Re: [mythtv-users] [Bulk] Re: Broadcast flag and a kick in the teeth

2006-01-26 Thread Matt Mossholder
> > Defeat the Republican Senators and Representatives up for election come > > November. Maybe then, we can largely get rid of the corrupt lobbyists > > buying our government away from us, the American People. > > > > we'll just have to worry about the currupt Democrats who will do the same > th

Re: [mythtv-users] Sync rates for Sharp 32 inch LCD

2006-01-24 Thread Matt Mossholder
On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 14:45 -0500, Richard Bronosky wrote: > Just to clarify for all. The model I have and linked to does not have > VGA or DVI input. No PC mode, and when you call, 1-800-be-sharp they > tell you that PC input via the HDMI connector is not supported. As in > "It may work, but we

Re: [mythtv-users] Bitrate oddity

2006-01-19 Thread Matt Mossholder
On Thu, 2006-01-19 at 08:50 -0500, Boleslaw Ciesielski wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I'm using PVR-250's/350's, w/bitrate of 4500 and max bitrate of 6000 > > (e.g., the defaults). I typically record 64 minutes per 1h show > > (e.g., I pre- and post-roll by 2m). The resulting files are all

[mythtv-users] OT: New MediaMVP this month, according to Engadget...

2006-01-16 Thread Matt Mossholder
Looks like it has Wifi, DiVX, etc. http://engadget.com/2006/01/16/hauppauges-wireless-mediamvp-pumps-media-over-wifi/ --Matt ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-us

Re: [mythtv-users] How to KEEP mythtv running when user exits

2006-01-11 Thread Matt Mossholder
I don't know why everyone keeps focusing on restarting myth, when what is actually needed is to solve the root cause as mentioned here: "But when my wife/kids exit from the top menu by mistake (one too many exit button presses) they're left at the befuddling command prompt." All you need to do i

Re: [mythtv-users] How to KEEP mythtv running when user exits

2006-01-10 Thread Matt Mossholder
On Tue, 2006-01-10 at 23:16 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 16:50:07 -0800 > From: John Biundo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Hi all. > > I've got mythtv starting up automatically upon boot (by running > mythfrontend in user mythtv's .xsession). No problem

Re: [mythtv-users] Fwd: Sempron 3100 lag when viewing HD from 6200 STB

2006-01-09 Thread Matt Mossholder
> > I've got a Sempron 64 3100+, running Nvidia driver rev 7667, with 1080i > output over DVI, and have only some very slight tearing, which is > consistently about 20% down from the top. Load is reasonable. > > --Matt > Oh yeah, and that is with XvMC off, and a NV6200 card.

Re: [mythtv-users] Fwd: Sempron 3100 lag when viewing HD from 6200 STB

2006-01-09 Thread Matt Mossholder
On Mon, 2006-01-09 at 22:22 -0700, Curtis Stanford wrote: > On Jan 9, 2006, at 5:04 PM, Steve Adeff wrote: > > > On Monday 09 January 2006 17:31, Curtis Stanford wrote: > >> On Jan 9, 2006, at 3:21 PM, Steve Adeff wrote: > >>> On Monday 09 January 2006 16:58, Curtis Stanford wrote: > On Jan 9

Re: [mythtv-users] Recording Bitrates fpr PVR 350

2005-12-22 Thread Matt Mossholder
On Thu, 2005-12-22 at 12:54 -0500, Michael T. Dean wrote: Matt Mossholder wrote: > Just because one standards group decided that a group of people had > misused their standard after 20/30/40? years, and decided people > should change doesn't mean that we, as users

Re: [mythtv-users] Recording Bitrates fpr PVR 350

2005-12-22 Thread Matt Mossholder
Just because one standards group decided that a group of people had misused their standard after 20/30/40? years, and decided people should change doesn't mean that we, as users have to listen. Standards are only as good as peoples decisions to use them. Long live 1 gigabyte = 8 * 2^30 bits!

