[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] Importing recordings after losing entire database and reinstalling

2006-01-18 Thread David Bennett
Well, during my computer upgrade I manage to fry my hard drive (not the video drive, but the Linux Root) I have lost everything on it and am left with my /video partition. I have tried to find some answers on how to import this video back into my new mythtv setup, but only come up with importing

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] Software RAID problems - the unspokenmythtvproblem?

2006-01-12 Thread David Bennett
Yeechang and everyone else who has been so helpful, I must admit I am quite fascinated by the Raid and NAS discussions, but given that I ran into the same problem of being unable to record two programs at once on my software RAID, I am grateful for Yeechang to try and help steer things back

Re: [mythtv-users] question about RAID

2006-01-11 Thread David Bennett
Here here! I second that.,.. can -F be added after an array is created? On 1/12/06, Steve Adeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you decide to go raid5 then you *must* use mdadm -F (otherwise you may well miss a disk failure - it's easy to do). Of course if you use raid0 this isn't important

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

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

2006-01-09 Thread David Bennett
Please allow me to apologize for the mangling I am about to do to the following terminology. I am still feeling my way around Linux and know what I want to do, just am not sure how to go about doing it (or if it is possible.) I have been getting some help with some software RAID problems I have

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

2006-01-09 Thread David Bennett
Actually after sending out my question to the list, I stumbled upon the Infant ReadyNAS 600 page. Does anyone use this? Will it be able to handle 3 tuners + playback? (it seems that any network device might be in trouble when it comes to that much bandwidth. that is why I am thinking whether i

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

2006-01-08 Thread David Bennett
Chris, You raise some good points. I've always been a little concerned about whether or not both my tuners are setup properly. I am using a PVR500 dual tuner, and i was never sure the difference between Source: 1/2 and Channel: 1/2. Perhaps you are right about the following: This sounds more

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

2006-01-08 Thread David Bennett
That's my current dilemna! Do i move everything over to JFS or is the hardware RAID worth the money!? I am still not sure why it doesn't like the dual recordings (did you ever have that problem Blammo?) and why it only happens on Raid... ug!! dave ___

[mythtv-users] Software RAID problems - the unspoken mythtv problem?

2006-01-07 Thread David Bennett
hello everyone, I am quite perplexed! Every problem I have ever encountered with MythTV has been happily solved (and quickly too!) with this forums help. My current problem seems to be different! This will mark the third time I am asking, and I have yet to receive a response. I'm wondering if

[mythtv-users] Recording two programs silmultaneously results in error - a raid error? something else?

2006-01-05 Thread David Bennett
Hello! Quick question. I have scanned the mailing list and no one else seems to be running into the same problem. When I record two programs that begin at the exact same time, one of the programs results in an empty file. 0 bytes. MythWeb regards it as file size B. There is no error in the

[mythtv-users] RAID 5 - weird disk errors with Myth

2005-11-20 Thread David Bennett
Hello! After some kind help from people on the list, I managed to setup a Raid-5 ReiserFS system for my /video directory. Although I had yet to put in a 3rd drive (running in degraded mode for about 1 day just to test it out) I had some strange problems. Whenever two programs began at the same

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

2005-10-27 Thread David Bennett
Wow... this is stressing me out. So basically by adding another drive to my LVM group (which I assume means I am not striping I increased the size of my drive at the cost of now giving 2 harddrives a chance to fail instead of one. (shooot especially considering my luck with hard drives.) I

[mythtv-users] Backend dying but I am not sure why...(MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback error?)

2005-10-27 Thread David Bennett
The last few days I have woken up or got home from work to find the backend shutdown. Everything else seems to be ok. The backend may have shutdown at some random time, or it may have shutdown right when my wife tried to watch a show through our Xbox front end. I'm not sure. Anyway to pinpoint

[mythtv-users] Re: Backend dying but I am not sure why...(MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback error?)

