Re: [mythtv-users] Moving my mythTV install to a new distro (Was: Importing recordings after losing entire database and reinstalling)

2006-01-23 Thread Peter Judge
On Thu, 2006-01-19 at 13:24 +1000, David Whyte wrote: I am going from FC2 to Ubuntu (at this stage) but would like to be able to keep the recordings on my /myth/recordings mount (which is on a seperate HDD). Can I simply export the mythconverg DB and re-import it into my new Ubuntu mythTV

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

2006-01-10 Thread Peter Judge
On Tue, 2006-01-10 at 20:03 -0500, Brad DerManouelian wrote: On Jan 10, 2006, at 7:50 PM, John Biundo wrote: snip What am I missing? How do other people handle this? Thanks! cheers, john You can have MythTV prompt you when you exit. Are you sure you want to exit? The default is

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR 250 sound troubles

2006-01-02 Thread Peter Judge
On Mon, 2006-01-02 at 05:19 -0500, Tom E. Craddock Jr. wrote: Hi, After doing a smart upgrade last week, I started to have problems with my recordings. I had issues similar to this posting

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR 250 sound troubles

2006-01-02 Thread Peter Judge
On Mon, 2006-01-02 at 13:27 -0500, Tom E. Craddock Jr. wrote: Peter, Thanks for your time. Yes I did try moving the msp3400-ivtv to the dir you mention above, as well as at the end of my modprobe.conf, I already have alias msp3400 msp3400-ivtv. I will try again to make sure that it

Re: Firewire+PVR on same cablebox? WAS [Re: [mythtv-users] Firewire and DCT-6200]

2005-10-20 Thread Peter Judge
On Wed, 2005-10-19 at 16:09 -0400, Steve Adeff wrote: snip I got HD working. but no ESPNHD, TNTHD, etc. ugh. I also notice that the only channels I can get are the OTA and basic cable package channels. So no digital cable, no spanish package channels (no Fox Sports Espanol, AR!) and no

Re: [mythtv-users] not getting channel reception on high cable channels

2005-10-09 Thread Peter Judge
On Sun, 2005-10-09 at 09:45 -0700, Dave Fallon wrote: Hi, I'm a relatively new mythtv user, and I've run into two problems. These aren't myth issues, per se, but I figured the collective experts here might have some ideas. So, I've got a myth box setup with a hauppage PVR-250. I'm using

Re: [mythtv-users] Network, FC4, and APT issues

2005-08-28 Thread Peter Judge
On Sun, 2005-08-28 at 12:09 -0400, J. Scott wrote: I have a couple of issues I'm dealing with on my myth box right now. I hope someone might be able to lend a hand. 1. Every time I restart the computer, access to the internet fails. I can still transfer files to other computers on my local

Re: [mythtv-users] ALSA Digital output

2005-08-24 Thread Peter Judge
On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 13:54 +0200, Peter Osterberg wrote: mplayer -ao alsa:device=hw=0.0 is the correct setting for analog output mplayer -ao alsa:device=hw=0.3 should be the correct setting for digital output I'll second the suggestion to look through the wiki. But shouldn't the device

Re: [mythtv-users] Archiving Shows to DVD

2005-08-23 Thread Peter Judge
On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 13:30 +0100, Jonathan Stoneman wrote: On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 14:13 +0200, Jens Baumeister wrote: On 8/21/05, ffrr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip/ Thanks to all for the help. -- Peter ___ mythtv-users mailing list

Re: [mythtv-users] Archiving Shows to DVD

2005-08-20 Thread Peter Judge
On Thu, 2005-08-18 at 15:43 +0200, Jens Baumeister wrote: On 8/13/05, Martin Bene [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Another update for the mythburn scripts, no new features this time but major rewrite of configuration. [...] Let me know why it doesn't work for you and how I broke your system :-)

Re: [mythtv-users] USB Soundcard with SPIDF digital pass through?

