Re: [mythtv-users] No data in mythweb program listings?

2005-10-31 Thread chris
On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 05:04:21PM -0500, Al Puzzuoli wrote: Chris, the local URL you provided yields the following: Last mythfilldatabase run started on 2005-10-31 07:14 and ended on 2005-10-31 07:15. Successful. There's guide data until 2005-11-14 03:12 (14 days). DataDirect Status: Your

Re: [mythtv-users] Window Managers - Success with ratpoison instead of kde

2005-10-30 Thread chris
On Sat, Oct 29, 2005 at 08:55:25AM -0400, Cory Papenfuss wrote: Exactly. Ratpoison is the closest thing you can do to run without a window manager while still running a window manager. It doesn't draw any decorations on the screen. All it does is manage the focus of any

Re: [mythtv-users] Mythweb problems - missing thumbnail causes backend to crash

2005-10-30 Thread chris
On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 04:07:26PM +, Alexander Fisher wrote: After I ran mysqlcheck, all new recordings were fine again. The Debian version of MySQL does a mysqlcheck as part of the boot sequence, so when recovering from a power failure (or crash) that's one less thing to worry about.

Re: [mythtv-users] basic mythvideo question

2005-10-30 Thread chris
On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 11:58:44AM -0500, Paul McKellar wrote: So i have everything working. But i'm confused as to the intent of mythvideo. Is it meant to stream files to multiple FEs or just play whatever you have locally. It can do one or the other, but not both. The MythVideo and

Re: [mythtv-users] mythweather mythweb weather different

2005-10-30 Thread Chris Petersen
Sunday night here) and the 3 day forecast is for Tues, Wed and Thurs. Pretty sure this bug was fixed in svn ages ago.. my setup is now correct. -Chris ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv

Re: [mythtv-users] Really simple multiple capture card question

2005-10-30 Thread Chris Ribe
-0400 10/26/05, Chris Ribe wrote:I am setting up a system with an old bttv card and a new PVR-150 installed.How do I figure out which card corresponds to which device?I.e. isthe PVR-150 /dev/video0, /dev/video1, /dev/video24, or /dev/video32? If you're using a newer version of ivtv, there's a utility

Re: [mythtv-users] Question about Firewire and Digital Cable

2005-10-30 Thread Chris Ribe
If you have a box the can handle HD, you will be able to get all of the free-to-air (OTA) HD channels that the cable provider carries. You won't have to pay for an HD package. In all likelyhood, these are also the ONLY channels (along with their SD versions) that you will have access to via

Re: [mythtv-users] Mythweb problems - missing thumbnail causes backend to crash

2005-10-30 Thread chris
On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 07:24:32PM +, Alexander Fisher wrote: I run Debian and have noticed that when it boots it displays 'Checking for crashed MySQL tables in the background' when starting mysql. I''m guessing this is the mysqlcheck you're referring to. But it didn't seem to fix my

Re: [mythtv-users] Mythweb problems - missing thumbnail causes backend to crash

2005-10-30 Thread Chris Petersen
In my case I received an email saying that the following tables were corrupt or in use When I stopped Myth and ran the check manually everything was OK. just in case... http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/browser/trunk/mythtv/contrib/optimize_mythdb.pl -Chris

[mythtv-users] PVR-150

2005-10-29 Thread Chris Ribe
400 msp3400-ivtv install lirc_i2c /sbin/modprobe ivtv; /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install lirc_i2c install ohci1394 /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install ohci1394; /sbin/modprobe raw1394 Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Ch

Re: [mythtv-users] Quality profiles (was: (slightly OT) improving wireless connections)

2005-10-29 Thread Chris Ribe
The short answer is, You can't The easiest way to make this happen would probably be to have separate backends for wired and wireless clients. On 10/29/05, Oscar Curero [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: El Dijous, 27 de Octubre de 2005 20:36, Todd Houle va escriure: I had a similar problem (I was using

[mythtv-users] Dumb question about guide

2005-10-28 Thread chris
I just notices that when I'm watching live TV and I call up the schedule, one of the channels has asterisks on either side of the channel number. It's not the channel I'm watching. What's that all about? -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is

Re: [mythtv-users] Mythweb won't delete programs

2005-10-27 Thread Chris Rouch
On 10/21/05, Chris Petersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ok, to put all fears to rest about this being a code issue, I can confirm that it works perfectly for me as of SVN revision 7538 (current). On to the next set of problems.. why this is happening to Neil. Is it an selinux issue? A look

Re: [mythtv-users] An LVM'd drive died! What do I do...

