Re: [mythtv-users] DVI->HDMI on Toshiba DLP

> Not to go too off topic, but have either of you successfully generated > a modeline that eliminates most of the vertical overscan when running > at 1280x720p? I've managed to get rid of most of the horizontal > overscan, but am at a loss when it comes to the vertical... What TV do you have? If

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: [OT] *Real* High-Def TV!

> I was looking at TVs at Best Buy recently and thought it was funny > that they had HDCP on all the sets as if it were a feature. Sadly, it's a feature in the same sense that a robber that takes only appliances and not jewelry is a feature that might make him more acceptable than a robber who ste

Re: [mythtv-users] OT: RG-6 crimping question

Michael T. Dean wrote: > Kyle Rose wrote: > >> LOL. There are actually three (somewhat tongue-in-cheek), and I >> accidentally combined the second and third in my statement: >> >> 1. Cable quality doesn't matter when the data flowing over it is digital. >&

Re: [mythtv-users] OT: RG-6 crimping question

> Hear, Hear! I agree. Save your money. (PS - Kyle, what's your 1st rule?) I sent this to Ryan earlier tonight: Ryan A. Carris wrote: >> I think I miss the Kyle Rose First Rule of Home Theater? LOL. There are actually three (somewhat tongue-in-cheek), and I accidentally combi

Re: [mythtv-users] OT: RG-6 crimping question

> I > couldn't see a differance between the $2 one and the $25. [Anyone > want to buy a Monster Gold Plated 3-way splitter, drop me an email. :) > ] As a brief aside: my second rule of home theater is that Monster = snake oil. Monster cables and components are indeed built well, but they are no

Re: [mythtv-users] AudioScrobbler, anyone?

thor wrote: > On Tuesday 24 May 2005 12:56 pm, Kyle Rose wrote: > >>Does anyone here use AudioScrobbler to log their music listening habits? >> I wrote a patch to add AS reporting to recent CVS versions of >>mythplugins/mythmusic, but evidently no one on -dev uses AS, >

Re: [mythtv-users] DVD rip preserving menus

> Actually, libdvdcss will generate new keys for the material off the copy > since you're copying everything (including Xing's unencrypted private > key and all the encrypted keys along with the encrypted content--you're > copying all the bits from the disc). Remember in *nix, everything is a > fi

Re: [mythtv-users] DVD rip preserving menus

>> This was on the list a while back. >> It will make a perfect copy to the HD of the entire DVD. >> I found you need to open the DVD with xine first to unlock it and >>then you can copy it. > > >> dd if=/dev/dvd of=/tmp/copy_of.iso bs=2048 >> xine dvd:///tmp/copy_of.dvd/ > > > > It works an

[mythtv-users] AudioScrobbler, anyone?

Does anyone here use AudioScrobbler to log their music listening habits? I wrote a patch to add AS reporting to recent CVS versions of mythplugins/mythmusic, but evidently no one on -dev uses AS, and I'd like to get some feedback on how it works and if there are any problems. The patch is attache

Re: [mythtv-users] Attention "24" watchers: check your upcoming recordings

> I'm curious as to why you used that as your profile rather than a plain > "Record on any/this channel" with "Record new only?" What you say might > help improve the interface. Just lazy. I've probably been setting my recurring recordings up this way all along. Probably "record any time on thi

Re: [mythtv-users] [OT] *Real* High-Def TV!

> 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. > > Of course, I can't remember where I saw it, so I could be making things > up. My brain does that these days. LOL, imagining th

[mythtv-users] Attention "24" watchers: check your upcoming recordings

Just a public service announcement: if you have "24" set up to record with "In this timeslot every week," be aware that you do not currently have an upcoming recording for tomorrow night's finale because it starts at 8 and is two hours. Kyle ___ mythtv-u

Re: [mythtv-users] [OT] *Real* High-Def TV!

