Re: [mythtv-users] Performance from a different perspective

2006-01-25 Thread Cymen Vig
On 1/25/06, Justin The Cynical [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, January 24, 2006 10:14, Raphael Pooser wrote: *snip* In reality, encoding/decoding is computationally intensive, and at the same time you need bandwidth as these actions involve streaming. since Celeron is piss poor at

Re: [mythtv-users] scratchy DVDs

2006-01-19 Thread Cymen Vig
On 1/19/06, Simon Lundell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am using Xine to play DVDs on my frontend. When my BENQ dvd-reader gave up after many years in service i changed it for an nec 2510. It seems that this new dvd-reader is more picky on scratchy DVDs (xine hangs/exits, WAF drops). Do you have

Re: [mythtv-users] cut commercials only, no transcoding

2006-01-15 Thread Cymen Vig
On 1/13/06, Steve Briggs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip BTW, what does the seektable do? I've played around some, trying to figure out my transcoding problems. snip It only applies to MPEG2 -- I think MPEG-4 incorporates that functionality into the file. I can't answer what exactly it is

Re: [mythtv-users] Pvr-500 or Plextor ConvertX, reliability.

2005-12-28 Thread Cymen Vig
On 12/28/05, Abre Chase [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can't speak for the PVR-500. But, I just traded out my Plextor for a PVR-150. The MPEG4 format was more trouble than it was worth for me. I could not get it to play on the xbmcmythtv front end - even with the patched mplayer. I also had

Re: [mythtv-users] Starting up mythfrontend automatically?

2005-12-26 Thread Cymen Vig
On 12/26/05, Piers Kittel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK that sounds good to me. But how to do that? :) Start X and x11vnc so I can interact with MythTV remotely with VNC viewer: x:12345:respawn:/bin/su - mythtv -c /home/mythtv/startup.sh vnc:12345:respawn:/bin/su - mythtv -c 'sleep 2 x11vnc

Re: [mythtv-users] Transcoding Artifacts (MPEG-2 - MPEG-4)

2005-12-17 Thread Cymen Vig
On 12/15/05, ffrr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Cymen Vig wrote: I have been experimenting with transcoding the MPEG-2 output of my Hauppauge PVR-500 device to MPEG-4. The current settings are are below ... I've also noticed that attempting to play the MPEG-4 files with mplayer results

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

2005-12-17 Thread Cymen Vig
On 10/23/05, Dave Sherohman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Oct 23, 2005 at 10:41:25AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

Re: [mythtv-users] Graphics card recommendation

2005-12-16 Thread Cymen Vig
On 11/23/05, Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mike Robinson wrote: Bryan Halter wrote: well I'd probably go with the fx 6xxx series for PCI-E. I'm very pleased with my AGP and PCI fx5200s and wouldn't dream of switching to ATI Would you recommend getting a PCI FX5200 and a motherboard

[mythtv-users] Transcoding Artifacts (MPEG-2 - MPEG-4)

2005-12-14 Thread Cymen Vig
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Re: [mythtv-users] Confused about video card

2005-12-14 Thread Cymen Vig
On 12/14/05, Micha Kersloot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm in the lucky possition to be able to test 2 different graphic cards in my system. I'm living in the Netherlands (PAL) and using 0.18.1 release. The two cards are a ATI Radeon RX9550 and a NVidia FX5200 both from MSI. I'm using the fglrx

Re: [mythtv-users] False previously recorded flag for new episode?

2005-12-12 Thread Cymen Vig
On 12/11/05, Universo Dos Mil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/11/05, Mark Oliver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Universo Dos Mil wrote: For some reason, tonight's new episode of Grey's Anatomy (which had the correct Zap2It description whatnot) didn't record on my Myth box, being marked as

Re: [mythtv-users] Cannot compile MythTV 0.18.1 on Athlon 64 Suse 10

2005-12-11 Thread Cymen Vig
On 12/11/05, Paul A. Bennett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Are there any RPMs of MythTV 0.18.1 (or newer) available for Suse 10 running on the Athlon 64? If not, could someone please explain how to recode mythtv-0.18.1/libs/libavcodec/common.h (at lines 61 and 69) where the whole line

Re: [mythtv-users] Performance of the HD MPEG2 decoders

2005-11-18 Thread Cymen Vig
but no warnings about the stutter issue. Perhaps I missed a glaring warning and rationally, an 0.18.1 release is supposed to have issues so I'm not *too* surprised. (*) I'm not certain about this -- maybe Live TV is fixed in current SVN. -- Cymen Vig

Re: [mythtv-users] Attractive cases and cheap DVD burners

2005-11-16 Thread Cymen Vig
On 11/16/05, Jules Bean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jules Bean wrote: You can always remove the graphics card fan and replace it, either with another fan attached to the card, or another fan placed in the case positioned to draw air over it. http://www.quiet.pc.com are one outfit that sell

Re: [mythtv-users] XvMC with SVN revision 7738 and nvidia driver 6629

2005-11-09 Thread Cymen Vig
On 11/8/05, Mark deJong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I'm having a heck of a time trying to figure out how to get XvMC working with my nVidia 5200. I'm expecting a selection in TV settings for decoding via hardware XVMC but don't see the option anywhere. Just Standard,libmpeg2, Standard

Re: [mythtv-users] remote frontend problems

2005-11-07 Thread Cymen Vig
On 11/6/05, Lonnie Borntreger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2005-11-05 at 16:25 -0600, Cymen Vig wrote: On 11/5/05, RDMathews [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a perfectly working install of mythtv on a fc4 machine. I decided to put a frontend on another fc4 machine and link them

Re: [mythtv-users] remote frontend problems

2005-11-07 Thread Cymen Vig
On 11/7/05, Lonnie Borntreger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2005-11-06 at 19:45 -0500, Michael T. Dean wrote: Lonnie Borntreger wrote: I'm not sure I understand why NFS, mplayer, and totem even come up for watching prerecorded shows on a frontend. I put the frontend on a laptop, told

Re: [mythtv-users] diskless xBox stuttering - was Help Diskless frontend

2005-11-07 Thread Cymen Vig
On 11/7/05, Ben Dash [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- George Nassas wrote: On 5-Nov-05, at 10:20 PM, Ben Dash wrote: since I changed to a 2.6 kernel I get no errors I'm running 2.4 because I read the 2.6 fatx driver isn't quite ready for prime time. Do you do any updating of the xbox's

Re: [mythtv-users] Firmware Download Link Mirror?

2005-11-06 Thread Cymen Vig
On 11/6/05, Stéphane Zanoni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know of a mirror where I can download the firmware? ftp://ftp.shspvr.com/download/wintv-pvr_150-500/inf/pvr_2.0.24.23035.zip I got the link from: http://ivtvdriver.org/index.php/Firmware Address resolves to 216.234.188.64 but

Re: [mythtv-users] remote frontend problems

2005-11-05 Thread Cymen Vig
On 11/5/05, RDMathews [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a perfectly working install of mythtv on a fc4 machine. I decided to put a frontend on another fc4 machine and link them wirelessly. the remote frontend can watch tv, browse the program guide, delete recordings, program to record etc, but

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR150 and 250 extra Tuner/Svideo Inputs

2005-11-05 Thread Cymen Vig
On 11/3/05, Michael T. Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Robert Macaulay wrote: On 11/3/05, *Michael T. Dean* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sergio P. Cesar wrote: How do I delete the extra inputs in the configuration for the PVR 150 and 250? it