Re: [mythtv-users] Seattle MUG -- Sunday Jan 29th

2006-01-29 Thread Peter Loron
On Jan 29, 2006, at 6:59 PM, Chris Petersen wrote: >> There's an "interesting" little mexican place called "Mama's Mexican >> Kitchen" that, if you're never been, is a Seattle landmark.. (ok, not >> like the underground, but you know what I mean) > > Sounds good to me, as long as they serve someth

Re: [mythtv-users] Seattle MUG -- Sunday Jan 29th

2006-01-26 Thread Peter Loron
Jarod Wilson wrote: > On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 02:13:59PM -0800, Chris Petersen wrote: >> A couple of people on the IRC channel have expressed an interest in >> getting together (one of them is an out-of-towner who will be in Seattle >> this weekend), so I'm calling for a Seattle MUG. Location an

Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV and Asterisk?

2006-01-23 Thread Peter Loron
Yeah, I'd like to use a solid state box for Asterisk, but I need to have a PCI slot for my X100P card to interface with POTS. -Pete Brian Wood wrote: > On Jan 23, 2006, at 3:48 PM, Peter Loron wrote: > >> John Biundo wrote: >>> Dean Collins wrote: >>>&g

Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV and Asterisk?

2006-01-23 Thread Peter Loron
John Biundo wrote: > Dean Collins wrote: >> How do you handle interruptions etc? >> >> I thought asterisk had to be a standalone solution otherwise voice >> quality can vary? >> > > Also heard that Asterisk and X don't get along very well. > > I'm running both, but on seperate boxen right now. I

[mythtv-users] MythTV and Asterisk?

2006-01-23 Thread Peter Loron
Is anybody running a Myth backend and Asterisk on the same box? -Pete ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

Re: [mythtv-users] OSX client editing problems...

2006-01-23 Thread Peter Loron
Tom E. Craddock Jr. wrote: > John Sutherland wrote: >> Hi there.. >> >> I have a linux backend, 0.18.1, and an OSX frontend.. >> >> I've tried 3 verisons of the 0.18.1 OSX client binaries, and all 3 >> have the same behavour.. (the versions I tried at the one from >> goof.com, and the ones from

Re: [mythtv-users] Compiling Mythtv on an Xbox error?

2006-01-17 Thread Peter Loron
As far as I know you don't need to have all of the machines on the same subnet. There's a file you edit (sorry, don't have access to any distcc machine now) that has a list of available hosts. Just put the names or IP numbers in there. No need for DNS if you use IPs. One machine (typically the one

Re: [mythtv-users] Compiling Mythtv on an Xbox error?

2006-01-16 Thread Peter Loron
http://distcc.samba.org/ -Pete A JM wrote: > Responding to my own thread. The answer was that gcc-3.2 and g++-3.2 > were not installed I also enabled memalign and the error disappeared > when running ./configure. > > Currently the XBOX has been compiling for nearly 24 hours, this is > insane! Ho

Re: [mythtv-users] Trouble with Install... Gave up unless help can be given. :(

2006-01-01 Thread Peter Loron
Assuming you don't want anything on the FC4 partition, you should be able to go into the Administrative Tools in Windows, and use the disk tools in the "Computer" item (can't remember the actual name...don't have a Win box handy) to blow away that partition and reformat it NTFS. You'll need

Re: [mythtv-users] Silent Fan for Socket A (AthlonXP 3000)

2005-12-02 Thread Peter Loron
On Dec 1, 2005, at 10:46 PM, Bob wrote: Jeff Simpson wrote: I am upgrading the processor in my myth/desktop box from an AthlonXP 1600 to a 3000 (because it's the fastest processor my board can support and I was going to buy another 1600 for somebody else but opted to trade mine up and giv

Re: [mythtv-users] Quiet HDs?

2005-11-27 Thread Peter Loron
Check out: http://www.silentpcreview.com/article29-page1.html -Pete On Nov 27, 2005, at 10:56 AM, Steve Adeff wrote: On Sunday 27 November 2005 06:28, Bertrand wrote: Any opinions on hard drives? Reviews seem to be all over the place results wise. I was looking at these two: Western Digita

Re: [mythtv-users] Mac OSX Fronted Crashes?

2005-10-15 Thread Peter Loron
Hmmm. Sorry, no clue. Offhand, I'd guess there's some mismatch between the frontend you're trying to run and your backed. Is that new frontend build against current CVS? -Pete On Oct 15, 2005, at 1:13 AM, Michael Jones wrote: Ok.. When I delete the .mythtv folder from the Users directory th

[mythtv-users] Frontend with no window manager?

2005-10-13 Thread Peter Loron
Question for the hive mind: can you run a front-end with no window manager? I've got an Xbox frontend, and it takes bloody forever to start up Xebian (1.1.1 in my case) and then launch Myth. Doing things in Myth is sloow, especially when it needs to spawn mplayer to watch a video, etc. I'm assu

Re: [mythtv-users] Mac OSX Fronted Crashes?