2005-10-27 Thread David Bennett
Update: Upon closer inspection, my mythfilldatabase command ran properly at 7am. Does mythfilldatabase need the backened? Or is this proof that the backend was up as of 7am? Thanks, David On 10/28/05, David Bennett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The last few days I have woken up or got home from

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

2005-10-26 Thread David Bennett
... fortunately this has not happened (yet!) but I am preparing for the worst. Jarod's MythTV guide recommends LVM as an option to create nice and big MythTV partitions. I followed the guide and have recently added another 250G to my original drive with Mytbtv-users help. A hard drive failure on

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

2005-10-26 Thread David Bennett
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 across multiple drives, or would the loss of a drive result in the loss

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

2005-10-25 Thread David Bennett
This may seem like a terribly lazy question but this: I usually run with a custom kernel that matches my hardware exactly. When moving to another box, I first copy on a recent knoppix kernel and modules and make that my default kernel. Once on the new box I can see what hardware it found

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

2005-10-24 Thread David Bennett
and a WinModem) but it doesn't make a difference. Power isn't copletely off but nothing spins. Stays like that for awhile. Has anyone encoutered anything like this? Any ideas? Sorry for the trouble. David Bennett [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ mythtv-users mailing list

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

2005-10-24 Thread David Bennett
That is interesting to hear... I wonder if maybe I should change the Gigabyte board as well? I don't know much about Linux, but if I just take everything off my board (memory, cpu, disks everything) and plunk it into a new computer, will it work? I am currently running FC4. Oh no, am I going to

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

2005-10-24 Thread David Bennett
Matt, I am glad you brought this up. I assembled my own board and had no idea what was going on with those screws. Excuse my ignorance, but how should these be screwed? I am not sure what the following means: Check to make sure all of the holes in the motherboard that are metal lined are

[mythtv-users] Memory issues - A MythTV task always brings the memory to 99%

2005-10-18 Thread David Bennett
I've been noticing something odd. Whether I am sending a recording to a separate frontend, or recording something on a backend, as soon as MythTV starts doing its thing, the memory creeps up to 99% in a matter of minutes. The swap space doesn't really get used, but memory definitely goes up to

Re: [mythtv-users] Converting MythWEB WAP theme to chtml

2005-10-12 Thread David Bennett
? Thank you, David On 10/12/05, Ciaran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/10/05, David Bennett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to convert the Mythweb Mobile WAP theme so that it is usable on mobile devices that do not support WAP (chtml) (ie. I-Mode) I'm not quite sure where this confusion

Re: [mythtv-users] Converting MythWEB WAP theme to chtml

2005-10-12 Thread David Bennett
] wrote: On 10/12/05, Ciaran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/10/05, David Bennett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry I should rephrase what I wrote: I believe that when people mention WAP, they usually mean both WML and the WAP protocol (or if not WML then some kind of HTML

[mythtv-users] Channel Deletion and Wildcard Channel Rules - 2 annoying problems!

2005-10-12 Thread David Bennett
Hello, A small annoying problem I have been having, but since I am NOT using ZapIt (in Japan, so xhtml), I can't seem to figure it out. 1) Deleting Channels - I have deleted these unneeded channels a billion times from MythWEB. But every time I run mythfilldatabase they are back (both on the

[mythtv-users] Converting MythWEB WAP theme to chtml

2005-10-11 Thread David Bennett
I am trying to convert the Mythweb Mobile WAP theme so that it is usable on mobile devices that do not support WAP (chtml) (ie. I-Mode) Essentially I need the same format (table layout, sizes, menus) as the WAP version, without all the WAP code. I am trying to get things off the ground, but I

[mythtv-users] How to add nextaudio prevaudio to my remote control settings (what is a jump point!!??)

2005-10-05 Thread David Bennett
remote configurations? thank you david bennett [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

Re: [mythtv-users] How to add nextaudio prevaudio to my remote control settings (what is a jump point!!??)

2005-10-05 Thread David Bennett
I hate to ask, but I tried my hand at that already, no such luck. When mapping the keys, is there anything in particular I need to do? Just map the code that currently has a 0 beside it and change it to a + if I wanted it to become a +? Once again, I'm lacking with the general

[mythtv-users] Audio channels (+/-) on XBOX frontend?

2005-10-03 Thread David Bennett
Is there anyway to change the audo channel (for multilingual programs) on the Xbox frontend? I was told that it is +/- on the frontend, but my XBOX does not have a keyboard and I cannot find it on the menus. Any ideas? Thanks in advance. David ___

Re: [mythtv-users] Different Sound Channels?? Can you choose in recording?

