Re: [mythtv-users] MythBurn

2006-01-25 Thread Jim Reith
At 01:19 PM 1/25/2006, you wrote: >Jim Reith wrote: > > At 12:26 PM 1/25/2006, you wrote: > > > >> Any reason why MythBurn is not included in the mythtv-suite? It is one > >> of the things I was looking forward to the most with a MythTV. > >> > >

Re: [mythtv-users] MythBurn

2006-01-25 Thread Jim Reith
At 12:26 PM 1/25/2006, you wrote: >Any reason why MythBurn is not included in the mythtv-suite? It is one >of the things I was looking forward to the most with a MythTV. it's now included with the latest KnoppMyth ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv

Re: [mythtv-users] Ripping DVD hangs up

2006-01-24 Thread Jim Reith
At 02:44 PM 1/24/2006, you wrote: On 24 Jan 2006 11:38:20 -0800, Jim Reith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: http://www.pcworld.com/reviews/article/0,aid,119577,pg,4,00.asp "Despite efforts by media and drive vendors to improve compatibility, your double-layer DVD+R disc may not pla

Re: [mythtv-users] Ripping DVD hangs up

2006-01-24 Thread Jim Reith
At 02:27 PM 1/24/2006, you wrote: On 24 Jan 2006 11:23:40 -0800, Jim Reith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: At 02:11 PM 1/24/2006, you wrote: >During (roughly the middle) of ripping a DVD to my hard drive it locks >up my whole system. Has anyone else had this issue and what can

Re: [mythtv-users] Ripping DVD hangs up

2006-01-24 Thread Jim Reith
At 02:11 PM 1/24/2006, you wrote: >During (roughly the middle) of ripping a DVD to my hard drive it locks >up my whole system. Has anyone else had this issue and what can be done >to address it? Are you trying to rip a dual layer DVD in a single layer drive? >PVR-350 >Nvidia Geforce FX 5200 PCI (

Re: [mythtv-users] KnoppMyth R5A30

2006-01-06 Thread Jim Reith
At 02:26 PM 1/6/2006, you wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Jan 4, 2006, at 19.18, Cecil Watson wrote: Get it while it is hot! http://mysettopbox.tv http://mysettopbox.tv/knoppmyth.html http://mysettopbox.tv/CHANGELOG.txt Regards, Cecil I just installed R5A30, and all

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

2005-12-07 Thread Jim Reith
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 on my tv and it works! I'd like to do the same thing with my m

RE: [mythtv-users] Attractive cases

2005-11-12 Thread Jim Reith
I'm coming round to thinking that the nicest case out there is the >Accent HT-400 ( http://www.arisetec.com/products/HT-400.htm ) since it is full-size, well-designed, comes with built in IR hardware and an attractive panel to mount an VFD behind. It's not cheap, though. A close second seems

Re: [mythtv-users] KnoppMyth R5A22 seriously broken (was: RE: Mythtv -0.18.1 using protocol 15)

2005-11-03 Thread Jim Reith
At 02:19 PM 11/3/2005, you wrote: On Thursday 03 November 2005 02:05 pm, Jim Reith wrote: > At 01:51 PM 11/3/2005, you wrote: > >On 03 Nov 2005 09:39:30 -0800, Jim Reith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > At 11:04 AM 11/3/2005, you wrote: > in the packages put togethe

Re: [mythtv-users] KnoppMyth R5A22 seriously broken (was: RE: Mythtv -0.18.1 using protocol 15)

2005-11-03 Thread Jim Reith
At 01:51 PM 11/3/2005, you wrote: On 03 Nov 2005 09:39:30 -0800, Jim Reith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 11:04 AM 11/3/2005, you wrote: > > > >The version of ivtv distributed has absolutely nothing to do with the version > >of mythtv in the distribution. > >

Re: [mythtv-users] KnoppMyth R5A22 seriously broken (was: RE:Mythtv-0.18.1 using protocol 15)

2005-11-03 Thread Jim Reith
At 01:35 PM 11/3/2005, you wrote: On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 13:15 -0500, Isaac Richards wrote: Sure.  I can pretty easily fix this by putting up a big "DO NOT USE KNOPPMYTH R5A22, IT WILL NOT BE SUPPORTED" posting on the main page of the mythtv website.  I don't particularly want to do that, but I

Re: [mythtv-users] KnoppMyth R5A22 seriously broken (was: RE: Mythtv -0.18.1 using protocol 15)

2005-11-03 Thread Jim Reith
At 11:04 AM 11/3/2005, you wrote: On Thursday 03 November 2005 10:54 am, Jim Reith wrote: > >People need to stop distributing SVN versions. The people who do don't > > ever think what they're doing will break people's multi-computer setups. > > It's also pr

Re: [mythtv-users] KnoppMyth R5A22 seriously broken (was: RE: Mythtv -0.18.1 using protocol 15)

2005-11-03 Thread Jim Reith
At 11:06 AM 11/3/2005, Isaac Richards wrote: On Thursday 03 November 2005 10:13 am, Michael Bochynski wrote: > On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 11:24 +, fred bloggs wrote: > > Hi > > > > I've had an install of Mythtv on gentoo for a few months, and it has been > > working fine - and happily works with a

Re: [mythtv-users] No data in mythweb program listings?

