Re: [mythtv-users] Mysql complains at me

2006-01-26 Thread Ian Forde
On Thu, 2006-01-26 at 16:00 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I still haven't setup regular backups of my db, so I'm inviting > exactly the above situation on myself. I acknowledge the possibility > and responsibility I have to deal with it if it does happen, but the > fact that mythtv is that way

Re: [mythtv-users] Connect mythtv-users list to Usenet?

2006-01-25 Thread Ian Forde
On Wed, 2006-01-25 at 22:54 -0700, Devan Lippman wrote: > On 1/25/06, Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am not a member of the class "powers that be", but I would be very > > nervous about a usenet feed. It's not so much that i object to people > > being able to read the list via a news re

Re: [mythtv-users] Tivo to Myth migration

2006-01-25 Thread Ian Forde
No idea. But you'll need to have vserver installed on it, as well have a network card installed... -I On Wed, 2006-01-25 at 19:13 -0500, Chris Ribe wrote: > Any idea if this will work with a DirecTiVo? > > On 1/24/06, Ian Forde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >

[mythtv-users] Tivo to Myth migration

2006-01-24 Thread Ian Forde
not sure if anyone's even remotely interested in this, but I've cobbled together a script that will pull a show from a S1 Tivo and put it into the "Watch Recordings" screen on myth. The script still needs some finishing touches though. (Okay - it's pretty r

Re: [mythtv-users] HD over FireWire Questions

2006-01-14 Thread Ian Forde
On Sat, 2006-01-14 at 15:58 -0600, Kichigai Mentat wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hello. I once read the thread about the advantages of using a HD > FireWire capture, even if you don't have an HDTV. You don't actually have to capture HD channels. You can also capt

Re: [mythtv-users] Ubuntu alsa sound & apt-get update concerns

2006-01-12 Thread Ian Forde
On Thu, 2006-01-12 at 23:25 -0600, Robert Johnston wrote: > No. If you leave everything, without updating, then your myth box will > continue to operate as it always has. However, if, somehow, someone > were to get into the box from outside, it will still be filled with > all the security flaws tha

Re: [mythtv-users] NFS or SAMBA for Video Stream

2006-01-10 Thread Ian Forde
On Tue, 2006-01-10 at 23:00 -0700, James C. Dastrup wrote: > >> Samba is great dealing with windows machines > > > >Only because on Windows, you don't have any choice. > > > Windows Services for Unix (SFU) is a choice. I couldn't tell you > how well it works. I can. IMHO, it's "functionally in

Re: [mythtv-users] Comcast and Firewire 5c

2006-01-10 Thread Ian Forde
On Tue, 2006-01-10 at 09:41 -0500, Steve Adeff wrote: > On Tuesday 10 January 2006 06:39, Yeechang Lee wrote: > > On second thought, I realized that Ian's shell script won't help me in > > my particular desire to find channels Zap2It doesn't know about. This > > is because the cable box, when tuned

[mythtv-users] Comcast and Firewire 5c

2006-01-09 Thread Ian Forde
Given the recent conversations concerning firewire issues, I found it ironic that Comcast just changed a bunch of my channels to do 5c over firewire. But since I have *absolutely* no desire to test each channel to see if it works, then check the DCT-6200 menu to verify it, I did what any decent sy

Re: [mythtv-users] Minimum hardware requirements for a Frontend

2006-01-03 Thread Ian Forde
On Wed, 2006-01-04 at 01:36 -0500, Steve Adeff wrote: > > your motherboard should have the Realtek ALC850 which is the same as my MSI > > board and works fine when using the intel ac97 ALSA drivers: Yep - definitely the ALC850. And the intel ac97 drivers load up. Incidentally, the vendor is DFI,

Re: [mythtv-users] Minimum hardware requirements for a Frontend

2006-01-03 Thread Ian Forde
On Wed, 2006-01-04 at 00:43 -0500, Steve Adeff wrote: > On Wednesday 04 January 2006 00:34, Ian Forde wrote: > > I'd beware of NVidia chipset motherboards. NForce3 and NForce4 audio > > capabilities aren't completely supported in Alsa. Especially if you're > &g

Re: [mythtv-users] Minimum hardware requirements for a Frontend

2006-01-03 Thread Ian Forde
On Tue, 2006-01-03 at 21:01 -0500, Chris Ribe wrote: > > > Another choice is an AMD processor on an NVIDIA chipset based > motherboard. I have been playing with an AMD Athlon64 3200 on > an ASUS > A8N-VM CSM. Even without the NVIDIA XvMC support (it is bro

Re: [mythtv-users] Fedora - any new versions in the pipeline?