2005-10-03 Thread David Bennett
? Thanks david On 10/4/05, Michael T. Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nick wrote: On 02/10/05, David Bennett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wish I had the terminology to explain this better, but here goes: Here in Japan, many programs are broadcast in Japanese and English. Choosing a different

Re: [mythtv-users] Accessing MythWEB from Docomo I-mode

2005-09-23 Thread David Bennett
Just a note: yes, the user agents are in the includes/init.php file. As for my problem, it looks like the available themes will not work with my DoCoMo I-mode phone which supports cHTML as opposed to HTML or WML. Now since no one else seems to be experiencing this problem, I will pose a new

[mythtv-users] Mythweb on your mobile phone: a chtml theme? (non-WAP) for DoCoMo I-mode phones

2005-09-22 Thread David Bennett
A big thank you for all of your help so far... I am re-writing this message after a few replies asking me what the hell I was talking about. I am trying to access Mythweb from over my Mobile Phone. After posting about it on this list, I got tons of help about how to view it on a WAP enabled

Re: [mythtv-users] Accessing MythWEB from Docomo I-mode

2005-09-21 Thread David Bennett
Hello! Thanks for your help so far. Here is the problem. I-Mode docomo phones operate on CHTML and not WAP. I have found the user agents section in includes/init.php, but since Docomo does not use WAP I am not sure what to do. Is there a chtml theme for mythweb? Does anyone have IMODE working

[mythtv-users] Accessing MythWEB from Docomo I-mode

2005-09-15 Thread David Bennett
Has anyone had any success accessing Mythweb from the Docomo line of I-mode phones? Is there some kind of mobile theme that does not rely solely on WAP? Any info would be spectacular. Thanks, David [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ mythtv-users mailing list

Re: [mythtv-users] Accessing MythWEB from Docomo I-mode

2005-09-15 Thread David Bennett
Maybe I am asking the wrong questions, sorry. I am trying to access my Mythweb from my IMODE enabled cell phone. Will mythweb detect the mobile browser automatically? I see you mention themes, but I am not sure how to alter the theme on mythweb. Is this a manual process or will it redirect it

[mythtv-users] XMLTV Problem - scraping

2005-09-08 Thread David Bennett
Not really sure what happened. I tried to update my entire system through YUM and it crashed halfway through. I then tried apt-get upgrade and it crashed a number of times until completing after about the 5th time. I know that some XMLTV packages were updated and some were heldback ... not sure

[mythtv-users] XBOX Frontend question (actually a debian question!)

2005-08-29 Thread David Bennett
. Fedora Core 4 Backend with a Haupauge 500 and an XBOX Frontend. Thank you again and I hope someone out there can help! sincerely, David Bennett [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo

[mythtv-users] Converting to MPEG and/or buring to DVD - a guide?

2005-08-29 Thread David Bennett
, and a mythtv guide to burning to DVD? I my wrong in assuming that these two features will one day be a simple menu option from within mythtv? Any sort of advice or place where I can gather more info would be great. Thank you! sincerely, David Bennett [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [mythtv-users] XBOX Frontend question (actually a debian question!)

2005-08-29 Thread David Bennett
tried one billion times (slight exaggeration.) People have recommended brackets, quotes, slashes to deal with the space in the share name and none of them have yet to work. hence, I figured it would be easier just to have the smbmount command run automatically on reboot. any ideas? ;) thank you

Re: [mythtv-users] XBOX Frontend question (actually a debian question!)

2005-08-29 Thread David Bennett
Evervyone is probably right about renaming the name of the share, but should I be lead to believe that there is no way to run a command as linux reboots? (ie, no autoexec.bat type of thing happening in Debian?) thanks, dave ___ mythtv-users mailing list

Re: [mythtv-users] XBOX Frontend question (actually a debian question!)

2005-08-29 Thread David Bennett
Jim, I suspect as much, unfortunately I do not know enough about Linux to figure out where to put what. I have done a little digging, but may I ask if you have any advice as to where I can just toss an smbmount command? (I am also unclear as to whether I need to change the syntax to suit a

Re: [mythtv-users] XBOX Frontend question (actually a debian question!)