2005-10-31 Thread Jim Reith
At 09:07 AM 10/31/2005, you wrote: Hi all,   I'm suddenly having an issue with mythweb where in all channels are showing "NO DATA".  According to the backend status, I should have guide data until 2005-11-14 03:12 (14 days). I've run mythfilldatabase several times and am getting the same results.

RE: [mythtv-users] Why did my remote control quit working?

2005-10-28 Thread Jim Reith
At 02:40 PM 10/28/2005, you wrote:   At 01:43 PM 10/28/2005, you wrote: Hi all-   My remote control with my PVR-150 was working great when I used the packaged install (mythtv-suite). Then I decided I wanted to tweak some of the plugin settings, so I decided to build from source.   I have built f

Re: [mythtv-users] Why did my remote control quit working?

2005-10-28 Thread Jim Reith
At 01:43 PM 10/28/2005, you wrote: Hi all-   My remote control with my PVR-150 was working great when I used the packaged install (mythtv-suite). Then I decided I wanted to tweak some of the plugin settings, so I decided to build from source.   I have built from source and got basically everythin

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-350 sound loop into soundcard

2005-10-28 Thread Jim Reith
At 09:19 AM 10/28/2005, you wrote: Hey I have an audio question - with all the hundreds of cables i have lying around here, I haven't found one yet that will take the PVR-350 TV out L/R RCA audio and allow me to feed them back into my sound card's 'Line In'. The cable that i thought for sure wou

Re: [mythtv-users] Adding PVR 500 to 350 system

2005-10-27 Thread Jim Reith
I bought it through our local computer store on campus. I got it at their cost of $135. I help them with troubleshooting, so they let me buy stuff at cost. It came in quickly - about 2 days after ordering. Buy.com was $131 shipped last week but they sold out quickly and I'm on backorder Tha

Re: [mythtv-users] Adding PVR 500 to 350 system

2005-10-27 Thread Jim Reith
At 02:33 PM 10/27/2005, you wrote: Sorry for the newbie question, but I'm a little nervous about breaking this new Myth system now that my wife relies on it so much! I'm hoping to get this done in time to record ER for her tonight... I have a Fedora 4 system built about a month ago using Jarrod's

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR 350.. TV-out I can't get sound to work

2005-10-20 Thread Jim Reith
At 12:50 PM 10/20/2005, you wrote: Hi I had mythtv running fine with audio and everything and then tried to get it to display in a TV... I am using the s-video outout and the image is great on the TV but I don;t get any audio anymore. I tried to use the mv msp3400.ko msp3400.ko.orig like Jar

Re: [mythtv-users] Upgrading KnoppMyth to IVTV 0.4.x

2005-10-13 Thread Jim Reith
At 11:07 AM 10/13/2005, you wrote: I've been researching this for a few days now. I've followed a few guides, but never got everything to work. (This may have been due to IVTV 0.3.x bugs that have now been worked out.) I want to get a definitive answer in the archives so that this process is e

RE: [mythtv-users] MythTV Filled Hard drive MySQL service will notstart at boot.

2005-10-07 Thread Jim Reith
At 10:01 AM 10/7/2005, you wrote: My mythbackend.log file is just 6K, so I don't think that is the problem. Any other suggestions? Chris When my system crashed and died, it was the system logs that overfilled and caused it to crash. On my distribution they were in /var/log/ (messages* for exam

Re: [mythtv-users] Mounting two hard drives to single mounting point

2005-09-21 Thread Jim Reith
Hi, I'm not sure if this has been asked before or if its even possible, but is there any way to mount two HD's to a single mounting point in Linux? I just added a second HD to my mythbox and was hoping there might be a way for /video to point to both of them. Thanks. Azmat Search for LVM for

[mythtv-users] OSX frontend questions

2005-09-14 Thread Jim Reith
I'm going to be rebuilding my Knoppmyth front/backend machine this weekend and I think I'm going to set it up so i can access it from additional front ends. Since we're mostly a Mac house, I'm considering setting up OSX frontends on a couple of the Macs (Tiger). I'm a little fuzzy on the split bet

RE: [mythtv-users] Controlling multiple cable boxes

2005-09-13 Thread Jim Reith
At 10:11 AM 9/13/2005, you wrote: It would be very exciting to have 2 machines (computer to cable box) talk to each other over a USB to USB connection. I believe USB is somewhat like SCSI in that there must be an initiator and a listener to have a means for 2 machines to talk together. Does anyo

Re: [mythtv-users] What's the most recent stable version?

