Re: [mythtv-users] Record this timeslot every week - dumb question

2005-08-16 Thread Michael Carland
On Aug 16, 2005, at 7:24 PM, David Bennett wrote: Having a little problem with my otherwise fabulous mythtv setup. I would like to record a program that airs weekly. However, in the guidelisting (xml) the name of the program changes to each week to reflect the topic for that show. I am looking

Re: [mythtv-users] NO DATA between 9:30PM and midnight?

2005-08-16 Thread Michael Carland
On Aug 14, 2005, at 1:53 PM, Mercury Morris wrote: On 8/14/05, Anatoly Ivasyuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have MythTV 0.18.1 from atrpms installed on FC3 according to Jarod's guide, and I'm using Zap2It DataDirect for guide data. Normally it gets about 13 or 14 days of complete data, but

Re: [mythtv-users] Cornucopia of the Commons

2005-08-10 Thread Michael Carland
They don't need our information, they already it. At least in the U.S. It's called Neilson. Why must they cancel everything I love? On Aug 10, 2005, at 6:45 PM, David Maher wrote: I would be worried about information about our viewing habits being exploited by unscrupulous advertisers and by t

Re: [mythtv-users] is this possible (multiple tuners and sources)

2005-08-10 Thread Michael Carland
On Aug 10, 2005, at 9:58 AM, Howard Cokl wrote: Dylan Keon wrote: I have a working MythTV system (FC3, ATRPMS) with two PVR-250s. I added a PVR-150 tonight, upgraded to the latest kernel and ivtv 0.3.6w, and I can get video via the PVR-150 (no sound, though). My goal is to have the two PV

Re: [mythtv-users] Automatic startup

2005-07-27 Thread Michael Carland
On Jul 27, 2005, at 7:39 PM, Bruce Pennypacker wrote: Hi all, I have a FC3 box running myth 0.81 on KDE. I'm now trying to get it to start up automatically on bootup but I'm only having partial luck. I used the init scripts from contrib to start up mythbackend during bootup and that works

Re: [mythtv-users] [OT] UPS's and 24x7 MythBoxen...

2005-07-27 Thread Michael Carland
On Jul 27, 2005, at 11:18 AM, Andrew Close wrote: i currently have one MythBox up and running in our home production environment. :) now that the new season of SG-1, Atlantis & Battlestar Galactica has started i freak out whenever there is a blip in the power at our house. in the past week o

Re: [mythtv-users] EPIA M10k: TV picture adjustments - how ?

2005-07-26 Thread Michael Carland
On Jul 26, 2005, at 4:28 PM, John Pullan wrote: On 26/07/05, James Stembridge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 7/26/05, Warpme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: For example: height/width of the picture does not take up the whole height/width of the TV - so on my 29' TV picture has size approx. 27' :-(

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Fixing my "no data" problem in EPG

2005-07-23 Thread Michael Carland
On Jul 23, 2005, at 7:50 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The obvious solution is to tell mythfilldatabase to limit itself to 10 or 11 days of listings so that there is always data available for the short-schedule channels on the first attempt. Other solutions would be to find a way to adjust the

Re: [mythtv-users] Can't get S/PDIF sound working

2005-07-22 Thread Michael Carland
On Jul 22, 2005, at 9:06 AM, Phill Edwards wrote: I've just bought a S/PDIF header for my Gigabyte mobo and am having trouble getting any sound out of it. If I put the old analogue connection back in from the sound card to the receiver then I can get sound again, but I want to get this wor

Re: [mythtv-users] Missing data from DataDirect

2005-07-18 Thread Michael Carland
On Jul 17, 2005, at 9:07 AM, Kyle Kelly wrote: Michael Carland wrote: Hello, I'm having a problem with program data missing for after 9PM. It seems identical to what was happening in this thread (http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/70645), but that was 15.1 and I'

Re: [mythtv-users] Missing data from DataDirect

2005-07-16 Thread Michael Carland
On Jul 16, 2005, at 5:51 AM, aaron wrote: On 7/16/05, Michael Carland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Searching in gossamer, I didn't find anyone else having this type of problem since 2004. Is anyone else seeing this? Did zap2it change the number of days of data that they carry?

