[mythtv-users] Re: DVB card for Australia (melbourne)

2005-03-15 Thread Brad
sounds like there is a problem with Channel 9 and this card. Anyone using it and not having problems with channel 9 digital ? If the card doesn't pick up digital 9 does it default back to analog ?? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org

[mythtv-users] firewire xvmc issue

2005-03-15 Thread Brad Zawacki
I've got a motorola 6200 cable box that I recently hooked to my mythbox via firewire. I initially had problems with the connection, but CVS fixed that with the addition of broadcast connections. It mostly works now, and with xvmc enabled I'm able to watch live HD on my 1.8Ghz p4 machine at about

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: MythWeather Animated Maps Cannot Download?

2005-03-14 Thread Brad Benson
URL's so you don't need to make any db changes right now, only if the URL's change again in the future. I've attached my patch to this post as well in case some of the folks on the -users list may find it useful to fix the immediate mythweather problems. Brad mythweather_server_config.patch

Re: [mythtv-users] HELP settings table got hosed

2005-03-14 Thread Brad Benson
db before you do this you can always roll it back to your currently hosed version and try some other method if this doesn't work, but I expect this should get you fixed up and ready to run again. Brad ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org

Re: [mythtv-users] Broadcast problems?

2005-03-13 Thread Brad Templeton
On Sun, Mar 13, 2005 at 12:07:12PM -0800, Joe Barnhart wrote: --- Brad Templeton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No dialog is probably a local problem, it happens fairly often. This occurs when you have ac-3 sound and myth or your sound drivers are confused and don't merge the center

Re: [mythtv-users] Mythweather quit working?

2005-03-13 Thread Brad Benson
/users/117858 or just go through mythweather.cpp and change all occurrences of w3.weather.com to www.weather.com. After making the change you will need to recompile and reinstall mythweather for the changes to take effect. Brad ___ mythtv-users mailing

Re: [mythtv-users] Shopping for an HDTV for Myth

2005-03-12 Thread Brad Templeton
On Sat, Mar 12, 2005 at 10:30:24AM -0600, Moasat wrote: I have an MX4000 but I may upgrade that to something with DVI. I'm wondering if any users that have a working HDTV/Myth setup could offer any pointers for buying a nice HDTV. I currently have a Hitachi that never really played well with

Re: [mythtv-users] TVWish Updates

2005-03-12 Thread Brad Templeton
On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 11:01:15PM -0500, Scott Minneman wrote: Brad: This all looks wonderful, but I'm having a problem getting it to run. All of the test runs work fine, but when I sh personal/runwish, it doesn't set anything to run, and gives me the following error for every movie

[mythtv-users] Re: Shopping for an HDTV for Myth

2005-03-12 Thread Brad
seems to be quite high now. They are cheaper than a TV and if you are matching it up with a Myth system you don't need the tuner and such anyway. Just a thought. Cheers, Brad ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: HDTV ringbuffer possibly causes missed 13 minutes of West Wing?

2005-03-11 Thread Brad Templeton
On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 01:16:36PM -0500, Morgan Rinehart wrote: I am having the same issue as the original post. The West Wing on Wed. for the past two episodes shows recording time of 47min. When the recording reaches 44min the playback starts to look like a kaleidescope. You can still

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: HDTV ringbuffer possibly causes missed 13 minutes of West Wing?

2005-03-11 Thread Brad Templeton
On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 09:22:57AM -0500, Morgan Rinehart wrote: I am recording from WTHR-HD in Indianapolis. It is fine for most of the broadcast but when it reaches 44min it is like there is not a sync signal. All of the colors are still there and there are no blocks in the picture.

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: HDTV ringbuffer possibly causes missed 13 minutes of West Wing?

2005-03-11 Thread Brad Templeton
On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 10:34:39AM -0500, Morgan Rinehart wrote: Seems this could have been a Nationwide problem all over the net there are complaints from sound issues to what someone called double letterbox in the last 10min. Thanks everyone for you help. Double letterbox (actually

[mythtv-users] TVWish Updates

2005-03-11 Thread Brad Templeton
make install As always, documentation with link to the tarball is at: http://www.templetons.com/brad/myth/tvwish.html ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

Re: [mythtv-users] Hauppauge WINTV-PVR-500MCE

2005-03-10 Thread Brad Benson
better than 1 (as long as the 2 actually work ;) ). Since I only have 1 PCI slot left I was really hoping the 500 would get some working drivers. Brad ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo

Re: [mythtv-users] Hauppauge WINTV-PVR-500MCE

2005-03-10 Thread Brad Benson
happy to not have to miss the new South Park on Wednesday because the GF wants to make sure we get the new episode of Newlyweds on MTV. God forbid I'd just watch South Park when it's on live TV. Live TV? What's that? ;) Brad ___ mythtv-users mailing

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: mythtv backend on a headless fileserver

2005-03-10 Thread Brad Benson
entries as you like, but keep in the mind that the first entry in the file takes precedence so make sure any 'Host *' entry is the last one in the file. If 'Host *' is the first entry in the config file my understanding is that it will override any other settings you have in there. Brad

[mythtv-users] Re: Announcing TVWish Beta -- A super wishlist for Myth

2005-03-08 Thread Brad
quality and noticed that this always seems to us Default quality. It might be nice to ba able to set movies to use high quality while the simpsons, for example, uses low. Anyways, thanks for a great add-on! Brad ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Announcing TVWish Beta -- A super wishlist for Myth

2005-03-08 Thread Brad Templeton
On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 02:53:59AM -0800, Brad wrote: Wow. This is really cool. I can't wait to see this grow into a full Myth module! Seems to be working for me and this solves a big problem I've had with Myth so far... knowing what to record! I only record a couple of shows that I know

Re: [mythtv-users] RE: mythtv-users Digest, Vol 26, Issue 42

2005-03-08 Thread Brad Templeton
On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 06:53:22AM -0500, Greg Depasse wrote: On Mon, 7 Mar 2005 21:49:47 -0800, Brad Templeton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On the Tivo, which is what I used before mythtv, you had the nice ability to pause the live show (without turning it into a recording) and watch a bit

Re: [mythtv-users] Reinstall for .17

2005-03-07 Thread Brad Templeton
On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 04:12:24PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Long time user, about to upgrade to .17 by compiling source (as I always do). However, I have a problem where my my database is semi corrupt. I can't explain how, but I have random channels that display twice in my

Re: [mythtv-users] RE: mythtv-users Digest, Vol 26, Issue 42

2005-03-07 Thread Brad Templeton
On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 08:44:34PM -0500, Jeff Wormsley wrote: Brad Templeton wrote: I find with sports you can easily watch a game in about 50% of the time, skipping over the commercials and gaps between plays, or putting some sections on timestretch. Dunno about that... Something

Re: [mythtv-users] Dual HD-3000 and PVR 350

2005-03-06 Thread Brad Templeton
On Sat, Mar 05, 2005 at 11:51:34PM -0800, Jarod Wilson wrote: On Mar 5, 2005, at 10:18 PM, Jeff Kryzer wrote: To record programs that aren't broadcast in HD. While the HD-3000 can tune both ATSC and NTSC, Myth only supports using one or the other (on a per-card basis). There are some

Re: [mythtv-users] Dual HDTV Tuner Requirements

2005-03-06 Thread Brad Templeton
On Sun, Mar 06, 2005 at 07:59:10AM -0500, Jonathan M. Cooper wrote: Thanks for your response. Does that mean that PIP is not feasible with, say, a P4 3.2GHz? I remain curious as to why people want PiP when they have MythTV. Many people who use Myth stop watching live TV altogether, and I am

Re: [mythtv-users] movie trailer plugin!

2005-03-06 Thread Brad Templeton
On Sun, Mar 06, 2005 at 08:55:14AM -0500, Joseph Caputo wrote: Jeff Simpson wrote: I just thought of this idea and wanted to share it before I forgot it again. What if there were a way from within myth to look through the program guide, and on the information screen, download and watch the

Re: [mythtv-users] Low End MythTV

2005-03-06 Thread Brad Templeton
On Sun, Mar 06, 2005 at 09:00:19AM -0800, Andrew Lynch wrote: Hi, I recently gave a briefing on building a KnoppMyth HTPC to the local Dayton Linux SIG and one of the main questions was on converting old PCs into HTPCs. Curiousity got the best of me so I built a low end MythTV system

Re: [mythtv-users] $30 FX5200 at CompUSA

2005-03-06 Thread Brad Templeton
On Sun, Mar 06, 2005 at 11:35:02AM -0600, Josh Burks wrote: I don't really have anything to help, I just wanted to point out that Compusa also has Hauppauge WinTV Go cards for $20 (after instant rebate, not mailin). surplus computers has those cards for $20 no rebate required. However, that

