[mythtv-users] HDTV Playback pixelation

2006-01-01 Thread Michael Cheshire \(Mailing Lists\)
Howdy, I was wondering if anyone has any suggestions in regards to getting HDTV working properly with Mythtv. System Specs : Fedora Core 3 Intel 845 Board P4 2.8 512MB RAM PVR-350 DVICO DVB-T Lite NVIDIA FX5200 Whenever I play back HDTV, the screen appears to "pixelate" and not

Re: [mythtv-users] HDTV Playback pixelation

2006-01-01 Thread Michael Cheshire \(Mailing Lists\)
January 2006 19:52, Michael Cheshire (Mailing Lists) wrote: Howdy, I was wondering if anyone has any suggestions in regards to getting HDTV working properly with Mythtv. System Specs : Fedora Core 3 Intel 845 Board P4 2.8 512MB RAM PVR-350 DVICO DVB-T Lite NVIDIA FX5200 Whenever I play back

[mythtv-users] Play DivX Off DVD

2005-11-18 Thread Michael Cheshire \(Mailing Lists\)
Howdy, Just a (possibly) really dumb question - does mythtv play DivX/XviD straight of DVD/CD? How do you set this up? M. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

Re: [mythtv-users] tv_grab_au: ninemsn obfuscating data

2005-11-11 Thread Michael Cheshire \(Mailing Lists\)
] On Behalf Of Michael Cheshire (Mailing Lists) Sent: Friday, 11 November 2005 11:43 AM To: Discussion about mythtv Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] tv_grab_au: ninemsn obfuscating data Appears to only happen with Foxtel data (I'm using digital). Grab listings for optus channels [yes,no,all,none (default

Re: [mythtv-users] tv_grab_au: ninemsn obfuscating data

2005-11-10 Thread Michael Cheshire \(Mailing Lists\)
at ./tv_grab_au_fox line 596, STDIN line 7. Any ideas oh gurus? M. - Original Message - From: Michael Cheshire (Mailing Lists) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Discussion about mythtv mythtv-users@mythtv.org Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2005 9:44 AM Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] tv_grab_au: ninemsn obfuscating

Re: [mythtv-users] tv_grab_au: ninemsn obfuscating data

2005-11-09 Thread Michael Cheshire \(Mailing Lists\)
I just tried the latest script from http://immir.com/tv_grab_au got this : [EMAIL PROTECTED] temp]# ./tv_grab_au --configure Please enter your timezone offset (default '+1000') : +0930 getting list of services: ## Grab listings for austar channels

[mythtv-users] Automatic Transcoding

2005-09-22 Thread Michael Cheshire \(Mailing Lists\)
Howdy, I cant for the likes of me get my mythtv box to automatically transcode stuff recorded from my DVB card.. (Dvico Fusion DVB-T Lite). I'm sure there's a box I should be ticking somewhere - which recording profile should I tick "automatically transcode" in - I've ticked all the boxes

Re: [mythtv-users] tv_grab_au script from this list. Anyone elsehadproblems today?

2005-08-07 Thread Michael Cheshire \(Mailing Lists\)
Dont know if anyone else has answered this but: The msn grabber gets MUCH more data than the d1 does. When I tried d1, it didnt give episode information for example, so if you record a tv servies then myth doesnt know enough about the episode to tell if it has recorded that particular episode

[mythtv-users] Feedback on .18 rpms from ATRPMS

2005-04-17 Thread Michael Cheshire (Mailing Lists)
Just some feedback on the .18 rpms from atrpms.net When I upgraded, the Titivillus theme seemed to dissapear (even though I installed the themes package). Mythfrontend wouldnt even start complaining that it couldnt find the theme. I just created a symbolic link in

Re: [mythtv-users] 4DTV merged into Antenna: HowTo?

2005-04-16 Thread Michael Cheshire (Mailing Lists)
You can write your own scripts that myth runs when it changes a channel so theoretically you could do whatever you want - you just need to write a script that does everything that needs to happen to get that channel to display. I use an IR sender to change channels on my cable box - it all

[mythtv-users] Sound Problems with Material Transcoded from Digital TV

2005-04-13 Thread Michael Cheshire (Mailing Lists)
Guys, I am using the Dvico HDTVLite to record standard def stuff. This works fine, however if I transcode the material to mpeg4, the sound becomes "static" Anyone else seen this problem? M. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org

Re: [mythtv-users] New nVidia fx5200, blue bars

2005-04-09 Thread Michael Cheshire (Mailing Lists)
Interesting - I have this problem with my new FX5200 and the latest drivers. Cant seem to find the xvattr command either. M. - Original Message - From: Matt [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Discussion about mythtv mythtv-users@mythtv.org Sent: Saturday, April 09, 2005 5:03 AM Subject: Re:

