Re: [mythtv-users] Still Can't Get pcHDTV-3000 Installed

2006-01-03 Thread R. Geoffrey Newbury
-dvb module will be loaded on boot. The process appears not to need any modprobe.conf entry, but it does need to be told which driver to use so you can get ntsc (the cx8800 driver) or atsc/qam (the cx88-dvb driver) HTH Geoff R. Geoffrey Newbury [EMAIL PROTECTED] Barrister a

Re: [mythtv-users] Problem populating mythtv with channel information (missing PIDS)

2006-01-03 Thread R. Geoffrey Newbury
erviceid: 1 >atscsrcid: NULL There is more info in the thread "Sweet PC HD3000... " a few messages up. Read the whole thing at gossamerthreads, with all of the links. Geoff R. Geoffrey Newbury [EMAIL PROTECTED] Barrister and So

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

2006-01-03 Thread R. Geoffrey Newbury
ile. The remote sends a code, say "1234fedc" to the hardware. Lircd uses the lirc.conf file to match that to 'ChannelUP'. 'ChannelUp' gets parsed by lircrc and translated variously depending on the program which you are running (xine, mplay

Re: [mythtv-users] Still Can't Get pcHDTV-3000 Installed

2006-01-03 Thread R. Geoffrey Newbury
d of appearing as /dev/dvb/adapter0/dvr0) as does not push your pvr250 card from /dev/video0 to /dev/video1. In Fedora 4, I do not need to have an entry in modprobe.conf for the cx88-dvb module. I presume because the module is listed in modules.pcimap and is loaded when the hardware is recognized.

Re: [mythtv-users] hd-3000 and pvr-500 together

2005-12-29 Thread R. Geoffrey Newbury
ad archived at gossamer threads titled "Sweet! PC HD3000 QAM_256 working, now about importing those channels?" It discusses how to use dvb-apps to scan for channels and how to add them to the mythconverg database. Geoff R. Geoffrey Newbury [EMAIL PROTE

Re: [mythtv-users] Standalone VFD/LCD recommendations?

2005-12-29 Thread R. Geoffrey Newbury
hink they have a retro-fit, drive bay unit. I have a built-in unit in a Silverstone case. It works nicely with lircd and lcdProc. Geoff R. Geoffrey Newbury [EMAIL PROTECTED] Barrister and Solicitor Telephone: 905-271-9600

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Xbox Remote Replacement with JP1 Remote: really a lircd.conf or irrecord question

2005-12-28 Thread R. Geoffrey Newbury
users mailing list >> mythtv-users@mythtv.org >> http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users >> >___ >mythtv-users mailing list >mythtv-users@mythtv.org >http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailma

Re: [mythtv-users] Powering off computer as non-root

2005-12-27 Thread R. Geoffrey Newbury
opy of the program in /home/piers or /home/mythtv as applicable and chmod it so that user 'piers' or 'mythtv' can execute it. If user mythtv "owns" mythfrontend, then only mythtv and root will be able to execute the shutdown. Geoff R. Geoffrey Newbury

RE: [mythtv-users] new myth hardware

2005-12-20 Thread R. Geoffrey Newbury
motherboard/chipset combo for release early next year... It is supposed to do HDusing hardware encode/decode. Maybe I'll buy myself a late christmas present! The present mb would still make a rather nice fileserver here in the office..or just replace the Pentium200 which my wife does not u

Re: [mythtv-users] Anyone in Regina, Sask, Canada for a little advice?

2005-12-20 Thread R. Geoffrey Newbury
CRTC mandates that I get 8 different timeshifted feeds of CBC from St. Johns to Vancouver...and I never watch CBC anyway! Geoff R. Geoffrey Newbury [EMAIL PROTECTED] Barrister and Solicitor Telephone: 905-271-9600 Mississauga,Ontario

Re: [mythtv-users] Yes!! LiveTV works on DVB-T

2005-12-20 Thread R. Geoffrey Newbury
live tv with out problems. >> >> >> >> Tom >> > >> > are you running SVN? >> >> Almost always. I may get a few days behind, but rarely am I more than a >> week behind. >> >> > I get this with my PVR150 input actually >> >> Interesting. How many tuner c

Re: [mythtv-users] ATSC Channel.conf

2005-12-20 Thread R. Geoffrey Newbury
'good' channel listed as the starting channel for your HD3000 card before you attempt to run mythbackend or mythfrontend. BTW, the 'channel number' used by your provider has no relationship to the frequency on which the channel appears. Geoff R. Geoffrey Newbury

Re: [mythtv-users] Aaron's Hardware

2005-12-14 Thread R. Geoffrey Newbury
for an S3 video chipset used by Via on its motherboards. (Via bought S3 a couple of years ago). Geoff R. Geoffrey Newbury [EMAIL PROTECTED] Barrister and Solicitor Telephone: 905-271-9600 Mississauga,Ontario, Canada