Re: [mythtv-users] new myth hardware

2005-12-20 Thread Matt Mossholder
On Tue, 2005-12-20 at 16:50 -0500, Fred Squires wrote: You don't need a second coax connector on the PVR-500.  The card splits the signal internally when you're using coax. -- I probably still have a few (well, now a whole bunch) gmail invites. Drop me a line (off list)

Re: [mythtv-users] DVB, HD3000 and Myth

2005-12-19 Thread Matt Mossholder
On Tue, 2005-12-20 at 00:09 -0500, Michael Haan wrote: I know people are doing this, so it must be documentable.  What are the steps for configuring a fresh install to tune qam?  That is: 1) How do I find-out how to tune my channels? 2) How do I import this into myth? 3)

Re: [mythtv-users] Adventures in HDTV - Notes from the trenches

2005-12-19 Thread Matt Mossholder
On Mon, 2005-12-19 at 09:38 -0500, Jesse Guardiani wrote: > Doug, > Thanks for pointing out that I am an idiot ;) I had been assuming > that the reason that Myth wasn't using opengl-vsync, even though I had > compiled in the support, was because of the Sync to Vblank settings > in nv

Re: [mythtv-users] Adventures in HDTV - Notes from the trenches

2005-12-19 Thread Matt Mossholder
On Mon, 2005-12-19 at 07:53 -0500, Doug Larrick wrote: Matt Mossholder wrote: > Here are a few links to other people experiencing the VBlank > problem. Basically, if I have VBlank enabled, and play back video > content with Xv, the system hangs. On further inspection it isn&#x

Re: [mythtv-users] Adventures in HDTV - Notes from the trenches

2005-12-19 Thread Matt Mossholder
On Mon, 2005-12-19 at 01:31 -0800, Gregorio Gervasio, Jr. wrote: >>>>> Matt Mossholder writes: m> 1) Try and ensure that the TV you intend to purchase does not -require- m> HDCP enabled input sources for HDMI or DVI connections before you make a m> purchase. This

Re: [mythtv-users] Adventures in HDTV - Notes from the trenches

2005-12-18 Thread Matt Mossholder
On Sun, 2005-12-18 at 23:52 -0500, Steve Adeff wrote: > 2) A display capable of 720p is preferable to one capable of 1080i, > under many circumstances. 720p has less flicker, and presents less > problems from a display driver standpoint. One that supports both (or > 1080p) is even better. no

[mythtv-users] Adventures in HDTV - Notes from the trenches

2005-12-18 Thread Matt Mossholder
Hi everyone,     Been working for a few weeks trying to get a functional front end. The good news is no more questions. :) However, I picked up a number of tid-bits along the way, and figured it would be a good thing to summarize them for the list, to help the next person. HDTVs: = 1) Tr

Re: [mythtv-users] Better off with an ATI card?

2005-12-16 Thread Matt Mossholder
On Fri, 2005-12-16 at 10:20 +0100, Marius Schrecker wrote: I'm using a Radeon X300 with DVI out. Works fine using latest X-org and ATI proprietary drivers. The only caveats I can think of are to do with direct access (I've so far only got it to work with xv). Others have had problems with o

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Better off with an ATI card?

2005-12-16 Thread Matt Mossholder
ers and config file.  I've found other references to TVs requiring HDCP as well. It's obviously not all of them, since a lot of people are using older cards with no problem. I just got lucky, I guess ;)     --Matt On Fri, 2005-12-16 at 08:20 -0500, Boleslaw Ciesielski wrote: Ma

[mythtv-users] Better off with an ATI card?

2005-12-15 Thread Matt Mossholder
Hi again everyone. After playing with 3 different NVIDIA cards and various driver revisions, I am starting to wonder, "Am I better off with an ATI card?" I Have my MythTV system attached to a Panasonic HDTV Tube via DVI, and also have an AudioAuthority 9A60 VGA->Component adapter available. So

Re: [mythtv-users] EPG, Channel Selection, and Multiple Tuners... oh, and Data Sources too!

