[mythtv-users] How do I scale the fonts?

2005-04-11 Thread David Morrison
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I run MythTV at 1280x1024 on an LCD panel and my fonts in the TV Listings Guide, View Recordings list and MythVideo List are huge. I tried changing the font size in the Settings panel but it doesn't seem to make any difference. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATUR

Re: [mythtv-users] Samba or NFS?

2005-04-10 Thread David Morrison
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Robert Johnston wrote: > On Apr 9, 2005 3:49 PM, John Andersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >> On Saturday 09 April 2005 8:52 am, Tony Godshall wrote: >> >>> Perhaps cfs? It's encrypted nfs, and security is a concern if >>> on wireless even more tha

Re: [mythtv-users] Samba or NFS?

2005-04-10 Thread David Morrison
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tony Godshall wrote: > According to Will Dormann, > >> Graham Dunn wrote: >> >>> The problem here isn't so much the samba/nfs decision as the >>> wireless. In my experience, nfs handles the packet loss you see >>> in wireless connections much more poo

[mythtv-users] Samba or NFS?

2005-04-09 Thread David Morrison
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Apologies first if this has been asked before but I couldn't find it in my archives. Which would be best from a performance viewpoint to stream MythVideo to my remote frontend? I'm currently using Samba and it's working OK over my 802.11g network, but

Re: [mythtv-users] Choppy playback on remote frontend only - 2 sec prebuffering pause

2005-04-07 Thread David Morrison
Craig Read wrote: > Rudy Zijlstra wrote: > >> >> Bob Wiegand wrote: >> Up to this point I've been running frontend and backend on the same machine, RH9 with a PVR350 and 250. I finally have setup another machine to be a frontend. The playback on the new frontend pauses eve

Re: [mythtv-users] LVM RAID 5 partition schemes

2005-04-07 Thread David Morrison
Milan Andric wrote: >I'm basically stuck on the RAID. Since I do not have enough data >*right now* to use the 3 x 300G RAID 5, I'd like to just buy two >drives now and use mdadmin to >setup a RAID 5 with 2 missing drives and add drives as time goes on. > > > > Personally, I think this is a ve

Re: [mythtv-users] Daylight savings time

2005-04-05 Thread David Morrison
Ian Truelsen wrote: >On Wed, 6 Apr 2005 01:14:31 -0400 >Gabe Rubin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>You may want to check the archives, and be prepared for a heavy flood >>of flames. No offense, but this has been covered very heavilyon the >>list this week. To the point of having the lead de

Re: [mythtv-users] [BACKPORT] Qt 3.3.4/Daylight Savings Time 1hr guide data offset bug fix

2005-04-05 Thread David Morrison
Jarod Wilson wrote: >The attached patch is against 0.17. It is a backport of this morning's cvs >fixes by Isaac to remedy the 1-hour guide data offset folks are seeing with >Qt 3.3.4. I've updated the ATrpms spec file and shipped a patch to Axel, so >look for new Myth builds fairly soon. Figure

[mythtv-users] MythTV compatable UK DVB-T cards with CAM?

2005-04-01 Thread David Morrison
Hi, Has anyone got a DVB-T card with built in CAM working with MythTV in the UK? I currently have one of the new Nova-T (90002) that is working pretty well but I'd like to try MythTV with some of the pay channels, e.g. Top-Up-TV etc. I could add a separate CAM to this I suppose but the idea scare

Re: [mythtv-users] Anyone using LVM2 w/ ext3 for video storage

2005-04-01 Thread David Morrison
Poul Petersen wrote: >>I wanted to create a mount point that I could easily add capacity to >>later as I needed. To do this I created an LVM2 volume (currently >>caontaining only one pv) and formatted ext3 over this. When I went to >>boot the machine up the next day it was unable to mount the vo

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: DVB summer time

2005-04-01 Thread David Morrison
>>I had mine set to Auto so I changed it to None and all my listings are >>back to normal. >> >>Dave >>___ >>mythtv-users mailing list >>mythtv-users@mythtv.org >>http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users >> >> >> > >Changed mine from A

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: DVB summer time

2005-03-31 Thread David Morrison
Jit V wrote: >>> I'm using the on-air dvb stuff that is built into mythtv 0.17, >>> rather than the tv_grab_dvb utility. >> > >> How does this work and how do I use it?! > > > When you view the details of a particular channel in mythsetup, there > should be a checkbox that says something like 'use

