Re: [mythtv-users] Can't schedule recordings

2006-01-29 Thread Bruce Markey
Doug Hairfield wrote: I am new to mythtv. I have the latest mythtv version running on FC4 with almost everything working except I am not able to get my recording schedule to save. It lets me go through the guide and pick the show and save settings, but when I goto upcoming recordings, it

Re: [mythtv-users] Scheduled Recordings are keyed off of the callsign field

2006-01-28 Thread Bruce Markey
Nick wrote: On 28/01/06, David Whyte [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Howdy, I went and adjust some of the channel names in mythweb so that they showed up down the left of mythweb a little different (to save space more than anything). The text I changed was the 'callsign' field in the mythweb

Re: [mythtv-users] Slave backend screwing up master

2006-01-28 Thread Bruce Markey
johan Henæs wrote: Hi ! I have a weird problem in my setup. (0.18.1 running on Ubuntu) My Master Backend is running just fine as a standalone. Due to lack of PCI-slots i had to place my second PVR 350 in my frontend, configuring it as a slave backend. Still everything looks fine, BUT -

Re: [mythtv-users] Sports events, LiveTV or Watch Recording?

2006-01-27 Thread Bruce Markey
Trey Boudreau wrote: On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 11:54:01AM -0700, Greg Woods wrote: Some sports, such as baseball and football, lend themselves to using the time stretch as well. With a time stretch of about 1.2 and fast forwarding through all the ads and halftime, I can watch a football game

Re: [mythtv-users] Sports events, LiveTV or Watch Recording?

2006-01-27 Thread Bruce Markey
Greg Woods wrote: On Fri, 2006-01-27 at 14:54 -0500, Michael T. Dean wrote: if you have one capture card and want to record a show on channel 3 from 7:00 to 9:00 with a recording-rule specified extra 15 minutes on the end and a show on the same channel from 9:00 to 10:00, one will conflict

Re: [mythtv-users] ProjectGrayhem-wide theme version 1.2

2006-01-19 Thread Bruce Markey
Justin Hornsby wrote: I was dreading this. We take it for granted that a TV picture fills the screen, The illusion is that the picture size is identical to the screen size but this is impossible. The raster size is larger than the screen and the rough edges are cutoff by the cowl. A TV tube has

Re: [mythtv-users] Watch Recordings, display fewer shows?

2006-01-19 Thread Bruce Markey
Chad wrote: On 1/19/06, Justin Hornsby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyway.. I don't want to see When a show has been as refreshingly original as Desperate Housewives, the worry is that its second series Just tell me what the episode is about! Justin.

Re: [mythtv-users] Watch Recordings, display fewer shows?

2006-01-19 Thread Bruce Markey
Bruce Markey wrote: ... Program Details page (O by default). Here the whole description Ya, right. U by default. O is the upcoming episode list. -- bjm ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR 250

2006-01-19 Thread Bruce Markey
Nick wrote: On 19/01/06, Mike Richardson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 08:36:01PM +, Nick wrote: The freqid is solely used for tuning. I don't think it plays any part in scheduling. Correct. I've set the freqid for the duplicate channel (BBC1, ITV1) etc to be the

Re: [mythtv-users] SVN 8625 Tuner Status strangeness

2006-01-18 Thread Bruce Markey
Tom Lichti wrote: Steve Adeff wrote: On Wednesday 18 January 2006 15:23, Michael T. Dean wrote: On 01/17/06 22:42, Steve Adeff wrote: On Tuesday 17 January 2006 22:28, Chris Pinkham wrote: Tuner Status says Tuner 3 is recording, but the file being written is 2068_blah, so

Re: [mythtv-users] Mythweb schedule recordings - possible to add a new type weekday?

2006-01-17 Thread Bruce Markey
Chris Petersen wrote: In Mythweb schedule recordings, I can choose options such as 'onetime', 'daily' and 'weekly', but what about 'weekday' (Mon to Fri)? Is this a valid schedule type? No. -- bjm ___ mythtv-users mailing list

Re: [mythtv-users] Scheduler Not Resolving Conflict

2006-01-16 Thread Bruce Markey
Derek Battams wrote: The scheduler has marked Letterman in conflict for tonight, even though it could resolve the conflict by choosing a later showing of Colbert. If I add a manual override and force the later showing of Colbert to record then the conflict resolves itself. Why doesn't the

Re: [mythtv-users] Re-record a show that I tell to stop recording?