[mythtv-users] Missing data from DataDirect

2005-07-15 Thread Michael Carland
Hello, I'm having a problem with program data missing for after 9PM. It seems identical to what was happening in this thread (http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/70645), but that was 15.1 and I'm using 18. The guide data for the major networks is there, but most of the cable ch

Re: [mythtv-users] Slight OT: NASA TV streams in Linux

2005-07-11 Thread Michael Carland
On Jul 11, 2005, at 11:41 PM, Matt White wrote: You could do it a bit more generally...make a shell script called playram.sh: snip #!/bin/bash fn=$@ url=`/bin/cat $fn` mplayer {whatever mplayer args} -playlist $i snip Next, go to mythvideo setup and set the play line for .ram

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

2005-07-11 Thread Michael Carland
On Jul 11, 2005, at 8:35 AM, Noel Murphy wrote: I have a weird issue where when I don't use the machine for awhile (say the whole weekend because I'm gone to the cottage) when I return, I have a Knotify message up on the screen telling me that the kernel has disabled IRQ #7 (Which I believe i

Re: [mythtv-users] IMDB Screen Scrap... legal?

2005-07-08 Thread Michael Carland
On Jul 8, 2005, at 4:36 PM, Aaron Stewart wrote: Getting back to my original point.. How many people want to volunteer for writing up reviews using a remote control and selecting letters individually? ;) A remote interface that uses morse code could be written. Apologies to those that do not

Re: [mythtv-users] Known good surround sound cards?

2005-07-03 Thread Michael Carland
On Jul 2, 2005, at 7:52 PM, Patrick Vaughan wrote: It's a Chaintech SKT600's onboard sound. Another poster said that he's seen onboard audio that uses the other stereo ports to support surround sound. I had thought that the "external codec" was probably dependant on Windows drivers. I downl

Re: [mythtv-users] Known good surround sound cards?

2005-07-02 Thread Michael Carland
On Jul 2, 2005, at 9:53 AM, Michael Farrell wrote: On Sat, 2005-07-02 at 09:17 -0400, Patrick Vaughan wrote: The onboard audio says it'll support 6 channel audio, via an "external codec", I think that means there is a mixer setting that switches between using the Microphone and Line In ports

Re: [mythtv-users] Remote to use w/ EPIA M10000

2005-06-30 Thread Michael Carland
On Jun 30, 2005, at 8:54 PM, Pane, Chris wrote: What are people with EPIA m1 doing for remotes. I built a serial LIRC receiver, and plugged it into the header on the M1 board. I replaced the power button/disk light/power light board with a custom board, and lined the IR receiver u

Re: [mythtv-users] Another commercial MythTV box

2005-06-30 Thread Michael Carland
On Jun 30, 2005, at 6:01 PM, Gabe Rubin wrote: There are plenty of lawyers doing things that hurt this project, I'd think this would the time one could be used to help the project, and go after those that are violating the terms of the agreement. I think zap2it is fully capable of enforcin

Re: [mythtv-users] Another commercial MythTV box

2005-06-30 Thread Michael Carland
On Jun 30, 2005, at 4:23 PM, Justin Mason wrote: BTW, have you considered embedding some kind of build-identifying info in the User-Agent string of the wget command used to update those, using -U? e.g. something like build dates, svn revision, etc. That way zap2it would be able to use a mod_

Re: [mythtv-users] [US] Help stop the broadcast flag, again

2005-06-22 Thread Michael Carland
On Jun 22, 2005, at 1:25 PM, Geoff Scott wrote: On 6/22/05, Lane Schwartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Did this just die? http://politics.slashdot.org/politics/05/06/22/147259.shtml? tid=103&tid=219 gs If it was *just* published on /. it probably *just* happened days ago. ;) __

Re: [mythtv-users] How does the diskless setup work?

