RE: [mythtv-users] MythWeb timesout on recorded programs

2005-02-22 Thread William
I decided to check my http error log, this might provide better information. [client IP] PHP Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 8388608 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 1024 bytes) in /var/www/html/mythweb/recorded_programs.php on line 75, referer: http://

RE: [mythtv-users] blurry boot and frontend but clear video playback

2005-02-21 Thread William
Anyone have a fix so that my screen is clear when booting and using KDE or MYTHFrontend? Thanks for all your help so far. Brad Sorry Brad but your standard def tv is never going to display text clear enough to be useful as a monitor. I usually just open a VNC session to the box when I

RE: [mythtv-users] Re: Upgraded to 0.17, now DVB slow to tune and pops/crackles (cx88)

2005-02-21 Thread William
11:09:15.310 DVB#0 WARNING - Uncorrectable error in packet, dropped. 2005-02-21 11:09:15.337 DVB#0 WARNING - Transport Stream Continuity Error. PID = 600 2005-02-21 11:09:15.985 DVB#0 WARNING - Uncorrectable error in packet, dropped. 2005-02-21 11:09:15.988 DVB#0 WARNING - Uncorrectable

RE: [mythtv-users] How do you get SP/DIF output working on FC2 with 0.17??

2005-02-21 Thread William
Anyone have any ideas on this one? I am really stuck. I need a bit of help. I recently upgraded to FC2 and installed the new mythtv .17 from atrpms. Everything is working fine except for one thing. I no longer get any output from mythtv on my sp/dif output. I have a good .asoundrc

RE: [mythtv-users] How do you get SP/DIF output working on FC2 with0.17??

2005-02-21 Thread William
Or you could have changed the mixer from '/dev/mixer' to 'default' as has been discussed on this list a few times ;-) OSS=/dev/mixer, ALSA=default Even with the ALSA mixer set to default you may or may not be able to control the volume using spdif. It depends on your sound card and

RE: [mythtv-users] Calling all SciAtl/Time Warner users.

2005-02-20 Thread William
I've repainted my dishes to match the house (some kind of a sandlewood or something). Basically, put tape on the LNB and paint them up. Be very careful about what kind of paint you use. Some paints will actually absorb the signal and render the dish unusable. You really want to use a paint

RE: [mythtv-users] No Sound in Just MythTV

2005-02-19 Thread William
This is a fresh install of FC3 with MythTV 17 from ATrpm I'm guessing your oss-compat modules might not be getting loaded. /dev/dsp is an oss interface, which doesn't exist on a udev/alsa system unless the oss-compat modules are loaded.

[mythtv-users] DirecTV+ D-VHS Connection?

2005-02-17 Thread William Segura
I have a Mitsubishi DirecTV+ receiver that has a D-VHS port on the back. It looks like a firewire port. The manual says something about the receiver supporting a Hughs D-VHS recorder. Any idea if this can be made to work with the latest MythTV like the cable boxes can?

[mythtv-users] eVGA nVidia NVTV Tuners

2005-02-17 Thread William Segura
Anyone know if these will work in Linux/MythTV? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

RE: [mythtv-users] Firewire success stories?

2005-02-16 Thread William
My problem is that I can't seem to get my cable company (Time Warner Columbus, OH) to provide me a cable box with firewire outputs. They use the SA 3250s, which those are listed as an option. I have gone to the FCC's website and printed out the appropriate documentation stating that if I

[mythtv-users] Xbox Xebian 1.1.1 and Mythtv 0.17? Anyone got it working yet?

2005-02-13 Thread William
I was wondering if anyone has gotten the new .17 release packaged up for xebian? Preferably for the new 1.1.1 release but the old one is fine too. TIA, Bill ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org

[mythtv-users] Axel - Jarod - Any ETA on Fedora Core 1 rpms?

