Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-350 & 500 in same box, sound issues

2006-01-16 Thread Steve Pugh
Intense Red wrote: > I have a PVR-350 in my system which worked fine with the PVR-350's hardware >decoder. The only "problem" was that MythTV is so slick TV watching has >increased and 1 tuner was not enough. :-) > > Heh...I know how that goes, I started off with two tuners and then realiz

Re: [mythtv-users] mythfrontend not working

2006-01-16 Thread Steve Pugh
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >It did not work. How can I find where the binary is? > > Navigate up to the root / folder, and type "locate -name mythfrontend" ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinf

Re: [mythtv-users] Internal DVD player

2005-12-08 Thread Steve Pugh
Dave Oxley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I've just seen issue #511, but I hadn't realised that Myth had its only DVD player. I currently use xine, but would like to try Myth's out. So a couple of questions:1. How to I enable it?2. What will I lose switching from Xine? i.e. Does it play menus? Hi Dav

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-150 out of the box?

2005-12-06 Thread Steve Pugh
dewag <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I just bought a PVR150 for use of mythTV on my Suse OSS 10 machine.At this moment I have only black & white signal; no colours in mythtv ormediaplayer. Hi Peter, which version of Myth are you using?  When you say "no colours out of mediaplayer", are you talking a

Re: [mythtv-users] BE not recording, log snippet - any ideas?

2005-11-24 Thread Steve Pugh
Nick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: In your recording profiles, how many episodes have to got specified tokeep (and record) and how many episodes do you have in your recordingslist? What happens if you disable the jobs queue?NickHi Nick,I only had one or two episodes recorded, and the maximum to keep

[mythtv-users] BE not recording, log snippet - any ideas?

2005-11-23 Thread Steve Pugh
Hi all, My FE/BE has been  skipping some new recordings lately, much to the dismay of my lovely bride and to the glee of my friends who gloat about how their TiVos never skip a beat (liars). These have been new episodes, and they show up in MythWeb's "Scheduled Recordings" page as upcoming,

Re: [mythtv-users] Freeze in recording playback

2005-11-21 Thread Steve Pugh
David Hampton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:I been having a strange problem for a while now where playback on myfront end freezes randomly. When it happens, the audio stops playingand then about a second later the video freezes. The system is nothung, as I can hit the skip back button and the sys

Re: [mythtv-users] Upgrading from 0.18.1

2005-11-18 Thread Steve Pugh
Steve Pugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, all!I've been running 0.18.1 on my system (1xPVR-250, 1xPVR-350, using the 350 for TV-Out) for about six months now.  Have had frequent issues with freezes and unwanted pauses while watching recordings, and I *HEAR* that Myth 0.18

[mythtv-users] Upgrading from 0.18.1

2005-11-18 Thread Steve Pugh
Hello, all!I've been running 0.18.1 on my system (1xPVR-250, 1xPVR-350, using the 350 for TV-Out) for about six months now.  Have had frequent issues with freezes and unwanted pauses while watching recordings, and I *HEAR* that Myth 0.18.2 includes significant improvements to the way that M

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

2005-11-07 Thread Steve Pugh
Hi Aaron, welcome to the asylum ;-) As a relative Linux neophyte myself, one suggestion I can make is to keep a notebook of the things you come across. You will likely need to repair your MySQL database, and you might find the requisite commands through a search of a forum somewhere, but when/if

Re: [mythtv-users] Help Diskless frontend

2005-10-31 Thread Steve Pugh
--- Alberto Alonso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > EPIA-based (M1?) machine for the bedroom. > > > > The 1 has a fan in it, if you have already > bought > it then there are some people that are replacing it, > otherwise I would recommend to buy a fanless board Yeah, the fan is a little l

Re: [mythtv-users] Help Diskless frontend

2005-10-31 Thread Steve Pugh
--- Alberto Alonso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You may have seen my references to using a diskless > base using Knoppmyth. > I guess this is a good time to ask, how many people > would want > that kind of document? Hi Alberto, I would absolutely appreciate such a document! I am currently runn

Re: [mythtv-users] basic mythvideo question

2005-10-30 Thread Steve Pugh
--- Paul McKellar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So i have everything working. But i'm confused as > to the intent of > mythvideo. Is it meant to stream files to multiple > FEs or just play > whatever you have locally. Hi Paul, It's my understanding that the basic structure is to store the files

Re: [mythtv-users] Occasional hard freezes

2005-10-28 Thread Steve Pugh
--- Ryan Steffes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > These locks ups appear to be permanent, unless > temporary can last several > hours, over night and into the next morning. > > ___ > mythtv-users mailing list > mythtv-users@mythtv.org > http://mythtv.org/cgi

Re: [mythtv-users] Occasional hard freezes

2005-10-27 Thread Steve Pugh
--- Ryan Steffes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I thought I had finally gotten this fixed with the > kernel option nolapic, > but it happened to me again. I am experiencing hard > lock ups that seem to be > related to high data throughput, but aren't > consistent enough for me to > track down. When