2006-01-16 Thread Bruce Markey
Nick wrote: On 12/01/06, Steve Adeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In tryng to test some things I've told Myth to stop recording a show then asked it to begin recording it again but it doesn't do it. 1) I'm having it record only this showing 2) then I stop the recording 3) then I go to that

Re: [mythtv-users] 350/500 setup. Tuner #3 cannot tune about 60 or so.

2006-01-14 Thread Bruce Markey
Stewart wrote: I had my myth box set up with a 350 card, using the 350's TV output and all was well. I added a 50 card yesterday and everything appears to work well, but the second tuner on the 500 is having issues when tuning channels above 56. 56 comes in fine, but channels 57-60 all

Re: [mythtv-users] mythbackend not starting on slave (I know...)

2006-01-13 Thread Bruce Markey
Kevin Kuphal wrote: Steve Malenfant wrote: I couldn't find the answer anywhere... service mythbackend start don't work on my salve... It's not an IP configuration issue... mythfrontend works as root and mythtv user on the slave. Also when I execute manually everything works fine. So if

Re: [mythtv-users] Myth 0.18: Recorded vs. Recordedprogram

2006-01-02 Thread Bruce Markey
Larry K wrote: Can anyone explain the difference between the Recorded and the Recordedprogram tables in Mythtv 0.18? In my system, the Recorded table has 8 more rows than the Recordedprogram table (8 out of 151). Recorded is predates the other and is the information about a recorded file and

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Wits end

2005-12-30 Thread Bruce Markey
Rodney D. Myers wrote: ... I plan on heading into tonn tomorrow to get an s-video cable nonetheless, but any idea as to what is happening? If you are using an external device with it's own tuner and connecting it by coax to the tuner of the capture card, the capture card tuner needs to remain

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Wits end

2005-12-30 Thread Bruce Markey
Rodney D. Myers wrote: ... First, establish if there is an over the air channel in your area for three or four. Unless you are midway between metropolitan areas, there will normally be one or the other and not both. Set the output of the external box to the unused channel. I'll assume you've

Re: [mythtv-users] Important information concerning DataDirect's outage

2005-12-29 Thread Bruce Markey
Bruce Markey wrote: Zap2It appears to be suffering some system problems today. This may cause unfortunate problems when running mythfilldatabase It appears that Zap2It was delivering listings again by about 1am PST although the forums at labs.zap2it.com still don't work. If you are missing

Re: [mythtv-users] How do I get mythfilldatabase to NOT add channels?

2005-12-26 Thread Bruce Markey
Rob wrote: I am using MythTV with QAM256 channels (which lacks guide data). So I have set up a DataDirect source for the guide data. The problem is I can manually enter the channels I have into the database, but when I do a mythfilldatabase, it adds every channel in the cable lineup to the

Re: [mythtv-users] How do I get mythfilldatabase to NOT add channels?

2005-12-26 Thread Bruce Markey
Niels Dybdahl wrote: I am using MythTV with QAM256 channels (which lacks guide data). So I have set up a DataDirect source for the guide data. The problem is I can manually enter the channels I have into the database, but when I do a mythfilldatabase, it adds every

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Static on only One Channel

2005-12-26 Thread Bruce Markey
Steve Nuffer wrote: I have changed finetune to +2,+1,0, -1, and -2 with no real change. Does anyone have a suggestion? Some of them actually get worse. Get an adjustable wrench and screw down all the F-connectors in your house (not just the cable connected to your myth box). -- bjm

Re: [mythtv-users] dvb-t delete old listings

2005-12-24 Thread Bruce Markey
scott mccabe wrote: I discovered that my Mythconverg database appears to be increasing in size continually and has now reached 180MB+. The problem is that the old tv listings are not being deleted. I run mythtv0.18 with the automatic over-the-air epg updates. Can anyone enlighten me on how to

Re: [mythtv-users] Interesting false match

2005-12-23 Thread Bruce Markey
Nick wrote: On 23/12/05, Bruce Markey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Al Mcintosh wrote: ... I know the Titles are the same I was just commenting on the fact that they are different as one is House Type movie Catagory Drama and one House type Series (SH688359) category Mystery. What duplicate

Re: [mythtv-users] Windowed Front-end?

