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

2005-10-12 Thread Craig Read
Kevin Kuphal wrote: Isn't this what http://www.plutohome.com is doing? Pluto is something I'm definitely having a look at (both as an end user and considering applying to be a dealer here). Having one system that controls security consoles, multiple types of home automation (not stuck wit

Re: [mythtv-users] Australian Digital TV Cards

2005-10-11 Thread Craig Read
Hurgh wrote: Hi All, I have been around the list for a while, and in the past have asked a few questions. I have started setting up a new PVR and am looking at putting in a Digital (as appose to the analog one i have now) TV card. Can people in australia please let me know 1) What card th

Re: [mythtv-users] dvb sound drops out?

2005-10-09 Thread Craig Read
Hamish Moffatt wrote: On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 10:26:24AM -0500, Taylor Jacob wrote: Quoting James Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Ben de Luca wrote: Im having an issue with sound stopping half way through dvb recordings I am doing. Any Ideas how I can get some useful feed back

Re: [mythtv-users] Mythtv & Samsung 16T202DA1E VFD

2005-05-27 Thread Craig Read
Craig Read wrote: Nathan Manzi wrote: Could you please tell/point me to how I set it up in LCDd.conf? - Nathan Manzi Paul Woodward wrote: I can concur. I hooked the one from my D-Vine 5 up to the parallel port and got it working with LCDProc as a HD44780. Paul Nathan, do you have

Re: [mythtv-users] DVB board advice

2005-05-23 Thread Craig Read
Kevin Barsby wrote: Hi, I am changing my (UK based) setup to DVB, it's a big upgrade of kernel (to 2.6), drivers (EPIA / ALSA) Myth (to 18.1), etc etc. The DVB board that seems favourite at the moment is the Avermedia DVB-T 716. Has anyone got any feedback on quality / ease of configuration?

[mythtv-users] Difference in reception quality between mplayer and mythtv

2005-05-22 Thread Craig Read
Hi Everyone, Last week I replaced my two Twinhan cards with two Dvico ones (FusionHDTV Plus and FusionHDTV Lite), completed a fresh install of KnoppMyth R512A, upgraded to kernel 2.6.11 and they work reasonably well. I'm getting more than 70% signal strength on both cards (I only used to get

Re: [mythtv-users] Mythtv & Samsung 16T202DA1E VFD

2005-05-22 Thread Craig Read
Nathan Manzi wrote: Could you please tell/point me to how I set it up in LCDd.conf? - Nathan Manzi Paul Woodward wrote: I can concur. I hooked the one from my D-Vine 5 up to the parallel port and got it working with LCDProc as a HD44780. Paul Nathan, do you have the parallel one or the

Re: [mythtv-users] Australian TV grabber (tv_grab_au)

2005-05-16 Thread Craig Read
Michael Smith wrote: As such, I'd like to hear any suggestions for features that people find lacking in the current version. I'm not sure about the current version of that script (as I'm not using it), but there are some common things I see lacking in scripts in general. What I've got so far: (*

Re: [mythtv-users] Recordings spontaneously slow down

2005-05-08 Thread Craig Read
Craig Read wrote: Philip Nelson wrote: I've been having a problem for a while (but only since switching to .17), where occasionally, partway through recording something, it will suddenly slow down -- the video slows to about 70% normal speed, and the audio drops in pitch accordingly

Re: [mythtv-users] MythMusic compile failure

2005-05-05 Thread Craig Read
jmk wrote: To answer my own post... removing mad-0.14.2b and installing libmad-0.15.1b and libid3tag-0.15.1b fixed my mythmusic compile errors. Stupid old RH9 box. Joe Thanks Joe, That also resolved the compile problem for mythmusic on my frontend. I will have to get around to upgrading the OS

Re: [mythtv-users] NFS Mounted Partitions and AutoExpire

2005-05-03 Thread Craig Read
Doug Heimburger wrote: Hi: I'm running into an interesting issue with AutoExpire that's causing me to lose many more shows than I would have expected, including some very recent shows. I have two backends, with the master backend having Tuner 1 and a second backend with Tuner 2. The second backend

Re: [mythtv-users] Choppy playback on remote frontend only - 2 sec prebuffering pause

2005-05-02 Thread Craig Read
Craig Read wrote: Rudy Zijlstra wrote: Bob Wiegand wrote: Up to this point I've been running frontend and backend on the same machine, RH9 with a PVR350 and 250. I finally have setup another machine to be a frontend. The playback on the new frontend pauses every 2 seconds for prebuffering in

[mythtv-users] Is an AMD Athlon 2800+ with MX440 video powerful enough for DVB HDTV?