2005-02-12 Thread William
Hi Guys, Are you planning on supporting FC1 for the new release? If you do, any idea on when to expect updated rpms? Thanks for your great service. Bill ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org

RE: [mythtv-users] Slashdotted to death

2005-02-12 Thread William
well it looks like my silly little linode server got buried in the slashdotting.. moin isnt exactly resource friendly. if any one has space/bandwidth to properly host the wiki i would really like to move it.. it's grown a bit beyond small time hosting. please contact me or david

RE: [mythtv-users] Broadcast flag lunacy

2005-02-11 Thread William
The problem is that the regs stop people from doing things officially. For example, if a nameless PVR package were to go in and hack the firmware on a card to disable the broadcast flag logic, it would mean that people in the USA would be unlikely to include it in their distros, and

[mythtv-users] Can you get ota hd content over standard cable?

2005-02-10 Thread William
I have time-warner cable here and was wondering if I could receive over the air hd content thru my cable connection without adding something like a cable box? There is no way I can get anything with an antenna here. If I need a cable box what is my chance of being able to record hd content from

RE: [mythtv-users] MythTV won't call change channel script

2005-02-09 Thread William
I have it set up to use the 'Sky' button, which makes it be 'on' nomatter the previous state. Hopefully with 0.17 I'll be able to have the thing get turned off (with the 'power' button) as well after recordings as well (with a bit of timer/safety checking). Prob. with leaving

RE: [mythtv-users] Upgrade from FC1 to FC2 or FC3?

2005-02-06 Thread William
Since some repositories for FC1 are no longer available I guess its time to upgrade to either FC2 or FC3. Is there any reason not to go to FC3? It seems to have settled down a bit at this point. This is an x86 box with two (older) PVR-250's and an nVidia card. I am planning the same

RE: [mythtv-users] Internal IR Receiver

2005-02-04 Thread William
OTOH is there anywhere recommended that would deliver to Florida[1] for reasonable prices? Here in the usa the place to get parts is DigiKey (www.digikey.com). They do not have a minimum order although they will charge a $5 fee for orders under $25. They have a huge selection of parts. I

RE: [mythtv-users] ir recieving with a pvr 250

2005-02-04 Thread William
I want to connect my mythbox with a pvr 250 to my directv box with a serial cable; so I would not need a IR blaster, right? That will only work if your reciver has a serial port. Most do not have the connection. Some are only useful for controlling devices. Read the archives for more on how

RE: [mythtv-users] sony.pl all of a sudden doesnt work

2005-02-03 Thread William
and I get this, from commandline, verbose on: [EMAIL PROTECTED] lirc]# /usr/local/bin/sony.pl 938 SEND: 0xFA [?] 0x2 [] RECV: 0xF0[START PKT] 0xF5[ERR 2] lirc thinks its changing channels with the remote. what is this error? mythbackend.log gets the same info as above. I went

[mythtv-users] MPlayer: Any way to set 4:3 zoom mode?

2005-02-02 Thread William
Is there any way to configure mplayer to play my dvd's in 4:3 zoom? I have the monitor-aspect set to 16:9 which is correct for my tv. Standard tv appears to be pillered as you would expect. What I have not been able to figure out is how to make it go into 4:3 zoom when playing letterboxed

RE: [mythtv-users] New MythTV System help

2005-02-01 Thread William
Thanks, Looks like I'll have to look into another path to take. :-(( Richard Look at the OS issue this way. Start out by trying knopixMyth and if it doesnt play give the system config howto maintained by Jarod a try and then back to your existing distro. You will gain a lot of good

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: No sound after apt-get upgrade

2005-01-29 Thread William Lott
about that. But you'll need that alias thing once you get your other problems figured out. Good luck. -William ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

RE: [mythtv-users] OT: SBC DSL -- pair gains - 19,903 ft.

2005-01-28 Thread William
So has anyone had any luck getting DSL under similar conditions? I have a similar situation. I am about 800 feet past the limit. I have a clear pair and a buddy who works for the phone company. He tested my pair and was unable to get a good connection. His comment was that the adaptive

RE: [mythtv-users] How do I now cut out commercials?

