[mythtv-users] Line of garbage at top of screen

2006-01-30 Thread David Abrahams
When I watch recorded material on OS X there's what looks like a one (source) pixel line of seemingly random black and white pixels. The source material is fine; I don't see the garbage when I play it in VLC. Does anyone know where this comes from or what can be done about it? (Trac is down or

Re: [mythtv-users] Line of garbage at top of screen

2006-01-30 Thread David Watkins
On 30/01/06, David Abrahams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I watch recorded material on OS X there's what looks like a one (source) pixel line of seemingly random black and white pixels. The source material is fine; I don't see the garbage when I play it in VLC. Does anyone know where

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

2006-01-28 Thread David Whyte
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 Settings Channels page. Anyways, I just noticed that all of my

Re: [mythtv-users] OSX client editing problems...

2006-01-28 Thread David Abrahams
David Abrahams [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Tom E. Craddock Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: John Sutherland wrote: Hi there.. I have a linux backend, 0.18.1, and an OSX frontend.. I've tried 3 verisons of the 0.18.1 OSX client binaries, and all 3 have the same behavour.. (the versions I

Re: [mythtv-users] Unpredictable Skip/Fast Forward/Rewind behavior

2006-01-28 Thread David Abrahams
David Abrahams [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: David Abrahams [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ashley Bostock [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My database is fine too, I have a frontend+backend machine which is fine for ffwd (running linux) its just on the additional mac frontend where I see the issue

Re: [mythtv-users] No /dev/dvb with AVErMedia DVB-T 771's with Ubuntu 5.10

2006-01-27 Thread David Whyte
On 1/27/06, Phill Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However, there are no /dev/dvb devices created so mythtv-setup does not know the cards are present. Does anybody have any ideas about what I am doing wrong. And please don't say anything about rebuilding the kernel else I might wee my

Re: [mythtv-users] No /dev/dvb with AVErMedia DVB-T 771's with Ubuntu 5.10

2006-01-27 Thread David Whyte
On 1/27/06, Phill Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just a quick question, which flavor of linux are you running atm? FC3 and binaries from ATRPMs. /me shakes fist, kicks self, looks up and asks 'why do you make life so hard on me'!!! For the record, there is no trace of the permissions.d

Re: [mythtv-users] Bored at Work

2006-01-27 Thread David Whyte
On 1/27/06, Mike Richardson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Slightly OT, to the tune of Money for Nothing, apologies to Dire Straits: Bravo! It made me chuckle..and realise you really must be bored :P Have a great weekend then ;) -- -- I have GMail invites, if you want one, email me direct.

Re: [mythtv-users] No /dev/dvb with AVErMedia DVB-T 771's with Ubuntu 5.10

2006-01-27 Thread David Whyte
On 1/27/06, Michael Fox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think your missing the loading of an extra module, dont ask me which one you need as I dont have the card in question. Your right. I found an email from way back when I was setting up on FC2 and I had to manually load all of the following. I

[mythtv-users] Icon for mythfrontend

2006-01-27 Thread David Whyte
Hi All, When I installed mythTv from ATrpms under FC2 a new start menu item (a windows term I know) was created so I could start the frontend and I placed this in the panel at the top of my screen so it showed up as an icon with some funky text that said 'mythTV'. Under ubuntu's packaging, there

Re: [mythtv-users] New to mythtv, need help

2006-01-26 Thread David Schmidt
On 1/25/06, Bill Baker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2006-01-25 at 08:02 -0600, David Schmidt wrote: [snip] 1) The 350 *can* output sound (use the red/white RCA plugs on the svideo adapter cable that should have come with it--make sure it is plugged into svideo out, not svideo in). I

Re: [mythtv-users] VCR Manual Record

2006-01-26 Thread David Watkins
On 26/01/06, Nathan Allen Stratton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 26 Jan 2006, Michael T. Dean wrote: Set your input to start on channel 1000. Same problme, the issue I think is that it is trying to change the channel, but it is a VCR on that input, there is no channel to change to.