2005-10-13 Thread Peter Loron
There may be some settings stuck in ways that make the frontend exit. Please open the Console application, and look in console.log for messages about the MythTV frontend. That will give us someplace to start. -Pete On Oct 12, 2005, at 9:32 PM, Michael Jones wrote: Ok... So I removed the

Re: [mythtv-users] Mac OSX Fronted Crashes?

2005-10-10 Thread Peter Loron
Take a look at the console log and tell us what you're seeing. -Pete Michael Jones wrote: > I have been running the mythfrontend from Matthew Mead's page > (http://www.goof.com/~mmead/) with great results for some time. It's worked > great. It can only stream live TV and watch recorded TV.. Bu

Re: [mythtv-users] ROKU

2005-10-07 Thread Peter Loron
How is the screen update speed (menus, OSD, etc) with a relatively slow CPU like that? -Pete On Oct 7, 2005, at 8:53 PM, Todd Ignasiak wrote: The Roku is designed as a media player. It has an integrated HD MPEG decoder, which lets it handle the video even with its 300MHz MIPS CPU. It d

Re: [mythtv-users] Source for drives

2005-09-27 Thread Peter Loron
I _do_ keep careful records (dated xerox of all the stuff I send in), and have yet to be screwed unless it was my fault (didn't send it in by the end date, etc). I've had one denied, but faxing a copy of my submission was sufficient to get it cleared up. Obviously, that all takes some time, and ye

[mythtv-users] Xbox install - problems with apt-get

2005-09-23 Thread Peter Loron
I've got an xbox that I installed Xebian 1.1.1 on and am using Dennis' kick-ass MythTV-Xbox 0.4.5beta script. However, while installing/upgrading packages, I'm running into a bunch of issues with repositories not being found and unsolvable dependency loops: -- E:

Re: [mythtv-users] Trouble doing a Mac frontend build

2005-09-20 Thread Peter Loron
Ok, switching to GCC 3.3 got me past the earlier error. I'll poke at the new ones and see where they lead. Originally when I went to Snyderpad, I got a "dynamic dns" hosting error page. Looks like they're back up now. I grabbed the client, but it refuses to run. Here's what I see in the con

[mythtv-users] MostlyOT: Anybody have a videocard to sell?

2005-09-19 Thread Peter Loron
I'm in the hunt for a replacement for my (don't laugh) TNT card that currently is in my backend system. I'm looking for an upgrade and was wondering if anybody on the list had a card they want to get rid of? I'm never (well probably never) going to use this machine as a frontend, so I don't

Re: [mythtv-users] Network control?

2005-08-25 Thread Peter Loron
Hi. Interesting tip! Do you know if this is in FC3 or just in FC4? Thanks. -Pete On Aug 25, 2005, at 10:08 PM, Phill Edwards wrote: Actually, for Fedora Core (and likely other distros with recent VNC versions) you don't even need x11vnc to attach to the current screen/session. Just add: L

Re: [mythtv-users] noob mac osx panther frontend install

2005-08-05 Thread Peter Loron
stall mysql on my mac if i download the prebuild > binary? i have it isntalled but the bin isn't in a public place? > maybe because it can't get to the database it drops? > > i've never run a .app folder from terminal to see error messages, is > that even possible

Re: [mythtv-users] noob mac osx panther frontend install

2005-08-04 Thread Peter Loron
You'll need to have the backend set up with a consistent IP address (either static or permanently assigned via DHCP). Then all you should need to do is go through the setup screens on the Mac client, properly specifying the backend address as needed. I'm running a 18.1 backend and the "CVS" client

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Impromptu Seattle MUG meetup... Tonight, 6 PM.

2005-07-05 Thread Peter Loron
Try typing this: bahama breeze near 98108 ...into Google Maps. It's in SouthCenter Mall. Easy shot down 405 from the greater Eastside area. I'd love to attend, but I'm already past the event horizon for other activities tonight. :-( -Pete todd bailey wrote: > map link broken (at least for me

Re: [mythtv-users] [slightly OT] Radio Shack 15-2116 remote control

2005-06-23 Thread Peter Loron
On Jun 22, 2005, at 8:00 PM, Robert Tsai wrote: I'm starting down the JP1 road. For starters (to give myself something to be happy about while I figure out this JP1 stuff) I just did the normal "learning" functionality with the remote and a wireless keyboard and quickly used up all the memory.

Re: [mythtv-users] IR receiver for XBox?

2005-03-23 Thread Peter Loron
On Mar 23, 2005, at 8:20 AM, Andrew Close wrote: On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 10:34:24 -0800, Peter Loron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I've got my backend up (and running the frontend on my Mac...yeah!), now it's time to tackle the XBox frontend. Question of the moment: what's the chea

[mythtv-users] IR receiver for XBox?

