Re: [mythtv-users] Performance from a different perspective

2006-01-25 Thread Stewart
recordings. The only slowdown is when the hard drive swings around a bit. I figure the system swapping is what's causing the stutter, so the mem upgrade should really help... You don't need much hardware for this stuff. Stewart Larsen It is the first responsibility of every citizen

Re: [mythtv-users] Help Developing MythWeb

2006-01-25 Thread Stewart
I'd suggest that it's better to go thin-client and not have to assume that the users have any plugins. Same goes for java. Once you go that way, it's a whole new can of worms... Stewart Larsen It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority. ~ Ben Franklin Hackers do

[mythtv-users] Bug in 4.2?

2006-01-22 Thread Stewart
I have the new Hauppauge 500 with the Samsung chips. According to the trac this chip was added in as tuner #68 in tuner.h. http://ivtvdriver.org/trac/ticket/63 http://ivtvdriver.org/trac/changeset/3120 However, when I installed Axel's RPM for 4.2 and the requisite bits, I see the following,

Re: [mythtv-users] Bug in 4.2?

2006-01-22 Thread Stewart
I already took it there and got my fix. Thanks... Stewart Larsen It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority. ~ Ben Franklin Hackers do for love what others wouldn't do for money. If you think technology will solve your security problems, you don't understand

[mythtv-users] Firmware issues. Please help!

2006-01-19 Thread Stewart
Did the names/locations change between 4.1 and 4.2? my 4.1 system loads up just fine. The 4.2 fails to load the firmware... I checked firmware.agent and my FIRMWARE_DIR is /lib/firmware. All of the files are there. # grep FIRMWARE_DIR /etc/hotplug/firmware.agent FIRMWARE_DIR=/lib/firmware

Re: [mythtv-users] Firmware issues. Please help!

2006-01-19 Thread Stewart
I don't seem to have an /etc/init.d/hotplug. I'm running FC4. Is this something I missed in my setup? Stewart Larsen It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority. ~ Ben Franklin Hackers do for love what others wouldn't do for money. If you think technology will solve

Re: [mythtv-users] Firmware issues. Please help!

2006-01-19 Thread Stewart
[3436]: no runnable /etc/hotplug/vc.agent is installed Stewart Larsen It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority. ~ Ben Franklin Hackers do for love what others wouldn't do for money. If you think technology will solve your security problems, you don't understand

[mythtv-users] firmware differences between 4.1 and 4.2?

2006-01-18 Thread Stewart
Did the names/locations change between 4.1 and 4.2? my 4.1 system loads up just fine. The 4.2 fails to load the firmware... I checked firmware.agent and my FIRMWARE_DIR is /lib/firmware. All of the files are there. # grep FIRMWARE_DIR /etc/hotplug/firmware.agent FIRMWARE_DIR=/lib/firmware

Re: [mythtv-users] 350/500 setup. Tuner #3 cannot tune about 60 or so.

2006-01-15 Thread Stewart
Thanks. I'll be waiting for the released version. I'm taking no chances with the premier of 24 on tonight. :) The fact that it's the third tuner (so rarely used except for live tv), I think I can wait. Stewart Larsen It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority

[mythtv-users] 350/500 setup. Tuner #3 cannot tune about 60 or so.

2006-01-14 Thread Stewart
.at mythvideo-0.18.1-115.rhfc4.at mythweather-0.18.1-115.rhfc4.at mythweb-0.18-69.at -- Stewart Larsen It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority. ~ Ben Franklin Hackers do for love what others wouldn't do for money. If you think technology

Re: [mythtv-users] 350/500 setup. Tuner #3 cannot tune about 60 or so.

2006-01-14 Thread Stewart
. Seems weird that if it is a signal quality issue, it would only affect one tuner on the same card and not the other though... Both of the other tuners are crystal clear up to Channel 99. Stewart Larsen ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users

[mythtv-users] Where to send Feature requests?