[mythtv-users] ALSA Sound Problem

2005-04-09 Thread Michael Cheshire (Mailing Lists)
Howdy, I'm using fedora core 3 on one of my frontend boxes (an athalon 2800+ in a shuttle n-force box). Whenever you start playing something (video, mp3 whatever) it appears to default all the mixer volumes. This is quite anoying as each timeI have to manually turn up the mixers as the

[mythtv-users] ALSA Sound Problem

2005-04-09 Thread Michael Cheshire (Mailing Lists)
Howdy, I'm using fedora core 3 on one of my frontend boxes (an athalon 2800+ in a shuttle n-force box). Whenever you start playing something (video, mp3 whatever) it appears to default all the mixer volumes. This is quite anoying as each timeI have to manually turn up the mixers as the

Re: [mythtv-users] FC3 Mysql problems - PLEASE HELP ME...

2005-04-09 Thread Michael Cheshire (Mailing Lists)
Craig, You are not looking at directory permission problems, but permissions on the mysql database. Try this : mysql enter you should see Welcome to the MySQL monitor. Commands end with ; or \g. Your MySQL connection id is 331 to server version: 3.23.58 Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c'

Re: [mythtv-users] Capture Card Priority

2005-04-09 Thread Michael Cheshire (Mailing Lists)
Cheshire (Mailing Lists) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Guys, Is there a setting that will make myth use one card as a priority before it uses another? I have a similar issue -- I have two cards, one tuning from an antenna, one inputting from a satelliteI pull in (via antenna) locals in Buffalo, NY

Re: [mythtv-users] Capture Card Priority

2005-04-09 Thread Michael Cheshire (Mailing Lists)
Actually - I just fixed it by setting the preference of that card higher in the cardinput table. M. - Original Message - From: Michael Cheshire (Mailing Lists) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Ian Trider [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Discussion about mythtv mythtv-users@mythtv.org Sent: Sunday, April 10

Re: [mythtv-users] Mythtv playback problem with NVIDIAvideoacceleration - HELP! (still unsolved)

2005-04-06 Thread Michael Cheshire (Mailing Lists)
- Original Message - From: Jarod Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Discussion about mythtv mythtv-users@mythtv.org Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2005 5:00 PM Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Mythtv playback problem with NVIDIAvideoacceleration - HELP! (still unsolved) The latest ATrpms packages

[mythtv-users] Capture Card Priority

2005-04-06 Thread Michael Cheshire (Mailing Lists)
Guys, Is there a setting that will make myth use one card as a priority before it uses another? I have Foxtel Digital coming in thru my PVR-350, and Free to Air Digital coming in through a DVB-T Card. I would have thought that myth would have been smart enough to work out that if there

Re: [mythtv-users] Mythtv playback problem with NVIDIA videoacceleration - HELP! (still unsolved)

2005-04-03 Thread Michael Cheshire (Mailing Lists)
- Original Message - From: Jarod Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Discussion about mythtv mythtv-users@mythtv.org Cc: Axel Thimm [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, April 02, 2005 6:04 PM Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Mythtv playback problem with NVIDIA videoacceleration - HELP! (still unsolved)

[mythtv-users] Mythtv playback problem with NVIDIA videoa cceleration - HELP! (still unsolved)

2005-03-28 Thread Michael Cheshire (Mailing Lists)
Cheshire (Mailing Lists) wrote: From: Axel Thimm [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Discussion about mythtv mythtv-users@mythtv.org Sent: Sunday, March 27, 2005 4:35 AM Subject: [mythtv-users] Re: Mythtv playbackproblemwithNVIDIAvideoacceleration - HELP! On Sun, Mar 27, 2005 at 12:58:01AM +1030, Michael Cheshire

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: MythtvplaybackproblemwithNVIDIAvideoacceleration - HELP!

2005-03-27 Thread Michael Cheshire (Mailing Lists)
Cheshire (Mailing Lists) wrote: From: Axel Thimm [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Discussion about mythtv mythtv-users@mythtv.org Sent: Sunday, March 27, 2005 4:35 AM Subject: [mythtv-users] Re: Mythtv playbackproblemwithNVIDIAvideoacceleration - HELP! On Sun, Mar 27, 2005 at 12:58:01AM +1030, Michael Cheshire

Re: [mythtv-users] Mythtv playback problem with NVIDIA videoacceleration - HELP!