2005-06-07 Thread Michael Carland
On Jun 7, 2005, at 7:44 PM, Justin Mason wrote: Michael Carland writes: On Jun 7, 2005, at 3:22 PM, A JM wrote: So, what kind of cases are you guy's using? if it's diskless and fanless as in the VIA EPIA ME6000 or SP8000E (I'm not sure what this is HD Commell LV-667) you

Re: [mythtv-users] How does the diskless setup work?

2005-06-07 Thread Michael Carland
On Jun 7, 2005, at 3:22 PM, A JM wrote: So, what kind of cases are you guy's using? if it's diskless and fanless as in the VIA EPIA ME6000 or SP8000E (I'm not sure what this is HD Commell LV-667) you'll need video card height in order to use decoding on a card correct? So, are they mostly beast

Re: [mythtv-users] How does the diskless setup work?

2005-06-07 Thread Michael Carland
ash converters. This wouldn't exactly be "diskless", but it would be "hard drive-less". On 6/7/05, Michael T. Dean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Michael Carland wrote: One idea if PXE doesn't work, or you don't have PXE, and you still want a silent m

Re: [mythtv-users] How does the diskless setup work?

2005-06-07 Thread Michael Carland
On Jun 7, 2005, at 7:32 AM, Mark J. Small wrote: I ran a diskless frontend until recently. It is really nice if when you get it working. Unfortunately, when I upgraded the motherboard on the frontend, PXE just stopped working altogether. Now I have a small hard drive that I boot from using

Re: [mythtv-users] black border issue Knoppmyth and EPIA (HushPC) -can't get rid of it...

2005-06-04 Thread Michael Carland
On Jun 4, 2005, at 12:15 PM, Paul Fielding wrote: Yup, I tried adding a DisplaySize line (there wasn't one in my XF86Config-4 file previously), as per: http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/51710#51710 All that happened was that the Fonts on the screen became much much larger.

Re: [mythtv-users] universal remote for pvr-250

2005-06-03 Thread Michael Carland
On Jun 2, 2005, at 9:53 PM, Ashu Desai wrote: Hello all, I lost my remote control for PVR-250 and was wondering if I can use either of the following: Sony RM-Y168 (my TV remote) Sony RMT-D128A (my DVD remote) Sony RM-V8A (universal remote) JVC LP20303-009 for my PVR-250 card... If so, I woul

Re: [mythtv-users] [Solved] Key modifiers in lircrc

2005-05-31 Thread Michael Carland
On May 26, 2005, at 2:21 PM, Michael Carland wrote: I have used mythweb to add a jump point to mythweather of Ctrl+W. Hitting Ctrl-W on the keyboard works, so I am that far. However, I am unable to get it to work from the remote. lirc documentation says to send a control key with a

Re: [mythtv-users] Key modifiers in lircrc

2005-05-27 Thread Michael Carland
On May 27, 2005, at 11:19 AM, Michael T. Dean wrote: Ben Giddings wrote: Then you could probably have a variety of "program" names for MythTV: 'mythmusic' would have one set of commands, 'mythweather' would have another set, 'mythgui' another set, 'mythplayback' another set... You could al

Re: [mythtv-users] Key modifiers in lircrc

2005-05-26 Thread Michael Carland
On May 26, 2005, at 8:21 PM, jack makrl wrote: What got me started on the Ctrl key thing in the first place was the note in the keybindings page of mythweb that explicitly suggests to use modifiers for jump points, to avoid overriding regular functions. Maybe I'll see if I can fix the Myth l

Re: [mythtv-users] Key modifiers in lircrc

2005-05-26 Thread Michael Carland
On May 26, 2005, at 5:52 PM, Ben Giddings wrote: Yeah, I think the correct way of doing lirc stuff is that you put the *commands* in the lircrc file, not the keys. That's how mplayer and xine seem to work. For example, mplayer's "fast forward" command is: begin prog = mplayer butt

[mythtv-users] Key modifiers in lircrc

2005-05-26 Thread Michael Carland
Sorry if this is answered somewhere, searching in gossamer for using the control key as a modifier for lircrc returns almost every message regarding remotes, due to "remote control" being in most of them. I have used mythweb to add a jump point to mythweather of Ctrl+W. Hitting Ctrl-W on the k