Re: [mythtv-users] Thinking of Switching from Cable to DirectTv

2005-03-06 Thread Brad Templeton
On Sun, Mar 06, 2005 at 10:42:41AM -0700, Dave Packham wrote: I have analog cable now and I'd like to switch to DirecTV sat. I have 2 pvr250 that are split on the cable. How hard/possible is it to control those boxes with serial ports, guessing 2 ports, one for each external receiver. Do

Re: [mythtv-users] almost there, now blue screen when trying to watch recording or live tv

2005-03-06 Thread Brad Templeton
On Sun, Mar 06, 2005 at 11:25:40AM -0800, Tim Swortzel wrote: I've finally got everything installed. Now, when I watch live tv, I get a blue screen. If I record a show, then go to watch it, I see it in the preview screen playing normally, but when I select it to watch, it's a blue screen.

[mythtv-users] Looking for Ultimate Frontend-only...

2005-03-06 Thread Brad
I've been looking for the perfect frontend (only) machine for MythTV, and am amazed that I can't find anything that fits my criteria. The criteria are: - must support SDTV (so not too demanding) - must be able to run MythFrontend so all options are available with same UI. - must be quiet.

Re: [mythtv-users] HDTV and SDTV playback

2005-03-06 Thread Brad Templeton
On Sun, Mar 06, 2005 at 04:57:42PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unless you are stuck with a broken xvideo setup, myth will scale the HD so it displays ok on the SDTV. (without any extra cpu load or transcoded copy) Unless that is not what you want. That's not quite true. Doing this

Re: [mythtv-users] Should front end backend releases match exactly?

2005-03-06 Thread Brad Templeton
On Sun, Mar 06, 2005 at 07:02:41PM -0500, Byron Miller wrote: I'm interested in upgrading the backend via cvs - is there any issues with running a newer release on the backend? If you are talking a .16 with a .17, you can't do it. There is an internal myth protocol, and it keeps changing and

Re: [mythtv-users] RE: mythtv-users Digest, Vol 26, Issue 42

2005-03-06 Thread Brad Templeton
On Sun, Mar 06, 2005 at 07:17:27PM -0500, Jonathan M. Cooper wrote: I get where you're coming from. I just like to occasionally have a baseball game on in realtime in a PIP window while watching a recorded program. Understood, though I would much rather watch the ball game as a slightly

Re: [mythtv-users] Low End MythTV

2005-03-06 Thread Brad Templeton
On Sun, Mar 06, 2005 at 10:38:00PM -0700, Blammo wrote: On Sun, 6 Mar 2005 09:00:19 -0800 (PST), Andrew Lynch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There are links to other low end MythTV projects included and a discussion of my project. I'd like to include other peoples low end MythTV projects so

Re: [mythtv-users] RE: mythtv-users Digest, Vol 26, Issue 42

2005-03-06 Thread Brad Templeton
On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 12:05:53AM -0500, Jeff Wormsley wrote: Brad Templeton wrote: (Though if you bought an HD ready monitor instead of a TV you might not have it, though I thought even those had PiP for their video inputs and the NTSC tuners they tend to contain?) Depends. Mine has

Re: [mythtv-users] Low End MythTV

2005-03-06 Thread Brad Templeton
On Sun, Mar 06, 2005 at 09:00:14PM -0800, Andrew Lynch wrote: I think it would be great if old PCs could be converted into PVRs rather than tossing them in landfills or third world toxic waste dumps. That is such a waste. I regularly see cheap TV tuners for $20 or less. Add one to an old

Re: [mythtv-users] Dual HDTV Tuner Requirements

2005-03-05 Thread Brad Templeton
On Sat, Mar 05, 2005 at 01:05:19AM -0500, Jonathan M. Cooper wrote: I've been reading that HDTV decoding takes a substantial amount of processing power. I was wondering if anyone has gotten 2 or more HDTV tuner cards working with myth, and, if so, what the CPU and memory requirements would

Re: [mythtv-users] Commercial Skip

2005-03-05 Thread Brad Templeton
On Sat, Mar 05, 2005 at 01:24:32PM -0500, Chris Pinkham wrote: Part of this is due to the fact that it assumes that show segments must be at least 65 seconds long. I've seen what you're talking about once or twice, but if I crank that number down, then you will get missdetection at other

Re: [mythtv-users] Slightly OT: MythTV as Senior Project?

