subscription, I get my program guide from there. Is there something I need to configure

[mythtv-users] MythMovieTime not able to do anything but configure it

2005-05-07 Thread Asher Schaffer
I've been trying to get mythmovietime to work (based off of yesterday's CVS). After I configured it on the frontend, I still get the message telling me I need to configure it before I can use it. The only message I see the in the frontend log is: QDate::fromString: Parameter out of range The onl

Re: [mythtv-users] LxMSuite.com to provide services to the Myth community

2005-05-06 Thread Asher Schaffer
I guess I'm just a bit confused on how this will work. The site states: The LxMSuite data services are compatible with MythTV 18.1 (or CVS as of 5/1/2005) and higher. Does this mean that you install myth and then install their service on top of it? Or do you have to install a version of myth tha

Re: [mythtv-users] MythWeb Clock incorrect

2005-04-11 Thread Asher Schaffer
On Apr 11, 2005 9:42 AM, Chris Petersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > MythWeb appears to be confused about what time it is on my machine... > > its saying that its about 6 hours later than it is here in mountain > > time (-7:00). Any ideas? My sys and hwclock are both set to MDT. Hmm, shouldn'

Re: [mythtv-users] gave up on the Epia

2005-04-11 Thread Asher Schaffer
I agree it isn't the easiest thing to get working. The first time I did it, it took 4 days to get working, a lot of that was compile time however. The second time I did it (after I hosed one of the partitions, entirely my fault), it only took about a day and a half, this time almost only compile

Re: [mythtv-users] Time change causes problems

2005-04-04 Thread Asher Schaffer
On Apr 3, 2005 4:40 PM, Michael Haan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm also on Gentoo, so I tried just rolling back to the old version of > QT (3.3.3). However, this doesn't seem to have fixed the problem. Do > I need to do something more? Same here, I went back to 3.3.3 on Gentoo, and it didn't

Re: [mythtv-users] MythStreamTV on .17?

2005-02-14 Thread Asher Schaffer
I tried, fixed the install.sh for the tail and head bug, but the problem is that mythweb went through a rather large change, so although the install will work, it left mythweb unusable. I'll try playing around with it if I have time, there's no reason it shouldn't work, just needs to be fixed to w

Re: [mythtv-users] CPU power, pvr-150lp

2005-01-28 Thread Asher Schaffer
On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 16:09:38 -0200, Joao Carlos de Lima Roscoe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2. About encoding cards: > > Is there any one using hauppage pvr-150 low profile? Does anyone > has got mythtv working with this card (or other hauppage one > and PAL-M programs? > > Below is the link to h

Re: [mythtv-users] Underclocking...?

2005-01-16 Thread Asher Schaffer
On Sun, 16 Jan 2005 14:18:29 -0800, Cecil Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Søren Dalsgaard wrote: > > >Hi, > > > >I am trying to setup a mythtv box and most bits are in place but the > >machine is somewhat noisy. I tried spraying a lubricant into the fan > >on the CPU and the fan on some chip o

Re: [mythtv-users] FW: New Source Forge Project MythStreamTV

2005-01-12 Thread Asher Schaffer
I guess I should have realized that an EPIA M10K wouldn't have enough power to stream this, oh well. It rebuffers every 10-20 seconds. I wasn't really thinking it through while I was working to get it setup. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@my

Re: [mythtv-users] FW: New Source Forge Project MythStreamTV

2005-01-12 Thread Asher Schaffer
On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 23:56:32 +1000, David Whyte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Doh!!! It seems to be running on port 8080 as per the mythstream.sh > script, instead of the port you enter. > > I am now getting video, but no audio. The video is very very low res, > but its kinda exciting :D > > Dav

Re: [mythtv-users] FW: New Source Forge Project MythStreamTV

2005-01-12 Thread Asher Schaffer
How hard would it be to add a stop streaming button rather then having to go back and not select a stream? I'll take a look and see if I can figure out how to do it, but I really only know perl, if I hack something together I'll send it to you. Thanks _