2005-01-26 Thread William
I've always been recording (bttv/mpeg4) with the settings that were used for transcoding. Since MythTranscode's destroying the transcoded files I am looking for a way to just remove unwanted parts of a recording (like commercials, the parts bevore and after the recorded show). Is there

RE: [mythtv-users] Sound from DVD and Transcoded Recordings Doesn'tWork

2005-01-26 Thread William
Arg!!! I'm backwards today...let me try again... The PVR-350 is a LINE-IN...not a LINE-OUT. So I thought if I fed the line-out of the Audigy card into the line-in of the PVR it would work. But it does not seem to. So that's where I am now... Maybe if I didn't stay up so late

RE: [mythtv-users] MPEG2-MPEG2 cut spinning

2005-01-24 Thread William
Versions I have: Avidemux 2, v 2.0.34 transcode v0.6.14 lvemux-040322 xorg-x11-Xvfb-6.7.0-11 Help me please . I want to start archiving to DVD! Cheers Steve I had to revert back to my old version of avidemux2 because the recent ones seem to be broken for our purposes. There

RE: [mythtv-users] Archiving TV shows to DVD

2005-01-24 Thread William
My problem is even easier...I dont want to cut commercials...just burn straight to dvd from the .nuv files. I have a pvr-250. Here is the script I use to burn a single recorded show (movie) to dvd. I also use a pvr-250 for capture. Because I display on a HDTV monitor I run quite high

RE: [mythtv-users] how to enable mysql networking in FC1

2005-01-23 Thread William
I am trying to access my mythconverg database from network and I added the priviledges for networked mythtv user. I also checked my /etc/my.cnf (only mysql config file that I found) and there was no skip-networking settings. Still there is nobody using port 3306 that should be for

RE: [mythtv-users] Bobdeint is only for playback?

2005-01-22 Thread William
AFAIF deinterlacing is only done to the screen. The file is not altered so your file is stored interlaced. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Henk Poley Sent: Saturday, January 22, 2005 5:28 AM To: mythtv-users@mythtv.org Subject:

RE: [mythtv-users] Letterbox picture dimensions in MythTV

2005-01-20 Thread William
When watching MythTV recordings the picture is often in letterbox mode. It seems to depend on the program. When I just used to watch ordinary telly or VCR recordings on the same TV set it always filled the whole screen. Is this desirable behaviour? If it's bad how should I change this?

[mythtv-users] problems w/ recent CVS MythTV

2005-01-16 Thread William Lott
. This hardware had been running Myth since July and these problems only showed up recently. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, -William ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

[mythtv-users] problems w/ recent CVS MythTV

2005-01-16 Thread William Lott
. This hardware had been running Myth since July and these problems only showed up recently. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, -William ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

RE: [mythtv-users] apt-get install not working for nvidia drivers?

2005-01-16 Thread William
This may be a work-around for your problem. Install synaptic on your system and then you can visually see what modules are available for your system and you can then install the kernel modules for the latest in the system. Mythers, I'm trying to set up my first MythTV system, based on FC3,

RE: [mythtv-users] Automatic mythtranscode

2005-01-16 Thread William
I want to automatically run mythtranscode when a recording completes, and then remove the original nuv file. I understand that mythtv can to this but google won't tell me how. I believe the steps go something like this: Go to your tv recording profiles screen and select transcoding

RE: [mythtv-users] Recovering a moved program.

2005-01-12 Thread William
I've got MythTv working and my wife (and I) are very happy with it. However, I ran out of disk space so I started to move some of the .nuv files to another drive that had space. Now I've cleared up some space on the first drive and I'd like to move the files back from the second

[mythtv-users] Tearing and the mythical VBlank ioctl

2005-01-12 Thread William Uther
either DRMVideoSync or nVidiaVideoSync to work? If so, what chipset and driver combination did you use? Frustrated, Will :-} -- Dr William UtherNational ICT Australia Phone: +61 2 9385 6357 School of Computer Science and Engineering Email: [EMAIL

RE: [mythtv-users] IPCop and MythWeather

2005-01-11 Thread William
DG really sucks. Get rid of it. It blocked more useful sites than it did bad ones. My plain IPcop works just fine with mythtv. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jon Reynolds Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2005 6:37 PM To: Discussion about

RE: [mythtv-users] How long does it take to compile Mythtv on a xbox?