2005-03-04 Thread Brad Templeton
On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 10:39:09AM -0500, Joseph A. Caputo wrote: On Friday 04 March 2005 0:11, Brad Templeton wrote: If you don't already, get one of the super cheap lite-on or acer IR keyboards. Under 30 bucks and work great, I am typing on one at my tv set right now. (a) All of Myth

Re: [mythtv-users] Mythtv, nvidia and DVI mystery

2005-03-04 Thread Brad Templeton
On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 06:27:20AM -0600, Neil wrote: Hey guys, I've done some testing regarding the mystery I'm experiencing with mythtv, nvidia and DVI. Check it out at http://restricted.dyndns.org/mystery.html comments are greatly appreciated... So I guess what we're

Re: [mythtv-users] Audio Authority 9A60 questions

2005-03-04 Thread Brad Templeton
On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 08:47:05AM -0500, Robert Tsai wrote: On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 09:04:33PM -0800, Jarod Wilson wrote: On Thursday 03 March 2005 20:15, Robert Tsai wrote: I have a Toshiba 42H83 RPTV that will do a severely-overscanned-but-presentable 960x540p (856x480 viewable

Re: [mythtv-users] Is it legal to archive and collect episodes?

2005-03-04 Thread Brad Templeton
On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 03:42:01PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it legal to archive and collect episodes? I've read alot of references that it is and that it isn't, legal. I can see how we have fair use to record a show for our personal use, but doesn't collecting episodes go beyond

Re: [mythtv-users] Is it legal to archive and collect episodes?

2005-03-04 Thread Brad Templeton
On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 02:57:53PM -0600, Andrew Close wrote: On Fri, 04 Mar 2005 15:42:01 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it legal to archive and collect episodes? I've read alot of references that it is and that it isn't, legal. I can see how we have fair use to

Re: [mythtv-users] Slightly OT: MythTV as Senior Project?

2005-03-04 Thread Brad Templeton
On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 04:34:15PM -0500, Joseph A. Caputo wrote: On Friday 04 March 2005 14:19, Brad Templeton wrote: Excepting, of course, the search facilities which use a keyboard Simple text can be entered using the remote, as with a cell phone keypad. If the search text boxes don't

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Mythtv, nvidia and DVI mystery

2005-03-04 Thread Brad Templeton
On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 03:54:56PM -0600, Neil wrote: Brad Templeton writes: It's totally different from interlace artifacts. Here is an example of how I am understanding on what you meant by interlaced artifacts - http://neuron2.net/LVG/inthead.jpg Please correct me if I am wrong

[mythtv-users] Are transcoded files supposed to play in mplayer?

2005-03-04 Thread Brad Templeton
I recently transcoded a variety of shows using the internal myth transcoder, scaling down to 352x480 mp4 from pvr-250 recorded mp2 files. They play fine in myth's internal player, but I had intended to move them over to be long term videos, and I find that mplayer has all sorts of problems with

Re: [mythtv-users] Slightly OT: MythTV as Senior Project?

2005-03-04 Thread Brad Templeton
On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 06:35:03PM -0600, Andrew Close wrote: On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 16:29:03 -0800, Ross Campbell snip A mythweb interface that would allow scheduling of on/off events would be very nice, and it would be very cool to have a trigger for X10 events before and after watching

Re: [mythtv-users] Commercial Skip

2005-03-03 Thread Brad Templeton
On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 08:56:34AM -0500, James Armstrong wrote: While I'm writing, I have a wishlist request: it'd be nice to be able to have the automatic skipping start 1 or 2 seconds after the beginning of the commercial (the number should be configurable and could default to zero, or

Re: [mythtv-users] Broadcast Flag Article mentions MythTV and quotes Issac

2005-03-03 Thread Brad Templeton
On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 11:56:29AM -0500, Brian J. Murrell wrote: You are missing the point of the problem. Software like Myth will not even get access to the content to strip/remove/skip/ignore the flag. The knowledge (i.e. programming specs) needed to get the information from the HDTV

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Torrentocracy Patch against Mythtv-cvs

2005-03-03 Thread Brad Templeton
On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 08:39:06AM -0700, Garry Cook wrote: I've had my MythTV box up for a little over a week now, and one thing that really kills me is when I see a commercial (watching live TV of course) for a program that is of interest. What do I do? Stop watching and go schedule it?

