Hi John --
May I ask which kind of TV you got? Is it one of the new crop 1080p
DLP models from Mitsubishi or Samsung? Just curious, as I still have a
Pioneer RPTV and it will die one day (it's only a CRT set after all).
Joe Barnhart
--- John P Poet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 9/12/05, Pete
--- Isaac Richards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What do you need XvMC for on an amd64 system? I can pretty easily
decode,
deinterlace, and display three 1080i streams simultaneously with pure
software decoding on my dev system. Might be able to do four with a
little
tweaking, if I cared
--- Garth Benedict [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have not been able to find much documentation for resizing the
menus
to deal with overscan. Has anyone had good results with that at
1920x1080i? I have seen one or two examples for NTSC. I cannot see
any checkboxes and normally cannot see
--- verteiler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
After setting up my linux server using Debian as opposed to Fedora
(with
the really incredible howto by Jarod), I have some issues concerning
reinstallation and mythtv-addons (i.e. MythWeb, MythVideo, etc).
I hate to mention it since you're
--- Richard Bronosky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I chose KnoppMyth for
it's
illusion of simplicity, but was made to feel like a complete idiot.
This is harsh. I wouldn't criticize KnoppMyth too heavily until you've
tried installing Myth on your own using another distro.
2. I now have my
--- Michael Tiller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The specific case I was thinking about was what to watch on TV. TiVo
has its
suggestions capability and I do miss that. But MythTV could do much
better.
Instead of looking at my viewing habits and trying to guess what I'd
like,
what if you
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The volume out from MythTV is considerably louder then any other
device I
have. Setting the amp volume to 1 for Myth is about the same as 7 or
8
for my DVD player. This means that nudging the volume up as tad can
move
the sound from inaudible to booming.
--- Donavan Stanley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
That's pretty much how it'll work once there's enough subscribers to
pay any bounty. As it is now, the suggestions in the forum and the
ideas email address are being recorded an evaluated by the powers
that
be for just flat outright funding
--- antec [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am atill getting prebuffer pause even though I have done everything
recommended in the documentation pages:
* bought and installed a geforce card
* got xwindows working with nvidia
* upgraded machine to a P3-1Ghz. (not a celeron!)
* checked and
--- Matt Grommes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I was listening to a podcast interview with the head of Panasonic's
flatscreen TV division and he dismissed both the concerns about
burnin
and lifetime for plasmas. I'll have to dig up the other review I was
reading where they talked about
--- Donavan Stanley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 7/2/05, Joe Barnhart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Frankly, TV is a giant wasteland anyway and we'd
all be better off if we turned it off and read a book.
I always get a laugh when I read stuff like that on a mailing list
for
a piece
--- William [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Currently your only options for capturing hd from sat are to buy a hd
dvr
from directv/dishnet or to spend the money to have one of the few
supported
boxes hacked to add firewire support. The hack info was posted to the
list a
couple of months ago so
--- David George [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The only thing you will lose is being able to record HDTV from
DirecTv
unless you have a particular HDTV receiver and get the 169time.com
modification.
Careful -- the 169time.com mod is not supported by Myth and likely
never will be.
--- Glen Dragon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm still seeing the problem that I reported a week or so ago. I
took
some pictures to show the effect. Hopefully someone knows something.
Interestingly enough it is also causing the same effect on the OSD.
Pics:
--- Donavan Stanley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
No you missed the fact that I don't bother to read the users list all
that often. You've also apparently missed the HDTV playback
performance threads Jarod Wilson started as well.
Sorry, I'm not trying to be a putz. I read all atsc threads
--- Joe Barnhart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
--- Donavan Stanley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
For instance, I've had zero issues with my Celeron 2.5ghz
frontend.
I have seen your numerous posts regarding your success with a 2.5G
Celeron. But I have not seen many others duplicate your
--- Isaac Richards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If a 1800+ can play back 720p smoothly (ie, my machine) in non-Xv
mode, why
would a 2000+ not be able to?
I've had problems with HDTV playback on Athlon 2500 processors, too.
Are you playing back a 720p stream on an output device set to 720p?