2005-10-27 Thread chris
On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 11:30:07AM -0400, Steve Adeff wrote: noone has yet mentioned S.M.A.R.T. yet. After I went through a stint of loosing 2 hd's in a week's time (due to powersupply problems) I looked into things and found smartctl, which monitors the smart status of drives and can even

[mythtv-users] Really simple multiple capture card question

2005-10-26 Thread Chris Ribe
I am setting up a system with an old bttv card and a new PVR-150 installed. How do I figure out which card corresponds to which device? I.e. is the PVR-150 /dev/video0, /dev/video1, /dev/video24, or /dev/video32? ___ mythtv-users mailing list

Re: [mythtv-users] mac osx frontend and mysql

2005-10-26 Thread Chris Ribe
No, you do not need to install MySQL on the Mac to get the frontend working. It has been almost a year since I have run a frontend on OSX so I don't remember all of the details, but installing MySQL wasn't one of them. The database runs on the backend, the frontend software knows how to talk to

Re: [mythtv-users] An LVM'd drive died! What do I do...

2005-10-26 Thread chris
On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 01:41:28PM +0900, David Bennett wrote: I have seen the same article about reducing the size on LVM... I guess I'm just unclear about what I would lose if I lost an LVM'd drive (stemming from the fact i dont know how LVM data is stored.) Are bits of one file stored

Re: [mythtv-users] audio/video stutter

2005-10-25 Thread chris
On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 03:11:22AM -0700, tgate wrote: -Within myth the HD audio/video go into a play-pause cycle. Different timings based on the settings, but it never goes away. I'm wondering if it could have something to do with the ring buffer? I did some package updates on my system

Re: [mythtv-users] best THX/Dolby digital speaker system for price?

2005-10-25 Thread Chris Trown
. Also look at www.edealinfo.com Chris... -- Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety -- Benjamin Franklin ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi

Re: [mythtv-users] FC4 MythTV - Computer powering down... sort of! - FRUSTRATION!!

2005-10-25 Thread chris
On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 07:33:00AM -0400, Matt Mossholder wrote: With regards to running the hard drive in a different system, yes, you generally can. There are a few things to be careful with (raid, special controllers, etc.) which might make this more difficult, but typically it is OK. Make

Re: [mythtv-users] FC4 MythTV - Computer powering down... sort of! - FRUSTRATION!!

2005-10-24 Thread chris
On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 01:26:20PM +0900, David Bennett wrote: Excuse my ignorance, but how should these be screwed? I am not sure What he's talking about are the hexagonal brass stand-offs that have a threaded pin on one end and a threaded socket on the other. You're supposed to screw them

Re: [mythtv-users] Kernel panic :-(((((

2005-10-23 Thread chris
On Sun, Oct 23, 2005 at 01:33:37PM +0200, Warpme wrote: I want to use USB-Eth adapter for second Eth interface. Billionton adapter is working OK when inserted AFTER system boot. Unfortunately when I first insert adapter to USB socked with system switched off, and next boot system with

Re: [mythtv-users] Frontend freeze when deleting recording

2005-10-23 Thread chris
On Sun, Oct 23, 2005 at 10:34:33AM -0500, Mercury Morris wrote: My guess is that there are quite few MythTV folks that are not aware of the delete-a-recording-while-recording I/O bottleneck. They, and I, will be most interested in the results you might observe regarding filesystem stability

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

2005-10-20 Thread Chris Trown
. Chris... -- Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety -- Benjamin Franklin ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv

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

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

Re: [mythtv-users] Mythweb won't delete programs

2005-10-20 Thread Chris Petersen
for mythweb than for the backend/frontend. It could just be a bug in how MythWeb sends the command to the backend (ie. maybe the format has changed again). Will look into it if I have time tonight. -Chris ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users

Re: [mythtv-users] Mythweb won't delete programs

2005-10-20 Thread Chris Petersen
ok, to put all fears to rest about this being a code issue, I can confirm that it works perfectly for me as of SVN revision 7538 (current). On to the next set of problems.. why this is happening to Neil. -Chris ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv

[mythtv-users] tv_grab_za

2005-10-19 Thread Chris Picton
Hi all Grabber for South Africa has been updated again. This fixes the latest changes from dstv.com Get it at http://www.tangent.co.za/index.pl/fun_stuff Regards Chris ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin

Re: [mythtv-users] Mythweb won't delete programs

2005-10-19 Thread Chris Petersen
Well, actually, it's a newer version. The README for MythWeb hasn't been updated in quite some time. Chris has been very busy with other stuff lately, but the idea of updating it is in the system ( http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/332 ). Actually, I claim laziness on the README (I forgot

Re: [mythtv-users] Mythweb won't delete programs

2005-10-19 Thread Chris Petersen
But it still pulls down .17 dated February 6 2005 My bad. I just fixed that string in the README. Remember that you need to have matching versions of mythbackend and mythweb (and mythfrontend)... Don't forget to grab http://svn.mythtv.org/svn/trunk/mythtv, too. -Chris

Re: [mythtv-users] [OT] Can anyone reccomend me a wireless nic for FC4?

2005-10-19 Thread Chris Trown
://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/ It's a pretty good resource listing available chipsets and their Linux support status. If you go Atheros and want some help, let me know. Chris... -- Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither

[mythtv-users] NVidia, Sony and fun with Powerstrip

2005-10-18 Thread Chris Trown
ability to display an image. I can't move the image left or right at all. So I guess the questionis, Is the normal? Has anyone gotten this combination of monitor and card to work? I can't imagine I'm the first. Thanks! Chris... -- Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase

Re: [mythtv-users] run transcode on selected programs schedules

2005-10-18 Thread Chris Pinkham
as: transcode_job.sh %CHANID% %STARTTIMEISO% %DIR% %FILE% No attempt is made at error checking so you probably want to keep the first mv line uncommented for now. I also wrote this script up on the fly and haven't actually run it, so I'd run it on a test recording to begin with. :) -- Chris

Re: [mythtv-users] Mythcommflag - which backend

2005-10-18 Thread Chris Pinkham
. Is it possible? Possible and designed to allow it. :) You can do the same with the transcoding and User Jobs. -- Chris ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

Re: [mythtv-users] Mythcommflag - which backend

2005-10-18 Thread Chris Pinkham
and mythtranscode can read and write the file locally. -- Chris ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

[mythtv-users] Prebuffering pause on in-progress HD recordings

2005-10-18 Thread Chris Bellew
-350 and am able to watch in-process recordings just fine with it. Anyone have any ideas? Chris -- __ mp3's are killing the music industry killin' aint wrong _ ___ mythtv

[mythtv-users] 0 length seek table

2005-10-17 Thread Chris Picton
on the same files as before. I went to the frontend after all this, and had exactly the same problems. The problematic recordings are the ones which reported the '0 length' error. Any ideas on how to fix this? Chris ___ mythtv-users mailing list

Re: [mythtv-users] apt-get upgrade = borked mythtv

2005-10-17 Thread Chris Trown
a firewall. On machines where I care about not borking the system, I do a yum check-update first and see what yum is going to install. If something might break the application on the system, I use more caution. Chris... -- Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little

[mythtv-users] HD-3000 and changes from 18.1 to SVN

2005-10-17 Thread Chris Dos
. Does SVN no longer use the buffer settings? Any insight into finding out what this problem is would be greatly appreciated. Chris ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

Re: [mythtv-users] myth storage balancing script

2005-10-17 Thread Chris Pinkham
-setup so that Myth Deletes both the link and the file the link is pointing to in the archive directory. -- Chris ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

Re: [mythtv-users] 150 or 150MCE

2005-10-16 Thread Chris Ribe
My understanding is that the Media Center edition doesn't come with a remote - you are expected to use your Media Center remote with it.On 10/15/05, Carl Fongheiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:On 10/15/05, Nick Rosier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 16/10/05, Don Sheehan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am

Re: [mythtv-users] scheduled recording only works while watching tv?

