Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV w/ Mac OS X Frontend

2006-01-10 Thread James Howison
On Jan 10, 2006, at 5:22 PM, Michael Cowell wrote: Michael Fox wrote: On 1/11/06, Matt Jordan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I currently have a MythTV (on Ubuntu) box that is working well but I wanted to try to run the Myth frontend from an OS X box. I downloaded two different builds

[mythtv-users] upgrading ivtv driver in knoppmyth?

2006-01-05 Thread James Howison
I'm running Knoppmyth R22 and would like to try the ivtv 0.4.1 drivers while trouble shooting tuning on one of the tuners of my PVR500 (/dev/video1 is not working well). Has anyone successfully done this yet? Could you share the steps. I believe that it involves both a movement and

Re: [mythtv-users] Uncool surprise... coming back from vacation, shows not recorded.

2005-12-01 Thread James Howison
On Dec 1, 2005, at 12:45 AM, Jeff Simpson wrote: Another mistake that might be tough to find is a schedule discrepancy. This sunday, for example, the football game ran long and Family Guy failed to record (combined with my idea of hey, I'll tell it not to record and instead just tune to it

Re: [mythtv-users] Uncool surprise... coming back from vacation, shows not recorded.

2005-12-01 Thread James Howison
On Dec 1, 2005, at 4:50 PM, Bruce Markey wrote: James Howison wrote: ... I'd like to be able to say If it's Football or Golf (final day) then record 20% longer than usual (The subtitle for golf usually says final day and it's only then that there's likely to be a play-off). Uh

[mythtv-users] OT: seeking myth2ipod author

2005-11-29 Thread James Howison
I'm trying to email the author of the script at http:// www.myth2ipod.com/ but the email bounced (550). Just a little bug fix :) I've tried a message on the knoppmyth board, and a whois lookup but no dice, so ... Mr Myth2ipod, if you are out there, you might want to fix the email address

[mythtv-users] nuvexport 'x' outside of string error

2005-11-26 Thread James Howison
I'm attempting to convert some of my MPEG2 PVR-500 recordings to something smaller and I think that nuvexport is the way to do this. I'm running Knoppmyth R5A22 with nuvexport 0.2 0.20050922.svn. I'm trying to run in interactive mode to get used to the program but get this error after

Re: [mythtv-users] 18.1 frontend on OS X (localhost:6543 regardless of mysql.txt)

2005-11-14 Thread James Howison
Progress made below... On Nov 13, 2005, at 8:48 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 07:25:13PM -0500, James Howison wrote: I'm pretty sure that this is set correctly already (with Mysql accessible from the network, and the MasterServerIP set correctly). What exactly are you

Re: [mythtv-users] 18.1 frontend on OS X (localhost:6543 regardless of mysql.txt) *solved*

2005-11-14 Thread James Howison
Thanks Chris, On Nov 14, 2005, at 7:10 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 06:11:35PM -0500, James Howison wrote: It was asking for config where the hostname=MinistryOfInformation.local which is indeed my laptop. As an experiment I changed the LocalHostName in mysql.txt

[mythtv-users] 18.1 frontend on OS X (localhost:6543 regardless of mysql.txt)

2005-11-13 Thread James Howison
Hi all, I can't get a frontend to work on Mac OS X. Everything is working fine on linux and the little mediamvp (love that box :), so I know that Myth is setup and remotely accessible, but the OS X frontend seems to always want to contact localhost, regardless of the settings in the

Re: [mythtv-users] 18.1 frontend on OS X (localhost:6543 regardless of mysql.txt)

2005-11-13 Thread James Howison
On Nov 13, 2005, at 6:49 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 06:20:03PM -0500, James Howison wrote: I can't get a frontend to work on Mac OS X. Everything is working fine on linux and the little mediamvp (love that box :), so I know that Myth is setup and remotely accessible

Re: [mythtv-users] Multiple video display

2005-09-02 Thread James Howison
Star TV in singapore has a mode where it shows all the channels at once on the screen and you highlight the one you want and get the audio for that. Any idea how it is doing that? I mean surely there's only one tuner in the cable box? I'm assuming that even if the MythTV software

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-500 question

2005-08-31 Thread James Howison
Sounds like a good opportunity for an old fashioned swap ;) --J On Aug 31, 2005, at 7:45 AM, Marty Ravell wrote: I have a mate with an NTSC PVR-350 but who has just relocated to Australia (PAL land). Any idea if the reverse is also possible? Regards Marty -Original Message- From:

[mythtv-users] International configuration

2005-08-30 Thread James Howison
Here's what I want to do, at least in the medium term. I'd appreciate any guidance as to possibility/resources/experiences. Say I have a box here in the states and a box in australia. I'd like to run encoders on both and frontends in both places. I'd like both frontends to have the

Re: [mythtv-users] capture card

2005-08-29 Thread James Howison
Awesome, thanks Joshua. Great to know. This is just going to be a backend so I think I should be golden. On Aug 29, 2005, at 5:32 AM, Joshua King wrote: Hi James, On 29/8/05 7:58 AM, James Howison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know if the minimum system requirements listed

Re: [mythtv-users] capture card

2005-08-28 Thread James Howison
On Aug 28, 2005, at 12:29 PM, Michael T. Dean wrote: Jarod Watkins wrote: I was wondering what is the cheapest mythtv compatible capture card with mpeg2 encoding? I have a satellite receiver, so a s- video connector is required. Thanks ahead. I would recommend using a Hauppauge (even if