--- Donavan Stanley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
For instance, I've had zero issues with my Celeron 2.5ghz
frontend.
I have seen your numerous posts regarding your success with a 2.5G
Celeron. But I have not seen many others duplicate your success. I
asked you a long time ago if you are
--- Ricardo Kleemann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi all,
How come R5A18 was announced 1 month ago, but the mysettopbox.tv
website
still refers to R5A15 ?
If you read the whole thread, it turns out Cecil made a typo on the
announcement of R5A18.
--- Matt Mossholder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It's my understanding that this is a limitation of HDMI/DVI, not
something that Samsung chose not to implement. It doesn't support
enough
bandwidth to do 1080p.
I think you are correct. There was a good article about DVI on Tom's
Hardware some
--- Michael T. Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Actually, 1080p and (true) 1080i both have the same resolution. The
difference is how often the pixels are updated. However you want to
say
it, I just want a TV with 1920x1080 pixels.
I have one of those obsolete technology CRT projectors. It
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm just getting so *bleeping* upset with this whole thing that I'm
about ready to give up.
Jarod is the man. He will get you running on FCx if you read the
instructions carefully and do your due dilligence on Gossamer.
I'm more of a turn the key kinda guy, and
--- Jarod Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The MythTV 0.18.1 release is now official. Get it while its hot.
A big THANK YOU for taking this on, Jerod. This is a Really Good Thing
for MythTv. Having been bitten by small bugs in previous releases, I
can say this will increase user satisfaction
--- vinod kumar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Please tell me another way to install mythtv on debian, eventhough
its tough
The BEST way to get Myth running on top of Debian is to get and install
KnoppMyth. This distribution *IS* Myth on top of Debian, and it
already includes ALL of the packags
--- Jonathan Link [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Every state attorney general's office has a consumer fraud division.
I suggest, that if you have verifiable problems with receiving
rebates
that you contact them. The very next car from Seagate without a
phone
number, call the AG's office, give
--- Brad Templeton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
While it is possible, in theory, to write a re-encoder that takes
advantage
of compression hints learned from the original encoding, that sounds
like
a lot of work for a rare task just to save some CPU, and CPU is cheap
in such instances anyway.
--- Andrew Close [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thanks for the info and the link to the rebate. for some reason the
link on the site didn't work for me...
i think i'll pick one up for me, and my brother, and my parents... :)
only one drive per household before May 17th...
Don't count on those
--- Cory Papenfuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
A lot of places try to weasel out of paying rebates, either by
forgetting, or making some bogus claim about you filling something
improperly. I always make a copy of all the materials I sent in in
case
there a contest. Since you mailed
--- Jeff Simpson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 5/14/05, Donavan Stanley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 5/14/05, Dean Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yep same here on a pioneer dvd burner.
Don't believe the hype, they're a scam.
I've heard this a lot.. On the flip side I've done
--- Brad Templeton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Recently I bought a series of Seagate drives, all
different, and got most of the checks but they actually mailed a card
saying I had done something wrong -- but not saying what the
something
was -- and that I could submit again (though of course I
--- Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sure it's the right question. The subject line asks how much space an
*HD* recording takes...!
Not to prolong the confusion, but HD is ambiguous by itself. It
could be interpreted as hard disk as in how much space does a hard
disk recording take?
--- Scott Alfter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What you're asking is impossible; MPEG doesn't work that way. The
only
lossless manipulation of MPEG data that might be possible would be to
crop the
frame to a smaller size (you would need to crop by multiples of 16 if
you were
to do this) or
I'm not alone in my search for a decent tool to archive shows
originally broadcast on HDTV onto DVD media for keeping or sharing with
others. For example, I'm not an Elvis fan, but my friend is and I want
to give her a DVD of the recent broadcast she missed.
The show is about 16G bytes in its
--- Phil Bridges [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think the 7-8GB/hr estimate is the best guess- so you need ~ 80GB
of
TV storage, before transcoding.
If the OP wants to store 100 hours of high-def, he needs 800G, not 80G.
