I use a VIA EPIA fanless as a frontend, I've found that 720x480 with
the overscan option enabled works best. I can't seem to get interlaced
playback to work properly though.
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On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 23:02:30 -0800, Peter Loron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Ok, this is drifting a bit OT, but I'm going to strike while the iron
> is hot. I've got my backend machine set up and pretty much working, but
> it is going in the closet so I don't have to listen to it. I need to
> get V
BTW, even if there was a CLI and whatever, the mythbackend still uses
QT as a general purpose library. QT-4.0 will have their general
purpose classes and GUI classes broken out into seperate components,
so conceivable, the backend would not require QT+X, only the utility
classes within QT. The back
> I do not want X or qt on the server and I can't see why I should.
> All I want to run is the backend for capturing video. The frontend will run
> elsewhere.
>
You need them for the setup utility, you don't have to run X on the
server, you just need the Xlibs. When you run the setup utility, ju
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1. hizzle
house, it rhymes with shizzle and nizzle.
Fo shizzle, get up out dis hizzle.
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> What format is best for recording on a backend that has a bt878 card
> (uses software encoding) and an older processor? Is RTJpeg less CPU
> intensive than, say, MPEG4? Just trying to stretch some old hardware
> without loosing too much quality.
>
Yes, RTjpeg is much easier to encode than mpe
When scheduling recordings for a big list of things, like movies (ie,
clicking the movies button in mythweb), it'd be uselfull if movies (or
episodes) I have already recorded were highlighted or drawn with some
border, as scheduled recordings are.
It would be uselfull to be able to mark a recordin
I think it would be very useful, if while channel surfing, you could
selectively block out certain types of programming. This might already
be in peoples mind as far as content control, but it would be also
useful for normal usage. Ie, surfing past all paid programming late at
night, or all sportin
> Interested to know how fast you guys can get your machines to boot from cold
> As a starter for 10 i'm currently at 2mins from cold to the myth menu
>
> Dont care what machine you have got or what versions of software.
> Just what is the art of the possible.
>
You could use suspend to r
at hardware works with the CIR port, and I can use
the LIRC serial driver. Not only that, but I can use it on any
machine.
>
> On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 12:39:42 -0700, Russ Dill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I use a fanless via epia for my frontend. It has just enough
> > horsep
> What is the consensus on using md/LVM with FastTrak cards? Are all of
> Promise' problems within the RAID driver ? Have to ask, I just built a
> 360gb RAID5 off of one of their new SATA 4 channel cards.. the drivers
> looked scary so i said screw it, i'll MD it. that should be safe, I
> thought
I use a fanless via epia for my frontend. It has just enough
horsepower to decode mpeg4. I picked up a couple cir receivers from
digikey for a little more than a buck a piece, I wired one of them up
to the serial port, and got 5v from an old ps/2 mouse cable.
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> I didn't have the money, so I ended up getting a cheap HighPoint card
> and using Linux software RAID to replace my FastTrack. The FastTrack
> is definitely faster than softRAID in terms of throughput, but I'd
> rather have safer, slower data personally.
>
As far as just adding ide ports, woul
> Well yes, technically all controllers are software, as the software
> is just set in silicon.
What he is refering to is that most controllers you find out there are
only masquerading as hardware raid controllers. The driver that comes
with the card does software raid, the chip and card is just a
> All of this was prompted because we just had an HDD failure and lost
> about a month's worth of unarchived baby pictures; redundancy is the
> primary issue. My wife's getting a new machine for her desk, so I'll
> retire the old machine to the basement and pop in the RAID5 for file
> serving and
On Tue, 7 Dec 2004 16:51:36 -0500, Andrew Plumb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
>
> For those who do use hardware RAID5 cards for ATA IDE drives, which
> cards have you (not) had success with, for use in a mythtvbackend
> machine? Or in any Linux-based machine for that matter?
>
> I'm
> > I'm pondering picking up something like a Promise FastTrak SX4000.
> >
Stay away from promise at all cost, its the most touchy, crappy
hardware I've ever seen. My MB temp goes up 1 or 2 degrees and the
thing craps out. Course, it's really two bad that the only good ATA
interfaces are your mot
> I had an idea about how the delay might be reduced when changing
> channels. In a 2+ tuner system, can one tuner "leapfrog" the other and
> start buffering the next or previous channel, depending on the direction
> the user is surfing?
>
> For example, I start at channel three.
> Tuner two star
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