2005-10-16 Thread chris
On Sat, Oct 15, 2005 at 02:15:34PM -0700, Ricardo Kleemann wrote: Does recording only work while watching TV? No. Why can't I simply schedule, and go away without going into watch tv? Your problem is somewhere else. Maybe you forgot to save settings while in the schedule window? I usually

Re: [mythtv-users] not expiring

2005-10-16 Thread chris
On Sat, Oct 15, 2005 at 07:18:54PM -0400, perlguy9 wrote: Is there something else I need to do to make this happen? A cron job I'm missing or something? Auto-expire is supposed to be controlled entirely by the back-end. No cron jobs required. What file-system are you using? Make sure the

Re: [mythtv-users] apt-get upgrade = borked mythtv

2005-10-16 Thread chris
On Sat, Oct 15, 2005 at 08:08:08PM -0500, Kevin Kuphal wrote: Hello. I did an apt-get update; apt-get upgrade today and now my system is borked. I'd love to know the etymology of that word. Wikipedia says possibly related to the Swedish Chef (which was the first thing I thought of),

Re: [mythtv-users] Static on One Channel

2005-10-16 Thread chris
On Sat, Oct 15, 2005 at 11:09:24PM -0400, M Smith wrote: I guess it's some sort of frequency issue, but I'm not really sure what to enter for the 'finetune' field in mythweb or even how that field works. This might be a dumb question, but did you enable auto tuning on the backend mythtv-setup

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

2005-10-16 Thread Chris Pinkham
. I'd use 29.97 to make sure you're as close as possible but 30 will get you pretty close: (((23 * 60) + 59) * 29.97) + 9 = frame 3157 (((23 * 60) + 59) * 30) + 9= frame 3159 -- Chris ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http

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

2005-10-16 Thread Chris Pinkham
the frame numbers above. -- Chris ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

Re: [mythtv-users] Static on channels 5-6 with PVR250 AND PVR500?

2005-10-16 Thread Chris Ribe
I've had the same problem with a bt8?? card (whatever it is, one the software encoding cards), FWIW.On 10/16/05, Matt Goebel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:I think this is more of an ivtv issue but I'll ask here anyway Lately it seems I'm been having an issue getting channels 5-6 to come

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

2005-10-16 Thread Chris Pinkham
to change. If they did, they should be higher now if you had missing frames in the video. If they are, try watching the program again and see if it skips in the right place this time. -- Chris Index: programs/mythcommflag/ClassicCommDetector.cpp

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

2005-10-16 Thread Chris Pinkham
you're seeing in the commercial skip list for this recording? -- Chris ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

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

2005-10-16 Thread Chris Pinkham
know and I can try to look further. -- Chris ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

Re: [mythtv-users] Mozilla/Firefox search plugin for MythTV Mailing Lists now available

2005-10-16 Thread Chris Ribe
OK, that is the the coolest thing in the history of the world..ever! Thank you very much.On 10/16/05, ffrr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael T. Dean wrote: I got tired of going to the Gossamer Threads MythTV page ( http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv ) every time I wanted to search the

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

2005-10-15 Thread Chris Pinkham
they compare to what you're seeing in the editor. See if it looks like it skipped at the right frame number or if maybe it thinks it's skipping at the right frame but the skip doesn't line up with the frame numbers you see while in the editor. -- Chris

Re: [mythtv-users] Getting started, which tuner card Haup. or NVTV

2005-10-14 Thread CHRIS KOTTING
On Fri, 14 Oct 2005 10:11:57 -0500, Frank Dux wrote Hello, I am trying to figure out which tv tuner card to buy for mythtv. I plan on running Xbox (XBMC mythtv plugin) as frontend. However, for my backend I am trying to decide between Hauppauge series or eVGA NVTV series card. Does eVGA

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

2005-10-14 Thread Chris Pinkham
at them in the editor? If the frame numbers match up (so commercial detection is correct), you can put some debug statements into NuppelVideoPlayer::AutoCommercialSkip() to see if this is being triggered early for some reason or if frame numbers look off in there for some reason. -- Chris

Re: [mythtv-users] PHP error in MythWeb

2005-10-14 Thread Chris Petersen
this just as easily as me... http://www.google.com/search?q=Call%20to%20undefined%20function%3A%20mysql_connect()%20 you need to install the php-mysql package for your distro (probably php4-mysql in your case). -Chris ___ mythtv-users mailing list

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

2005-10-14 Thread Chris Pinkham
Chris, this problem has existed for a long time with software encoding but I hadn't ever wanted to bother you with it. If a file is damaged by a pegged CPU, temporary loss of signal or any other reason that might cause a significant number of dropped frames, the commercial markers will be off

Re: [mythtv-users] Automated update of video database

2005-10-14 Thread Chris Ribe
This would be a major shift from the current setup, but I would like to see the distinction between MythVideo and Recordings disappear from the UI. Once a piece of video is on my harddrive, I don't really care where it came from. Regardless of whether the file was created by legal (timeshifting)

