[mythtv-users] programs that are scheduled a minute early/run a minute late

2006-01-15 Thread Brian J. Murrell
program late, allowing the previous program to complete. Or maybe even split the difference. Whatever. I just know that having to do this manually is less than optimal. Thots? b. -- My other computer is your Microsoft Windows server. Brian J. Murrell signature.asc Description

Re: [mythtv-users] programs that are scheduled a minute early/run a minute late

2006-01-15 Thread Brian J. Murrell
for what's on next? Unfortunately I do not have the time to implement such a feature... Heh. Me neither. :-( b. -- My other computer is your Microsoft Windows server. Brian J. Murrell signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

[mythtv-users] still transcoding after disabling in recording profile

2006-01-01 Thread Brian J. Murrell
and Low Quality gone into the profile and removed the checkbox from the Automatically transcode after recording option, but I still seem be transcoding resulting recordings. Any ideas why? b. -- My other computer is your Microsoft Windows server. Brian J. Murrell signature.asc Description

Re: [mythtv-users] V-Chip decoding WAS: Commercial Flagging, what are the best

2005-12-23 Thread Brian J. Murrell
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[mythtv-users] adding .nuv files to the recorded table

2005-11-22 Thread Brian J. Murrell
programs list and need to add them. Thanx, b. -- My other computer is your Microsoft Windows server. Brian J. Murrell signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http

Re: [mythtv-users] FYI: The Current Zap2it survey/Reqeust.

2005-11-15 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Tue, 2005-11-15 at 13:28 -0600, Mike Daugird wrote: how do I change the time mythfilldatabase runs? Dude. Asked and answered only 4 hours ago in this very thread. b. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org

Re: [mythtv-users] QT without X?

2005-10-30 Thread Brian J. Murrell
, Trolltech should be targeting DirectFB with their Embedded but again AFAIK, they are not. Pity. b. -- My other computer is your Microsoft Windows server. Brian J. Murrell signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ mythtv-users

Re: [mythtv-users] NVidia Dual XScreen and Gnome Panel

2005-10-25 Thread Brian J. Murrell
. No answer. :-( Be sure to post here if you find something out. b. -- My other computer is your Microsoft Windows server. Brian J. Murrell signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users

[mythtv-users] MJPEG-MPEG-4 transcoder?

2005-10-04 Thread Brian J. Murrell
is perfectly watchable however, so it must be at least some part valid. Ideas? b. -- My other computer is your Microsoft Windows server. Brian J. Murrell signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ mythtv-users mailing list

Re: [mythtv-users] MJPEG-MPEG-4 transcoder?

2005-10-04 Thread Brian J. Murrell
mythtranscode: Couldn't find stream paramters for '/video/tmp/1006_20051003230800_20051003233000.nuv' But the stream seems fine in as much as it mythfrontend plays it without problem. Any more ideas? b. -- My other computer is your Microsoft Windows server. Brian J. Murrell signature.asc

[mythtv-users] how to create a new transcoding profile

2005-09-29 Thread Brian J. Murrell
I have a slave backend with a MJPEG card in it. I have gone to Utilities/Setup-Setup/TV Settings-Recording Profiles-Transcoders but I don't see an entry From MJPEG. How do I add a new transcoder? b. -- My other computer is your Microsoft Windows server. Brian J. Murrell signature.asc

RE: [mythtv-users] Error while starting to record. WAF hashitrock bottom.

2005-09-24 Thread Brian J. Murrell
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Re: [mythtv-users] program remote's power key to stop mythfrontend?

2005-09-22 Thread Brian J. Murrell
presses of the power button can be aborted. I thought that was what kill -9 was for. That one's not course, it's ruthless. :-) b. -- My other computer is your Microsoft Windows server. Brian J. Murrell signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [mythtv-users] program remote's power key to stop mythfrontend?

