Re: [mythtv-users] XBox questions

2005-07-08 Thread nate s
Actually, by now there's game save hacks that will work with even the latest (v1.6) xboxes. search for ltools and uxe. -Nate On 7/7/05, A JM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can use '007' as well for the game hack. AJM, On 7/7/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Jul 07,

Re: [mythtv-users] modules.conf vs modprobe.conf

2005-01-02 Thread nate s
What about the distros that can use either, such as gentoo? Gentoo uses modules.conf; is modprobe.conf not compatiable with a 2.4 kernel, while modules.conf is with a 2.6? The files look so similar that I doubt it would matter very much either way. If indeed both kernels would work with both,

Re: [mythtv-users] DVD playing through MythTV - first chapter only

2005-01-02 Thread nate s
Indeed, using xine would be the easiest solution. If you have some reason to stick with mplayer, take a look at man mplayer, as there is a way to pass it chapters on the commandline (still not usefull for within myth.) Taking the bigest chapter would not help on multi-feature disks (commonly a

Re: [mythtv-users] Slightly OT: Recommendation for USB to Serial convertor

2005-01-02 Thread nate s
I don't believe you can use a USB-Serial converter with LIRC (I'm in the same boat as you.) From what I can tell, LIRC has a seperate driver that replaces the kernel driver for the port it runs on and that driver, AFAICT doesn't support usb adapters. Now the question I have is if this is true

Re: [mythtv-users] slow satelite guide, no irblaster yet

2004-12-29 Thread nate s
You might check if your STB has a serial port (that may look like a small phone jack,) as if so it is much easier than using an IR blaster (AFAIK, most directv recievers have them.) -Nate On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 15:33:20 -0800, Asher Schaffer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 17:35:12

Re: [mythtv-users] Nvidia DVI vs ATI

2004-12-27 Thread nate s
give it a try, but I don't yet have a device with a dvi connection. -Nate On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 01:05:07 -0800, Brad Templeton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 07:13:17PM -0500, Jay R. Ashworth wrote: On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 12:32:19PM -0800, nate s wrote: But yes, I would like

Re: [mythtv-users] possible frontend hardware?

2004-12-27 Thread nate s
less than $150, that's what they cost new now. You can get them used at a game store for like $120 or $130, ebay should be less, but often isn't. -Nate On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 12:20:32 -0500, Dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 23:34:46 -0800, Brad Templeton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: [mythtv-users] Nvidia DVI vs ATI

2004-12-23 Thread nate s
But yes, I would like to see DVI working from linux. I mean I have seen it (With a Radeon 9200se) but the drivers can't go more than 1600 wide for xvideo as of now, and the proprietary drivers are limited to older kernels than I have, or so they say.. I haven't heard anything about ati's

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: better pvr card

2004-12-23 Thread nate s
The 150 uses the newer connexiant cx88 chip rather than the older phillips one for analog capture (not encoding -- that's a different chip) which is supposted to be better (10 bit color, and rumors of higher resolutions) -Nate On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 00:54:50 -0600, Neil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: [mythtv-users] low-temperature hard drives

2004-12-23 Thread nate s
Sorry if you already know this, but I just thought I'd mention that if you're frequently having hard drives fail for non-heat related reasons, I'd look at your power supply. Even if it has enough watts to power the drive(s), often lower quality PSUs have much noise on the line, and this could

Re: [mythtv-users] nVidia Personal Cinema

2004-12-23 Thread nate s
I believe you mean de-coding I'm not familar with the nvidia personal cinema. Is it a capture card? On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 09:43:03 -0800, DustyMugs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I don't believe that the MX440 versions do hardware encoding of any sort. That was the primary reason i didn't

Re: [mythtv-users] Several tuners, livetv only on some?