2005-01-10 Thread William
: Re: [mythtv-users] How long does it take to compile Mythtv on a xbox? On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 15:00:28 +, Jonathan Stoneman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: William wrote: How long does it take to compile Mythtv on a stock GentooX xbox? Its been about 16 hours so far and it does not seem

RE: [mythtv-users] plugin issue

2005-01-09 Thread William
You will have to uninstall the stuff you put into /usr/local/bin and recompile into /usr/bin. The paths are all set for your code to live in /usr/bin. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of dave sailer Sent: Saturday, January 08, 2005 10:31

RE: [mythtv-users] Directv-phone jack vs home control

2005-01-07 Thread William
I'm trying to figure out exactly what I need to set up mythtv with directv. I understand I can use a low speed data port on the directv box to change channels. However, on the following page, http://www.dtvcontrol.com/page.aspx? content=cable, I see a picture of a directv box with a home

[mythtv-users] Re: Tearing in playback

2005-01-07 Thread William Uther
then got a known sync signal at any point in the image display it could use that to find the blacking period. Do you know at what point in the frame the sync signal is sent and how myth gets it? Thanks for your help, Will :-} -- Dr William UtherNational ICT

Re: [mythtv-users] Using a DVICO FusionHDTV DVB-T Plus with MythTV

2005-01-07 Thread William Uther
that kernel with no problems. (well, none related to that card :). I still had to add the USB patches for the remote. Cheers, Will :-} -- Dr William UtherNational ICT Australia Phone: +61 2 9385 6357 School of Computer Science and Engineering Email

RE: [mythtv-users] Front end hardware?

2005-01-06 Thread William
My first install was this week. Bought the xbox on Monday. Running Myth by Wednesday. Including all downloads,installs and time to make a usb cable adapter for the xbox. Just slightly harder then a Standard install. One note, Gentoox Home version had almost all of the requirements

[mythtv-users] Re: Tearing in playback

2005-01-06 Thread William Uther
denied - I'm running my front end as root. I've got things to look at now - Thanks. Be well, Will :-} -- Dr William UtherNational ICT Australia Phone: +61 2 9385 6357 School of Computer Science and Engineering Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [mythtv-users] Has anyone configured a semi-diskless frontend?

2005-01-05 Thread William Lott
is snappy, but the me6000 takes forever to respond to anything. Also, I'd love to see Mythphone on this machine. Do you have any experience with Mythphone ? Sorry, haven't tried it. -William Lott ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http

[mythtv-users] Tearing in playback

2005-01-05 Thread William Uther
be syncing the frame update to occur during the vertical refresh, right? Does anyone know how this is supposed to happen, and how I figure out why it isn't happening? Thanks, Will :-} -- Dr William UtherNational ICT Australia Phone: +61 2 9385 6357 School

[mythtv-users] Re: New Australian XMLTV grabber

2004-12-30 Thread William Uther
doesn't get confused if I just swap the new tv_grab_au in. Thanks for any help, Will :-} P.S. What happened in the discussions with the OzTivo people about guide information? Where are those discussions going on - I couldn't find them. -- Dr William Uther

RE: [mythtv-users] any video cards with component out?

2004-12-28 Thread William
This may not be what you are looking for but if you buy an xbox and its component adaptor you will get a hdtv frontend for about $200-$250 depending on modchip. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of sean darcy Sent: Tuesday, December 28,

RE: [mythtv-users] Cursor disappears when overtop of mythfrontend

2004-12-24 Thread William
I run mythfrontend and the program works fine, except the cursor (pointer arrow) disappears whenever it's on the gray background of the window. The keyboard works fine, the cursor reappears when it's over the window border at the top. No other program windows do this. Anyone know how

RE: [mythtv-users] OT: Best modchip for xbox to be used for mythtv?

