Re: [mythtv-users] Realistic?

2005-11-09 Thread Jonathan Link
I had trouble with two frontends watching simultaenously while recording two different shows with 2-PVR-250s. Watching on one front end was fine, the second one really drug it down. -Jonathan On 11/9/05, Lonnie Borntreger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a P3-500 with 256M RAM (500M swap) with

Re: [mythtv-users] Absolute NEWBIE, question about Linux

2005-11-07 Thread Jonathan Link
Many newbies cut their teeth on Jarod Wilson's excellent walkthrough. I still refer to it when I setup a Fedora based system. http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/ On 11/7/05, William [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf

Re: [mythtv-users] Error while starting to record. WAF hashitrock bottom.

2005-09-24 Thread Jonathan Link
Then she needs to understand the cost of those new features. C'mon. My wife likes new features, too, but she can usually wait for a release. On 9/24/05, Moasat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Silly question, but if you are trying to achieve a high WAF, why are you running SVN? Unless there is

Re: [mythtv-users] This is dumb

2005-08-22 Thread Jonathan Link
Bandaid approach? You've never said that you're loading ivtv in your modprobe.conf file. Maybe you're not loading it, as Isaac indicated. The commands you are citing are the commands to manually load ivtv. Regards, Jonathan S. Link On 8/22/05, todd Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: my point

Re: [mythtv-users] This is dumb

2005-08-22 Thread Jonathan Link
frustration on this. Thanks for the Hint, I'll track this down and see what I come up with. On Mon, 2005-08-22 at 23:05 -0400, Jonathan Link wrote: Bandaid approach? You've never said that you're loading ivtv in your modprobe.conf file. Maybe you're not loading it, as Isaac indicated

Re: [mythtv-users] This is dumb

2005-08-22 Thread Jonathan Link
-ivtv alias msp3400 msp3400-ivtv install lirc_i2c /sbin/modprobe ivtv; /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install lirc_i2c options ivtv cardtype=2 On Mon, 2005-08-22 at 23:36 -0400, Jonathan Link wrote: It's easy to miss something in the guide. Why don't you copy and paste a snippet of your

Re: [mythtv-users] OT: kernel disabling IRQ#7 (Sound Stops working)

2005-07-11 Thread Jonathan Link
You don't mention the distribution you're using, but I've experienced this before on an FCx system. As I recall I installed using Jarod's fabulous guide, but forgot to install the kmdl for ALSA. Sound would work, for a time, but sometime between 12 and 36 hours, I'd get the message you describe.

Re: [mythtv-users] Mythtv setup total failure - how to start over?

2005-06-15 Thread Jonathan Link
If you instaleld it using apt, you should remove with apt. apt-get remove on a dependency does wonders. -Jonathan On 6/15/05, Todd Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: perhaps, but I did a apt-get install. So even after a uninstall all the config files, help doc's and executables still remain. a

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Feature request: backwards compatability

2005-05-19 Thread Jonathan Link
I've never known a pissing contest that wasn't lame. -Jonathan On 5/19/05, Mat Mrosko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why in my day, we had to walk 30 miles in the snow butt-naked, and we had to send messages by horseback... C'mon, this is the lamest pissing contest I've ever seen...LoL -Mat

Re: [mythtv-users] OT: Seagate 200gig IDE, $60 -- REBATE FRAUD

2005-05-14 Thread Jonathan Link
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 them your info, and have them jump through the hoops

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Making best use of spare PCs

2005-05-09 Thread Jonathan Link
On 5/9/05, Daniel Howell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why are you transcoding these files when they're MPEG2 to start with? Here's a quick test - transfer one of your DVB recordings to a Windows machine, rename it to .mpg, and try to play it. If you've got MPEG2 codecs installed, you should

Re: [mythtv-users] computer clock drifting

2005-05-09 Thread Jonathan Link
FWIW, I am running FC2, and have had issues with ntpd not actually doing anything except on startup or restarting of the service. I'm not actually interested enough in it to figure it out, so I added a script to /etc/cron.hourly which synchs to a time server, and removed the ntpd service. Looks

Re: [mythtv-users] LxMSuite.com to provide services to the Mythcommunity

2005-05-06 Thread Jonathan Link
I'm with you. I'm leery, because of Isaac's silence and because of reasons below. First reason this is a startup. Startups have zero credibility. Second, I'd like to see more, I'd like to see optional themes, now, not promises of more in the future. I guess what I mean is that being that this

Re: [mythtv-users] First frontend only machine

2005-04-26 Thread Jonathan Link
Don't forget... http://mvpmc.sourceforge.net/idx.php?pg=main I'm playing around with one now. On 4/26/05, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, After setting up MythTV and recording overnight I'm ready to start looking more deeply into what I'll eventually be placing at multiple (4-5)

Re: [mythtv-users] Mythfrontend kills LIRCD process.

2005-04-20 Thread Jonathan Link
Have you tried [re]starting lircd after the frontend starts up? What happens then? If that works, I would then look at restarting lircd, quitting the frontend and starting the frontend to see if it is repeatable. On 4/20/05, Paul Manning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I recently upgraded to a larger

Re: [mythtv-users] Crash with Live TV (PVR-250MCE)

2005-03-02 Thread Jonathan Link
Does the location for live tv buffer actually exist, and does myth [user] have perms to write to that location? I remember when I first installed and configured myth over a year ago, I missed configuring that. Recording was fine, LiveTV would lockup. Just an idea, it was something that was so

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: How slow can we go, cpu wise? P2-333?

2005-02-27 Thread Jonathan Link
I think you're misinterpreting the results on this list. If you use a PVR-x50, you should be fine. I myself had a system running 2 PVR-250's on a PII 400. I was able to record to channels at the default settings, and watch one at the same time. IT worked just fine, until I went to mythweb, then

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Torrentocracy Patch against Mythtv-cvs

2005-02-27 Thread Jonathan Link
Bottom line, this list is operated under the sufferance of the developer(s). Though IANAD for Myth, I certainly understand their desire to avoid the appearance of impropriety. As with any OSS, develop add-ons and discuss them in another forum, just respect the developers' wishes that this

[mythtv-users] OT Spam ad from Chicago Tribune

2005-02-22 Thread Jonathan Link
Spam filter caught it, but I thought it might be telling. Ad was for Le Meridien hotels, FYI . The only connection this account has to the chicago tribune is my data direct subscription (Tribune Media is the parent of Chicago Tribune and Zap2it, is Le Meridien, too?). Anyone else get one? Warm

Re: [mythtv-users] Reuters: FCC Overstepped Authority on Digital TV

2005-02-22 Thread Jonathan Link
Standing is such a bugaboo, and what I've been most worried since this campaign started. Was the brief prepared for questions of standing? The article left unsaid anything about the oral argument for standing. IANAL, but I'm interested in law, and at one point seriously considered law school.

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: No Sound in Just MythTV

2005-02-18 Thread Jonathan Link
I've had some issues similar to this. I have a PVR250, which I think is relevant to my situation, maybe yours, but no one mentioned that was their capture card. Restarting the backend after bootup would allow me to record sound to my card. I've seen some other issues on the list relating to

Re: [mythtv-users] can't find kernel#2.6.8-1.521

2005-01-07 Thread Jonathan Link
I poked around and found that this kernel has been discontinued. I'm not sure where it was being pulled from, but use this version: 2.6.9-1.6_FC2. -Jonathan On Fri, 7 Jan 2005 21:38:05 -0500, Julian Simpson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm following jarod's guide for fc2. after a successfull