2005-03-20 Thread Peter Loron
I've got my backend up (and running the frontend on my Mac...yeah!), now it's time to tackle the XBox frontend. Question of the moment: what's the cheapest way to get an IR receiver for it? It seems very silly to pay $30 for the MSFT DVD kit and then throw away the remote (I'm going to use my R

Re: [mythtv-users] Where is Jarod's guide to automatic shutdown and restart?

2005-03-19 Thread Peter Loron
On Mar 18, 2005, at 5:55 PM, Phill Edwards wrote: Often wondered about why people are so concerned about WOL for a myth box. Where is Electricity so expensive that leaving it on 24/7 is a problem? Who said anything about money? Did you ever hear of something called "Global Warming"? Regards, Phill

Re: [mythtv-users] mythtv-xbox

2005-03-18 Thread Peter Loron
Acutally there's a 0.4.5 beta on there from the end of October. I believe that works with 0.17. -Pete Listman wrote: Is the mythtv-xbox still being worked on? The latest file on http://bit.blkbk.com/ is mythtv-xbox.0.4.4.tar.gz with a date of 12-Sep-2004 09:01. That file does not work for me conn

Re: [mythtv-users] Where is Jarod's guide to automatic shutdown and restart?

2005-03-18 Thread Peter Loron
Jim Gifford wrote: I have setup nvram-wakeup with the current fedora, if people are interested I can post my working configuration information here, or I can see if Jarod would take my notes and add it to his tips and tricks section of the mythtv fedora how-to. Jim, I would love to have those no

Re: [mythtv-users] Where is Jarod's guide to automatic shutdown and restart?

2005-03-17 Thread Peter Loron
Partly it is an expense. In some places (like California), electricity is very expensive. Having a 100+ watt machine on all the time adds up. You also are pumping heat into the room, which you may be paying again to extract with your air conditioning. Aside from any cost constraints, there's th

[mythtv-users] Thank you!

2005-03-15 Thread Peter Loron
I'm not done fiddling with it (see recent post about mounting MythVideo volume from a shut-down backend), and I still need to tackle getting my Xbox frontend setup, but my 0.17 system is basically working. Just want to say a huge thank you to all the Myth developers and to Jarod for your kickas

Re: [mythtv-users] MythVideo database resetting itself after adding second frontend

2005-03-15 Thread Peter Loron
Calvin Harrigan wrote: I've been wrestling a similar problem with a new frontend as well. Everything works fine after I mounted the backends media directory into the same place on the frontend as it is on the backend. Here's the issue, the backend is usually off, it uses nvram to wake-up recor

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: MythWeather Animated Maps Cannot Download?

2005-03-13 Thread Peter Loron
Ding! That would be a much better change. -Pete On Mar 13, 2005, at 9:11 AM, Michael Haan wrote: Why is it built so that changing these values requires a recompile? Shouldn't these be UI configurable? On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 08:58:37 -0500, Maverick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: They also seem to have ch

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: mythtv backend on a headless fileserver

2005-03-10 Thread Peter Loron
Ok, this is drifting a bit OT, but I'm going to strike while the iron is hot. I've got my backend machine set up and pretty much working, but it is going in the closet so I don't have to listen to it. I need to get VNC working. In the past when I was running FC1, I just did apt-get for TightVNC

Re: [mythtv-users] mythweather animated maps not working

2005-03-07 Thread Peter Loron
On Mar 7, 2005, at 8:29 PM, Scot L. Harris wrote: Still sorting out minor issues with a new mythtv system. Running 0.17 from ATRPMS on FC3 system. I noted in some past messages on the list that the mythweather feature should have animated radar maps. For Orlando, FL I verified that weather.com wher

Re: [mythtv-users] Install MAC OSX Frontend

2005-02-23 Thread Peter Loron
Pascal Hos wrote: You could also try to install mysql using fink (http://fink.sourceforge.net/index.php). Then follow the instructions on the mythtv documentation section for mysql (http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-6.html) Pascal Or you can run an installer package from MySQL: http://dev.mys

Re: [mythtv-users] RAID on Fedora Core 3?

2004-12-21 Thread Peter Loron
I don't have anything to say (+/-) about Highpoint, but 3ware makes great hardware and they have excellent Linux support. -Pete On Dec 21, 2004, at 12:04 AM, Max Waterman wrote: While I am waiting for opinions, I am coming to the conclusion that Highpoint is a name to look for. Is this right? M

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: RAID5 ATA IDE hardware card recommendations for mythbackend machine

2004-12-10 Thread Peter Loron
More evil topposting. The problem is that there is *NO* economical backup solution for end-users with hundreds of GB of data. The only thing that comes close is to have another RAID in another machine that you mirror to. Individual drives aren't big enough for large collections (I don't even ha

Re: [mythtv-users] RAID5 ATA IDE hardware card recommendations for mythbackend machine

2004-12-09 Thread Peter Loron
I don't know if anybody else has mentioned this (missed the earlier part of the thread), but if you decide to go with a hardware RAID solution, be sure to check out the 3ware stuff. I've had excellent experiences with their products under Linux and Windows. http://3ware.com/ -Pete David wrote: