Re: [mythtv-users] bigger fonts please

2005-06-23 Thread John Patrick Poet
On Thu, 23 Jun 2005, Donavan Stanley wrote: On 6/23/05, Donavan Stanley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Minimalist-Wide is something I slapped together as a proof of concept and as such it has MANY rough edges. I'm currently working on a rewrite that looks MUCH better, and should use fewer

Re: [mythtv-users] Consecutive shows on same channel

2005-06-13 Thread John Patrick Poet
On Mon, 13 Jun 2005, Andrew Close wrote: On 6/13/05, Phill Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's an improvement but there is still the problem of having one of the shows partly in another file (they never end/begin exactly on time). It would be necessary to always watch both shows

Re: [mythtv-users] Questions about themes

2005-05-26 Thread John Patrick Poet
On Thu, 26 May 2005, Donavan Stanley wrote: On 5/26/05, IvanK. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a few questions about themes: 1) Do you have to be a programmer to create a new theme? Nope, though you will need to edit XML. A paint program and a text editor are the basic tools. 2)

Re: [mythtv-users] Fox 3 hour HD program size ?

2005-05-23 Thread John Patrick Poet
On Mon, 23 May 2005, Mudit Wahal wrote: Hi All, The file size for the 3 hour HD program recorded on Fox yesterday evening from 7 to 10pm? Mine is only 12GB. -rw-r--r-- 1 mythtv mythtv 12912449684 May 22 22:00 1031_2005052219_200505.nuv Is it recorded correctly ? Just

Re: [mythtv-users] Cursor won't go away

2005-05-16 Thread John Patrick Poet
On Sun, 15 May 2005, Preston Crow wrote: After upgrading, my cursor won't go away. I've tried changing the new setting to tell it to remove it, both turning it on and off, and nothing helps. Any idea what I'm missing? Upgrading to what? This is fixed (for me) in the current CVS. John

Re: [mythtv-users] Cursor won't go away

2005-05-16 Thread John Patrick Poet
On Mon, 16 May 2005, Preston Crow wrote: On Mon, 2005-05-16 at 12:33, John Patrick Poet wrote: On Sun, 15 May 2005, Preston Crow wrote: After upgrading, my cursor won't go away. I've tried changing the new setting to tell it to remove it, both turning it on and off, and nothing

Re: [mythtv-users] Semi-OT: HD modeline question, and XVMC question

2005-04-26 Thread John Patrick Poet
On Tue, 26 Apr 2005, Nate Thompson wrote: I finally got around to ordering a VGA-Component adapter which arrived yesterday afternoon. After some issues getting Windows to work properly, I was able to generate a pretty good 960x540p modeline for my Philips PW8402/37 30 WS television. While it

Re: [mythtv-users] Recording Sporting Events to the real end

2005-04-21 Thread John Patrick Poet
On Thu, 21 Apr 2005, Matthew K. Lee wrote: On 4/21/05, Preston Crow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have an idea for recording sporting events that may not end on schedule: Have Myth check the score at some web site to determine whether the game has actually ended. Then Myth could

Re: Small quiet HDTV frontend (was Re: [mythtv-users] kernel 2.6.12 support)

2005-04-12 Thread John Patrick Poet
On Wed, 6 Apr 2005, David George wrote: On 4/6/2005 3:47 PM, Big Wave Dave wrote: I'm surprised you can play HDTV with a 1Ghz. I thought you need a lot more power than that for HDTV... even when offloading some to the GPU. We'll see. Ivor Hewitt has posted some results of playing HDTV

Re: Small quiet HDTV frontend (was Re: [mythtv-users] kernel 2.6.12 support)

2005-04-06 Thread John Patrick Poet
On Wed, 6 Apr 2005, David George wrote: On 4/2/2005 7:55 PM, John Patrick Poet wrote: David George wrote: HDTV capable frontend I am working on (now with a picture) http://mythhd.info David, this looks very promising. How would the S/PDIF connector fit in that case? Are you

Re: [mythtv-users] View all upcoming movies without duplicates?

2005-04-04 Thread John Patrick Poet
On Sun, 3 Apr 2005, Bruce Markey wrote: John Patrick Poet wrote: ... I just submitted a patch to the dev list which uses the 1/2 keys to switch between the normal All view and a Unique view. This works for Movies, Categories and Channels. Not being a SQL expert, the above example

Re: [mythtv-users] Optimizing MythTV for AMD64

2005-04-03 Thread John Patrick Poet
Kyle Rose wrote: In Seattle, NBC and CBS are 1080i, FOX and ABC are both 720p. Whether it varies from region to region depends on the distribution method: are HD network programs transmitted in digital or analog? If digital, then chances are I'm simply wrong and ABC is usually 720p. If

Re: [mythtv-users] View all upcoming movies without duplicates?

