Re: [mythtv-users] hd-3000 recording issues while and watching recordings from pvr-500

2006-01-27 Thread James Armstrong
>>Sounds like exactly the same problem as the one I'm having. Just one >>question, does this happen > > to your live tv from HD-3000 and recordings while watch other recordings from > HD-3000? > >>DS > > > Actually I havn't even tried that scenario yet. My guess is that it would > cause the

Re: [mythtv-users] ProjectGrayhem-wide theme version 1.2

2006-01-20 Thread James Armstrong
Justin Hornsby wrote: > I fully understand the issues brought about by the miracle of overscan > - infact I think I even remember pointing it out to somebody a long > time ago. > Probably to me ;) > I've made a classic mistake in not practising what I preach, but I aim > to put this right event

Re: [mythtv-users] ProjectGrayhem-wide theme version 1.2

2006-01-19 Thread James Armstrong
> > >>Finally, AVIA claims that I have less than 5% overscan. Even with >>that little, the Watch Recording screen barely fits -- I can only see >>half of the up/down arrows. > > > This will require you to adjust the GUI size in 'appearance' setup. > Either that or I'll need to rework all the

[mythtv-users] pauses during hd playback

2006-01-17 Thread James Armstrong
I have been running mythtv for almost two years now and until recently everything has been fine. It seems that in the last few months, when I playback HD content on the frontend it will seem to skip a few seconds and show mpeg noise on the screen. When the backend starts recording, it gets

Re: [mythtv-users] Project Grayhem <> theme now available

2006-01-05 Thread James Armstrong
On my screen most of the screens with boxes or selections are right at the left of the screen and are getting chopped off due to over- scan. The placement of the menu and the mythTV logo are perfect. The Watch Recordings, Guide, Video Manager, etc the left side gets chopped off. When I was w

Re: [mythtv-users] Project Grayhem <> theme now available

2006-01-05 Thread James Armstrong
How do I get the background that is shown on the main pages of the wide theme examples on your website? Mine is like the one on the 'Watch Recordings' screen for everything where it is mostly black with a grey bar at the top and bottom. I like the one that is shown with the grey / black gra

Re: [mythtv-users] Need help / suggestion for building a myth box

2005-12-14 Thread James Armstrong
Regarding MythMusic, I'll refrain from saying anything as I have nothing nice to say. If there are users out there who listen to a lot of music (as many hours/day as TV) and use MythMusic, I implore them to come forward and share their success stories. I don't know what you mean by success

Re: [mythtv-users] how many concurrent recordings possible? in HD?

2005-12-13 Thread James Armstrong
Hi- My mythtv system has 1xPVR-350, 1xPVR-500 using ivtv 0.4, and a newly added DViCO FusionHDTV 5 Lite using DVB drivers. 1x200GB seagate+1x300GB seagate HD LVM with XFS for /video and 1x40GB seagate for FC4 OS. I have DMA enabled. DVI out via fx5200 at 1280x768. Chaintech nforce2 mobo, AMD290

Re: [mythtv-users] vonage caller id

2005-11-29 Thread James Armstrong
Matt wrote: On 1/28/05, James Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I don't know how many people here are using Vonage for phone service. I have a perl script I hacked up that monitors the sip traffic to the vonage phone and alerts my mythfrontend via mythnotify to the osd when

Re: [mythtv-users] New mythtv theme

2005-11-21 Thread James Armstrong
Justin Hornsby wrote: Right. New screenshots at http://homepage.ntlworld.com/justin.hornsby2/images/new/ And there's a new archive here: http://homepage.ntlworld.com/justin.hornsby2/images/new/ProjectGrayhem.tar.bz2 Has this gone away? I am playing catch-up and just get a 404, page not

Re: [mythtv-users] Announce: Myth EPG Searching Utility

2005-11-15 Thread James Armstrong
Nevermind, I found another version in the path before the new java. - James James wrote: g reports appreciated. Looks good except all I get is (using java from link): Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: mythrecommend s/Main (Unsupported major.minor version 48

Re: [mythtv-users] Announce: Myth EPG Searching Utility

2005-11-15 Thread James Armstrong
Neil wrote: Hi All, I've just finished coding up a little Java utility that allows you to create and store a list of words or phrases of things that you would normally be interested in watching. You can then search the EPG, and any program that contains any of your phrases in either the title,

Re: [mythtv-users] Playback freezes

2005-09-15 Thread James Armstrong
Darren Hart wrote: Also, whenever I fast forward or skip forward the playback will stop. The info says play, but it isn't. I have to press Pause twice to get it to start playing again. While it completely freezes only occaisionally, it always enters this weird play/pause state. --Darren

Re: [mythtv-users] Archiving Shows to DVD

2005-08-29 Thread James Armstrong
The scripts assume that the original files are mpeg2 in a DVD comaptible resolution (720x576 for pal and 720x480 for ntsc; 704x576 and 704x480 are also mentioned in the standard and should work, as should a few low-res settings). Transcoding differet formats is on the radar for the scripts, but n

Re: [mythtv-users] Zap2it question.

