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:

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 what you're proposing :). I'm proposing that, for those

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) Nvidia

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 ok.

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 need

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 it?

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 kinda new at

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/ it

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] 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 down to 0).

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 DVD HDTV

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 to

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. switching

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 appropriate

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: [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 show is

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 all

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 issues compiling

[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 like

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 on

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

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 connection, so

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 to a first

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 still give

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 UPNP

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] 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 register;

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 guess is you've

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' function.

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 XMBC on

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 or

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] 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 hard to

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? snip / 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

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 record.

[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

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 internal CD-Rom drive. I didn't see any mpg2 encoding

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

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 are

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. Why would

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 LED began

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 me. What

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 frontend

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 porting only options--they are /not/ valid

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 Saskatchewan,

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/mythtv I am glad to be a part of such a strong community

Re: [mythtv-users] Mythvideo folder view question

2005-10-23 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 by

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 - 6.704 WARN:

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, it

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] 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] 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] 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 kernel

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 very

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? I guess it's one

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 since

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] 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... clear case of

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 the

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, while

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 Anaerin

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 within a

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 the system started locking up. I

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 now that

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 side of the

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 would

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 the

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 am

[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] 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 diskless clients and

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 * There's a big metal rivet

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, because VI

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 unlimited

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, 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 folks!! Running 12V

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 for

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 am

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 Silverstone

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 more stable.

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

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 do

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 piece is

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 side none

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 have it in

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 HDTV on VHF.

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 doesn't have

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 bare

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 I tried

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 Spike

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 run

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. tangent style=Off TopicOoh, Shiny!/tangent 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 whatever it's called) class transparently (Pardon

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. Thanks

Re: [mythtv-users] updated to 0.18: watching TV now only with window-border possible

2005-06-14 Thread Robert Johnston
On 6/14/05, James Oltman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 6/14/05, Donavan Stanley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 6/14/05, Uwe Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The only solution seems to be to switch to a different window manager like ratpoison, but trying this, my remote (lirc using irxevent)

Re: [mythtv-users] ATI with Dual LCD Problem

2005-06-02 Thread Robert Johnston
On 6/2/05, Bill Bradley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok I have 2 LCD monitors plugged into an ATI 128mb card. One is using the digital output the other is using the VGA analog output. I have the desktop extended across both and the mythfrontend is extended. However when I watch Live TV ,

Re: [mythtv-users] Myth, ivtv, and VBI. Is it possible?

2005-05-27 Thread Robert Johnston
On 5/27/05, Greg Chila [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been a mythTV user for almost two years now, and never looked back. However, I just built a mythbox for my girlfriend. Everything is working great (audio is a little off, but otherwise OK). The problem is, she loves closed captioning.

Re: [mythtv-users] Remain in MPEG-2 but remove commercials?

2005-05-27 Thread Robert Johnston
On 5/27/05, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Is it possible to somehow use transcode to leave my recorded files in MPEG-2 format but remove the commercials? Essentially I'd like to automate what the Z key does when I'm watching. Alternatively, can MythTV be set up to

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