2004-12-23 Thread William
I just got a xbox and I would like to convert this to mythtv use. Its a very new bios, 1.6 or newer so the mechinstaller hack wont work like it did on my old xbox (toasted by a glass of pop). It appears that I need to buy a modchip for the beast. I would like to keep the ability to use

[mythtv-users] OT: Best modchip for xbox to be used for mythtv?

2004-12-22 Thread William
This is only slightly off topic and has probably been covered before but I would like up-to-date feedback on this one. I just got a xbox and I would like to convert this to mythtv use. Its a very new bios, 1.6 or newer so the mechinstaller hack wont work like it did on my old xbox (toasted by a

RE: [mythtv-users] OT: Best modchip for xbox to be used for mythtv?

2004-12-22 Thread William
Not necessary. http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/95695#95695 --David ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users Yup, he's right.

RE: [mythtv-users] Re: atrpms-package-config vsmedley-package-config(was: Fresh FC1 and Myth 0.16 installobservations/questions)

2004-12-20 Thread William
I feel like I have gone through all of the necessary trouble shooting steps to resolve install problems for mythtv, but I am really not having any luck at all. I even ran the script to rebuild the database as listed in Jarod's FC3 install guide. It was not this hard last time I tried to

RE: [mythtv-users] MythTV noob

2004-12-20 Thread William
But that prompts another question - how I do split the cable coax connection between two tuner cards - is that another rf splitter, which is not a term that I understand but my borther will? I feel as though I have not read about any of these issues on the documentation pages, which

RE: [mythtv-users] MythTV noob

2004-12-19 Thread William
My newby question is therefore whether if I plug the coax cable connection into a P350 (the solution I will likely be taking), does it pass a clean feed through to the TV. If not, what sort of wiring tricks do I need to do to make sure that my TV tuner is not shunted into

RE: [mythtv-users] Re: atrpms-package-config vs medley-package-config(was: Fresh FC1 and Myth 0.16 install observations/questions)

2004-12-19 Thread William
I saw this posting and thought it might help me fix the fact that I do not have a kde line in my sources.list file. However, I am too much of a newb to know 1. If this is my solution. 2. If it is the required solution, what actions I need to take to get the expanded sources.list file.

RE: [mythtv-users] FC1 problem at install mythtv Step

2004-12-18 Thread William
I have been going through Jarod's guide and got stuck at the install mythtv step. I saw the BIG, FAT, IF YOU MISS IT, I WILL SCOLD YOU, WARNING[1] ... kde-redhat.atrpms.net entries in /etc/apt/sources.list (simply place a # in front of all kde-redhat lines)... I looked in my

RE: [mythtv-users] Adding extra recorder disk space for Christmas !

2004-12-17 Thread William
Sorry, the system is Linux Fedora2 using ext3 file system. I didn't think that the overlay file system was supported yet with the linux 2.6 kernels ? If it is where can I get it ? My first disk is 200G and the second disk is 200G. The first is full with recordings (although a lot will

RE: [mythtv-users] MythTV noob

2004-12-17 Thread William
Hello All, I'm in the process of reading the documentation and getting a MythTV setup. I'm getting ready to purchase my hardware and I have a few questions to make sure I understand the documentation. I'm thinking about getting two Hauppauge PVR-250 capture cards so that I can record

[mythtv-users] [OT] how do you defragment a xfs formatted LVM?

2004-12-13 Thread William
Sorry for the slightly off topic question but since the LVM is my video partition its sort of mythtv specific :) Should I be performing some type of defragmentation on my LVM? The drive seems to be thrashing around quite a bit more recently and fragmentation comes to mind from my windows

Re: [mythtv-users] displaying widescreen TV on a 4:3 video card

2004-12-12 Thread William Uther
stretch, but that crops the left and right edges of the picture. Thanks in advance, Jason ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users -- Dr William UtherNational ICT

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