2005-12-22 Thread Bruce Markey
Lonnie Borntreger wrote: I was just wondering if there was a MythTV front-end client for Linux that runs in a window, but gives access to all of MythTVs features. My daughter is running Linux, doesn't have a TV, and I would like to allow her to use MythTV in a way that allows her to continue

Re: [mythtv-users] Interesting false match

2005-12-22 Thread Bruce Markey
Al Mcintosh wrote: ... I know the Titles are the same I was just commenting on the fact that they are different as one is House Type movie Catagory Drama and one House type Series (SH688359) category Mystery. What duplicate matching policy were you using? Check for duplicates in: All

Re: [mythtv-users] pausing recording schedules

2005-12-21 Thread Bruce Markey
Chris Rouch wrote: Is there a way to pause a recording schedule? What I mean by this is that normally I have a lot of programs set to record, but only one or two of these are really important. When I go on holiday I'd like to disable the unimportant ones so that my disk doesn't get so full that

Re: [mythtv-users] Searching for kids movies

2005-12-19 Thread Bruce Markey
Henry Fleischmann wrote: Anyone have suggestions for searching for children's movies with Mythweb? I get some by searching for children * with Title and Category boxes checked, but it seems like I'm missing a lot. Is the a way to search for all G or PG rated movies? Nope, but if you use

Re: [mythtv-users] recording every day....

2005-12-18 Thread Bruce Markey
Maurizio Salvadeo wrote: ... ...now my problem is the limit of 2 weeks. This is not a problem. For example, you create a daily manual rule on January 1st. The schedule shows items for Jan 1 - Jan 14. Later in the week you look at the schedule and it shows Will Record for Jan 5 - Jan 19. You

Re: [mythtv-users] Restoring Select Database Files

2005-12-18 Thread Bruce Markey
Michael Starks wrote: Hello Mythers. I had a drive go south on me and eventually decided to rebuild the system from scratch on different hardware. During the process of the drive failing, the database was corrupted. I *do* have backup but not as far back as I need to get a good, clean copy of

Re: [mythtv-users] recording every day....

2005-12-17 Thread Bruce Markey
Maurizio Salvadeo wrote: hi, is my first time in the list. i'd like to record a program every day, also saturday and sunday, and for a long period. my mythtv schedules only weekdays for 2 weeks. someone know how to do it? This sounds like you are using Manual Recording. If so, you may have

Re: [mythtv-users] libmythtv?

2005-12-17 Thread Bruce Markey
jester wrote: I'm setting up myth for the first time. When i try and run 'mythtv-setup' I get the following error: # mythtv-setup mythtv-setup: error while loading shared libraries: libmythtv-0.18.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such fileor directory

Re: [mythtv-users] a couple of nits and a big transcoding (MPEG4-MPEG4) problem

2005-12-16 Thread Bruce Markey
Steve Briggs wrote: I've been using myth for a couple of months now and overall have been quite impressed with it's features and capabilities. I'm running Fedora Core 4 and myth 0.18.1-116 from atrpms. Two minor nits and one big one problem: 1) I save a lot of movies. The Watch Recordings

Re: [mythtv-users] Language for subtitles

2005-12-16 Thread Bruce Markey
Dag Nygren wrote: HI, can you tell me where to go to select the default priority of the subtitle tracks? Ie. in my case: First Swedish then Finnish then the rest... Setup-Appearence third page. The same page were you choose the GUI Language and date formats. -- bjm

Re: [mythtv-users] question about mythfilldatabase parameters

2005-12-15 Thread Bruce Markey
Jakob Fix wrote: Hello, I would like to know what the first number of mythfilldatabase's --file option means exactly, the 1 in the following example. mythfilldatabase --quiet --file 1 -1 tv_uk_rt.xmltv I did read the --help output that mythfilldatabase provides: --file sourceid offset xmlfile

Re: [mythtv-users] Changing default rewind amount

2005-12-13 Thread Bruce Markey
jgmtfia Mr wrote: I have a weird problem. Before my last update, my rewind setting was 15 seconds. After the update it defaulted to 5 seconds. I could not find where to change the value back to 15 seconds. I looked in the TV Settings-Playback Groups-Default -- bjm

Re: [mythtv-users] EPG, Channel Selection, and Multiple Tuners... oh, and Data Sources too!

2005-12-13 Thread Bruce Markey
Matt Mossholder wrote: ... Let me make sure I have it right... in mythtv-setup I define two separate data sources, using the same line up at Zap2It!, and then just turn off the channels that shouldn't exist within each lineup? If I'm following, that certainly sounds easier than my approach !

