Re: [mythtv-users] Where's the playback bottleneck?

2006-01-24 Thread John P Poet
On 1/24/06, Jerry Rubinow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I playback an HD resolution file, I get stuttering, pick a codec, any codec. If I play it back with mplayer (-vo xv -vc ffmpeg12), also stuttering. If I play it back with mplayer (-vo xvmc -vc ffmpeg12mc), plays back pretty much ok.

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

2006-01-22 Thread John P Poet
On 1/21/06, Justin Hornsby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for your comments, but after this update (to ver 1.3) I'm going to try to have a rest from it. There'll be no more changes for a wee while. I can understand wanting a rest. One advantage of you resting, is that it opens the door for

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

2006-01-22 Thread John P Poet
On 1/22/06, John P Poet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/21/06, Justin Hornsby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for your comments, but after this update (to ver 1.3) I'm going to try to have a rest from it. There'll be no more changes for a wee while. The attached patch does not fix

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

2006-01-22 Thread John P Poet
On 1/22/06, Justin Hornsby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A! Well, there's a good reason the channel name space is so wide in the released version. I guess in the USA you don't get channel names like 'Paramount Comedy Plus 1', or 'Discovery Home and Leisure'... get my drift? ;-) Ah,

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

2006-01-22 Thread John P Poet
On 1/22/06, Justin Hornsby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 22/01/06, John P Poet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ah, okay. In the USA we have channel *names* which are that long, but our channel *call signs* are not. John Well in the UK we don't really have 'callsigns', so can we reach

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

2006-01-22 Thread John P Poet
On 1/22/06, John P Poet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/22/06, Justin Hornsby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 22/01/06, John P Poet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ah, okay. In the USA we have channel *names* which are that long, but our channel *call signs* are not. John Well in the UK

Re: [mythtv-users] XP2100 outperforms my P4-3.2Ghz

2006-01-22 Thread John P Poet
On 1/22/06, Andrew McNabb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 08:43:36PM -0500, Anthony Vito wrote: HyperThreading is a horrible kludge. It required every OS to rewrite their process schedulers to not die context switching to an imaginary processor. The Linux kernel claims to

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

2006-01-22 Thread John P Poet
On 1/22/06, Justin Hornsby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I like the first screenshot - think it's a really good idea.. a bit of lateral thinking at work ;-) Justin Here is a patch which incorporates all the stuff I have been playing with. Feel free to undo anything you don't like. John ---

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

2006-01-22 Thread John P Poet
On 1/22/06, John P Poet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/22/06, Justin Hornsby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I like the first screenshot - think it's a really good idea.. a bit of lateral thinking at work ;-) Justin Attached is a new all patch which fixes a bug in the previous one. It also

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

2006-01-21 Thread John P Poet
Justin, The very first (top) show listed on the Watch Recordings has a grey background instead of black. All the other shows listed have a black background. Every time I go into that screen, I catch myself wondering what is wrong with that first show? How hard would it be to change the

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

2006-01-21 Thread John P Poet
On 1/21/06, Justin Hornsby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you want to know what might be coming next, try www.juski.co.uk/mythfrontend2.png, http://www.juski.co.uk/mythfrontend3.png, http://www.juski.co.uk/mythfrontend4.png and http://www.juski.co.uk/pg.png I like. Thanks, John

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

2006-01-19 Thread John P Poet
On 1/19/06, Justin Hornsby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Screenshots! Excellent. A lot of those pictures depict things on my 'to-do' list. There are obviously some screens I've not got round to widening yet. Cool. snip On the Watch/Delete screens, the fonts at the top seem fine, but the

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

2006-01-19 Thread John P Poet
Here are a couple more screenshots for you: http://snoopy.isa-geek.net:8044/shot10-upcomming.jpg http://snoopy.isa-geek.net:8044/shot11-list.jpg These are taken with the font set to default. John ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org

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

2006-01-18 Thread John P Poet
On 1/18/06, Justin Hornsby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So where you need to get it from is.. http://homepage.ntlworld.com/justin.hornsby2/pg-wide/ui.xml Hi Justin. Your theme has come a long way and is looking really good! Some of the fonts seem a little off. I did make sure I had Verdana

Re: [mythtv-users] mythfronend stuttering

2006-01-16 Thread John P Poet
On 1/16/06, Reuben Perelman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I run mythfront end on my computer (mythbackend is running on another computer connected to my tv) mythfrontend has short little pasues every couple seconds. My computer is connected to the computer running mythbackend through gigabit