2005-09-22 Thread Brian J. Murrell
-- where the number of ESC's needed to exit are known could work. Would look ugly though, all the screen flipping just before exiting. An exit jump point is really what is needed I think. b. -- My other computer is your Microsoft Windows server. Brian J. Murrell signature.asc Description

Re: [mythtv-users] Mandriva and PVR150 - Hardware upgrade/system reinstall results in no output

2005-09-15 Thread Brian J. Murrell
of the pain. b. -- My other computer is your Microsoft Windows server. Brian J. Murrell signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv

Re: [mythtv-users] Mandriva and PVR150 - Hardware upgrade/system reinstall results in no output

2005-09-15 Thread Brian J. Murrell
already done the work, I may as well leverage off of it. b. -- My other computer is your Microsoft Windows server. Brian J. Murrell signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org

[mythtv-users] nvidia 5200 desktop on one screen, myth on the other? twinview?

2005-09-15 Thread Brian J. Murrell
is better than just separating the screens into :0.0 and :0.1. Thots? b. -- My other computer is your Microsoft Windows server. Brian J. Murrell signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv

Re: [mythtv-users] Hello all.. i'm the lastest mythnewb looking for advice :D

2005-09-14 Thread Brian J. Murrell
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Re: [mythtv-users] TV choices - was: Could we install/run Mythtv withoutX-windows

2005-09-12 Thread Brian J. Murrell
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Re: [mythtv-users] Re: dual head setup getting screen size from first screen

2005-09-12 Thread Brian J. Murrell
much the size of the screen. So my GUI winds up being 640x480 rather than the 570x430 or so that I have configured in Setup. I make the GUI smaller than the screen so it fits inside the area of the 640x480 left after overscan. b. -- My other computer is your Microsoft Windows server. Brian J

[mythtv-users] dual head setup getting screen size from first screen

2005-09-11 Thread Brian J. Murrell
the screen size from the correct (:0.1) screen and not :0.0 all would work well. Ideas? b. -- My other computer is your Microsoft Windows server. Brian J. Murrell signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ mythtv-users

Re: [mythtv-users] dual head setup getting screen size from first screen

2005-09-11 Thread Brian J. Murrell
about where to get it's screen geometry from. b. -- My other computer is your Microsoft Windows server. Brian J. Murrell signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http

Re: [mythtv-users] dual head setup getting screen size from first screen

2005-09-11 Thread Brian J. Murrell
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Re: [mythtv-users] dual head setup getting screen size from first screen

2005-09-11 Thread Brian J. Murrell
I am running in clone mode, with my desktop only 800x600. Yeah, I don't want this. I want the mythfrontend screen and the deskotp screen to remain separate. b. -- My other computer is your Microsoft Windows server. Brian J. Murrell signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed

Re: [mythtv-users] TV choices - was: Could we install/run Mythtv withoutX-windows

2005-09-11 Thread Brian J. Murrell
with a 3:2 pulldown deinterlacer. b. -- My other computer is your Microsoft Windows server. Brian J. Murrell signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi

Re: [mythtv-users] Could we install/run Mythtv without X-windows

2005-09-09 Thread Brian J. Murrell
this would be possible, but alas it is not. Which is a shame. X for an STB is just a waste. b. -- My other computer is your Microsoft Windows server. Brian J. Murrell signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ mythtv-users

Re: [mythtv-users] Could we install/run Mythtv without X-windows

2005-09-09 Thread Brian J. Murrell
to run on DirectFB which AFAIK it does not. :-( QT-Embedded (or whatever it is) is too far in the other direction. It does not have hardware acceleration (and other video card) suport that DirectFB has. b. -- My other computer is your Microsoft Windows server. Brian J. Murrell signature.asc

Re: [mythtv-users] Could we install/run Mythtv without X-windows

2005-09-09 Thread Brian J. Murrell
more than the developers of OSS. Most unfortunately. b. -- My other computer is your Microsoft Windows server. Brian J. Murrell signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org

