Re: [mythtv-users] Summery of my problems

2006-01-26 Thread Robert Johnston
On 1/26/06, Dylan R. Semler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello list, I've gotten everything with my myth system set-up marginally > well, but I'm still having some annoying problems. So here's what I'm > running: > > Master backend (Dell 8200 circa 2002): > Intel Pentium 4 (probably about 2 GHz) >

Re: [mythtv-users] Potential IPTV additions for Myth

2006-01-26 Thread Robert Johnston
On 1/26/06, Isaac Richards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 26 January 2006 14:46, Robert Johnston wrote: > > On 1/26/06, Dave Bixler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > An awesome idea if I must say so -- that is if I completely understand > > >

Re: [mythtv-users] Potential IPTV additions for Myth

2006-01-26 Thread Robert Johnston
On 1/26/06, Dave Bixler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > An awesome idea if I must say so -- that is if I completely understand > what you're proposing :). I'm proposing that, for those people who have an IPTV television provider, rather than having to have a STB hooked up to the network to decode the

[mythtv-users] Potential IPTV additions for Myth

2006-01-26 Thread Robert Johnston
IPTV uses SAP+SDP for stream announcement and RTP+RTCP/RSTP (It seems that RTSP is used for VOD/PPV, and RTP is used for regular channels) for the actual video streams. All over multicast (Which is supported in all linux kernels from 2.2+). SAP/SDP description details: http://www.faqs.org/rfc/rfc2

Re: [mythtv-users] Where's the playback bottleneck?

2006-01-24 Thread Robert Johnston
On 1/24/06, Jerry Rubinow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If I playback an HD resolution file, I get stuttering, pick a codec, any > codec. > > If I play it back with mplayer (-vo xv -vc ffmpeg12), also stuttering. > If I play it back with mplayer (-vo xvmc -vc ffmpeg12mc), plays back > pretty much

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

2006-01-17 Thread Robert Johnston
On 1/17/06, Peter Loron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 n

Re: [mythtv-users] Is satellite/cable HDTV possible w/ MythTV, or alternatives?

2006-01-15 Thread Robert Johnston
On 1/15/06, Chris Ribe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > HDMI/DVI/Component in? I mean, seriously, is > > it that hard (That's a serious question, not rhetorical)? As I > > understand it, the signal is still a digital stream. Is the stream > > not compressed, thus requiring the card to recompress

Re: [mythtv-users] OT: Backend cluster?

2006-01-14 Thread Robert Johnston
On 1/14/06, Jay Hutfles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm just curious if anyone has tried clustering backends together to speed > up post-recording jobs like commercial detection or transcoding. Wouldn't > something like openMosix work? > > If not, sorry for getting off-topic. OpenMosix wouldn't

Re: [mythtv-users] Is satellite/cable HDTV possible w/ MythTV, or alternatives?

2006-01-14 Thread Robert Johnston
On 1/14/06, Reshat Sabiq <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I assume no, because the HDTV cards for PCs only do over-the-air. But > i'd appreciate your feedback. > > Basically, i'm considering buying an HDTV monitor, and i have a strong > feeling that not buying a tuner, and probably also a DVR to go w/

Re: [mythtv-users] problem.." GDM could not write to your authorization file"

2006-01-14 Thread Robert Johnston
On 1/14/06, ChildeRoland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Same thing happened to me, but when I did "df -h" it shows that my > /dev/hda1 (mounted on /) is 100% full (4.1G size, 3.9G used). But, > all my recordings go to /myth which is mounted for /dev/hda4 (default > KnoppMyth setup). > > So, I'm kind

Re: [mythtv-users] K8M8M (Via) Motherboard Integrated Video

2006-01-13 Thread Robert Johnston
On 1/13/06, Brian Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm using the K8M8M mobo (Via chipset) and the manual says it has: > > "Integrated High Performance & High Quality 3D Accelerator supports > Ultra-AGPII with 2GB/s bandwidth, built-in MPEG2/1 Video Decoder and > Video Accelerator supports VCD DV

Re: [mythtv-users] Which NVIDIA chipset to use the OSDChromaKey Features

2006-01-13 Thread Robert Johnston
On 1/13/06, Scott Alfter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > (My main complaint with the 6200 is that colors are way too saturated, and > there's no way to crank them back to more natural levels within MythTV.) That's easy to solve. Load up "nvidia-settings" and turn off "Digital Vibrance" (Turn it dow