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Torrentocracy Patch against Mythtv-cvs

2005-03-03 Thread Brad Templeton
On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 10:50:57AM -0500, Maverick wrote: Actually, where it would come in handy is not just commercials (which software today can detect) but other things like pitching changes, boring academy awards acceptance speeches, long driving scenes to no purpose etc. That's cool.

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Torrentocracy Patch against Mythtv-cvs

2005-03-03 Thread Brad Templeton
On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 08:53:01AM -0800, Chris Petersen wrote: This is pretty standard -- shows are edited such that there are commercial breaks in certain places. However, it does NOT account for the commercial breaks being the same length in each region (remember, commercials are

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Torrentocracy Patch against Mythtv-cvs

2005-03-03 Thread Brad Templeton
On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 01:59:04PM -0800, Aaron Stewart wrote: Not necessarily so.. Depending on reception quality (I know that my channel 3 comes in worse than most), there may be more or less latency in blank frame detection. Ditto to positions that are set by user when flagging. You

Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV Presentation - Requesting Comments/Opinions

2005-03-03 Thread Brad Templeton
On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 03:48:57PM -0600, Andy Long wrote: Some other things you might mention: -Ability to configure the frontend to have a multitude of different themes. Can really make your box stand out as opposed to the more generic Tivo/Replay themes Yet from a technology standpoint,

Re: [mythtv-users] Slightly OT: MythTV as Senior Project?

2005-03-03 Thread Brad Templeton
On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 09:31:33PM -0700, Garry Cook wrote: responded and mentioned this Tivo feature, which I did not know existed. It would be really cool IMHO, as I still do watch some live TV. Right, but how hard is it to do alt-tab to get to your web browser, call up mythweb from your

Re: [mythtv-users] parts list

2005-03-02 Thread Brad Templeton
On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 01:17:05PM -0600, Bryce wrote: After a ton of digging through the archives, the great responses to my mainboard query, and searching around on Newegg, here's what I've come up with for my parts list: Video: leadtek geforce 6600 pci-e $109 Case: Coolermaster

Re: [mythtv-users] can this list go on gmane?

2005-03-02 Thread Brad Benson
on this list. Brad ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

Re: [mythtv-users] upgrading from CVS?

2005-03-02 Thread Brad Templeton
On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 05:21:04PM -0600, M S wrote: Hi! I've been running CVS for a while now, but everytime I upgrade I'm not sure I'm doing it the best (read: correct) way. What is the best way to upgrade a current myth install from CVS to a newer version of CVS? I appreciate that

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Torrentocracy Patch against Mythtv-cvs

2005-03-02 Thread Brad Templeton
On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 02:14:58AM -0500, Maverick wrote: You must be on the same wave length of me and my friends. We where recently talking about this functionality, so only the first person mark commercials (manual, ie, not auto flagged) and submit their locations to the network. Then

Re: [mythtv-users] Announcing TVWish Beta -- A super wishlist for Myth

2005-03-01 Thread Brad Templeton
On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 01:38:06AM -0800, Ross Campbell wrote: Would be nice to be able to also have an option for Write a review on IMDB after watching a movie in the delete menu. I'd be far more likely to actually write an IMDB review with that option :) If IMDB wants to code that, they

Re: [mythtv-users] Announcing TVWish Beta -- A super wishlist for Myth

2005-03-01 Thread Brad Templeton
On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 09:25:53AM -0500, Nicholas McCoy wrote: On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 20:59:50 -0800, Brad Templeton Brad, have you looked at MythRecommend at all? Its a script you run on your computer which uploads your recording schedule to a database and then downloads lists of shows

Re: [mythtv-users] Looking for a mainboard

2005-03-01 Thread Brad Templeton
On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 11:37:51AM -0600, Bryce wrote: On Tue, March 1, 2005 11:26 am, Joe Barnhart said: Really? I hadn't seen that. I'll have to do some more reading. (Like I don't have enough to research about this crazy project already! grin). I don't really have anything against Intel and

Re: [mythtv-users] [OT] 1080i

2005-03-01 Thread Brad Templeton
On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 09:50:01AM -0500, Andrew Gallatin wrote: Brad Templeton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So this leaves me with the Audio Authority 9A60. Does going out the VGA port work around the nvidia interlace bug? I've seen this implied, but I don't think anybody has actually