2005-04-03 Thread John Patrick Poet
Bruce Markey wrote: Dan Wilga wrote: As we all know, movie channels like to show the same film over and over. As it stands, Myth's Movies listing is huge, because is shows the same films many times. Finding movies I'd like to record takes a really long time, because of all the duplicates. It's

[mythtv-users] Re: [ivtv-devel] kernel 2.6.12 support

2005-04-02 Thread John Patrick Poet
David George wrote: HDTV capable frontend I am working on (now with a picture) http://mythhd.info David, this looks very promising. How would the S/PDIF connector fit in that case? Are you looking at using the component video or DVI? How would those connectors fit in that case? thanks,

RE: [mythtv-users] HDTV Woes

2005-04-01 Thread John Patrick Poet
On Fri, 1 Apr 2005, Todd Tidwell wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:mythtv-users- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mat Kyne Sent: Friday, April 01, 2005 8:41 AM To: mythtv-users@mythtv.org Subject: [mythtv-users] HDTV Woes After 5 attempts to get myth

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

2005-03-31 Thread John Patrick Poet
On Wed, 30 Mar 2005, Chris Pinkham wrote: With the new ALL method, the Strict Commercial Detection setting wasn't being used, so I just committed a change to CVS to use it in the blank-frame detection code to allow reverting to the stricter black-frame detection that was Now

Re: [mythtv-users] How do you tune subchannels in QAM?

2005-03-31 Thread John Patrick Poet
Since you can view them outside of Myth, your channels must not be encrypted. Unfortunately for me, most of mine are. When I went through that process, it LOCKED a whole bunch of channels, but only was able to TUNE the three unencrypted channels which my local Comcast system provides. Since

Re: [mythtv-users] Myth/spdif no audio, mplayer works fine

2005-03-30 Thread John Patrick Poet
On Tue, 29 Mar 2005, Christopher Ruppel wrote: --- John Patrick Poet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have AC3 passthrough turned on, and currently have ALSA:iec958 in the driver box. I have also tried ALSA:default, and I have even tried ALSA:cards.pcm.iec958. Myth does not complain

Re: [mythtv-users] Myth/spdif no audio, mplayer works fine

2005-03-30 Thread John Patrick Poet
On Tue, 29 Mar 2005, John Patrick Poet wrote: On Tue, 29 Mar 2005, Kevin Kuphal wrote: John Patrick Poet wrote: I have AC3 passthrough turned on, and currently have ALSA:iec958 in the driver box. I have also tried ALSA:default, and I have even tried ALSA:cards.pcm.iec958

Re: [mythtv-users] Where to (really) buy an Air2PC -or- should I get a HD-3000?

2005-03-30 Thread John Patrick Poet
On Tue, 29 Mar 2005, Paul B. Henson wrote: On Tue, 29 Mar 2005, Seth Heckard wrote: I've had a Air2PC on backorder from cyberestore for a while now, and just checked on the status to see that it's delayed until May or June. Not only that, but it will use a new chipset that probably won't

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

2005-03-30 Thread John Patrick Poet
On Sun, 27 Mar 2005, Chris Pinkham wrote: Within the first week that you introduced the ALL method, detection was simply amazing. I have never seen it work so well. Then I saw a message from you saying that you had to loosen up the concept of black. After that, detection really took

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

2005-03-27 Thread John Patrick Poet
Chris Pinkham wrote: I've been using the All option since it was introduced and, I have to agree that it was MUCH better then than it is now. Must be sensitive to the type of signal or something. When is then? I am not sure who you are quoting in this message, but I will chime in. Within

Re: [mythtv-users] View all upcoming movies without duplicates?

2005-03-23 Thread John Patrick Poet
On Wed, 23 Mar 2005, Dan Wilga wrote: As we all know, movie channels like to show the same film over and over. As it stands, Myth's Movies listing is huge, because is shows the same films many times. Finding movies I'd like to record takes a really long time, because of all the duplicates.

Re: [mythtv-users] mythcommflag in 0.17 better and worse

2005-03-16 Thread John Patrick Poet
On Wed, 16 Mar 2005, Mark Matula wrote: I'm using the All method of detection and have sine like .11 or so. Commercial detection seems better at avoiding false-positives in the middle of shows and no longer seems to cut up shows like Law and Order with a lot of dark scenes that seemed to

Re: [mythtv-users] pchdtv3000 compile help

2005-03-15 Thread John Patrick Poet
On Sun, 13 Mar 2005, Brandon Beattie wrote: On Sun, Mar 13, 2005 at 09:46:29PM -0600, Mike Isely wrote: The release 1.6 pchdtv drivers are known not to compile properly against the 2.6.10 kernel release. There were internal changes in video4linux there that break the driver. Check

