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 this

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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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

Re: [mythtv-users] Strange behavior with LIRC for pause button

2006-01-05 Thread David Watkins
On 05/01/06, John Biundo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paul Harrison wrote: One thing that it might be worth checking is your lircrc file used by myth. You can usually find it in ~/.mythtv/lircrc. Look for the key that you use for pause. Mine looks like this: # Pause begin prog =

Re: [mythtv-users] Using MythTV as a non-TV recording device

2005-12-22 Thread David Watkins
On 22/12/05, Ryan Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The place of my employment currently has a setup where presentations are shot with a camera, and then currently recorded onto a VCR, and then captured from that tape onto a Computer for DVD. Currently, this takes us too much time and effort, and

Re: [mythtv-users] new myth hardware

2005-12-21 Thread David Watkins
The tuners in the Hauppage PVR series are analog tuners -- they convert analog NTSC or PAL (etc) signals into MPEG2. To give them a signal to record, your source needs to be a clean analog signal, either from the antenna or cable, or from a converter box. The PVR tuners can also capture and

Re: [mythtv-users] Help getting KWorld/VStream XPert DVB-T to work

2005-12-21 Thread David Watkins
On 21/12/05, Joacim J [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks anyway ;-) Do you have any idea about the questions I wrote: I don't have the /dev/dvb/... or the adapter/frontend aren't registered...is it because the /dev/dvb/...isn't created?? When/Where are /dev/dvb/... created? I missed the

Re: [mythtv-users] Help getting KWorld/VStream XPert DVB-T to work

2005-12-21 Thread David Watkins
On 21/12/05, Joacim J [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/21/05, David Watkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 21/12/05, Joacim J [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks anyway ;-) Do you have any idea about the questions I wrote: I don't have the /dev/dvb/... or the adapter/frontend aren't

Re: [mythtv-users] Help getting KWorld/VStream XPert DVB-T to work

2005-12-21 Thread David Watkins
On 21/12/05, Joacim J [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have tested to enter the MythTV setup (as mythtv user) but when trying to add the TV card I get permission denied on the card and when looking at the /dev/dvb/* it's owned by root.root. How can I make mythtv.mythtv to get permission on that

Re: [mythtv-users] Help getting KWorld/VStream XPert DVB-T to work

2005-12-21 Thread David Watkins
On 21/12/05, Joacim J [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/21/05, David Watkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 21/12/05, Joacim J [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/21/05, David Watkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 21/12/05, Joacim J [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks anyway ;-) Do you

Re: [mythtv-users] newbie needin help with PVR-350

2005-12-20 Thread David Watkins
On 20/12/05, Jason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hey folks, just set up a new myth box on a PII Celeron 400Mhz box with 512Megs of memory. mythtv ~ # uname -a Linux mythtv 2.6.14-gentoo-r4 #3 PREEMPT Thu Dec 15 17:57:43 EST 2005 i686 Celeron (Mendocino) Genui neIntel GNU/Linux Ive got:

Re: [mythtv-users] DvbScan -- HELP!!!!

2005-12-18 Thread David Watkins
On 18/12/05, Nick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 18/12/05, Michael Haan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can someone tell me where to get this for FC4? You can get dvb-apps source from here: http://www.linuxtv.org/downloads/ Not sure about RPMs... I think it's in the linuxtv-dvb-apps rpm, on the

Re: [mythtv-users] KnoppMyth R5A22: Can't record or watch TV on second tuner

2005-12-08 Thread David Watkins
On 08/12/05, Brad Karal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi friends: I am using KnoppMyth R5A22 (yeah, I know-should redo with a non-SVN version.) Until I can do that, I'd like to be able to use the second tuner in the box. 1st tuner: Hauppauge PVR-150 (/dev/video0) 2nd tuner: Hauppauge PVR-150MCE

Re: [mythtv-users][OT] - How grab VHS tapes?