Re: [mythtv-users] Looking for a mainboard

2005-03-01 Thread Brad Templeton
On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 03:40:49PM -0500, Angel Li wrote: Brad Templeton wrote: On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 11:37:51AM -0600, Bryce wrot Actually, while the current myth transcoding tools are not designed for dealing with the multiple resolutions that come from HD, I have found you can

Re: [mythtv-users] Removing Parts of Myth

2005-03-01 Thread Brad Benson
hear them). When I had those problems I switched to ratpoison which is extremely lightweight and have never had another problem since. It definitely made a HUGE difference in startup time moving from KDE to ratpoison on my Athlon 1600+. Brad ___ mythtv

Re: [mythtv-users] Announcing TVWish Beta -- A super wishlist for Myth

2005-03-01 Thread Brad Templeton
On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 03:58:55PM -0500, Isaac Richards wrote: On Monday 28 February 2005 11:30 pm, Gabe Rubin wrote: Just for the record - For a recommendation engine built into myth, I'd want the db running on _my_ machine, with the data + server covered under appropriate oss licenses.

Re: [mythtv-users] Announcing TVWish Beta -- A super wishlist for Myth

2005-03-01 Thread Brad Templeton
On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 04:41:32PM -0500, Isaac Richards wrote: If you want to amalgamate data from other users, I am not sure how to efficiently do that with a server running on your own machine. You could have people just upload anonymized data to an open server which simply gathers the

Re: [mythtv-users] TVWish easier install

2005-03-01 Thread Brad Templeton
of all time, plus a few other things. You can hand tune the rest later. The program, TVWish, can be found with tarball and documentation at: http://www.templetons.com/brad/myth/tvwish.html ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Plextor PX-TV402U-NA

2005-02-28 Thread Brad Templeton
On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 06:47:09AM -0500, cythraul wrote: On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 23:04:04 -0700, Justin Gombos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Tim Sailer [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-02-27 23:46]: Requirements: I noticed a P3-800 is required for the PX-TV402U-NA, while the PVR-350 merely requires a

[mythtv-users] Slave backend death kills master

2005-02-28 Thread Brad Templeton
For a couple of months now, I have had an intermitted problem where the master backend will hang due to slave backend problems. For example, if you make install on the slave without stopping it, the master will hang. I have not been able to pin the problem down very well, but yesterday it got

Re: [mythtv-users] [OT] 1080i

2005-02-28 Thread Brad Templeton
I've been running myth using just xv, and its fine with that, so I'd be happy to give up xvmc if I thought there was a way to get the opensource nv driver to do 1080i. Has anybody tried that? When I try using the nv drivers I can't get anything resembling HD to work. I haven't gone as far

[mythtv-users] Announcing TVWish Beta -- A super wishlist for Myth

2005-02-28 Thread Brad Templeton
This is to announce a new add-on program for Myth aimed at managing giant wishlists of shows to record, including lists imported from others. The program, TVWish, can be found with tarball and documentation at: http://www.templetons.com/brad/myth/tvwish.html From that web page, a sampling

[mythtv-users] TVOUT mode settings geforce2 mx400 PAL

2005-02-28 Thread Brad
the nvidia tvou XFree86 conf file. Cheers Brad ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

Re: [mythtv-users] Announcing TVWish Beta -- A super wishlist for Myth

2005-02-28 Thread Brad Templeton
On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 10:39:50PM -0500, Thom Paine wrote: On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 18:40:15 -0800, Brad Templeton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is to announce a new add-on program for Myth aimed at managing giant wishlists of shows to record, including lists imported from others

Re: [mythtv-users] Installation issue - Couldn't find package Synaptic

2005-02-28 Thread Brad
have installed according to Jarrod wilsons instructions 3 or 4 times without this happening, then it happens 2 times in a row. Cheers Brad On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 18:59:05 -0600, John Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Synaptic is in the testing branch at ATrpms. You probably are not and don't want

Re: [mythtv-users] Announcing TVWish Beta -- A super wishlist for Myth

2005-02-28 Thread Brad Templeton
On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 11:30:31PM -0500, Gabe Rubin wrote: This sounds real interesting! I remember a little while ago there was discussion of Isaac allowing a trusted someone to host a recommendation database that updates your recording schedule. Basically an output of what you record and

Re: [mythtv-users] Installation issue - Couldn't find package Synaptic

2005-02-28 Thread Brad
Thanks Jarrod, I didn't know that the RPM's were that dynamic. Still getting my skills up in linux, will use the forums next time. Thanks again for all your work mate. Cheers Brad On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 21:24:35 -0800, Jarod Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 28 February 2005 20:21

Re: [mythtv-users] HDTV Video card recommendations?