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: DVB summer time

2005-03-31 Thread David Morrison
Jit V wrote: > I'm using the on-air dvb stuff that is built into mythtv 0.17, > rather than the tv_grab_dvb utility. > How does this work and how do I use it?! Dave ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: DVB summer time

2005-03-30 Thread David Morrison
> Robin Elvin wrote: > > > Here in Australia I noticed my time was out by 1 Hr as we just left > Summer Time, I went into 'mythsetup' and found that I had the GMT time > offset at "+1100", once I changed this to "AUTO" the time offset was > corrected. > > my system clock is setup for UTC and local

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: DVB summer time

2005-03-30 Thread David Morrison
Julian Edwards wrote: > Jon Dye wrote: > >> I was running stock 0.17 on gentoo, 2.6.10 kernel, QT 3.3.4 (3.3.4-r2 >> according to gentoo) and /etc/localtime points to Europe/London. I >> wonder if it's QT that is causing my problem. My hack for myth has >> fixed it for me for now so I'll leave i

Re: [mythtv-users] Getting mythtranscode to work with MP3 audio

2005-03-30 Thread David Morrison
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Morrison wrote: > Lukas Kasprowicz wrote: > > | Am Sonntag, 20. Mdrz 2005 09:12 schrieb David Morrison: | |> > Chris Pinkham wrote: |> |>>>> See if you get the same result as the > user in that post. |>>&g

Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV On Gentoo - Thoughts and Questions

2005-03-24 Thread David Morrison
Richard J. Sears wrote: >Richard - > >Thanks to you (and others) for the great feedback. I had a few more >problems with Asterisk and the addon's :-) > >Couple of quick questions. First, would you share your make.conf USE >flags with me so I get them right the first time and second, Did you use >

Re: [mythtv-users] [Slightly-OT] Nova-T

2005-03-23 Thread David Morrison
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Iain Donaldson (Mailing Lists) wrote: | On 23 Mar 2005, at 17:03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | |>>> I agree, if you have the 90002 then I'd highly recommend |>>> moving to a 2.6.11 kernel (it doesn't work at all with the |>>> 2.6.10 so you can ignore that

[mythtv-users] Slightly OT: Getting Mplayer plugin for Firefox to stream from MythWeb instead of downloading

2005-03-23 Thread David Morrison
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, When I click a .nuv, .avi or.mpeg file in MythWeb it downloads the whole file and then launches mplayer to display the movie. Can I change this so that it uses the mplayer plugin for Firefox? Dave -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4

Re: [mythtv-users] [Slightly-OT] Nova-T

2005-03-22 Thread David Morrison
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dave Ansell wrote: | What is the exact model number of your Nova-T? | | Hauppage keep changing the chipset so it depends on what one you | have. | | I have got the Model 909 (AKA 90002) working with FC3 after much | head scratching but it uses the Conne

Re: [mythtv-users] Getting mythtranscode to work with MP3 audio

2005-03-20 Thread David Morrison
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lukas Kasprowicz wrote: | Am Sonntag, 20. Mdrz 2005 09:12 schrieb David Morrison: | |> Chris Pinkham wrote: |> |>>>> See if you get the same result as the user in that post. |>>>> If you do get 252 printed, you can try c

[mythtv-users] Speeding up channel changes?

2005-03-20 Thread David Morrison
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have a Nova-T DVB card (the 9003 one). When I change channel it takes a good six seconds between pressing the key and it displaying the next channel. Is there a setting that I can change to speed this up? When I used it with Windows it took around 1 s

Re: [mythtv-users] Getting mythtranscode to work with MP3 audio

2005-03-20 Thread David Morrison
Chris Pinkham wrote: See if you get the same result as the user in that post. If you do get 252 printed, you can try changing the 0xfb to 0xfc as he mentioned to see if it works. If it does, report back here and we can get the code fixed up to allow both. It printed 252. Don't you mean 0xf

Re: [mythtv-users] Mythtvfrontend as a standalone system

2005-03-16 Thread David Morrison
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ow Mun Heng wrote: | I was trying to install Mythtv yesterday night and when I compiled | mythtv-frontend, looking through the docs, I realise that I'm in | over my head on this. | | I mean, I only want to use the EPIA box (M10K) as a video playing | un

Re: Practicality of backing up huge hard drives (was Re: [mythtv-users] Dieing Hard Drive)

2005-03-15 Thread David Morrison
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ron Johnson wrote: | If you need 2 machines for other reasons, then obviously that's the | way to go. If you just need to backup files, big drives and | firewire enclosures are the cheap way. | | Stuff this puppy with 320GB drives, and you'll be set fo

Re: [mythtv-users] Mythvideo listing suddenly empty

2005-03-14 Thread David Morrison
Which is why I put this little gem into a script in /etc/cron.daily: #!/bin/sh datenow=`date +"%Y%m%d"` mysqldump --opt mythconverg > /var/lib/backups/mysqldump-${datenow}.sql gzip -9 /var/lib/backups/mysqldump-${datenow}.sql Make it executable, create the directory /var/lib/backups/ and you're go

Re: [mythtv-users] Mythvideo listing suddenly empty

2005-03-13 Thread David Morrison
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Morrison wrote: | After spending ages carefully entering all the information about my | videos into MythVideo, my videometadata table seems to have | emptied itself and lost everything. What logs can I look at to find | out how/when/why this

[mythtv-users] Mythvideo listing suddenly empty

2005-03-13 Thread David Morrison
After spending ages carefully entering all the information about my videos into MythVideo, my videometadata table seems to have emptied itself and lost everything. What logs can I look at to find out how/when/why this might have happened? Obviously, I'm not doing any backups otherwise I wouldn't be

[mythtv-users] Getting mythtranscode to work with MP3 audio

2005-03-10 Thread David Morrison
Hi, A few days ago I posted a problem with my gentoo box which has a Nova-T DVB card and mythtranscode. My problem was that mythtranscode failed with an error of "Only MP2 audio is currently supported". I think the problem is that the audio stream being saved into the .nuv files is in MP3. If I run

Re: [mythtv-users] Problem with mythtranscode

2005-03-08 Thread David Morrison
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 My mistake, I was running the old version on the previous post. The code seems to be 252. This is a new install of mythtv from Gentoo so as far as I know the settings are the default ones. I'm using a DVB-T card in the UK. I'm getting the following outp

Re: [mythtv-users] Problem with mythtranscode

2005-03-07 Thread David Morrison
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Shawn Willden wrote: | Chris Pinkham wrote: | |> cerr << "Only MP2 audio is currently supported, unknown type: " |> << buf[1] << endl; |> |> | | This may be more useful: | | cerr << "Only MP2 audio is currently supported, unknown type: " | <<

Re: [mythtv-users] DVB-C and mythfilldatabase?

2005-03-07 Thread David Morrison
Johan Kihlstrvm wrote: Hello all, Have been using MythTV on and off for a while, started with an analogue TV card but are now upgraded to a DVB-C card with CI/CAM, which to my amazement actually worked as soon as I updated to 2.6.11 kernel... Ran mythtv-setup and found all my channels (and then

[mythtv-users] Can someone share some mencoder/transcode settings to convert from nuv to xvid/divx please?

2005-03-07 Thread David Morrison
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I'm sure quite a few people already have this so I thought I'd ask first instead of wading through the mencoder manual. First, I know that MythTV can do transcoding but on my system it's broken and mythtranscode doesn't run so I'm looking for an alt

Re: [mythtv-users] Problem with mythtranscode

2005-03-06 Thread David Morrison
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chris Pinkham wrote: |> '/mnt/monster/store/1006_20050305125500_20050305144500.nuv': |> Stream #0.0: Video: mpeg2video, 720x576, 25.00 fps, 15000 kb/s |> Stream #0.1: Audio: mp2, 48000 Hz, stereo, 192 kb/s Only MP2 |> audio is currently supported mythtr

Re: [mythtv-users] Problem with mythtranscode

2005-03-06 Thread David Morrison
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chris Pinkham wrote: |> '/mnt/monster/store/1006_20050305125500_20050305144500.nuv': |> Stream #0.0: Video: mpeg2video, 720x576, 25.00 fps, 15000 kb/s |> Stream #0.1: Audio: mp2, 48000 Hz, stereo, 192 kb/s Only MP2 |> audio is currently supported mythtr

[mythtv-users] Problem with mythtranscode

2005-03-05 Thread David Morrison
Hi, I recently installed MythTV on my Gentoo box and seem to be having trouble with the mythtranscode program. If I try to transcode from the menu, a few minutes later I get an error reported. If I try it from the command line I get the following: $ mythtranscode -i /mnt/monster/store/1020_20050304