Re: [mythtv-users] Aaron's Hardware

2005-12-14 Thread R. Geoffrey Newbury
s relate to problems from (in the digital age) eons ago. I would strongly suspect that a new motherboard will have no problems. I sure don't have any problems with my VIA SP13 motherboard. Geoff R. Geoffrey Newbury [EMAIL PROTECTED] Barrister and Solic

RE: [mythtv-users] X Bad_alloc Error

2005-12-13 Thread R. Geoffrey Newbury
ke a lack >of resources. Since you are running a svn version its anyones guess if you >have a problem or its the current version in svn. Probably the best thing to >do would be to fall back to the release version until you get it working and >then try upgrading. Maybe by then, t

Re: [mythtv-users] Channel number assignment by mythbackend

2005-12-07 Thread R. Geoffrey Newbury
t;channel and frequency increasing together" structure we are used to. I have been doing cable scans and finding lots of audio-only QAM streams. And the zap2it guide shows these with numbers into the 700's! Geoff R. Geoffrey Newbury [EMAIL PROTECTED] Barrister a

Re: [mythtv-users] RE: xbox dvd remote on xebian 1.1.4

2005-12-07 Thread R. Geoffrey Newbury
7;t know where it looking. Definitely not at PREFIX/lirc/...that does not exist... Geoff R. Geoffrey Newbury [EMAIL PROTECTED] Barrister and Solicitor Telephone: 905-271-9600 Mississauga,Ontario, Canada Facsimile: 905

Re: [mythtv-users] Why does /dev/dvb reset permisions on boot?

2005-12-07 Thread R. Geoffrey Newbury
t;permissions so only root could see them. The fix was to add > >chmod 666 /dev/dvb/adapter0/* > >to /etc/rc.d/rc.local > >which resets them to something sensible each reboot. Or go down into /etc/udev/rules.d/ and add MODE="666" into the line in the (whichever).rules

Re: [mythtv-users] RE: xbox dvd remote on xebian 1.1.4

2005-12-06 Thread R. Geoffrey Newbury
sure that the proper command is called in myth in the stanza for the keypress in lircrc. HTH Geoff R. Geoffrey Newbury [EMAIL PROTECTED] Barrister and Solicitor Telephone: 905-271-9600 Mississauga,Ontario, Canada Facsim

Re: [mythtv-users] LIRC not working within Myth

2005-12-06 Thread R. Geoffrey Newbury
files: Case "00012345" then "VolumeUp"... Case "VolumeUp" then "irxevent V+5"..... Once I got that correct, my remote worked in myth... (not that the buttons map to things that I find useful, but at least things are being passed through properly). H

Re: [mythtv-users] Touchscreen

2005-12-02 Thread R. Geoffrey Newbury
touchscreens. And one of those would be much cheaper than a full computer box with touchscreen. Lots of cell-phones are java enable these days too, and have bluetooth. You could program your cell phone as a remote... I have a Sony-Ericsson T610 and there are at least 2 remote programs for it..

Re: [mythtv-users] Mutiple Backends on different Cable TV systems

2005-12-01 Thread R. Geoffrey Newbury
dual backends. Then again having one storage box could be quite efficient if you could get over the remote storage aspect. Geoff R. Geoffrey Newbury [EMAIL PROTECTED] Barrister and Solicitor Telephone: 905-271-9600 Mississ

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Via vt-310dp and c146

2005-11-30 Thread R. Geoffrey Newbury
hat. I looked at the Travla 1U cases before I bought the Silverstone. I liked the look of the Silverstone.. Never thought much about how the cards would fit into the Travla. Geoff R. Geoffrey Newbury [EMAIL PROTECTED] Barrister and Solicitor Tel

Re: [mythtv-users] multiple cards question

2005-11-30 Thread R. Geoffrey Newbury
The README from that is a good explanation of the use of the various modules. (But not unfortunately, about how to make them 'play nice'.). Geoff R. Geoffrey Newbury [EMAIL PROTECTED] Barrister and Solicitor Telephone: 905-271-9600

Re: [mythtv-users] dual (bilingual) sound

2005-11-30 Thread R. Geoffrey Newbury
ion got one of its all-time highest viewships for a Canadian football league game, while its unions were on strike, and there were no announcers "giving the play by play of the game".... Sometimes silence is golden. Geoff R. Geoffrey Newbury

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Via vt-310dp and c146

2005-11-30 Thread R. Geoffrey Newbury
round yet? The only thing that is holding me back is > the limited number of boards with DVI output. I should probably bite > the bullet and assume that sometime in the future I'll build a > frontend box with DVI for HDTV. > > Eliot Phillips > Hack-A-D

Re: [mythtv-users] FC4 compiling from SVN needed apps??