Re: [mythtv-users] Ubuntu alsa sound & apt-get update concerns

2006-01-12 Thread Robert Johnston
On 1/12/06, Mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hopefully the last time I'll need the excellent help this list provides to > get this box up and running... I'm a long time Red Hat user, but switched > to Ubuntu for my second myth box (which has been a great move so far, for > simplicity and thanks t

Re: [mythtv-users] slow startup, channel change

2006-01-04 Thread Robert Johnston
On 1/4/06, Matt Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've got mythtv running and am loving it. My main complaint is that, > on my pentium-III system, it is veyr slow to start up; "prescaling > images" takes a long time, after which there's a long (1 minute?) > pause until the menu comes up. switchi

Re: [mythtv-users] Frontend - Backend : Connectivity

2006-01-02 Thread Robert Johnston
On 1/2/06, R <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Will this work? > > In THIS house, the Backend is connected to Comcast cable. > It is also connected to Comcast internet behind a firewall. > > My relative lives across the street. > We could put a Frontend in THAT house behind that firewall. > > Make the a

Re: [mythtv-users] Serious concerns about LiveTV Ringbuffer chang es - a Q for develo pers

2005-12-29 Thread Robert Johnston
On 12/29/05, Buechler, Mark R <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes, that would be optimal. My raid5 is on an HP SC10 with 5 Seagate 181gig > drives plugged into a Linux server acting as a SAN server to 7 initiators. > That SAN server has roughly 2TB of raw storage hooked up to it. Keep the > server and

Re: [mythtv-users] No Closed Captioning

2005-12-29 Thread Robert Johnston
On 12/29/05, Beny Spensieri Jr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm in Toronto and I can't seem to get closed > captioning to appear on either live tv or recordings. > > I have tried cc1-4, double checked the font and closed > caption settings, but it won't appear. I have even > made sure the

Re: [mythtv-users] Samba 3 better than NFS 3 for recording over Ethernet

2005-12-29 Thread Robert Johnston
On 12/29/05, Brad DerManouelian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My point is that RAID 5 is *MUCH* slower than just about any other > RAID config and you should expect your max speed to be half of your > fastest drive. Put those U320's on RAID 0+1 and you'll likely double > your speed (and half your re

Re: [mythtv-users] MythDVD RIP Transcode

2005-12-22 Thread Robert Johnston
On 12/22/05, Michael Haan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > MythDVD Transcode daemon won't start-up. Anyone know how to find-out why? Check out the mtd.log, which will be in mtd's "temp" directory. Alternative, or as well, try running mtd in a console window to see what it outputs. -- Robert "Anaerin

Re: [mythtv-users] Easiest installation?

2005-12-21 Thread Robert Johnston
On 12/20/05, Michael Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 12/21/05, Steve Adeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > some people are working on packaging Myth for Deb. > > > > I run Deb on my Myth machine, but I compile Myth from scratch (mostly cause > > I'm running SVN releases). > > Do you have many is

Re: [mythtv-users] Can you use shutdown/wakeup with *slave* backends in MythTV?

2005-12-20 Thread Robert Johnston
On 12/20/05, Nick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'd had this working on my master backend for some time but was > wondering whether MythTV supports using this for any slave machines > that are needed for scheduled recordings? At the moment I make sure > they are turned on as and when needed (or left

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

2005-12-20 Thread Robert Johnston
I'm here, using Access Communications cable, and I'd like to know if anyone else here is using a Digital card (HD3000/Air2PC/something else) to recieve Access' "Digital" service (As all I have here at the moment are a pair of PVR-250's picking up the "Basic" cable, and if I have to use something li

Re: [mythtv-users] Killer system or overkill?

2005-12-13 Thread Robert Johnston
On 12/13/05, Len Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nvidia TC256 FC6200 based PCI-X card Just as an aside, PCI-Express is PCI-E. PCI-X is a very different standard. -- Robert "Anaerin" Johnston ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://

Re: [mythtv-users] please bless this system

2005-12-11 Thread Robert Johnston
On 12/11/05, tgate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Some questions in particular are: > 1) does the mobo need an IDE hard drive as the boot device or > can I use sata? No. Linux supports booting from SATA. > 2) does the mobo support the vfd and ir from the LC11m? IIRC, it's a USB connectio

Re: [mythtv-users] STAY AWAY FROM WI-FI !!! DEVOLO PERFORMANCE IS BAD

2005-12-08 Thread Robert Johnston
On 12/8/05, Anthony Vito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Be aware when speaking in Mbps, this is also used for advertisements, is > > that it contains > > the overhead within it. > > Oh it's much worse (philsophically) then that. Yes, it contains the > overhead, but then even with that it would sti

Re: [mythtv-users] mythtvburn (web script) hangs

2005-12-08 Thread Robert Johnston
On 12/8/05, Neil Bird <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I managed to install the mythtvburn script and it's deps., but when I try > to trigger it, it starts up & just sits there. > >I have a feeling it's sat displaying a ProjectX licenese agreement in the > invisible Xvfb. > >Any clues as t

Re: [mythtv-users] Myth on XBOX 360!