2005-08-25 Thread James Armstrong
After reading this thread, I realized that Zap2it didn't send me an e-mail notification that my subscription was going to expire. Anybody else? It expires today. Thanks! When your subscription expires depends on when you last completed a survey, so it's different for each user. You can fin

Re: AW: [mythtv-users] Archiving Shows to DVD

2005-08-12 Thread James Armstrong
This version uses projectx for remux and commercial cutting. Cutting is NOT frame accurate, projectx rounds to the nearest GOP. Avidemux2 (which was used for cutting previosuly) doesn't round - it just produces broken output files if your cutpoints aren't on a Keyframe. Requirements: - projectx

Re: [mythtv-users] De-interlacing on a non-interlaced display

2005-07-15 Thread James Armstrong
I have noticed similar issues on my ATSC / QAM MythTV box. When deinterlacing is on, I get weird effects on the OSD. I also see effects on progressive content (720p stations, like Fox-HD, ABC-HD, and ESPN-HD). I had assumed that the de-interlacing would adapt to the video source, and turn off

Re: [mythtv-users] New wide theme

2005-07-10 Thread James Armstrong
http://www.thearmstrongs.org/mythtv/background.jpg http://www.uwsp.edu/it/telecomm/utdlr/tutorials/tvgraphics/fortv.htmhttp://scanline.ca/overscan/--  bjmI read the article. From what I read the main point I think you are trying to show is there needs to be a larger area around the background where

Re: [mythtv-users] New wide theme

2005-07-10 Thread James Armstrong
On Jul 10, 2005, at 10:01 AM, James Armstrong wrote: I have started a new wide format theme for mythtv. I have the main menus done. That was the easy part. I have to work on the other screens now. That will take longer. I am calling this theme GreenFlare-wide. I don't know if I am

[mythtv-users] New wide theme

2005-07-10 Thread James Armstrong
I have started a new wide format theme for mythtv. I have the main menus done. That was the easy part. I have to work on the other screens now. That will take longer. I am calling this theme GreenFlare-wide. I don't know if I am going to do any custom watermarks yet. I used the icons from t

Re: [mythtv-users] nuvexport and cutlist

2005-06-16 Thread James Armstrong
Chris Petersen wrote: I have mythcommflag run automatically after every recording. From "watch recordings" I can go into edit mode, hit "z" and here they are, commercials. If I do this, I can run nuvexport-mpeg2cut --cutlist. But if I don't load commercials in the edit list, nuvexport says "No

[mythtv-users] cd rip problems

2005-06-15 Thread James Armstrong
I used to be able to rip audio CD's from mythfrontend. Now it detects the cd being inserted and takes me to the Optical disk menu and I select Import CD. From there is shows me the correct CD cddb information and the tracks, but when I click Import it hangs. The frontend is showing: cannot get

Re: [mythtv-users] Considering MythTV, curious about relativeWAF.

2005-06-13 Thread James Armstrong
Overall my wife is marginally happy. She is terrified to touch it because it crashes every time, well almost every time. So for me it is going to take time to get her more confident using it. Again, I must be the only dumbass on the list. Nah, I'm a dumbass too... just an inventive one

Re: [mythtv-users] Up and Down keys and seeking

2005-06-13 Thread James Armstrong
Daniel Segel wrote: Yeah, I initially found it strange as well, and the opposite of what I expected, but now I'm used to it. Still, if it were easy to reverse them then I would. Daniel Xiaotian Sun wrote: Hi, Is it just me or other people also find it counter-intuitive to bind Up key to

Re: [mythtv-users] [OT] *Real* High-Def TV!

2005-05-21 Thread James Armstrong
On May 21, 2005, at 4:11 PM, Brad Templeton wrote:On Sat, May 21, 2005 at 12:26:35PM -0400, Michael T. Dean wrote: One reason that I haven't yet purchased a high-definition TV is the fact that TV's being sold today do not fully support the ATSC standard.  Whereas the maximum resolution allowable in

Re: [mythtv-users] Cutlist to ProjectX format?

