[mythtv-users] configure bug - cmov cpu detection

2005-10-22 Thread Mark Cooke
Hi all, Just wondering at the mythtv configure: ~~~ x86_mmx_cpus="pentium-mmx,pentium2,pentium3,pentium3m,pentium-m" x86_mmx_cpus="$x86_mmx_cpus,pentium4,pentium4m,prescott" x86_mmx_cpus="$x86_mmx_cpus,athlon,athlon-xp,athlon-tbird,athlon-4,athlon-mp," x86_mmx_cpus="$x86_mmx_cpus,c3,c3-2,k6,k6-2,

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-350 Audio Level

2005-10-10 Thread Mark Cooke
On Mon, 2005-10-10 at 09:36 -0700, Jeff Thurston wrote: > Everything is great EXCEPT, my audio (directly out from the 350 to my > amp) is > quieter than it was with the old system. It's hooked up the same way as > before. > Does anyone have any ideas? I've looked for adjustments for the audio

Re: [mythtv-users] diskless backend?

2005-10-10 Thread Mark Cooke
On Mon, 2005-10-10 at 09:20 -0500, Joe Harvell wrote: > I am considering building a diskless mini-ITX frontend/backend using NFS > over switched 100base-T for the storage. I would be capturing at most > two streams at a time and watching at most one. > > Has anyone done this? Any problems with

Re: [mythtv-users] VBI subtitles with ivtv cards?

2005-09-23 Thread Mark Cooke
On Fri, 2005-09-23 at 17:04 -0400, Jesse Guardiani wrote: > Mark Cooke wrote: > > [...] > > Well, the specs for this are all freely available... > [...] > > Thanks! That's great information, but I don't think it quite answers the > original question: >

Re: [mythtv-users] VBI subtitles with ivtv cards?

2005-09-23 Thread Mark Cooke
On Fri, 2005-09-23 at 16:16 -0400, Jesse Guardiani wrote: > Mark Cooke wrote: > > The ivtv muxer breaks program-stream assumptions made in transcode about > > the size of each stream unit being exactly 2048 bytes long. Word was > > that the 2048 byte unit size is specified in

Re: [mythtv-users] mythcomflag - how do I set nice level?

2005-09-23 Thread Mark Cooke
On Fri, 2005-09-23 at 15:55 -0500, Roman Romaniuk wrote: > >On 9/23/05, Ryan Steffes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >I think my problem resides somewhere in the NFS system. I also note > >looking at the output of ifconfig that both the backend side and the > >NFS server are logging thousand up th

Re: [mythtv-users] VBI subtitles with ivtv cards?

2005-09-23 Thread Mark Cooke
On Fri, 2005-09-23 at 10:19 -0400, Jesse Guardiani wrote: > Joseph A. Caputo wrote: > > On Thursday 22 September 2005 16:37, Isaac Richards wrote: > > > >> On Thursday 22 September 2005 04:29 pm, Joseph A. Caputo wrote: > > > > So does that mean that they'll get embedded in the MPEG file, but My

[mythtv-users] master backend SegV - stopping an in-progress recording

2005-09-19 Thread Mark Cooke
Hi all, Setup: svn from 2 days ago. frontend and master backend on same machine. Recording from a slave backend with a PVR350. I didn't catch it with GDB, but I'll be testing when the system is idle. I'd started watching a recording, realised it was a duplicate, and escaped back to the 'Selec

[mythtv-users] nuvexport and current svn

2005-09-17 Thread Mark Cooke
Hi all, I noticed current myth SVN is writing files from my mpeg2 capture board as _.mpg rather than __.nuv. This breaks the older nuvexport version[*] I hacked up and have been using, as it parses up the recordings directory for filenames of the __.nuv format rather than querying t. Attached is

Re: [mythtv-users] Upgraded to 0.18.1, having ivtv, mythfrontend problems

2005-09-03 Thread Mark Cooke
On Sat, 2005-09-03 at 17:34 -0700, Alex Harford wrote: > 1) IVTV volume > > It wants to set the PVR-350 volume to 64845 when it starts recording a > new show, which is causing distortion because the volume is so high. Reduce the volume level selected in the Recording Profile for MPEG-2 Default p

Re: [mythtv-users] ConvertX SVHS input and Exporting

2005-09-03 Thread Mark Cooke
On Sat, 2005-09-03 at 14:17 -0600, Andrew Taylor wrote: > Hello all. Finally played with mythtv yesterday. Excellent, but now I > need a new hard drive (or two). Hi Andrew, > Also, how does one go about exporting .nuv for backup on removable > media? I can't play .nuv directly with mplaye

[mythtv-users] Mythtv esd support - prelim patch / proof of concept

2005-08-16 Thread Mark Cooke
s output of multiple sound streams instead of esd. -- Mark Cooke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Index: configure === --- configure (revision 7025) +++ configure (working copy) @@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ audio_oss="default" audio_alsa=&qu

[mythtv-users] Gui window / full screen playback resizing bug

2005-07-18 Thread Mark Cooke
the sofa). Pressing escape to go back to full screen playback does not resize the mythtv window to full screen again. However, the video playback is rescaled, so that only the top-left corner of the playback is visible. Anyone else able to reproduce this ? Cheers, Mark -- Mark Coo

Re: [mythtv-users] De-interlacing on a non-interlaced display

2005-07-16 Thread Mark Cooke
On Fri, 2005-07-15 at 21:04 -0400, Michael T. Dean wrote: > Mark Cooke wrote: > >Or try bob, but with a slight speed adjustment (M key then left/right > >arrows during playback). I see the bouncing at standard speed playback, > >but at x1.05 or x0.95, the bouncing is gone.