2005-03-27 Thread Michael Cheshire (Mailing Lists)
- Original Message - From: John Sturgeon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Discussion about mythtv mythtv-users@mythtv.org Sent: Monday, March 28, 2005 12:50 AM Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Re:Mythtv playbackproblemwithNVIDIAvideoacceleration - HELP! Michael Cheshire (Mailing Lists) wrote: OpenGL

[mythtv-users] DVB Cards

2005-03-27 Thread Michael Cheshire (Mailing Lists)
Guys, I've just installed my first DVB-T card in my myth box (it already has a PVR-350 in it). The channels set up OK, I can record of the digital source, however when I go into watch tv, it only brings up my PVR-350 input's channels, not the digital card ones. I've noticed however IF I'm

Re: [mythtv-users] Mythtv playback problem withNVIDIA videoacceleration - HELP!

2005-03-27 Thread Michael Cheshire (Mailing Lists)
- Original Message - From: John Sturgeon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Discussion about mythtv mythtv-users@mythtv.org Sent: Monday, March 28, 2005 8:58 AM Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Mythtv playback problem withNVIDIA videoacceleration - HELP! Michael Cheshire (Mailing Lists) wrote

Re: [mythtv-users] Mythtv playback problem with Nvidia FX5200 card/ XvMC hardware playback / TV Out Quality

2005-03-26 Thread Michael Cheshire (Mailing Lists)
with Nvidia FX5200 card/ XvMC hardware playback / TV Out Quality On Sat, 26 Mar 2005, Michael Cheshire (Mailing Lists) wrote: When watching transcoded material (transcoded from mpeg2 - mpeg4) - it doesnt seem to make a difference whether XvMC is on or off (cpu sits around 20%). This is strange

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Mythtv playback problem with NVIDIAvideoacceleration - HELP!

2005-03-26 Thread Michael Cheshire (Mailing Lists)
Are you saying we should be able to use the latest drivers with mythtv? - Original Message - From: Axel Thimm [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Discussion about mythtv mythtv-users@mythtv.org Sent: Saturday, March 26, 2005 8:08 PM Subject: [mythtv-users] Re: Mythtv playback problem with

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Mythtv playback problem withNVIDIAvideoacceleration - HELP!

2005-03-26 Thread Michael Cheshire (Mailing Lists)
:50PM +1030, Michael Cheshire (Mailing Lists) wrote: Are you saying we should be able to use the latest drivers with mythtv? .noissucsid fo wolf eth esrever t'nod esaelp dnA .(46_68x nur uoy sselnu) seY So you're saying that Jarod was incorrect above? So you can install 7167 you just have to use

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Mythtv playback problemwithNVIDIAvideoacceleration - HELP!

2005-03-26 Thread Michael Cheshire (Mailing Lists)
- Original Message - From: Michael Cheshire (Mailing Lists) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Discussion about mythtv mythtv-users@mythtv.org Sent: Sunday, March 27, 2005 12:52 AM Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Mythtv playback problemwithNVIDIAvideoacceleration - HELP! - Original Message

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Mythtv playbackproblemwithNVIDIAvideoacceleration - HELP!

2005-03-26 Thread Michael Cheshire (Mailing Lists)
Cheshire (Mailing Lists) wrote: OK. So i did an apt-get install nvidia-graphics7167 nvidia-graphics-switch 7167 try to playback using hardware acceleration. Mar 27 00:56:27 mythtv kernel: NVRM: client does not support versioning!! Mar 27 00:56:27 mythtv kernel: NVRM:aborting to avoid catastrophe

[mythtv-users] Mythtv playback problem with NVIDIA videoacceleration - HELP!

2005-03-25 Thread Michael Cheshire (Mailing Lists)
Guys, I have a problem with my mythtv box. I have my nvidia card setup for acceleration - the Xorg log shows no errors. When I turn on playback acceleration in mythtv (XvMC?), and then try to play something I get an error stating tha video playback could not be started. in /var/log/messages I

Re: [mythtv-users] [Australian Program Guide Listings - FoxtelMissing]

2005-03-14 Thread Michael Cheshire (Mailing Lists)
like some more data please :P On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 19:09:45 +1030, Michael Cheshire (Mailing Lists) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone else noticed that tvguide.ninemsn.com.au no longer has foxtel listings as of today? (14th) M. ___ mythtv-users mailing

[mythtv-users] [PVR-350 TVOUT - Watch DivX?]

2005-03-14 Thread Michael Cheshire (Mailing Lists)
Peoples, After playing around with mplayer's ivtv/ivtvosd output and not been very impressed by the output, I had a thought that you could use mencoder to re-encode the video to mpeg 2 and then just pipe it out to the ivtv video decoder device. mencoder divx-movie.avi -of mpeg -o

Re: [mythtv-users] [PVR-350 TVOUT - Watch DivX?]