2005-12-07 Thread David Watkins
On 07 Dec 2005 06:29:13 -0800, Jim Reith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 09:05 AM 12/7/2005, you wrote: On 12/7/05, Alessandro Boggiano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, usually if I want watch a VHS,I can use the antenna cable between the vcr and the tv (I know,the quality is bad),put channel 36

Re: [mythtv-users] Blank Recordings - please confirm

2005-11-30 Thread David Watkins
On 30/11/05, CHRIS KOTTING [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm having an issue with blank recordings, and I wanted to confirm what I'm finding by searching the archive (because I'm hoping that there is a different answer available). I have two inputs to a PVR-150 card connected, Tuner0 goes to my

Re: [mythtv-users] Infra-red Remote as keyboard

2005-11-29 Thread David Watkins
David Watkins mentioned that you can use LIRC to change the keys of the remote. I think he was referring to a ATI remote which uses the ati_remote.ko kernel module. LIRC has its own kernel module for that remote. I'm not sure you can use LIRC with a usbhid device that thinks

Re: [mythtv-users] I Need some help with MYTHTV...

2005-11-28 Thread David Watkins
On 28/11/05, larry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, I am new to the list Mythtv... My setup here is Debian/Linux, kernel version 2.6.11... I have downloaded mythtv_0.18.1.orig.tar.gz... After extracting it, I then did a ./configure, now after doing that I do not see an executional

Re: [mythtv-users] Cant delete programs when HD files up

2005-11-28 Thread David Watkins
On 28/11/05, Ben Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I came back at the end of the weekend and my hard disk had filled up. When I tried to delete anything the frontend hung when I went to delete a probram and selected 'Delete it'. I ended up hading to manually delete a old program media data for

Re: [mythtv-users] Ghosted Audio

2005-11-24 Thread David Watkins
On 24/11/05, David Aquilina [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings all, I'm fairly new to MythTV and am experiencing an occasional problem with ghosting audio. When viewing some previously recorded shows, if something else is being recorded at the same time I'll hear the audio from the new

Re: [mythtv-users] LIRC with USB remote control: how?

2005-11-24 Thread David Watkins
I'm using my HP Pavilion w5180.ch running SuSE 9.3. How can I configure my remote control device to work with LIRC? Linux has detect the usb device as a keyboard and mouse. You don't need lirc. You can either change MythTv key mapping to match your remote with MythWeb or modify the

Re: [mythtv-users] Anable to record from other vedio source

2005-11-24 Thread David Watkins
On 24/11/05, Rama, Ganesh Koti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I have built Mythtv on Fedora core 3.Using Win Tv Express v4l card. I am able to watch tv when I give composite video input from a set top box. But not able to record the same. I am in India I don't have any kind of EPG

Re: [mythtv-users] lircd.conf

2005-11-16 Thread David Watkins
On 16/11/05, Marty Ravell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It simply means that you didn't use lircd --logfile /var/log/lircd My box is FC3 and I run this with : /sbin/service lircd start The /etc/sysconfig/lircd file had little in it apart from : # Options to lircd LIRCD_OPTIONS=

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Watching Recordings on TV instead of PC Monitor

2005-11-15 Thread David Watkins
On 15/11/05, Curtis White [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/14/05, Curtis White [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It appears now I have hit another new problem I can't seem to figure out. I have the PVR350 card with DirecTV going to the tuner of the card. I have recorded several shows. When I go to

Re: [mythtv-users] Help getting Video running

2005-11-14 Thread David Watkins
On 13/11/05, stevew [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Folks, I'm looking for a little help getting the final pieces running on my system. I have a Nvidia 5200, PVR350 combination. I have audio and video under mplayer, but Watch TV only has audio? I can also watch DVD's under myth with no problem.

Re: [mythtv-users] mythbackend cannnot autostart

2005-11-10 Thread David Watkins
On 10/11/05, 赵亚伟 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi,everyone I have installed my mythtv well ,and it runs well. But mythbackend cannot autostart. Everytime I have to command, /sbin/service mythbackend start I want it to start by itself when computer starting When my computer is starting ,I get this

Re: [mythtv-users] TV out card for frontend

2005-11-10 Thread David Watkins
On 09/11/05, Devan Lippman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Shopping for a new tv-out for my frontend and came across this at a very reasonable price: JATON Geforce4 MX440 Video-198PCI-64TV Video Card I was thinking about it though and this probably will not do any hardware decoding for video? It

Re: [mythtv-users] gentoo mythtv nova-t channel scan problem

2005-11-09 Thread David Watkins
On 09/11/05, Ben Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have managed to get a good picture in mplayer so I guess my dvb card is set up. When I go to scan shannels it just sits there for about a minute with 'no lock' and eventualy gives up and comes up with 'Error tuning to transport';( What

Re: [mythtv-users] How do I edit mythvideo metadata?