Michael T. Dean wrote: > Jack R. Hyde wrote: > >> The problem with the new 1080p samsungs is that they don't support 1080p >> over the HDMI/DVI port. >> >> > That's interesting (and sad). Kind of like stopping 10 feet short of > the finish in a marathon. It's especially dumb because one of the

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Unable to download program guide

>>Real quality service there. >> > > > C'mon - is that really necessary? Especially since we're paying so much for it. ;-) Seriously, beggars can't be choosers. Kyle ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mail

Re: [mythtv-users] SBLive - OpticalSPDIF issues

Andy O'Brien wrote: > Hey Michael, thanks for the responce, sorry I haven't had much time to > fiddle with the box lately, but after checking all my settings I still > haven't figured out what's going on here. This is way, way too complex for an SB Live. (At least for one of the emu10k1 variety;

Re: [mythtv-users] Hardware Platforms

> P.S. What is WAF? Others will tell you it means "Wife Acceptance Factor," but the single among us know it really represents "Whipped and Foolish". :) Cheers, Kyle ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/

Re: [mythtv-users] pcHDTV3000 - Anyone installed and use this?

>>FWIW, I was unable to get 0.2.x to work with DVB. When I went to >>0.3.3m, everything worked. Just another data point. >> > Looks like the latest gentoo ebuild is for 0.2.0_rc3-r4. To apply physician's logic here: then don't use the ebuild. :) Seriously, for things this bleeding-edge, managed

Re: [mythtv-users] pcHDTV3000 - Anyone installed and use this?

>>>I did a little poking around the archives and it seems there may be >>>problems with this card being in the same box as a PVR 350 (which I >>>do) - is that true? >> >>If you're using DVB and some recent version of ivtv (I use 0.3.3m), then >>there are no problems, at least with my hardware setup

Re: [mythtv-users] Pundit - DVI - Samsung HLP

Frostykev wrote: > I am in the process of loading MythTv on my Asus pundit (not R) using > the SIS chipset. So far the install is going well. The problem is that > my samsung is not recognizing the DVI. Using the SISCTRL program it > looks like the DVI port is an Analog port. Is this true? Wil

Re: [mythtv-users] pcHDTV3000 - Anyone installed and use this?

> I did a little poking around the archives and it seems there may be > problems with this card being in the same box as a PVR 350 (which I > do) - is that true? If you're using DVB and some recent version of ivtv (I use 0.3.3m), then there are no problems, at least with my hardware setup. YMMV d

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: pcHDTV3000 - Anyone installed and use this?

> So, > in your post I see that "Intel PIIX/ICH SATA support" was selected - > is that what you think will provide support for those other two drive > ports? I'm sorry; I should have proofread before cut-and-paste. No, you want NVIDIA support for the first chip. For the Marvell chip, things appe

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: pcHDTV3000 - Anyone installed and use this?

> I would have been able to tell you had I been at home. Sorry. My > motherboard is the EpOX EP-9NDA3+ > (http://www.epox.com/USA/product.asp?id=EP-9NDA3plus). Well, from looking at the specs, I can suggest the following: "Two S-ATA ports from nForce3 Ultra with up to 150MBps bandwidth Two S-AT

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: pcHDTV3000 - Anyone installed and use this?

> I don't recall the name, but whichever is the more current. I tried > it with the older one, and got a whole bunch of unexpectedness, so > switched back. It's odd, but with 2.6.9 it all just works, but > anything above that and the machine seems to freeze (though it's not > really frozen) at th

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: pcHDTV3000 - Anyone installed and use this?

> I've tried on a few occasions to upgrade my kernel beyond 2.6.9. > Unfortunately, doing so seems to break support for my onboard SATA > controllers. Which driver are you using? SCSI (libata) or the IDE driver? Kyle ___ mythtv-users mailing list myth

Re: [mythtv-users] Broadcast flag thrown out

> I already have an HD monitor (30" LCD) and cable box, so I know what it looks > like. I've watched a handful of shows with it (most recently, the final > episode of JAG) and the image quality is better, but not so much better that > it's worth waiting through ads (and spending ~50% more time glu