Re: [mythtv-users] Could we install/run Mythtv without X-windows

2005-09-09 Thread Brian J. Murrell
still. Maybe if digital starts getting put into something other than huge TVs it will happen quicker, but I really have no desire to give up the space a 52 TV takes. b. -- My other computer is your Microsoft Windows server. Brian J. Murrell signature.asc Description: This is a digitally

Re: [mythtv-users] Could we install/run Mythtv without X-windows

2005-09-09 Thread Brian J. Murrell
, mainly for brightness/windows/daylight issues. What res. does yours go to? I figure if I'm buying one I'd buy the full HDTV res. but then those get pretty pricey. b. -- My other computer is your Microsoft Windows server. Brian J. Murrell signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed

Re: [mythtv-users] Could we install/run Mythtv without X-windows

2005-09-09 Thread Brian J. Murrell
day and I had a difficult time finding one that was *not* digital capable. What kinds of interfaces? As for prices, I saw some as low as $650. Not so bad then. b. -- My other computer is your Microsoft Windows server. Brian J. Murrell signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed

Re: [mythtv-users] Could we install/run Mythtv without X-windows

2005-09-09 Thread Brian J. Murrell
), projectors that do 1920x1080 will be cheap enough to consider replacing it with. Yeah. That was the other thing. Never realized that bulbs were such a significant cost of those suckers. To replace too. b. -- My other computer is your Microsoft Windows server. Brian J. Murrell

Re: [mythtv-users] Could we install/run Mythtv without X-windows

2005-09-09 Thread Brian J. Murrell
at a the least is an incomplete list) for the TV to display. b. -- My other computer is your Microsoft Windows server. Brian J. Murrell signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users

Re: [mythtv-users] Fastest file system

2005-09-09 Thread Brian J. Murrell
. Even if one stream was 5Mb/s, that is only 640KB/s. Not really that intensive. Even my single 80G ATA drive gets ~15MB/s b. -- My other computer is your Microsoft Windows server. Brian J. Murrell signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [mythtv-users] Fastest file system

2005-09-09 Thread Brian J. Murrell
hardware encoder, no sweat. In software, you are sweating. b. -- My other computer is your Microsoft Windows server. Brian J. Murrell signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users

[mythtv-users] transcoded nuv/mpeg4: really mpeg4?

2005-08-18 Thread Brian J. Murrell
for playing with other players like mplayer and xine and so forth? b. -- My other computer is your Microsoft Windows server. Brian J. Murrell signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users

Re: [mythtv-users] transcoded nuv/mpeg4: really mpeg4?

2005-08-18 Thread Brian J. Murrell
-realtime transcoding from MPEG2 to MPEG4 is going to yield a better quality/bit ratio than the same size file at realtime MPEG2. b. -- My other computer is your Microsoft Windows server. Brian J. Murrell signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [mythtv-users] transcoded nuv/mpeg4: really mpeg4?

2005-08-18 Thread Brian J. Murrell
is not really MPEG4 compliant MPEG4? b. -- My other computer is your Microsoft Windows server. Brian J. Murrell signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin

Re: [mythtv-users] transcoded nuv/mpeg4: really mpeg4?

2005-08-18 Thread Brian J. Murrell
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Re: [mythtv-users] transcoded nuv/mpeg4: really mpeg4?

2005-08-18 Thread Brian J. Murrell
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Re: [mythtv-users] transcoded nuv/mpeg4: really mpeg4?

2005-08-18 Thread Brian J. Murrell
from a tuner card. Are those in the MPEG4 stream or the NUV container? They probably could be dropped assuming OGG were better suited to re-containing (i.e. if it has timestamps, etc.) b. -- My other computer is your Microsoft Windows server. Brian J. Murrell signature.asc Description

Re: [mythtv-users] transcoded nuv/mpeg4: really mpeg4?