Re: [mythtv-users] MythFillDatabase fails when run automatically

2006-01-26 Thread David Schmidt
On 1/26/06, Phill Wiggin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dawson, Guy wrote: It's a pain as is I forget SHMBO misses her shows! Any pointers? Guy Dawson ... I can't be of any help here... but what's SHMBO? --Phill W. She Who Must Be Obeyed. (Guess Phill's not married) (-;

[mythtv-users] No /dev/dvb with AVErMedia DVB-T 771's with Ubuntu 5.10

2006-01-26 Thread David Whyte
Hi knowledgable folks... I am trying to get my new install of Ubuntu 5.10 working with my three AVerMedia DVB-T 771 cards. I was a linux noob when I first got mythTV going, and I had a friend set them up with my under FC2, but after encountering apt-get HELL a couple of weeks ago a new install

Re: [mythtv-users] analog video camera and Mythtv?

2006-01-25 Thread David Watkins
trouble is - when it was done, the recorded program didn't show up in the recorded programs part of the GUI. I can't find where the file was recorded to - I did a search on the hard drive (recorded on 1/12/06) find / | grep *20060112* and it came up blank. Does grep work with wildcards?

Re: [mythtv-users] New to mythtv, need help

2006-01-25 Thread David Schmidt
DISCLAIMER: My 350-based system is not fully working yet, but since I'm in the middle of setup, I'm rather familiar with options for it. (If I'm wrong on any of this, someone please correct me. 1) The 350 *can* output sound (use the red/white RCA plugs on the svideo adapter cable that

Re: [mythtv-users] Unusual hard drive activity w/ livetv

2006-01-25 Thread David Watkins
On 24/01/06, Jason Richardson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: whenever I watch live tv, the hard drive goes nuts, and continues doing so until live tv is stopped. it plays/pauses etc and works just fine, but the noise that the drive makes is quite annoying. You've probably already done this but

Re: [mythtv-users] analog video camera and Mythtv?

2006-01-25 Thread David Watkins
On 25/01/06, Roger Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David Watkins wrote: trouble is - when it was done, the recorded program didn't show up in the recorded programs part of the GUI. I can't find where the file was recorded to - I did a search on the hard drive (recorded on 1/12/06) find

Re: [mythtv-users] XvMC - Nvidia isssues?

2006-01-24 Thread David Corder
On Sunday, January 22, 2006, at 07:11AM, Dan Seddon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yup - colour menus are nice ; ) Though, I do find XvMC is smoother generally with my machine + HDTV is imminant in the UK and I don't fancy my chances of getting it to run on my current CPU without a leg-up from my

Re: [mythtv-users] Debian sources????

2006-01-24 Thread David
Gentoo wannabe ;) vimer wrote: It shall compile just fine, cause I did. And why do you want to compile it if the binary is there. On 1/24/06, A JM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I did search on Google before posting and I did read the docs I tried to do some research on my own... deb-src

Re: [mythtv-users] OSX client editing problems...

2006-01-24 Thread David Abrahams
Tom E. Craddock Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: John Sutherland wrote: Hi there.. I have a linux backend, 0.18.1, and an OSX frontend.. I've tried 3 verisons of the 0.18.1 OSX client binaries, and all 3 have the same behavour.. (the versions I tried at the one from goof.com, and the

Re: [mythtv-users] OSX client editing problems...

2006-01-24 Thread David Snider
I had the same problems (on .18.1) and once I started running/ compiling SVN regularly along with the nightly OSX binary builds that are posted on thesniderpad.com's dloads section (which I really do appreciate) I'm glad they are helpful, I know the .18.1 build I have has had mixed

Re: [mythtv-users] streaming to windows (directly through myth)

2006-01-23 Thread David Watkins
On 17/01/06, Andy Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/17/06, Adam Propeck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: DSMYTH. Google it or look at sourceforge specifically. It sets up the Myth:// and Mythlive:// and all that stuff. ok, I should probably clarify myself. I have DSMyth installed. The problems

Re: [mythtv-users] mythgallery

2006-01-23 Thread David Watkins
On 23/01/06, Jad Saklawi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I am currently using mythtvgallery. How to access the menu using the keyboard ? I have no remote control. Well it's pretty dangerous doing this without having a system to check it on but anyway: I'm pretty sure it's the 'M' key - the

Re: [mythtv-users] Myth - Mplayer focus

2006-01-21 Thread David Snider
Rather than twm, why not try blackbox? Out-of-the box configuration for blackbox works pretty well. I use blackbox on my asus digimatrix and it works like a charm. I never have focus issues. I had to tweak the xorg.conf to allow it to boot up without a mouse, and I changed my inittab

Re: [mythtv-users] TV sched is wrong; how to fix it?