2005-12-05 Thread Robert Johnston
On 12/5/05, Andrew Close <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > i'd be willing to look into it if you guys could get me an xbox 360. ;) In thoery, you don't even need an Xbox 360, all you need is the UPNP specs, as we'll be building both a UPNP server and client (As the Frontend would be a Client, and the

Re: [mythtv-users] Myth on XBOX 360!

2005-12-05 Thread Robert Johnston
On 12/5/05, Tom Lichti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Michael J. Lynch wrote: > > What are the chances anyone has this working yet? > > > About 0%, considering that no-one has managed to hack into the 360 yet > (much less install Linux on it). I think it will be awhile As the 360 can work as a U

Re: [mythtv-users] Error in mythfrontend

2005-12-04 Thread Robert Johnston
On 12/4/05, mystere <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I install mythtv . > Here i run mythfrontend : > > Corrupt JPEG data: bad Huffman code This error means there was a problem loading an image (Possibly from the GANT theme) because the image (a .jpg image, in fact) is corrupt. > SIP: Cannot regist

Re: [mythtv-users] MythRecipe installation errors..... HELP!!!

2005-12-02 Thread Robert Johnston
On 12/2/05, Carl Fongheiser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 12/2/05, Joseph A. Caputo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Is Myth installed on your system? If you built from source it's > > probably in "/usr/local", but the makefile is looking in "/usr", so it > > can't find the Myth headers. My gu

Re: [mythtv-users] playing dvd rips to ISO

2005-11-29 Thread Robert Johnston
On 11/29/05, Alan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm just getting the last bits of my mythbox working, and finally got > DVD playing going. The "rip dvd" funcationality works, and it rips to a > 700mb .iso file in /myth/video/, but it doesn't seem to allow playing > throught the 'play videos' functi

Re: [mythtv-users] More Digital Audio Q's

2005-11-27 Thread Robert Johnston
On 11/27/05, Steve Adeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sunday 27 November 2005 16:26, Michael T. Dean wrote: > > Steve Adeff wrote: > > What exactly does this mean? If you're doing AC-3 passthrough from > > Myth, won't the S/PDIF output be as bit-perfect as was sent to you by > > the digital TV

Re: [mythtv-users] zap2it Unauthorized problem again/still

2005-11-27 Thread Robert Johnston
On 11/27/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi there, > > Not seeing an answer for this in the lists (or on google)... > I'm using mythtv-0.18.1-r1 on gentoo, with wget 1.10.2 (ssl enabled), and I > get the following (un and pw work on the zap2it website login, there are no > spaces

Re: [mythtv-users] Seeking help with XBox+Myth+XMBC

2005-11-27 Thread Robert Johnston
On 11/27/05, Michael Tiller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just got a new XBox. I'm assuming it is v1.6 or v1.6b. I've read up on > how to softmod it (although I haven't done it just yet). > > My goal is to get XMBC installed so I can use it for Myth. > > What I don't really get is how you get

Re: [mythtv-users] Recordings backend/storage

2005-11-26 Thread Robert Johnston
On 11/26/05, Greg Oliver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there any way to have more than 1 directory for storing recorded > shows/dvd(s)? > > IE, a comma separated list or something. I have tried several ways with > no success, but would love to have it since in my home network, it is > really har

Re: [mythtv-users] Rundown on Videos

2005-11-25 Thread Robert Johnston
On 11/25/05, Thom Paine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can I get a rundown on the best way to work with mythvideo? > I was thinking that I need to NFS mount the /video partition on /video > on each of the local frontends to get that to work. I've ripped a few > DVD's to watch on there (funny how B

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: $20 tuner at CompUSA

2005-11-16 Thread Robert Johnston
On 11/16/05, Cory Papenfuss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 2388xTF. The manual says "The New Hardware Wizard will...detect the > > ÿÿConexant 23880 Video Capture (NTSC)ÿÿ device." > > Software-based card. Probably fairly similar to the bttv for > support, but it will take lots of CPU to re

Re: [mythtv-users] Interesting PC Frontend idea...