Re: [mythtv-users] 169time and new Firewire capture ability

> I don't own the product, but from what I gather it's output does not > implement any standard for transfer of video data. It comes out in > some proprietary format that needs to be transformed by another box. > He sells a PC running a special program for this purpose. It all > struck me as rat

Re: [mythtv-users] DVB Channel setup

> It would be nice if zap2it could update their information to match > their callsigns with what the stations are actually broadcasting > (since I'm assuming DVB is getting the callsign from the broadcast > stream). This is absolutely the right answer, but beggars can't be choosers. Cheers, Kyle

Re: [mythtv-users] DVB Channel setup

> If I go into Advance --> DVB Transport Editor, I get all the Transport > freqs but I don't know which channel they are for and don't know how > to set it manual. Even if I set it up manual, will Zap2it still push > old channel number in? This is the problem I was referring to on the -dev list.

Re: [mythtv-users] Recovering from "drop oldrecorded" ?

Patrick Kirchner wrote: > Hello, > > I was trying to restore my oldrecorded programs backup file into a fresh > mythconverg database. Things went horribly wrong, so I thought I'd > start over on the oldrecorded tables and just dropped it using mysql. Yeah, so, in general "delete from " is a lit

Re: [mythtv-users] Suggestion: Splicing channels.

Nicholas McCoy wrote: > Well, the NFL draft is today and the folks on ESPN are yakking on. > Now, the most important information on that channel is the bottom > couple inches. I'd like to watch something else on most of the TV. > It would be nice if I could take the bottom couple inches off one

[mythtv-users] Odd performance problem on AMD64

This is very strange, but I thought I'd present it here to see if anyone else has seen it. I have a dual Opteron 244/Tyan Thunder K8W (S2885) as my primary desktop machine. I usually watch TV on this machine while I'm doing other work. While I've tweaked Myth and my setup to give me predictably-

[mythtv-users] pcHDTV and ivtv

Does anyone have a new combination of ivtv-0.{2,3}* and pcHDTV(-2.0?) that work together? I've been using ivtv-0.2.0-rc3d and pcHDTV-1.6 for the last several months, and want to upgrade; but the tuner modules for the new versions (rc3i and 2.0) seem to be incompatible, at least as far as I can tel

Re: [mythtv-users] SBLive + ALSA + AC3 question

> *typically* i don't have to do this ... i only have to do this after > xine leaves the system in "ac3 mode" and until my next reboot (which is > rare, i mean .. it's linux, why reboot? :P) Does "iecset audio on" fix the problem? Kyle ___ mythtv-users

Re: [mythtv-users] Where is Jarod's guide to automatic shutdown and restart?

Who said anything about money? Did you ever hear of something called "Global Warming"? Somehow I doubt all the MythTV users on the planet using WOL would have any effect whatsoever on global warming, considering it's not even clear at this point that human activity is causing it. Regardless, ele

Re: [mythtv-users] P4 Motherboard Recommendations: Wake-on-Lan

Jean Connelly wrote: Hi, This question got ignored in another hardware thread. I'm looking for a new P4 motherboard that reliably "wakes-on-lan" for use as a myth backend. Anybody have a recommendation from personal experience? Every time I get a board it turns out to have twitchy cold boot/ warm

Re: [mythtv-users] Playback CPU Usage, SDTV, HDTV, Is this right?

Then surely the very first thing that should be suggested is that he enable XvMC? If this: And the .patch that was posted on the dev list, against CVS (Of 2 hours ago), has made XvMC more stable (No crashing, though still got jittering) is true, then you are right. My impression has always been th

Re: [mythtv-users] Playback CPU Usage, SDTV, HDTV, Is this right?

I was under the impression that with XvMC accelleration, it is possible to play back HDTV content on a 2Ghz processor (XP2000+ or higher) Original message: HDTV --> HD2000, dvb drivers, 720p source, using libmpeg2, no XvMC If he were using XvMC, he might be okay (assuming XvMC support has become st

Re: [mythtv-users] Playback CPU Usage, SDTV, HDTV, Is this right?