I have 750G in my box and I'm planning to go to 1000G soon. I have a
--- Endaf Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Why does the flag matter to us myth users ? (in terms of hardware
selection)
Very simply: If the Broadcast flag becomes law, all ATSC recording
devices with Linux drivers will no longer be sold. Your hardware
selection will GO AWAY. That's why it is
--- Brad Templeton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What does the 1394 port that 169time gives you _do_ then? If you
can
use it with a TV with 1394 in or a digital tape deck with 1394 in,
can't one just pretend to be like these to get the stream? Or does
it
check for 5C copy protection
--- Brad Templeton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The question is, what other choices will be available. Like most
people
here I can't stand watching live TV, and now that I am getting used
to
HDTV I find it annoying to watch analog capture SDTV too.
The pessimist in me says get used to not
picture and bigger files. That's bad
because it means that many people, no matter how much they might
otherwise
like the open source box, will get the locked box.
Yep... Like I said...
On Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 04:23:51PM -0700, Joe Barnhart wrote:
If that does come to pass, I'm perfectly able
--- Simon Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 4/26/05, Matt Mousseau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Awesome. I was considering buying one JUST because I wanted to use
iPhoto, and the fact that it can run mythfrontend is ... Well...
Incredible.
It should be ok. My powerbook can play 720p with
--- David Kyle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Has anybody had any experience with this company:
http://www.solarpc.com?
Yes, I've bought computers from Solar. They are a
real vendor, not a flake. Their boxes are very
economical and utilize mostly EPIA mini-ITX
motherboards. I have used them for
--- Brad Templeton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
We should try to build a list of all the things that
can go wrong in
making HD work smoothly. There are many.
They include:
a) Right drivers for card with your kernel
b) Proper AGP bus speed and AGP interface driver
in use
--- john roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've got a buddy who is having a heck of a time
getting a working modeline for a Pioneer Elite
PRO-510.
I've read that it will support 1080i and 480p
formats:
1080i - 33.75 kHz (Hsync) : 60 Hz (Vsync)
480p - 31.468 kHz (Hsync): 60 Hz (Vsync)
--- Ian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
To reply to my own post...
Ian wrote:
Issues:
1) Unfortunately, it seems that the card/driver
wants to only alllow
what it thinks are valid tv modes. Now I don't
know if this is a
hardware limitation or a driver limitation. I'm
hoping that it
--- Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So you do a manual install? (to change to XFS
filesystem)
No, I do the full automatic install. Then I follow the
instructions on the KnoppMythWiki for adding LVM and
make it XFS at that time.
http://knoppmythwiki.homelinux.org/index.php?page=LvmHowTo
--- Kevin Saenz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
No my question is.
Does KnoppMyth support dvb out of the box install?
I have a fusion dvb card it's pretty generic and it
works when I
install linuxtv-dvb.
The alpha version, R5A12 probably does. The earlier
released version R4V5 probably does not.
--- Brad Templeton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
No dialog is probably a local problem, it happens
fairly often. This
occurs when you have ac-3 sound and myth or your
sound drivers are
confused and don't merge the center channel into
your right and left.
(If you got no dialog and you are
--- Brad Templeton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I wonder though, if during that no dialog period,
you still get it
from the center channel of ac-3? I don't have my
ac-3 hooked up yet.
I *do* have my AC-3 hooked up and that's how I watch
HDTV broadcasts. The surround does pop on and off
--- Byron Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm hoping it fixes XvMC playback as well :) not
expecting a miracle
though since i'm sure the focus is on the higher end
cards..
The nVidia drivers work fine when using XvMC with
mplayer or xine. It's only Myth that has a problem
with XvMC. Don't
--- jerome lacoste [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
you get
what you deserve.
...and...
If
they don't, then
double the 'they got what they deserved'.
I find your sentiments reprehensible.
I disagree that Cecil and Dale deserved to be
hacked. Regardless of the state of their security
patches, or
--- Bryce [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I picked up an HD-3000 and a maxtor 160 gb drive for
dirk-cheap. Now on to
the other parts. :)
I perfer to stick with AMD CPUs and
preferably an AMD64.
If you do any searches at all on Gossamer, you will
find that the Intel architecture is best suited
--- Brad Templeton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Too bad you don't have PCI-X. Leadtek has a
6200TC card with HDTV
that's $75 at NewEgg. And it's fan-less. ;-)
Looks like the card to get. Cheaper than an audio
auth converter!