2005-02-27 Thread Brad Templeton
On Sat, Feb 26, 2005 at 10:38:35PM -0500, Harry Orenstein wrote: On Saturday 26 February 2005 4:29 pm, Jarod Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 23 February 2005 22:04, Brad Templeton wrote: Still, 720p HDMI/DVI-D is a much cheaper and hopefully better course than getting a YPbPr converter

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Torrentocracy Patch against Mythtv-cvs

2005-02-27 Thread Brad Templeton
On Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 02:26:38PM -0800, Chris Petersen wrote: This is really truly such an unfortunate attitude. I really appreciate this patch. Many other myth users including yourself I'm sure appreciate this patch. Bit torrent is not illegal technology. No, bittorrent is not

Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV Install Documentation

2005-02-27 Thread Brad Templeton
On Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 03:20:55PM -0800, Nav Jagpal wrote: Hi, I'm in the process of writing a step-by-step install document for MythTV. You can checkout what I have so far by visiting http://silver.cs.uvic.ca/~nav/mythtv/index.xhtml The document itself is written in DocBook, so the

Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV Install Documentation

2005-02-27 Thread Brad Templeton
On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 11:18:00AM +0900, David Bennett wrote: Pretty interesting so far but my question is what about those of us that are going to buy a system specifically for the purpose of setting up a myth box. The documentation does not make this clear and I am still not sure what I

Re: [mythtv-users] How to enable XvMC in 0.17?

2005-02-26 Thread Brad Templeton
On Sat, Feb 26, 2005 at 01:39:15PM -0800, Jarod Wilson wrote: ATrpms has plans to provide some alternate builds in the near future, including: 1) a build with nVidia XvMC enabled 2) a build with Unichrome XvMC enabled 3) a build with FireWire support enabled You'll have to jump through

Re: [mythtv-users] How slow can we go, cpu wise? P2-333?

2005-02-26 Thread Brad Templeton
On Sat, Feb 26, 2005 at 03:24:30PM -0700, Justin Gombos wrote: After reading that Tivo CPUs are around 33 MHz, I was surprised to read on EFFs PVR Cookbook(1) that a P4 3GHz cpu is required, along with a video card that has a hardware mpeg codec. The Tivo has hardware mpeg encode and

Re: [mythtv-users] [Improving] The Current State of Myth - DVD

2005-02-25 Thread Brad Templeton
On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 07:56:40PM +, Mike Jasper wrote: Regarding wireless keyboards, I have been using an Acer for a couple of years, and it works perfectly on my myth box (FC3). Only $9.00, and it even came with a set of Duracell batteries :-) Best $9.00 I have ever spent on a

Re: [mythtv-users] OT: Cable co. refuses to offer firewire enabled box

2005-02-25 Thread Brad Templeton
On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 12:02:24PM -0800, Jarod Wilson wrote: On Friday 25 February 2005 09:11, Ian Forde wrote: Ditto, $6.95/mo more here. The FCC doc only applies if you already have an HDTV-capable cable box without a FireWire port and request one with. They get to charge you if all you

Re: [mythtv-users] Mini-mac as HDTV frontend

2005-02-25 Thread Brad Templeton
On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 05:14:11PM -0500, john roberts wrote: Has anyone gotten the Mini-mac to work as a frontend with ATSC content? I was reading the threads from last month and there was some question as to the CPU having enough to do smooth playback. Anyone? I was speaking with the

Re: [mythtv-users] A 'not record commercials at all' mode a

2005-02-25 Thread Brad Templeton
On Sat, Feb 26, 2005 at 12:07:32AM -0500, Chris Pinkham wrote: I would rather see the commflag process start on the recording, say after 10 minutes, that way the longest you would have to wait for the flagging to end is 10 minutes after the recording ends (instead of the length of time

Re: [mythtv-users] Mini-mac as HDTV frontend

2005-02-25 Thread Brad Templeton
On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 05:23:05PM -0800, Dan wolf wrote: Playing and decoding/encoding/saving/timeshifting are different things =) Uhhh. No, not really. There is no encoding with ATSC.Playback and delayed playback/live viewing are almost identical. Short-Delayed playback may involve