2006-01-08 Thread Stewart
I have seen a trac list to track bugs, but I have not been able to find anythere to place feature requests, specifically, this is a mythweb feature request. Stew ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org

[mythtv-users] Recording 24

2006-01-05 Thread Stewart
search in mythweb that will find them all, but I was looking for a more automated way. Stewart ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

[mythtv-users] popups on search results

2006-01-05 Thread Stewart
How difficult would it be to get a popup (like the one on in the program listings) on the search results page? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

Re: [mythtv-users] Double invocations of mythfrontend

2005-12-18 Thread Stewart
This happened to me before. I'm using KDE and it got logged into the session information, so KDE was starting it and my myth-load.sh script was loading it. I forget where exactly I found it, but a grep down /home/mythtv/.ked should find it. grep -nr mythfrontend ~/.kde/* Stewart Larsen

[mythtv-users] Hard Freeze. Getting frustrated

2005-11-15 Thread Stewart
My current myth box, I've used for a year or 2 with no problems. I formatted and re-installed with FC4 and myth and now it is freezing. It may wait a few hours or go almost 2 days, but it lunches hard and freezes the box with no info in the logs as to why. this has been going on for about a

[mythtv-users] Custom searches against the credits table?

2005-10-22 Thread Stewart
the credits table. Is this correct? Querying against the credits table would give better results, since the person's name is not always referenced in the description field of the program table. Any thoughts. Stewart ___ mythtv-users mailing list

Re: [mythtv-users] Custom searches against the credits table?

2005-10-22 Thread Stewart
Thanks a bunch. Exactly what I needed. Stewart Larsen It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority. ~ Ben Franklin Hackers do for love what others wouldn't do for money. If you think technology will solve your security problems, you don't understand the technology

[mythtv-users] Crash while fast-forwarding live tv

2005-10-08 Thread Stewart
Running 18.1 with a PVR-350 card, using the TV-out. Watching hockey tonight and paused the game. Hit fast-forward to skip the commercials and when it caught up to the live TV, it crashed. Twice. Couldn't get the the machine via the network, had to cycle the power to get it back... Any

Re: [mythtv-users] Video lasts for only 1 second on live TV

2005-10-08 Thread Stewart
There is also an option for using priority threads. Disabling this is a second option, but running the backend as root is the better choice. Stewart Larsen It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority. ~ Ben Franklin Hackers do for love what others wouldn't do

[mythtv-users] Transcoding issues

2005-09-23 Thread Stewart
frame or something. It looks really bad. Any thoughts or settings I should double check? It looks kinda like stop animation with a blur to make it look like it's moving. Stewart ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org

Re: [mythtv-users] Transcoding issues

2005-09-23 Thread Stewart
.at perl-Video-ivtv-0.13-7.rhfc4.at ivtvdev-0.10-2.rhfc4.at ivtv-firmware-1.8a-4.at ivtv-0.2.0-69_rc3k.rhfc4.at Stewart Larsen It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority. ~ Ben Franklin Hackers do for love what others wouldn't do for money. If you think technology

[mythtv-users] Media Center extender?

2005-08-08 Thread Aaron Stewart
Hey y'all.. Just a quick question about portability.. Anybody played with the Linksys Media Center Extender? It's a wi-fi box, sporting digital and analog audio, component/svideo/composite outputs, and would probably make a good frontend for the $300 they're asking, but my question is whether

Re: [mythtv-users] IMDB Screen Scrap... legal?

2005-07-08 Thread Aaron Stewart
I'd imagine that no, it's not a good thing. That being said, I think IMDB might offer a web services REST/SOAP api through Amazon; barring that, a lot of IMDB's data is exposed through amazon's webservices (ECS 4.0) interface.. http://webservices.amazon.com Cheers, -=Aaron Mark Gardner wrote:

Re: [mythtv-users] IMDB Screen Scrap... legal?