Yeah, but no AGP version. It really sucks that
they're
I've recently installed 0.17 over my production 0.16
box. Mostly, the installation is working properly.
One odd behavior is that it has stopped recording the
local NBC affiliate in the Bay Area, channel 11.1
(broadcast on VHF channel 12).
When I try to record, my backend log shows this:
--- Joe Barnhart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've recently installed 0.17 over my production 0.16
box. Mostly, the installation is working properly.
One odd behavior is that it has stopped recording
the
local NBC affiliate in the Bay Area, channel 11.1
(broadcast on VHF channel 12).
I've
--- Brad Templeton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Recording tonight's west wing, 2 stange things.
1) The recording was only 47 minutes long, and the
first 13 minutes
of the program is not there.
2) Almost surely unrelated, the program appeared as
an SDTV letterboxed
program inside a
--- Donavan Stanley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have no problem watching HD in myth on a 1.8ghz
AMD box. Though
I've not tried 1080i, I know folks who ARE watching
1080i wihout have
3ghz HT CPUs or 64 bit CPUs
What resolution is your output modeline? Are you
using Xv or XvMC?
I've recently upgraded to 0.17 via KnoppMyth and I'm
experiencing serious issues with usability.
I understand that the decision was made to disallow
deletion of database metadata if no matching file is
found. In two days, my myth box has collected 10 such
files, and deleting them is a REAL PAIN.
--- Eyal Lebedinsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Joe Barnhart wrote:
In two days, my myth box has collected 10
such
files, and deleting them is a REAL PAIN.
I simply 'touch' the missing file and it then will
allow
deletion.
Not a fix, but an easy workaround.
I don't agree
--- Isaac Richards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So, quit bitching and just use cvs.
Which brings up a question.
Why even HAVE releases like 0.17 if there is no
attempt to make them stable for those who wish to
use their MythTv boxes like an appliance? Projects
ordinarily try to make a stable
--- Tom E. Craddock, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Never heard of tab complete? Took me less than a
minute to do what you
were talking about. You aint got a minute?
I probably don't understand how to use tab complete,
then. I always had best results with tab complete
when the filename
--- Isaac Richards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
All a release is is a snapshot of cvs at the time of
the release. Nothing
more. I make no guarantees as to its stability.
And that is a real problem for those who are trying to
extend the reach of MythTv with packaged
distributions. KnoppMyth
--- Kevin Kuphal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The majority of people aren't experiencing this
issue because the delete
code works fine when the system actually records
properly. The root of
the problem is your system not recording properly
and the cause of
*that* is more likely something
--- William [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Anyone have any ideas on this one? I am really
stuck.
I need a bit of help. I recently upgraded to FC2
and
installed the new mythtv .17 from atrpms.
Everything is
working fine except for one thing. I no longer get
any output
from mythtv on
--- Brad Templeton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The card vendors will no doubt build up large
stockpiles of the cards
before the deadline, so there will be a supply for
individuals for a
while, but the inability to make or import more will
mean nobody will
be willing to make a product based
--- Nathan Howell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
* Mat Kyne [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-02-09 21:29]:
I am using DVI to connect from my Nvidia GeForce
5200 to my Sony HDTV. Now
I just need to get rid of the overscan. I have
read that there is no help
for overscan if you are using a DVI cable .
--- Wendy Seltzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Watch soon at
http://www.eff.org/broadcastflag/cookbook/.
This page doesn't do as much as it could to simplify
the installation with KnoppMyth. I might suggest you
base the page on R4V5 until R5 is actually out, since
the installation is about 100
and I'll send you the results. I have gigs of
recordings from pcHDTV on my box. I'm using 0.16 on
my production system at present.
Joe Barnhart
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All your favorites on one personal page Try My Yahoo!
http://my.yahoo.com
--- Chris Petersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How about setting up a collection to go along with
that petition in
order to take out an ad in the NYT showing the
truth?
I'd much rather see money go to the EFF than into
the NYT's pockets.