Re: [mythtv-users] Time Offset Problem

2005-12-13 Thread Bruce Markey
Chris Ribe wrote: ... When my EPG comes up, it shows the current time block (i.e., at 6pm it shows the listings from 6-9), but the programs listed are the programs that were aired 7 hours prior. For example, according to my EPG and Your timezone is set incorrectly in Linux. man tzconfig

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

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

Re: [mythtv-users] Need to prioritise cards/inputs for live tv

2005-12-11 Thread Bruce Markey
John Andersen wrote: ... Is it in mythtv-setup or just the regular setup in mythfrontend? Thanks to those who gave the correct answer the third, fourth and fifth times. What hasn't been said is that the checkbox is in Setup-TV Settings-General on the first page. This is off by default so he

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

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

Re: [mythtv-users] Need to prioritise cards/inputs for live tv

2005-12-10 Thread Bruce Markey
John Andersen wrote: On 12/4/05, Bruce Markey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: W.Kenworthy wrote: I am not at the machine to try this: is it possible to just renumber the cards within the database? e.g, the cardid field in a number of tables. What else? Yes, in the capturecard and cardinput tables

Re: [mythtv-users] Scheduling priorities based on subtitles/widescreen/stereo/etc?

2005-12-10 Thread Bruce Markey
Kim Wall wrote: I was just helping a mythtv-using friend fiddle around with channel priorities in order to avoid recording from a DVB mux with intermittently flaky reception (they live in a rented house, and the aerial could be better). This seems to have solved their problem nicely, but it

Re: [mythtv-users] Need to prioritise cards/inputs for live tv

2005-12-05 Thread Bruce Markey
W.Kenworthy wrote: I am not at the machine to try this: is it possible to just renumber the cards within the database? e.g, the cardid field in a number of tables. What else? Yes, in the capturecard and cardinput tables only. However it may be just as easy and less error prone to truncate

Re: [mythtv-users] Need to prioritise cards/inputs for live tv

2005-12-04 Thread Bruce Markey
Michael T. Dean wrote: William Kenworthy wrote: I have a system with a DVB-T card and the composite input of an old analog tuner card connected to a foxtel STB. How do I get the system to default to the DVB-T card for live tv? It always starts with the analog card? I also want to get the

Re: [mythtv-users] Recording Composite Input

2005-12-03 Thread Bruce Markey
Adam Rosi-Kessel wrote: I'm attempting to record composite input (from a VCR) on a Plextor ConvertX PX-TV402U. I can't quite figure out how to setup the composite input to not have any channels associated with it. If I have it set as (none) under Input Connections, it doesn't show up in Watch

Re: [mythtv-users] Feature suggestion / discussion - record button behavior

2005-12-02 Thread Bruce Markey
Brad DerManouelian wrote: I don't think this would be all that necessary once the LiveTV Record is changed such that hitting record will record the entire program (pulling from buffer as needed). Why would you want to Record a later showing if you've got it right now? To see it from the

Re: [mythtv-users] Uncool surprise... coming back from vacation, shows not recorded.

2005-12-01 Thread Bruce Markey
James Howison wrote: ... I'd like to be able to say If it's Football or Golf (final day) then record 20% longer than usual (The subtitle for golf usually says final day and it's only then that there's likely to be a play-off). Uh, no it doesn't. I've been doing this for a long time.

Re: [mythtv-users] mythbackend fails on initial config

2005-12-01 Thread Bruce Markey
Scott Fones wrote: I can't seem to start mythbackend. I have mysql version 4.1.15 and the mc.sql database inserted. I have qt version 3.3.4 and mythtv version .18.1. Heres what I get when I try to run mythbackend mythbackend 2005-12-01 19:25:38.261 New DB connection, total: 1 2005-12-01

Re: [mythtv-users] HELP: No TV after hw install of HD3000 (w/ PVR250 and FC4)

2005-11-30 Thread Bruce Markey
Michael T. Dean wrote: Brad Fuller wrote: Is [capture card] priority set by the field Input Preference in mythtv-setup? If so, maybe the text should change with the word priority in it. It is a priority value that is added up with the other priority values. It went in as 'preference' and

Re: [mythtv-users] Two Nova-T cards?