2005-05-01 Thread Craig Read
I'm hoping somebody can give some advice on how to resolve some problems I have. I've recently had an antenna guy come out with $8k worth of equipment to try and resolve signal problems at my house. He's relocated the antenna, checked the signal strength and ber and said that everything is no

Re: [mythtv-users] Recordings spontaneously slow down

2005-05-01 Thread Craig Read
Philip Nelson wrote: I've been having a problem for a while (but only since switching to .17), where occasionally, partway through recording something, it will suddenly slow down -- the video slows to about 70% normal speed, and the audio drops in pitch accordingly. It doesn't happen all the t

Re: [mythtv-users] Choppy playback on remote frontend only - 2 sec prebuffering pause

2005-04-07 Thread Craig Read
Rudy Zijlstra wrote: Bob Wiegand wrote: Up to this point I've been running frontend and backend on the same machine, RH9 with a PVR350 and 250. I finally have setup another machine to be a frontend. The playback on the new frontend pauses every 2 seconds for prebuffering in both LiveTV and recordi

Re: [mythtv-users] Can Myth be all I want it to be?

2005-01-12 Thread Craig Read
Brent Olson wrote: Ok, after doing a fair bit of research, how does the following hardware look? I already have the hdtvpc-3000. I don't currently plan on doing cable recording, only looking for hdtv playback and record. I currently use a DVD player with DVI output and a Samsung over-the-air HD

[mythtv-users] Restarting/Waking the back-end remotely

2004-12-28 Thread Craig Read
I've got a problem where the backend keeps crashing on me. I'm assuming it's due to reception problems, but I haven't had a chance to investigate the problem any further. To initially get around the problem I configured the WakeOnLan settings to run "sudo /etc/init.d/mythtv-backend start" as a

Re: [mythtv-users] Myth install WITHOUT the internet..

2004-12-15 Thread Craig Read
James Hansen wrote: :0 supurb thread to follow.. I'll attempt it, and will let you know in due course :D I used the 2.6 upgrade instructions in this thread to test my Twinhan card with a 2.6 kernel (on the latest KnoppMyth). When I updated the kernel via "apt-get install kernel-image-2.6.9",

Re: [mythtv-users] Resolution for PAL analgue TV

2004-12-13 Thread Craig Read
Phill Edwards wrote: Yes, I believe that is the correct resolution for PAL. Where exactly are you setting this resolution - as you state below, X doesn't like resolutions that aren't available on your video card. In the mythtv ASettings -->T Vsettings --> Recording Profiles --> Software Encoder

Re: [mythtv-users] Epia MII6K vs MII10K for a Frontend

2004-12-12 Thread Craig Read
Derek Jennings wrote: If you buy the right case you can remove the fan altogether. My M10K is in a Sythe e-otonashi case which uses a heat pipe to transfer the CPU heat to a massive external heatsink. http://www.mini-itx.com/store/?c=3#eotonashi That case has no room for a PCI card. There are oth

Re: [mythtv-users] Resolution for PAL analgue TV

2004-12-12 Thread Craig Read
Phill Edwards wrote: I'm in Australia so I'm using PAL. I read that the recording dimensions for PAL should be 720 wide x 576 high, but when I do this I notice that it uses a lot more CPU (20% more) and the picture quality improvement is only marginal. Is 720 x 576 right?