2005-08-18 Thread Brian J. Murrell
not interested in the other NUV features) that prevents a simple container conversion or am I again simplifying it too much and should stop beating a dead horse? b. -- My other computer is your Microsoft Windows server. Brian J. Murrell signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [mythtv-users] OT: Comcast Chicago changing channel lineup, SCI-FI moving to digital only

2005-08-16 Thread Brian J. Murrell
of the same reasons I am not interested in digital cable, so that's not even an option. b. -- My other computer is your Microsoft Windows server. Brian J. Murrell signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ mythtv-users

Re: [mythtv-users] Checkpointing system

2005-08-13 Thread Brian J. Murrell
in an rpm that were not modified at checkpoint time from the rpm. So you would need a rollback tool too. b. -- My other computer is your Microsoft Windows server. Brian J. Murrell signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [mythtv-users] Absolutely OT, but I want to hear what you guys think

2005-08-13 Thread Brian J. Murrell
information from? Not that I really care about OSX on x86. Just trying to stop the spread of mis-information. b. -- My other computer is your Microsoft Windows server. Brian J. Murrell signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [SPAM] Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Configuring MythTV on Gentoo

2005-08-12 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Fri, 2005-08-12 at 15:56 -0400, Tom E. Craddock Jr. wrote: Thought #1, dont top post, makes reading the whole thread a painyou read top to bottom, not bottom then top, right? Not only that, it encourages trimming, so that I don't have to read the same messages over and over again

Re: [SPAM] Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Configuring MythTV on Gentoo

2005-08-12 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Fri, 2005-08-12 at 16:04 -0400, Andy Pflueger wrote: #1 Sorry for top-posting. #2 I did just read right over that step...doh! I stand corrected. It doesn't seem to promote trimming at all. ~sigh~ b. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [mythtv-users] Playback performance

2005-08-11 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Wed, 2005-08-10 at 15:18 -0500, Juuso H wrote: Hi Not exactly mythtv specific... but close enough. When viewing movies or tv or anything really, my display is not always updating properly. When there's something big moving, there is a noticeable horizontal break where upper half is

Re: [mythtv-users] OT: Comcast Chicago changing channel lineup, SCI-FI moving to digital only

2005-08-09 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 11:15 -0500, Andrew Close wrote: hmm, i'll have to look at my bill. i'm not gonna be happy if i have to upgrade packages to get my Stargate, Battlestar Galactica fix. :) My cableco has been doing this. They have taken away two channels on analog and made them available

Re: [mythtv-users] OT: Comcast Chicago changing channel lineup, SCI-FI moving to digital only

2005-08-09 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 13:51 -0400, Scot L. Harris wrote: Still have that channel here. Wow. Cableco lied to me. Imagine my surprise. Currently I have the cable going direct to the PVR-350 and PVR-250. Yup. I assumed this was the basic analog service. Analog service anyway. Not sure

Re: [mythtv-users] OT: Comcast Chicago changing channel lineup, SCI-FI moving to digital only

2005-08-09 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 14:38 -0400, Scot L. Harris wrote: So the S-Video input on the PVR line of cards allows the card to select the channel on digital cable? No. Or do you mean that would be used from the digital cable box and then an IR blaster has to be used to change the channels on

RE: [mythtv-users] OT: Comcast Chicago changing channellineup, SCI-FI moving to digital only

2005-08-09 Thread Brian J. Murrell
Please wrap text. Huge long lines suck. On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 13:42 -0500, Gavin Haslett wrote: I will say that using external boxes ain't so bad, So you like having to buy a box for every stream you want to watch, be it recorders or other TVs in the house? While I really disagree with the

Re: [mythtv-users] OT: Comcast Chicago changing channel lineup, SCI-FI moving to digital only

2005-08-09 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 14:56 -0400, Jim Reith wrote: Not really an investment in cable boxes as the cable company probably provides at least one with your digital subscription And what of the additional ones I need for the PVR recording cards (1 each) and the other TVs in the house? They

Re: [mythtv-users] OT: Comcast Chicago changing channel lineup, SCI-FI moving to digital only

2005-08-09 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 15:32 -0400, Phil Bridges wrote: Does your cable company not rent cable boxes? Sure. As if cable was not expensive enough though? Why should I *have* to pay more for what I am getting today? Cableco likes to advertise that going digital you get the same channels at the

[mythtv-users] Bell ExpressVu with DVB card anyone?