2005-09-12 Thread Jim Reith
point. bye thomas Am Montag, 12. September 2005 20.44 schrieb Jim Reith: I'm about to rebuild my box due to a crash last week. I was using ivtv 3.6y with my pvr-150 and 350. I'm reading about people having sound problems with 3.7 and now 3.8. What is the latest version that s

[mythtv-users] What's the most recent stable version?

2005-09-12 Thread Jim Reith
I'm about to rebuild my box due to a crash last week. I was using ivtv 3.6y with my pvr-150 and 350. I'm reading about people having sound problems with 3.7 and now 3.8. What is the latest version that seems to be reasonably stable or should I just go back and rebuild with 3.6y? ___

Re: [mythtv-users] Controlling multiple cable boxes

2005-09-12 Thread Jim Reith
At 11:07 AM 9/12/2005, you wrote: Pete Stagman wrote: On 9/12/05, Gerald J. Berg <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: I have a pvr-350 and a pvr-500 in my MythTV box. An IR Blaster would require multiple serial ports to control the 3 cable boxes. These days, USB

Re: [mythtv-users] Using firewire or usb external drives

2005-09-10 Thread Jim Reith
As for Fry's, I bought a 200gb Maxtor from them on thursday in order to recover my Mythbox this weekend, paid for it to be overnighted and Airborne has fumbled it and even though they said it would come today and they were sorry it got screwed up, it's now after 5pm and won't get to me before mond

Re: [mythtv-users] Using firewire or usb external drives

2005-09-10 Thread Jim Reith
I haven't used firewire with MythTV or Linux. I've been primarily using them with my Macs but I bought them in order to have the flexibility of moving from one system/OS to another. In the past I did this with SCSI but the Macs have moved on from there. I did however buy a firewire Maxtor 250G

Re: [mythtv-users] Using firewire or usb external drives

2005-09-10 Thread Jim Reith
Hello all, I'm setting up my first Mythtv system on Gentoo and had a question about storage. What kind of problems will I run into if I base all my storage for recorded programs, stored movies, MP3s, etc. on external USB or firewire drives? For now I am putting my frontend and backend on the same

Re: [mythtv-users] How best to recover a fubar'd system?

2005-09-09 Thread Jim Reith
Jim Reith wrote: On 8-Sep-05, at 10:20 AM, Jim Reith wrote: I've got 550gb of videos I'd like to salvage if possible. my other choice is to swap in a virgin drive and rebuild on that and then copy the root over onto the bad partition once it's up and running I'm certain

Re: [mythtv-users] How best to recover a fubar'd system?

2005-09-09 Thread Jim Reith
Jim Reith wrote: On 8-Sep-05, at 10:20 AM, Jim Reith wrote: I've got 550gb of videos I'd like to salvage if possible. my other choice is to swap in a virgin drive and rebuild on that and then copy the root over onto the bad partition once it's up and running I'm certain

Re: [mythtv-users] How best to recover a fubar'd system?

2005-09-09 Thread Jim Reith
On 8-Sep-05, at 10:20 AM, Jim Reith wrote: I've got 550gb of videos I'd like to salvage if possible. my other choice is to swap in a virgin drive and rebuild on that and then copy the root over onto the bad partition once it's up and running I'm certainly not an expert

Re: [mythtv-users] Automatic deletion on drive fillup doesn't work

2005-09-08 Thread Jim Reith
I have 650GB on my master backend shared out the sole Myth slave frontend/backend via NFS on which I keep all my recorded shows. A few days ago this filled up. Instead of automaticly deleting older or lower priority shows, as I thought Mythtv was supposed to do, it just continued on recording sho

Re: [mythtv-users] What is the fsck equivalent for LVM?

2005-09-08 Thread Jim Reith
At 02:12 PM 9/8/2005, you wrote: On 08 Sep 2005 10:37:20 -0700, Jim Reith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a three disk LVM currently on a crashed system. I would like to > verify it. What is the equivalent to fsck? > > > > > >

[mythtv-users] What is the fsck equivalent for LVM?