2004-12-17 Thread nate s
You could give the bttv card a higher priority than the pvrs so as to make sure that there is a pvr free for livetv, but I don't see how that would help, as you're still encoding and decoding at the same time, and unless you have a hardware decoder for the mpeg2 (like a 350,) I believe that mpeg4

Re: [mythtv-users] mythbackend without X

2004-12-17 Thread nate s
I *think* so... So long as you have mysql... I know it doesn't need X, but I don't know if it needs QT or not... -Nate On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 18:35:00 +0100, Michael Messner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey mythTV users, I like to make my fileserver also to the backend server for mythTV, the

Re: [mythtv-users] Slightly OT - XLiveCD and Myth on a Windows Machine

2004-12-17 Thread nate s
Alternatively, it's not very hard to roll your own livecds with the configuration for a specific machine, if it's just one box you're making it for. I wonder how myth would work over VNC... I'd bet it would require gigabit net or better, unless you could set the resolution of the VNC session at

Re: [mythtv-users] Getting rid of the console framebuffer in FC 3?

2004-12-17 Thread nate s
Disabling the console framebuffer is a simple matter. All it takes is a boot paramater passed to the kernel. Depending on which implimentation of framebuffer your kernel uses, you'll need to pass it either video=vga (for vesafb-tng) or vga=0x### (for vesafb-rrc, where ### is a vga mode) Look

Re: [mythtv-users] mythbackend without X

2004-12-17 Thread nate s
In that case, can you run qt without X? On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 15:43:26 -0600, Kevin Kuphal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael Messner wrote: Hey mythTV users, I like to make my fileserver also to the backend server for mythTV, the fileserver is running with trustix (www.trustix.org) without

Re: [mythtv-users] Should I wait for the PVR 150

2004-12-17 Thread nate s
It's using the cx88 chip, correct? AFAIK, it is a ten bit capture chip rather than an 8 bit. Now, I don't know exactly how much of a difference that should make, but if it's anything like audio it should be noticable. I hadn't heard that it could capture higher resolutions. Do you perhaps have

Re: [mythtv-users] Start Mythfrontend if not running?

2004-12-17 Thread nate s
You can pretty much add however scripting magic you want to , for whatever your needs (logging, for example,) but basically, what you need is something like while true do mythfrontend done You'll have to either alt-tab to the term you ran that in and do ^C or kill it to exit mythfrontend. -Nate

Re: [mythtv-users] unable to play MPEG recordings

2004-12-17 Thread nate s
I thought that AMD's MMX was 3dnow? Mplayer also has a 3dnow flag... On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 10:56:01 -0400, Joseph A. Caputo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 26 October 2004 08:50, Paul Andreassen wrote: On Tue, 2004-10-26 at 01:25, Joseph A. Caputo wrote: On Sunday 24 October 2004 12:30,

Re: [mythtv-users] OT: Dual Channel DDR

2004-12-17 Thread nate s
I think Kevin's refering to the fact that unless you're buying at least 1G, it's cheaper to get one stick of a given capacity than two of half. From what I've heard, it's not really worth it. -Nate On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 15:39:48 -0800, Brad Templeton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Dec 17,

Re: [mythtv-users] Extending the change channel callout program?

2004-12-14 Thread nate s
If you have a use in mind you might go for it, otherwise, I don't see any need for it. If you change with up/down, you might be going through channels you don't get, and I don't see any advantage over switching by number anyways. -Nate On Sun, 12 Dec 2004 19:49:05 -0500, Mike Frisch [EMAIL

Re: [mythtv-users] changing channels on Directv D10 receiver

2004-12-14 Thread nate s
-12-10 at 18:38, Kayne wrote: On Fri, 2004-12-10 at 14:56, nate s wrote: Or, if you search the archive, I recently posted a C program that I've had better luck with than the RCA.pl script. You might give that a try. never mind, found it. http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists

Re: [mythtv-users] Hard Drives that Actually Work?