2005-07-24 Thread Brian J. Murrell
Is anyone here using Myth to capture from a Bell ExpressVu via any kind of DVB set up? I'm not terribly interested in buying more receivers and/or having to IR blast a receiver so I can record the composite or s-video out. I understand the Nagrivision issues with it but also understand that

RE: [mythtv-users] IP TV support on the agenda?

2005-07-20 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Wed, 2005-07-20 at 08:22 -0700, Joe Votour wrote: A lot of the existing infrastructure isn't designed for the bandwidth and routing that it will require. Bandwidth need not be a problem. Multicast. Doubt they will use such an elegant solution, but it's there waiting to be used. b.

RE: [mythtv-users] IP TV support on the agenda?

2005-07-20 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Wed, 2005-07-20 at 08:40 -0700, Joe Votour wrote: (At this point, we're kind of off-topic.) Yeah. But but so is 50% of the traffic on this list. :-) My guess then is that you haven't tried to stream tons of multicast data through switches then (either high-end or low-end). Nope.

Re: [mythtv-users] nvidia card on a budget suggestions

2005-05-31 Thread Brian J. Murrell
Well, I just bought an MSI FX5200-TD128 (i.e. nvidia FX5200) and I am quite disappointed by it. Indeed the color is much more sharp than my G400 was. The G400 was very dull and washed out. But the picture (when playing recorded content/live tv) does not go anywhere near filling the 720x480 that

Re: [mythtv-users] nvidia card on a budget suggestions

2005-05-31 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Tue, 2005-05-31 at 13:54 -0400, Egeekial wrote: Why does it have to be an NVIDIA card? I have found that ATI's linux drivers are light years ahead of NVIDIA's... in terms of stability at least. (SDTV, i.e. s-video, component, composite) TV-Out? Are they actually doing (ST)TV-Out these

Re: [mythtv-users] nvidia card on a budget suggestions

2005-05-31 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Tue, 2005-05-31 at 15:22 -0500, Mike Isely wrote: I have 3 different systems right now with 5200-class Nvidia cards, using the 1.0.7174 nvidia driver and kernel 2.6.11.10 and all are functioning well. Does the video display (actual content, not the OSD) fill the screen? What resolution(s)

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Transcoding existing video

2005-05-12 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Thu, 2005-05-12 at 06:32 -0400, Brian Topping wrote: Hmm, this is starting to look bad. I found the transcode package, see now how it is different than mythtranscode, but it's still looking very difficult. All I really want to do is make the file size smaller, but it's looking like I

Re: [mythtv-users] Broadcast flag thrown out

2005-05-06 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Fri, 2005-05-06 at 08:34 -0700, Wendy Seltzer wrote: The DC Circuit has ruled in our favor, unanimously throwing out the FCC's broadcast flag -- the rule that would have prevented pcHDTV and Air2PC from making HDTV tuner cards in the US after July 1. Nice. Next, we'll have to stop the

Re: [mythtv-users] Broadcast flag thrown out

2005-05-06 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Fri, 2005-05-06 at 12:00 -0500, Lane Schwartz wrote: On 5/6/05, Brian J. Murrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Will the DC Circuit's ruling help in any way in stopping something like this from going through Congress? After reading the court's decision, I would say no - Congress could still

Re: [mythtv-users] Broadcast flag thrown out

2005-05-06 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Fri, 2005-05-06 at 09:48 -0700, Brad Fuller wrote: Also: correct me if I'm wrong: but this ruling doesn't prohibit asset owners from inserting the broadcast flag into their streams. Correct? As far as I understand it, correct. Asset owners could put any number of whatever flags they want