2005-11-23 Thread Bruce Markey
Jules Gosnell wrote: I have two NOVA-Ts (different chipsets). Individually they both work fine. When I put them both in together, my signal seemed seriously degraded and MythTV seemed to get pretty confused (perhaps because it could not tune the cards) - chaos ensued, myth fell apart, so I

Re: [mythtv-users] Channel subscription?

2005-11-20 Thread Bruce Markey
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Nov 19, 2005 at 06:18:42PM -0800, Bruce Markey wrote: Obviously, it's past Oct 24th but if some major event happens I can go to Custom Record, Edit Rule: Breaking News, Set the date to tomorrow or the next day, click Record then Save. It will start recording

Re: [mythtv-users] Lost Scheduled Recordings after channel lineup change

2005-11-20 Thread Bruce Markey
catfish wrote: ... Recently my cable company has changed my channel lineup (they moved SpikeTV to another channel number, missing my StarTrek!). Guys. Pay attention. catfish wrote: Ah ha Thanks! Mythtv-setup-Video Sources-Input Connections-Tuner 0 wasn't assigned to my video source. So

Re: [mythtv-users] Channel subscription?

2005-11-20 Thread Bruce Markey
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Nov 20, 2005 at 01:56:04AM -0800, Bruce Markey wrote: I do use Inactive for stuff that I do want to see in the the schedule. First Episodes for one. I never thought of grabbing firsts, but it sounds like an interesting way to find new things to watch. What

Re: [mythtv-users] EPG missing 9pm-midnight 3day+ data

2005-11-19 Thread Bruce Markey
Steve Malenfant wrote: I'm not sure if my zap2it source for my zip code, but it seems that I'm always missing the 9pm-midnight guide data on the 3rd day and on. Today is saturday, I got the full guide for saturday-sunday, but monday+ has 9pm-midnight missing. Is this something normal Yes.

Re: [mythtv-users] Channel subscription?

2005-11-19 Thread Bruce Markey
do a custom record specifying only the channel? That would match all shows minus duplicates. Someone asked a similar question a few months ago and there was another way to do it but I forget what it was. Bruce Markey posted the exhaustive answer. http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv

Re: [mythtv-users] Scheduling fails after channel recreation

2005-11-17 Thread Bruce Markey
Lewis wrote: Hi all, The recent failure of my tv_grab_au forced an upograde to a newer version posted to this mail group. The channel data was different so, I deleted the old channel info and recreated it. tv_grab_au is working fantastically (Thanks Guys!), but I'm no longer able to

Re: [mythtv-users] Schedule by regexp

2005-11-10 Thread Bruce Markey
Neil Bird wrote: Around about 09/11/05 18:34, [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed ... You can't really do it from MythWeb, but from the normal mythfrontend you go to Manage Recordings, Schedule Recordings, Custom Record. [and in fact, mythweb is power-search-unaware and can corrupt them] I've only

Re: [mythtv-users] Schedule by regexp

2005-11-09 Thread Bruce Markey
Alex Polite wrote: Hi. I wan't to match programs to record by a regexp. How do I do that? I'll start from the premise that you just want to do a simple wildcard match. If so, go to Schedule Recordings-Search Words- Titles. Select New Phrase and enter your keyword and press Enter. If the

Re: [mythtv-users] Schedule by regexp

2005-11-09 Thread Bruce Markey
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: .. For example, to get all of the Survivor reality shows but not the Survivorman outdoor show you could either limit the results by category or use an inverse match on the specific titles you don't want. The first method would end up looking like: program.title LIKE

Re: [mythtv-users] Watch TV button in frontend does not do anything

2005-11-08 Thread Bruce Markey
Steve Adeff wrote: ... your right, i'd rather not argue with the ignorant. You are way out of line. Apologize. -- bjm ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

Re: [mythtv-users] Fuzzy and Wavy Local Channels

2005-11-07 Thread Bruce Markey
M Smith wrote: Lately (within the past month) all my local stations from 13 on down are fuzzy or wavy and getting worse. Two stations, 6 ABC and 3 CBS are major static and not watchable. All cable (non-local) chanlls which all start above 13 are just fine. Cable : Philly, PA USA Comcast

Re: [mythtv-users] Extending recordings while recording

2005-11-06 Thread Bruce Markey
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nick wrote: On 11/6/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was just wondering if there was an easy way to extend a recording timeslot while recording? If I'm not mistaken you can do that in the development (SVN) version. You aren't mistaken, this has been