2006-01-21 Thread David A. De Graaf
On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 09:28:58PM -0800, Joe Votour wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of David A. De Graaf Sent: Friday, January 20, 2006 6:39 PM To: mythtv-users@mythtv.org Subject: [mythtv-users] TV sched is wrong; how

Re: [mythtv-users] Mythtv on Debian - is it dead?

2006-01-21 Thread David
works then IMHO it's a damn sight easier to apt-get myth too if you just want the 0.18.1 version. Oh, notably goom now works in mythmusic and mythbrowser works out of the box. David I would use them if they built sarge packages, or if I rebuild the src packages from marillat first

[mythtv-users] Mythtv 0.19 - xbox and mac osx frontends (anyone done this with svn?)

2006-01-21 Thread David Bennett
Just wondering if (when the big switch to 0.19 comes) if anyone has intructions on how to, or a running copy of the frontend for other platforms? Ie. MAC OSX and XBOX. The MAC OS X was easy to setup (just a quick .dmg download) but the XBOX was somewhat a pain in the ass. I have (unfortunately)

[mythtv-users] Cannot update ivtv

2006-01-20 Thread David R Robison
-kmdl-2.6.14-1.1656_FC4.i589 (updating from 1653 to 1656). Any thoughts? Do I first need to uninstall the 1653 version and then reinstall 1656 version? Thanks, David Robison ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin

[mythtv-users] TV sched is wrong; how to fix it?

2006-01-20 Thread David A. De Graaf
on Fedora Core 4, x86_64. TV signals are from a Mediacom cable, using plain old analog NTSC modulation. The TV schedules are downloaded from DataDirect for Mediacom cable for our zipcode of 28739. -- David A. De GraafDATIX, Inc.Hendersonville, NC [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [mythtv-users] capturing via firewire

2006-01-20 Thread David Abrahams
Gabe Rubin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am considering upgrading my myth box so I can, as some people stated, step into this century's technology. I already have a PVR-350 capture card, and live near frys where they are always selling Mobo/CPU combos. What I wanted to do was get one with

Re: [mythtv-users] Fusion remote working?

2006-01-20 Thread David Engel
On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 11:15:35AM -0600, David Engel wrote: On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 09:54:14AM -0600, Kirby Bakken wrote: FWIW, I had the exact same results as you Monday evening with lirc 0.7.2 and 0.8.0-pre4. I got frustrated and deleted everything I had tried. Tuesday evening, I tried

Re: [mythtv-users] Fusion remote working?

2006-01-19 Thread David Engel
to. David -- David Engel [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

Re: [mythtv-users] Looking for high WAF in-wall speakers!!

2006-01-18 Thread David
customer and I politely drop them like a hot potato. http://www.intellexual.net/bose.html Thanks for this - I've always known Bose were crap but have never bothered Googling for it. I can use this link to try and help the misguided souls that believe the glossies. David PS Any thoughts

Re: [mythtv-users] No sound -- does it matter?

2006-01-18 Thread David Schmidt
On 1/18/06, Kevin Kuphal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: jwg wrote: Hello, A total newbie question. I'm unable to get my PC sound working. Do I really care? I intend to set this box up as a headless MythTV box, i.e. no monitor, keyboard or mouse, running Fedora Core 4, with PVR 350,

[mythtv-users] Importing recordings after losing entire database and reinstalling

2006-01-18 Thread David Bennett
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[mythtv-users] Moving my mythTV install to a new distro (Was: Importing recordings after losing entire database and reinstalling)

2006-01-18 Thread David Whyte
On 1/19/06, David Bennett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, during my computer upgrade I manage to fry my hard drive (not the video drive, but the Linux Root) I am in a very similar boat to yours. I did an apt-get upgrade on the weekend and somehow my server got hosed, with a bunch of kernel

Re: [mythtv-users] Importing recordings after losing entire database and reinstalling

2006-01-18 Thread David Bennett
Not sure what this TV.COM script is about (although it sounds exciting!) Unfortunately my mythtv setup lives in Japan so i think I will have to stick to manual entry! dave On 1/19/06, Steve Adeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I could modify my TV.com script to accept arbitrary filenames and ask

Re: [mythtv-users] Fusion remote working?