RE: [mythtv-users] Need suggestion for Frontend only fanless

2005-10-12 Thread Chris Gackstatter
on a Card. I think they give you a larger card because they provide you with more software. Chris Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 22:11:36 -0400 From: MythTV [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [mythtv-users] Need suggestion for Frontend only fanless solution To: 'Discussion about mythtv' mythtv-users

[mythtv-users] RE: mythtv-users Digest, Vol 33, Issue 56

2005-10-12 Thread Chris Gackstatter
Set dnr_temporal: 8 to 0 Chris Message: 6 Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 00:35:37 -0700 From: Neil Cronin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Discussion about mythtv mythtv-users@mythtv.org Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 I see vertical

Re: [mythtv-users] OT: nVidia and XvMC?

2005-10-12 Thread Chris Trown
libtermcap.so.2 = /lib/libtermcap.so.2 (0x007fd000) libdl.so.2 = /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x004bc000) libc.so.6 = /lib/tls/libc.so.6 (0x00d2b000) /lib/ld-linux.so.2 = /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x0042e000) Chris... -- Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety

Re: [mythtv-users] playlist problem

2005-10-12 Thread Chris Pinkham
for a playlist rather than highlighting the current recording group name as it should. Should have a fix for this in SVN later tonight. -- Chris ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv

Re: [mythtv-users] seperate frontend settings for different machines?

2005-10-12 Thread chris
On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 09:48:03PM -0400, Steve Adeff wrote: I just got myth compiled on my laptop to use as a frontend and I'm noticing that its using the same settings as the frontend on my backend. is this supposed to happen? It's optional. Go to Utilities/Setup, Setup, General, and on

Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV and Comcast On Demand

2005-10-12 Thread Chris Ribe
FWIW, Comcast uses splitters that are only rated to 900Mhz or 1.2GHz when they do installations. I've encountered similar problems doing installs for people, but unfortunately I don't know what the solution is (one time it turned out that the problem was a temporary and neighborhood wide, but it

Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV and Comcast On Demand

2005-10-12 Thread Chris Ribe
Regarding Carl's suggestion, can you tune in digital stations while the amp and splitter are in place? If so, it probably isn't a signal strength issue. On 10/12/05, Chris Ribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FWIW, Comcast uses splitters that are only rated to 900Mhz or 1.2GHz when they do installations

[mythtv-users] mythweb on PDA says Empty beers ?

2005-10-11 Thread chris
I haven't started digging into the PHP (nor have I been drinking, although this might drive me to start :-P). For some reason, when I use my PDA running the Pocket PC version of Internet Explorer and connect to the mythweb/status.php page, the text navigation bar has replaced Scheduled Recordings

Re: [mythtv-users] mythweb on PDA says Empty beers ?

2005-10-11 Thread chris
On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 11:05:09PM +1000, David Whyte wrote: Q: Crikey, 10 acres, how long does it take to mow this lawn? A: Aww, about 2 six-packs. Well, I did manage to find the Australian translation package for mythweb so I knew that my system wasn't hacked, but now that leaves me wondering

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Comcast being coy?

2005-10-11 Thread Chris Ribe
I'm pleased to report that I found a Moto DCT6200 waiting for me when I arrived home from work today. The install guy was confused enough that he called me, but I just told him that I was going to hook it up to a computer and he was fine with that. I am also pleased to report that I get ESPNHD,

Re: [mythtv-users] mythweb on PDA says Empty beers ?

2005-10-11 Thread Chris Petersen
to English. Is it safe to simply delete all the translation packs from the mythweb directory? Just remove the australian stuff from includes/translate.php (this is all fixed in svn, btw) -Chris ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http

Re: [mythtv-users] Not your everyday newbie questions

2005-10-11 Thread Chris Ribe
Without the firewire connection am I correct in assuming that there is no way to capture HD encrypted content like HD Espn, HD TNT, HD Discovery, etc? Is this a blanket problem or are there ways around it? The problem isn't encryption, as HD content over component output isn't encrypted, the

Re: [mythtv-users] OT: MythTV Home Automation

2005-10-11 Thread chris
On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 10:12:04PM +0100, John Harvey wrote: I once considered whether we should just look at adding a GUI to something like misterhouse (http://www.misterhouse.net ) rather than re-inventing everything. I looked at it briefly a while ago and it looked like it could do most

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Comcast being coy?