2005-11-15 Thread Robert Johnston
On 11/15/05, Brad Fuller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Robert Johnston wrote: > > >Has anyone tried one of these systems as a frontend? > > > >http://www.littlepc.com/products_fanless_p4.htm > > > >That machine's around the same size as a standard i

[mythtv-users] Interesting PC Frontend idea...

2005-11-15 Thread Robert Johnston
Has anyone tried one of these systems as a frontend? http://www.littlepc.com/products_fanless_p4.htm That machine's around the same size as a standard internal CD-Rom drive. :) -- Robert "Anaerin" Johnston ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@myth

Re: [mythtv-users] Fedora 4 hostname / database question

2005-11-05 Thread Robert Johnston
On 05/11/05, David Wallace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Also, the X11 enviroment variable DISPLAY is getting set to > localhost:10.0 obvious typo I have made somewhere. I have grepped thru > everywhere I can think of looking for where this is set to no avail. > Anyone know where it is set? If you

Re: [mythtv-users] Having problems with mythfilldatabase connecting

2005-11-05 Thread Robert Johnston
> > Have fixed issue with account still getting same error. > > One 401 is normal, then it should work. Are you still getting two > 401's. If so, did you change the username/password to your new Zap2It > Labs credentials as opposed to your old zap2it.com credentials? Also please note that both u

Re: [mythtv-users] Multiple ATI Remote Wonders

2005-11-03 Thread Robert Johnston
On 03/11/05, Mercury Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here's my (failed) attempt to setup multiple ATI Remote Wonders > on multiple systems: > > 1. Added this line to /etc/modprobe.conf > > options lirc_atiusb unique=1 debug=1 mask=0x0002 > > 2. Pressed and held the "hand" key until the

Re: [mythtv-users] myth protocol or backend API docs/examples?

2005-11-03 Thread Robert Johnston
On 03/11/05, Neil Bird <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Is there a doc. or anything regarding the myth protocol? Would this entail > using libmyth? > >I wish to cobble up a commandline script that can report tuner status, much > the same way as MythWeb does, so I can direct it to lcdproc. Wh

Re: [mythtv-users] different versions on frontend and backend

2005-10-30 Thread Robert Johnston
On 30/10/05, Michael T. Dean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Robert Johnston wrote: > >Incorrect. You can pass --disable-frontend and/or --disable-backend if > >you want to make a FE-Only or BE-Only machine. > > > Yeah, if you don't want it to build. Those are po

Re: [mythtv-users] different versions on frontend and backend

2005-10-30 Thread Robert Johnston
On 30/10/05, Michael T. Dean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andrew McNabb wrote: > Myth is not designed to allow the use of different versions of the > mythfrontend and mythbackend Correct. > (note that both come from a single project > directory called "mythtv" and don't allow building the fronten

Re: [mythtv-users] Front end memory usage

2005-10-30 Thread Robert Johnston
On 30/10/05, Michael T. Dean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alberto Alonso wrote: > > >I am finding more info on this. It seems to be mostly > >related to theme and resolution. Going down to 640x480 > >I now get 57M of RES usage, which is a heck of a lot > >better, but still rather large if you ask m

Re: [mythtv-users] Re:dd yourself to the mythtv users map!!

2005-10-29 Thread Robert Johnston
On 29/10/05, Robert Johnston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 29/10/05, Alexander Petkov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've changed the default zoom level to "world", so everyone's country is > > visible on 1st view: > > http://www.frappr.com/m

Re: [mythtv-users] Re:dd yourself to the mythtv users map!!

2005-10-29 Thread Robert Johnston
On 29/10/05, Alexander Petkov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've changed the default zoom level to "world", so everyone's country is > visible on 1st view: > http://www.frappr.com/mythtv > > I am glad to be a part of such a strong community!! You know, it's annoying that "Regina", as in Saskatchew

Re: [mythtv-users] Mythvideo folder view question

2005-10-22 Thread Robert Johnston
On 22/10/05, Mark Rissberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was wondering if there was any way to have a picture representing the > folder in 'folder view'. I tried putting a picture in the folder in the > hopes that it would display it but that didn't work. Curoiusly enough, I found (Completely

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Transcode to DVD-compatible MPEG-2 without quality loss?