2006-01-18 Thread David Engel
On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 11:07:38PM -0600, Kirby Bakken wrote: lircd --device=/dev/usb/hiddev0 [...] What am I doing wrong? Or what else can I try? You also need the --driver=dvico option when running lircd. David -- David Engel [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [mythtv-users] Mythtv on Debian - is it dead?

2006-01-17 Thread David
will have marillat for mplayer and xine; and given that it just works then IMHO it's a damn sight easier to apt-get myth too if you just want the 0.18.1 version. Oh, notably goom now works in mythmusic and mythbrowser works out of the box. David ___ mythtv

[mythtv-users] FYI : RAID5 adding a new disk

2006-01-17 Thread David
This announcement appeared on the raid mailing list today and I thought it may be of interest. If any of you are about to build a raid5 and have time/inclination then maybe you could test this out before reverting to a more stable kernel for 'production' use? David Original Message

Re: [mythtv-users] Adjusting End Time After Record Start

2006-01-17 Thread David Engel
On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 10:13:01PM +1100, Michael Fox wrote: It dont work, doesn't mean its not implemented to work on the latest SVN release. Any developers able to confirm, or even SVN users. Yes, that feature is in current SVN. David -- David Engel [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [mythtv-users] Advice on adding second capture card

2006-01-17 Thread David
on this input so as soon as you get xmltv going it will schedule for it and you'll have to delete shows by hand. David ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

Re: [mythtv-users] Scheduler Not Resolving Conflict

2006-01-16 Thread David Engel
On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 12:01:03PM -0500, Derek Battams wrote: Help appreciated, What does mythbackend -v schedule --testsched report? David -- David Engel [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi

Re: [mythtv-users] Unpredictable Skip/Fast Forward/Rewind behavior

2006-01-15 Thread David Abrahams
Ashley Bostock [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My database is fine too, I have a frontend+backend machine which is fine for ffwd (running linux) its just on the additional mac frontend where I see the issue. It's beginning to sound like a Mac-only issue. -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting

Re: [mythtv-users] Unpredictable Skip/Fast Forward/Rewind behavior

2006-01-15 Thread David Abrahams
David Abrahams [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ashley Bostock [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My database is fine too, I have a frontend+backend machine which is fine for ffwd (running linux) its just on the additional mac frontend where I see the issue. It's beginning to sound like a Mac-only issue

Re: [mythtv-users] DVD playback on macos X

2006-01-15 Thread David Snider
I just use the Apple DVD player. With the Keyspan Express Remote, it's great. I use mplayer for anything in mythvideo. On Jan 15, 2006, at 6:28 PM, Tomas Edwardsson wrote: Hi I'm wondering what software people are using on MacOS X frontends, I've been trying to get xine working cause

[mythtv-users] Slightly OT: Burning an MPEG2 file that is too large

2006-01-14 Thread David Whyte
Hi All, I am trying to burn a MPEG2 recording exported by nuvexport, but it is too large to go on a single layer disc! I remember just the other day reading about a linux command line tool that can reduce the bitrate of a mpeg2 file. All you had to do basically was tell it what factor to reduce

Re: [mythtv-users] Slightly OT: Burning an MPEG2 file that is too large

2006-01-14 Thread David Whyte
On 1/14/06, William [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The program you want is called tcrequant and its part of the mjpegtools package. Corr-blimey, that was quick! Yes, yes it is. I can even remember where I noticed it now, mythtv.info is the first hit in google for me. Thanks very muchly. Whytey

Re: [mythtv-users] Slightly OT: Burning an MPEG2 file that is too large

2006-01-14 Thread David Whyte
On 1/14/06, William [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here is the script I use to shrink and burn a non-menued dvd that autoplays a single program. Check the section on shrinking the video for a working example. When I run this script the video and audio have already been split into 2 files by