2005-07-08 Thread Aaron Stewart
Since the majority of frontends out there are designed to run without keyboards, how many people do you think would actually bother to submit review material? Dean Collins wrote: On that matter, I've been tossing around some ideas about a community server. I have some additional real-time

Re: [mythtv-users] IMDB Screen Scrap... legal?

2005-07-08 Thread Aaron Stewart
Getting back to my original point.. How many people want to volunteer for writing up reviews using a remote control and selecting letters individually? ;) Nick wrote: On 7/8/05, Aaron Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since the majority of frontends out there are designed to run without

Re: [mythtv-users] IMDB Screen Scrap... legal?

2005-07-08 Thread Aaron Stewart
, 2005, at 4:36 PM, Aaron Stewart wrote: Getting back to my original point.. How many people want to volunteer for writing up reviews using a remote control and selecting letters individually? ;) A remote interface that uses morse code could be written. Apologies to those that do not read

Re: [mythtv-users] MySQL errors, mysqld.sock

2005-07-07 Thread Aaron Stewart
Look in /var/log/mysql/* and see if that points to problems. I've had a similar issue, but it was one of those things I just blew through without thinking about what it was, so I'm crossing my fingers that it's something simple. -=Aaron al wrote: Long time reader, first time poster. Problem:

Re: [mythtv-users] Uninstall Mythtv

2005-06-20 Thread Aaron Stewart
What you failed to mention is what distribution of linux you are running. ian swanson wrote: Is there any way I can uninstall Mythtv? I want to do this because I believe that MyMSQL isn't installed properly? Thanks, Ian.

Re: [mythtv-users] Hauppaugge PVR250 recognised as PVR150

2005-06-17 Thread Aaron Stewart
I ran into this as well, but upgrading to the latest (0.3.x) ivtv fixed the problem. Dave Chapman wrote: Got a FC3 install with a PVR250 the documentation for ivtv gives an options cardtype=1 (PVR250) which I put in my /etc/modprobe.conf The card is found but as a PVR150 if I put options

Re: [mythtv-users] Confused about lirc_i2c

2005-06-03 Thread Aaron Stewart
you looked in /lib/modules/`uname -r` ? run: find /lib/modules/`uname -r` -type f -print | grep -i lirc_i2c Should be a file there called lirc_i2c.ko .. if not, I at least know that under gentoo, installing the lirc package will install this module, and I have to re-emerge the package every

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-250 too bright

2005-05-19 Thread Aaron Stewart
Have you tried playing with the use XV to control picture setting in mythfrontend's setup/playback section? vala ki wrote: I'm having serious problems with colors on my PVR-250. All bright spots are super bright and contrast is way too much... (video looks like it's overexposed) Tried to

Re: [mythtv-users] Fedora 3 and SUID

2005-05-10 Thread Aaron Stewart
Did you mean chown root:root mythfrontend? (you list it below as chmod) Rich Goodin wrote: Is anyone using Fedora Core 3 and SUID successfully? When I run mythfrontend as root I get the confirmation that it is able to up the priority of the thread as expected. Then I make mythfrontend

Re: [mythtv-users] LxMSuite.com to provide services to the Mythcommunity

2005-05-06 Thread Aaron Stewart
It's reminiscent to me of the stuff the TransGaming (formerly winex, now called cedeg) guys did.. sorta subscription based development.. Their users pay a monthly fee for updates and voting rights to their extensions on the WINE platform. I dunno.. I'm definitely a skeptic.. My worry is that we'd

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-250 composite sound OK, No sound on tuner!

2005-05-05 Thread Aaron Stewart
Make sure that you only have one msp3400 module.. I got stuck with something similar and it was because when I installed the bttv drivers (to get tuner.ko) it built its own, which won't work. Michael T. Dean wrote: Dave Pearson wrote: I have a PVR-250, which is working perfectly for the

[mythtv-users] UI issue when starting a recording?