John Freer wrote: Hey All: XP2200 with an MX440 (8xAGP, AGPGART), on an nforce2 motherboard. With the current software, an XP2200 is nowhere near sufficient to decode HDTV. You should search the list archives for more information, because this is covered about once a week. Kyle

Re: [mythtv-users] Optimizing MythTV for AMD64

I would think a larger portion of HD TVs are 1080i native. This may be true, but the vast majority of non-CRT based HDTV's are 720p native: plasma, DLP, and LCD are mostly 720p. I expect the proportion of CRT's to all HDTV displays will go down over time as people want larger, thinner displays.

Re: [mythtv-users] Optimizing MythTV for AMD64

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 analog, then the local a

Re: [mythtv-users] Optimizing MythTV for AMD64

Thanks! This alone has actually been pretty good for me. I'm using NBC "Law & Order" as a test clip. I think that is 1080i based on what I've read about various networks, CBS and ABC are generally 1080i; FOX is generally 720p; I'm not sure about NBC. but I don't know how to just examine the data fi

[mythtv-users] Optimizing MythTV for AMD64

I posted the following on my homepage this morning: I bought a dual Opteron 244 back in November of 2003 because I wanted a really, really fast desktop machine. Around the same time, I started playing with MythTV, and it wasn't long after that I got a pcHDTV HD-2000 card and began watching high

Re: [mythtv-users] record HDTV over Satellite is now possible?

Vincent K. Britton wrote: Does anyone here have experience integrating this in to MythTV. Do you think it would work with .17 with its new Firewire Recording capability? I looked into this a few months ago, and (at least at the time) their hardware/software interface was proprietary, so they woul

Re: [mythtv-users] Shopping for an HDTV for Myth

> What brands/technologies seem to work the best and look good as well. I'm > thinking of getting a DLP based TV unless someone has had a super bad > experience. I have to second (third? fourth?) the Samsung suggestion. I have the third-generation 61" DLP RPTV, and it rocks. I can not say enough

Re: [mythtv-users] Hauppauge 250/350 Output

> It was actually extremely good > when using a 720p source -- there is some merit in having an HD card > even with a regular TV though you pay a lot in disk space and system > requirements I agree strongly on this. I offered a possible explanation about this on the list a few months ago, which r

Re: [mythtv-users] Hauppauge 250/350 Output

> One major exception is if you don't have an AGP slot in your older computer, > then the pvr-350 seems a wiser choice. Except that you can also find PCI FX5200's. I know: I have two. Still, IMO the NTSC output of the 350 is superior even to the best modelines I've seen on the S-Video outputs of

Re: [mythtv-users] email list vs forum

> Is it not more appropriate to have this communication via a web based > forum? I am sure there are some people who prefer email lists to web fora. > > What are the problems with doing this? How about the fact that there are many of us who prefer mailing lists to web forums? But, by all means,

Re: [mythtv-users] [OT] Air2PC with Cable Card?

> I would be perfectly happy "tuning" and storing the fully encrypted > datastream under myth. > For playback, just send it to the TV with a cable card and let it decrypt it. Agreed. While it wouldn't be *ideal* if I couldn't watch these programs on remote frontends in my own house, at some poin

Re: [mythtv-users] Debian Pure64

Ed Murray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Has anybody got mythtv running successfully on Debian Pure64? > > I am running a dual boot Debian i386 sid/ Pure64 setup. I can get myth > running stably on i386 no trouble. However when running a recompiled > version on pure64 I run into problems. The serve

Re: [mythtv-users] DVI, LCDs and HDCP

> Wow. Thanks for alerting us to this fatal flaw of Samsung TV sets. > They had been on my "short list" of TVs to look at when I replace my > Pioneer RPTV but this drops Samsung off my "approved" list. FWIW, I have an HL-P6163W (61" RP DLP) from the July/August timeframe and it takes a non-HDCP D

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: HDTV, Myth, HD-2000, HD-3000, questions galore (and hopefully answers from the smart people... )

Your problem is this: > ... nVidia FX 6600, ... Evidently the latest released driver (66.93) doesn't properly support XVideo on the 6600's. Many complaints about this over at the nvnews.net forum. Kyle ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv

Re: [mythtv-users] DVI, LCDs and HDCP

> 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 fact that it does not really > make sense in that

Re: [mythtv-users] Whats the most stable system at the monent?

