[mythtv-users] Re: high cpu utilization

2005-09-28 Thread David Griffith
on my test box (my desktop) when i'm watching live tv on the box the _least_ cpu usage I get is 80% it is an athlon xp 2500+,1gb of ram, kworld vstream xpert (vs-tv878rf), and a radeon 9600 SE top tells me the vast majority of the cpu usage is in backend. I'm encoding live tv to mpeg4 at

[mythtv-users] Transcode interlace issues

2005-08-24 Thread David Griffith
Hi all, I'm having issues when myth transcodes a DVB recording from mpeg2 to mpeg4 - there's obvious interlace on any moving objects. Playing back mpeg2 DVB recordings are fine - it's just when it's transcoded. I've twiddled all the transcode settings I can see in the recording profile menu,

[mythtv-users] tv_grab_au 1.39 timezones

2005-08-19 Thread David Griffith
Hi, I've had to do some tweaking and add some code to cater for a different timezone in v1.39. This is necessary for me for Imparja, which has guide data with a timezone of +0930 instead of my usual timezone of +1000. What I do at the moment is simply wedge in an if statement that checks

RE: [mythtv-users] tv_grab_au script from this list. Anyone, elsehadproblems today?

2005-08-02 Thread David Griffith
Same here (Canberra) How do we fix it? - change the script? Try the community based tv guide data at minnie.tuhs.org if you can. Or pick another grabber from http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~willu/xmltv/ (list of australian TV grabbers) Screen scrapers are always going to be a pain to maintain,

Re: [mythtv-users] HDTV Video Modes with MythTV

2005-08-01 Thread David Griffith
Rob wrote: Plain old SDTV analog cable is 480i (I think). I get HDTV over-the-air, and even when it is mythtranscode'd down to 720x480 (480p, I guess), the picture is still much better. I think what I am seeing is the difference between a clear digital signal and a noisy analog signal, and