Re: [mythtv-users] [Improving] The Current State of Myth - DVD

2005-02-25 Thread Brad Templeton
On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 08:18:35PM -0800, Ben Dash wrote: Sorry to reply to myself yet again, but I just wanted to add the results of my Versapoint RF testing. It works fine. I didn't have to configure anything at all. Take that John C. Dvorak, RE your article about Linux drivers. I

Re: [mythtv-users] Release 0.17 has serious database issue with HDTV

2005-02-24 Thread Brad Templeton
On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 05:18:04AM -0500, Donavan Stanley wrote: We all understand the best pratices of corporate software development, we're all professional programmers. The more rigid proceedures get put into place, the lesslike a hobby and more like work it becomes. And for every

Re: [mythtv-users] HDTV ringbuffer possibly causes missed 13 minutes of West Wing?

2005-02-24 Thread Brad Templeton
On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 08:00:23AM -0800, Joe Barnhart wrote: Well, neighbor, I have been unable to record KNTV since updating to 0.17 a few days ago. The recorting always abourts with no signal, but only on channel 11.1 -- my other channels still record fine. Runing dtvsignal shows the

Re: [mythtv-users] Install MAC OSX Frontend

2005-02-23 Thread Brad Benson
: DBHostName=127.0.0.1 DBUserName=mythtv DBPassword=mythtv DBName=mythconverg That should get your frontend up and running. Brad ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

Re: [mythtv-users] how to decrease time needed for switch channels in live-TV ?

2005-02-23 Thread Brad Benson
watch commercial-free. Brad ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

Non-live surfing Re: [mythtv-users] how to decrease time needed for switch channels in live-TV ?

2005-02-23 Thread Brad Templeton
On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 04:52:06AM -0500, Brad Benson wrote: On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 09:31:37 +, Chris Martin Would it be technically possible to have an option to enable the PVR functionality only once the pause button is pressed (i.e. only create a buffer on pause)? You'd lose

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Release 0.17 has serious database issue with HDTV

2005-02-23 Thread Brad Templeton
On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 09:57:42AM -0600, David Engel wrote: On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 09:55:49PM +1100, Eyal Lebedinsky wrote: This is not a good approach. A release should be a more heavily tested and stabilized package than the usual snapshots. In my experience, almost nobody will test

Re: [mythtv-users] DVI to HDMI

2005-02-23 Thread Brad Templeton
On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 08:53:03AM -0600, John Goerzen wrote: On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 01:45:46PM -0800, Villalovos, John L wrote: Sorry if this is too far off topic. I am trying to build a MythTV setup using a PVR-350 and an HD-3000. This will be hooked up to a Sony KD34XBR960 34 HDTV

Re: [mythtv-users] Release 0.17 has serious database issue with HDTV

2005-02-23 Thread Brad Templeton
On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 03:48:54PM -0500, Dan Lanciani wrote: Brad Templeton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: |My own MythTV experience, as I noted, explains this. I got a pcHDTV |got it working on its own then installed Myth. And the first thing I found |was that it crashed to a black screen

Re: Non-live surfing Re: [mythtv-users] how to decrease time needed for switch channels in live-TV ?

2005-02-23 Thread Brad Benson
On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 12:30:56 -0800, Brad Templeton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However, if you want to help the surfers, here is something you could code. People are making the mistake that channel surfing has to be LIVE. It might not be.So write a program that uses all available tuners

Re: [mythtv-users] DVI to HDMI

2005-02-23 Thread Brad Templeton
On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 04:35:06PM -0500, Sean Cier wrote: Brad Templeton wrote: Well, here's an odd failure story. I picked up a cable -- perhaps it was too cheap, but the sense I get with HDMI and cheap cables is that as a digital standard it either works or it doesn't. Which is a common

Re: Non-live surfing Re: [mythtv-users] how to decrease time needed for switch channels in live-TV ?

2005-02-23 Thread Brad Templeton
On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 04:27:57PM -0500, Brad Benson wrote: On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 12:30:56 -0800, Brad Templeton In theory I think this is an excellent idea. However, the biggest problem I see is lack of sufficient tuners to support this feature. I Yes, but if some surfer-lover wanted to code

Re: [mythtv-users] Release 0.17 has serious database issue with HDTV

2005-02-23 Thread Brad Templeton
On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 05:27:04PM -0400, Greg Estabrooks wrote: This is exactly what a lot of users don't get. NO ONE CARES if you or I use it. It is NOT a PRODUCT. It is a collection of code put together by people with a common interest. AKA, a HOBBY. Just because they make it available

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