Travis Osterman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I don't know that you'll notice that you'll notice a stability > difference between any *nix systems running Myth. My guess is that > any instability your system incurs is from the packages you install > (ivtv, nvidia drivers, etc). I disagree. One

Re: [mythtv-users] TV recording filesystem frequently corrupt

> Does anyone have any ideas as to why this partition is plagued with > inconsistencies? Could it be myth's fault? It doesn't seem like any > user-land software bug could cause a filesystem inconsistence. But > the drive looks good, and it's similar to the other rives. First thing that comes to

Re: [mythtv-users] Which Window Manager?

Roy Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Now that we've had a nice long thread discussing distributions, let's > talk about window managers. KDE and Gnome sould like *way* too much > overhead for a Myth frontend. Anyone using other window managers? This has been covered many times, but I haven't

Re: [mythtv-users] HDTV, Myth, HD-2000, HD-3000, questions galore (and hopefully answers from the smart people... )

> Can someone explain then what the hopes for recording encrypted HD > "digital cable" content with the HD-3000 or a similar device? I > know there are smart cards and the like, which TiVo intends to > support, but what hope is there that MythTv will be able to support > such schemes? For me, and

Re: [mythtv-users] HDTV, Myth, HD-2000, HD-3000, questions galore (and hopefully answers from the smart people... )

> Hardware: > -- Do the HD-2000 work better, or are better supported than the > HD-3000 cards? I find the 3000 cards work much, much better in my setup than the 2000 cards. The 2000 cards appear to have too small a hardware FIFO, so in some machines they may not be able to get access to the PCI b

Re: [mythtv-users] Recording HDTV shows to DVD

Brandon Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 11:50:15AM -0500, Kyle Rose wrote: >> Roy Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > That's why I bought a dual-layer burner for my >> > soon-to-be-built-I-hope Mythbox. >

Re: [mythtv-users] Recording HDTV shows to DVD

Roy Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > That's why I bought a dual-layer burner for my > soon-to-be-built-I-hope Mythbox. Combined with transcoding to MPEG4 at the same resolution (at significant CPU cost, certainly) you should be able to store at least two hours per dual layer disc. Has anyone

[mythtv-users] Re: [mythtv] Why must I "Y"?

Redirected to mythtv-users. > Why must I use the "Y" key to switch between cards and "C" to switch > between inputs? Recording works fine. Live TV is the issue here. (Yes I > watch live TV) I have the same complaint. One of these days, I'll come up with some way to indicate that channels in th

Re: [mythtv-users] bad HDTV playback with new ffmpeg

> Actually I'm not using the decoder on the PVR350, just the encoder right > now. Decoding is software to a Geforce FX card, driver version 6111 > (which I've been running for ages now.) I'm running ivtv 0.2.0-rc3c, > which was running for several days before I upgraded Myth so I'm sure > it's

Re: [mythtv-users] bad HDTV playback with new ffmpeg

> Well I don't think it's just HDTV because I get this too ever since > I upgraded to current CVS, and I'm running a PVR350. Video going > fast and slow, sound skipping like mad...basically > unwatchable. Still trying to nail it down...the suggestion of > backing libavcodec back down to the 12/24 v

Re: [mythtv-users] bad HDTV playback with new ffmpeg

Doug Larrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My playback of this clip is definitely weird... playback speed seems to > oscillate about 2 times a second. Deinterlacing or not doesn't seem to > make much of a difference. Thank you for the confirmation. So, I guess I just happen to be the only one

Re: [mythtv-users] bad HDTV playback with new ffmpeg

Joe Barnhart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > --- 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 >>

Re: [mythtv-users] bad HDTV playback with new ffmpeg

So I notice that 6 people downloaded the full length of this: > http://www.krose.org/~krose/krose-cbs.mpg Is anyone else seeing the same weird effect I am when using Xv output? Keep in mind that this is happening to me on two different machines (one a dual Opteron running in 64 bit mode, the oth

[mythtv-users] bad HDTV playback with new ffmpeg

Three users unsuccessfully attempted to download the mpeg fragment that I posted today that demonstrates (on two of my machines) a difference between pre-Dec 24 and post-Dec 24 ffmpeg sync-ups when using Xv output. I was working with a new dmz config that didn't have the mpeg in my public_html dir

Re: [mythtv-users] Soundblaster live and AC3 for MythDVD help

Gregg Farhat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Okay. I have an onboard sound card which is disabled, and the sblive. > The sound currently works through the SPDIF for mythtv and mythvideo, > but when I play a DVD I get static. I don't intend to sound dumb, but > I did not know how to handle the entr

Re: [mythtv-users] Soundblaster live and AC3 for MythDVD help

Gregg Farhat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I did the commands you suggested and got this it is an sblive value. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mythtv]$ ls /dev/snd/ > controlC0 hwC2D3midiC1D2 midiC3D1 pcmC0D4c pcmC1D3p pcmC2D3c > pcmC3D2p > controlC1 hwC3D0midiC1D3 midiC3D2 pcmC0D4p p

Re: [mythtv-users] Soundblaster live and AC3 for MythDVD help

Gregg Farhat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am new to Linux, and am having trouble with the ac3 part. I > installed myth using Jarods Guide. Thanks. > I get sound using the SPDIF out on the sound blaster, but when I play > a dvd I get static and no sound. Can someone send me a woking config > f

Re: [mythtv-users] More ATSC woes - Doug README - some stations nownot beingreceived at all

Doug Larrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Can you make a short (50 MB or so) capture from one of these misbehaving > stations available somewhere? (captured with getatsc) > > The output from the backend run with '--verbose record' would also be > helpful. Don't have this, but here's a 50M cli

Re: [mythtv-users] bobdeint as output filter?

> I'm using Xv on nVidia with 6111 driver. My modeline > is 1080i and seems to work judging by the UI (both > myth and window manager). Isn't one of the complaints about the nVidia drivers that they don't support interlaced modes correctly? With proper interlacing support in the driver, you shou

Re: [mythtv-users] bobdeint as output filter?

Joe Barnhart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Are you guys saying we need to set Bob in TWO places > to make this work? No, just the deinterlace box. > I know about the "bob" setting in > the "deinterlace" box, but do I also name "bobdeint" > below in the special filters section? Is this why > 108

Re: [mythtv-users] bobdeint as output filter?

> Yeah, bob is in two parts... the actual filter just separates the fields > into the top and bottom of the frame, as you've seen. The playback > support to display them separately at double framerate is the whole > reason there are separate controls for deinterlacing in the code, and in > the

Re: [mythtv-users] bobdeint as output filter?

>> Bob works fine when I specify it as the (deprecated?) deinterlacing >> algorithm above the "custom filters" input line. > > Why would it be deprecated? I just figured. :) I should know better than that though. I'll set it there and leave it be. Cheers, Kyle __

[mythtv-users] bobdeint as output filter?

'bobdeint' doesn't work properly for me when specified as an output filter. When specified on the "custom filters" line for a host, it does nothing: the video is not deinterlaced as far as I can tell. When specified as a channel-specific output filter, I end up with the fields stacked, implying t

Re: [mythtv-users] Unable to change channel

John Van Ostrand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have Myth working for me except that every time I reboot I have to run > mythfilldatabase and restart mythbackend or I can't change channels > within Myth. This seems to happen each time I reboot, even if the last > reboot was the same day. Restarti

Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV and streaming MPEG2 over UDP

> I think that all the proprietary feature of MythTV will make the > project sink. It needs to add support for industry standard like > Transport Stream over ethernet, etc... MythTV could be a great > backend for that. If this is truly a standard, then I think it would be great for mythbackend t

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR250 or HD3000?