2005-05-20 Thread James Armstrong
There was a lot of talk about using ProjectX a while back, and I am pleased with the way it is working. THe only thing missing, is to get it to use the Myth cutlists. I guess the basis is that I don't understand what units the cutlists are stored in... In any case, I did this, with lots of bash m

Re: [mythtv-users] Dying Backend

2005-05-17 Thread James Armstrong
Another time the backend dies is if I've been using Mythweb, that seems to cause more crashes than it's sometimes worth (though I do prefer using Mythweb to locate shows that I want to record). does mythweb make the backend die for you only on the recorded_programs screen or on other screens as we

[mythtv-users] theme scale messed up after crash

2005-05-16 Thread James Armstrong
Does anyone have the problem of the theme scaling getting messed up after a crash on the frontend? My X starts at 1920x1080i then mythfrontend is set using xrandr to change the menu to 888x508. If mythfrontend crashes or if it hangs and I restart X I run into the problem where mythfrontend star

Re: [mythtv-users] CommFlagging on another machine possible?

2005-05-11 Thread James Armstrong
Thomas Börkel wrote: HI! Can I run commflagging of a show on another machine than the backend, that recorded the show? If yes, is that also true for realtime commflagging? Why would I want to do this? Because I have another machine, that has more horse power than my backend. Thomas I know you

Re: [mythtv-users] is there a simple recording status light avaliable?

2005-05-04 Thread James Armstrong
Basically, the software runs as root on all your backends. It can monitor free disk space, EPG data remaining, tuner status (in-use or free), and job status (mythtranscode, mythcommflag, etc). The program gets its settings from 4 new tables (which will soon be controlled via MythWeb), and stor

Re: [mythtv-users] How to record HD and SD versions of same show

2005-04-19 Thread James Armstrong
David Shay wrote: I have some HDTV-capable frontends and some non-HDTV capable frontends. I would like to setup a "record all showings on this channel" entry for a series, one for the HD channel and one for the SD channel, thereby getting two non-duplicated versions of every episode, one in HD an

Re: [mythtv-users] mythweb in 0.18

2005-04-15 Thread James Armstrong
Shawn Asmussen wrote: I'm still experiencing problems in 0.18 with mythweb causing the mythbackend process on my master box to die. The simplest way for me to make it break, is to try and delete a recording. I deleted 5 or 6 programs using mythweb after upgrading to 0.18, and each attempt cau

Re: [mythtv-users] Dishnetwork black band

2005-04-15 Thread James Armstrong
Calvin Harrigan wrote: Does anyone here using dishnetwork notice a vertical black band on the right side of the screen when recording with a PVR-250? I recently move from cable to dish and everything went off with out a hitch, even lirc worked the first time through. The only problem is a blac

Re: [mythtv-users] commercial flagging idea - commercial"fingerprinting"

2005-04-14 Thread James Armstrong
Ideally I would like to see all 3 options eventually. Option 1 is nice if you just want to get an entire overview of recommended shows. Option 2 is what I originally had in mind, but Option 3 seems to make a lot of sense too. Either option 2 or 3 would be a great start. The mythrecommend script at

Re: [mythtv-users] Digital Audio out with Via chipset

2005-04-13 Thread James Armstrong
are not working on the digital out. It works fine using the analog IE: using the myth volume up and down changes the level. But when I use the digital I get the full volume and no way to control it. I'm thought S/PDIF is always at maximum volume (or better: there is no volume). At least my EPIA i

[mythtv-users] playback problems after cvs update

2005-04-09 Thread James Armstrong
I have been running cvs for some time now and just updated from end of march to cvs as of April 8th. Now playback is not working well at all. When I first start a show the total time of the recording is something like 318:00:00, and if I pause it then unpause it shows 58:00, then it keeps chang

[mythtv-users] problem with gui size after crash

2005-04-08 Thread James Armstrong
I had something happen three times recently that has not happened in the past. I am using XRandr to change resolutions. The main gui is 888x508 or something like that. If mythfrontend crashed or goes away it gets stuck in thinking the screen is bigger than it really is. When I restart mythfront

Re: [mythtv-users] Fw: LIRC is killing me!!!

2005-03-31 Thread James Armstrong
J. Scott wrote: Bingo, Todd- Thanks a million! Here are the steps I took, for the benefit of others... 1. I removed all of the lirc references from my modprobe.conf file 2. I edited one line in /etc/init.d/lircd (approximately the 10th line) I replaced the line: daemon lircd $LIRC

Re: [mythtv-users] How well does commercial detection work?