Re: [mythtv-users] DVB in the UK (EPG)

2004-12-10 Thread Craig Read
Tom Hughes wrote: In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Greg Cope <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Can you shed any light about drivers for this card? The VisionPlus that Scan have? As far as I know they are supported. I haven't actually got any yet but I am going to be ordering some soon unless

Re: [mythtv-users] Consecutive programs, dual tuners

2004-12-09 Thread Craig Read
Phill Edwards wrote: Wouldn't be based in Australia by any chance would you? I am and I've foudn that the program overuns are really bad. I'm thinking of setting my recordings up to always start and end 2 mins late. Haha, I'm also in Australia. I have programs setup to end 10 minutes late. Th

Re: [mythtv-users] Component video adapters

2004-12-09 Thread Craig Read
Mike Isely wrote: Sorry for running on there... Anyway, I hope not to damage my TV :-) Don't risk it. Ship it to me instead (and I'll even pay for shipping). ;-) Craig... ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailm

Re: [mythtv-users] Mythvideo - tvtomb

2004-12-09 Thread Craig Read
Stephen Tait wrote: At 12:00 09/12/2004, you wrote: Ryszard wrote: Is there a utility out there that will grab series info from tv tomb and stick it in the myth database? if not, is this a utility that many people would use? I record a lot of series that i archive off host (but available to myth o

Re: [mythtv-users] Impossible to choose Motherboard?

2004-12-09 Thread Craig Read
Kyle Rose wrote: With digital output on the motherboard, there's really no reason to add a sound card if you're using SD MPEG-2 hardware compression or HD capture cards. Unless your motherboard's digital out is b0rk3d, like the one in the Abit IC7-MAX3. :P At least I managed to get all 5 P

Re: [mythtv-users] Impossible to choose Motherboard?

2004-12-09 Thread Craig Read
Scott Alfter wrote: On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 11:23:22AM +1100, Craig Read wrote: I'm using an AMD Athlon 2800+ cpu, but I think the principle is the same. I chose an Albatron nForce2 motherboard (KM18G-Pro2) with on-board video (nvidia GeForce4 MX440), audio (6 channel with digital

Re: [mythtv-users] Mythvideo - tvtomb

2004-12-09 Thread Craig Read
Ryszard wrote: Is there a utility out there that will grab series info from tv tomb and stick it in the myth database? if not, is this a utility that many people would use? I record a lot of series that i archive off host (but available to myth on a mounted FS) in a filename format something like

Re: [mythtv-users] Can I play scaled HDTV content on a standard TV?

2004-12-08 Thread Craig Read
Lane Schwartz wrote: As I said, I'm really pleased to hear these answers. I plan to get a pcHDTV card before Big Brother comes along in July, but I don't plan to get an HDTV that soon. I'm hopeful that my processor will be able to handle HD playback, as that was the entire reason why I went with a

Re: [mythtv-users] Can I play scaled HDTV content on a standard TV?

2004-12-08 Thread Craig Read
Lane Schwartz wrote: On Tue, 07 Dec 2004 17:34:48 -0500, Kyle Rose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Is it possible, using Myth, to watch TV shows recorded using a pcHDTV 3000 on an standard television set? Yes, and yes, it does look better than broadcast SDTV in my experience. Before I got my H

Re: [mythtv-users] 2.4 or 2.6 kernel?

2004-12-08 Thread Craig Read
Mike Frisch wrote: I am running Gentoo w/MythTV frontend/backend on minimal hardware (Celeron 800 or 867 overclocked to 1200) and am curious which kernel might provide better performance? I think it depends on the tuner card and what sort of support it has. I have a Twinhan VisionPlus and 2.6 ke

Re: [mythtv-users] Impossible to choose Motherboard?

2004-12-08 Thread Craig Read
Drew Zerdecki wrote: Is it impossible? I know I want an Intel chip but beyond that I have no real preference (until you tell me) for chipset, form factor, onboard s-video out. I've looked through the PVR HArdware database, but I haven't gotten a clear idea of what to get. What is the first d

Re: [mythtv-users] d1.com.au broken?

2004-12-07 Thread Craig Read
Andrew J wrote: This is a answer, A while ago I posted about mythtv users joining the tivo users (who have current guide data) and creating a one stop for all Australia like the tivo users get. All channels, all states, all provides are currently provided to TiVo users.. Join the mailing list

Re: [mythtv-users] d1.com.au broken?

2004-12-06 Thread Craig Read
Brian May wrote: Hello, Is there a problem here? launchpad:~# su mythtv /usr/share/xmltv/tv_grab_au/tv_grab_au.d1 tv_grab_au - (version 0.6 - release 2004-07-19) using config filename /home/mythtv/.xmltv/tv_grab_au.conf /usr/share/xmltv/tv_grab_au/channel_ids: no TZ for Melbourne!, using E