2005-08-29 Thread David Bennett
Perfect! Thank you very much. I will try it and get back to everyone and let you know how it went. I'm also glad to have the explanation of how Debian's init scripts work. Sincerely, david On 8/30/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 10:58:48AM -0400, Zak

Re: [mythtv-users] Converting to MPEG and/or buring to DVD - a guide?

2005-08-29 Thread David Bennett
I am familliar with mythburn but was not sure what stage its at yet. Also, I am presuming it burns straight to DVD? (or does it convert NUV - MPG and then burn to DVD?) At any rate, no one else has any guides/scripts/websites suggestions on how to (1) burn dvd's from your nuv, or (2) convert to

[mythtv-users] Double wammy - Mythweb Backend logs Xebian XBOX Mythtv front end question

2005-08-23 Thread David Bennett
Thanks for all of your help. Thanks to everyone I now have a functional system... now just to iron out a few bugs: (1) Xebian Xbox MythTV front end This probably applies to Debian as a whole, but here goes. I want to add a SMB share to my bootup sequence. Because of a space in the windows

Re: [mythtv-users] Double wammy - Mythweb Backend logs Xebian XBOX Mythtv front end question

2005-08-23 Thread David Bennett
I'm not actually sure... that is a good question! Is there a way to check/turn it on via the command line? I can check right now. (or do i have to wait until i get the graphical frontend for the backend at home)? thanks, david ___ mythtv-users mailing

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Record this timeslot every week - dumb question

2005-08-17 Thread David Bennett
Thank you everyone for the ideas. A few problems though: (1) You didn't specify or give an example but if it is something like X-treme Fly Fishing: Bass, X-treme Fly Fishing: Trout, etc., You could go to Search Words-Title and Enter X-treme Fly Fishing then click the Record button on the

[mythtv-users] Record this timeslot every week - dumb question

2005-08-16 Thread David Bennett
Having a little problem with my otherwise fabulous mythtv setup. I would like to record a program that airs weekly. However, in the guidelisting (xml) the name of the program changes to each week to reflect the topic for that show. I am looking for a Record this timeslot every week, but seem to

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-500 driving me nuts

2005-07-30 Thread David Bennett
Interesting aside: I too had both problems with my 500 and fc4. For the ivtv, I just added a small script to my /etc/rc.local. I am probably not the person to ask, but it fixed the problem for me. The static was also an interesting problem. The first 12 times I defined my inputs (option 3 or 4

[mythtv-users] MythTV CJK (Japanese) (in japan)

2005-07-28 Thread David Bennett
Thanks to everyone on the list, I have finally gotten my MythTV server up. Unfortunately with FC4 I seem to have to manually stop and start the backend service before I get a picture that doesn't freeze, but I will leave that for another day... CJK fonts. On my program guide and throughout

[mythtv-users] TV/out Connection - is 640x480 the max?

2005-04-29 Thread David Bennett
Hello! Just a quick question. I have finally managed to get X11 to make use of my ATi Tv-out that is internal to my motherboard. The problem is, it looks like crap. The only resolution that I get legible text is at 640x480. The bigger problem is, I have never hooked up a PC to TV before so I am

[mythtv-users] NVidia, Hardware, Japan, Linux ... HELP!!! I'm going crazy!!!

2005-03-15 Thread David Bennett
I think I am going crazy! There are a million things to take into consideration while trying to setup my MythTV system. I probably should say that I am a newcomer to Linux (ie. I don't actually run it yet.) I am in the process of buying a system to run Linux, MythTV (and maybe mess around with

[mythtv-users] Asus S-pressio

2005-03-02 Thread David Bennett
I seem to be slowly settling on a smaller case and my local electronics store is pushing the Asus S-presso. Does anyone have any opinions? Will this have troubles with Linux? (Thinking of running Gentoo but am open to anything really!) Is MythTV going to be ok with this? Anyone using it right

Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV Install Documentation

2005-02-27 Thread David Bennett
Pretty interesting so far but my question is what about those of us that are going to buy a system specifically for the purpose of setting up a myth box. The documentation does not make this clear and I am still not sure what I should get!! - Is a hauppage decoder necessary??? - with a fast