2005-09-08 Thread Jim Reith
I have a three disk LVM currently on a crashed system. I would like to verify it. What is the equivalent to fsck? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

[mythtv-users] How best to recover a fubar'd system?

2005-09-08 Thread Jim Reith
I posted this on the Knoppmyth forums (and got a complaint on why it was an installation issue) http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=5955 I have a 3 month old installation that was working well until I allowed it to fill the disks. Once the recording section filled it started getting erro

RE: [mythtv-users] Mythburn problem

2005-09-06 Thread Jim Reith
At 07:13 AM 9/6/2005, you wrote: I will puto sudo for whole mythburn.sh command line. This should do the trick. Maybe it would be good idea to put this option "Run script as ROOT" to install script? I don't run my script as root and it runs fine. just make sure that you allow the Apache user

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR250 & PVR500 with only static

2005-09-01 Thread Jim Reith
At 11:22 AM 9/1/2005, you wrote: In reading the mailing lists, Jarod stated that the tuner should be set to 57 which they are. The 250's are set to 2. Should they be something else? Actually, at this point in the drivers, your tuners should auto-detect. __

Re: [mythtv-users] HD3000 and High-Def

2005-09-01 Thread Jim Reith
At 10:02 AM 9/1/2005, you wrote: There is a difference between a PVR250 or PVR350 in that they only do SD and the 350 has tv-out which the 250 lacks ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/my

Re: [mythtv-users] Archiving Shows to DVD

2005-08-29 Thread Jim Reith
At 02:29 PM 8/29/2005, you wrote: On 8/29/05, Martin Bene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > By the way, many of my recordings are transcoded to mpeg4... > > Should I assume this script won't transcode them properly? > > Unfortunately: yes, you should assume that. The script not only won't > transc

Re: [mythtv-users] Archiving Shows to DVD

2005-08-29 Thread Jim Reith
At 12:14 PM 8/29/2005, you wrote: Hi there, It worked for a single burn and now having updated some packages, it's broken once again. Here's a log output: Yeah, when I first started using it I had some "unstable" packages and it wasn't happy. I had to downgrade to stable releases before I got

Re: [mythtv-users] XBOX Frontend question (actually a debian question!)

2005-08-29 Thread Jim Reith
At 11:02 AM 8/29/2005, you wrote: Jim, I suspect as much, unfortunately I do not know enough about Linux to figure out where to put what. I have done a little digging, but may I ask if you have any advice as to where I can just toss an smbmount command? (I am also unclear as to whether I need

Re: [mythtv-users] XBOX Frontend question (actually a debian question!)

2005-08-29 Thread Jim Reith
At 10:49 AM 8/29/2005, you wrote: Evervyone is probably right about renaming the name of the share, but should I be lead to believe that there is no way to run a command as linux reboots? (ie, no "autoexec.bat" type of thing happening in Debian?) that's what the /etc/init.d directories are all

Re: [mythtv-users] Converting to MPEG and/or buring to DVD - a guide?

2005-08-29 Thread Jim Reith
At 10:27 AM 8/29/2005, you wrote: Sorry to trouble everyone, (round 2!) Thanks to all of your help I have got a wonderful MythTV setup working which my wife and I absolutely adore. Just a few more little bugs to sort out and everything will be perfect. I have been putting it off, so I have deci

Re: [mythtv-users] KnoppMyth and Hauppauge 350

2005-08-29 Thread Jim Reith
At 08:40 AM 8/29/2005, you wrote: Hello, this is my first post so please bear with me. I have a P3 933 mhz, the PVR-350 with grey remote, and an old Nvidia TNT2 in the AGP slot. MythTV comes up and I escape out to the command line. I type lircd start and then I try to run irw when I hit buttons

Re: [mythtv-users] Watch TV

2005-08-29 Thread Jim Reith
At 08:38 AM 8/29/2005, you wrote: I get like this: MythTV is already using all available inputs for recordings.If you want to watch an in-progress recording,select one from the playback menu.If you want to watch live TV, cancel one of the in-progress recordings from the delete menu. What

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

2005-08-28 Thread Jim Reith
OK, back to the scripts and add some more checks to make sure all the stuff required for successfull DVD creation is available. Since we all seem to be having similar problems with getting all the pieces right, maybe an installation verification/validation script would be useful? Something that

Re: [mythtv-users] Archiving Shows to DVD

2005-08-25 Thread Jim Reith
At 01:05 PM 8/25/2005, you wrote: Content-class: urn:content-classes:message Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > >I think that was it. I'm burning my first DVD now, so hopefully this > >will be all work out! > > > >George > > are you using chapter menus? See if you have the