Re: [mythtv-users] DVB EPG kills Manual Schedule

2005-11-04 Thread Bruce Markey
Stuart Auchterlonie wrote: On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 02:06:11PM +, Andrew Meredith wrote: Hi Folks, I'm having strange problems, but more of that later. I have/had a manual program in for the full morning weather forecast. It goes in just fine. It shows up in the Upcoming listings and all

Re: [mythtv-users] Power Search Category oddness

2005-11-04 Thread Bruce Markey
First, I apology for being a bit giddy. After finally deciding to do something even more obscure with Custom Record, it pays off a few days later. Let's first establish that you really are a different person an not me posting under alias just so I can show off, right? Steve Adeff wrote: I'm

Re: [mythtv-users] Slightly OT - Hollywood after the Analog Hole again

2005-11-01 Thread Bruce Markey
Chris Clarke wrote: Interesting article about some new proposed legislation, if it passes Myth will be banned/useless (at least according to the article) http://www.boingboing.net/2005/11/01/hollywood_after_the_.html I believe the period in the title is a typo and would read correctly if

Re: [mythtv-users] Manual Scheduling - bug?

2005-11-01 Thread Bruce Markey
James Angi wrote: I only use MythTV with manual scheduling and have noticed the following bug/feature. When you setup a recording ...in this timeslot every day on a weekday, weekends are skipped. If you setup an 'everyday' recording on a weekend day it truely records every day. Can anyone tell

Re: [mythtv-users] change channel name

2005-10-31 Thread Bruce Markey
Ben Dash wrote: My TV provider has a habit of changing the channel assignments. Recently channel 55 changed from being FitTV to being SciFi. Zap2it seems to be fully aware of this, however, the mythtv EPG hasn't registered the change and shows no programme information. How do I fix this? $

Re: [mythtv-users] oh no! - update mysql

2005-10-28 Thread Bruce Markey
Todd Houle wrote: i accidently deleted my /video directory... I meant just /video/music but oops. that's why I never got that sysadmin job... There was a time in the '90s in Silicon Valley where this would show that you knew of rm -rf making you a leading candidate for a 50-100k job ;-).

Re: [mythtv-users] new recordings missing database fields after R5A22 upgrade

2005-10-26 Thread Bruce Markey
Byron Poland wrote: On 10/26/05, Michael T. Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Byron Poland wrote: On 10/26/05, Michael T. Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Byron Poland wrote: Here is the relevant part of my backend log on on startup: 2005-10-26 15:02:15.804 Using runtime prefix = /usr

Re: [mythtv-users] Manual scheduling with guide data?

2005-10-24 Thread Bruce Markey
Andrew Chuah wrote: I'm wondering if there is a solution to my problem in Myth that I've missed: My wife likes Lifetime original movies; say they show a new one on Tues nights 8.30-10.30. I obviously could go in every few weeks and set those titles to record, but a manual schedule would be

[mythtv-users] Hurricane watch

2005-10-23 Thread Bruce Markey
In case anyone is interested in doing something similar, here is a custom rule I added this evening named Wilma: channel.callsign = 'CNN' AND program.starttime '2005-10-24 19:00:00' This will record everything on CNN up until primetime tomorrow night. See:

Re: [mythtv-users] Aborted?

2005-10-23 Thread Bruce Markey
John P Poet wrote: My mythbackend crashed while recording three shows. I noticed almost immediately, and restarted it. Two of the three shows started recording again. The third, however, did not. When I looked to see why, that third recording had an Aborted status. Are all your cards on

Re: [mythtv-users] Custom searches against the credits table?

2005-10-22 Thread Bruce Markey
Stewart wrote: Can this be done? For example, If I want to see all the clint east wood movies, I can create the following query from within Mysql, or on the command line... select people.name, channel.channum, credits.starttime, program.title from people, credits, program, channel where

Re: [mythtv-users] if (x!=rerun) {record}

2005-10-21 Thread Bruce Markey
commonly respond to so that you can reply with links to the docs. But that's another matter. Then, assign priorities to the rules as desired. I hope I got this all right, but I'm sure Bruce Markey will chime in with corrections to any misinformation here... He's the man with the answers

Re: [mythtv-users] if (x!=rerun) {record}

2005-10-21 Thread Bruce Markey
Derek Battams wrote: Quoting Bruce Markey [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Note: the rule for new episodes has to take precedence. The more specific type wins (Single beats Channel beats All) but in this case they are both All. Therefore the rule for new episodes needs to be created first to win the tie