2005-03-29 Thread James Armstrong
Ian Campbell wrote: On Mon, 2005-03-28 at 10:34 -0800, Brad Templeton wrote: I suspect a better behaviour when you hit End (Skip to next commercial mark) if there is no next mark (or the next mark is end of program) to not seek at all, giving a message like the not-flagged message. The user can

Re: [mythtv-users] How much horse power?

2005-03-18 Thread James Armstrong
Mario L wrote: 500tb seems like quite a bit of space, does autoexpire ever run for you? The questions: 1) Do I need a powerhouse frontend to display HDTV streamed from the backend over gigabit ethernet? I was hoping to get away with a modest CPU to keep the box cool. 2) Any issues with my choice

Re: [mythtv-users] How much horse power?

2005-03-18 Thread James Armstrong
Larry Sanderson wrote: I'm hoping to put together my dream system in the next couple of weeks. It will look like this: Home built backend - Athlon 64, 3800 - 2GB Ram - Lot's of hard-drives (4x250M = 1TB) - WinTV PVR 150 - pchdtv HD-3000 A fanless frontend from www.hushtechnologies.com The questi

Re: [mythtv-users] Blue band right side of picture

2005-03-17 Thread James Armstrong
Mark L. Cukier wrote: I just switched from my nVidia TV-out back to my PVR350. The TV Quality is much better... however, now I seem to be having this same problem!!! I have a thin blue line down the rightside of my screen, with a thicker black (dead) area to the right of that. overscan doesn't

Re: [mythtv-users] record HDTV over Satellite is now possible?

2005-03-16 Thread James Armstrong
Jim Oltman wrote: Where is this written up at? Vincent K. Britton wrote: They are around $600 - $999. While that is expensive, its all relative when you consider that a DirecTV receiver with Tivo is $999. Vince Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] record HDTV over Satellite is now possible? There is a lo

Re: [mythtv-users] record HDTV over Satellite is now possible?

2005-03-16 Thread James Armstrong
Vincent K. Britton wrote: They are around $600 - $999. While that is expensive, its all relative when you consider that a DirecTV receiver with Tivo is $999. Vince Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] record HDTV over Satellite is now possible? There is a lot of information about these boxes at the a

Re: [mythtv-users] possible mythweb cutlist editor

2005-03-15 Thread James Armstrong
Matt S. wrote: I think this is great! It's funny because just the other day I was thinking "I wish I could edit cutlists via the web interface"... what timing! I'm not saying this should be a replacement, as it'll always be easier to do this at the machine, but for quick jobs where you want to d

[mythtv-users] possible mythweb cutlist editor

2005-03-15 Thread James Armstrong
I have a hackjob (don't know much about php) attempt at the beginnings of a cutlist editor. It is far off right now. If a show on the Recorded_Programs page has been commercial flagged it will have a link to a commercial cutlist editor. It shows a bargraph showing where the commercials are mark

Re: [mythtv-users] MythWeather and Today

2005-03-14 Thread James Armstrong
James, I agree with your order statement. I have however seen the today forecast recently. It seems the forcast it shows in that place may be time dependant. Late in the day Like after 6PM it seems to show the forcast for tomorrow. Much earlier than that and I get today's forecast? Maybe there is

Re: [mythtv-users] MythWeather and Today

2005-03-14 Thread James Armstrong
Am I crazy, or is MythWeather missing what I would consider an important piece, today's forecast? I see the current temperatures/conditions, but nowhere does it show today's High and Low temperatures, if there will be showers later, etc. It has this for "Tomorrow", and then the extended forec

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: mythtv backend on a headless fileserver

2005-03-09 Thread James Armstrong
On Mar 9, 2005, at 9:41 PM, Jarod Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 09 March 2005 18:21, Bryan Halter wrote: How else are you going to run the setup utility? Until someone writes something like an ncurses-based setup utility, I think folks are SOL. [...] Would a ncurses based mythsetup be out of the que

Re: [mythtv-users] mythweb causing backend to crash (Remote mythweb)

2005-03-08 Thread James Armstrong
I did some more testing since I posted this and found if I activate/deactivate programs from the scheduled recordings page it also crashes. How does mythweb communicate? Does it interact with the DB directly or does it talk to the backend? I was able to crash the backend again with verbose loggi

Re: [mythtv-users] Remote mythweb

2005-03-08 Thread James Armstrong
Will Dormann wrote: Bryan Halter wrote: I'm running mythweb on a remote machine (not the masted backend), when I delete a program through mythweb it crashes the master backend. Any suggestions? Are you running 0.17? Did 0.16 have the same problem? -WD This has just started happening to me also

Re: [mythtv-users] Anyone else having problems ripping new movies?

2005-03-08 Thread James Armstrong
Ivor Hewitt wrote: Peter Valdemar Morch wrote: john roberts homepagez-at-lycos.com |Lists| wrote: I'm surprised I haven't seen this posted yet - but from google-ing around I found there is a new encryption method being used on some of the latest movies. This seems to prevent libdvdcss (1.2.8) fro

Re: [mythtv-users] 1hr show == 66 minutes?

2005-03-07 Thread James Armstrong
Andrew Gallatin wrote: Andy Rabin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been seeing this as well. I did a search on the forum, and found similar problems that seemed to be fixed by doing an error check on the mythconverg database, and then re-commercial flagging the shows. After doing all that, my proble

Re: [mythtv-users] Commercial Skip

2005-03-03 Thread James Armstrong
While I'm writing, I have a wishlist request: it'd be nice to be able to have the automatic skipping start 1 or 2 seconds after the beginning of the commercial (the number should be configurable and could default to zero, or course). The reason is that sometimes the skips are so perfect that I c

Re: [mythtv-users] Any interest in a Dish TV/lirc hardware hack?

2005-02-24 Thread James Armstrong
Dan Wilga wrote: I have two Dish 311 receivers. Rather than deal with an IR blaster that either requires an ugly LED attached to the two units, or a blaster that is subject to interference, I made a really cheap (about $15) hardware modification that allows me to make a hardwired connection dire

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Single most frustrating thing about MythTV...

2005-02-16 Thread James Armstrong
I tried that and could not get it to work. Transcode had problems. As it is I think that code really wasn't ready to be fully released. Hopefully someone will get it there sometime. I just looked at the mythtranscode code and it looks like support for MPEG2 to MPEG2 is still there. I haven't

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Single most frustrating thing about MythTV...

2005-02-16 Thread James Armstrong
I remember way back in the days, I think .13, .14 when I first started with MythTV, there was a setting in Transcoders to go from MPEG2 to MPEG2. I used it all the time because I wanted to archive to DVD's. Somewhere around .14 it was removed. I think you can still hack the database and change it

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Single most frustrating thing about MythTV...

2005-02-16 Thread James Armstrong
Myth needs the functionality to cut commericals from Mpeg 2 and keep the format Mpeg 2, but if you've perused the developer list some you'll find that quite a few have taken quite a stab and it and have not been able to achieve solid results. This problem is a tough nut to crack. I believe an int

Re: [mythtv-users] Make card unavailable for automatic recording unless manually selected?

2005-02-11 Thread James Armstrong
Nate Carlson wrote: I'm still playing with my new Air2PC card; I get rather frequent errors in recordings with it that I am fairly sure are due to my PCI bus being overloaded (7 hard drives in software RAID5 plus the Air2PC card don't seem to be a good combo!). In any case, until I get that pro

Re: [mythtv-users] Program Info, MythTV and Air2PC

2005-02-11 Thread James Armstrong
Tom E. Craddock, Jr. wrote: James Armstrong wrote: Neil wrote: Hey guys, I'm using Air2pc card to capture OTA. I'm really wondering why almost half of the channels are showing as Unknown in Program Guide. Also when I watch those channels that are labeled Unknown in Watch TV, and I pr

Re: [mythtv-users] Program Info, MythTV and Air2PC

2005-02-11 Thread James Armstrong
Neil wrote: Hey guys, I'm using Air2pc card to capture OTA. I'm really wondering why almost half of the channels are showing as Unknown in Program Guide. Also when I watch those channels that are labeled Unknown in Watch TV, and I press "i" on the keyboard, there is no info shown on the rectangu

Re: [mythtv-users] dvb sound drops out?

2005-02-11 Thread James Armstrong
Ben de Luca wrote: Im having an issue with sound stopping half way through dvb recordings I am doing. Any Ideas how I can get some useful feed back to you guys so it might be fixed? I had this happen lastnight. About 15 minutes into The O.C. the audio stops. Doesn't come back. The recording ri

[mythtv-users] channel data for air2pc not filling

2005-02-04 Thread James Armstrong
Is there anything special I need to do to get guide data to fill for my Air2PC channels? I setup the source, linked it to zap2it and ran mythfilldatabase. Mythfilldatabase is putting in guide data for channels in the format of '2-1', but not the new channels for air2pc in the format of '21'. He

Re: [mythtv-users] Air2PC firmware location

2005-02-04 Thread James Armstrong
Tom E. Craddock, Jr. wrote: Howdy, Im running a 2.6.10 kernel from kernel.org, which has been compiled to use the hdtv3k as a DVB card. It also has support for the air2pc card as well. I just got mine air2pc card today and Im not sure where I should put the dvb-fe-nxt2002.fw. I thought it wa

Re: [mythtv-users] Re:MythBurn under Fedora?