2006-01-03 Thread Ian Forde
On Tue, 2006-01-03 at 18:05 -0800, Ross Campbell wrote: > But... a newer OS distribution really has nothing to do with how well > mythtv works. > > There certainly are disadvantages to running a "too new" distribution > with "too new" packages that don't quite work properly with mythtv (or > none

Re: [mythtv-users] mythweb file size limits

2005-12-31 Thread Ian Forde
On Sat, 2005-12-31 at 09:15 -0800, Jonathan Tidmore wrote: > > The latest Apache, 2.2.0, supports files larger than 2 > gigs. All > > previous versions have a 2 gig file size limit. Apache 2.2 > came out a > > couple of weeks ago so you'll probably need to

Re: [mythtv-users] mythweb file size limits

2005-12-31 Thread Ian Forde
On Fri, 2005-12-30 at 21:26 -0800, Jonathan Tidmore wrote: > On 12/30/05, Todd Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there a way to remove the file size limit in apache? It > gives me a > forbidden when I try to access my nuv's that are about 2.2g > across my >

Re: [mythtv-users] Recording HD content from a Comcast/Dish/DTV box

2005-12-26 Thread Ian Forde
On Mon, 2005-12-26 at 18:11 -0600, Kevin Kuphal wrote: > There are two ways to capture HDTV. > > 1) OTA with an HDTV tuner card > 2) via Firewire from a cable box like the Motorola DCT-6200 (IIRC). > This is limited only to the channels that the cable provider provides > unencrypted on the f

Re: [mythtv-users] Serial DCT Control (dct2224/dct2524)

2005-12-18 Thread Ian Forde
calibrate.c dct-channel -I > > On Sun, 2005-12-18 at 15:27 -0800, Ian Forde wrote: > > On Sun, 2005-12-18 at 15:45 -0700, Chris wrote: > > > I've been trying for some time now to get serial channel changing > > > working, hopefully someone here can provi

Re: [mythtv-users] Serial DCT Control (dct2224/dct2524)

2005-12-18 Thread Ian Forde
On Sun, 2005-12-18 at 15:45 -0700, Chris wrote: > I've been trying for some time now to get serial channel changing > working, hopefully someone here can provide me with some insight into > the whole problem. > > I've got the following: > 2x Motorola DCT-2224, firmware version: 7.93 > 1x Motorola

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-250 and DCT2200

2005-12-06 Thread Ian Forde
On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 07:56 -0600, Carl Fongheiser wrote: > On 12/6/05, Dopey Dog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If I have a PVR-250, do I still need my Motorola DCT2200 > decoder for my digital channels? or can the PVR-250 decode > everything? > > The PVR-250 doesn't decode

Re: [mythtv-users] DCT2000 SLOW!

2005-10-05 Thread Ian Forde
On Thu, 2005-10-06 at 00:56 -0400, Tony O'Rourke wrote: > I have managed to get mythtv to change the channel via a serial cable > hooked up to the cable box, in my case a Motorola DCT2000. It runs the > changechannel.py script supplied with mythtv. But here is the rub: the > channels change super s

Re: [mythtv-users] 6200ch 1394 Drivers & such

2005-09-20 Thread Ian Forde
On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 21:26 -0700, brett olah wrote: > I compiled 0.18.1 ... no problems > > but ... > > Where/How do I turn it on? I think I've exhausted mythtv-setup/mythfrontend > setup, did I miss it? > > Brett;] > > depmod: > ieee1394: Initialized config rom entry `ip1394' > ohci1394:

Re: [mythtv-users] 6200ch 1394 Drivers & such

2005-09-20 Thread Ian Forde
On Mon, 2005-09-19 at 16:46 -0700, brett olah wrote: > Hi Group, > I've been running several MythTV boxes off Com[unist]cast cable in South San > Jose CA., running as analog (cable directly in to the PC) for a few years > and was extatic when I saw the 1394 channel support for DCT6200, no longer >

Re: [mythtv-users] Playing MPEG2 (.ts) Transport Streams?

2005-08-21 Thread Ian Forde
On Sun, 2005-08-21 at 19:06 -0700, Skip Levens wrote: > Has anyone had good experience incorporating libraries of HiDef MPEG2 > streams into MythTV? > > The files are huge, like 18GB each, but I have enough storage to save > them centrally and simply stream and play them using VLC with Mac's

[mythtv-users] question on tuner activation

2005-07-31 Thread Ian Forde
If a slave backend server starts up, but can't use its tuner, why is it still counted as a "working" tuner? As an example, I've been having problems with ivtv on a box - it seems that between udev and kernel errors, this box won't get a working recording backend running on it when it boots up. So

Re: [mythtv-users] hdtv from a cable box

2005-07-06 Thread Ian Forde
On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 21:09 -0400, SamS wrote: > I can't seem to find a clear answer on this, so I'll just ask. > > Currently, I have a cable box that I control with an IRBlaster so that > mythtv can change the channels and all that. Works great. Now that I > have a new HDTV big screen, I would

Re: [mythtv-users] .18 CPU optimizations

2005-05-02 Thread Ian Forde
On Mon, 2005-05-02 at 11:00 -0400, Donavan Stanley wrote: > On 5/2/05, Matt Grommes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Would there be any upside/downside to recompiling mythtv with different > > proccessor optimizations if I have an Athlon XP? I know there was > > discussion recently about putting the