Re: [mythtv-users] 1080i Mitsubishi WS-48311

2006-01-14 Thread David Sims
Nvidia driver version 1.0-7676 Myth built from svn version 6905 - David Sims ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

Re: [mythtv-users] OS X MythFrontend 0.18.1 with plugins

2006-01-14 Thread David Abrahams
Matt Hannan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Matt Hannan wrote: David Snider wrote: I'm just glad it isn't just me! I will try to get you that info tomorrow night, Dave. Ok, there are now two new 0.18.1 versions at thesniderpad.com. One is the vanilla

Re: [mythtv-users] Unpredictable Skip/Fast Forward/Rewind behavior

2006-01-14 Thread David Abrahams
quickly after the previous press then it will acutally skip from 0:00 of 30:00 to 1:00 of 30:00. Ash On 11/01/06, David Abrahams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I use the fast forward, rewind, skip forward, or skip backward keys while watching a recording, it's as likely as not that I'll

Re: [mythtv-users] List of vendors that sell Myth boxes

2006-01-14 Thread David Whyte
On 1/15/06, R [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My neighbor saw a Myth system at a party. He mentioned it to me. (Frontend, Backend, multiple tuners, ...) I told him I was looking into it too. But my knowledge is very superficial. He asked me ...is there a list of vendors that sell Myth boxes?

Re: [mythtv-users] Slightly OT: Burning an MPEG2 file that is too large

2006-01-14 Thread David Whyte
On 1/14/06, William [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The program you want is called tcrequant and its part of the mjpegtools package. William, going back to my first message, I have a version of tcrequant on my box already... [EMAIL PROTECTED] mjpegtools-1.8.0]$ tcrequant -v tcrequant (transcode

Re: [mythtv-users] Think table as Class and record as Object

2006-01-13 Thread David Rudder
I think this is a good idea, but it's not as easy as all that. This is a fairly standard programming problem. The problem with simply modeling each table as a class is that it doesn't take into account foreign relationships. For instance, with the CardInput class, you'd want to be able to

[mythtv-users] A little OT: Problems with NetworkManager on Reboot

2006-01-13 Thread David R Robison
is that now the network will not activate when the box is started up. I have to log into the box and manually activate the network. Any help would be appreciated. David ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin

Re: [mythtv-users] Questionaire: What do you have your case powerbutton do?

2006-01-12 Thread David Watkins
You must not have small children. My power and reset button just make a clicking sound - cause I disconnected the wires to it! Even my littlest figured out how to hold the button for 4 seconds to power it off. It turns on by IR remote, and shuts down cleanly by IR remote. If I have to

Re: [mythtv-users] Hauppauge PVR Questions

2006-01-12 Thread David Watkins
- Out of the box, the picture quality from my PVR-150 system doesn't equal broadcast quality (of my SD analog cable system) for fast moving TV, most notably sports. Emphasis on out of the box, since I've done almost nothing to try to improve the quality. Could this be due to your output

Re: [mythtv-users] Australian DVB-T resolution

2006-01-12 Thread David Whyte
On 1/12/06, Phill Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Apologies, the utility you want is dvbscan (or just scan), also part of the dvb-utils package. Errrm - we're going round in circles here. One of the other posters suggested it was the output of scan but when I ran that the got a different

Re: [mythtv-users] Workaround for WM Focus Issues

2006-01-12 Thread David Watkins
If anyone knows of a solution to the problem or a less ugly workaround, please let me know. I found a fix digging around the net. There's a section of Xine source code that sets the focus to the root window upon exit (event.c line 1814-1819). The attached patch comments out that

Re: [mythtv-users] Software RAID problems - the unspokenmythtvproblem?

2006-01-12 Thread David Bennett
? raid caching or the likes? (-- i made that up!) thank you kindly david ps. yeechan - i am quite excited to hear how your ReadyNAS handles! ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

Re: [mythtv-users] Questionaire: What do you have your casepowerbutton do?