> And besides that, the truth is that the pchdtv.com drivers just > plain suck. People are lucky to get ATSC working. Fully agreed. While I'm grateful to have any HDTV in my Myth box at all, I would generally expect something more polished for $180 a pop. However, since at this point it's the o

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR250 or HD3000?

"Michael J. Lynch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > That's not what the pcHDTV website says. It specifically states > that the card MPEG2 encoding. See the second line of paragraph 2 of > the following link: > > HD-3000 at pcHDTV > > The line I'm referencing is:

Re: [mythtv-users] SEGV in mythfrontend (CVS version) when changing channels

Please don't start a new thread by replying to an existing thread. It screws up threaded mail readers. Kyle Mike Isely <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've been chasing a problem where mythfrontend dies with a SEGV when a > channel change takes place. I've gotten pretty far into this and I'm > f

[mythtv-users] Maintaining different profiles on one machine

Not sure if this or something like it has been posted here before, but I thought I'd share. If there's a better way to accomplish this short of making a code change, I'd rather use that. I've run into this problem that I'd like to have different profiles on a single machine, the main difference b

Re: [mythtv-users] Start Mythfrontend if not running?

Here's another approach. Since I never stop the frontend in my living room except to reboot it (which I generally do via SSH), I use a script I hacked up to somewhat intelligently control a program that crashes at startup (mainly due to transient errors): krose_run - #! /bin/bash # === C

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: ALSA and .asoundrc help

David W Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > WellI now get sound when watching live tv and recordings by > setting myth to use ALSA:mixed-digital. I still get no sound in > mythmusic. I also only get sound on certain video files in mythmovie. Reboot or unload/reload your snd_foo hardware mod

Re: [mythtv-users] Getting HD3000 to work with MythTV

"john roberts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Also - what is all this talk about the HD3000 requiring a physical > audio line out and then back into the system's audio line in card in > order to get MythTV audio to work? Not applicable to HDTV. Only NTSC. Both the HD-2000 and HD-3000 simply pull

Re: [mythtv-users] hd2000 and hd3000 coexist?

"john roberts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Has anyone gotten the HD2000 and the HD3000 cards to co-exist yet? > I've read of issues - just wondering if anyone has gotten it to work > yet. As far as I can tell, the new drivers will not tune the HD-2000 properly, so unless the new cx88 driver and

Re: [mythtv-users] Impossible to choose Motherboard?

> With digital output on the motherboard, there's really no reason to > add a sound card if you're using SD MPEG-2 hardware compression or > HD capture cards. Unless your motherboard's digital out is b0rk3d, like the one in the Abit IC7-MAX3. :P At least I managed to get all 5 PCI slots working a

Re: [mythtv-users] Can I play scaled HDTV content on a standard TV?

> So, just to clarify, the following is what I now believe to be true. > Please confirm or deny: > > 1. HDTV shows can be watched on a standard definition TV, albeit at > far less than true HD quality Yes. > 2. (#1) can be done without actually transcoding the recorded > content Yes. > 3. (#2)

Re: [mythtv-users] Can I play scaled HDTV content on a standard TV?

> Is it possible, using Myth, to watch TV shows recorded using a pcHDTV > 3000 on an standard television set? Yes, and yes, it does look better than broadcast SDTV in my experience. Before I got my HDTV, I had an HD-2000 card feeding my mythbox with an attached SDTV for several months. The quali

Re: [mythtv-users] [OT] Mailing Lists...

> Sorry to flame but I hate this discussion(maybe it is because my > thoughts are the one that always lose.) Blah blah blah If you like web forums so much, go set one up and write a bridge between the email list and the web forum. Even easier, grab a gmail account and have your mailing list

Re: [mythtv-users] [OT] Mailing Lists...

"Bill Sutton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Why does the Linux community tend to collaborate with e-mail lists? Because we like having the client locally so we can read the posts our way instead of the way the web board designer thought they should be seen. Cheers, Kyle _

[mythtv-users] HD-2000 with new drivers

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. Ever since the new external drivers (suppos