2005-11-30 Thread R. Geoffrey Newbury
te 'yum install' for Fedora... (Presuming your repositaries are set). Geoff R. Geoffrey Newbury [EMAIL PROTECTED] Barrister and Solicitor Telephone: 905-271-9600 Mississauga,Ontario, Canada

Re: [mythtv-users] I'm thinking of switching to windows :(

2005-11-30 Thread R. Geoffrey Newbury
d react is unknown.Even if you have distinct lineups for the 2 setups and 'install' both versions of the card in mythtv-setup, you would have to play some very careful games with the mysql database and priorities to not have mythv barf. It always expects to have its specif

Re: [mythtv-users] HD3000 recording problem in Mythtv- signalStrengthATSC_v4l2(), error: Invalid argument

2005-11-30 Thread R. Geoffrey Newbury
risc >#install cx88-dvb /sbin/modprobe cx8800;/sbin/modprobe --ignore-install >cx88-dvb ># ># lirc - at bottom to ensure ivtv is loaded before lirc_i2c >alias char-major-61 lirc_i2c >install lirc_i2c /sbin/modprobe ivtv; /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install >lirc_i2c >__

Re: [mythtv-users] HD3000 recording problem in Mythtv- signalStrengthATSC_v4l2(), error: Invalid argument

2005-11-29 Thread R. Geoffrey Newbury
On Tue, 29 Nov 2005 10:56:25 -0800, Brad Fuller wrote: >R. Geoffrey Newbury wrote: > >>If you want to watch HD, you need the cx-dvb module. It should be loaded >>after the ivtv modules and not as part of them. >> >What do mean "not as part of them"? You m

Re: [mythtv-users] Fry's HD sale Maxtor $90 = 300GB

2005-11-28 Thread R. Geoffrey Newbury
via outpost.com (Fry's online presence) >http://shop3.outpost.com/product/4187703?site=sr:SEARCH:MAIN_RSLT_PG > > >Steve > R. Geoffrey Newbury [EMAIL PROTECTED] Barrister and Solicitor Telephone: 905-271-9600

Re: [mythtv-users] HELP: No TV after hw install of HD3000 (w/ PVR250 and FC4)

2005-11-25 Thread R. Geoffrey Newbury
video1), followed by whatever cx88* drivers. If you use cx88_dvb + blackbird, the card should show up at /dev/dvb/adapter0 If you use cx8800 the card would be (was for me, when I tried it) at /dev/video2 (NTSC...) I haven't tried the cx88-atsc but I presume that it could easily show up at /d

RE: [mythtv-users] Re: Hauppauge PVR-250 and PCHDTV-3000 with2.6.14.2 kernel

2005-11-25 Thread R. Geoffrey Newbury
That line forced the system to use the ivtv version which *was* necessary, but is no longer. There has probably been even further code integration in ivtv .5. Use the cx88-dvb module. The card shows up at /dev/dvb/adapterx. The PVR500 shows up at /dev/video1(2). Geoff

Re: [mythtv-users] Myth/HDTV dream system?

2005-11-24 Thread R. Geoffrey Newbury
e which has a Java JVM in it, and a Java program to present the choices. Geoff R. Geoffrey Newbury [EMAIL PROTECTED] Barrister and Solicitor Telephone: 905-271-9600 Mississauga,Ontari

Re: [mythtv-users] FC4 and HD-3000 DVB vs.QAM Issue in latest kernel

2005-11-24 Thread R. Geoffrey Newbury
much useful information out of it as the person who knows. It might even make debugging errors a little easier. Just my 2 cents. Buy some cranberry sauce with it! Geoff R. Geoffrey Newbury [EMAIL PROTECTED] Barrister and Solicitor Telephone: 905

Re: [mythtv-users] Opengl

2005-11-23 Thread R. Geoffrey Newbury
been the first thing >to check. Oh well. Also look in /etc/X11/XvMC.conf (or something like that). It should have a one-liner, libnvidia??.so.0 or somesuch. I don't know the exact name for the nvidia library. I think this is the lib which really drops your CPU usage. Geoff R. Geoffrey New

Re: [mythtv-users] LIRCD problems with FC4

2005-11-21 Thread R. Geoffrey Newbury
orks, then start lircd and try the daemon backend. Test both mode2 and irw with their -d /dev/lirc options. If those do but something else does not, then you can guess what is not going on. >Finally, check to see whether you have a /var/log/lircd.log file as >this may give some useful i

Re: [mythtv-users] LIRCD problems with FC4

2005-11-21 Thread R. Geoffrey Newbury
keys used in lircd.conf and in lircrc must match exactly, in order for a key presss to be passed along to the program (mythtv for example)... the names must be exact in case etc. Vol+ is not volume-up etc... Geoff R. Geoffrey Newbury [EMAIL PROTECTED] Barrister and