2006-01-12 Thread David Watkins
I have an IR keyboard. The BIOS is configured to power-on with any key-press. I programmed my remote to send the key-presses from my keyboard. That's also how I send all other commands. I don't use LIRC at all on the front end. My keyboard is always put away and I only need it if I'm

Re: [mythtv-users] X Output on PVR-350

2006-01-12 Thread David R Robison
randr extension. Here is the info on my machine querying xorg-x11 package: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mythtv]# rpm -q xorg-x11 --xorg-x11-6.8.2-37.FC4.49.2_4.rhfc4.at [EMAIL PROTECTED] mythtv]# rpm -q xorg-x11 --list | grep xrandr --/usr/X11R6/bin/xrandr --/usr/X11R6/man/man1/xrandr.1x

Re: [mythtv-users] Centralized NFS (NAS?) video partition

2006-01-11 Thread David
David Bennett wrote: If you want to buy an off-the-shelf NAS then that's different. Do you think that is a viable option? I can't help but thinking if I have this backend (a fairly large case too!), that I should use it to run as my backend, and run a few drives in it on a RAID setup

Re: [mythtv-users] How to KEEP mythtv running when user exits

2006-01-11 Thread David
restarts it. I don't run any window managers - don't seem to need them. YMMV. HTH David ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

[mythtv-users] Unpredictable Skip/Fast Forward/Rewind behavior

2006-01-11 Thread David Abrahams
When I use the fast forward, rewind, skip forward, or skip backward keys while watching a recording, it's as likely as not that I'll end up back at the beginning, which makes navigation quite difficult. Is this just a plain bug or is there some technique I need to learn in order to make it work

Re: [mythtv-users] question about RAID

2006-01-11 Thread David Bennett
since you'll spot a drive failure as soon as the system crashes ;) David, does add -F after an array is created? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

Re: [mythtv-users] OS X MythFrontend 0.18.1 with plugins

2006-01-11 Thread David Snider
On Jan 10, 2006, at 6:17 PM, Jens Baumeister wrote: On 1/11/06, Jens Baumeister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, sorry, I don't, as I currently use the frontend build without the plugins. (IIRC it always crashed upon launch - I Clarifying myself here: The thesniderpad.com build *with* the

Re: [mythtv-users] OS X MythFrontend 0.18.1 with plugins

2006-01-11 Thread David Snider
This didn't work for me. I'm running a straight-up 0.18.1 backend. It looks like this was compiled with some other branch. Version claims 0.18.2, MythTV project, www.mythtv.org However, your 0.18.1 without plugins works ok for me. Yeah, it's the 0.18-fixes that were put in.. For some reason

Re: [mythtv-users] OS X MythFrontend 0.18.1 with plugins

2006-01-11 Thread David Snider
I'm just glad it isn't just me! I will try to get you that info tomorrow night, Dave. Ok, there are now two new 0.18.1 versions at thesniderpad.com. One is the vanilla 0.18.1 and the other is the 0.18.1-fixes branch from SVN. Let me know if you try them and what your status is

Re: [mythtv-users] Can MythTV ignore the keyboard and only use a remote?

2006-01-10 Thread David Watkins
My ultimate goal is to have PVR functionality that is completely independent of what I am doing on the PC. For this to work I need, (1)live TV functionality to take minimal processor load, and (2)MythTV to only use the remote control for input and completely ignore the system's keyboard and

Re: [mythtv-users] question about RAID

2006-01-10 Thread David
you may well miss a disk failure - it's easy to do). Of course if you use raid0 this isn't important since you'll spot a drive failure as soon as the system crashes ;) David ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin

Re: [mythtv-users] question about RAID

2006-01-10 Thread David
up the extra space and then resize the hosted filesystem. You're correct in production kernels - but FYI this feature is now available - it's still experimental (so you need to patch) but the md dev guy is working on it. David ___ mythtv-users

Re: [mythtv-users] Centralized NFS (NAS?) video partition

2006-01-10 Thread David
David Bennett wrote: I have been getting some help with some software RAID problems I have been having, and after reading many of the responses I have been inspired to rework my system. Here is what I would like to do: (FYI - I do what you want to do, as I'm sure, do many others) I would

Re: [mythtv-users] Centralized NFS (NAS?) video partition

2006-01-10 Thread David Bennett
Hi Dave, Thank you kindly for your quick response. I think I am getting a better sense of what I need to do and what I need to learn. If you don't mind, may I ask a few more questions? If you want to buy an off-the-shelf NAS then that's different. Do you think that is a viable option? I

Re: [mythtv-users] OSX frontend mouse?