2005-02-03 Thread James Armstrong
I've got it working on FC1 and FC2. And it works great. Head over to http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewforum.php?f=4&sid=625024b733d25d237471e6ee4cc8c8d4 and it's under MythTV BurnDVD 2. Dennis I have been using an older version mythburn for awhile and decided to try the latest version. I have

Re: [mythtv-users] vonage caller id

2005-02-03 Thread James Armstrong
Colin Smillie wrote: Sounds great, is the script posted somewhere? Thanks, Colin On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 13:43:42 -0500, James Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I don't know how many people here are using Vonage for phone service. I have a perl script I hacked up that monitors the sip

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

2005-02-03 Thread James Armstrong
And how far off the truth are they. I know the developers are very against file sharing. Yet there is a market for it. We already "share" our television recording around the house. From the article "[MYTHTV USERS] have plenty of more mischievous company". Then it starts talking about file

Re: [mythtv-users] Commercial Flagging Problem

2005-02-01 Thread James Armstrong
I have had this problem since day 1, live or watching recordings. I can't remember it happening lately since switching to alsa from oss. I will check and see. The audio would stutter when the scene went dark, like the end of a show before the credits when there was still audio or when going to a c

Re: [mythtv-users] vonage caller id

2005-02-01 Thread James Armstrong
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: "A MythAutomation module or something that would let you control your lighting, voice mail, temperature, etc. all from Myth." I had considered writing something like this before I started using MythTV, but as I started using MythTV, I just feel it would interrupt watchin

Re: [mythtv-users] Commercial Flagging Problem

2005-02-01 Thread James Armstrong
Chris: I've noticed while watching live tv that show going to really dark (but not black frame) scenes cause stuttering sound and jerky picture and cpu usage spike. (This is with vanilla .16) as soon as the scene brightens this goes away. Is this anything to do with commercial detection? (It ha

Re: [mythtv-users] Commercial Flagging Problem

2005-01-31 Thread James Armstrong
Adam Egger wrote: Hopefully I can have something coded and into CVS a week or two after 0.17 is out. In Germany they always repeat a few seconds (sometimes it's more than one minute) of a broadcast after the commercial break. Is it also done in US? It would be a good way to cut out commercia

[mythtv-users] mythmusic cvs not compiling

2005-01-31 Thread James Armstrong
I am having trouble compiling mythmusic from cvs. I am getting the following: C -I/usr/local/qt-x11-free-3.3.3/include -I/usr/X11R6/include -o cddecoder.o cddecoder.cpp cddecoder.cpp: In member function `void CdDecoder::flush(bool)': cddecoder.cpp:74: error: could not convert ` (*(this->Decode

Re: [mythtv-users] Commercial Flagging Problem

2005-01-31 Thread James Armstrong
Chris Pinkham wrote: On Sun, Jan 30, 2005 at 11:27:12AM -0500, Chris Pinkham wrote: commercials and eliminate false positives. I've got code started in my source tree to try using aspect ratio changes to help detect when commercials start and stop. There are also a few other detection ideas

Re: [mythtv-users] vonage caller id

2005-01-31 Thread James Armstrong
ve. On Jan 29, 2005, at 1:47 PM, James Armstrong wrote: I have the same problem with Mythnotify, it does not display while not watching tv. I have been thinking about trying to write something in the frontend that will just display a popup qt box that will do the same while in the menus. I&#x

Re: [mythtv-users] vonage caller id (file link)

2005-01-29 Thread James Armstrong
Michael Segulja wrote: Has the script not been posted anywhere or did I miss it? Have you made it available so we can try it out? Thanks, Michael Just cleaned it up some. Thinking about making it a C program instead of Perl script. Here are the Perl Modules needed: IO::Socket Net::Pcap NetPack

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: HDTV, Myth, HD-2000, HD-3000, questions galore (and hopefully answers from the smart people... )

