Re: [mythtv-users] Nvidia picture size (SVIDEO)

2005-05-08 Thread Mark Smith
hould give the best results, albeit with a little effort. -- Mark Smith - Surrey, UK http://www.chez-moi.org.uk/ ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

Re: [mythtv-users] Setting up a DVB Card

2005-05-04 Thread Mark Smith
ant to do time synchronisation without an internet connection from the box. -- Mark Smith - Surrey, UK http://www.chez-moi.org.uk/ ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

Re: [mythtv-users] Nvidia picture size (SVIDEO)

2005-05-04 Thread Mark Smith
f doing that under software control. However it most certainly is capable of outputting a 16:9 picture (or any other aspect ratio you like) - you just have to set your TV manually to display it as such. -- Mark Smith - Surrey, UK http://www.chez-moi.org.uk/ __

Re: [mythtv-users] Nvidia picture size (SVIDEO)

2005-05-04 Thread Mark Smith
ia SVIDEO. The picture > quality seems OK for LiveTV but really grainy and flimmery > (interlaced?) for text and the X windows herringbone background. A lot of people have reported poor SVideo output on NV18 nVidia cards. If you check your Xorg.0.log file what does it say you have? --

Re: [mythtv-users] NFS and mythfrontend only

2005-04-12 Thread Mark Smith
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Just for my own understanding then, how do remote frontends get access to > the servers /video/* files? Via the connection to the backend. -- Mark Smith - Surrey, UK http://www.che

[mythtv-users] DVB - Recording from 'part time' channels

2005-04-10 Thread Mark Smith
any plans to fix this? For those of you in UK this particularly applies to BBC3 and BBC4 and presumably most of the Topup TV channels for anyone with a suitable DVB-T card and a CAM. -- Mark Smith - Surrey, UK http://www.chez-moi.org.uk/ ___ mythtv-users

Re: [mythtv-users] UK DVB epg

2005-04-10 Thread Mark Smith
ite providing better quality data and 14 days as opposed to 7-8. It's a personal choice, but I don't feel that the core recording functionality of my PVR should be dependent it having access to a working internet connection. -- Mark Smith - Surrey, UK http://www.chez-moi.org.uk/

Re: [mythtv-users] widescreen TV out

2005-04-06 Thread Mark Smith
ng and assume you have a 4:3 display. Mplayer seems to do the same, but fortunately Xine does take account of the aspect ratio. -- Mark Smith - Surrey, UK http://www.chez-moi.org.uk/ ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

Re: [mythtv-users] widescreen TV out

2005-04-03 Thread Mark Smith
e able to do that, but it would be at the expense of losing vertical resolution. The best way to solve it is to add a DisplaySize line to your xorg.conf file to specify a display size with an aspect ration of 16:9. Something like: DisplaySize 400 225 Myth will then output 16:9 to fill the screen an

[mythtv-users] Minor issue with recording end times

2005-04-02 Thread Mark Smith
2 (correct) and is 64 minutes long, but that the watch recordings screen shows the programme as running from 7:58pm to 9:00pm. This is with no other recording scheduled to start immediately afterwards. It's obviously not causing me any problems, but strikes me as slightly inconsistent behaviour.

Re: [mythtv-users] Twinhan DVB Mini Terrestrial

2005-03-26 Thread Mark Smith
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Nathan Manzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just wondering if anyone knows of this card, and what chip it uses. > I don't want another BT decoder. :< Yes, I have one in my system. It is BT based (but working fine for me). -- Ma

Re: [mythtv-users] Peculiar VisionPlus DVB-T Tuning Problem (UK)

2005-03-20 Thread Mark Smith
ete it (as I suspect that the multiplex id links to entries in other tables), I've corrected all the parameters so that it is at least correct and it now all works fine. It has also solved the tuning problems for that mux on the Avermedia card. -- Mark Smith - Surrey,

Re: [mythtv-users] Avermedia DVB-T 771 Remote Problems

2005-03-20 Thread Mark Smith
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mark Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] html]# modprobe lirc_gpio > FATAL: Error inserting lirc_gpio > (/lib/modules/2.6.10-1.770_FC3/updates/drivers/lirc/lirc_gpio.ko): Invalid > request code > > Any id

[mythtv-users] Peculiar VisionPlus DVB-T Tuning Problem (UK)

2005-03-20 Thread Mark Smith
have bigger problems with that mux on the Avermedia card. However, if it can get a lock to display a channel on mux 1, why not when starting the backend first off? -- Mark Smith - Surrey, UK http://www.chez-moi.org.uk/ ___ mythtv-users mailing list

Re: [mythtv-users] DVB - MythTVSetup unable to scan channels

2005-03-19 Thread Mark Smith
ter, which did the job nicely. -- Mark Smith - Surrey, UK http://www.chez-moi.org.uk/ ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

[mythtv-users] Avermedia DVB-T 771 Remote Problems

2005-03-19 Thread Mark Smith
0_FC3/updates/drivers/lirc/lirc_gpio.ko): Invalid request code Any ideas? I realise the remote itself is a bit naff, but only want to use it to program my universal remote. -- Mark Smith - Surrey, UK http://www.chez-moi.org.uk/ ___ mythtv-users mailing

[mythtv-users] DVB - MythTVSetup unable to scan channels

2005-03-16 Thread Mark Smith
l 2005-03-16 23:04:31.516 DVB#0 DVB Signal Monitor Stopped I probably need to go back and check through all of the DVB configuration again, but does anyone have any ideas? I've tried manually setting the bandwidth, constallation, trans mode and guard interval but none of this seems to help.

Re: [mythtv-users] BT878 based DVB-T Cards

2005-02-20 Thread Mark Smith
ct the maximum bit rates to be much the same. -- Mark Smith - Surrey, UK http://www.chez-moi.org.uk/ ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

[mythtv-users] BT878 based DVB-T Cards

2005-02-19 Thread Mark Smith
ilability of cards based on this chipset. I've seen various references to TS vs PS mode, but not sure quite how this all works as yet. Is the entire mux data stream read across the PCI bus in the former case? If so, is this contributing to the problem? -- Mark Smith - Surrey, UK http://www.chez-mo

[mythtv-users] DVB-T - Avermedia / Pinnacle MediaCenter 300i Cards

2005-02-14 Thread Mark Smith
the bundled IR receivers to work with Myth? Thanks in advance for any help. -- Mark Smith - Surrey, UK http://www.chez-moi.org.uk/ ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

[mythtv-users] UK TV Out (was Re: TV out success stories?)

2005-02-10 Thread Mark Smith
robably also use it to get the system up and running initially before I build the sync convertor. It sounds like an nVidia chipset based card is probably the way to go, but can anyone provide a more specific recommendation for a UK spec card? -- Mark Smith - Surrey,