RE: [mythtv-users] Full system/CPU upgrade and still no DVD

2005-05-01 Thread Ian Forde
On Sun, 2005-05-01 at 11:26 -0700, Scott Harris wrote: > Definitely have DMA on, on dvd and all HDDs. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] sharris]# /sbin/hdparm /dev/hdc > > /dev/hdc: > HDIO_GET_MULTCOUNT failed: Invalid argument > IO_support = 0 (default 16-bit) > unmaskirq= 0 (off) > using_dma

Re: [mythtv-users] NON-HD Firewire Success and oddity

2005-04-27 Thread Ian Forde
On Wed, 2005-04-27 at 15:44 -0400, Michael Haan wrote: > On 4/27/05, Ian Forde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Funny that - I applied Jim Westfall's firewire internal tuning patch to > > my copy of CVS (4/19) and it's been working fine ever since. No more > > 6

Re: [mythtv-users] NON-HD Firewire Success and oddity

2005-04-27 Thread Ian Forde
On Wed, 2005-04-27 at 10:54 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Just wanted to report a successful firewire implementation on .17 with > cox HD/digital in Tulsa. > > I had to patch the 6200.c with the correct firewire node number and > Vendor ID (0x0f9f) and model ID (0x6200) and recompile t

Re: [mythtv-users] FW: [oztivo] Macs to do HDTV recording off the shelf

2005-04-12 Thread Ian Forde
On Tue, 2005-04-12 at 22:24 -0400, dean collins wrote: > [DC] > Does anyone on this list know about this firewire ruling? Yeah... it's old news on this list... > Does this mean the firewire port on my Scientific Atlanta HD8000 now > needs to be enabled? Yep - that's why there are so many people

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: recording HD content

2005-04-12 Thread Ian Forde
On Tue, 2005-04-12 at 16:16 -0700, John Sturgeon wrote: > Ian Forde wrote: > > >On Tue, 2005-04-12 at 15:30 -0500, Neil wrote: > > > > > >>>The locals won't end (though they might drop to SD on the firewire) but the > >>>non-locals could g

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: recording HD content

2005-04-12 Thread Ian Forde
On Tue, 2005-04-12 at 15:30 -0500, Neil wrote: > > The locals won't end (though they might drop to SD on the firewire) but the > > non-locals could go away. > > Thanks for the tip Brad. I'm looking into firewire but on my other posts, > the guy told me that it may soon be encrypted too. :( Firs

Re: [mythtv-users] Transcoding shows for Sony PSP

2005-04-03 Thread Ian Forde
On Sun, 2005-04-03 at 11:59 -1000, James L. Paul wrote: > I'm currently using a clumsy process for watching TV shows on my Sony > PSP that were recorded by my MythTV box. Basically, I'm copying the .nuv > file to a renamed .mpg file in a network-visible directory. A windows > application named P

Re: [mythtv-users] Help, database corrupted after connecting with a newer frontend

2005-04-03 Thread Ian Forde
On Sun, 2005-04-03 at 14:54 -0400, Donavan Stanley wrote: > On Apr 2, 2005 6:59 PM, Ian Forde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Having said that, I just looked in mythtv/programs/mythfrontend/ and > > didn't see any dbcheck.cpp file (as one would when looking in > >

Re: [mythtv-users] Help, database corrupted after connecting with a newer frontend

2005-04-02 Thread Ian Forde
On Sat, 2005-04-02 at 22:45 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Yes I know that. I called it fscked-up because nothing works with my current > backend. I did not expect a frontend to do a DB update. Clients do not > usually DO that, you know. Bear in mind that mythvideo and mythmusic, being front

Re: [mythtv-users] When do we get this feature in Myth???

2005-03-29 Thread Ian Forde
On Tue, 2005-03-29 at 15:19 -0500, John Kuhn wrote: > how long before datadirect starts pumping ads into our free tv listings? About half an hour before someone starts working on a patch to remove the ads. ;) -I ___ mythtv-users mailing list my

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Stable release branch starting post-0.18

2005-03-29 Thread Ian Forde
On Tue, 2005-03-29 at 09:45 +0200, Axel Thimm wrote: > On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 05:09:37PM +1000, Phill Edwards wrote: > > > Hey folks, I've volunteered to be the sucker/punching bag to try to > > > maintain a > > > "stable" release branch of Myth. This all seems oddly familiar to a recent > > > di

Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV .18 impending release? If so, what's in it?