2005-10-22 Thread Robert Johnston
> > In that case try this: > > > > mencoder -of mpeg -mpegopts format=dvd -ovc copy -oac copy -o > > foo.mpg foo.nuv > > > > When I do that, I get the following: > > INITIAL DELAY of 2 frames > WARN: Audio pts for channel 8 moves backwards; please remultiplex input. > WARN: Previous sector: 6.656 -

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

2005-10-20 Thread Robert Johnston
On 20/10/05, Simpson, Richard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The PVR-500 *is* a v4l capture card. For card type, IIRC you select > PVR-250/350. AFAIK, the myth scanning feature only works for DVB cards. When > you download your zap2it channel lineup in the Capture Card section of > mythtv-setup, i

Re: [mythtv-users] Setting up just a backend system?

2005-10-19 Thread Robert Johnston
On 19/10/05, Frank Dux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can I initially setup mythtv on a box using a pc monitor, then after > setting up as much as possible, move my mythtv box (backend) to tv and > connect to tv. Then if I need to administer mythtv backend box I > could remote in from another client

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Xbox as FE

2005-10-19 Thread Robert Johnston
On 19/10/05, WiFi Fun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Without a hardware modification chip that you can turn on and off, you > are out of luck. The hard drive soft mod, is an option, but you will > have to redo it every time your dash board get over written my a live > game. I am not sure if they are

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Seeking Remote Control Advice for PVR-500

2005-10-07 Thread Robert Johnston
On 07/10/05, Larry K <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hmmm. Not to beat a dead horse here, but I'm stil not clear on how this > mapping takes place. Bear with me for a sec > > I understand that we have programmed the remote to send code 240 when the > sleep button is pressed. How the lirc kerne

Re: [mythtv-users] Audio echo/stutter

2005-10-07 Thread Robert Johnston
On 07/10/05, Brad Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been having this exact same problem. I had been using ivtv version > 0.3.6w successfully for some time with a PVR-350 and a PVR-500. I could > only get one tuner working on the PVR-500 and finally figured out that it > was bad hardware.

Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV error log Filled Hard drive.

2005-10-06 Thread Robert Johnston
On 06/10/05, Chris Gackstatter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OK I put a head on my headless machine and when I boot I can boot the system > in fail safe mode. When I do boot I also notice that MySql service fails to > start. Any thought on what this problem is. Any idea how I go about > finding v

Re: [mythtv-users] advice on which hardware revision of xbox as a frontend

2005-10-05 Thread Robert Johnston
On 05/10/05, David Watkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 05/10/05, Joe Harvell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Robert: > > > > Do you have a link describing this mod? A google search on UCE is > > useless since it is commonly used to mean "Unsolicited Commercial > > Email." Also, what is IIRC?

Re: [mythtv-users] advice on which hardware revision of xbox as a frontend

2005-10-04 Thread Robert Johnston
On 04/10/05, Joe Harvell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > One other thing. Any advice on which distro to use? I used Xebian 1.1.4 (IIRC), which did everything I wanted and allowed me to compile my own frontend (With the help of DistCC to share the load). As always, YMMV. -- Robert "Anaerin" Johnston

Re: [mythtv-users] advice on which hardware revision of xbox as a frontend

2005-10-04 Thread Robert Johnston
On 04/10/05, Joe Harvell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am planning to get an Xbox for my Myth frontend. Here are my questions: > > * I know for xbox >=1.6, I have to use the hardware method to > convert. So I am thinking I would like to get a <1.6 to keep my > options open. But

Re: [mythtv-users] Adding to Media Library manually?

2005-09-23 Thread Robert Johnston
On 23/09/05, David Blevins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So I'm having a heck of a time ripping with MythDVD. No worries as I > really don't care to if I can avoid it. I have a ton of dvds already > ripped and burnt and simply want to copy a few of them to disk now > and then for easy access via t

Re: [mythtv-users] make failure

2005-09-23 Thread Robert Johnston
> >Well, there's your problem... the -DUSING_DIRECTX in there is making > >it all go FUBAR. > > > >Did you add that into your configure call, or is something going VERY > >wonky here? > > OPERATOR ERROR! > > HIT OPERATOR AND RETRY || CHASTISE OPERATOR SEVERELY > > > Not sure how that happened... c

Re: [mythtv-users] fixing database- file deleted but still in recordings list

2005-09-22 Thread Robert Johnston
On 22/09/05, mrwester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi- I've searched the archive and seen posts for myth.rebuilddatabase.pl, > but my problem is the opposite. The other night I was coming dangerously > close to running out of disk space, so I, in rapid succession, deleted a 5-6 > shows from withi

Re: [mythtv-users] Does it work like this?