Re: [mythtv-users] FW: New Source Forge Project MythStreamTV

2005-01-12 Thread Asher Schaffer
Hmm, seems to have messed up my mythweb install, when I try to load mythweb I get: Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_DOUBLE_ARROW in /var/www/localhost/htdocs/mythweb/languages/English.php on line 257 I restored English.php, and manually added: 'Stream Recordings' => '', Then I got error: P

Re: [mythtv-users] FW: New Source Forge Project MythStreamTV

2005-01-12 Thread Asher Schaffer
Well it gets past that point with .91 but the installation fails later with: Checking MythWeb Installation: Required - Installing... Fixing up themes/default/theme.php: head: `-132' option is obsolete; use `-n 132' since this will be removed in the future tail: cannot open `+133' for

Re: [mythtv-users] FW: New Source Forge Project MythStreamTV

2005-01-11 Thread Asher Schaffer
On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 18:50:40 -0800, Asher Schaffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hmm, it isn't installing for me: > Installing MythStreamTV. > Installing /usr/local/share/mythtv/stream/mythstreamtv.sh: Success > Installing /var/www/localhost/htdocs/m

Re: [mythtv-users] FW: New Source Forge Project MythStreamTV

2005-01-11 Thread Asher Schaffer
On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 11:10:21 -0800, Joshua Ebel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Greetings, > > I've released a new project on Source Forge called MythStreamTV. > MythStreamTV is currently available in Alpha at > http://mythstreamtv.sourceforge.net/ for download. > > MythStreamTV is a MythTV addon th

Re: [mythtv-users] FW: New Source Forge Project MythStreamTV

2005-01-11 Thread Asher Schaffer
On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 14:36:49 -0500, James Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >I've released a new project on Source Forge called MythStreamTV. > >MythStreamTV is currently available in Alpha at > >http://mythstreamtv.sourceforge.net/ for download. > > > > > >MythStreamTV is a MythTV addon th

Re: [mythtv-users] Setting up MythTV in a wierd way ...

2005-01-05 Thread Asher Schaffer
On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 14:24:24 -0800, Bear Paw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Greetings peoples ... I'm really new at MythTV but I've been tracking its > progress for some time. My question has to do making a really weird setup. > > System one: 4 tuner cards, records and encodes shows and transf

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

2005-01-05 Thread Asher Schaffer
On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 17:12:52 -0500, Doug Larrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thomas Börkel wrote: > > Thanks for this info! Is there another tool, that reports totals with > > 2.6.9? > > Not that I know of. > > -Doug Bah, I'm running 2.6.8.1-epia1 and I have this same problem. I was hopefull t

Re: [mythtv-users] Front end hardware?

2005-01-05 Thread Asher Schaffer
On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 12:18:42 -0500, stan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Would this make a decent Myth Front end only box? > > http://tinyurl.com/4cojm > > Or can anyone sugest somethign in a similar form factor that they ahve > working well? > This has been discussed a lot, try searching the list.

Re: [mythtv-users] EPIA compile flags

2005-01-03 Thread Asher Schaffer
On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 22:14:00 +0100, Patrick Wenger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Just out of curiosity what optimization level are people using for > > their EPIAs? I'm using Os which does level 2, unless the size would > > be dramiticly increased by the optimization. I have read that because > >

[mythtv-users] EPIA compile flags

2005-01-03 Thread Asher Schaffer
Just out of curiosity what optimization level are people using for their EPIAs? I'm using Os which does level 2, unless the size would be dramiticly increased by the optimization. I have read that because of the small cache size of the C3s doing level 3 optimizations can slow things down. Is thi

Re: [mythtv-users] Swap optimization

2005-01-03 Thread Asher Schaffer
On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 10:24:56 -0500, aaron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have 512 MB of RAM in my Myth box (combined BE/FE, dedicated machine), and > NO paging space allocated. This greatly reduces the amount of paging. ;) > > Only problem I've ever had was due to the OpenGL memory leak in MythGall