2005-03-27 Thread Ian Forde
On Mon, 2005-03-28 at 00:25 -0500, Maverick wrote: > Yeah, I'm somewhat new to mythtv (3 months), and I tried to join the > dev list to submit a bug fix patch and never got a confirmation email. > I guess they have all the developers they want, and don't want any > "newbs" submitting bug fixes. Oh

Re: [mythtv-users] Commercial Detection

2005-03-27 Thread Ian Forde
On Sun, 2005-03-27 at 13:17 -0500, Mario L wrote: > I was having similar problems with my new addiction Nip/Tuck. I have > decided to just go on what commercial detection has been finding & > just creating a cut list before I watch the show. Hell, it takes 5-10 > minutes to put together a cutlst

Re: [mythtv-users] Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe audio (Realtek chipset?) software mixing HDTV SPDIF

2005-03-25 Thread Ian Forde
On Fri, 2005-03-25 at 19:01 -0800, Paul B. Henson wrote: > It looks like in the past the Sound Blaster live/audigy was often > recommended? Is that still a good choice for SPDIF output if the onboard > sound will be insufficient? Yep! > Thanks much... You're welcome! -I ___

Re: [mythtv-users] mythmusic on Suse 9.2 x86_64

2005-03-21 Thread Ian Forde
On Mon, 2005-03-21 at 14:44 -0800, leith wrote: > From what I can tell, mythmusic is having trouble compiling on x86_64 > platforms. > > however, I have seen rpms out there for FC3, but none for Suse. > > So is there a way I can get it to compile for Suse 9.2 x86_64? Yep - disable the HAVE_MMX

Re: [mythtv-users] Mythvideo listing suddenly empty

2005-03-15 Thread Ian Forde
On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 10:30 +0100, Janek Hellqvist wrote: > You should be able to replace these lines with just one, something like: > > 12 4 * * * /usr/bin/mysqldump -u mythtv -pmythtv mythconverg -c | > /bin/gzip > /myth/backup/mythtv_backup.sql.`date +%a`.gz Uhhh... 'gzip -9' anybody?

Re: [mythtv-users] Mythvideo listing suddenly empty

2005-03-15 Thread Ian Forde
On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 06:57 +, David Morrison wrote: > Did you remove the mythtv username/password from the database because > this won't work unless you do? Heh - because I'm *really* going to post my password to the net. ;) -I ___ mythtv

Re: [mythtv-users] Dieing Hard Drive

2005-03-14 Thread Ian Forde
On Mon, 2005-03-14 at 21:24 -0800, Yan-Fa Li wrote: > Nathan, > > This tool costs money ($89), it's DOS based, but friends of mine have > recovered data from extremely screwed up drives: > > http://www.grc.com/sr/spinrite.htm > > It's still cheaper than a data recovery service. You'll have to

Re: [mythtv-users] MythVideo database resetting itself afteraddingsecond frontend

2005-03-14 Thread Ian Forde
On Mon, 2005-03-14 at 21:49 -0700, Darren Richards wrote: > Thanks for the suggestions. This will work in about 95% of the cases, > but there are certain dvd's which require special options (like -aid > 128). But specifying -aid 128 for all dvd's cause most of them to not > play in dolby digital,

Re: [mythtv-users] MythVideo database resetting itself afteraddingsecond frontend

2005-03-14 Thread Ian Forde
On Mon, 2005-03-14 at 20:30 -0700, Darren Richards wrote: > Upon double-checking mysettings, it seems that one frontend was > pointing to /video/dvds, and the other was pointing to /mnt/hdb1/dvds. > While physically they were the same place, they had two different > names. Now that both are point

Re: [mythtv-users] Mythvideo listing suddenly empty

2005-03-14 Thread Ian Forde
On Mon, 2005-03-14 at 10:26 -0600, Jim Oltman wrote: > How big does this DB-dump get? Mine comes in at around 9.5MB compressed... you can always have another script to purge dumps older than 30 days or so... ;) -I ___ mythtv-users mailing list

Re: [mythtv-users] Mythvideo listing suddenly empty

2005-03-14 Thread Ian Forde
On Mon, 2005-03-14 at 07:25 +, 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 might have happe

Re: [mythtv-users] Question about Video's loading time.

2005-03-11 Thread Ian Forde
On Fri, 2005-03-11 at 20:50 +, Stephen Boddy wrote: > On Friday 11 March 2005 17:58, Jay wrote: > > of just under 15000 videos. From the time I click Videos, to the time it > > Tell me that's a typo... 15000!!! If that was 700 MB / video you'd need 10 > Terabytes!!! Or are they all real small

[mythtv-users] Strange ALSA question

2005-03-10 Thread Ian Forde
Hi all - I've pretty much given up on getting my onboard nforce3 audio chipset to do AC3 passthrough, so I threw a SBLive 5.1 into the system, which after severe pummeling, I've gotten to work with both PCM and AC3 passthrough audio. The problem is that with mplayer I can't get AC3 passthrough to

Re: [mythtv-users] 6200ch and Motorola 6412

2005-03-10 Thread Ian Forde
On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 11:10 -0600, Robert Kulagowski wrote: > > Has anyone had any luck changing channels on the > > Motorola 6412? Mine (Comcast SF bay area) returns > > completely different vendor ID (0x4063) and > > strange model ID (0x) > > Check the patches that Ian just posted to