Re: [mythtv-users] Archiving Shows to DVD

2005-08-25 Thread Jim Reith
I think that was it. I'm burning my first DVD now, so hopefully this will be all work out! George are you using chapter menus? See if you have the problem with them that I'm seeing where the first chapter won't start when selected but the 2nd chapter will (and then you can skip back to the f

Re: [mythtv-users] Archiving Shows to DVD

2005-08-24 Thread Jim Reith
At 11:58 AM 8/24/2005, you wrote: Jim Reith wrote: > One wrinkle I've seen with the DVDs I've burned using Martin's MythBurn > modifications is that the first chapter in the chapter menu isn't > selectable to start (on my DVD player) If I cursor to the second one i

Re: [mythtv-users] Archiving Shows to DVD

2005-08-23 Thread Jim Reith
One wrinkle I've seen with the DVDs I've burned using Martin's MythBurn modifications is that the first chapter in the chapter menu isn't selectable to start (on my DVD player) If I cursor to the second one it starts fine and then if I skip backwards I can get it to play the first chapter but the

Re: [mythtv-users] Help, PVR-350 TV Out doesn't work

2005-08-22 Thread Jim Reith
At 08:31 AM 8/22/2005, you wrote: I've found an article about this firmware message which says it's nothing to warry about http://svn.wilsonet.com/projects/mythtvology/ticket/20 So I guess that's not that. Will keep looking. But it should also have pointed you to the recommended ones and when

Re: [mythtv-users] Slightly OT - Controlling the CPU fan

2005-08-21 Thread Jim Reith
Title: Re: [mythtv-users] Slightly OT - Controlling the CPU fan > Even though my Myth backend does not sit in the lounge, it does sit in > the study and the fan noise is driving the family nuts to point they > want the backend shutdown when they are in there. > > I have done heaps of searching ar

Re: [mythtv-users] volume problem

2005-08-19 Thread Jim Reith
At 09:42 AM 8/19/2005, you wrote: I am using PVR-250 and has an integrated audio capture. The output goes straight to my Sony Trinitron TV. When I watch the same stuff on regular tv, volume is normal. It suffers only when I watch stuff via MythTV. I haven't tried the nuvexport stuff. I'm assumi

[mythtv-users] Rerecording to overwrite?

2005-08-18 Thread Jim Reith
Is it possible to set up MythTV to re-record previously recorded shows that still exist in the database? I have 2 months worth of shows recorded at 480x480 that I would like to re-record at 720x480 but i don't want to delete the 480x480 shows prior to them coming back on in case I want to re-watch

Re: [mythtv-users] Prebuffering pause - how I fixed mine

2005-08-18 Thread Jim Reith
At 09:29 AM 8/18/2005, you wrote: On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 04:39:02AM -0400, Joe Carter wrote: > Then I realised my hub (another freebie cast off) is just a 10Mbps one. > Directly link the two machines (100Mb cards) and voila, it works. > So bog standard ethernet can't cope with fast streams from

Re: [mythtv-users] Archiving Shows to DVD

2005-08-18 Thread Jim Reith
At 09:43 AM 8/18/2005, you wrote: On 8/13/05, Martin Bene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Another update for the mythburn scripts, no new features this time but > major rewrite of configuration. [...] > Let me know why it doesn't work for you and how I broke your system :-) I'm on Gentoo - config w

[mythtv-users] Attention list owner(s)

2005-08-17 Thread Jim Reith
Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 12:40:53 -0400 (EDT) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Mailer: alumni_bounce v1.4 X-Address-Used: Errors-to X-alumni_bounce_found: X-Originating-IP: [129.22.104.60] The mail you sent to Discussion about mythtv with the subject Re: [mythtv-users

Re: [mythtv-users] Cables and more space...ideas?

2005-08-17 Thread Jim Reith
At 12:33 PM 8/17/2005, you wrote: James Oltman wrote: I hate to say this, but I use WinBloze and DVD Shrink to do what you are wanting to do. arg, was hoping to stay away from that, mostly so i could just ssh into my server and do what i needed to do :( ... oh well, at least i have a dual boot

Re: [mythtv-users] New MythDora v1.4

2005-08-17 Thread Jim Reith
The very first selection in the list from plugging MythDora into Google states http://www.pvrguide.no-ip.com/bbs/index.php?showtopic=4987 "MythDora is a FC3/OS with MythTV-0.18.1 all on one CD." At 12:31 PM 8/17/2005, you wrote: On 8/17/05, Neil Davidson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 3:51 PM