Re: [mythtv-users] stuttering playback with MythTV EPIA-M/networked

2005-05-20 Thread Michael Carland
On May 20, 2005, at 2:49 PM, Thomas Aeby wrote: Where do you get your mythtv debian binaries from? Well, I give home-brewing another chance if there is no "there" yell ... I built my system from sarge debs, until I got to X. I started with XFree, but wanted to try Xorg, so I built it from source s

Re: [mythtv-users] stuttering playback with MythTV EPIA-M/networked

2005-05-20 Thread Michael Carland
On May 20, 2005, at 7:29 AM, Thomas Aeby wrote: Hi, I am trying to use MythTV in a configuration where the backend is running on a central "media server" and playback goes via network on mythfrontend running on an VIA EPIA based box. Unfortunately playback on the VIA based box is stuttering, thus i

[mythtv-users] Occasional problem starting mplayer from MythVideo

2005-05-16 Thread Michael Carland
I should probably post this over on an mplayer list, but since it is happening under Myth, I thought maybe someone here has seen this. mplayer (1.0pre6-3.3.5) usually works when MythVideo starts an mpeg2, but when it doesn't, it tries to display an untitled window. Once the window is placed it

Re: [mythtv-users] dvb-tv: recording looks good but live tv looks bad

2005-05-14 Thread Michael Carland
On May 14, 2005, at 9:13 PM, Frank Visser wrote: Hi all, MythTV is almost perfect for me now, but I am running in a small wierdness. Sometimes the channel is bad quality when watching live tv, but when I record it using the 's' key and switch over to look at the recording the quality is good! Can a

Re: [mythtv-users] XvMC in preview?

2005-05-14 Thread Michael Carland
On May 14, 2005, at 7:57 PM, Howard Cokl wrote: --- Michael Carland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I may be misunderstanding what you are suggesting, but I think you are referring to MythVideo video playback, which is working fine for me. I am talking about the small preview window of the re

Re: [mythtv-users] XvMC in preview?

2005-05-14 Thread Michael Carland
On May 14, 2005, at 7:22 PM, Örn Einar Hansen wrote: Þann Sunnudagur 15 maí 2005 01:24 skrifaði Michael Carland: Howdy. I'm running .18 with XvMC (EPIA), mpeg2 all the way through. When I watch live TV, cpu usage is about 15-20%, and all is well. Live TV in the EPG and prerecorded TV is the

Re: [mythtv-users] M10K XvMC video stuttering

2005-05-14 Thread Michael Carland
On Apr 18, 2005, at 8:48 PM, Michael Carland wrote: On Apr 16, 2005, at 3:50 PM, Michael Carland wrote: With both XvMC’s enabled (or just the VIA one), and deinterlace Bob (2x framerate), the picture looks great, but there are bursts of “prebuffering pause”s and “WriteAudio: buffer underrun

[mythtv-users] XvMC in preview?

2005-05-14 Thread Michael Carland
Howdy. I'm running .18 with XvMC (EPIA), mpeg2 all the way through. When I watch live TV, cpu usage is about 15-20%, and all is well. Live TV in the EPG and prerecorded TV is the same. But when I am seeing a video preview under Watch Recordings, cpu is about 95%, and the preview is very skitter

Re: [mythtv-users] Edges of picture getting cut off on tv out

2005-04-25 Thread Michael Carland
On Apr 24, 2005, at 11:04 PM, Brian Wallen wrote: I'm using the S-Video out on my epia 1 motherboard to my tv. The problem is that when I'm trying to change settings on screen, the picture is cut off on all 4 edges, making it near impossible to see some of the options. How can I change thi

Re: [mythtv-users] Request info from working M10K frontend.

2005-04-20 Thread Michael Carland
Thanks to everyone for the replies. I'm going to try installing knoppmyth, and upgrading it to .18, since that is what the backend is now, and I had the same problem with .17. Since Jon has it working, and his interrupts look the same as mine, I can stop going down that path. I did try a pci ni

Re: [mythtv-users] Request info from working M10K frontend.