Re: [mythtv-users] (resend again) 6200ch and Motorola 6412

2005-03-10 Thread Ian Forde
(works much better if I actually *ATTACH* the patch. ;) ) And send it to the right list. ;) On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 23:59 -0800, Peter van Rensburg wrote: > Hi > > Has anyone had any luck changing channels on the > Motorola 6412? Mine (Comcast SF bay area) returns > completely different vendor ID

Re: [mythtv-users] (resend) 6200ch and Motorola 6412

2005-03-10 Thread Ian Forde
(works much better if I actually *ATTACH* the patch. ;) ) On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 23:59 -0800, Peter van Rensburg wrote: > Hi > > Has anyone had any luck changing channels on the > Motorola 6412? Mine (Comcast SF bay area) returns > completely different vendor ID (0x4063) and > strange model ID

Re: [mythtv-users] 6200ch and Motorola 6412

2005-03-10 Thread Ian Forde
On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 23:59 -0800, Peter van Rensburg wrote: > Hi > > Has anyone had any luck changing channels on the > Motorola 6412? Mine (Comcast SF bay area) returns > completely different vendor ID (0x4063) and > strange model ID (0x) > > Nothing happened sending the command :(

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: error compiling 0.17 - FC3

2005-03-08 Thread Ian Forde
On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 15:31 -0500, Colin Smillie wrote: > On Tue, 8 Mar 2005 17:24:31 +0100, Axel Thimm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 09:13:32AM -0500, Colin Smillie wrote: > > > On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:48:14 -0800, Bruce Markey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > wrote: > > > > Keit

[mythtv-users] libmpeg2 decoding causing prebuffer pauses on amd64

2005-03-07 Thread Ian Forde
I've recently upgraded my myth boxes to CVS from March 5 from Feb. 27. Since then, HDTV decoding on FC3-x86_64 has generated lots of prebuffering pauses when using libmpeg2. Turning that setting off allows normal CPU usage and playback. So yes - I can watch 24 in HD tonight. ;) So this is just a

Re: [mythtv-users] Firewire for recording and channel changing

2005-03-07 Thread Ian Forde
On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 16:07 +, Peter Judge wrote: > Hi, > > As of 0.17, I can record from a STB via firewire. I can also change > channels on my STB via firewire. Can I do both contemporaneously? > Yep! -Ian ___ mythtv-users mailing list

Re: [mythtv-users] more info on blue screen

2005-03-06 Thread Ian Forde
On Sun, 2005-03-06 at 11:53 -0800, Tim Swortzel wrote: > I just posted about a blue screen when trying to watch > a recording. I've included that below. I have just > noticed something else. When I run mythfrontend from > an xterm, and try to watch something, I get the > following messages.. 1.

[mythtv-users] mythvideo list mode crash fixed for amd64

2005-03-05 Thread Ian Forde
Just wanted to say thanks for the fix to mythvideo's list mode crash on amd64. I just upgraded to CVS and it's working fine. I saw the commit and assume that fixed it. Now if I could only get my nforce3 chipset to do ac3 passthrough with ALSA... ;) -I __

Re: [mythtv-users] DV Recording via IEEE-1394 Firewire with MythTV

2005-03-05 Thread Ian Forde
On Sat, 2005-03-05 at 18:30 -0500, Rich Shumaker wrote: > So the corner is nice this time of year. > Wallpaper peeling and paint chipping that kind of thing. > > Okay so neither of you guys said go away in those words. You just > didn't answer my question and told me to use something else beside

Re: [mythtv-users] AMD64 FC3 MythTV 0.17 installation

2005-03-05 Thread Ian Forde
On Sat, 2005-03-05 at 23:33 +, Mike Ryan wrote: > Woah! Found them here: > http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora.us/fedora/fedora/3/i386/RPMS.os/ > > The system also complained about perl-Text-Kakasi-1.05-11.i386.rpm before the > mythtv-suite install would start. > > Thanks for all the help! Exce

Re: [mythtv-users] AMD64 FC3 MythTV 0.17 installation

2005-03-05 Thread Ian Forde
On Sat, 2005-03-05 at 22:48 +, Mike Ryan wrote: > Thanks again! > > I tried that, but yum doesn't seem to be aware of these as package names: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# yum install perl-Term-ReadKey > Setting up Install Process > Setting up Repos > at-stable 100% |

Re: [mythtv-users] AMD64 FC3 MythTV 0.17 installation

2005-03-05 Thread Ian Forde
On Sat, 2005-03-05 at 22:18 +, Mike Ryan wrote: > Ian > > Thanks for that - seemed to move me a little bit further. I now have all the > latest packages installed and am running from the stock Fedora kernel. Glad to help... > However, apt-get still complains about an insane number of unmet d

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: AMD64 FC3 MythTV 0.17 installation