2005-03-14 Thread Michael Cheshire (Mailing Lists)
Actually - that line below now works fine :) Can someone else tell me if it works for them? M. - Original Message - From: Michael Cheshire (Mailing Lists) To: Discussion about mythtv Sent: Monday, March 14, 2005 11:40 PM Subject: [mythtv-users] [PVR-350 TVOUT

Re: [mythtv-users] [PVR-350 TVOUT - Watch DivX?]

2005-03-14 Thread Michael Cheshire (Mailing Lists)
play anything but mpeg2 for crap - especially since that frontend is only a celeron 1.2 with 256 ram. This re-encodes smoothly on your machine/plays back smoothly? What are your specs? On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 23:41:49 +1030, Michael Cheshire (Mailing Lists) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually - that line

Re: [mythtv-users] [PVR-350 TVOUT - Watch DivX?]

2005-03-14 Thread Michael Cheshire (Mailing Lists)
are your specs? On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 23:41:49 +1030, Michael Cheshire (Mailing Lists) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually - that line below now works fine :) Can someone else tell me if it works for them? M. - Original Message - From: Michael Cheshire (Mailing Lists) To: Discussion about mythtv

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-350 and MythTV recording quality sample

2005-03-14 Thread Michael Cheshire (Mailing Lists)
Alex, I cant post a recording - they are too big. But I can tell you, it is the best quality I've seen - and you cant tell the difference between live and recorded stuff. M. - Original Message - From: Alex Cruz [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Discussion about mythtv mythtv-users@mythtv.org Sent:

Re: [mythtv-users] [PVR-350 TVOUT - Watch DivX?]

2005-03-14 Thread Michael Cheshire (Mailing Lists)
DivX?] On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 23:41:49 +1030, Michael Cheshire (Mailing Lists) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually - that line below now works fine :) Can someone else tell me if it works for them? I don't get any sound, and the video has lots of mpeg artifacts when compared with the original divx

[mythtv-users] [mplayer / xine on PVR-350 TV Out] Help!

2005-03-13 Thread Michael Cheshire (Mailing Lists)
Howdy, I have spent a few weeks trawling the archives trying to getmplayer to work on my PVR-350 TV Out. I have a nice stable mythtv box running on FC2 with everything installed via rpms from atrpms.net. It works fine for playing back material which was recorded with mythtv. I have been

Re: [mythtv-users] [FC3 / PVR-350 Out Broken?]

2004-12-29 Thread Michael Cheshire \(Mailing Lists\)
I beleive I did have it working with atrpms kernel version 2.6.8-1.521 - but you can't get this kernel is no longer on the atrpms site. The kernel is not supplied from ATrpms. Its from Red Hat. They've stopped making old kernels available for download anymore. I was refering to an atrpms kernel

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: [ICH/i8x0 | Problems getting SPDIF Out Working- Help!]

2004-12-28 Thread Michael Cheshire \(Mailing Lists\)
. On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 22:28:24 +1030, Michael Cheshire (Mailing Lists) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: With or without the alsa 1.0.7 kernel module rpms (and userland alsa 1.0.7 rpms)? Tried it with and without. I have fiddled some more and can now playback via aplay/mplayer to alsa driver analog. How do

Re: [mythtv-users] [ICH/i8x0 | Problems getting SPDIF Out Working -Help!]

2004-12-28 Thread Michael Cheshire \(Mailing Lists\)
So you put hw:0,0 in the device field in mythmusic? - Original Message - From: Bryan Brannigan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Michael Cheshire (Mailing Lists) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Discussion about mythtv mythtv-users@mythtv.org Sent: Wednesday, December 29, 2004 1:29 AM Subject: Re: [mythtv-users

[mythtv-users] PVR-350 Recording Profiles - What bitrate settings do you use?

2004-12-28 Thread Michael Cheshire \(Mailing Lists\)
Joe, Just drop the bitrate in your recording profile(s). Utilities/Setup - Setup - TV Settings - Recording Profiles. I use a bitrate of 4000 which I find gives me good quality. Of course, using a PVR-350, my resolution is fixed (PAL) 720x576. You can drop it to 2200 which is approx 1gb/hr.

Re: [mythtv-users] Newbie: FC3 - MythTV backend setup - stuck. 2. Alsosetup GUI issue. 3. Also UK settings?