Re: [mythtv-users] Broadcast flag thrown out

2005-05-06 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Fri, 2005-05-06 at 12:44 -0700, Brad Templeton wrote: Why wait? Yes, the cards, and PCs and TVs will be cheaper and better in another year. And the same will be true the year after that and the year after that. Because I question the availability of HD signals. AFAIU, an HDTV card

Re: [mythtv-users] Broadcast flag thrown out

2005-05-06 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Fri, 2005-05-06 at 14:17 -0600, Brandon Beattie wrote: .. They do OTA and Cable (QAM) as long as it's not encrypted QAM. Heh. What cable vendor is going to do unencrypted signals anymore? They have North Americans on the treadmill of buying proprietary equipment in order to get service. I

Re: [mythtv-users] Broadcast flag thrown out

2005-05-06 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Fri, 2005-05-06 at 16:23 -0600, Brandon Beattie wrote: Roof top directional (Since ATSC is directional...) Heh. I know squat about antennae (except the plural form :-) What's directional in contrast to what you see on most people's roofs for analog tv? Does it have to be tuned to the

Re: [mythtv-users] SlightOT - Broadcast flag - current status?

2005-05-02 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Tue, 2005-04-26 at 06:53 -0700, Wendy Seltzer wrote: If the court does strike down the FCC's flag, I suspect we'll see heavy lobbying to Congress to re-impose it. So what's the point of fighting it then? If this is a merry-go-round that never stops then the lobbyists surely will always

Re: [mythtv-users] www.d1.com.au

2005-04-07 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 16:23 +0200, Stef Coene wrote: Or he can compile his own binary's and resell the HMC, there is nothing they can do about it. Yes, he may distribute his own modified (I don't think making a modification is even a requirement) HMC, however don't omit the importance of the

[mythtv-users] stop playing thumbnail after idleness

2005-04-07 Thread Brian J. Murrell
Something that I think would be good is an option to stop playing the thumbnail in the recorded program selector after a selected amount of idle time has elapsed. This would preserve CPU cycles for transcoding and commercial flagging when people leave the program selector up but turn the TV off.

Re: [mythtv-users] QT 3.3.4 and highlighted buttons

2005-04-05 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 10:54 -0500, Michael J. Lynch wrote: If you are using qt-3.3.4-5.x.x, revert to qt-3.3.4.2.0.2 and the problem will go away. Sure seems to be a whole lotta reverting going on to get myth to go. IIRC there is some fonts package(s) you gotta revert to on FC, and now _two_

Re: [mythtv-users] QT 3.3.4 and highlighted buttons

2005-04-05 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 12:32 -0400, Isaac Richards wrote: On Tuesday 05 April 2005 12:00 pm, Brian J. Murrell wrote: Sure seems to be a whole lotta reverting going on to get myth to go. IIRC there is some fonts package(s) you gotta revert to on FC, and now _two_ reasons to revert QT

Re: [mythtv-users] QT 3.3.4 and highlighted buttons

2005-04-05 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 12:57 -0400, Isaac Richards wrote: On Tuesday 05 April 2005 12:42 pm, Brian J. Murrell wrote: OK. So we could classify it as a non-backward compatible API change. In a message yesterday did you not say that with the fix that is in CVS this will be a problem again

Re: [mythtv-users] QT 3.3.4 and highlighted buttons

2005-04-05 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 13:02 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quick question. How do you revert and rpm backwards? rpm -ivh will not do it Even though it's OT: rpm -Uvh --oldpackage b. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [mythtv-users] QT 3.3.4 and highlighted buttons

2005-04-05 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 15:44 -0400, Isaac Richards wrote: No. Geez, people, if you can't or don't want to read, don't join a mailing list. All due respect Isaac but this is a very high volume list, and what makes it worse is that the S:N ratio is not really that good. There is, IMHO, much

Re: Practicality of backing up huge hard drives (was Re: [mythtv-users] Dieing Hard Drive)