2005-03-05 Thread Ian Forde
On Sat, 2005-03-05 at 12:06 -0800, Ian Forde wrote: > On Sat, 2005-03-05 at 12:04 -0800, Ian Forde wrote: > > On Sat, 2005-03-05 at 20:45 +0100, Axel Thimm wrote: > > > On Sat, Mar 05, 2005 at 11:22:04AM -0800, Ian Forde wrote: > > > > 7. Fix /etc/grub.conf to *N

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: AMD64 FC3 MythTV 0.17 installation

2005-03-05 Thread Ian Forde
On Sat, 2005-03-05 at 12:04 -0800, Ian Forde wrote: > On Sat, 2005-03-05 at 20:45 +0100, Axel Thimm wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 05, 2005 at 11:22:04AM -0800, Ian Forde wrote: > > > 7. Fix /etc/grub.conf to *NOT* boot the new 770_14 kernel. ( At this > > > point, the kern

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: AMD64 FC3 MythTV 0.17 installation

2005-03-05 Thread Ian Forde
On Sat, 2005-03-05 at 20:45 +0100, Axel Thimm wrote: > On Sat, Mar 05, 2005 at 11:22:04AM -0800, Ian Forde wrote: > > 7. Fix /etc/grub.conf to *NOT* boot the new 770_14 kernel. ( At this > > point, the kernel installed (770_14) would cause kernel oopses with the > > nvidia v

Re: [mythtv-users] AMD64 FC3 MythTV 0.17 installation

2005-03-05 Thread Ian Forde
On Sat, 2005-03-05 at 12:51 -0500, Edward Rudd wrote: > On Sat, 2005-03-05 at 11:38, Mike Ryan wrote: > > Hi > > [snip] > > > > > Should I be doing this another way for an AMD-64 installation? > > Yes, add atrpms as a yum source to yum or add it to up2date's source > file. OR install smart from

Re: [mythtv-users] remote lock all?

2005-03-02 Thread Ian Forde
On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 19:33 -0700, Dave Packham wrote: > Is there a way to use the remote to lock all functions like live tv > videos everything? I found the setup lock but nothing that would lock > it all up > > Like child proof it when they should be doing their homework? Heh - you could alway

Re: [mythtv-users] leading zero's in channel number

2005-03-01 Thread Ian Forde
On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 14:04 -0500, Pete Stagman wrote: > Hi, > Anyone know how to make myth add leading zero's if the channel is less > than 3 digits? I tried adding them to the channel table in > mythconverge, that doesn't seem to work. > > I'm using a dishnetwork hdtv box, it requires 3 digit ch

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

2005-02-26 Thread Ian Forde
On Sat, 2005-02-26 at 17:33 -0500, Gary M wrote: > This is a really nice summary for any tivo user who's thinking about > switching, or cohabiting with a Myth box. I'm just waiting for > Tive-to-go plugin for Myth and I'll be doing back flips. What - you mean like nuvexport? Or you mean as in exp

Re: [mythtv-users] OT: Cable co. refuses to offer firewire enabled box

2005-02-25 Thread Ian Forde
On Fri, 2005-02-25 at 10:03 -0700, Ryan wrote: > So I take my digital cable box to the Cable One office in Boise ID. The > lady says she doesnt know what firewire or 1394 connecters are and shows > me their "latest" box which doesnt have one. So I figure it will be > easier to speak with a tech; so

Re: [mythtv-users] 'importing' ReplayTV mpegs

2005-02-22 Thread Ian Forde
On Tue, 2005-02-22 at 17:21 +0800, Max Waterman wrote: > Hi again, > > I have many gigabytes of mpegs from my ReplayTV. Currently, I have just > symlinked the directory they are in, to /video/...something... > > Is there any better way to 'import' them? > > Each mpeg has a second file with it,

Re: [mythtv-users] Interesting note on firewire support... Note describing how to change channels and such

2005-02-18 Thread Ian Forde
On Fri, 2005-02-18 at 19:45 -0500, Byron Miller wrote: > I've been using the firewire support, and its impressive for the first > release but getting support for changing the channels and controlling > the cable box over firewire through mythtv would just be heaven.. Uh... look in mythtv/contrib/6

Re: [mythtv-users] Any way to get firewire enabled MythTV from apt-get?

2005-02-17 Thread Ian Forde
On Fri, 2005-02-18 at 01:03 -0500, Jeff Wormsley wrote: > I'm getting a 6200 box next week, and am rebuilding my setup in > preparation for it. I went ahead and set up a zaptoit channel listing > for the firewire box, but the mythbackend from Axels at-testing > complains that support isn't comp

Re: [mythtv-users] Looking for a cheap PCMCIA card

2005-02-16 Thread Ian Forde
On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 16:37 -0600, Jorge GuzmÃn wrote: > I want it as a TV capture card. Then you want a firewire card (assuming that you have a Cable box with firewire output). Now that I think about it... due to Firewire capture, it's possible to have a laptop backend! -I ___

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: [mythtv] TWC / Brighthouse SA3250 and firewire support