[mythtv-users] MythBurn settings

2005-08-17 Thread Jim Reith
Title: MythBurn settings When I run the current version of MythBurn I'm seeing the following line in the output: video basics: 480*480 @ 29.97fps @ 0.6735 (4:3) @ 600bps, vbvBuffer 112 Where is the 480x480 value coming from? I went through all the settings and I've got to admit I can't find

Re: [mythtv-users] mplex missing

2005-08-16 Thread Jim Reith
On 16/08/2005, at 7:47 PM, Jim Reith wrote: I had to downgrade my system to work with Martin's scripts and I seem to be missing a few things. one major problem is I'm missing /usr/bin/mplex. What package do I had to reload in order to get it? If you mean RPM package, it's

[mythtv-users] mplex missing

2005-08-16 Thread Jim Reith
I had to downgrade my system to work with Martin's scripts and I seem to be missing a few things. one major problem is I'm missing /usr/bin/mplex. What package do I had to reload in order to get it? Thanks, Jim ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-user

Re: [mythtv-users] Extending recordings once they've started (was Re: Tennis)

2005-08-15 Thread Jim Reith
through the web interface. I was pleased with how well she did since I hadn't shown her the web access previously On 15 Aug 2005 07:19:29 -0700, Jim Reith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 10:10 AM 8/15/2005, you wrote: > >On Sun, Aug 14, 2005 at 10:58:56PM -0400, Chuck Vohs wrot

Re: [mythtv-users] Gee, I THOUGHT I was a linux fan.

2005-08-15 Thread Jim Reith
At 10:59 AM 8/15/2005, you wrote: Comments in-line. On 8/15/05, Richard Bronosky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 4. I tried watching a DVD from my NEC 16xDL-DVD-RW but the Xine screen > flashes for a second and then I'm back to the MythTV GUI.  I tried > ripping a DVD but it keeps telling me there a

Re: [mythtv-users] Extending recordings once they've started (was Re: Tennis)

2005-08-15 Thread Jim Reith
At 10:10 AM 8/15/2005, you wrote: On Sun, Aug 14, 2005 at 10:58:56PM -0400, Chuck Vohs wrote: > Is there an easy way to record sporting goods from the scheduled start > until they are over? And, on a more general note, is there now, or will there ever be, a good way to extend a recording that ha

Re: [mythtv-users] Tennis

2005-08-15 Thread Jim Reith
At 09:18 AM 8/15/2005, you wrote: On Mon, 2005-08-15 at 09:00, Fred Squires wrote: > On 8/15/05, David Whyte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > I've been doing that so I end up getting 4-5 hour recordings where > > > the game ends up being only 3.5 hours long. Is there a simple way > > > once

Re: [mythtv-users] Tennis

2005-08-15 Thread Jim Reith
At 09:00 AM 8/15/2005, you wrote: On 8/15/05, David Whyte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 15 Aug 2005 03:10:54 -0700, Jim Reith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >Each recording schedule you create you can specify that it records an > > >extra X minutes. Also, y

Re: [mythtv-users] Tennis

2005-08-15 Thread Jim Reith
Each recording schedule you create you can specify that it records an extra X minutes. Also, you can say that for any and every recording schedule you create you can record extra time. You just need to look in the setup and the recording screens. Whytey I've been doing that so I end up gettin

Re: [mythtv-users] Cases for a PVR box... recommendations.

2005-08-13 Thread Jim Reith
>> # allow the disks to spindown after 5 minutes of idle /sbin/hdparm -S 60 /dev/hda /sbin/hdparm -S 60 /dev/hdb /sbin/hdparm -S 60 /dev/hdd I have SATA drives, so I can't do this. But thanks for the tip! ? are you sure, I have S-ATA and doing a hdparm -S /dev/sda gives me a def

Re: [mythtv-users] Cases for a PVR box... recommendations.

2005-08-12 Thread Jim Reith
Title: Re: [mythtv-users] Cases for a PVR box... recommendations. On 08/12/2005 12:20 PM, Jim Reith wrote: Put a piece of red plastic over the two leds and now I get a subtle lavender glow from them I use a bit of electrical tape over my blindingly blue LED.  Works great. My wife really likes

Re: [mythtv-users] Cases for a PVR box... recommendations.

2005-08-12 Thread Jim Reith
o case airflow Hope it helps Jason On 11 Aug 2005 14:29:41 -0700, Jim Reith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I second the aria and coolermaster cases. I have one of each, and > >both power supplies are quiet and both met the WAF. The coolermaster > >has the advantage of being

Re: [mythtv-users] Cases for a PVR box... recommendations.