2005-11-09 Thread David Watkins
On 09/11/05, Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The mythvideo metadata editing screen does not allow you to change a whole lot of stuff like plot etc. Being able to put the imdb number in is fine for a movie, but for a downloaded tv series it is no good. I just end up with a whole lot of

Re: [mythtv-users] gentoo mythtv nova-t channel scan problem

2005-11-09 Thread David Watkins
On 09/11/05, Ben Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/9/05, David Watkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 09/11/05, Ben Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have managed to get a good picture in mplayer so I guess my dvb card is set up. When I go to scan shannels it just sits

Re: [mythtv-users] ATI Wonder Remote

2005-11-09 Thread David Watkins
On 09/11/05, Folashade Adeyosoye [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What am I missing, I tried following (http://www.litwiller.net/mythtv/remote.html) these instructions but for each button that I press on the remote, it repeats 4 times. For example if I hit the 3 button I get What might

Re: [mythtv-users] Searchable index of mythtv-users?

2005-11-08 Thread David Watkins
On 08/11/05, Simon Cowell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is this list indexed somewhere that I can search in its history? http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/ ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org

Re: [mythtv-users] 'i' key doesn't work in Mythmusic playlist + other questions

2005-11-07 Thread David Watkins
On 06/11/05, ffrr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: According to the documentation... Q: How do I create a new playlist? A: Using the MythMusic Select Music menu option, setup the playlist as you normally would by adding songs or other playlists as needed. When you are ready to save the new playlist,

Re: [mythtv-users] 'i' key doesn't work in Mythmusic playlist + other questions

2005-11-07 Thread David Watkins
On 07/11/05, ffrr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ffrr wrote: David Watkins wrote: Can you jump down the list? Example, I am looking at the list of artists, and all the A s are showing. Can I jump down to those starting with 'S', or even filter the list so it only shows those

Re: [mythtv-users] Slightly OT: can't get power button script to restart front end (From Jarod's guide)

2005-11-03 Thread David Watkins
On 03/11/05, Jon Kunze [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't think so, I've never had a problem with it before. I also tried copying and pasting it from Firefox on the mythbox into nano in a terminal on the mythbox, and still no luck. selinux? ___

Re: [mythtv-users] RE: nForce4 Audio on FC4, it plays some of the time....

2005-11-03 Thread David Watkins
I took your suggestions and tried messing with alsamixer while playing something, I never heard audio no matter what I tweaked. Probably a dumb suggestion, but you did make sure that the channels weren't muted ('m' toggles muting on and off). It's not as obvious on alsamixer as on some other

Re: [mythtv-users] Page down in mythmusic?

2005-11-02 Thread David Watkins
On 02/11/05, Carl Fongheiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/1/05, Grant Emsley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any key that does page down in mythmusic? I have mostly singles, and have a giant directory of MP3s...scrolling with the remote is far too slow. Even scrolling with the

Re: [mythtv-users] DVB scans

2005-11-02 Thread David Watkins
On 02/11/05, Frank Simorjay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After laborious efforts I have put together a frequency list of channels that seem to work. However the format of the channels.conf file works with azap, but nothing else. I'd like to get the data imported into channel info of myth, I

Re: [mythtv-users] frontend segmentation fault

2005-11-02 Thread David Watkins
On 30/10/05, Robert Callicotte [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings, I recently re-installed mythtv from the RPMS located at ATRPMS and made it through the setup process. After running mythfilldatabase and mythbackend fo the first time I ran mythfrontend. Here is a excerpt of that run error

Re: [mythtv-users] Killing all known channels, dead

2005-10-31 Thread David Watkins
On 31/10/05, Jo Shields [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: DVB-T, rather handily, automatically adds new channels when they appear. This happens both with my set-top boxes, and with Myth. However, there's a tendancy to re-add channels I went to the effort of deleting - I don't want QVC, I don't want

Re: [mythtv-users] What does make install actually do

2005-10-28 Thread David Watkins
On 28/10/05, R. Geoffrey Newbury [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 27 Oct 2005 21:58:20 +1000, Phill Edwards wrote: I've noticed that make install puts the binaries into /usr/local/, whereas the rpm binaries are currently in /usr/local/bin, so am I correct in thinking that nothing would

[mythtv-users] What does make install actually do

2005-10-27 Thread David Watkins
I've compiled a few frontends from source, but my backend (18.1) was built using rpms. I'd now like to compile mythtv for the backend. I'm reasonably comfortable with doing the build, and I've read the upgradetoCVShowto (although I'll be using the 18.1 tarball), but I'm still a bit unclear on

Re: [mythtv-users] What does make install actually do

2005-10-27 Thread David Watkins
On 27/10/05, Phill Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've noticed that make install puts the binaries into /usr/local/, whereas the rpm binaries are currently in /usr/local/bin, so am I correct in thinking that nothing would get overwritten and I manually move files or adjust the order of

Re: [mythtv-users] Some Quick Questions about MythTV

2005-10-26 Thread David Watkins
On 25/10/05, Scot L. Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 16:25, Steve Adeff wrote: On Tuesday 25 October 2005 15:42, Scot L. Harris wrote: On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 15:18, Joshua Lewis wrote: I am seriously considering the MythTV as an alternative to having 5 satellite

Re: [mythtv-users] Upgraded Mandriva to 2006 - problems with mysql and myth

2005-10-26 Thread David Watkins
On 26/10/05, ffrr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The upgrade from 2005LE to 2006 was fairly smooth, and nearly everything works - except mythtv The problem seems to be something to do with mysql permissions and/or host names. The back end dies as follows... 2005-10-26 17:59:40.637 New DB

Re: [mythtv-users] Problem with tuning DVB card - tzap, mplayer ok mythtv not

2005-10-24 Thread David Watkins
On 24/10/05, Simon Allcorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi David, Thanks for the response, I think you may have hit the nail on the head ! I got these from tzap and, as I say, they worked for me. How did you get tzap to do this ? I can't see an option for this ! Can't see a version number in

Re: [mythtv-users] Problem with tuning DVB card - tzap, mplayer ok mythtv not

2005-10-23 Thread David Watkins
On 23/10/05, Simon Allcorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm having trouble to get myth-tv to tune into a transport stream with my DVB card (nova-t). If I use mythtv-setup and select Channel editor/Scan for channels/Full scan I get the following: ... 2005-10-23 14:39:07.661 DVB#0 DVB SI

Re: [mythtv-users] required XvMC?

2005-10-22 Thread David Watkins
On 22/10/05, Michael T. Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Derek Meek wrote: Dan Brow wrote: Do you really need XvMC for most systems? I'm building a few myth boxes If you're using a hardware based capture card ( PVR x50 or dvb-x) and outputting at standard definition then you probably don't

Re: [mythtv-users] mythtv supoprt for lcdproc/other lcds

2005-10-20 Thread David Watkins
On 20/10/05, Neil Bird [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Around about 19/10/05 14:25, David Watkins typed ... I just bought a Matrix Orbital MX630 http://www.kustompcs.co.uk/acatalog/info_2954.html It's a USB device and, with an optional cable, plugs into the motherboard USB header. So

Re: [mythtv-users] 'Scan channels(s)' button can not be pressed.

2005-10-19 Thread David Watkins
On 18/10/05, Ben Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have kaffeine wrking fine but when I run mythtv-setup and go into 'Channel Editor' the 'Scan Channel(s)' button and the Advanced' button can not be navigated to and pressed. I have put BBC ONE in and its correct frequency. Any ideas? Well

Re: [mythtv-users] mythtv supoprt for lcdproc/other lcds

2005-10-19 Thread David Watkins
On 19/10/05, Neil Bird [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I asked a short while back about using a small USB LCD display with Myth, and got a couple of hints as to what I might look for. However, I remain unsure as to what support there actually is in Myth for driving these things. Am I limited

Re: [mythtv-users] 'Scan channels(s)' button can not be pressed.

2005-10-19 Thread David Watkins
On 19/10/05, Ben Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/19/05, David Watkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 18/10/05, Ben Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have kaffeine wrking fine but when I run mythtv-setup and go into 'Channel Editor' the 'Scan Channel(s)' button and the Advanced

Re: [mythtv-users] 'Scan channels(s)' button can not be pressed.

2005-10-19 Thread David Watkins
On 19/10/05, Ben Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/19/05, David Watkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... The card type is 'Standard V4L capture card' and can not be changed. What should dvd0 show up next to, I have viewo devide /dev/video0. shuld this be /dev/dvb0

Re: [mythtv-users] The Race to Change the Channel

2005-10-18 Thread David Watkins
On 18/10/05, W.Kenworthy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The alternative view: in Australia (Perth) the program info is lousy, missing or plain wrong. Channel surfing is where its at (we only have a small handful of channels - not counting the dups), and the delays are a real pain, as is the OSD

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: lircd starts fine, but crashes as soon as something tries to use it

2005-10-18 Thread David Watkins
On 18/10/05, Jon Kunze [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, here's what happens when i try to reinstall lirc [EMAIL PROTECTED] mythtv]# yum install ivtv-kmdl-$KVER Setting up Install Process Setting up repositories atrpms100% |=| 951 B00:00

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Slightly OT: Recording AV inputs on a DVB-T card

2005-10-18 Thread David Watkins
On 15/10/05, David Whyte [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/16/05, David Whyte [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know the avermedia cards have a video AV slot, but was wondering how I could record that to my PC. How do I get the sound in, and how does it all come to be synchronised. Just to

Re: [mythtv-users] Building channels.conf for Exeter/Beacon Hill, UK

2005-10-18 Thread David Watkins
On 18/10/05, Ben Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, got fairly far setting up my MythTV box. How to I find out what transmitter I am using, I think it is Beacon Hill that is in Exmouth bot not certain, how can I find out? The other thing is I then need to find out the frequency. I found

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: lircd starts fine, but crashes as soon as something tries to use it

2005-10-18 Thread David Watkins
On 18/10/05, Jon Kunze [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry about that, I was trying a few different things, and copied the wrong command. As for the kernel idea, I thought of that late last night as well. Does anyone know if the FC4 kernel modules have been updated? If so, what do I need to do,

Re: [mythtv-users] Building channels.conf for Exeter/Beacon Hill, UK

2005-10-18 Thread David Watkins
In mythtv-setup my channel scan is 'grayed out'. Do I need to enter the channels from above someware? I think that means that your dvb card is not available. What happened when you set up the card? Did it let you select dvb0? Make sure mythbackend is not running when you run mythtvsetup as

Re: [mythtv-users] Initial FC4 Setup for MythTV

2005-10-17 Thread David Watkins
On 17/10/05, David Barkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm working on the initial portion of my MythTV install, following Jarod's doc (great doc btw!). In step 5, I ran the Yum upgrade, set the KVER variable and rebooted. I then ran step 6, adding the third-party repos, and decided to run

Re: [mythtv-users] Ubuntu Breezy install with Nova-T DVB card.

2005-10-17 Thread David Watkins
On 17/10/05, Ben Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am in the process of setting up a mythtv box. Have been looking through various howtos but am not sure what modules I need to modprobe. with my Hauppauge Nova-t (which looks to be the same model as yours) all I needed to modprobe was dvb-cx88

Re: [mythtv-users] Ubuntu Breezy install with Nova-T DVB card.

2005-10-17 Thread David Watkins
On 17/10/05, Ben Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/17/05, David Watkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 17/10/05, Ben Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am in the process of setting up a mythtv box. Have been looking through various howtos but am not sure what modules I need

Re: [mythtv-users] Ubuntu Breezy install with Nova-T DVB card.

2005-10-17 Thread David Watkins
On 17/10/05, Ben Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/17/05, David Watkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 17/10/05, Ben Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am in the process of setting up a mythtv box. Have been looking through various howtos but am not sure what modules I need

Re: [mythtv-users] Config files

2005-10-13 Thread David Watkins
On 13/10/05, Bill Robson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey all, Quick question. Where abouts are the settings stored for the auto-skip commercials? - Not in the menus, but which configuration file(s)? they're in the msql database called mythconverg ___

Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV / ivtv (PVR350) Audio out

2005-10-11 Thread David Watkins
On 11/10/05, Sebastian Nerz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I have a strange problem ... Whenever I plug the Audio-Out of my PVR350 in my MIC-In I get some strange sounds - audio of I dont know what TV-Channel. That audio stays the same whatever

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Seeking Remote Control Advice for PVR-500

2005-10-07 Thread David Watkins
On 07/10/05, Larry K [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joe, Thanks for the info. That fact that the buttons can have arbitrary names explains a lot. I'm wondering how I will know what kernel modules support this 3rd party IR receiver? The seller said it works with mythtv, so it probably does. If I

Re: [mythtv-users] Shutting down a slave backend crashes the master backend..

2005-10-06 Thread David Watkins
On 06/10/05, E Norm One [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been trying to setup a system where slave backends will be started and terminated on-demand. The Slave BackEnds are diskless and they share the main video partition with the Master BackEnd over NFS. This way i imagine that i can save the

Re: [mythtv-users] cable box woes

2005-10-06 Thread David Watkins
On 05/10/05, Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a Scientific Atlanta Cable box that outputs cable via S-Video into my PVR-500. I'm not sure exactly where I plug it into my PVR-500 and I'm also not sure what settings need to be modified in mythtv-setup. (video0/s-video1 or 2, video1/s-video1

Re: [mythtv-users] cable box woes

2005-10-06 Thread David Watkins
On 06/10/05, Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wow thats sounds alot harder than it looks :( On 10/6/05, David Watkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's pretty much correct. The steps are: 1) You tell the mythtv frontend that you want to change channel. 2) The frontend tells the backend

Re: [mythtv-users] Fusion DVB-t lite card

2005-10-05 Thread David Watkins
On 05/10/05, Justin Debbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, i have read many different threads on the subject and have come back to the same problem - i cannot get the card to work no matter what i try. Basically dvb-t lite cards are supposed to autodetect since 2.6.9. Not a problem mine

Re: [mythtv-users] Wireless or 10/100 BaseT?

2005-10-05 Thread David Watkins
On 05/10/05, James Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When using a seperate back/front end for mythtv, is it possible to have these running across a reasonable wireless connection? I'm talking about watching an averagely encoded file. If not, could I use an old 10baseT ethernet card, or do I

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-150/mythtv setup

2005-10-05 Thread David Watkins
On 05/10/05, paulg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been following Jarod's fine HowTo to get mythtv working with my Hauppauge WinTV-PRV 150 on FC4. I've watched and listened to captured tv with cat and mplayer combination so I believe the card and sound are working. Irc isn't yet but mythtv just

Re: [mythtv-users] Ripped DVD's to 350 HW

2005-10-04 Thread David Watkins
On 04/10/05, Marty Ravell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone tell me if it is possible to rip a DVD and then encode it in such a way that I can watch it through the hardware decoder on my PVR 350? I have played around at getting the new ivtv drivers to work but the video quality on

Re: [mythtv-users] lirc_i2c problem

2005-10-04 Thread David Watkins
On 04/10/05, Tyler Bartel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been figting with a problem all evening that I am hopng someone can help me with: Machine: Intel 1.8Ghz / 512RAM Running 2.6.13-1.1526_FC4 Hauppage WinTV PVR-150 I have been following Jaron Wilsons Howto on getting MythTV running

Re: [mythtv-users] unable to recognize channel

2005-10-04 Thread David Watkins
On 04/10/05, Ricardo Kleemann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I have mythtv 0.18.1 installed and working fine on a Fedora 4 system, with PVR-150MCE and a GeForce4 MX440 setup. I don't really need to change channels in the sense that I expect the tuner to tune away, because I simply have a

Re: [mythtv-users] Australian channel scan

2005-10-03 Thread David Watkins
On 03/10/05, Jim Householder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I'm making some progress with mythtv. Using the excellent guidance at http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/fcmyth.php I have 0.18.1-114 running on FC4. Hardware: V-Stream DTV DVB-T, 2.4GHz P4, 1GB ram I can watch the composite input from a

Re: [mythtv-users] LVM Issue with zero-length files

2005-09-29 Thread David Watkins
On 28/09/05, Larry K [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Calling all LVM experts!! Up until recently, I had been running LVM with only a single physical volume. I probably have 100GB of data files in the volume, waiting to be watched. So, Myth was running fine and all was well, except I had a 150GB

Re: [mythtv-users] OT: Dead(?) vertical line on LCD

2005-09-29 Thread David Watkins
Also the pixels aren't really dead -- they show color, just a different color than the pixels to the right and left. When that part of the screen is certain colors (green, red, black), there is no noticable problem, but when that bit is blue (other than default), white, or other lilght

Re: [mythtv-users] Network protocol problem: what does this mean?

2005-09-28 Thread David Watkins
The server uses network protocol version 14, but this client only understands version 15. Make sure you are running compatible versions of the backend and frontend. Have any of you seen this? What is it referring to. I think that both versions of mythtv are 0.18. I think the frontend version

Re: [mythtv-users] (no subject)

2005-09-26 Thread David Watkins
On 26/09/05, Ben Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm new to this list but have thinking about building a MythTV box of a year or so. I've now started ordering bits (well a antec overture II case) and am planning on using a Hauppauge WinTV NOVA-t freeview PCI card and Ubuntu/512MB memory.

Re: [mythtv-users] (no subject)

2005-09-26 Thread David Watkins
Now I get it ;) So it is a graphics card with TV out connected to the TV, I guess the TV outs on the TV cards are all daisy chained into the Graphics card (with TV in/out). I did not realise I would need a graphics card with TV out as well as the freeview cards. I thought the TV out on the

Re: [mythtv-users] DVB Static sound

2005-09-26 Thread David Watkins
On 26/09/05, Dave Oxley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I have a MythTV box (Gentoo Linux) that has 2 DVB cards in it. The audio from the DVB-S card is fine, but the DVB-T gives static (video is fine on both). What makes this stranger is that I have a frontend on my laptop (FC3) that

Re: [mythtv-users] program remote's power key to stop mythfrontend?

2005-09-22 Thread David Watkins
On 22/09/05, Brian J. Murrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 19:03 -0700, Mark Kundinger wrote: You can have a shell script that responds to the power key and kills the frontend: Yeah. I have something similar. Killing off mythfrontend just so coarse. AFAIK there's no

Re: [mythtv-users] frontend crash during UK dvb-t playback - only at adverts

2005-09-20 Thread David Watkins
On 20/09/05, Alan Bates [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi all – I now have a stable dvb-t myth setup running on an up-to-date fedora core system, using the hauppage nova-t. only major problem thus far is: watching certain UK channels, the frontend crashes when the commercial break begins –

Re: [mythtv-users] mythTV settings from the command line?

2005-09-20 Thread David Watkins
Specifically, I am trying to figure out how to change settings concerned with commercial detection and deletion, automatic transcoding after recording and perhaps video card settings. (I have a Hauppauge PVR-150 and thought I read somewhere it could record directly to MPEG4 rather than

Re: [mythtv-users] Problems with Myth_Music

2005-09-16 Thread David Watkins
On 16/09/05, Javier Perez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi How come I can Rip a CD with Grip but I cannot do it from within MythCD. Mythfrontend crashes as soon as I just try to do it. Has this problem been solved? It did not look like it from googling around. Also, How can I just play a CD?

Re: [mythtv-users] HDTV MythTV parts list

2005-09-15 Thread David Watkins
No tearing, performance is exactly the same as with older hardware, and there's no colorkey to show up at odd times. =) Is this the bright green, blocky flash that I sometimes see on scene changes with my GeForce MX440? If so, are there any tips on minimising or removing it?

Re: [mythtv-users] How to fix Movie posters on FE

2005-09-15 Thread David Watkins
On 15/09/05, PAUL WILLIAMSON [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You shouldn't be running MythTV as root. There is no reason for /home/.mythtv to exist because you installed MythTV as root. Bad thing. In general, it's not good to installing anything as root because you're lazy. Sorry, that's what

Re: [mythtv-users] How to fix Movie posters on FE

2005-09-15 Thread David Watkins
On 15/09/05, PAUL WILLIAMSON [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 09/15/05 7:32 AM On 15/09/05, PAUL WILLIAMSON [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You shouldn't be running MythTV as root. There is no reason for /home/.mythtv to exist because you installed MythTV as root. Bad thing. In

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