Re: [mythtv-users] Looking for a good wireless keyboard with touchpad, trackball, or joystick.

2006-01-24 Thread Steve Hodge
On 1/25/06, Richard Bronosky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Before I by one of these http://www.byopvr.com/Sections+index-req-printpage-artid-15.html I want to know what compact wireless keyboards you guys like. I got one of those and am very happy with it. It's got great range and the handles are

Re: [mythtv-users] My list of MythTV links

2006-01-19 Thread Steve Hodge
On 1/20/06, Brian Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 19, 2006, at 3:33 PM, Curtis Preston wrote: Overviews: A four part series by an O'Reilly author on building a mythtv box: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/digitalmedia/2005/06/22/myth_tv.html

Re: [mythtv-users] Using DVD VIDEO_TS directories on disk with MythTV?

2006-01-19 Thread Steve Hodge
On 1/20/06, Todd Ignasiak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The file layout is something like: /XMas_2002/VIDEO_TS/{*.IFO, *.VOB} /Wedding/VIDEO_TS/{*.IFO, *.VOB} Where the top directory is the name of the DVD, the second is always VIDEO_TS, and the DVD data files are below that. Ideally,

Re: [mythtv-users] some more RAID and HD speed questions

2006-01-17 Thread Steve Hodge
On 1/18/06, Steve Adeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ok, its running great, is there a way I can tell what my max speeds are? hdparm -t I'm sure there are more sophisticated benchmark programs around as well. also is there anything that can limit drive use in a similar way as nice can limit cpu

Re: [mythtv-users] Can MythTV ignore the keyboard and only use a remote?

2006-01-10 Thread Steve Hodge
On 1/10/06, Schlaegel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My ultimate goal is to have PVR functionality that is completely independent of what I am doing on the PC. For this to work I need, (1)live TV functionality to take minimal processor load, and (2)MythTV to only use the remote control for input and

Re: [mythtv-users] DVB-T and DVB-S on same box

2006-01-09 Thread Steve Hodge
On 1/10/06, Michael Cowell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For each shared channel: you have two separate channels set up (different names, ids, etc) but you set the channel number to the same thing (or the chanid or whatever it's called, I can't get to my mythbox at the moment), as well as the XML

Re: [mythtv-users] control MythTV with my gamepad?

2006-01-08 Thread Steve Hodge
On 1/9/06, Garth Benedict [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I also have the P3000. Fun joystick except one of my batteries died. I use qstick/kbstick as described http://www.ditch.org/kbstick/ It turns the joystick moves into keyboard strokes, kind of like lirc. You configure what you want all the

Re: [mythtv-users] My wireless keyboard/mouse/remote setup

2006-01-01 Thread Steve Hodge
On 1/1/06, Yeechang Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I made sure to get an IR keyboard/mouse so I could teach the codes to my remote; this way I haven't had to bother with lirc. That's a benefit I hadn't thought of. Does it work ok? I bought an ACK-581 (URL:http://www.directron.com/ack581.html).

Re: [mythtv-users] Need to prioritise cards/inputs for live tv

2005-12-11 Thread Steve Hodge
On 12/11/05, John Andersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/10/05, Bruce Markey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For live, by default it chooses an available card with the same hostname as the requesting frontend. If none, it chooses the lowest numbered cardid that is available. Yet this is clearly

Re: [mythtv-users] pvr-150 image looks soft

2005-12-07 Thread Steve Hodge
On 12/8/05, Steve Adeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: like a smoothing filter is being used. it looks just a tad softer than the source. I also notice that during scenes with movement it looks as though the frame rate was dropping by 5-10. so are there any secret settings I can look for or

Re: [mythtv-users] motherboard woes

2005-12-05 Thread Steve Hodge
On 12/5/05, Chris Rouch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I own a PC with an ASUS A7N8X deluxe motherboard. This has been really stable, and I have been very happy with it. ... However my PC has become increasingly unstable - it hangs when busy. In my experience instablity under load indicates

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

2005-11-30 Thread Steve Hodge
On 12/1/05, Ken Teague [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also, a *base* Windows setup (including a copy of i386 in the root of C:) is roughly 1.5GB of data. I understand that asthetically 1.5GB of OS is poor. But practically, who cares? That's an hour of video at the settings I'm using. There are plenty

Re: [mythtv-users] Digital Audio with myth

2005-11-28 Thread Steve Hodge
On 11/29/05, Robert Denier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 28 November 2005 02:08 pm, Nick wrote: On 25/11/05, Phill Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] That's because the S/PDIF is outputting a digital stream which the receiver decodes and is responsible for amplifying. I don't

Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV demo

2005-11-23 Thread Steve Hodge
On 11/24/05, Chad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a distro that uses gcc 4 by default? By default, Gentoo uses 3.3 on x86 and 3.4 on AMD64. It considers gcc 4 too bleeding-edge for production use. FC4 does by default, ubuntu's latest, and what is default on a Gentoo box? ;) I use