2005-10-11 Thread Chris Ribe
I have to pay something like $6/month for the box and another $8/month for Digital Basic Access or some other such nonsense. The bottom line is that it is $14 more than the basic cable that I was getting. On 10/11/05, Kevin Kuphal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chris Ribe wrote: I'm pleased to report

Re: [mythtv-users] Video file DVD's/CD's?

2005-10-10 Thread Chris Cooper
Just add a symlink to your cd/dvd drive in your video folder and browse it via mythvideo. You need to set the option to use a browses files view in mythvideo settings (and of course use a view for which the option is set), then you can browse your drive just like any other directory in your

Re: [mythtv-users] Auto expire setting ambiguity

2005-10-10 Thread Chris Pinkham
Press Play on a CD player to play the CD, you press Stop to stop playing. You press Auto Expire to turn ON Auto-Expire for a recording. You press Don't Auto Expire to turn OFF Auto-Expire for a recording. -- Chris ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv

Re: [mythtv-users] Xeon procs with MythTV?

2005-10-10 Thread Chris Ribe
Unless you are planning on doing encoding in software, that is definitely overkill. If you use capture cards that do hardware encoding, like the Hauppauge PVR line of cards, the backend doesn't need much processor power at all. The frontend is where serious processing power can be needed.On

Re: [mythtv-users] nuvexport for EL4?

2005-10-10 Thread Chris Petersen
Is nuvexport available for RHEL4? I see EL3 RPMs out there but nothing for EL4. um, the rpm's are all the same, and always posted at forevermore.net. Only thing you can't get for newer releases is LVE, so just use --nodeps when you install it. -Chris

Re: [mythtv-users] nuvexport for EL4?

2005-10-10 Thread Chris Petersen
messages in the same thread. (I didn't notice this since all mail with nuvexport in the subject files into a separate incoming folder). -Chris ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

Re: [mythtv-users] nuvexport HELP!

2005-10-10 Thread Chris Petersen
stuff like mpeg encoding). -Chris ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

[mythtv-users] PVR-500 Only one turner works --- Hardware of Software problem?

2005-10-09 Thread Chris Gackstatter
I have seen these settings work before by backend crash I am beginning to suspect a hardware problem. Does any one have any suggestions? Chris ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo

Re: [mythtv-users] Returning to playback speed 1X doesn't play at 1X

2005-10-09 Thread Chris Ribe
Put a stopwatch on a 2 minute commercial break and report the results.On 10/8/05, Michael T. Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have MythTV 0.18 running on a remote frontend which is an XBox with Xebian 1.0.3. I have noticed that after I watch any program at an accelerated

Re: [mythtv-users] Transcoding HDTV for playback on EPIA MII Frontend

2005-10-08 Thread Chris Pinkham
on the backend system (Chaintech 7NIF2 - Semptron 2800, it is fine (except for the poor quality of the transcoded file). Small meaning bitrate or resolution? You might try resizing while transcoding if you aren't already. -- Chris ___ mythtv-users mailing

Re: [mythtv-users] FAQ

2005-10-08 Thread Chris Martin
to be to write a user guide for Myth. i.e. actually how to use rather than simply installing it. Again this would go in the wiki, and probably also be available as a PDF for people to print out. Is this a good idea? Sorry for the length of this. Thanks, Chris

Re: [mythtv-users] RTFM?

2005-10-08 Thread chris
On Sat, Oct 08, 2005 at 10:04:13PM -0700, Frank Simorjay wrote: The deal is that the backend is also a racked server I plan on leaving in my server room (currently running a fresh install of Fedora3). So with this in mind do I still have to equip this box with a decoder (video card)? Can I

Re: [mythtv-users] Help - autoexpire not working

2005-10-07 Thread Chris Pinkham
backend logs, I see this any time it tries to auto-expire a program: This should now be fixed in current SVN. The progstart was being sent to the backend instead of the starttime when telling the backend to expire a recording. -- Chris ___ mythtv-users

[mythtv-users] MythTV Filled Hard drive MySQL service will not start at boot.