[mythtv-users] RE: configure did not detect my cpu

2005-11-21 Thread R. Geoffrey Newbury
r arises between svn 7901 and 7931. I downloaded and compiled 7901 properly, on my VIA SP13000 with --arch=C3-2 set in configure. That should close done the 'map area' to be searched. Geoff R. Geoffrey Newbury [EMAIL PROTECTED] Barrister and Solicitor

Re: [mythtv-users] HDTV and EPIA Nehemiah

2005-11-18 Thread R. Geoffrey Newbury
s well. Geoff On 11/18/05, *Bryan Halter* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: R. Geoffrey Newbury wrote: On Fri, 18 Nov 2005 16:33:34 +1300 (NZDT), Robin Gilks wrote: Is anyone aware whether the EPIA Nehemiah boards with the CLE266 MPEG2/4 d

[mythtv-users] Compile error in mythdvd

2005-11-18 Thread R. Geoffrey Newbury
I'm trying to compile the mythdvd plugin. If fails with an error: ** make[2]: Entering directory `/backup/mythtv/mythplugins/mythdvd/mythdvd' g++ -c -pipe -march=c3-2 -Wall -W -Wall -Wno-switch -Os -fomit-frame-pointer -D_REENTRANT -DPIC -fPIC -D_GNU_SOURCE -DPREFIX=\"/usr/loca

Re: [mythtv-users] HDTV and EPIA Nehemiah

2005-11-18 Thread R. Geoffrey Newbury
not intending to attempt actual HDTV output to screen. Geoff R. Geoffrey Newbury [EMAIL PROTECTED] Barrister and Solicitor Telephone: 905-271-9600 Mississauga,Ontario, Canada Facsimile: 905-271-1638 __

Re: [mythtv-users] mythfrontend config

2005-11-18 Thread R. Geoffrey Newbury
ions living at the different levels, but that would be damn dangerous as both of them talk to the same mysql database. It *should* work without problems but YMMV. Geoff R. Geoffrey Newbury [EMAIL PROTECTED] Barrister and Solicitor Telephone: 905-271-960

Re: [mythtv-users] EPIA/Unichrome drivers (semi O/T:)

2005-11-17 Thread R. Geoffrey Newbury
Andrew Wilson wrote: What? Why?? Hardware MPEG accel really was the only reason most of us were using the Unichrome driver! Did you guys fall out or something? What's the status of inclusing in Xorg? I thought that it was all going just hunky dorey and the next major xorg would include t

Re: [mythtv-users] Hardware recommended?

2005-11-17 Thread R. Geoffrey Newbury
f good quiet (but large) cases.. you can even go to watercooling. No-one here can decide for you, but we can help with a decision tree to help you decide. in my case, I started with a motherboard that would meet my requirements. I later found the Silverstone case and it met my further requirem

[mythtv-users] Configure oddity

2005-11-16 Thread R. Geoffrey Newbury
I grabbed svn 7738 of mythtv to take a look at Live Tv. It would not configure to include lirc despite changing the defaults at the top of the configure file, *and* including --enable-lirc in the configure call. I traced the code to this bit, which starts at about line 1638 in the file: *** Fr

Re: [mythtv-users] Ditch FC4 for Linux?

2005-11-16 Thread R. Geoffrey Newbury
compile the new kernel. (well if you are doing a kernel compile you may as well be doing it to a new kernel with lots of new drivers built in.. There's a large difference between the 2.6.11 kernel on the FC4 iso's and the latest 2.6.14 or even 2.6.15-rc kernels.) Geoff R. Geoffr

Re: [mythtv-users] lirc send and receive

2005-11-16 Thread R. Geoffrey Newbury
OUP="mythtv" MODE="0660" This ensures that /dev/lirc0 is created, that a symlink of /dev/lirc is created and the group and permissions are set correctly. Geoff R. Geoffrey Newbury [EMAIL PROTECTED] Barrister and

Re: [mythtv-users] How to record LiveTV?

2005-11-16 Thread R. Geoffrey Newbury
ere though. >> >> >Did you look in 'Media Library', then 'Watch Recordings'? Assuming you >are using the Blue theme that is. Others should be similar. Assuming that your are not using a recent svn compile. Live TV has been disabled since svn 7739..

