[mythtv-users] Can't rip DVD's anymore - possible NFS mount problem?

2006-01-29 Thread Darren Richards
I'm in the process of re-ripping my DVD collection after my hard drive died. I got about halfway through when I started having problems. The rip will just stop midway through, with no warnings or error messages... At first I thought it was the DVD drive itself, since nothing else had changed.

[mythtv-users] OT: Need help diagnosing backend hardware failure

2005-11-18 Thread Darren Richards
Sorry for the OT post, but my wife will be missing Gilmore Girls today, so apparently this is an emergency. My backend machine decided to shut itself off sometime during the night last night. Strangely, the power light was still on, but the computer was off. I reset the PSU switch in back, and

Re: [mythtv-users] OT: Need help diagnosing backend hardware failure

2005-11-18 Thread Darren Richards
On 11/18/05, Nick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 19/11/05, Darren Richards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks everyone for the advice. I was able to dig into it this evening, and one of my hard drives bit the dust. It seems to be drawing too much current, which causes the power supply to shut

Re: [mythtv-users] Multiple IR Blasters?

2005-06-16 Thread Darren Richards
I have an almost identical setup, but I'm using two homebrew LIRC simple transmitters wired in parallel, so each Dish receiver has it's own transmitter. I'm not sure how much the improved transmitter costs, but it was only a couple bucks for an additional IR LED at Radio Shack and it works

Re: [mythtv-users] Multiple IR Blasters?

2005-06-13 Thread Darren Richards
Actually, the circuit is a home-built IR blaster. Assuming your box allows you to use different remote codes, you would simply configure the boxes and provide a lircd.conf that lists codes for two remotes--each using a separate code. For example, I have DISH network and created a

Re: [mythtv-users] Considering MythTV, curious about relative WAF.

2005-06-11 Thread Darren Richards
You know, I think a lot of the reliability of MythTV comes from the components you use, how good you are at integrating them and so forth. I have a box I built from older but good quality components, and my reliability is excellent. About the only time it actually breaks is when I fiddle

Re: [mythtv-users] Considering MythTV, curious about relative WAF.

2005-06-10 Thread Darren Richards
Do they make one that will allow you to record 4 simultaneous programs while watching a prerecorded one? Or watch live TV while recording 3 other programs? My Mythbox has this feature. In fact, I bet I could add another PVR-500 capture card and get 6 tuners working, although after that

Re: [mythtv-users] Myth, IRBlaster, FC3 and a single instance of LIRC?

2005-06-09 Thread Darren Richards
On 4/15/05, Claude Boucher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello everyone, Has anyone had any luck with the Controlling a digital cable/satellite box using Fedora, MythTV, an IR Blaster and one instance of LIRC. howto (available at http://www.lircsetup.com/lirc/blaster/index.php)? I'm having a

Re: [mythtv-users] Considering MythTV, curious about relative WAF.

2005-06-09 Thread Darren Richards
On 6/9/05, David Asher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Our household is currently all DirecTivos (2 series 1, 1 HDTivo). My wife LOVES her/our tivos. (As do I) Unfortunately, DirecTV ticked me off recently with the NFL Sunday Ticket pricing, and I've always loved the convergence possiblities

Re: [mythtv-users] SPDIF on Turtle Beach Riviera/CMI8738-MC6

2005-04-05 Thread Darren Richards
On Apr 5, 2005 8:15 PM, Arron King [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I have been working on my setup for a while now, and the only thing that has been troublesome has been the sound. Many thanks to this list and to Jarod for his guide! I picked up a TB Riviera card, and can't seem to get

Re: [mythtv-users] Soundcard Recommendation

2005-03-20 Thread Darren Richards
On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 18:00:21 -0500, Michael Haan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I *just* bought this card - got a quick how to for getting it to work? I've got the following lines in my modprobe.conf: alias snd-card-0 snd-cmipci install snd-cmipci /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-cmipci

Re: [mythtv-users] Soundcard Recommendation

2005-03-19 Thread Darren Richards
On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 09:41:07 -0600, Kevin Kuphal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Richard Holroyd wrote: Can anyone recommend a decent sound card to use with Myth!? I've given up the fight with my onboard c-media 8738. If you need optical out (SPDIF), go with the Turtle Beach Riviera. I have

Re: [mythtv-users] MythVideo database resetting itself after addingsecond frontend

2005-03-14 Thread Darren Richards
On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 07:36:14 -0500, PAUL WILLIAMSON [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Darren Richards [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/14/05 1:47 AM After running the front and back end from one box very successfully for over a year, I decided to add another front end. Everything has gone smoothly, with one

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: USB MCE IR Receiver

2005-03-14 Thread Darren Richards
My USB MCE remote just came in the mail today. I figured if there's a link to it from Jarod's guide, I should be able to get it working. Imagine my dismay when I started searching the archives and came across this thread. Jim, I'm in exactly the same boat as you. Even if there was a magical

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: USB MCE IR Receiver

2005-03-14 Thread Darren Richards
be pretty straightforward. May be worth a shot if you'd like to try. http://lircsetup.com/lirc/trouble/kernsource.php -Andy On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 19:01:33 -0700, Darren Richards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My USB MCE remote just came in the mail today. I figured if there's a link to it from

Re: [mythtv-users] MythVideo database resetting itself afteraddingsecond frontend

2005-03-14 Thread Darren Richards
On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 15:31:46 -0500, PAUL WILLIAMSON [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Darren Richards [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/14/05 3:22 PM Thanks, everyone, for the suggestions. But I do have both frontends pointing to the same location. I guess the one difference is instead of creating a link from

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: USB MCE IR Receiver

2005-03-14 Thread Darren Richards
just did, let's see who responds. Thanks! On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 19:57:11 -0700, Darren Richards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andy, If there's an update in the source code that may make my new IR receiver work, I'll definitely try my hand at compiling LIRC. Your IR blaster walkthrough

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: USB MCE IR Receiver

2005-03-14 Thread Darren Richards
source from Axel's site. If I would have read far enough down the page, I would have seen the src rpm there. I think I can use the same rpm -i to get the source for that. But it is only a hunch. Am I close guys? On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 20:47:19 -0700, Darren Richards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jim

Re: [mythtv-users] MythVideo database resetting itself afteraddingsecond frontend

2005-03-14 Thread Darren Richards
On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 20:08:33 -0800, Ian Forde [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2005-03-14 at 20:30 -0700, Darren Richards wrote: Upon double-checking mysettings, it seems that one frontend was pointing to /video/dvds, and the other was pointing to /mnt/hdb1/dvds. While physically they were

Re: [mythtv-users] MythVideo database resetting itself afteraddingsecond frontend

2005-03-14 Thread Darren Richards
On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 21:10:20 -0800, Ian Forde [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2005-03-14 at 21:49 -0700, Darren Richards wrote: Thanks for the suggestions. This will work in about 95% of the cases, but there are certain dvd's which require special options (like -aid 128). But specifying

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: USB MCE IR Receiver

2005-03-14 Thread Darren Richards
the appropriate entries in modules autoloading config file.) --- Darren Richards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I guess I don't understand... What's the point in recompiling from source if you're grabbing the same version that mythtv-suite installed? I thought the whole point was to install

[mythtv-users] MythVideo database resetting itself after adding second frontend

2005-03-13 Thread Darren Richards
After running the front and back end from one box very successfully for over a year, I decided to add another front end. Everything has gone smoothly, with one exception. If I try to edit the video information through the Video Manager on one frontend, it resets the database for the other one.

Re: [mythtv-users] 5.1 sound output for movies, regular for TV?

2005-02-22 Thread Darren Richards
On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 11:22:05 -0700, Matt Grommes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible to setup myth to use the normal sound output on my soundcard for TV but the digital out for movies so I can get my 5.1 surround? If so, is it possible to tell mythmusic to use the digital out instead of

Re: [mythtv-users] IR blaster not working

2005-02-05 Thread Darren Richards
On Fri, 04 Feb 2005 16:54:53 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been working on my IR blaster for the past 2 days using the notes from http://comp.uark.edu/~aslong/mythtv.php for installing on FC3. I can't seem to be able to get this to work when I run the Test. The error

[mythtv-users] prebuffering pause related to agpgart?

2005-01-18 Thread Darren Richards
I've had my mythtv setup running solidy for nearly a year now with FC1. I decided to upgrade my hard drive and the OS at the same time. I've installed FC3 with the 2.6.10-1.741_FC3 kernel. I used apt-get and Jarod's guide. With FC1, watching live TV or a recording would take about 30% ov my

[mythtv-users] prebuffering pause with FC3

2005-01-17 Thread Darren Richards
I've had my mythtv setup running solidy for nearly a year now with FC1. I decided to upgrade my hard drive and the OS at the same time. I've installed FC3 with the 2.6.10-1.741_FC3 kernel. I used apt-get and Jarod's guide. The problem is that I'm seeing a prebuffering pause ever 2-3 seconds

Re: [mythtv-users] Please help! Incomplete recordings

2004-12-21 Thread Darren Richards
I'm having the same problem. I have a pvr250 and a pvr350. My system had been rock-solid for a good 7 or 8 months. I switched to 0.16, and it was fine for about two months, but then suddenly it started truncating recordings, or not recording at all. I've been in the process of moving this