Re: [mythtv-users] How I got great quality TV-out on my nVidia MX4000

2005-03-09 Thread John Patrick Poet
On Wed, 9 Mar 2005, Jeroen Brosens wrote: I gave up after trying *every* combination of driver/cable/modeline/X11 video output device/eating shoes and decided to buy a nVidia card after Staffan Pettersson persuaded me (thank you):

Re: [mythtv-users] Reinstall for .17

2005-03-07 Thread John Patrick Poet
On Mon, 7 Mar 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Long time user, about to upgrade to .17 by compiling source (as I always do). However, I have a problem where my my database is semi corrupt. I can't explain how, but I have random channels that display twice in my guide, and recordings I can't

Re: [mythtv-users] HDTV on 0.17 - only records half the show

2005-02-17 Thread John Patrick Poet
On Thu, 17 Feb 2005, Eric Werness wrote: Eric Werness wrote: When I rebuilt my system around when 0.16 came out, I tried 2.6 with very little success (all videos playback stuttered - no obvious reason why). Changing the driver is my last resort given how much trouble I've had with it

Re: [mythtv-users] How to delete failed recordings from database?

2005-02-10 Thread John Patrick Poet
Chris Pinkham wrote: Sometime in the last two weeks, the behavior when deleting a show which actually failed to record has changed. Now I get this error: 2005-02-10 00:31:24.939 ERROR when trying to delete file: /mythtv/store/1004_20050131205800_2005013122.nuv. File doesn't exist.

[mythtv-users] How to delete failed recordings from database?

2005-02-09 Thread John Patrick Poet
Sometime in the last two weeks, the behavior when deleting a show which actually failed to record has changed. Now I get this error: 2005-02-10 00:31:24.939 ERROR when trying to delete file: /mythtv/store/1004_20050131205800_2005013122.nuv. File doesn't exist. Database metadata will not

[mythtv-users] Myth is working great! Thank you all.

2005-01-05 Thread John Patrick Poet
I have been using Myth for a year now. It has always worked well enough to keep me interested and excited, but over that period there have been times when it worked better than others. At the moment Myth is working as well as it ever has. It is truly a pleasure to use. It is so nice to have

Re: [mythtv-users] ATSC content heavy pixel-ating every 15 sec's

2004-12-31 Thread John Patrick Poet
You also might try applying this DTV-ringbuffer patch: http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/dev/101580 to the latest CVS. John Yan-Fa Li wrote: Two problems appear obvious: 1. Your drive isn't quite set correctly, just mostly. Try adding: hdparm -c3 /dev/hdb You can also see if your

Re: [mythtv-users] New Custom Record

2004-12-15 Thread John Patrick Poet
On Wed, 15 Dec 2004, Bruce Markey wrote: John Patrick Poet wrote: ... Since you and Donavan are discussing this, I am hoping that you will consider another plea I made here: http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/dev/92650?#92650 This also has to do with duplicate detection

Re: [mythtv-users] New Custom Record

2004-12-13 Thread John Patrick Poet
On Mon, 13 Dec 2004, Bruce Markey wrote: Donavan Stanley wrote: On Sun, 12 Dec 2004 15:01:13 -0800, Bruce Markey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Brad Templeton wrote: As it stands now, myth's Record new episodes only generally sees generic episodes as out of date and marks then as repeats.

Re: [mythtv-users] Lightweight window manager recommendation

2004-12-08 Thread John Patrick Poet
On Tue, 7 Dec 2004, Preston Crow wrote: On Tue, 2004-12-07 at 11:29, John Patrick Poet wrote: WMI is another good choice. It is designed to be used without a mouse, although a mouse can be used. For example, To create a new xterm: alt-i xt To quit: atl-i q The reason I

Re: [mythtv-users] Minimum pcHDTV frontend (with decent vid card)

2004-12-07 Thread John Patrick Poet
On Tue, 7 Dec 2004, Cory Papenfuss wrote: Hey all. I'm looking to get a pcHDTV card soon, but wanted to know if I'll have to redo my frontend as well. I've looked through the archives some, but there's a pretty low SNR on actual information. Assuming an NVIDIA card (FX5200 or

Re: [mythtv-users] Lightweight window manager recommendation

2004-12-07 Thread John Patrick Poet
On Tue, 7 Dec 2004, Cory Papenfuss wrote: On Tue, 7 Dec 2004, Travis Osterman wrote: I've been using Myth on my dedicated fc1 box for roughly one year now and have only wonderful things to say. During the holidays I am planning on performing some hardware upgrades to my system and am

Re: [mythtv-users] HD-2000 with new drivers

2004-12-01 Thread John Patrick Poet
On Wed, 1 Dec 2004, Kyle Rose wrote: I posted a message on the pcHDTV forums about this, but they don't appear to read their own forum because I have gotten zero response about this. So, I figured I'd try here since we are probably the largest easily-characterizable subset of pcHDTV users.