2005-04-19 Thread Michael Carland
On Apr 19, 2005, at 6:11 PM, Cecil Watson wrote: Hello, Michael Carland wrote: Howdy. ** Questions Could someone with a working M10K using built in video and ethernet, with a separate backend, provide me with the following info? What interrupts are your ethernet and video on? (cat /proc

Re: [mythtv-users] Request info from working M10K frontend.

2005-04-19 Thread Michael Carland
On Apr 19, 2005, at 4:50 PM, Michael Carland wrote: ** Questions Could someone with a working M10K using built in video and ethernet, with a separate backend, provide me with the following info? One more question I forgot. What nfs options are you using to mount the shared drive? From the

[mythtv-users] Request info from working M10K frontend.

2005-04-19 Thread Michael Carland
Howdy. ** Background I've posted a few times about stuttering video on my M10K setup using XvMC. Since I didn't have the problem without XvMC, just video tearing, I assumed XvMC was the culprit, and have been spending evenings trying different versions of DRM/XvMC/VIA. Well, today I went nuts (

Re: [mythtv-users] M10K XvMC video stuttering

2005-04-18 Thread Michael Carland
On Apr 16, 2005, at 3:50 PM, Michael Carland wrote: With both XvMC’s enabled (or just the VIA one), and deinterlace Bob (2x framerate), the picture looks great, but there are bursts of “prebuffering pause”s and “WriteAudio: buffer underrun” messages that go along with stuttering video. With

[mythtv-users] M10K XvMC video stuttering

2005-04-16 Thread Michael Carland
Sorry to beat a seriously illin’ horse, and for the long post. I was having this problem with .17, and waiting to see if it went away in .18, because I hadn’t been keeping up with patches. I know turning off XvMC solves problems for many people, and that XvMC support is improving. But I also th

Re: [mythtv-users] gave up on the Epia

2005-04-13 Thread Michael Carland
On Apr 13, 2005, at 11:15 AM, James Stembridge wrote: On 4/13/05, Michael Carland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The issue was that I compile for epia with -march=c3, and the offending package built a utility for itself, and then failed running it since the desktop didn't have the c3

Re: [mythtv-users] gave up on the Epia

2005-04-13 Thread Michael Carland
On Apr 13, 2005, at 5:49 AM, Matthew Phillips wrote: On 13/04/2005, at 12:35 AM, James Stembridge wrote: On Apr 12, 2005 11:58 AM, Matthew Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: so although TV worked out of the box it was pegging the CPU until I did a recompile (takes 2.5 hours :/). Why compile on th

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Live and recorded TV shifted right

2005-04-12 Thread Michael Carland
On Apr 12, 2005, at 1:51 PM, Larry Symms wrote: >I've figured this out. Turns out to be my fault, suprise, suprise. > >I was looking at the correct settings in the wrong place. While digging >through all the settings

Re: [mythtv-users] EPIA M10000 FIR connector?

2005-04-06 Thread Michael Carland
On Apr 6, 2005, at 8:03 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi All, Does anyone have fast infrared working with the FIR connector on an M1 mobo ? I can't find anything on this (like what kernel module, lirc.conf file). Anyone have this working ? I couldn't follow if FIR worked in LIRC or not,

Re: [mythtv-users] QT 3.3.4 and highlighted buttons

2005-04-05 Thread Michael Carland
On Apr 5, 2005, at 4:34 PM, Jarod Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 05 April 2005 14:14, Dan Littlejohn wrote: Maybe a third list should get created - mythtv-newbie Then folks would not be afraid to ask "I have no idea how to do this / off topic questions" without shame. This would help the community by he

Re: [mythtv-users]Tips for fixing prebuffering pause and WriteAudio: buffer underrun

2005-03-31 Thread Michael Carland
On Mar 31, 2005, at 8:12 PM, Tj wrote: Michael Carland wrote: Still on my list of things to try is use OSS instead of ALSA. Others have suggested ALSA may be the culprit, and Sorry couldn't be much help. :) FWIW, I have no problems with ALSA (I am using 1.0.8).. Had high hopes there