Re: [mythtv-users] recording from defined tuner

2005-10-16 Thread Bruce Markey
Thomas Bürger wrote: I am using 2 tuners (one DVB-T card and a PVR-350). Both offer the same channels (more or less), so I set all equal channels to the same database ID (by using the same name). To be clear, you should have two different video sources defined. For the channels that carry the

Re: [mythtv-users] many mysql errors

2005-10-15 Thread Bruce Markey
Ricardo Kleemann wrote: Hi, I've been getting a lot of mysql errors, I'm guessing the database must be corrupted... Support for that software is hosted at www.mysql.org . How can I recreate the mysql database? From the errors I see, the program table, at a minimum, is corrupted. In

Re: [mythtv-users] Commercial skips about 5-15 seconds early

2005-10-14 Thread Bruce Markey
Chris Pinkham wrote: I'm having an issue recently. My commercial detection seems to detect perfectly (duration wise) but the commercial skips about 5-15 seconds early. So I miss 5-15 seconds prior to each break and see about 5-15 seconds of the last commercial. The clocks on both machines

Re: [mythtv-users] mysql access problem

2005-10-13 Thread Bruce Markey
Martin West wrote: I ran the install mc.sql OK but when I run mythtvsetup I get an error saying authentication protocol not supported. I can logon using mysql -u mythtv -p at a command line. Im using mysql 4.1.9 on FC3. The authentication protocol error means that the current user doesn't have

Re: [mythtv-users] mysql access problem

2005-10-13 Thread Bruce Markey
MySQL client Bruce Markey wrote: The authentication protocol error means that the current user doesn't have permission to use X11 so no window can be created. Opps, I was thinking of another problem people often rreport but this is a different error message. Never mind. See www.mysql.org

Re: [mythtv-users] Channel Deletion and Wildcard Channel Rules - 2 annoying problems!

2005-10-12 Thread Bruce Markey
David Bennett wrote: Hello, A small annoying problem I have been having, but since I am NOT using ZapIt (in Japan, so xhtml), I can't seem to figure it out. 1) Deleting Channels - I have deleted these unneeded channels a billion times from MythWEB. But every time I run mythfilldatabase they

Re: [mythtv-users] Automatically record every show on a channel?

2005-10-08 Thread Bruce Markey
George Nassas wrote: On 8-Oct-05, at 11:06 AM, Andy Marriott wrote: Could somebody tell me wether it's possible to record every programme on a given channel automatically until further notice? I'm looking to build an off-air TV logger for my employer and mythtv works so well at

Re: [mythtv-users] Possible MythWeb bug: When using a power search recording rule, ability to not record certain matches fails

2005-10-08 Thread Bruce Markey
Michael T. Dean wrote: Nick wrote: Only noticed today when I set up a rule for the remaining Formula 1 races (I have a friend trackside for both upcoming races). I set up the rule on a frontend and it worked a treat, picking out all the matching programs as I'd expect. There are several

Re: [mythtv-users] MSI TV @nywhere Plus Setup

2005-10-08 Thread Bruce Markey
Kirk Bocek wrote: Does anyone have information on setting up the MSI TV @nywhere Plus card? Note this is the Plus and *not* the cx881-based Master. This uses the saa7133 chip but this particular card is not listed in CARDLIST.saa7134. It has a radio tuner and IR receiver in addition to the

Re: [mythtv-users] How to issue command when starting a new recording?

2005-10-05 Thread Bruce Markey
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... However, it's definitely not related to my soundcards, because when I plug my headphones directly into the TV tuner card, I hear nothing. Then, if I run v4lctl volume mute off, I hear sound. In mythtv-setup Capture cards, try checking the box for Do not adjust

Re: [mythtv-users] Tuner numbers - 1 3 (no 2)?

2005-10-03 Thread Bruce Markey
Robert Kulagowski wrote: Check that. It is possible (probable) that there is a capturecard entry for 2 that needs to be removed before the update would work: $ killall mythbackend $ mysqldump -u mythtv -pmythtv mythconverg -c mythtv_backup.sql $ mysql -u mythtv -pmythtv mythconverg mysql

Re: [mythtv-users] Tuner numbers - 1 3 (no 2)?