2005-03-15 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 10:32 -0500, Cory Papenfuss wrote: I would like an automated backup to connect to that agent and use the key that's passphrase-protected. There are (arguably) better ways to do this and security issues with what you propose. Hope that makes sense. It's quite

Re: Practicality of backing up huge hard drives (was Re: [mythtv-users] Dieing Hard Drive)

2005-03-15 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 10:59 -0500, Neil Watson wrote: On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 10:43:47AM -0500, Brian J. Murrell wrote: IMHO, the right way to do this is to use the forced command option in the authorized_keys file. See the manpage for sshd under the AUTHORIZED_KEYS FILE FORMAT section

Re: [mythtv-users] How I got great quality TV-out on my nVidia MX4000

2005-03-09 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 12:14 +, Stephen Williams wrote: Of course, the way to get 'optimal' TV-out from your Nvidia (or other) card is not to use it's TV-out facilities at all and build a VGA - SCART converter for SDTVs (see http://www.sput.nl/hardware/tv-x.html for example). But my TV

Re: [mythtv-users] How I got great quality TV-out on my nVidia MX4000

2005-03-09 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 09:35 -0500, Cory Papenfuss wrote: I've done something similar (although I'm using an analog S-vid chip for NTSC). Don't hold out on us Corey, do tell more. :-) I'm assuming you built something that converts interlaced vga to s-video using some kind of s-video encoding

Re: [mythtv-users] How I got great quality TV-out on my nVidia MX4000

2005-03-09 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 10:15 -0500, Cory Papenfuss wrote: I've mentioned what I did in the past, starting with http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/45910#45910 Basically built up the circuit in the AD724 datasheet. Seems strange that there is no commercial off the shelf

Re: [mythtv-users] How I got great quality TV-out on my nVidia MX4000

2005-03-09 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 11:36 -0500, Cory Papenfuss wrote: That's what I thought. I'm happy with the results, but the annoyance of getting everything right is definately beyond the scope of what most people are willing to deal with. Perhaps. Certainly not for the out of the box crowd,

Re: [mythtv-users] How I got great quality TV-out on my nVidia MX4000

2005-03-09 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 12:07 -0500, Cory Papenfuss wrote: If by properly overscanned you mean not seeing all 720x480, then yes, it is. Sweet. I am totally jealous dude. It's actually pretty easy to change the horizontal overscanning by just padding the sides with black, but keeping

Re: [mythtv-users] DPMS and televisions; some useful ideas and a question

2005-03-08 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 10:55 -0700, Shawn Willden wrote: I have kids and a brand-new 50 DLP HDTV, which has a bulb that will eventually burn out. In case the conflict there isn't obvious, the kids have a tendency to leave the TV on, wasting electricity and reducing the bulf lifespan. Hrm.

Re: [mythtv-users] DPMS and televisions; some useful ideas and a question

2005-03-08 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 12:01 -0700, Shawn Willden wrote: I responded privately to this in some detail. Publicly I'll just say that while this suggestion is good in theory, and certainly something we attempt to do, anyone who has raised a few children understands that teaching them

Re: [mythtv-users] DPMS and televisions; some useful ideas and a question

2005-03-08 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 14:12 -0500, Mark L. Cukier wrote: Isn't this topic better suited to the child-rearing list? :-) I find 300 on-topic messages per day is enough for me Yeah, me too. But this list seems to set the Reply-to: to the list making it a PITA to have to cut and paste e-mail

Re: [mythtv-users] How I got great quality TV-out on my nVidia MX4000

2005-03-07 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Sat, 2005-03-05 at 14:35 -0500, Will Dormann wrote: After tweaking settings for quite a bit, here's how I achieved what I believe to be the optimal output. Hrm. Optimal meaning as good as it can get with this card but not quite ultimate?, or do you believe you have a TV-Out signal that

Re: [mythtv-users] How I got great quality TV-out on my nVidia MX4000

2005-03-07 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 23:20 +0100, Jeroen Brosens wrote: You probably don't know how bob works too well. Using bobdeint is the *only* way to achieve the original field rate of the broadcast, as played on a TV. Just outputting frames that are captured by the MPEG2 encoder (which are a