2005-02-09 Thread Ian Forde
On Wed, 2005-02-09 at 16:24 -0500, Joseph A. Caputo wrote: > So, for all intents & purposes, this would seem to mean that they can't > encrypt or 'constrain the resolution' of any channel that you could > otherwise get OTA in the clear. Any other content (i.e., most cable > networks) is fair ga

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: [mythtv] TWC / Brighthouse SA3250 and firewire support

2005-02-09 Thread Ian Forde
On Wed, 2005-02-09 at 15:57 -0500, Joseph A. Caputo wrote: > On Wednesday 09 February 2005 15:29, Ian Forde wrote: > > On Wed, 2005-02-09 at 13:10 -0500, Joseph A. Caputo wrote: > > > The cable companies are not required to provide HD resolution on the > > > Firewire

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: [mythtv] TWC / Brighthouse SA3250 and firewire support

2005-02-09 Thread Ian Forde
On Wed, 2005-02-09 at 13:10 -0500, Joseph A. Caputo wrote: > The cable companies are not required to provide HD resolution on the > Firewire output. Most likely any HD content will be transcoded inside > the cable box to, say, 480p before it's output over Firewire. As for > viewing, that's tot

Re: [mythtv-users] mythtv write up in australian financial review

2005-02-08 Thread Ian Forde
On Wed, 2005-02-09 at 04:41 +0100, Cecil Watson wrote: > Lachlan McIntosh wrote: > > >for those interested the article from the NYT is reprinted in the australian > >financial review today. > > > > > > > Frell that article. Yeah... they have no idea what the hazmata they're talking about. ;)

[mythtv-users] Re: [mythtv] TWC / Brighthouse SA3250 and firewire support

2005-02-08 Thread Ian Forde
On Tue, 2005-02-08 at 19:40 -0500, wheaty wrote: > I think I read somewhere that the firewire port can be disabled via > software by the cable company? Yes, but that would be *ILLEGAL*. ;) (And can we please keep this on -users?) -I ___ mythtv

[mythtv-users] Re: [mythtv] TWC / Brighthouse SA3250 and firewire support

2005-02-08 Thread Ian Forde
(moving this over to -users) On Tue, 2005-02-08 at 14:18 -0600, Bill Bradley wrote: > Hey All, > > I have been wanting to use the firewire port on the SA3250 to capture > video/ change channels for a while now, so I am stoked to see support > for this in cvs and the upcoming .17 version. I have

Re: [mythtv-users] [OT] - Ebaying Knoppmyth

2005-02-04 Thread Ian Forde
On Fri, 2005-02-04 at 15:35 -0500, Travis Osterman wrote: > I came across this while browsing ebay today: > > http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=7131344272 > > Is this just in bad taste, or is it against the GPL to sell copies of > the software? It's absolutely not against the GP

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: FC3 rpms, mythweb, apache, and 2G+ files

2005-02-03 Thread Ian Forde
On Thu, 2005-02-03 at 14:53 +0100, Axel Thimm wrote: > On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 08:14:01AM -0500, Mark J. Scheller wrote: > > On Thu, 2005-02-03 at 00:44 -0800, Chris Petersen wrote: > > > >>Has anyone had any luck rebuilding the FC3 rpms for apr, apache, php, > > > >>etc to include large file supp

Re: [mythtv-users] nforce3 ac3 (Was: OT:Anything wrong with using a 2.4.x kernel?)

2005-02-02 Thread Ian Forde
On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 22:08 -0800, Scott Alfter wrote: > It works just fine for me. AC3/DTS passthrough works for DVDs played by > xine (and a couple of HD clips I downloaded, which mythfrontend can be > tricked into playing), while PCM audio works for recordings. Sometimes > audio & video don't

Re: [mythtv-users] nforce3 ac3 (Was: OT:Anything wrong with using a 2.4.x kernel?)

2005-02-01 Thread Ian Forde
On Tue, 2005-02-01 at 20:07 +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 10:43:48AM -0800, Ian Forde wrote: > > Any chance you have the an onboard spdif with ac3 passthrough working > > with ALSA? I've got an AMD64 nforce3 motherboard and while I can route > >

Re: [mythtv-users] Response to the NYT article (petition)

2005-02-01 Thread Ian Forde
On Tue, 2005-02-01 at 01:18 -0600, Andy Long wrote: > My thought is it never hurts to gripe. Personally, I feel > technologically-curious people don't stand up enough for themselves. > It's bad enough to relish the "geek" persona, and accepting all the > negative stereotypes that come with it. B

Re: [mythtv-users] nforce3 ac3 (Was: OT:Anything wrong with using a 2.4.x kernel?)

2005-01-28 Thread Ian Forde
On Fri, 2005-01-28 at 12:17 -0500, Tim wrote: > I think it depends on your other hardware... Debian sarge with 2.6.8 is > working great for me on a gigabyte Nforce3 with a PVR250. I'm using ivtv > 2rc3. > > I had 2.4.26 had some problems with various nforce2 (and 3?) chipsets, I > think maybe .