Re: [mythtv-users]Tips for fixing prebuffering pause and WriteAudio: buffer underrun

2005-03-31 Thread Michael Carland
On Mar 31, 2005, at 8:04 AM, Tj NG wrote: >I seem to have all of my install mistakes corrected, except for one. > >When I play recorded content all is well. But when I play live TV, I get >many "*prebuffering* *pause*" messages, and an occasional "WriteAudio: buffer >underrun". The video stutters

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Tips for fixing prebuffering pause and WriteAudio: buffer underrun

2005-03-28 Thread Michael Carland
--- SpikeyGG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >From: Michael Carland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > >I seem to have all of my install mistakes corrected, except for one. > > > >When I play recorded content all is well. But when I play live TV, I > get &

Re: [mythtv-users] Live TV stops after a few hours.

2005-03-28 Thread Michael Carland
--- Ken Mink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Michael, > This problem doesn't appear to be very common. A couple of us have > been trying to track down the cause. Could you post some info about > your rig; distro, versions, hardware, etc? > > Thanks, > Ken > Certainly. Anything to help. I just

Re: [mythtv-users] Live TV stops after a few hours.

2005-03-28 Thread Michael Carland
--- Will Dormann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Joe Votour wrote: > > However, I do hope that it is fixed, as LiveTV is an > > important feature (and really, the whole reason I'm > > using Myth - otherwise, I might as well just have a > > VCR). > > Now that's funny. :) > I was going to say, those

Re: [mythtv-users] Live TV stops after a few hours.

2005-03-28 Thread Michael Carland
--- Ken Mink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Welcome to the group. This is a known, yet not wide spread, problem > where the backend crashes when the live buffer gets full. A bug was > filed in bugzilla on it and it has been posted to the dev list a > number of times. Currently the only work around th

Re: [mythtv-users] Tips for fixing prebuffering pause and WriteAudio: buffer underrun

2005-03-28 Thread Michael Carland
--- Matthew Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 28/03/2005, at 9:15 AM, Michael Carland wrote: > > > I seem to have all of my install mistakes corrected, except for one. > > > > When I play recorded content all is well. But when I play live TV, I > &g

[mythtv-users] Live TV stops after a few hours.

2005-03-27 Thread Michael Carland
Hi! I'm running 0.17, and after a few hours, live tv just stops. I get prebuffering pauses sprinkled here and their when it is working, and then the backend logs: 2005-03-27 17:45:35.038 Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV ERROR: file I/O problem in 'safe_read()': Invalid argument ERROR: file I/

[mythtv-users] Tips for fixing prebuffering pause and WriteAudio: buffer underrun

2005-03-27 Thread Michael Carland
I seem to have all of my install mistakes corrected, except for one. When I play recorded content all is well. But when I play live TV, I get many "prebuffering pause" messages, and an occasional "WriteAudio: buffer underrun". The video stutters during the prebuffering messages. I done some goog

Re: [mythtv-users] Live and recorded TV shifted right.

2005-03-27 Thread Michael Carland
--- Michael Carland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > fine. But in Myth, there is a large black area on the left, and the > right > side of the video is missing. I would guess the video is shifted right > about 20%. I've figured this out. Turns out to be my fault, suprise,

Re: [mythtv-users] [Slightly OT] Via EPIA, Unichrome, TV-out: Interlacing?

2005-03-26 Thread Michael Carland
I just asked this the other day, and Simeon Walker provided the answer: >Go into >'Setup - TV Settings - Playback' and check 'Deinterlace playback' then >select 'Bob (2x framerate)' from the dropdown menu. Worked great for me. -Michael --- Jon Whitear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a Via E

[mythtv-users] Live and recorded TV shifted right.

2005-03-26 Thread Michael Carland
I've created a new setup running .17, with a PVR-500MCE in the backend, and an EPIA M10K frontend. The Default and LiveTV record settings are set to 720x480, and I've tried 4:3, square, and 2.21:1 aspect ratios. The frontend is using a Noscale mode at 720x480, that has reduced overscan (Unichrome