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

2005-03-03 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 08:39 -0800, Geoff Scott wrote: Is there we start the drive to put a firefox-like add in the NYT? I hate the flag, and I hate the greed it's come to represent. The problem with this issue and all like it (CSS for example just as the article mentions) is that most

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

2005-03-03 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 11:47 -0500, Maverick wrote: Will MythTV obey the broadcast flag if it where to become law? Being an open source project, seems like everyone would just remove that section of code using illegal patches. You are missing the point of the problem. Software like Myth will

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

2005-03-03 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 12:24 -0500, Maverick wrote: OK, so the software decoding driver on the pcHDTV would have to be patched? cracked you mean? to strip the flag? i guess that would fall under the category of the legislation that says that a manufacturer of a device needs to make it not

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

2005-03-03 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 09:44 -0800, Geoff Scott wrote: Can't we just use scare tactics? What would you scare the average consumer with? If you have an idea, you might have the magic bullet. b. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [mythtv-users] DVI and Overscan - The Epic Battle

2005-03-02 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 08:00 -0800, Dan wolf wrote: Overscan is a bitch. Fucking worst idea _ever_ in the TV area. I dont give a shit if the sides of the picture look wierd, show me the whole god damn pciture or let me adjust it! Arg! Geez dude. Don't beat around the bush. Tell us how you

Re: [mythtv-users] Playing AVI Files

2005-02-23 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Tue, 2005-02-22 at 16:42 -0500, Donavan Stanley wrote: Have you built a seektable for them? I searched and read. The only reference I could find to building a seek table for a video is to run commflag on them. Is that what you are referring to? b. signature.asc Description: This is a

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-350, TVOut Bigger than the TV

2005-02-22 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Tue, 2005-02-22 at 09:54 -0500, Thom Paine wrote: Actually, the TV part is still off the screen. Of course, you realize that the normal broadcast television picture is larger than you see on your television, right? This is called overscan and is normal. Try comparing what you are seeing

Re: [mythtv-users] Playing AVI Files

2005-02-22 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Tue, 2005-02-22 at 15:19 -0600, Josh Burks wrote: MythVideo. Copy your files into the directory specifed in MythVideo setup, use the Video Manager to add them to your library. Indeed. I would like to use the Internal Player for these however my experience is that it does not play them

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-350 vs FX-5200 TVOut

2005-02-16 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 07:59 -0500, Cory Papenfuss wrote: TVout solutions are a wildcard with any card. Most suck and are unknown as far as how they operate internally. That is true, for most, but not for the g400 -- with DirectFB. I understand what you are saying about the unknown

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-350 vs FX-5200 TVOut

2005-02-16 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 08:28 -0500, Donavan Stanley wrote: So rather than follow established terminology Established where? Here? I guess I have not been hanging out here long enough to know that while the world of set-top-boxes calls the display that it shows on the TV the OSD, myth folks

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-350 vs FX-5200 TVOut

2005-02-16 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 09:52 -0500, Cory Papenfuss wrote: Some of them can suck less, and may in fact be quite good. What I am saying is that unless you run a genlocked, synchronous 29.97 resolution with a 1:1 pixel-mapped input/output characteristic So, before we get into another

RE: [mythtv-users] PVR-350 vs FX-5200 TVOut

2005-02-16 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 10:21 -0700, Greg Miller wrote: This is the most interesting thread I've followed for a long time. For what it's worth I am running Mythtv with DVB in Canada How are you capturing the DVB signal in Canada? Expressvu is (apparently) encrypted with a nagrivision variant

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-350 vs FX-5200 TVOut

2005-02-16 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 12:40 -0500, Cory Papenfuss wrote: That's not necessary... I believe you. I do not agree that cannot visually see a difference equivalent to perfect, however. Maybe this is so, but what do I really care beyond it looks perfect? Which I can get with the G400 and

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