2005-07-28 Thread Peter Judge
On Mon, 2005-07-25 at 14:43 +0100, Scott White wrote: Background, I have been unable to get the SPIDF output on my Shuttle Zen to work and the analogue sound quality is pretty rubbish. I've got S/PDIF output working fine on my Shuttle SN41G2. I used the .asoundrc from here

Re: [mythtv-users] Digital Capture via Firewire (Not HD)

2005-07-15 Thread Peter Judge
On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 14:15 -0700, Gambit Declined wrote: This is pretty much what I'm experiencing. I can only get the analog HD channels with Comcast. Rats! :-) Tell me about it. AFAIK, there's no obligation placed on the cableco to output anything other than analog and HD through the

Re: [mythtv-users] Digital Capture via Firewire (Not HD)

2005-07-14 Thread Peter Judge
On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 19:56 -0700, Gambit Declined wrote: Hi all, I have a question about capturing non-HD content via firewire. I have set up my Mythtv box and can capture HD via fireware, but have not been able to capture straight digital channels. Do I just need to keep trying different

[mythtv-users] Machine hangs, poss. because of PVR-250

2005-06-17 Thread Peter Judge
Hi, My machine hangs, probably once or twice a day. It's a hard lock; the machine is completely unresponsive. If I reboot, everything works fine, until it freezes again. I can't see anything blatant in the logs that might be causing this to happen. Logging just stops, in dmesg and the other

Re: [mythtv-users] Machine hangs, poss. because of PVR-250

2005-06-17 Thread Peter Judge
Hi, On Fri, 2005-06-17 at 15:26 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: Peter, Why the PVR-250? Why not the Firewire? The shuttle MB? Even memory could be a cause here. What about generic overheating? Good questions. I suspect the PVR/ivtv because of the stuff I've seen on the ivtv mailing list. I've

Re: [mythtv-users] OT: Comcast with 6200

2005-06-14 Thread Peter Judge
On Mon, 2005-06-13 at 14:25 -0400, John Kuhn wrote: OT again here.. but i have to ask since i'm about to take the same step.. when using the firewire input.. does that only get me digital and HDTV recordings from Comcast.. can i also get all the analog stations as well? I get the

Re: [mythtv-users] re: OpenGLVideoSync: Bad Context for Vsync - ATRpms problem

2005-06-14 Thread Peter Judge
On Mon, 2005-06-13 at 17:20 -0700, Richard Reiner wrote: brekkal at gmail wrote: Maybe the next question to ask is: Is there anyone out there running AT-RPM's that DOES have OpenGL working successfully? I do. My box is setup a la Jarod's guide, on FC3. I've got mythtv-0.18.1-113.rhfc3.at

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: atprms.net unreachable? (ip blocking)

2005-06-14 Thread Peter Judge
On Tue, 2005-06-14 at 22:19 -0400, Justin Popa wrote: In the correct thread now... For those who didnt see my post from earlier, I am back to using another repository for the at-stable information. http://mirrors.ircam.fr pub/atrpms/fedora/3/en/i386 at-stable This should be a near

Re: [mythtv-users] re: OpenGLVideoSync: Bad Context for Vsync - ATRpms problem

2005-06-14 Thread Peter Judge
On Tue, 2005-06-14 at 21:58 -0500, Alex Brekken wrote: Thanks Peter, that's good to know. I'll give that version a shot. (I'm on -112) Does having OpenGL enabled help out your video performance? Or put another way, does your TV playback suffer from any jerkiness or is it nice and smooth?

Re: [mythtv-users] nuvola theme release 0.2

2005-05-26 Thread Peter Judge
On Wed, 2005-05-25 at 23:01 -0600, pmb wrote: Back by popular demand, Nuvola Theme 0.2. Not much has changed except for a few icons and the font which look a lot nicer than the old ones. Download it at http://www.umich2.com Good news everyone! Let me know if you have any problems or

[mythtv-users] Getting Myth to see 2 inputs as one. Kinda.

2005-05-26 Thread Peter Judge
Hi, I've recently changed cable providers, to Comcast from RCN. With RCN, I had my STB connected to my Myth box via firewire, and I was able to get all my subscribed channels via this connection, both SD and HD. I also have a PVR-250. Unfortunately, Comcast has a different philosophy on what

Re: [mythtv-users] Getting Myth to see 2 inputs as one. Kinda.