Re: [mythtv-users] Mythtv Upgrade Idea

2005-11-22 Thread Steve Hodge
On 11/23/05, Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 22 Nov 2005 20:10:03 + Roger McClurg wrote: My son observed how nice it would be if MythVideo and MythAudio were combined, so you could listen to music while you looked at your photographs. It sounded like a good idea to me. Does

Re: [mythtv-users] IR Keyboards

2005-11-21 Thread Steve Hodge
On 11/22/05, Gary Manning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My keyboard is a BTC 9019URF. It's RF not IR, but it seems to work fine so far. It has a joystick that has a mouse mode and joystick mode, and the receiver plugs into a USB port. I have used it as a joystick under Linux yet, but no problems

Re: [mythtv-users] Attractive cases

2005-11-12 Thread Steve Hodge
On 11/13/05, James C. Dastrup [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm coming round to thinking that the nicest case out there is the Accent HT-400 ( http://www.arisetec.com/products/HT-400.htm ) since it is full-size, well-designed, comes with built in IR hardware and an attractive panel to mount an VFD

Re: [mythtv-users] NUV TO WINDOWS PC

2005-11-07 Thread Steve Hodge
On 11/8/05, Ramon Redondo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually, the DirectShow filters do not require MPEG2-based NUV files. I've used them for viewing NUVs created with my BTTV card. If your .nuv files are encoded with MPEG4 then you also need an MPEG4 codec installed under Windows - the MythTV

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Install errors

2005-11-07 Thread Steve Hodge
On 11/8/05, Don Sheehan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/6/05, Don Sheehan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As this is inconsistent, can anyone guide me as to where to look? Not only is MythTV having inconsistent errors during the emerge process, but so is libquicktime. mainserver.cpp: In member

Re: [mythtv-users] spdif working but not passthrough - AV-710

2005-10-30 Thread Steve Hodge
On 10/31/05, Byron Poland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So thats crazy. I got it to work with mplayer with just the the -ac hwac3 option. It didn't work with the -ao alsa:device=hw=0.2 in the command. -ac hwac3 tells mplayer to pass AC3 signals though without decoding. If you don't have that

Re: [mythtv-users] Better looking playback?

2005-10-30 Thread Steve Hodge
On 10/31/05, MacNean Tyrrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a nvidia geforce 5200, using svideo out. Mythtv looks sharp and very nice looking. However playback is still not that great. Not really sharp like the menu. I've played with the XV picture color controls, and tried kernel, bob,

Re: [mythtv-users] Better looking playback?

2005-10-30 Thread Steve Hodge
On 10/31/05, MacNean Tyrrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So i've checked the file on my laptop and a nuv recordings looks perfect, like it should. Yeah, definitely sounds like a problem with TV-out on your MythTV box. I've got a nVidia 5200 based card and I was pretty happy with the TV-out when I

Re: [mythtv-users] EPG in Australia?

2005-10-25 Thread Steve Hodge
On 10/25/05, Daniel Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well actually, what I said is correct. When you say people are 'trying' to copyright the guide data this is not fully true, it *IS* copyrighted data, just because a piece of work is published online does not mean it cannot be copyrighted. If

Re: [mythtv-users] Mythweb won't delete programs

2005-10-20 Thread Steve Hodge
On 10/21/05, Neil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: have just finished doing exactly these steps. I'm now running mythtv .19 and mythweb .19, but the problem remains. Mythweb says its deleted the program, but the files are still there and so are the entries in the db. Any ideas where to look now?

Re: [mythtv-users] Mythweb won't delete programs

2005-10-20 Thread Steve Hodge
On 10/21/05, Chris Petersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Steve Hodge wrote: Have you checked that the user that apache is running under has permission to delete from the directory where MythTV is storing the files? Wouldn't matter. MythWeb sends the delete command directly to mythbackend

Re: [mythtv-users] Capturing legacy VHS tapes

2005-10-18 Thread Steve Hodge
On 10/19/05, Nathan Lutchansky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 11:16:49PM -0200, Manuel Lemos wrote: At last I managed to make Plextor ConvertX M402U to work under SuSE Linux 9.3 and MythTV to see the input video. MythTV doesn't support MPEG2 on the ConvertX. What you

Re: [mythtv-users] Digital Foxtel Integration (Australia)

2005-08-24 Thread Steve Hodge
On 8/25/05, Barry Hee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After searching the forums I am unsure of the following aspects regarding IR transmission. ie controlling the Pace DC420 STB via LIRC. I did find a product from IRTrans (www.irtrans.de/en/) which seems exactly what I am after as it states that it

Re: [mythtv-users] Audio trouble with MythMusic

2005-08-18 Thread Steve Hodge
Dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the info Mike. I looked over the DigitalSoundHowTo which walked through setting up a .asoundrc. However, I ended up finding (what seems to be) an easier way: I just set Output Device to ALSA:plug:iec958 in the Music settings and dig out is working

[mythtv-users] Channels on multiple video sources

2005-08-16 Thread Steve Hodge
Is there any way to specify that a particular channel appears on multiple video sources? Or alternatively that more than one video source are available on a particular capture card input? I have a dual tuner setup capable of recording the local satelite TV transmissions and FTA broadcasts. The