This is the best idea I've heard. I'm already an
--- Maverick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How about recommendations in the 3.5 arena, since
2.5 seems
cost/performance prohibitive?
Can't beat that 5-year Seagate bumper-to-bumper
warranty. Plus the drives are relatively quiet and
they offer up to 400G capacity. I have three 300G
drives going
--- Dennis Oelkers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So I asked a Samsung employee (they are consulting
customers in big
electronic retailers),
and he told me what I did not want to hear, that the
panel will only
display something, if there
is HDCP spoken on the DVI port. We both agreed on
the
--- Dennis Oelkers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The sad thing is, that the LCD expects the client
to speak HDCP,
otherwise it won't display anything. Is there anyone
who had this kind of problem, and solved it in some
way? Are there
graphic adapters with a HDCP-capable DVI output?
How do
--- Cory Papenfuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm knee-deep in the quest. I'm currently trying
to find a sort
of MPEG2 stream analyzer, but with very minimal
success. I'm trying to
enlist the help of a local coding guru to maybe hack
up some existing
tools into one. Here's what
--- Isaac Richards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tuesday 25 January 2005 03:39 pm, Brad Templeton
wrote:
Myth's xvmc support still has some issues as far
as being able to seek,
with various other ones reported.
Would you stop repeating this crap? As far as I'm
aware, it's not true.
I
--- Robert S. Kerr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm trying to learn more about the MythTV XvMC
support.
What does it buy me? Just hardware accelerated MPEG
output?
What if I use Nuppel video, does XvMC buy me
anything? Will it
accelerate the Nuppel rendering?
Any help anyone can
--- Brad Templeton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From what I have seen, most HDTVs really only take
1080i, they need
an interlaced mode.
What amazes me is that they don't just make them
take 1080p. I mean
there are computer monitors that cost $200 these
days that can do
that, the
--- Frank smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
HI
Just wondering,
What is the most stable system at this time?
I mean is it:
FC1 with a pvr 250?
Or
Something like Suse 9.1
If ease of installation is what you're looking for,
KnoppMyth is worth a look. It bundles Debian Linux
with all of the
--- Rob G [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ok I am gonna start building my MythTV system. I
have a blank system
to work with what Linux Flavour should I put on for
the best results.
I have no problems with any flavour just would like
to know what is
the best for MythTV
Debian (unstable)Sarge
--- M S [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi, I know this is has been asked before, but I
can't seem to find
the right answer. I want an _easy_ solution to
backup shows to DVDs,
but I can't seem to find it. I've tried the
MythBurnDVD, but it
produces some video glitches and doesn't do AC3
--- Julian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Anyway I have read that the cable companies can
detect
how much bandwidth you are consuming...so viewing
the
content without paying is risky.
I think it would be a good trick if cable companies
could detect how much bandwidth you were receiving
from
I've spent several hours yesterday and today searching
for the how to I need -- how to record a captured
HDTV broadcast onto a DVD. I figured this would have
been pioneered by someone, but I have yet to find the
procedure for completing this task.
Along the way I've discovered that HDTV
--- Colin Smillie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
Has anyone had any success with the XFX Nvida HDTV
output? Not really
clear to me how it works but it looks like the card
has a connection
for a component output cable ( in addition to 2 DVI
outputs ).
I was at Fry's Electronics yesterday
--- Comments [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So, do you prefer AMD 64? Intell with
Hyperthreading? And what would I
look for as the minimum speed i would need to do
this?
I agree with Brad Templeton. I tried an Athlon XP
based system, since AMD is my preferred vendor. But
it couldn't keep up
--- Cory Papenfuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
AFAIK, neither trancoding or nuvexport inherently
benefit from
dual processors (not threaded).
How about commercial flagging? I know it won't speed
up the flagging of a single show, but couldn't Myth be
set up to flag two shows at a time?
--- Comments [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi all,
In putting together a MythTV box, I would like to
use existing
components and was wondering if the processing power
of the CPU could be
offset by a hardware decoder.