2005-01-29 Thread James Armstrong
Brad Templeton wrote: On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 11:46:08PM -0600, Paul Leppert wrote: When watching livetv on ABC (HD 720p), I end up with 0% idle using top 72% cpu usage for mythfrontend 18% cpu for mythbackend 6% for X 1% for lirc_dev <1% for top and others When watching livetv

Re: [mythtv-users] vonage caller id

2005-01-29 Thread James Armstrong
Robert Rozman wrote: Hi, maybe this is slightly offtopic, but for those that have some more telephony needs around the house, there is quite interesting solution. Asterisk is open source PBX, that can be easily connected to outside scripts, that can then do mythnotifies (there are quite some script

Re: [mythtv-users] vonage caller id

2005-01-29 Thread James Armstrong
Maverick wrote: I don't know how many people here are using Vonage for phone service. I have a perl script I hacked up that monitors the sip traffic to the vonage phone and alerts my mythfrontend via mythnotify to the osd when there is an incoming call. It shows the caller name and number. This can

Re: [mythtv-users] vonage caller id

2005-01-29 Thread James Armstrong
John Williams wrote: Love my vonage, What is the real advantage to vonage. I've seen the ads, but haven't been compelled to research. Saving money. I have the $14.99 a month plan with Vonage. All calls are over the i

[mythtv-users] vonage caller id

2005-01-28 Thread James Armstrong
I don't know how many people here are using Vonage for phone service. I have a perl script I hacked up that monitors the sip traffic to the vonage phone and alerts my mythfrontend via mythnotify to the osd when there is an incoming call. It shows the caller name and number. This can be used if

Re: [mythtv-users] USB-UIRT and LIRC question - slightly off-topic

2005-01-28 Thread James Armstrong
The USB-UIRT appears as a normal usb-serial device in /dev. Lirc accesses this directly and implements the driver itself, so therefore there is no kernel module involved. Should be a matter of just installing/maybe patching & rebuilding lirc, certainly not the kernel. As to what to do to set one u

Re: [mythtv-users] MythLED Picture

2005-01-28 Thread James Armstrong
David Whyte wrote: A software version of the interface would be just sweet too. Imagine a FF plugin that sits on the toolbar, which has imitation LED's so I can see the status of my mythbox at work (without going to mythweb obviously). Would be cool :P (not as cool as real LED's of course :P) Dav

Re: [mythtv-users] MythLED Picture

2005-01-27 Thread James Armstrong
I would LOVE to do this... post some instructions on how to make it? Here is the location for viewing the MythLED box we made. http://www.thearmstrongs.org/images/mythled.jpg It uses a standard serial interface to communicate with the monitoring software. The software queries the mythbackend to get

[mythtv-users] MythLED Picture

2005-01-27 Thread James Armstrong
Here is the location for viewing the MythLED box we made. http://www.thearmstrongs.org/images/mythled.jpg It uses a standard serial interface to communicate with the monitoring software. The software queries the mythbackend to get the status of the tuners, free drive space, guide data, and voicem

Re: [mythtv-users] Archiving TV shows to DVD

2005-01-24 Thread James Armstrong
Jeff Simpson wrote: I record everything at 720x480 so that it matches up with the native resolution of DVD. Each 30 minute show is ~1.1gigs, so with commercials removed, 2 hours should easily fit on a 4.7 gig disc (I've done 3 30 min shows on a disc before I did commercial removing) - Jeff On Mon,

Re: [mythtv-users] Asus s-presso/MSI mega 180 compatability

2005-01-23 Thread James Armstrong
On Jan 22, 2005, at 12:56 PM, Ger Apeldoorn wrote: Hi, I'm shopping for a barebone pc, especially for Mythtv. I'd like one with a tuner and cdplayer that can operate while the OS is not running. Furthermore, only a nice colorful display makes my wife happy with such a thing. :) My eye has falle

Re: [mythtv-users] nvidia pci card X cpu utilization - Solved

2005-01-20 Thread James Armstrong
I have been searching through news groups and google for a couple of days now because X was using about 36-40% cpu utilization on playback of a 720x480, 5500 - 8000 recorded show. I am using the latest fedora core 3 kernel, and the 6629 nvidia drivers, with a Geforce4 440MX pci card. After all t

Re: [mythtv-users] FW: New Source Forge Project MythStreamTV

2005-01-20 Thread James Armstrong
Kenneth Hadley wrote: Heya folks, MythStreamTV looks like a cool add-in for MythTV but I'm having a heck of a time compiling ffmpeg both from ffmpeg-0.4.9-pre1.tar.gz and from current CVS. My MythTV v.0.16 box is running FedoraCore2 put together from Jarod's Guide. I'm compiling ffmpeg with t