Re: [mythtv-users] De-interlacing on a non-interlaced display

2005-07-15 Thread Mark Cooke
at x1.05 or x0.95, the bouncing is gone. This is with myth from a few weeks back, on an NVidia GeForce2 MX, using the binary NVidia driver 1.0.7667. I haven't made time to look for the cause, as I can watch playback at x1.1 or x1.2 for most programmes fairly easily. Mark -- Mark Cooke

[mythtv-users] Re: Timestretch = chipmunk audio, also timestamp problem with 3x FF

2005-05-01 Thread Mark Cooke
an output to the audio card. /---AUDIO CHIPMONK/SOX/ETC---\ MPEG2---D MMPEG2---PVR350 OUT \-VIDEO PASSTHROUGH--/ Just a thought as I don't have time/motivation to knock this up myself as I'm not using the video out on my 350 currently

[mythtv-users] [OT] Japan-based users ?

2005-04-12 Thread Mark Cooke
For some research I need a little help from someone in Japan, who doesn't mind recording samples of TV adverts for a comparative study. Anyone willing to help, please contact me off-list. Thanks, and sorry for the mostly OT post. Mark -- Mark Cooke <[EMAIL P

Re: [mythtv-users] Solar PC

2005-04-09 Thread Mark Cooke
ve-tv 3mbit/sec stream over an 802.11b network (about 5mbit/sec max in my setup), albeit at a reduced resolution than my wired network. HTH, Mark -- Mark Cooke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv

RE: [mythtv-users] cablecard

2005-04-07 Thread Mark Cooke
ncryption is bad for ease-of-use for the non- criminal end-user. Cheers, Mark -- Mark Cooke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

Re: [mythtv-users] CPU for spftware MPEG-4 encoding

2005-04-06 Thread Mark Cooke
t; 1413 TårnåsenTlf.: (47) 6680 9191 > Norway Mob : (47) 9343 4357 > ___ > mythtv-users mailing list > mythtv-users@mythtv.org > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users -- Mark Cooke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

[mythtv-users] cpu detection / override - undefined symbols

2005-03-25 Thread Mark Cooke
compiles fine, but having installed both the P4 and the K7 return errors: /usr/local/bin/mythbackend: symbol lookup error: /usr/local/lib/libmythtv-0.17.so.0: undefined symbol: mpeg2_mc_mmx I'm in the process of trying with --cpu=pentium2 Mark --

Re: [mythtv-users] hacking the configuration

2005-03-21 Thread Mark Cooke
et you see how things are structured. Mark -- Mark Cooke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

Re: [mythtv-users] Interface issues - qt compatibility?

2005-03-20 Thread Mark Cooke
-MySQL/qt-devel 3.3.3 rpms and the UI works as expected again. Cheers, Mark -- Mark Cooke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

[mythtv-users] Interface issues - qt compatibility?

2005-03-19 Thread Mark Cooke
lse seeing this ? Extra info: myth cvs from 17/Mar/05 qt-3.3.4-0.fc3.0 qt-MySQL-3.3.4-0.fc3.0 qt-devel-3.3.4-0.fc3.0 Cheers, Mark -- Mark Cooke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi

Re: [mythtv-users] Cooling Hard Drives

2005-03-10 Thread Mark Cooke
re are some mini-tower cases with a 5-bay drive cage mounted internally at the bottom of the case, with the front fan blowing directly over the drives. In my experience this is much better for drive temperatures than the older style cases with the inter

[mythtv-users] Startup deadlock with slave backend ?

2005-03-01 Thread Mark Cooke
nd, so I'm guessing it is rare / non- existant for the main developers. There's nothing obvious in either the slave or master logs. Ask if you want copies to help diagnose this. Cheers, Mark -- Mark Cooke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ m

Re: [mythtv-users] NFS?