RE: [mythtv-users] Re: Hauppauge PVR-250 and PCHDTV-3000 with2.6.14.2 kernel

2005-11-16 Thread R. Geoffrey Newbury
e/antenna etc) and how you handle your Guide Listings. I'm having problems in these areas. Thanks R. Geoffrey Newbury [EMAIL PROTECTED] Barrister and Solicitor Telephone: 905-271-9600

RE: [mythtv-users] ATI Wonder Remote

2005-11-14 Thread R. Geoffrey Newbury
c_0_ >* >srw-rw-rw- 1 root root 0 Nov 13 02:45 lircd >prw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Nov 13 02:45 lircm I -think- that you need to create a symlink /dev/lirc which points to /dev/lirc0 as in ln -s /dev/lirc0 /dev/lirc I hope that this works. Geoff R. Geoffrey Newb

Re: [mythtv-users] Attractive cases and cheap DVD burners

2005-11-14 Thread R. Geoffrey Newbury
interested in running lcdproc to see the CPU usage. Bottom line, I am very happy with this case. Geoff R. Geoffrey Newbury [EMAIL PROTECTED] Barrister and Solicitor Telephone: 905-271-9600 Mississauga,Ontario, Canada

RE: [mythtv-users] Attractive cases

2005-11-12 Thread R. Geoffrey Newbury
+ expansion >> >slots in their home-theater. > >Anyone know if you can drive the display of the SilverStone LC10M in >linux? > >-nathan Linux drivers are available at www.venky.ws Sliverstone use the iMon line of IR/VFD components. Geoff R. Geoffrey Newbury

Re: [mythtv-users] Attractive cases

2005-11-12 Thread R. Geoffrey Newbury
> >Good point :-) In my case, because I happen to have room for it in my TV >cabinet, so why not? > >Jules >_______ >mythtv-users mailing list >mythtv-users@mythtv.org >http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users R. Geoffrey Newbury

RE: [mythtv-users] Testing DMA with VIA chipset?

2005-11-12 Thread R. Geoffrey Newbury
site as bad. >http://ivtvdriver.org/index.php/Troubleshooting > >Mike > > R. Geoffrey Newbury [EMAIL PROTECTED] Barrister and Solicitor Telephone: 905-271-9600 Mississauga,Ontario, Canada Facsimile: 905-271

Re: [mythtv-users] Watch TV button in frontend does not do anything

2005-11-08 Thread R. Geoffrey Newbury
x27;t belong on the main page. If people are going to use svn, they >can do the minimal amount of reading of the svn docs that they would need to >do to figure out how to get a specific revision. > >Isaac Must... control..urge..to..write...

Re: [mythtv-users] Watch TV button in frontend does not do anything

2005-11-08 Thread R. Geoffrey Newbury
oading "the stable >> 0.18.2 branch." >> >> Mike >> > >Just to let folks know I modified the http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/ page to >include information on how to checkout a specific revision and which is the >last revision before live tv w

Re: [mythtv-users] Absolute NEWBIE, question about Linux

2005-11-08 Thread R. Geoffrey Newbury
earnt a LOT... even though some of it was old stuff, now obsoleted by changes to the drivers, it gave a structural framework for how things are supposed to work, and lots of hints about where to go to tinker with stuff that doesn't quite work (such as the message logs,

Re: [mythtv-users] fanless Epia, Mediamvp or network dvd player for frontend?

2005-11-07 Thread R. Geoffrey Newbury
ox is used to wake the actual recording backend, then take a look at the gumstix line gumstix.org (or gumstix.com ). A line of very small single board computers running linux... will run on 3 1.5V batteries. Have USB ports and the top unit includes a bluetooth chipset. And I mean SMALL... Geoff R

Re: [mythtv-users] Breaking Live-TV

2005-11-07 Thread R. Geoffrey Newbury
s put in. >> >> thanks, >> Steve >svn update -r 7738 Could I suggest that the gist of this post be added to the page at http://cvs.mythtv.org/trac ? That page explains how to get the latest SVN and the latest stable release but not how to get a particular svn release. Thanks

Re: [mythtv-users] Breaking Live-TV

2005-11-05 Thread R. Geoffrey Newbury
762 I think.. What revision was this change put into, please? Geoff R. Geoffrey Newbury [EMAIL PROTECTED] Barrister and Solicitor Telephone: 905-271-9600 Mississauga,Ontario, Canada Facsimile: 905-271-1638 _

Re: [mythtv-users] manual scheduling -> "no upcoming recordings"

2005-11-05 Thread R. Geoffrey Newbury
On Fri, 4 Nov 2005 21:00:00 -0500 (EST), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Date: Fri, 04 Nov 05 18:32:16 -0500 >From: "R. Geoffrey Newbury" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>(b) I went into Schedule Recordings -> Manual Schedule and wasted >>my tim

Re: [mythtv-users] manual scheduling -> "no upcoming recordings"

2005-11-05 Thread R. Geoffrey Newbury
On Fri, 4 Nov 2005 19:55:33 -0500, Isaac Richards wrote: >On Friday 04 November 2005 06:43 pm, R. Geoffrey Newbury wrote: >> On Fri, 4 Nov 2005 17:01:42 -0500, Isaac Richards wrote: >> >On Friday 04 November 2005 04:33 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >Have you ever us