Re: [mythtv-users] FW: New Source Forge Project MythStreamTV

2005-01-19 Thread James Armstrong
On Sun, 16 Jan 2005 22:38:00 +, Ashley Bostock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Right I've finially got it to compile with the following configure values: VLC Version 0.8.1: ./configure --disable-x11 --disable-xvideo --disable-gtk --disable-sdl --enable-ffmpeg --with-ffmpeg-mp3lame --wi

Re: [mythtv-users] Getting volume control to work

2005-01-18 Thread James Armstrong
Steven Christall wrote: Hi, I have a PVR350 + Soundblaster live outputting through SPDIF to my amp. I can't work out how to get the volume control in Myth to work! I think it is because I am using SPDIF out? or maybe some option I haven't found. The volume onscreen display goes up and down,

Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV and TIVO integration

2005-01-14 Thread James Armstrong
On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 10:46:30 -0800, Fa Yoeu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Here is the stuff that would be neat, wondering if it is possible or not: o Stream Tivo recorded programs to myth. o Stream Myth recorded programs to tivo. o Use tivo as a slave for myth so you can distribute the rec

Re: [mythtv-users] FW: New Source Forge Project MythStreamTV

2005-01-12 Thread James Armstrong
Bill Bradley wrote: ok...i am now getting this error...any ideas: Starting Stream of 1196_2005010803_20050108045000.nuv VLC media player 0.8.1 Janus [0228] dummy interface: Using the dummy interface module... [0234] main private: creating httpd [0243] mpeg_audio packetizer: MPGA cha

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: New Mac Mini

2005-01-12 Thread James Armstrong
George Styles wrote: It would still make a great frontend. On Jan 11, 2005, at 10:59 PM, Robert La Ferla wrote: I was just looking at the specs again. Correct me if I'm wrong but I don't think the Mac Mini has any PCI slots. So where would you put the TV tuner card? Is there a USB/Firewire tune

Re: [mythtv-users] FW: New Source Forge Project MythStreamTV

2005-01-12 Thread James Armstrong
David Whyte wrote: James, do you understand the line in the installation README about configuring vlc and ffmpeg? I think that is the problem I am having! I am currently getting VLC already alive, I'm going to whack it. THE PROCESS I MEAN! Starting Stream of 1000_2005011214_2005011215

Re: [mythtv-users] FW: New Source Forge Project MythStreamTV

2005-01-12 Thread James Armstrong
Does this imply it won't run with the latest CVS version of myth? Thanks, - Ciaran Only the install.sh script will fail. I am running the latest cvs mythweb and just patched the file myself and everything is working. - James ___ mythtv-users mail

Re: [mythtv-users] FW: New Source Forge Project MythStreamTV

2005-01-12 Thread James Armstrong
Currently I am using ffmpeg and VLC for transcoding/streaming. Soon I'll have a FAQ done. Sorry there are some missing details, I'll work on that. I'm not using RTSP, it's HTTP/MMS for now. But could be easily changed to do whatever you like. I would love to add tons of codecs and the option of pl

Re: [mythtv-users] FW: New Source Forge Project MythStreamTV

2005-01-11 Thread James Armstrong
I've released a new project on Source Forge called MythStreamTV. MythStreamTV is currently available in Alpha at http://mythstreamtv.sourceforge.net/ for download. MythStreamTV is a MythTV addon that allows live transcoding of nupplevideo to Windows Media Player/Mplayer and allows control via Myth

Re: [mythtv-users] Myth plugin - "DVDupe"?

2005-01-11 Thread James Armstrong
Has anyone got any plans for a DVD-copying plug-in? I have this great dual-layer burner itching to be used! Obviously I should also ask the myth-devel list, but I thought I'd get some user input first (and I'm not much of a programmer). I envision a plugin that presents a TOC of chapters, lang

Re: [mythtv-users] bad HDTV playback with new ffmpeg

2005-01-06 Thread James Armstrong
My playback of this clip is definitely weird... playback speed seems to oscillate about 2 times a second. Deinterlacing or not doesn't seem to make much of a difference. Thank you for the confirmation. So, I guess I just happen to be the only one with a local affiliate broadcasting ATSC that'

Re: [mythtv-users] MythMusic and vanishing songs

2005-01-06 Thread James Armstrong
Brandon Beattie wrote: For a week or so now I've been unable to find out why myth music would not display my songs. I've changed nothing on them for months actually. Any additional attempt to try to re-load and start from scratch and build a new song listing fails with a message when doing a scan

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