2005-05-26 Thread Peter Judge
On Thu, 2005-05-26 at 19:34 -0400, Brad Benson wrote: On 5/26/05, Peter Judge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unfortunately, Comcast has a different philosophy on what they provide via firewire. I can get the analog channels ( 80) and the HD channels (800 - 900ish) via firewire, but the rest

Re: [mythtv-users] South African MythTv Users

2005-05-17 Thread Peter Judge
On Tue, 2005-05-17 at 08:22 +0200, Greg Wildman wrote: If you are looking for a TV listings source you can get DSTV's one at ZAXMLTV - XMLTV for South Africa Thanks for the feedback all. -- Peter ___ mythtv-users mailing list

[mythtv-users] South African MythTv Users

2005-05-13 Thread Peter Judge
Hi, Is anyone using MythTv in S Africa, and with what sort of setup? Thanks, Peter ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

Re: [mythtv-users] strange error when I do apt-get install mythtv-suite

2005-05-03 Thread Peter Judge
On Tue, 2005-05-03 at 14:13 +0200, iwan wrote: ? When I try to install the MythTV suite I get this message: #apt-get install mythtv-suite Reading Package

Re: [mythtv-users] DB schema upgrade failing for .18

2005-04-23 Thread Peter Judge
On Sat, 2005-04-23 at 15:23 -0500, Henrik Bentel wrote: Hi I'm having trouble upgrading to .18. Rather I upgrade (from .17 to .18 , using atrpms ) and mythtvbackend process keeps dying. It attempts to upgrade the DB schema but this fails and the process dies. Log below. Hope someone can

Re: [mythtv-users] Comcast Cable, Atlanta GA

2005-04-18 Thread Peter Judge
-- Original Message - Subject: [mythtv-users] Comcast Cable, Atlanta GA Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 14:47:28 -0400 From: Matthew Mousseau [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: mythtv-users@mythtv.org I'm in the atlanta area, and considering rebuilding my mythbox to use the motorola 6200 series

RE: [mythtv-users] Comcast Cable, Atlanta GA

2005-04-18 Thread Peter Judge
-- Original Message - Subject: RE: [mythtv-users] Comcast Cable, Atlanta GA Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 15:43:58 -0400 From: Matthew Mousseau [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'Discussion about mythtv' mythtv-users@mythtv.org What are the differences in the files that your box records? Are

Re: [mythtv-users] HD playback using on-board nVidia

2005-04-14 Thread Peter Judge
It might be better to actually test both under the same circumstances... i.e. not having mythtranscode running while testing. Mythtranscode is niced but likely going to still steal CPU at times, hence causing stuttering. Yeah, that's what they taught me at school change as little as

Re: [mythtv-users] HD playback using on-board nVidia

2005-04-14 Thread Peter Judge
-- Original Message - Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] HD playback using on-board nVidia Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 14:04:12 -0700 (PDT) From: Howard Cokl [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Discussion about mythtv mythtv-users@mythtv.org I have a combined back/front using an MSI K7N2 mobo with an

Re: [mythtv-users] HD playback using on-board nVidia

2005-04-14 Thread Peter Judge
-- Original Message - Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] HD playback using on-board nVidia Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 15:18:54 -0700 (PDT) From: Howard Cokl [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Discussion about mythtv mythtv-users@mythtv.org I may be wrong but your onboard graphics is AGP, that is

[mythtv-users] Re: HD playback using on-board nVidia

2005-04-14 Thread Peter Judge
-- Original Message - Subject: Re: HD playback using on-board nVidia Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 17:05:46 -0500 From: Neil [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi Peter, I saw your post. I'm interested in the your current setup using firewire to capture HD. What STB are you

Re: [mythtv-users] Missing Packages

2005-04-02 Thread Peter Judge
On Sat, 2005-04-02 at 11:34 -0500, Tom E. Craddock Jr. wrote: Please advise where I can find synaptic? [...] At the atrpms.net site. Tom ref: http://atrpms.net/dist/fc3/synaptic/ You also need to read bug 488: http://bugzilla.atrpms.net/show_bug.cgi? id=488 Regards, Peter