2005-09-22 Thread Robert Johnston
On 22/09/05, Tommy Denton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > the viewing computers are winblows.. client requirment. now what are my > options No "Live" TV, but you can use Samba to view pre-recorded programs. In thoery, you can also use WinMyth, but it's not so stable (Or reliable) IME -- Robert "Anae

Re: [mythtv-users] make failure

2005-09-22 Thread Robert Johnston
On 22/09/05, R. G. Newbury <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I' m trying to rebuild mythtv with some more features enabled. > When I get to 'make' it fails with the following error(s) > > Basically it's not seeing/finding something which it should, but I have > no idea why this version should fail,

Re: [mythtv-users] Mass channel deletes

2005-09-21 Thread Robert Johnston
On 21/09/05, Bruce Markey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Michael T. Dean wrote: > ... > > Good to know, but you're making me feel like I'm slacking on my own > > Adrian Monk-ishness. I spend way too much time cleaning my computer > There are two spaces. ^^ There should only be one. > > systems, and

Re: [mythtv-users] 16:9 video playback cutting off 10% on right side

2005-09-21 Thread Robert Johnston
> > >> > System specs: > > >> > > > >> > Myth 0.18 > > >> > Nvidia FX5200, 7667 drivers > > >> > 2x HD-3000 capture card > > >> > 800x600 through TV-out over s-video. > > >> > > > >> > I had my Myth system setup and everything was working great...until > > >> the fan on the video card went bad and

Re: [mythtv-users] Information Overlay

2005-09-20 Thread Robert Johnston
On 20/09/05, Drew Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have Myth 0.18 running on a Gentoo box. In fiddling around with a > system upgrade, I lost what I call (since I don't know what it's really > called) the overlay when watching shows. For example, when adjusting > the volume, something wou

Re: [mythtv-users] mythTV settings from the command line?

2005-09-20 Thread Robert Johnston
On 20/09/05, R. Geoffrey Newbury <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 20 Sep 2005 11:35:20 +0900, Craig Hagerman wrote: > > >Hi, > > > > > >I recently set up a mythTV backend using Ubuntu 5 AMD64, and it seems > >to be working OK. Bit of background - the backend is in Canada. I am > >on the other

Re: [mythtv-users] Mythfrontend on Xbox

2005-09-19 Thread Robert Johnston
On 19/09/05, Monkey Pet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Have anyone successfully running mythfrontend on xbox?? Yes. Several of us. > I recently installed linux on my xbox. The distribution was xebian. Of > course the next thing I want to do is install mythfrontend. Simply doing an > apt-get on

Re: [mythtv-users] Live TV on all desktops?

2005-09-17 Thread Robert Johnston
On 17/09/05, Gary Montalbine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have just installed Mythtv. I am able to get live TV on one desktop. > However I use multiple desktops and would like to watch TV on whatever > desktop I happen to be in. Is this possible? I can not find anything in > the documentation. I

Re: [mythtv-users] frontend on windows XP

2005-09-16 Thread Robert Johnston
On 16/09/05, PAUL WILLIAMSON <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> "AJ Hettema" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 09/16/05 10:40 AM >>> > > hello, > > does anyone have experience with a full frontend of mythtv > > on windows XP??? > > DSMyth filters. Otherwise, not really. > > > Most frontends I have running are

[mythtv-users] More MythTV problems... Couldn't Find Theme?

2005-09-16 Thread Robert Johnston
I've just compiled MythTV from SVN, and while the backend works perfectly, the frontend is giving me all kinds of problems. On the display I get the "Pre-Scaling theme images" message, which flies past, then Myth stops. mythfrontend -v all reports: 2005-09-16 08:33:27.114 Using runtime prefix =

Re: [mythtv-users] Better think twice before choosing an FS especially for LVM

2005-09-15 Thread Robert Johnston
On 15/09/05, Ryan Steffes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ok, makes sense. I've used both RAID and LVM (sometimes together) I am > > just more comfortable with RAID, even though it does limit some things. > > And yes, lets not turn this into a vi vs. emacs thread... :) > > Well of course not, bec

Re: [mythtv-users] Hardware problem with Silverstone Case

2005-09-15 Thread Robert Johnston
On 15/09/05, Jo Shields <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Lee wrote: > > > > >> I had constant hardware issues with an LC11, which eventually forced > >> me to replace it. It's got too many design flaws to count. > >> > >> --Jo > > > > > > What kind of problems? I only ask as I have an LC10 > > *

Re: [mythtv-users] How do you adjust font sizes?