Re: [mythtv-users] mythfronend stuttering

2006-01-16 Thread John P Poet
On 1/16/06, Reuben Perelman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John P Poet wrote: On 1/16/06, Reuben Perelman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I run mythfront end on my computer (mythbackend is running on another computer connected to my tv) mythfrontend has short little pasues every couple seconds

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

2006-01-05 Thread John P Poet
On 1/5/06, Justin Hornsby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Steve Adeff wrote: ok, its up and running... 1) I notice that the main menu still requires arrows, for me its only for 1 more menu option. Is it possible to put a menu option elsewhere on the screen? In the newer XBMC they use a button

Re: [mythtv-users] Choppy video and sound

2006-01-04 Thread John P Poet
On 1/4/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 12:14:46AM -0700, John P Poet wrote: Some people claim that enabling OpenGL causes their machine to lock up. I seem to remember Daniel Kristjansson committing some fixes to svn which *might* help with that. I

Re: [mythtv-users] Choppy video and sound

2006-01-03 Thread John P Poet
On 1/3/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Dec 31, 2005 at 10:33:14AM -0700, John P Poet wrote: On 12/31/05, Brett Swaim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: MythTv records great, but playback in full screen (video and audio) is choppy. If I exit mythtv and use mplayer that exact

Re: [mythtv-users] Choppy video and sound

2006-01-03 Thread John P Poet
On 1/3/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 09:13:10PM -0700, John P Poet wrote: OpenGL does not work for everyone. If it does work for you, then you definately want it. OpenGL provides the smoothest video refresh synchronization. Does it not work

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: New issue affect old previously unaffected build [WAS Re: [mythtv] Re: Ticket #900: HDTV at greater than 1.0 speed stutters

2006-01-02 Thread John P Poet
On 1/2/06, Steve Adeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 01 January 2006 16:17, John P Poet wrote: On 1/1/06, Steve Adeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 01 January 2006 12:19, Steve Adeff wrote: I'm really getting frustrated, there must be something I'm missing. I went all

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: New issue affect old previously unaffected build [WAS Re: [mythtv] Re: Ticket #900: HDTV at greater than 1.0 speed stutters

2006-01-01 Thread John P Poet
On 1/1/06, Steve Adeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 01 January 2006 12:19, Steve Adeff wrote: I'm really getting frustrated, there must be something I'm missing. I went all the way back to 8199 and I'm still getting stuttering! I even rebooted the machine. I've tried both gcc-4.0 and

Re: [mythtv-users] Choppy video and sound

2005-12-31 Thread John P Poet
On 12/31/05, Brett Swaim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey everybody, I know this has been asked before and I've tried a bunch of the previous fixes listed so I'm asking for myself. MythTv records great, but playback in full screen (video and audio) is choppy. If I exit mythtv and use mplayer that

Re: [mythtv-users] Lirc Broken After Kernel Upgrade

2005-12-27 Thread John P Poet
On 12/27/05, Drew Tomlinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I running Myth on Gentoo. I upgraded from 2.6.13-r5 to 2.6.14-r5 using gentoo-sources. I noticed lirc was not working after the upgrade. I tried rebuilding it but lirc 0.7.2 (the same version I was using before) fails to build. I have no

[mythtv-users] Re: [mythtv-commits] Ticket #798: Auto-disable AC3 passthru when using timestretch

2005-12-20 Thread John P Poet
On 12/12/05, MythTV [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: #798: Auto-disable AC3 passthru when using timestretch ---+ Reporter: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Owner: ijr Type: patch | Status: new Priority: minor

Re: [mythtv-users] maxtor drive with buffer i/o errors...how to get data off?

2005-12-13 Thread John P Poet
On 12/13/05, anders smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My main myth drive (a 200Gb Mator Diamond Max plus 9) suddenly dissappeared from sight. It was part of and LVM and formated with XFS. (I'm running FC3 based on Wilsonets howto) The system kept running except for mythbackend, it closed down

Re: [mythtv-users] New widescreen theme coming soon (a little OT)

2005-12-10 Thread John P Poet
On 12/8/05, Donavan Stanley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There are a few of them now... Minimalist was designed as a proof of concept. Post 18.1 it received a facelift that's not yet finished. Hopefully I'll get it wrapped up before .19. Donavan, I actually like Minimalist quite a bit. The