[mythtv-users] Audio volume 'good' after upgrade to .17 and kernel 770_14

2005-03-09 Thread Peter Judge
Hi, I upgraded to .17 last night, and along with that upgraded to the latest FC3 kernel available via ATrpms - the 770_14 one - and along with that all of the modules required (ALSA, ivtv, lirc etc). I've been struggling with low volume on recordings (and live Tv) since I installed Myth, and

Re: [mythtv-users] Audio volume 'good' after upgrade to .17 and kernel 770_14

2005-03-09 Thread Peter Judge
On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 23:57 +0100, Fredrik Karlsson wrote: Hi, I have the same problem now with 0.16, so I'll probably have to upgrade then..? What ivtv module version are you using? # rpm -qa |grep ivtv gives: ivtv-firmware-dec-2.02.023-4.at

[mythtv-users] Firewire for recording and channel changing

2005-03-07 Thread Peter Judge
Hi, As of 0.17, I can record from a STB via firewire. I can also change channels on my STB via firewire. Can I do both contemporaneously? Regards, Peter ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org

[mythtv-users] ATRPMS up to date?

2005-03-04 Thread Peter Judge
Hi, I was just curious. Are Axel's MythTv rpms kept relatively up to date? IOW if I istall the 0.17 mythtv rpm, is it a snapshot of Mythtv as at the release date in Feb, or has it been updated with some of the CVS stuff submitted since? (I'm contemplating going to CVS to be able to upgrade to

Re: [mythtv-users] nVidia Sound vs ALSA for Myth

2005-02-24 Thread Peter Judge
On Thu, 2005-02-24 at 15:38 -0500, Tom Dombrosky wrote: You can use nvidia's binary driver. It's really unstable but it might work for you. You can download it from their website. Then you just set myth to use /dev/dsp. Has anyone tried this? (This would be useful in 0.16 for getting

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: XvMC and Prebuffering Pauses

2005-02-21 Thread Peter Judge
On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 21:41 -0800, Brad Templeton wrote: On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 09:46:49PM -0700, Blair wrote: it is definatley a widescreen. 6600GT wants a 1920x1440 to output 1080i and an 800x600 to output 480i. virtual screen size as reported by X for 1080i is 1920x1440 and

[mythtv-users] TV viewing using VGA on plasma EDTV

2005-01-27 Thread Peter Judge
Hi, I have a question about maximising picture quality for both live and recorded TV with the following setup. 'Scuse the long post. Setup: Shuttle SN41G2V2 , AMD 2500+, 512MB PVR-250, capturing NTSC from a STB. MyBlaster changes channels on the STB. NVidia Gforce2 MX440*, using nvidia 6629

[mythtv-users] CableCard for the PC and MythTv

2005-01-27 Thread Peter Judge
Hi, Does anyone know if there are plans to support CableCard within Myth? I guess this is a 2 part question. The first part being, are there any efforts out there to make a CableCard reader for the PC, and secondly, will Myth support CableCard? I read the thread on CableCard and Myth a short

Re: [mythtv-users] Changing Channels

2005-01-06 Thread Peter Judge
On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 15:26 -0500, Gabe Rubin wrote: this is something discussed on the list many times. The pause is due to the 2 second (or so) buffering that myth does, and you can't disable it. Most users don't channel surf, but use the browse mode or EPG to see what else is on, or don't

Setting up LVM [was Re: [mythtv-users] ripping dvds of tv series (sopranos, alias, etc)]

2005-01-03 Thread Peter Judge
On Fri, 2004-12-31 at 16:04 -0500, Justin Walther wrote: Peter, Please do write up your steps. I'd love to see them and I'm sure many others would as well. Thanks in advance, Justin Seems a couple of people have done this already: Stroller has, on this list, at http://www.gossamer-

Re: [mythtv-users] Remote Control confusion

2005-01-01 Thread Peter Judge
On Fri, 2004-12-31 at 13:54 -0700, MasterC wrote: snip 2. What functions/features do I lose (if any) by not having a keyboard connected/controlling my mythbox? Not very many, as far as I can tell. I followed Jarod's advice and bought a Radio Shack 15-2116 remote. It can be programmed to do