2005-12-13 Thread Matt Mossholder
For posterity, the way I ended up dealing with this, in the end, was that I added a Zap2It! Lineup for Digital Cable from another Comcast Head End, in a different Zipcode, that had the HD channels I needed on the same channel numbers. It would be nice if this could all be handled internally in

Re: [mythtv-users] EPG, Channel Selection, and Multiple Tuners... oh, and Data Sources too!

2005-12-13 Thread Matt Mossholder
On Tue, 2005-12-13 at 16:09 -0500, Isaac Richards wrote: On Tuesday 13 December 2005 16:08, Tom Lichti wrote: > > I have 4 tuner cards, and they all use the same zap2it source. There is > nothing that says you can't use the same source twice, so I defined 4 > sources in Myth, with the same da

[mythtv-users] EPG, Channel Selection, and Multiple Tuners... oh, and Data Sources too!

2005-12-13 Thread Matt Mossholder
Hi all,     Two questions that have been nagging at me     1) Is there a way to force a tuner change when the user selects a channel in the EPG that isn't available on the current tuner?     2) Is there a way to define a single input source, but only have certain channels from the Input S

Re: [mythtv-users] Xv strangeness...

2005-12-06 Thread Matt Mossholder
n Wed, 2005-12-07 at 01:02 -0500, Matt Mossholder wrote: Ok, here's an odd one... I have been building a new diskless HDTV FE/BE lately. I plan on hooking this up to a Panasonic CT-34WX15 HD Tube. After having built it next to my desk, attached to my desktop's monitor, I thought I

[mythtv-users] Xv strangeness...

2005-12-06 Thread Matt Mossholder
Ok, here's an odd one... I have been building a new diskless HDTV FE/BE lately. I plan on hooking this up to a Panasonic CT-34WX15 HD Tube. After having built it next to my desk, attached to my desktop's monitor, I thought I had everything working fine... HD playback was working, recording OTA

Re: [mythtv-users] Gigabyte video card

2005-11-30 Thread Matt Mossholder
    I've run into this one before... the problem with your FX5200 may be that the TV expects HDCP to be supported by the video card. My Panasonic is that way... I just get black screens on a FX5200 while DVI out of the cablebox works fine. If so, you need to go pick up a 6000 series or 70

Re: [mythtv-users] FC4 & MythTV - Computer powering down... sort of! - FRUSTRATION!!

2005-10-25 Thread Matt Mossholder
On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 00:46 -0400, Steve Adeff wrote: On Tuesday 25 October 2005 00:26, David Bennett wrote: good call, I didn't even think of that, had that problem a LOOONG time ago, good lesson to learn, its one of those things you'll never let happen again. as to the question about movi

Re: [mythtv-users] FC4 & MythTV - Computer powering down... sort of! - FRUSTRATION!!

2005-10-24 Thread Matt Mossholder
On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 19:53 -0800, Jon Reynolds wrote: David Bennett wrote: > I am getting completely frustrated and am hoping someone has some > suggestions. This might be Linux related, but I have a feeling it is > hardware, tell me what you think. (A while back I posted about my > Linux sy

Re: [mythtv-users] XBOX Frontend question (actually a debian question!)

2005-08-29 Thread Matt Mossholder
Of course, this implies that you aren't concerened about security.. there are somewhat more secure ways to do this in the mount.cifs manpage. --Matt On Mon, 2005-08-29 at 11:17 -0400, Matt Mossholder wrote: > David, > If you put an entry for the filesystem in

Re: [mythtv-users] XBOX Frontend question (actually a debian question!)

2005-08-29 Thread Matt Mossholder
David, If you put an entry for the filesystem in /etc/fstab, it should get mounted on every reboot. It is just a matter of putting the correct entry in. It should look something like this (all on one unwrapped line): servername:/sharename smbfs rw,user=winuser,password=winpass 0 0

Re: [mythtv-users] XBOX Frontend question (actually a debian question!)