2005-02-19 Thread Mark Cooke
eed, but on older PC's you might hit PCI/memory bandwidth limits. In my case, I needed some fiddling with nfs3 over tcp and the network buffer memory sizes, but having done that, it works well for me and is reliable. I have never lost a recording due to a network problem. I'd rec

Re: [mythtv-users] Frontend crash while editing cut list on a current recording [solved]

2005-02-18 Thread Mark Cooke
On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 23:54 +, Mark Cooke wrote: > I have apparently found an issue with current CVS. [ CVS from Wed Feb 16th] > 1. Start a scheduled recording and wait maybe 15 minutes. > 2. Start watching the in-progress recording. > 3. Use 'e' in the normal way to

[mythtv-users] Frontend crash while editing cut list on a current recording

2005-02-16 Thread Mark Cooke
8-14 qt 3.3.3-8 Anyone else seeing this ? Mark [*] Basically the red cut sections and the |-> <-| black/white indicators are not aligned with each other. -- Mark Cooke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv

Re: [mythtv-users] Scheduler not exiting ? (current cvs)

2005-02-16 Thread Mark Cooke
On Tue, 2005-02-15 at 12:00 +1100, Chris Edwards wrote: > Mark Cooke wrote (both nested quotes): > > > >>The scheduled recording time for the programme that appears to have > >>screwed things up ended at 10pm, but having restarted both backends. > >>

Re: Re[3]: [mythtv-users] FC1->FC3 upgrade & Jarod's guide (resolution)

2005-02-15 Thread Mark Cooke
ution for this in my case was to put the lirc device node into /etc/udev/devices. With udev installed, the /dev directory is dynamically populated each reboot and lirc doesn't appear to support this yet. # mknod /etc/udev/devices/lirc c 61 0 See if that helps, M

Re: [mythtv-users] Scheduler not exiting ? (current cvs)

2005-02-14 Thread Mark Cooke
On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 22:05 +, Mark Cooke wrote: > The scheduled recording time for the programme that appears to have > screwed things up ended at 10pm, but having restarted both backends. > there is no change to the behaviour. That said, I restarted again a few minutes ago, a

[mythtv-users] Scheduler not exiting ? (current cvs)

2005-02-14 Thread Mark Cooke
e that appears to have screwed things up ended at 10pm, but having restarted both backends. there is no change to the behaviour. Any ideas ? Mark -- Mark Cooke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

Re: [mythtv-users] Programme aspect ratio data

2005-01-31 Thread Mark Cooke
On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 10:58 +, Julian Edwards wrote: > Mark Cooke wrote: > > > >The uk_rt listings grabber has aspect ratio information for most of the > >programs now: > > > >[snip] > > > >The mark-up is only present for 16:9 (it seems). 4:3 >

Re: [mythtv-users] New version of MythTV (0.17)

2005-01-31 Thread Mark Cooke
> the videos directory, for example. This is why I am still using external nuvexport with the skip-invert patch I posted previously. A friend is doing comparative advertising studies for a PhD thesis, and hence wants only the commercials. Inbuilt capability would be g

[mythtv-users] Programme aspect ratio data

2005-01-30 Thread Mark Cooke
11 playback, and mplayer's nuv playback do not seem to honour the wss setting. Cheers, Mark -- Mark Cooke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

RE: [mythtv-users] Backend looping after a schedule_change

2005-01-30 Thread Mark Cooke
just wanted to say that the next-day bug-fix in CVS has cured this for me. I haven't seen the loop since I updated. Cheers, Mark -- Mark Cooke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

Re: [mythtv-users] New version of MythTV (0.17)

2005-01-30 Thread Mark Cooke
owl commercials... ;) Find attached a diff to the old stand-alone Xvid module of nuvexport[*] that adds widescreen, and invert-cutlist options. Also swaps to hqdn3d from yuvdenoise for speed. Mark [*] I think it is the 2004-08-22 tarball I am using. -- Mark Cooke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- ex

[mythtv-users] Backend safe_read() fails after several hours of livetv

2005-01-27 Thread Mark Cooke
f3.nuv -rw-r--r-- 1 mythtv mythtv 5368709120 Jan 27 08:35 ringbuf3.nuv -rw-r--r-- 1 mythtv mythtv 5368709120 Jan 27 08:35 ringbuf3.nuv -rw-r--r-- 1 mythtv mythtv 5368709120 Jan 27 08:35 ringbuf3.nuv (repeated until I restarted backend and started livetv again) This is repeatable, and not just

[mythtv-users] Backend looping after a schedule_change

2005-01-26 Thread Mark Cooke
BACKEND_MESSAGE[]: []RECORDING_LIST_CHANGE[]:[]e... 2005-01-27 01:24:48.665 45 BACKEND_MESSAGE[]:[]SCHEDULE_CHANGE[]: []empty 2005-01-27 01:24:48.667 45 BACKEND_MESSAGE[]:[]SCHEDULE_CHANGE[]: []empty ... Any ideas ? Cheers, Mark -- Mark Cooke <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: [mythtv-users] Adding extra recorder disk space for Christmas

2004-12-17 Thread Mark Cooke
On Fri, 2004-12-17 at 16:09, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I've yet to encounter any filesystem that does not have this problem. > This just seems to be a general issue with LVM. This issue also crops up on > high end SAN storage systems. > > Don't ever expect to be able to shrink a fil