2005-10-07 Thread Chris Gackstatter
question if you need more detail. Thanks Chris ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

[mythtv-users] FAQ

2005-10-07 Thread Chris Martin
Hello All, I've had a go at doing an FAQ for this mailing list. Consider it in a rough state at the moment with more questions to be added. If anyone has any suggestions then please let me know. it's at http://users.ox.ac.uk/~wolf1473/MythFAQ.html thanks, Chris

Re: [mythtv-users] tv_grab_za broken

2005-10-07 Thread Chris Picton
On Wed, 2005-10-05 at 11:31 +0200, Chris Picton wrote: Just a heads up to ppl in South Africa using tv_grab_za Dstv.com has changed its layout and the current script will not work. I will be updating the script and adding a few new features as soon as I find the time (next few days) K

RE: [mythtv-users] Need suggestion for Frontend only fanless solution

2005-10-07 Thread Chris Gackstatter
and has a small but growing developer base for MythTV I use this product every day, my young kids use this product, and we all love it. Chris From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ricardo Kleemann Sent: Thursday, October 06, 2005 11:57 PM To: Discussion about

[mythtv-users] Comcast being coy?

2005-10-07 Thread Chris Ribe
a note that says, Dear Comcast guy, I know what I am doing, please just leave the box and go about your business. there will be a box there for me when I get home. Any helpful advice and or pertinant anecdotes out there? Thanks, Chris Ribe ___ mythtv

RE: [mythtv-users] Need suggestion for Frontend only fanless solution

2005-10-07 Thread Chris Gackstatter
I'm not sure it has a USB port ... beyond that you are on your own. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andrew Wilson Sent: Friday, October 07, 2005 11:25 AM To: Discussion about mythtv Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Need suggestion for

RE: [mythtv-users] MythTV Filled Hard drive MySQL service willnotstart at boot.

2005-10-07 Thread Chris Gackstatter
Ok, I did the 'df -I' I have over 5Mil inodes in one of my partitions is that excessive. If so what do I do about it? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave Sherohman Sent: Friday, October 07, 2005 11:53 AM To: Andrew Plumb; Discussion

Re: [mythtv-users] FAQ

2005-10-07 Thread Chris Martin
On 10/7/05, David [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yep Q: Why isn't this FAQ on the Wiki at http://www.mythtv.info/ A: Why David, what a good idea!! I'll put it up there straight away so other people can contribute. Not only that, but I'll 'register' on the page so I get an email whenever someone

Re: [mythtv-users] How to get best quality out of nuvexport?

2005-10-06 Thread Chris Petersen
What are your combinations of versions and encoding settings? I use the default settings (duh, I set them), except that I enable multipass and transcode. Produces great results for me. -Chris ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org

[mythtv-users] MythTV error log Filled Hard drive.

2005-10-06 Thread Chris Gackstatter
. Please ask question if you need more detail. Thanks Chris ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

RE: [mythtv-users] Need suggestion for Frontend only fanless solution

2005-10-06 Thread Chris Gackstatter
I run MythRoku on a Roku Photobridge HD. What is there is easy to install and works great. MythRoku can use some more work but it is the only HiDef solution out there. Right now MythRoku only plays recorded shows and you can pause live TV. You will need a front end on another machine to

RE: [mythtv-users] MythTV error log Filled Hard drive.

2005-10-06 Thread Chris Gackstatter
OK I put a head on my headless machine and when I boot I can boot the system in fail safe mode. When I do boot I also notice that MySql service fails to start. Any thought on what this problem is. Any idea how I go about finding very large files on my system? Chris -Original Message

[mythtv-users] tv_grab_za broken

2005-10-05 Thread Chris Picton
Just a heads up to ppl in South Africa using tv_grab_za Dstv.com has changed its layout and the current script will not work. I will be updating the script and adding a few new features as soon as I find the time (next few days) Regards Chris

Re: [mythtv-users] Transcode HD for SD frontend?

2005-10-04 Thread Chris Pinkham
if this works for you, it's something others would probably be interested in as well. -- Chris Pinkham #!/usr/bin/perl ## ## Written by Chris Pinkham ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ## ## Here's the description email I wrote when I originally posted ## this script in reply to a question on the #mythtv-users

Re: [mythtv-users] Source for drives

2005-10-04 Thread Chris Trown
there. Chris -- Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety -- Benjamin Franklin ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo

Re: [mythtv-users] how to interpret loadaverage on mythtv backendstatus page

2005-10-04 Thread chris
On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 09:35:20AM +0200, anders smith wrote: how do I interpret loadaverage on mythtv backendstatus page or when running top? The numbers indicate the smoothed average number of processes running and waiting over a 1, 5, or 15 minute period. If your machine has one

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