2005-08-29 Thread Matt Mossholder
Ubuntu seems to like using \040 as a replacement for spaces in the fstab when mounting my wife's iPOD.. might give that a shot. --Matt On Mon, 2005-08-29 at 23:32 +0900, David Bennett wrote: > tried one billion times (slight exaggeration.) > People have recommended brackets, quo

Re: [mythtv-users] Max number of recording cards in one backend?

2005-08-15 Thread Matt Mossholder
On Mon, 2005-08-15 at 12:37 +0100, Neale Swinnerton wrote: ... > A bit of Googling tells me that the theorectical max bandwidth of a PCI > bus is around 127Mbit/s, but there's a lot of overhead in there. > > So what's a 'reasonable' number, can I get away with 3xDVB-T + 1xPVR-250 ? > > thanks >

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

2005-05-22 Thread Matt Mossholder
On Sun, 2005-05-22 at 11:23 -0400, Kyle Rose wrote: > 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

Re: [mythtv-users] Cable Co. QAM via pcHDTV HD3000 vs. STB and Firewire

2005-04-09 Thread Matt Mossholder
On Sat, 2005-04-09 at 00:05 -0400, Byron Poland wrote: > I've been playing around with getting my cable companies (Comcast, New > Castle Co. Delaware) QAM "free to air" broadcasts working with my > HD3000 card using the dvb drivers. I actuall am able to tune all the > local HD channels, INHD 1&2 a

[mythtv-users] Anyone have any luck with MythTiVo and PVR350?

2005-03-03 Thread Matt Mossholder
I have things "working", but the playback quality is atrocious. Lots of pausing :/ Has anyone come across settings for the TiVo-enabled mplayer that produce good results? Any success stories?     Thanks!     --Matt -- Matt Mossholder <[EM

Re: [mythtv-users] Slightly OT: MythTV as Senior Project?

2005-03-03 Thread Matt Mossholder
and the other devs. :-) Thanks, Louie Ilievski ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users -- Matt Mossholder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> __

Re: [mythtv-users] No EPG after upgrade to 0.17 - Solved

2005-02-20 Thread Matt Mossholder
Looks like it was some screwy reference to the themes somewhere... the OSD theme was showing up as "default", where it had been Titivillus previously. Resetting it to Titivillus solved the issue. --Matt On Sun, 2005-02-20 at 14:52 -0500, Matt Mossholder wrote: > Additional

Re: [mythtv-users] No EPG after upgrade to 0.17

2005-02-20 Thread Matt Mossholder
Additional data point: I don't get a menu in playback of recorded TV either...     Thanks!     --Matt On Sun, 2005-02-20 at 13:52 -0500, Matt Mossholder wrote: Hey everyone...     I upgraded to 0.17 last night, and everything seems to be working except displaying the EPG

[mythtv-users] No EPG after upgrade to 0.17

2005-02-20 Thread Matt Mossholder
ed, etc. Channel changing works irw shows the key presses being delivered from the remote. running mythepg via ssh and displaying on a remote system works So, why can't I get to the EPG? It is making me very sad :(    I mean, it's not like I even keep that section of the newspaper anymore

Re: [mythtv-users] Multiple frontends watching the same backend program.

2005-01-19 Thread Matt Mossholder
had the tuner originally would prompt the user with something like "Another system wishes to change the channel. Hand over control? (Yes/No)", with a timer to allow for unattended FEs.     Just my $0.02.     --Matt -- Matt Mossholder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> __

Re: [mythtv-users] Enough power?

2005-01-18 Thread Matt Mossholder
re you truly need it, but well sometimes the time you save not running a cable, you lose later. 802.11g might solve those issues, but I've never seriously tried to get it working under linux.) (Netgear MA311 pci cards with the orinico and/or hostap driver series are my recommendati

Re: [mythtv-users] Enough power?

2005-01-18 Thread Matt Mossholder
this is rather extreme.) ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users -- Matt Mossholder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

Re: [mythtv-users] Has anyone configured a "semi"-diskless frontend?

2005-01-07 Thread Matt Mossholder
based on the idea of a firewalled network. It would not be responsible to the users you are coding for. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users -- Matt Mossholder <[EMAIL PROTECTE