2005-04-30 Thread Aaron Stewart
So I'm watching a movie tonight, and myth notifies me that it's ready to record another show, asking me if I want to record the other program, etc. So what I'm running into is this: 1. record and watch while it records - I'm taken out of my program (which is at that moment time shifted back

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: VNC launches second mythfrontend

2005-04-20 Thread Aaron Stewart
Silly question, but would it be better to determine whether mythfrontend is running before running a second one? e.g. MYTHFRONTEXEC=mythfrontend MYTHRUNNING=`ps ax | grep '$MYTHFRONTEXEC'` if [ x$MYTHRUNNING == x ]; then nvidia-settings -l mythfrontend fi Allan Risk wrote: I am

[mythtv-users] Sound only after changing channels?

2005-04-20 Thread Aaron Stewart
Hey gang, I'm running Myth 0.17-r2 under gentoo (x86), but I'm having an issue where sound is only working after switching channels. I'm running kernel 2.6.11 and the latest emerge of alsa. Sound *is* working, but only after changing channels, and evidently not during recording (though I

Re: [mythtv-users] Sound only after changing channels?

2005-04-20 Thread Aaron Stewart
Gotcha.. I did search, but on the wrong thing (assumed the fact I was running gentoo was relevant to my query). I'll try this on tonight. Phil Bridges wrote: On 4/20/05, Aaron Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey gang, I'm running Myth 0.17-r2 under gentoo (x86), but I'm having an issue

Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV lockups

2005-04-17 Thread Aaron Stewart
Had something similar.. I disabled XvMC and it fixed it. Chad wrote: On 4/16/05, Andy Cedilnik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have new system setup with mythtv. I used several sources to set things up, but eventually I summarized the whole thing here: http://x0.org/mwk/index.php/MythTV

Re: [mythtv-users] Mythtv: mythmusiv (0.17) compile fault .. will no-one reply?

2005-04-10 Thread Aaron Stewart
Sounds like you have some stale headers floating around somewhere... -=A Bernard Mentink wrote: Hi All, I am having trouble compiling *mythmusic* (ver 0.17) on my laptop (which I am using as a mythfrontend). The same version compiles fine on my main *Mythtv* server. Here is the error:

Re: [mythtv-users] MobileMyth?

2005-03-17 Thread Aaron Stewart
I kicked this idea around for a while (I think my post on it is in the archives somewhere) but didn't get terribly far with it (was just working on building out hardware). Though my idea had to do with syncing using WiFI to a master server while the car is parked, rather than physically attached

Re: [mythtv-users] Broadcast Flag Article mentions MythTV and quotes Issac

2005-03-03 Thread Aaron Stewart
Close, but not quite.. IIRC, the law still prohibits group viewing, which is a gathering of over 12 people.. That law applies to commercially available DVDs, VHS, as well as recordings of shows. It also seems to me that the new law would only prohibit *selling* of devices that don't obey the new

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Torrentocracy Patch against Mythtv-cvs

2005-03-03 Thread Aaron Stewart
project. On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, Simon Kenyon wrote: On Thursday 03 March 2005 17:35, Aaron Stewart wrote: Problem is that one must assume that: a.) every instance of the show puts the commercials in the same place b.) the same show airing on different channels have the commercials

Re: [mythtv-users] Broadcast Flag Article mentions MythTV and quotes Issac

2005-03-03 Thread Aaron Stewart
Goes with the territory.. Corporations have been fighting technology since the dawn of time.. Ref: Audio Cassettes, Video Cassettes, CDs, DVDs, MP3, and now digital video. I can't think of any circumstance where they've won. You can't fight the progress of technology. You can try, but you'll

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Torrentocracy Patch against Mythtv-cvs

2005-03-03 Thread Aaron Stewart
Not necessarily so.. Depending on reception quality (I know that my channel 3 comes in worse than most), there may be more or less latency in blank frame detection. Ditto to positions that are set by user when flagging. On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, Brad Templeton wrote: On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at