2005-10-03 Thread Bruce Markey
Robert Kulagowski wrote: As I recall, you had something like card number 14 at one time. Yes, and I'm proud to now have my cards numbered 1 to 5 and then 11. :) Progress! If you mean you mean you have six cards you could use something like this to change 11 to 6. If you mean there are

Re: [mythtv-users] Changing the schedule

2005-10-02 Thread Bruce Markey
Anil Gupte wrote: There was nothing in there let me change the lineup. So anyway, I added a new lineup and deleted the old one. What would have happened if I had left both of them in there? Would MythTV be confused? Would it choke? Should I try it and see what happens? :-) Nothing, no,

Re: [mythtv-users] Tuner numbers - 1 3 (no 2)?

2005-10-01 Thread Bruce Markey
Matthew Carle wrote: Thanks Nick, Option 1 doesn't work so it looks like I'll have to edit the database. Just have to figure out how... My SQL knowledge is very patchy. http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-22.html#ss22.5 $ killall mythbackend $ mysqldump -u mythtv -pmythtv mythconverg -c

Re: [mythtv-users] offset listings time for one channel

2005-09-27 Thread Bruce Markey
Craig Betts wrote: Hello, For the last week, the lineup for one of my channels has been off by 3 hours. I've reported the problem to zap2it, but I was wondering if anyone knows how to make the lineup for a single station three hours later while I'm waiting for the listings to get fixed.

Re: [mythtv-users] Mass channel deletes

2005-09-21 Thread Bruce Markey
Michael T. Dean wrote: ... Good to know, but you're making me feel like I'm slacking on my own Adrian Monk-ishness. I spend way too much time cleaning my computer There are two spaces. ^^ There should only be one. systems, and now that you've mentioned another thing to clean, I'm sure I'll

Re: [mythtv-users] Mass channel deletes

2005-09-21 Thread Bruce Markey
Michael T. Dean wrote: ... Good to know, but you're making me feel like I'm slacking on my own Adrian Monk-ishness. I spend way too much time cleaning my computer I fixed your message. There is only one space now. -- bjm ___ mythtv-users mailing

Re: [mythtv-users] Mass channel deletes

2005-09-21 Thread Bruce Markey
Robert Johnston wrote: On 21/09/05, Bruce Markey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael T. Dean wrote: ... Good to know, but you're making me feel like I'm slacking on my own Adrian Monk-ishness. I spend way too much time cleaning my computer There are two spaces. ^^ There should only be one

Re: [mythtv-users] Mass channel deletes

2005-09-21 Thread Bruce Markey
Brian Puccio wrote: ... Two spaces after a period (or exclamation or question mark) was a Oh my goddness. For anyone else who's never heard of Adrian Monk and don't want to cause giggles for those who have, see: http://www.usanetwork.com/series/monk/index.html . If you are not in North

Re: [mythtv-users] Mass channel deletes

2005-09-20 Thread Bruce Markey
Michael T. Dean wrote: Bruce Markey wrote: Dave Sherohman wrote: Would I break my existing recordings or upcoming recording schedule if I just deleted all records from the channel table, then ran mythfilldatabase manually to reconstruct it? That would work but would leave behind program

Re: [mythtv-users] Setting up slave backend system

2005-09-20 Thread Bruce Markey
Isaac Richards wrote: ... Everything's stored in the same central database. Cards don't show up on the master because it requires local access to the card to probe the various available settings inputs. This is the correct information for this part of the thread but ironically, Scot's

Re: [mythtv-users] Setting up slave backend system

2005-09-20 Thread Bruce Markey
Scot L. Harris wrote: First I would like to thank everyone that contributed help on this problem. I believe I have success in getting the SBE setup and working. :) At least the tests so far are good. I have found a few things that I need to understand better but I now understand it enough

Re: [mythtv-users] Mass channel deletes

2005-09-19 Thread Bruce Markey
Dave Sherohman wrote: Since I didn't recognize all the abbreviated channel IDs, I just set myself up initially for all channels that I receive when I signed up with zap2it. I've now gone through and identified about two dozen channels that don't interest me and have removed them from my zap2it

Re: [mythtv-users] Mass channel deletes

2005-09-19 Thread Bruce Markey
Dave Sherohman wrote: On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 10:27:13AM -0700, Bruce Markey wrote: Dave Sherohman wrote: Section 22.9 of the howto states that I now should go into the database directly and run a couple SQL statements to get rid of the channel I deleted... but that seems a bit labor

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