Re: [mythtv-users] Most flexible / highest quality HD video card FE solution

2005-12-10 Thread John P Poet
On 12/10/05, Brian Foddy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip My TV is a CRT RP 51 Hitachi, and it will accept component or HDMI inputs. I currently us a NV 5600 and component converter to drive the tv. snip The new MB will most likely be PCI-e. I'd probably pick a 6200, maybe 6600 except I see a

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

2005-12-09 Thread John P Poet
On 12/9/05, mrwester [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

Re: [mythtv-users] QAM and ATSC HDTV on the Same Card

2005-11-27 Thread John P Poet
On 11/27/05, Steve Adeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 27 November 2005 13:38, David Ellis wrote: I have a HDTV Antenna (oriented correctly - works for 7+ channels), and a Digital QAM Provider (100% working, channels decoded). What I'm looking to-do is potentially combine both

[mythtv-users] kernel 2.6.14 and Lirc: a warning

2005-11-21 Thread John P Poet
Just thought I might save some other a bit of trouble with kernel 2.6.14 and Lirc. After upgrading to the latest kernel, I had a problem betting lirc to work. Turns out that you must use the latest beta of lirc, if using kernel 2.6.14:

Re: [mythtv-users] Interesting PC Frontend idea...

2005-11-15 Thread John P Poet
On 11/15/05, Rudy Zijlstra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Brad Fuller wrote: Robert Johnston wrote: Has anyone tried one of these systems as a frontend? http://www.littlepc.com/products_fanless_p4.htm That machine's around the same size as a standard internal CD-Rom drive. I didn't

Re: [mythtv-users] No sound from HD-3000 sometime after svn 7031,

2005-11-02 Thread John P Poet
I accidental selected Watch TV last night, a noticed there was no sound. When I went and checked all of my recordings, however, the sound was fine. Checked live TV again, and once again there was no sound. Makes me think this is a live TV only problem. John

Re: [mythtv-users] Aborted?

2005-10-24 Thread John P Poet
On 10/23/05, Bruce Markey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John P Poet wrote: My mythbackend crashed while recording three shows. I noticed almost immediately, and restarted it. Two of the three shows started recording again. The third, however, did not. When I looked to see why, that third

[mythtv-users] Aborted?

2005-10-23 Thread John P Poet
My mythbackend crashed while recording three shows. I noticed almost immediately, and restarted it. Two of the three shows started recording again. The third, however, did not. When I looked to see why, that third recording had an Aborted status. What does Aborted mean, in this context. Why

[mythtv-users] Mythmusic audiobooks

2005-10-13 Thread John P Poet
Does Mythmusic support any kind of bookmark function? Are there any special tricks for listening to mult-part audio books? Thanks, John ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

Re: [mythtv-users] Best Soundcard?

2005-10-13 Thread John P Poet
On 10/13/05, Kevin Kuphal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Derek Meek wrote: so what sound card (or AMD-CPU motherboard with integrated sound) would you recommend - i noticed the ~$80 price for the audigy 2 zs plat. pro was 'noise' on pricewatch and the cheapest one is actually $200, which is

Re: [mythtv-users] Anyone successful with HD3000 DVB and PVR-150/500's?

2005-09-27 Thread John P Poet
In the long run, I think you would be happier with the PVR-500. Also, I can make no guarantee that an older PVR card will work any better. John ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org

Re: [mythtv-users] Source for drives

2005-09-27 Thread John P Poet
On 9/27/05, Mike Daugird [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: are there any good sources for hard drives? I am recording at 2 gib/hr mpeg2 from my pvr 350 and I have been very happy with the way it has been working so far. My problem now is that I have run out of room on a 250 gig drive that formatted

Re: [mythtv-users] Anyone successful with HD3000 DVB and PVR-150/500's?

2005-09-27 Thread John P Poet
(unpatched) from 2.6.12 sources from kernel.org and I'm using any .ko that ivtv 0.3.7a builds. I'm using the DVB drivers from the kernel. Everything works fine for me. --Jack --- John P Poet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the long run, I think you would be happier with the PVR-500. Also

Re: [mythtv-users] Anyone successful with HD3000 DVB and PVR-150/500's?

2005-09-26 Thread John P Poet
On 9/26/05, ToadMazter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Four months, two cases, three CPU's, four motherboards, and 42 more gray hairs later... and I still have yet to watch any MythTV. :-( I'm currently on FC4 using two HD3000's and a PVR-150 (soon to be replaced with a PVR-500). After a complete

Re: [mythtv-users] 1080i not available on FC4?