Re: [mythtv] [mythtv-users] Swap optimization

2005-01-02 Thread Asher Schaffer
On Sun, 2 Jan 2005 17:58:56 -0600, Byron Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I hate to admit it, but I have no idea. I don't have a clue how to check CPU > usage or ram usage. I'm very new to Linux and I'm using Fedora core 2 > following Jarod's guide. If I knew how to check I might be able to ch

[mythtv-users] Swap optimization

2005-01-02 Thread Asher Schaffer
I'm curious what people have done about memory optimization in their myth boxes. I'm running a combination FE/BE on an EPIA M1 with 512MB of RAM, so keeping things clean is rather critical to keeping it all usable. That said, I am running Azureus on this machine as well which can be a huge me

Re: [mythtv-users] OT: Gmail invites

2005-01-02 Thread Asher Schaffer
On Sun, 2 Jan 2005 13:11:16 -0800, Courtland Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have FOUR left, anyone who wants one, email me (not the list) and > I'll give you one. Judging for Issac's past comments, I would advise not posting gmail invite messages to this list. ___

Re: [mythtv-users] Data Direct Subscription Expires?

2005-01-02 Thread Asher Schaffer
On Sun, 2 Jan 2005 13:46:37 -0500, Harald Koch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My Data Direct subscription from zap2it labs expires on January 26th. I > can't find anything about renewal on their website. Does anyone out there > know how I renew this? Does it happen automatically? Just to add to the

Re: [mythtv-users] No mysql.txt

2004-12-30 Thread Asher Schaffer
On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 23:48:30 -0600, Kevin Kuphal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Asher Schaffer wrote: > > >On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 21:03:46 -0500, Isaac Richards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >>On Wednesday 29 December 2004 08:49 pm, Asher Schaffer wr

Re: [mythtv-users] No mysql.txt

2004-12-29 Thread Asher Schaffer
On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 21:03:46 -0500, Isaac Richards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 29 December 2004 08:49 pm, Asher Schaffer wrote: > > Very strange, just made a new system with the latest CVS as of Dec 29. > > I have no mysql.txt file anywhere to be found. There w

[mythtv-users] No mysql.txt

2004-12-29 Thread Asher Schaffer
Very strange, just made a new system with the latest CVS as of Dec 29. I have no mysql.txt file anywhere to be found. There weren't any errors durring the make or make install. There is just no mysql.txt anywhere on my system. Anyone have an ideas, I'm just scratching my head right now. Thanks,

Re: [mythtv-users] slow satelite guide, no irblaster yet

2004-12-28 Thread Asher Schaffer
On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 17:35:12 -0500, Paul Barrette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > currently, I dont have an irblaster, I'm using the guide from my > satelite STB through mythtv to change channels, but it is very slow, > 3-5 seconds for every arrow up! Is there a way to speed this up? > Maybe I

Re: [mythtv-users] What happens when my cable company switches to digital?

2004-12-20 Thread Asher Schaffer
I am using digital cable in the US. I only have one tuner card, I'm not sure how it would work with two. You would definitely need to STBs, but that is only part of the problem. You also need to control the channel on the STB. I use a serial connection to control mine, but depending on what mode

Re: [mythtv-users] Gentoo and MythTV

2004-12-03 Thread Asher Schaffer
I have myth running on Gentoo on an EPIA M1 with an PVR-250. Works like a charm. It took the better part of a 3 day weekend to get it working, but a lot of that time was compiling (fairly slow on an M1), and trying different kernels. Now that I have it all installed and working, it is gr

Re: [mythtv-users] Idea for faster channel surfing

2004-12-02 Thread Asher Schaffer
I'm not sure how popular having favorites set. But what if the other tuner tuned to the next favorite channel up or down depending on which direction you are going. Either that, or have a scan mode that would change through the channels every 5 or 10 seconds, when you are in that mode it then uses