I see that the PVR350 has hardware decoding but I
was also wondering
--- Roy Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm going to be driving a 1080i native HDTV CRT with
a VGA-Composite
adaptor (no DVI or HDMI inputs on this model). I
hear that an nvidia
adapter can drive HD with less processor, but
interlace dosn't work.
nVidia 5200 FX is your best bet. XvMC
--- Brad Templeton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I guess we need to ask, who is driving their HDTV
with DVI at 1080i from
an Nvidia FX 5200?
I am. I have a Pioneer PRO-610HD CRT based RPTV and
I'm driving it with an nVidia 5200 FX at 1080i. The
TV only accepts this modeline on its VGA input.
--- Bryan Brannigan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Not that Knoppmyth uses an less-than-current
version of Myth (.14
or .15 i think) which will not talk with .16.
Wrong. The latest KnoppMyth R4V5 includes Myth 0.16.
__
Do You Yahoo!?
Tired of
--- stan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thnaks.
I'd rather not spend more money on this system right
now if I could help
it.
The Lite-On keyboard is only $17. It works. This is
the best solution.
Can you point me to any discussions of the nature of
this problem?
The KnoppMyth forum at
--- Kyle Rose [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've only seen it so far with CBS football
broadcasts, and nothing
else. Even other 1080i content (e.g., ABC football
broadcasts) looks
fine.
Are you sure ABC broadcasts 1080i in your area? I'm
pretty sure they broadcast MNF in 720p here in the
--- stan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've built a backend and 2 frontends from the R%
KnoppMyth CD.
I've got a nice RF remote USB keyboard and mouse.
Booted from the CD these
work fine. However, now that I have the system
installed on the hard disk,
using this or any other USB
--- Kyle Rose [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
FWIW, switching to using Bob as the deinterlacer set
in that special
control has also fixed the weird speed pulsing
problem I was having
with the new ffmpeg code. And it looks *beautiful*.
Wait... A little clarification here please...
Are you guys
--- Kyle Rose [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm confused as to why you're using a deinterlacer
for 1080i input on
a native 1080i set.
I'm just shotgunning anything that might make my
HDTV look more HD. 720p material in particular
looks bad on my set. The scaling is poor and produces
stair-step
--- Michael T. Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
While writing the below response, I started to
wonder if there are *any*
HDTV's available with 1920x1080 pixels. More info
below.
The old tech of CRT supports 1080i. I have a
Pioneer PRO-610HD set (about 3 years old) and its
native format is
--- Joe Barnhart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
--- Doug Larrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
When displayed in a 540p frame, bob deinterlacing
should look identical
to native 1080i, at least on a CRT with relatively
long-persistence
phosphor.
This would only be true if the frame were
--- Brad Templeton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Inside, the TV is just writing directly
into its own frame buffer
for the DLP.In theory, you could get your DVI
stream to also just be
fed into that frame buffer, if you did it exactly
right.
Just to get back on track with this example. No
--- Drew Zerdecki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If I switch over from a DirecTiVo to MythTV will I
notice a decline in
recording quality?
I'm using DirecTV with my normal Tivo, which records
the analog output of the receiver. To be honest, the
quality of most DirecTV channels is so poor that
--- Preston Crow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In my experience, poor cable reception of local
channels is often
because you are using poorly-shielded coax cables.
I agree. Also get rid of any press on coax
connectors in favor of threaded ones. The press on
connectors are junk.
--- Henk Poley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This is probably some driver problem. Running as
root MythTV request a couple
of extra things (like vsync updates). What card do
you use, and what version
is the driver?
I'm using an nVidia 5200Fx card and the 6111 driver.
Pretty boring, eh? I've
--- Doug Larrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You might also check that your video refresh rate is
very close to 59.94
(60 * 1000/1001) Hz (for US). If it's not, Myth
will have to
periodically extend or skip a frame to keep in sync.
I'm using some of Brandon Beattie's modelines, which
work
--- Domenic Ravita [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've tried to execute Dale's script but so far have
not had success.
Is this, by chance, the problem described in this post
on the KnoppMyth forum?
http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=2492highlight=pretty
The solution described worked
--- John Andersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Friday 10 December 2004 12:55, Joe Barnhart
wrote:
--- Domenic Ravita [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've tried to execute Dale's script but so far
have
not had success.
Is this, by chance, the problem described in this
post
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