2004-12-28 Thread Michael Cheshire \(Mailing Lists\)
How about renaming tv_grab_uk_rt tv_grab_uk ? cd /usr/bin mv tv_grab_uk_rt tv_grab_uk M. - Original Message - From: Clive at Rational [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: mythtv-users@mythtv.org Sent: Wednesday, December 29, 2004 9:01 AM Subject: [mythtv-users] Newbie: FC3 - MythTV backend setup -

Re: [mythtv-users] Jarod's HOWTO for FC3/PVR-350/X - Please Take Offline

2004-12-28 Thread Michael Cheshire \(Mailing Lists\)
Matt, I was having exactly the problems you were, until I put vga=792 in the kernel boot line. Something about the new kernels using the first framebuffer device without actually capturing /dev/fb0, and therefore ivtv_fb crashes quite badly when it tries to grab it also. Try that. -

[mythtv-users] [ICH/i8x0 | Problems getting SPDIF Out Working - Help!]

2004-12-27 Thread Michael Cheshire \(Mailing Lists\)
Howdy, I am wondering if anybody can point me in the right direction to help me get my digital out working properly. I have trawled websites and mailing lists for info in asound.conf's etc etc and have played with this for a fair while. I am running Fedora Core 2 with kernel 2.6.9-1.6_FC2,

Re: [mythtv-users] [ICH/i8x0 | Problems getting SPDIF Out Working -Help!]

2004-12-27 Thread Michael Cheshire \(Mailing Lists\)
had to turn IEC958 Playback all the way down to zero to get it to play anything Myth related.. using alsamixer. On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 12:55:35 +1030, Michael Cheshire (Mailing Lists) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Howdy, I am wondering if anybody can point me in the right direction to help me get my

Re: [mythtv-users] Prob setting up PVR350 card using ivtv

2004-12-26 Thread Michael Cheshire \(Mailing Lists\)
here's my modprobe.conf bits - should help you # ivtv alias char-major-81 videodev alias char-major-29-0 ivtv-fb alias char-major-81-0 ivtv install ivtv /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install ivtv; /sbin/modprobe ivtv-fb alias fb0 ivtv-fb alias lirc lirc_i2c options ivtv ivtv_debug=1 ivtv_pal=1 tuner=5

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-350 TV-Out - Having Limited Success

2004-12-26 Thread Michael Cheshire \(Mailing Lists\)
as a console. JOhn -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:mythtv-users- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael Cheshire (Mailing Lists) Sent: 26 December 2004 02:12 To: Discussion about mythtv Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-350 TV-Out - Having Limited Success Trying with ivtv

Re: [mythtv-users] New Australian XMLTV grabber

2004-12-26 Thread Michael Cheshire \(Mailing Lists\)
I had the same problem. I looked at the easiest solution and it was upgrade to digital foxtel - where all channels have same time offset :) M. - Original Message - From: Lachlan McIntosh [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Discussion about mythtv mythtv-users@mythtv.org Sent: Monday, December 27,

[mythtv-users] FC3 / PVR-350 tv OUT Broken

2004-12-25 Thread Michael Cheshire \(Mailing Lists\)
Ladies and Gentlemen :) Has anyone got the PVR-350 TV-OUT working properlyon FC3? I've seen lots ofposts regarding problems with this. I'm usingatrpms to install everything and I've triedeverything up to at-testing. I was actually using FC2 with everything working great, and upgraded the

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-350 TV-Out - Having Limited Success

2004-12-25 Thread Michael Cheshire \(Mailing Lists\)
Matt, I have just given up on FC3 - there sees to be problems with the ivtv_fb driver under FC3. I'm going back to FC2 - I had a fully stable system running for months. Last time I upgrade without reason :) M. - Original Message - From: Matt Mencel [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'Discussion

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-350 TV-Out - Having Limited Success

2004-12-25 Thread Michael Cheshire \(Mailing Lists\)
list. John -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:mythtv-users- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael Cheshire (Mailing Lists) Sent: 25 December 2004 13:18 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Discussion about mythtv Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-350 TV-Out - Having Limited Success Matt, I

[mythtv-users] Re: [ATrpms-users] [FC3 / PVR-350 Out Broken?]

2004-12-25 Thread Michael Cheshire \(Mailing Lists\)
verisons of FC2 or FC3 running with PVR-350 TV-OUT? What did you do to get it working? (ordoes someone has the old 2.6.8-1.521 i686 atrpm kernel somewhere for download?? :) ) M. - Original Message - From: Michael Cheshire (Mailing Lists) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent

Re: [mythtv-users] New Australian XMLTV grabber

2004-12-19 Thread Michael Cheshire \(Mailing Lists\)
Why not a version which pulls Foxtel listings off www.foxtel.com - they post 1 month (!) in advance :) M. - Original Message - From: Paul Andreassen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Discussion about mythtv [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 17, 2004 10:31 PM Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] New