2005-09-08 Thread Robert Johnston
On 08/09/05, Adam Bodnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Something I've never quite been cleared on, but for NTSC svideo is it > better to run the screen resolution at 1024x768 or 800x600? Personally, for NTSC svideo, I've got my box configured @ 720x480 (IE, TV resolution). Just my £0.02 -- Robert

Re: [OT] Re: [mythtv-users] MythNotify suggestions

2005-09-06 Thread Robert Johnston
For the UK'ers, I know of only two Modems that do CallerID properly. The Pace 56 Voice, and the Pace Solo. And considering Pace went out of business a long while ago, I'd suggest looking on eBay (Or similar). On 06/09/05, Kim Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mike wrote: > > geek factor is unlimi

Re: [mythtv-users] Network control?

2005-08-25 Thread Robert Johnston
On 25/08/05, Mickey Chandler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 09:25 PM 8/25/2005, Andrew Ziobro wrote: > >I use VNC to connect to the machine from my laptop. > > Right. I have VNC as well, but will that send output to the TV or > does it ultimately act as an independent XWindows session. Perhaps

Re: [mythtv-users] Slightly OT - Controlling the CPU fan

2005-08-21 Thread Robert Johnston
On 21/08/05, Robert Johnston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Generally, 7v is enough to start most fans. 5v would not be. > > However, the very best way to run fans at slow speeds would be to use > a PWM circuit system, that way the fan motor always has 12v to turn > it. The onl

Re: [mythtv-users] Slightly OT - Controlling the CPU fan

2005-08-21 Thread Robert Johnston
On 21/08/05, Nick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 8/21/05, Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > >> One of the other suggestions I've seen but not tried is to use 12v > > >> fans but run them off the 5v supply so they spin slow and quiet. > > > > > N.. > > Don't try this at home fo

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

2005-08-16 Thread Robert Johnston
On 16/08/05, David Bennett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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

Re: [mythtv-users] mythtv transcoding - windows daemon

2005-08-16 Thread Robert Johnston
On 16/08/05, Deepak JV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I know most of you would have this kind of situation. One mythtv > frontend/backed combined and its not powerfully enough to do transcoding > / commercial detection. But at the same time a high end windows machine > is available (used

Re: [mythtv-users] Cases for a PVR box... recommendations.

2005-08-12 Thread Robert Johnston
On 12/08/05, R. Geoffrey Newbury <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 11 Aug 2005 18:35:34 -0400, Dave wrote: > > >On 11 Aug 2005 07:11:22 -0700, Jim Reith wrote: > > > >>> > My question is, of those specialized cases out there, what are people's > >>> > favorites - which ones have proven to be mo

Re: [mythtv-users] remove plugins

2005-08-12 Thread Robert Johnston
On 12/08/05, Andrej van der Zee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I am quite new to MythTV and want to remove the > weather and web plugin from the user interface for > now. How do I do that? Either remove /usr/lib/mythtv/plugins/libmythweather.so /usr/lib/mythtv/plugins/libmythbrowser.so (O

Re: [mythtv-users] Cases for a PVR box... recommendations.

2005-08-12 Thread Robert Johnston
On 11/08/05, R. Geoffrey Newbury <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 11 Aug 2005 07:11:22 -0700, Jim Reith wrote: > > >> > My question is, of those specialized cases out there, what are people's > >> > favorites - which ones have proven to be more stable. > > I'm just putting together a box using the

Re: [mythtv-users] CD Copy protection?

2005-08-05 Thread Robert Johnston
I was always amused by the music industry's attempts to insist that you didn't own the CD, instead what you owned (So they said) was a license to listen to the music thereon. So therefore, isn't it reasonable to expect that, in line with having that license, if their delivery method becomes unusua

Re: [mythtv-users] XvMC Question

2005-08-02 Thread Robert Johnston
On 02/08/05, Isaac Richards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 02 August 2005 11:59 am, Robert Johnston wrote: > > In essence, what happens with showing the OSD on XvMC (As I understand it) > > is: > > > > * The portion of the MPEG where the OSD is to be shown

Re: [mythtv-users] XvMC Question

2005-08-02 Thread Robert Johnston
Oops, let's try again. On 02/08/05, John Freer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Gents, > > Sorry to but into the conversation, but I have a question that I > wasn't able to easily answer with a search. > > Is there a difinitive cause for the flickering / stuttering when > using XvMC and any OSD piec

Re: [mythtv-users] XvMC Question

2005-08-02 Thread Robert Johnston
On 02/08/05, John Freer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Gents, > > Sorry to but into the conversation, but I have a question that I > wasn't able to easily answer with a search. > > Is there a difinitive cause for the flickering / stuttering when > using XvMC and any OSD piece is on-screen? > > I d

Re: [mythtv-users] MythDVD offline Archive or Catalog?

2005-08-01 Thread Robert Johnston
On 01/08/05, Michael T. Dean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > # Prompt the user to insert the disc > xterm -bg NavyBlue -fg White +sb -fs 18 -geometry 40x6 \ > -e prompt "Please insert ${MEDIA_TYPE}:" "${DISC_NAME}" Out of interest, where's that "prompt" command coming from? I don't seem to hav

Re: [mythtv-users] Xine / libdvdcss can't handle dual-sided discs

2005-08-01 Thread Robert Johnston
On 01/08/05, Till Harbaum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > On Saturday 30 July 2005 02:09, Michael Haan wrote: > > Has anyone else seen this and have an idea for a fix? > For the PC/Player/DVD-Drive a dual sided DVD isn't any different from two > different single sided ones. When playing one s

Re: [mythtv-users] recording live TV

2005-07-20 Thread Robert Johnston
On 19/07/05, Ricardo Kleemann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to use "R" to begin recording the currently playing video, but > when I press R, it simply displays R "" on top, it doesn't really start > recording. Nothing shows up in the "Previously Recorded" section. Maybe > mythtv

Re: [mythtv-users] OT: Indoor OTA HDTV Antenna Recommendations

2005-07-20 Thread Robert Johnston
On 20/07/05, Michael J. Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Robert Kulagowski wrote: > > > >> For what it's worth, HDTV signals are only broadcast on UHF so if you > >> only want to receive HDTV, you may as well just get a UHF antenna. > > > > > > That's not correct. CBS in Chicago is broadcasting

Re: [mythtv-users] Qmake on Xbox

2005-07-18 Thread Robert Johnston
On 18/07/05, A JM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I need some help with Qmake on an xbox. When I try to compile > MythPlugins on my xbox I get the error "qmake: command not found". > > Is qmake not installed with xebian by default? What do I need to do to > install qmake? Ooh, fun. Xebian is a very

[mythtv-users] REQUEST: No "Out-Of-Office" replies for people on mailing lists.

2005-07-14 Thread Robert Johnston
It's not that big a bugbear, but it is a matter of (n)ettiquette that when subscribed to a mailing list, if you *need* to set up an out-of-office mailer, do it so that it doesn't reply to list mail. It is easy enough to set up in Outlook (Which is by far and away the worst offender). Mind you, mo

Re: [mythtv-users] What's a good mini front-end-only box?

2005-07-14 Thread Robert Johnston
On 14/07/05, Mudit Wahal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Todd, > > How are you watching DVDs ? MVP doesn't have a dolby digital 5.1 > decoder. Almost all dvds are encoded in 5.1. So are you > re-encoding/downmixing the sound to 2 channel stereo ? Or you dvds > have 2 channel stereo option. > > When

Re: [mythtv-users] Adjusting 1 channels start/stop time?

2005-07-10 Thread Robert Johnston
On 10/07/05, Chad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > > I am sure that there are millions of people in my situation. :D I > record Star Trek: The Next Generation (which from here on out will be > referred to as TNG) on any channel, at any time. Which so far > basically means I get it solely from

Re: [mythtv-users] Myth on Amiga

2005-06-27 Thread Robert Johnston
On 27/06/05, flim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just out of curiosity, can anyone see any problems with compiling Myth to > run on Amiga? > > I've been thinking about getting an Amiga for quite some time now, due to > their superior multimedia capabilities. If it helps, the current Amiga > systems

Re: [mythtv-users] Epia 10K advice

2005-06-22 Thread Robert Johnston
On 22/06/05, George Nassas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There is ongoing work to resolve this but it seems to be held up by > shiny things. Ooh, Shiny! Whatever DID happen to the integration of XvMC and the Chromakey OSD? -- Robert "Anaerin" Johnston

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Myxer Update - This time its a BIG one! (and probably the last one for a while....)

2005-06-19 Thread Robert Johnston
On 6/19/05, Donavan Stanley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 6/19/05, Robert Johnston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Actually, there is a "Fix" for PNG's in IE. A .HTC that you assign to > > img tags to load the PNG into the Microsoft.LoadAlpha.PNG (Or wha

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Myxer Update - This time its a BIG one! (and probably the last one for a while....)

2005-06-18 Thread Robert Johnston
Actually, there is a "Fix" for PNG's in IE. A .HTC that you assign to img tags to load the PNG into the Microsoft.LoadAlpha.PNG (Or whatever it's called) class transparently (Pardon the pun). IIRC, it was on http://webfx.eae.net On 6/18/05, Dave Hofstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Very cool. Th

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