2005-08-12 Thread Jim Reith
At 10:20 AM 8/12/2005, you wrote: Robert Johnston wrote: On 11/08/05, R. Geoffrey Newbury <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 11 Aug 2005 07:11:22 -0700, Jim Reith wrote: My question is, of those specialized cases out there, what are people's favorites - which ones have proven

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

2005-08-12 Thread Jim Reith
Content-class: urn:content-classes:message Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Hi Jim, If you need a willing victim/beta tester, I'd be happy to work on it with you and give you another box to validate things on. I'm NTSC but running KnoppMyth R5A16. One of the reasons I bu

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

2005-08-11 Thread Jim Reith
Content-class: urn:content-classes:message Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Hi Jim, If you need a willing victim/beta tester, I'd be happy to work on it with you and give you another box to validate things on. I'm NTSC but running KnoppMyth R5A16. One of the reasons I bu

Re: [mythtv-users] Cases for a PVR box... recommendations.

2005-08-11 Thread Jim Reith
I second the aria and coolermaster cases. I have one of each, and both power supplies are quiet and both met the WAF. The coolermaster has the advantage of being a full ATX and is easier to add stuff to, but the Aria is a very well designed micro-ATX case. Depends on what your other equipment l

Re: [mythtv-users] Cases for a PVR box... recommendations.

2005-08-11 Thread Jim Reith
At 09:43 AM 8/11/2005, you wrote: On 8/11/05, Forrest Aldrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is likely part of a FAQ that I've yet to locate. So apologies if so. > > I read an article on the O'Reilly site about building a MythTV box in a > more specialized case: > > http://digitalmedia.oreill

Re: [mythtv-users] OT: Comcast Chicago changing channel lineup, SCI-FI moving to digital only

2005-08-09 Thread Jim Reith
At 03:14 PM 8/9/2005, you wrote: On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 14:56 -0400, Jim Reith wrote: > > Not really an investment in cable boxes as the cable company probably > provides at least one with your digital subscription And what of the additional ones I need for the PVR recording cards (1

Re: [mythtv-users] OT: Comcast Chicago changing channel lineup, SCI-FI moving to digital only

2005-08-09 Thread Jim Reith
At 02:43 PM 8/9/2005, you wrote: On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 14:38 -0400, Scot L. Harris wrote: > > So the S-Video input on the PVR line of cards allows the card to select > the channel on digital cable? No. > Or do you mean that would be used from > the digital cable box and then an IR blaster has t

Re: [mythtv-users] OT: Comcast Chicago changing channel lineup, SCI-FI moving to digital only

2005-08-09 Thread Jim Reith
At 02:38 PM 8/9/2005, you wrote: On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 14:28, Jim Reith wrote: > At 02:15 PM 8/9/2005, you wrote: > >On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 13:51 -0400, Scot L. Harris wrote: > > > > > If/when they go full digital > > > which cards can be used? > > >

Re: [mythtv-users] OT: Comcast Chicago changing channel lineup, SCI-FI moving to digital only

2005-08-09 Thread Jim Reith
At 02:15 PM 8/9/2005, you wrote: On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 13:51 -0400, Scot L. Harris wrote: > > Still have that channel here. Wow. Cableco lied to me. Imagine my surprise. Still available in new England as well > Currently I have the cable going direct to the PVR-350 and PVR-250. Yup. > I

Re: [mythtv-users] Max number of recordings - unexpected episode deletions

2005-08-09 Thread Jim Reith
At 12:27 PM 8/9/2005, you wrote: On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 06:56:47AM -0400, Timothy G. Schaefer wrote: > The real issue is with it set to "stop recording when at max recordings" it > would occasionally record back to back episodes, go over the limit, then > delete to get back within the limit. Wit

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

2005-08-09 Thread Jim Reith
At 11:11 AM 8/9/2005, you wrote: Content-class: urn:content-classes:message Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > Thanks for the tips. Have you got yours working reliably currently? > > I'm tossing another 200gb drive in as an additional LVM drive > so I should > be ok for a wh

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

2005-08-09 Thread Jim Reith
At 10:46 AM 8/9/2005, you wrote: Content-class: urn:content-classes:message Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > not having perused the scripts carefully, what's the format > of lockfile > names I should watch for? They'll be in the top level > (mythtv/mythburn/mythburn/) direc

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

2005-08-09 Thread Jim Reith
At 10:10 AM 8/9/2005, you wrote: > My other question that perhaps you can answer (that was tacked on to my > mod > approval blocked one) is why if I run MythBurn twice in a row on the exact > same file with the same parameters do I get different results? Why isn't > the outcome consistently the