Re: [mythtv-users] manual scheduling -> "no upcoming recordings"

2005-11-04 Thread R. Geoffrey Newbury
...) so I cannot use the remote at all. I am forced to use the keyboard. Geoff R. Geoffrey Newbury [EMAIL PROTECTED] Barrister and Solicitor Telephone: 905-271-9600 Mississauga,

Re: [mythtv-users] manual scheduling -> "no upcoming recordings"

2005-11-04 Thread R. Geoffrey Newbury
'name the card' patch discussed here, why cannot we explicitly set the tuner we want to use, or at least see which tuner will be used... I'm still not sure which order is actually used... 0 to 3,4,5 or 5 to 2,1,0... and which *is* zero? Geoff R. Geoffrey Newbury

Fwd: [mythtv-users] MythTV Installer Usability: An Analysis

2005-11-04 Thread R. Geoffrey Newbury
As requested, forwarded for public viewing. Date: Fri, 04 Nov 05 12:59:07 -0500 From: "R. Geoffrey Newbury" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Thu, 3 Nov 2005 22:39:55 -0500 (EST), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I've spent a while installing and reinstalling MythTV recen

Re: [mythtv-users] Good tuner card?

2005-11-04 Thread R. Geoffrey Newbury
ty with my 500 and I have no idea whether it is because the default settings are wrong, or what... Geoff R. Geoffrey Newbury [EMAIL PROTECTED] Barrister and Solicitor Telephone: 905-271-9600 Mississauga,Ontario, Canada

Re: [mythtv-users] FC3 DVB driver installed in kernel?

2005-11-04 Thread R. Geoffrey Newbury
.6.13.4, up from the 2.6.11xxx of the install discs). You also get to configure it properly for the dvb modules you want (make menuconfig etc.) Geoff R. Geoffrey Newbury [EMAIL PROTECTED] Barrister and Solicitor Telephone: 905-271-9600

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: MythTV Installer Usability: An Analysis

2005-11-04 Thread R. Geoffrey Newbury
xes, and > the installer's ambiguous wording in remote choices; are ALL mythtv-setup problems. I've never tried Knoppmyht so I'm not suffering from repressed memories Geoff R. Geoffrey Newbury [EMAIL PROTECTED] Barrister and Solicitor

[mythtv-users] Usability Issues: WAS Re: Simultaneous recordings fail spectacularly [SOLVED!]

2005-11-04 Thread R. Geoffrey Newbury
cture which *I* think is needed at various places. (Probably the wrong structure on the first pass, but a place to start.) Geoff R. Geoffrey Newbury [EMAIL PROTECTED] Barrister and Solicitor Telephone: 905-271-9600 Mi

Re: [mythtv-users] Multiple Systems - Multiple Remotes

2005-11-02 Thread R. Geoffrey Newbury
eless keyboard and mouse that use Bluetooth to talk to the computer. About $70$ Canadian around here for both, plus you might need a USB Bluetooth plugin dongle.. about $20 Canadian around here. So on the computer you only need an open USB port. Geoff R. Geoffrey Newbury

Re: [mythtv-users] Slightly OT - Hollywood after the Analog Hole again

2005-11-02 Thread R. Geoffrey Newbury
7;lawful distributor' *in Canada* and therefore it is illegal for someone to decode that encrypted signal, (even though it is not an encrypted signal broadcast by a lawful disbributor who has an interest in it not being stolen). Yes, you can drive Terrex trucks through that logic, but no-

Re: [mythtv-users] Tuner card label - patch in progress but assistance requested

2005-11-02 Thread R. Geoffrey Newbury
g test... but my coding skills are rusty... This is a great idea BTW. With recent changes to the structure everything gets assigned to Tuner0 and its hard to know which card is being used or dealt with. Geoff R. Geoffrey Newbury [EMAIL PROTECTED] Barrister and Solicitor

Re: [mythtv-users] Lirc not working after update

2005-11-01 Thread R. Geoffrey Newbury
too, or remove it? I'm missing something here about how the two parts talk to each other. They seem to talk to different places but there is no visible method of bridging the 2 places. Geoff R. Geoffrey Newbury [EMAIL PROTECTED] Barrister and Solicitor

Re: [mythtv-users] (slightly OT) improving wireless connections

2005-10-28 Thread R. Geoffrey Newbury
e cheapest upgrade is to built a parabolic reflector or corner reflector for the antenna on your wireless router. See the goodies at www.freeantennas.com and build your own with some cardboard or card stock and aluminum foil. The *only* critical dimension is getting the existing antenna i

Re: [mythtv-users] What does make install actually do

2005-10-28 Thread R. Geoffrey Newbury
efore 'make install' of the new *if they are going into different places. If the same, then the new will over-write the old. Geoff R. Geoffrey Newbury [EMAIL PROTECTED] Barrister and Solicitor

Re: [mythtv-users] missing /dev/dri

2005-10-26 Thread R. Geoffrey Newbury
dri/card0 does not get created at any time by udev or xorg or whatever. And dri seems to have no known major-minor number allowing creation through a mknod or udev rule. Help please. Geoff R. Geoffrey Newbury [EMAIL PROTECTED] Barrister and Solicitor

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

2005-10-26 Thread R. Geoffrey Newbury
es (miniumum) in /usr/src/kernels: the original 2.6.11 of your install, the upgraded 2.6.12-2 (or whatever the latest rpm at freshrpms or atrpms serves up to yum) and the source version... presently 2.6.13.4 As noted, yum will amend a grub menu.lst, but you will have to d

[mythtv-users] Compile Failure

2005-10-25 Thread R. Geoffrey Newbury
As follows, from a download done today of mythtv-0.18.1: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mythtv-0.18.1]# make cd libs && make -f Makefile make[1]: Entering directory `/tmp/mythtv-0.18.1/libs' cd libavcodec && make -f Makefile make[2]: Entering directory `/tmp/mythtv-0.18.1/libs/libavcodec' gcc -c -pipe -march=

Re: [mythtv-users] Blank Screen PVR-150 and LiveTV

2005-10-24 Thread R. Geoffrey Newbury
. Given that there used to be a quite different setup for those cards versus the PVR-150/500 line, the lack of an explicit reference to the 150/500 is quite confusing during setup. Maybe the reference could be added *back* to the title line Geoff R. Geoffrey Newbury

Re: [mythtv-users] Apple Bluetooth Remote Instead? Was: Microsoft Remote Keyboard

2005-10-24 Thread R. Geoffrey Newbury
, so writing a remote program should be possible. As for me, I know no java *but I know the java I like to drink in the morning!* Geoff R. Geoffrey Newbury [EMAIL PROTECTED] Barrister and Solicitor Telephone: 905-271-9600 Missis

Re: [mythtv-users] Epia 3d drm drivers

2005-10-24 Thread R. Geoffrey Newbury
snaps, instead of the kernel versions, although that might not actually fix the problem, which appears to be udev.. Any takers...because I am waaaaa past my depth already! Geoff R. Geoffrey Newbury [EMAIL PROTECTED] Barrister and Solicitor T

[mythtv-users] Apple Bluetooth Remote Instead? Was: Microsoft Remote Keyboard

2005-10-24 Thread R. Geoffrey Newbury
t Apple sells wireless remote keyboards as well as their usual USB connected keyboards. The wireless remote keyboards use BLUETOOTH to talk to the computer. So a USB Bluetooth adapter to give bluetooth capability to your box, plus this keyboard might do the trick. Suppos

Re: [mythtv-users] Cannot scan with PVR500 in setup and ::data:: Column 3 out of range: error

2005-10-24 Thread R. Geoffrey Newbury
alVery discouraged at this state of affairs, as I know that the hardware does work. Next step will have to be a compile and install of mythtv...this setup was a 'yum' job and I now doubt that the configure is quite right. Geoff R. Geoffrey Newbury

Re: [mythtv-users] Cannot scan with PVR500 in setup and ::data:: Column 3 out of range: error

2005-10-21 Thread R. Geoffrey Newbury
alVery discouraged at this state of affairs, as I know that the hardware does work. Next step will have to be a compile and install of mythtv...this setup was a 'yum' job and I now doubt that the configure is quite right. Geoff R. Geoffrey Newbury

[mythtv-users] Cannot scan with PVR500 in setup and ::data:: Column 3 out of range: error

2005-10-20 Thread R. Geoffrey Newbury
sual that PVR500 cards are just V4L capture cards? 2) Why can't mythv 'see' the card and allow scanning? The hardware setup is good. 3) Is this a mysql error? (I note that attempting to log in using 'mysql -u root -p' got me a 'user [EMAIL PROTECTED]'

Re: [mythtv-users] mythtv supoprt for lcdproc/other lcds

2005-10-20 Thread R. Geoffrey Newbury
the Silverstone cases. like the LC11M which I have. Its 2x20 characters (22 I think actually). There is a linux driver available out there... search on imon soundgraph linux ... the url to look for is 'venky' . Apparently the lcdproc backend reports useful stuff in mytht

Re: [mythtv-users] /dev/lirc missing during FC4 setup

2005-10-17 Thread R. Geoffrey Newbury
bug=0 >> options cx25840 debug=0 i2c_enable=1 cardtype=0 audiofmt=1 >> no_black_magic=1 According to this list, you do not need any options after the 'alias' line. And 'black_magic' has been unnecessary for some time. The 'alias char-major-81-1 ivt

Re: [mythtv-users] XvMC compiled in yum packages?

