Re: [mythtv-users] OT: 160GB Western Digital, $30 after rebates

2005-06-05 Thread Fa Yoeu
I have bought my last 5 HDs (3 seagate and 2 Hitachi) with rebates over the last two years. I have gotten all the rebates back without any hassel. I guess i am just lucky. On 6/5/05, Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Louie Ilievski wrote: On Saturday 04 June 2005 04:32 pm, mark wrote: On

Re: [mythtv-users] Lots of Newbie Questions

2005-06-03 Thread Fa Yoeu
On 6/2/05, Shaun Stelley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How to change channels while watching live tv? Using the guide to change channels? I think you just press the up/down arrow keys. I configured myth to show the channels before changing, so up/down then enter to accept the channel, otherwise

Re: [mythtv-users] OT: 160GB Western Digital, $30 after rebates

2005-06-03 Thread Fa Yoeu
I just got a 160 GB seagate, I see them onsale for this week for $49 at fry's (after rebate). Bringing my total storage to about 750GB (4 drives). I also had to buy an IDE card since I maxed out the devices of the onboard with a DVD writer. On 6/3/05, Jeff Simpson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I

[mythtv-users] Logo for mythtv

2005-04-22 Thread Fa Yoeu
Tivo has a neat logo for their product. I believe that mythtv should also have a logo. I am wondering if anyone wants to help fund a competition about developing a logo for myth. I know that I would donate a couple bucks to fund that competition and have a neat logo associated with this great

[mythtv-users] Recording New Battlestar series

2005-04-12 Thread Fa Yoeu
I only want to record the new battlestar galactica series. Is there a way I can specify this in myth? Essential, I want to record all battlestar galactica playing at anytime on channel scifi. When I tried this, I kept getting the old series recorded as well.

[mythtv-users] Cooling Hard Drives

2005-03-10 Thread Fa Yoeu
I have 3 seagate barracuda HDs. I am wondering what is the best way to quietly cool these down. Right now I think they are running *very* hot. The only fans in the mini atx tower are the power supply fan and the cpu fan. Wondering what is the more effective and quiet way to cool down these

Re: [mythtv-users] Commercial cutting DVD burning

2005-03-07 Thread Fa Yoeu
I am using avidemux2 with nuvexport. I am using it under X, but is is fully automatic. 1. In myth load up your cutlist. 2. then launch nuvexport. 3. choose mpeg2-mpeg2 (cutlist or commercial). 4. Watch it.. it should run then launch avidemux2. On Mon, 07 Mar 2005 16:05:27 -0800, Praveen

Re: [mythtv-users] Where to put files for MythWeb?

2005-03-02 Thread Fa Yoeu
I just put mine in /var/www/html/mythweb or where you apache conf points to your document root. Then you can refer to it as http://localhost/mythweb/ Here is how you can find out document root on fedora or just open up this file: [EMAIL PROTECTED] html]# grep -i documentroot

Re: [mythtv-users] Multiple Tuners Box Upgrade

2005-02-27 Thread Fa Yoeu
I think Mythmusic works with subdirectories fine and I think the same for mythvideo. Both or these will scan subdirs to build up a list of files to play. On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 18:22:05 -0600, hondaman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I guess now is a good time to ask another question. When setting up my

Re: [mythtv-users] Mac Mini memory?

2005-02-27 Thread Fa Yoeu
Is 512 enough for doing most things or is 1Gig required? On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 12:56:31 -0800, M. Barnabas Luntzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: os X is barely usable just by itself with 256, much less running any applications - I recommend at least 512, thats what I have... if you're going to do

Re: [mythtv-users] Wireless card that works on stock FC3 kernel?

2005-02-27 Thread Fa Yoeu
without alot of trouble I got the airlink 802.11g pci card working, also the linksys usb 801.11b. I think for the airlink, I had to use ndis wrapper. On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 10:58:27 -0800 (PST), Brennan Folmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After upgrading to FC3, my PCMCIA wireless (Orinoco Gold)

Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV review from a long-time TiVo user

2005-02-26 Thread Fa Yoeu
Although I don't use it, I think mythtv has lirc integration, so you don't have to do external keyboard bindings. On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 14:07:19 -0500, Ben Giddings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm new to lirc, but one of the test programs I ran across was 'irw'. It simply told you what remote

Re: [mythtv-users] Multiple Tuners Box Upgrade

2005-02-26 Thread Fa Yoeu
I would highly recommend that you using LVM. Many people who are not using LVM are kicking themselves for it later on. The benefits of LVM is that is relatively easy to setup and can be expanded without migration or data loss if you need more space in the future. If you need to migrate the data

Re: [mythtv-users] Playing AVI Files

2005-02-22 Thread Fa Yoeu
I think mplayer supports avi, wmv, and all sorts of other codecs. Depending on your distro, you might need to recompile since redhat turns off all the good stuff. Kinda choppy using the tv-out of the pvr350 though. On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 16:16:49 -0500, Thom Paine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-350, TVOut Bigger than the TV

2005-02-22 Thread Fa Yoeu
What window manager do you use? On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 11:43:49 +0100, Johannes Becker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Watch out, if you use KDE, then only using the GUI in a windows will allow to scale the size. With GUI in full screen you need a different window manager to use scaling. Johannes

Re: Was: [mythtv-users] v.17 success stories?

2005-02-14 Thread Fa Yoeu
On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 16:46:45 -0700, mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Question, can I do an apt-get dist-upgrade for FC2 to FC3? What would the apt-get sources list be? fedora/linux/3 instead of fedora/linux/2 before the upgrade command? I don't recommend you do that. Just upgrade it using the

Re: [mythtv-users] problems w/ recent CVS MythTV

2005-01-16 Thread Fa Yoeu
I have been running the lastest CVS as of 01/16 and haven't ran into the OSD or wedging problems. I do see some weirdness with commercial skipping. I enabled it and it didn't flag the commercials for the new programs that I recorded. However, it will flag programs that I manually select for

[mythtv-users] MythTV and TIVO integration

2005-01-13 Thread Fa Yoeu
I just got a Free Tivo from Tivo after standing in line for 3 hours in december. I think tivo is great because it requires ZERO effort from me, but I like my mythtv box better. Anyways, I am wondering if anyone thought of the idea of creating some sort of integration between mythtv and tivo. I

Re: [mythtv-users] Can Myth be all I want it to be?

2004-12-16 Thread Fa Yoeu
[answers inline] I put yes infront of the ones I know are functional and that I am currently using. On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 09:45:31 -0800, Brent Olson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want a Myth box, but first: Can MythTv meet my requirements? This is a function of the Graphics card in your system.

Re: [mythtv-users] Adding extra recorder disk space for Christmas !

2004-12-16 Thread Fa Yoeu
MythTv doesn't support multiple directories. You should really have used LVM upon the initial setup of your system. It isn't hard and truely is flexible. I have expanded my volumes 3 times since I originally installed MythTV from 100GB to 300GB to 500GB. Anyhow the information on how to LVM is