Re: [mythtv-users] Looking for a *nix DAAP client & player w/Ogg support

2005-01-19 Thread Ian Forde
On Wed, 2005-01-19 at 15:12 -0500, Joseph A. Caputo wrote: > So, I've got my Myth box serving out my music collection with mfd. Now > I can use the mfe plugin (just for experimentation, mythmusic is still > more mature...), and I can listen to music via iTunes on my wife's > iBook. But, what d

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Mythtv on x86_64 SMP

2005-01-17 Thread Ian Forde
On Tue, 2005-01-18 at 00:59 +0100, Axel Thimm wrote: > On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 09:17:07AM -0800, Ian Forde wrote: > > The ugly: > > 1. Not a lot of people are going the x86_64 route. If you're planning > > on using Fedora Core 3, expect problems. Lots of problems. Yo

Re: [mythtv-users] Mythtv on x86_64 SMP

2005-01-16 Thread Ian Forde
On Sun, 2005-01-16 at 17:02 -0500, Tom wrote: > Ian Forde wrote: > > > The ugly: > > 1. Not a lot of people are going the x86_64 route. If you're planning > > on using Fedora Core 3, expect problems. Lots of problems. You may > > want to consider Gentoo.

Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV and TIVO integration

2005-01-13 Thread Ian Forde
On Thu, 2005-01-13 at 10:46 -0800, Fa Yoeu wrote: > 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 creat

Re: [mythtv-users] What NOT to do to your Myth box...

2005-01-13 Thread Ian Forde
On Thu, 2005-01-13 at 11:11 -0500, tommy wrote: > So now I have a web server but nothing to put on it... How about I replicate > my mythweb interface on the web server realtime so I can see whats going on > from work.. cool... So I hack up a little cgi script that looks like so: > > #!/bin/bash >

Re: [mythtv-users] Mythtv on x86_64 SMP

2005-01-12 Thread Ian Forde
On Wed, 2005-01-12 at 10:21 -0500, Tom wrote: > Hi all, >I've been following the list for a while trying to gather info on > getting myth installed on a x86_64smp machine. I started this almost a > year ago, and have been waiting for progress on the ivtv driver to catch > up with my 64-bit s

Re: [mythtv-users] OT: Can IDE and SCSI mix?

2005-01-07 Thread Ian Forde
On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 23:37 -0600, Rob Greene wrote: > I've been browsing eBay for potential backend machines. Older > dual-processor machines are continuously put up for sale. Most of them > also have SCSI drives... but the motherboard also supports IDE. > > While browsing HP documentation I came

Re: [mythtv-users] mythtivo module causes mythtv 0.16 cvs to segmentation fault

2005-01-06 Thread Ian Forde
On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 20:30 -0600, James M. MacLaren wrote: > Has anyone had any luck with mythtivo under mythtv 0.16 cvs. I have got > it to compile okay but when I highlight my tivo SA series 2 from the > tivo menu I don't see any shows and then if I hit enter the frontend > segmentation fau

Re: [mythtv-users] Mythtv CVS possibly borked on amd64

2004-12-28 Thread Ian Forde
On Tue, 2004-12-28 at 19:04 -0800, Chris Germano wrote: > I'm trying to compile Mythtv CVS on an amd64 and it's failing. It compiled > fine a few weeks ago so I don't know what's up. I tried the -fPIC thing in > my cflags but it still did this, and i did make clean, etc. I'm running > Gentoo 64

Re: [mythtv-users] Audio popping and skipping

2004-12-27 Thread Ian Forde
B RAM. Resource usage on both machines looks fine. Running over > a 100Mbps wired network. Myth version .16 on Fedora Core 3. Any > ideas? If you're using a SBLive, you might want to downgrade your alsa to 1.0.5a. Version 1.0.6 is known to stutter with SPDIF... -

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: How do you clear a Transaction Check Error?

2004-12-26 Thread Ian Forde
On Sun, 2004-12-26 at 20:27 -0800, Chuck Rice wrote: > >Looks like the bug in yum is still there ... :/ > > > >Please use apt. > > The full output from apt-get is rather large, I can send it if you > want. But it starts with: I just went through the same thing. I ended up using smart instead.

[mythtv-users] List view in mythvideo causes frontend crash on x86_64

2004-12-26 Thread Ian Forde
Hi - With CVS as of about 1 hour ago, I have my default view of mythvideo set to Browse mode. So when I hit 'm' to pull up the menu to switch to List mode, the frontend crashes without any errors. Is anyone else seeing this? I can't tell how long this has been happening, as I just put in a new

Re: [mythtv-users] change channels on dct6200 via firewire?

2004-12-23 Thread Ian Forde
On Thu, 2004-12-23 at 08:00 -0500, Justin Miller wrote: > Rumor has it, you folks have been able to control channel changing on the > dct6200 via the firewire port? Is there truth to this? If so, where can I > get the code/plugin/whatever? mythtv/contrib/6200ch.c And don't forget to read the myth

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