2006-01-10 Thread David Snider
What do you use for a Mac remote?  I bought the keyspan remote and don't like it too much.  very small and flimsy feeling...   ToddI also use the Keyspan remote.  But I had a Sony learning remote so I programmed the buttons from the Keyspan into the Sony.   Still not enough buttons, but not as

Re: [mythtv-users] OS X MythFrontend 0.18.1 with plugins

2006-01-10 Thread David Snider
On Jan 9, 2006, at 9:24 PM, Matt Hannan wrote: Well, sir, you may want to check that build of the frontend. I downloaded it twice and they both seem borked up. Are there any other locations to get frontend with the plugins? I'm looking for 0.18.1 stable. Hmm.. What happens? I'm running it

Re: [mythtv-users] Australian DVB-T resolution

2006-01-10 Thread David Watkins
On 10/01/06, Phill Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As you can see below (in Canberra) most SD is 720x576 but WIN is 704x, SBS EPG is 480x, one Prime is 544x... it seems to vary. Thanks. How did you get that log? I'd like to do that too. Looks like tzap output to me? Part of dvb-utils.

Re: [mythtv-users] Australian DVB-T resolution

2006-01-10 Thread David Watkins
On 10/01/06, David Watkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/01/06, Phill Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As you can see below (in Canberra) most SD is 720x576 but WIN is 704x, SBS EPG is 480x, one Prime is 544x... it seems to vary. Thanks. How did you get that log? I'd like to do

Re: [mythtv-users] Upgrading mythweb to svn HEAD but not the backend

2006-01-10 Thread David Whyte
On 1/11/06, Darryl Ross [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have just tried to update my mythweb to the current version that's in SVN (rev 8554) but when I try to load the pages up I'm getting: Just the other day I wanted to look at what had changed in MythWeb so despite running 0.18.1, I went and

Re: [mythtv-users] Upgrading mythweb to svn HEAD but not the backend

2006-01-10 Thread David Whyte
On 1/11/06, Chris Petersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could find the patch in the ticket history, or the history for that page... I could see in the new mythweb the ability to select the jobs to run as part of the schedule, but I want to run it once the recording is complete (i.e, I haven't had

Re: [mythtv-users] Fail to tune channels in UK using Rowridgetransmitter

2006-01-09 Thread David Watkins
On 08/01/06, Myth TV [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Message Received: Jan 08 2006, 11:00 AM From: Steve Daniels [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Discussion about mythtv mythtv-users@mythtv.org Cc: Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Fail to tune channels in UK using

[mythtv-users] Universal Remote Code for Leadtek TV2000XP Remote (OK, a little off topic)

2006-01-09 Thread David Krainess
Hi all, I figured if anybody knew this, it would be in this group. What is the code to use to setup a universal remote for the Leadtek TV200XP CoolCommand remote IR receiver. I.E. the Hauppage Gray remote is 0081 for the signal protocol. Does anybode know the Leadtek one? Thanks in advance.

Re: [mythtv-users] Playback performance [all platforms]

2006-01-09 Thread David Abrahams
Jens Baumeister [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 1/9/06, David Abrahams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I notice that the performance of playback seems to be suboptimal. For example, I captured some HDTV video over firewire using MythTV. When I try to play it back using the frontend, it is totally

Re: [mythtv-users] Playback performance [all platforms]

2006-01-09 Thread David Abrahams
Greg Estabrooks [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: AFAICT, there's no processor-specific optimization in playback at all. So if performance is bad on PPC/Darwin, it's probably bad (compared to what's possible) on x86/Linux as well. The differences is that scalling/display through XV is hardware

[mythtv-users] Watch Videos

2006-01-09 Thread David Abrahams
It appears that the Watch Videos feature only looks on the frontend's local filesystem for files, but a record of all the recorded videos is kept in the backend's database, causing it to complain about all the missing videos that were recorded on other machines every time I fire it up. Is this

Re: [mythtv-users] Import existing video file?