2005-10-12 Thread R. Geoffrey Newbury
rnel-module (may need >rebuilding for your system), Could you explain which kernel-module you are referring to here, please? The via video driver??? > just point yum at the repository and suck down >xorg and maybe xine-lib (for h/w enabled xine), G. R. Geoffrey Newbury

Re: [mythtv-users] ITX vs ATX for dual-DVB system

2005-10-11 Thread R. Geoffrey Newbury
er is to use a flexible extension between the VIA board and the Via PCI riser. That way you can meet any reasonably combination of horizontal and vertical displacement between where the motherboard has its PCI slot and where the case has its rear mounting slots. Geoff R. Geoffrey New

Re: [mythtv-users] mc.sql missing?

2005-10-08 Thread R. Geoffrey Newbury
v-0.18.1/database/mc.sql: No such file >or directory The mc.sql script is in the database folder under where you extracted mythtv. I think the /usr/share/doc prefix is pointing you in the wrong direction. If you have not yet extracted mythtv then of course, that file will no

Re: [mythtv-users] FAQ

2005-10-07 Thread R. Geoffrey Newbury
;t even have dialup set up there at the moment. I suspect I will have to do some mysql dump and restore from CDRW between work (DSL) and home to keep the PVR box happy. Not to discourage you with this comment. The idea of this sort of FAQ is great. Geoff R. Geoffrey Newbury

RE: [mythtv-users] More reasons to use Linux and Mythtv (with Roku Photobridge maybe)

2005-10-07 Thread R. Geoffrey Newbury
s negligence but of the defendant's stupidity. "They are stupid, therefore they are liable"... This sort of action would not exist if the concept of 'loser pays costs' existed as more than a rumour in US litigation. Unfortunately, the RIAA does not qualify for a Darwin award.

[mythtv-users] More reasons to use Linux and Mythtv (with Roku Photobridge maybe)

2005-10-06 Thread R. Geoffrey Newbury
hanson, come on down!" Geoff R. Geoffrey Newbury [EMAIL PROTECTED] Barrister and Solicitor Telephone: 905-271-9600 Mississauga,Ontario, Canada Facsimile: 905-271-1638 ___

Re: [mythtv-users] running mythtv backend on VIA EPIA VT-310DP

2005-10-06 Thread R. Geoffrey Newbury
On Thu, 6 Oct 2005 12:02:01 -0400, Andrew Plumb wrote: Oooppps, its the nano-itx board using the same processor which has the VT1625 HDTV out. The dual processor board does not appear to have any TV out.. Geoff R. Geoffrey Newbury [EMAIL PROTECTED] Barrister and

Re: [mythtv-users] running mythtv backend on VIA EPIA VT-310DP

2005-10-06 Thread R. Geoffrey Newbury
that this board is here, maybe mythtv should be SMP capable. Having dual processors, even if the max CPU speed is only 1Ghz will really speed up commercial detection etc. Interesting that it only takes a max of 1Gig of memory HOW MUCH Geoff R. Geoffrey Ne

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-350 TV-Out with Xv support

2005-10-05 Thread R. Geoffrey Newbury
Simpson I have run across... it's almost as bad as being a Colin Campbell! G. R. Geoffrey Newbury [EMAIL PROTECTED] Barrister and Solicitor Telephone: 905-271-9600 Mississauga,Ontario, Canada Facsimile: 905-271

Re: [mythtv-users] USB LCD/LED status display for Myth?

2005-10-04 Thread R. Geoffrey Newbury
serial and USB types supported. I'm just installing for the 16 chart by 2 line iMON VFD in a Silverstone case. Geoff R. Geoffrey Newbury [EMAIL PROTECTED] Barrister and Solicitor Telephone: 905-271-9600 Mississauga,Ontario,

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: REPOST: PVR-500 dmseg - PLEASE NEED HELP DEBUGGING

2005-10-03 Thread R. Geoffrey Newbury
being compiled into the kernel in recent versions (2.6.11+ at least). Check the .config file ( in /usr/src/linux?? in gentoo??) to see whether the module was included or not. If not, you will need to get it and install it. Geoff R. Geoffrey Newbury

Re: [mythtv-users] Mythtv - database; MySQL good - Myth Lost -

2005-10-03 Thread R. Geoffrey Newbury
nfortunate side effect of apparently also deleting all of the settings. I had attempted the replacement route as a surrogate for just deleting mythconverg and starting again. And I bought O'Reilly: Mysql in a Nutshell yesterday afternoon... Geoff R. Geoffrey Newbury

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