Re: [mythtv-users] Freeze when deleting program

2005-10-26 Thread Steve Pugh
--- David Wallace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > What Flavor OS are you running? I have heard Fedora > 4 has problems with > XFS and that JFS works better with it. Hi there, I am running Knoppmyth R5A16 which is based on Knoppix and therefore more akin to Debian than Fedora. OK, the first

Re: [mythtv-users] Freeze when deleting program

2005-10-26 Thread Steve Pugh
--- Mercury Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can you post the size(s) of the the recordings that > were deleted? > If you don't have that data, that's OK. I ask for > the size data because > on my EXT3 filesystem, deleting smaller size > recordings don't always > cause the freeze. But deleting

Re: [mythtv-users] Freeze when deleting program

2005-10-26 Thread Steve Pugh
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I converted my system to XFS on (software) RAID-5 > when I > installed MythTV and it's been rock-solid. The box > also > hosts IMAP, SMB, VNC and Apache2 servers, and has > never > seemed to have any problem deleting large files > while > recording. Both mythweb

Re: [mythtv-users] Sudden lockups on my Myth box

2005-10-25 Thread Steve Pugh
--- Joe Ammann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all > > this evening, I experienced 3 total machine lockups > on my mythbox. I had to > hard reset it. That same machine has been running > for months, no apparent > hardware problems. > > Does anybody have a clue what is going on? Hi Joe, I can

Re: [mythtv-users] Backend loses the database

2005-10-21 Thread Steve Pugh
--- Mickey Chandler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've had a peculiar problem pop up lately. About > once a day, my > recorded programs listing goes away and starts > reading "No recorded > programs available." Restarting the back end gets > the listing back. > > The only error I'm seeing in t

Re: [mythtv-users] Frontend freeze when deleting recording

2005-10-21 Thread Steve Pugh
--- Dave Sherohman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 11:16:03AM -0700, Steve Pugh > wrote: > > However, I am still experiencing a solid > framebuffer > > freezeup when, after watching a show, I choose > either > > of the two delete optio

[mythtv-users] Frontend freeze when deleting recording

2005-10-21 Thread Steve Pugh
Hello all, I am running my Myth system with a PVR-250 for capture, and a PVR-350 for capture and playback through the 350's framebuffer. Things are gorgeous, and I am thrilled to report that since upgrading ivtv to 0.4.0 I have yet to see a hard freeze during playback (previously, I would have to

RE: [mythtv-users] New Myth/ivtv error

2005-07-11 Thread Steve Pugh
Hi Marc et. al., Thank you very much for your reply - in the end, I did roll back to 0.2 and so far, things are happier and healthier. I still get unsolicited pauses when watching recordings (skipping back fixes that, but it's still annoying), but so far the disk-filling error and my other, n

[mythtv-users] Re: mythtv-users Digest, Vol 30, Issue 28

2005-07-08 Thread Steve Pugh
George wrote: It should be easy enough to test the two-recodings-simultaneously theory by creating two telnet/ssh sessions and having one cat the 350's output directly to its playback device (cat /dev/video1 > /dev/video16) and then doing a cat on the 250's device to a file or /dev/nu

[mythtv-users] Re: mythtv-users Digest, Vol 30, Issue 28

2005-07-08 Thread Steve Pugh
Anthony wrote: way to check which tuner recorded what program? Could my problem be memory-related? I have 512MB in the machine, and it seems to run fairly 'full' - I've seen it at 1% or 2% free when a lot was going on. Hi Steve, Sorry to hear about your problems. 512MB should be plenty.

[mythtv-users] Sync/stutter when both tuners record? WAF crashing and burning

2005-07-07 Thread Steve Pugh
Hello all, Nothing like the season finale of a reality TV show or a full-season-in-one-day Battlestar Galactica marathon to prove how dependent we are on the Myth system - unfortunately, both scenarios resulted in unwatchable recordings yesterday! The symptom - almost immediately (within a f

[mythtv-users] New Myth/ivtv error

2005-06-22 Thread Steve Pugh
Hello all, My Myth box, specs below, has been in "safe production" (the old Replay TV is not yet unplugged) for about two weeks now. Over the weekend, it became unresponsive to remote and I could not get in via Mythweb. SSH was sluggish but I could get in. Restarting gave me the 'GDM could

[mythtv-users] Connecting Myth box to cable box - 8-pin/9-pin serial vs. LIRC

2005-06-12 Thread Steve Pugh
Hello all, After ordering components in November of last year and going through a cycle of alternating short bursts of frustration and long bouts of non-activity, I am the proud papa of a Myth system (dual 2.4GHz backend/frontend, one PVR-250 and one PVR-350 for input and TV out, Pioneer DVD-