2006-01-09 Thread David Abrahams
Brad DerManouelian [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Jan 8, 2006, at 6:35 PM, David Abrahams wrote: I have an existing video recording in a format already supported by MythTV playback. How can I add it to my backend's list of recordings? Thanks in advance, Dave Drop it in your mythvideo

Re: [mythtv-users] [Announce] OSX backend support

2006-01-09 Thread David Abrahams
Jens Baumeister [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi! On 1/8/06, David Abrahams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have posted a patch that allows you to run the MythTV backend on MacOS [...] If you download the linked .bin file and treat it as a patch to the current MythTV SVN state, it should work

Re: [mythtv-users] OSX frontend mouse?

2006-01-09 Thread David Abrahams
Brad DerManouelian [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Jan 8, 2006, at 9:03 PM, David Abrahams wrote: Brad DerManouelian [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There's very little I've found in the MythTV UI that can really take advantage of the keyboard anyway. In fact, it seems like in many screens where

Re: [mythtv-users] Import existing video file?

2006-01-09 Thread David Abrahams
James C. Dastrup [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I don't think the video manager is what I want. First of all, it's apparently only designed for using an external player, not for playing within the MythTV frontend. Secondly, the video manager seems completely messed up when you are running multiple

Re: [mythtv-users] Watch Videos

2006-01-09 Thread David Abrahams
Kevin Kuphal [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: David Abrahams wrote: It appears that the Watch Videos feature only looks on the frontend's local filesystem for files, but a record of all the recorded videos is kept in the backend's database, causing it to complain about all the missing videos that were

Re: [mythtv-users] OS X MythFrontend 0.18.1 with plugins

2006-01-09 Thread David Snider
Thanks for downloading the binary. I'm very interested in your feedback, if a build doesn't work, I'll want to pull it off the site.. As for me, I use mplayer, but until recently, DVD VOB's with AC3 had noticeable static feedback. However, I found that you can download the CVS version of

[mythtv-users] Centralized NFS (NAS?) video partition

2006-01-09 Thread David Bennett
loads will remain on the network) Does any of this make sense? Any advice, direction, tutorials, RTFM (with a link to where the FM is!) would be fantastic. thank you kindly, david ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi

Re: [mythtv-users] Centralized NFS (NAS?) video partition

2006-01-09 Thread David Bennett
should setup some sort of nas/nsf on my backend and keep the /video partition there...) (and use nfs to mount other directories for the other system to get at!) any ideas? Does anyone use the ReadyNAS? david ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users

RE: [mythtv-users] HD-3000, FC4, PVR-250/500

2006-01-08 Thread David Ellis
, 1 on QAM 1 on ATSC OTA. David From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris Lynch Sent: Sunday, January 08, 2006 12:33 PM To: Discussion about mythtv Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] HD-3000, FC4, PVR-250/500 On 1/8/06, Chris Lynch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

[mythtv-users] [Announce] OSX backend support

2006-01-08 Thread David Abrahams
I have posted a patch that allows you to run the MythTV backend on MacOS: http://mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-dev/2006-January/043373.html So far, it only supports recording of MPEG Video over firewire. If you download the linked .bin file and treat it as a patch to the current MythTV SVN state,

[mythtv-users] Playback performance [all platforms]

2006-01-08 Thread David Abrahams
I notice that the performance of playback seems to be suboptimal. For example, I captured some HDTV video over firewire using MythTV. When I try to play it back using the frontend, it is totally unwatchable. The action occurs at about half speed because of stuttering and includes frequent

[mythtv-users] OSX frontend mouse?

2006-01-08 Thread David Abrahams
Within the MythTV frontend on my mac the mouse becomes invisible and inoperable. At first I thought that was just how MythTV worked, but then I happened to access the frontend over VNC from a Linux box, and the mouse worked! Can anyone tell me how to get the mouse working on my MacOS frontend?

Re: [mythtv-users] Playback performance [all platforms]

2006-01-08 Thread David Abrahams
David Abrahams [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If this is really something that can be fixed by configuration rather than programming, my apologies in advance, but so far I think it's a developer issue. Whoops; I *meant* to send it to the developer's list! -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting

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