2005-09-21 Thread John P Poet
On 9/21/05, Mat Kyne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip It booted into 720p no problem, but when I tried to change the resolution to 1080i, the resolution was not available. Does anyone know why KDE would not see or allow the 1920x1080i resolution? I am posting my modified xorg.conf file. Any

Re: [mythtv-users] Link To A Nice Case

2005-09-15 Thread John P Poet
On 9/15/05, Paul K [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I used this case for my second Myth box. For the $39 +shipping, It's nice. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16811195020 Although I have this setup as a remote box, it's looks nice enough to have by the TV. One thing that

Re: [mythtv-users] HDTV format question

2005-09-12 Thread John P Poet
On 9/12/05, Pete Stagman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I've been using MythTV for over a year now and finally got an HDTV TV. PCHDTV card coming soon. My new HDTV TV has multiple inputs. HDMI, Component, S-video and VGA. (max resolution on the VGA is 1024x768, no widescreen)

Re: [mythtv-users] Beginning the Journey of 1,000 miles...

2005-09-09 Thread John P Poet
On 9/9/05, Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm setting up my MythTV. Just got the machine I want to use and have hit my first snag. The S-Video out is different from any of the other S-Videos I have. It's got holes for about 8 pins. I'm now rummaging through my cable box trying to find one

Re: [mythtv-users] WinTV-PVR-500

2005-09-08 Thread John P Poet
On 9/8/05, Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Both tuners are setup in mythtv-setup, it's recording right now, and it says it's using all available inputs. I'm lost, I think I should remove all my settings and start over. When I setup my PVR-500 initially, I had a similar problem. When I

Re: [mythtv-users] Best deal on premade lirc receivers?

2005-09-02 Thread John P Poet
On 9/2/05, Stephen Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I bought my pre-made receiver from here: http://www.zapway.de/e_index1.htm They're small / simple and well made. Delivery was quick (to the UK) and reasonably priced. Steve I can second that recomendation, and I live in the U.S.

[mythtv-users] OT: HD-3000 QAM working for anyone?

2005-08-30 Thread John P Poet
My HD-3000 cards have been working great for VSB. For the last week I have been struggeling trying to get one working with QAM. I can successfully tune in a non-encrypted channel, but the video is extremely pixelated and the audio drops out for most of each second. I know my cabling is good,

Re: [mythtv-users] OT: HD-3000 QAM working for anyone?

2005-08-30 Thread John P Poet
On 8/30/05, Erik Pettersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I had QAM working with my HD-3000 for unencrypted local HD cable channels. Had? I assume you're using the dvb drivers? Do you have a way to determine if the drops are in the recording, and not just symptoms of a system/configuration

Re: [mythtv-users] OT: HD-3000 QAM working for anyone?

2005-08-30 Thread John P Poet
On 8/30/05, Erik Pettersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, It was kind of a dry run with spare hardware not totally suitable to the task. Plus my interest diminished in pursuing QAM when it only netted me 1 or 2 channels in the clear that I couldn't get OTA ... (stupid adelphia *shakes fist*

Re: [mythtv-users] Custom Record - First Episodes

2005-08-17 Thread John P Poet
On 8/16/05, Bruce Markey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John P Poet wrote:... I noticed your First Episodes template in Custom Record.This is *really* cool.I have been able to craft up a Series Premier rule which finds new shows with categories I might be interested in. Cool. Post it. It is somewhat

[mythtv-users] Custom Record - First Episodes

2005-08-16 Thread John P Poet
Bruce, I noticed your First Episodes template in Custom Record. This is *really* cool. I have been able to craft up a Series Premier rule which finds new shows with categories I might be interested in. However, I have run into a problem. When my Series Premier rule finds a show I know I am

Re: [mythtv-users] How to debug no sound ?

2005-06-26 Thread John P Poet
On 6/26/05, Michael T. Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John P Poet wrote: I just did a fresh install of Fedora Core 4.Everything is working great, except I get no sound out of Myth.snip Under FC2, I thought I had solved the problem by adding

[mythtv-users] How to debug no sound ?

2005-06-25 Thread John P Poet
I just did a fresh install of Fedora Core 4. Everything is working great, except I get no sound out of Myth. I had a similar problem when I first installed my maudio sound card under FC2. All other programs would produce sound out the S/PDIF jack just fine, but Myth was mute. I thought I had