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

2005-08-09 Thread Jim Reith
At 07:45 AM 8/9/2005, you wrote: Content-class: urn:content-classes:message Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > >Yep, that problem happens when mythburn tries to cut commericals from > >the mpeg2 files. To do so, it needs to find the number of the last > >frame, which it gets

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

2005-08-09 Thread Jim Reith
At 07:45 AM 8/9/2005, you wrote: Content-class: urn:content-classes:message Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > >Yep, that problem happens when mythburn tries to cut commericals from > >the mpeg2 files. To do so, it needs to find the number of the last > >frame, which it gets

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

2005-08-09 Thread Jim Reith
Content-class: urn:content-classes:message Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > I managed to get the button to show but when I run it it complains > during the framegrabbing that it can't get frame 6. I've seen > reference to that but no solutions As far as I can tell, the

[mythtv-users] Re: Archiving Shows to DVD

2005-08-08 Thread Jim Reith
Title: Re: Archiving Shows to DVD Ok, I ran MythTVBurn again tonight on a different recorded show (Tripping the Rift) and it got further but it dies with the error below. Does this ring any bells with anyone? - datestamp=08-08-2005 23:28 Building MPEG2 GOP index files... - datestamp=08-0

Re: [mythtv-users] Archiving Shows to DVD

2005-08-08 Thread Jim Reith
At 01:56 PM 8/8/2005, you wrote: >>As far as I can tell, the cause of that error is having commercial >> cutting >>enabled. I can't burn DVD's with the cutlist enabled, but DVDs work just >>fine if I disable the cutlist stuff. It produces really slick looking >>DVDs too. I just wish I could ge

Re: [mythtv-users] Archiving Shows to DVD

2005-08-08 Thread Jim Reith
At 12:05 PM 8/8/2005, you wrote: >>>1. mythburn. I got quite far with this... I downloaded from >>>sourceforge >>>(http://sourceforge.net/projects/mythburn/), tinkered with >>>install.sh (changed directories and user/group names) and >>>successfully ran

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR 350, closed captioning, commercial detection

2005-08-08 Thread Jim Reith
At 11:51 AM 8/8/2005, you wrote: What release of which piece enables this? That would be great Since it's not touted in the release notes of .18 or .18.1, I'd say svn only at this time. another .19 feature to look forward to ___ mythtv-users mai

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR 350, closed captioning, commercial detection

2005-08-08 Thread Jim Reith
At 11:16 AM 8/8/2005, you wrote: > A commercial flagging process is run after a show completes recording. Commerical flagging now starts shortly after a program starts recording and stays behind real-time. Once the program finishes recording the commerical flagger will go to "full speed", so th

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR 350, closed captioning, commercial detection

2005-08-08 Thread Jim Reith
At 10:49 AM 8/8/2005, you wrote: On Mon, 2005-08-08 at 09:37, Jim Reith wrote: > At 09:19 AM 8/8/2005, you wrote: > >You are correct, and that does work just fine on my PVR-350 system. I > >actually rarely watch live tv anymore. I watch recorded shows almost > >100% of

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR 350, closed captioning, commercial detection

2005-08-08 Thread Jim Reith
At 09:19 AM 8/8/2005, you wrote: On Mon, 2005-08-08 at 09:09, Jim Reith wrote: > At 08:57 AM 8/8/2005, you wrote: > > > >If you are trying to skip commercials in live tv as far as I know that > >is not currently part of mythtv. > > but you can use the skip button to

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR 350, closed captioning, commercial detection

2005-08-08 Thread Jim Reith
At 08:57 AM 8/8/2005, you wrote: On Mon, 2005-08-08 at 01:05, Jesse D. Guardiani wrote: > Also, what about commercial detection? Is that supposed to work with > PVR-x50's, or not? If it is, then I'd love to figure out what I need > to change to make it work on my system. Commercial detection wo

Re: [mythtv-users] Archiving Shows to DVD

2005-08-07 Thread Jim Reith
Felix wrote: Dave Ansell wrote: Hi, My Myth box seems to have achieved a high Child Acceptance Factor (WAF not quite so good!) but unfortunately my disk is now filling up rapidly with cartoon shows which need to be watched repeatedly and never deleted! Is there a straightforward way

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR 350, just static

2005-08-07 Thread Jim Reith
Title: Re: [mythtv-users] PVR 350, just static Jim Reith wrote: Hi, I'm trying to setup a box using Knoppmyth and a PVR350 card. I get picture but just static. I've tryied the following while having LiveTV running, run ivtvctl -R, and run scantv in parallell. When I just run ivt

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