2004-12-14 Thread nate s
Another vote for seagate. I have a 200G 7200.7 (PATA version) that's been running great for a while now. It is almost silent, very fast compared to the 60G maxtor that I had before it, and barely even gets warm to the touch. On a side note, I've been looking into getting another of the exact

Re: [mythtv-users] changing channels on Directv D10 receiver

2004-12-10 Thread nate s
Or, if you search the archive, I recently posted a C program that I've had better luck with than the RCA.pl script. You might give that a try. -Nate On Fri, 10 Dec 2004 11:19:56 -0800, Jim Gifford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kayne wrote: On Fri, 2004-12-10 at 10:07, Jim Gifford wrote:

Re: [mythtv-users] Frontend delete problems

2004-12-10 Thread nate s
Is this with or without sharing the files over nfs? On Fri, 10 Dec 2004 19:18:09 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quite often, when I try to delete a recording from the frontend, the frontend loses communication with the backend. I usually have to restart both the backend

Re: [mythtv-users] 2.4 or 2.6 kernel?

2004-12-09 Thread nate s
I never had a problem with bttv and 2.6. ~40% useage on almost the same hardware as yours for one stream. Perhaps it's specific to your capture card, or bttv version? -Nate On Thu, 09 Dec 2004 07:53:31 +0100, Christian Traber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here on my box, 2.6 needs much more cpu

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: New MythTV Hardware Review

2004-12-09 Thread nate s
Nah, here in the US we are far too arrogant to adopt other countries standards :) I thought that QAM was only good over cable. I didn't know it could work OTA as well. -Nate On Fri, 10 Dec 2004 00:08:58 +1100, Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Dec 05, 2004 at 11:54:42PM -0800,

Re: [mythtv-users] Recommendation: Hardware MPEG2 Decoder w/ DVI?

2004-12-08 Thread nate s
Also note that some of the nvidia cards had external DVI chips, which, while not as good as ATI's, were still able to do the full 162mhz. -Nate On Tue, 7 Dec 2004 23:28:52 -0800, Brad Templeton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 03:41:30PM -0800, Joe Barnhart wrote: The nVidia

Re: [mythtv-users] lirc rebooting woes

2004-12-08 Thread nate s
I'd just put the commands in some script that runs on boot, such as gentoo's /etc/conf.d/local.start. -Nate On Wed, 8 Dec 2004 03:34:13 -0900, Jon Reynolds [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting nate s [EMAIL PROTECTED]: try modprobing it again. Even though it's already loaded

Re: [mythtv-users] 2.4 or 2.6 kernel?

2004-12-08 Thread nate s
I'm running 2.6.9-nitro4 just fine (though I am unable to get lirc to work with that or any kernel, so I can't comment on that.) I think the general consensus is that 2.6 is faster than 2.4 in terms of desktop performance. -Nate On Wed, 8 Dec 2004 16:02:48 -0500, Nathan Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [mythtv-users] Recommendation: Hardware MPEG2 Decoder w/ DVI?

2004-12-07 Thread nate s
I think most recent Nvidia cards will do this, if you can get XvMC to work with them. -Nate On Tue, 07 Dec 2004 11:03:52 -0500, Mark L. Cukier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Everyone: Sorry for repeating this request, but I thought I'd make a seperate thread to maybe lure some people in who

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Problem with wife-friendly feature (starting an X appl from a virtual console)

2004-12-07 Thread nate s
I think this might open up security holes if you're not behind a firewall. You might try the solution I posted on the other thread; I think it's for this kind of thing (this msg didn't thread right) -Nate On Tue, 7 Dec 2004 09:51:55 -0600, Don Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Problem is that I

Re: [mythtv-users] DVD Ripping ?

2004-12-07 Thread nate s
The op said he wanted it in one file... Would it work to just do dd if=/dev/dvd of=outfile.iso? I have done this many times with CDs and it works well. It makes an iso file that can be mounted with the loopback, or just played directly. I don't know how it would work with a UDF dvd. -Nate

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: nuvexport and file too big

2004-12-07 Thread nate s
I've heard of problems with transfering files over 2 gb via ssh, but are you implying it poses a 2 gb limit on STDIO? Or on the filesize you can write? That does seem like insanity. If indeed that is the problem, you might google around for it; I remember there were workarounds. -Nate On

Re: [mythtv-users] New MythTV Hardware Review

2004-12-05 Thread nate s
This topic has already been beaten to death, so I'll make it brief. I think that, really, no one knows for sure how it is going to work, as the law is very vague in that regard. Even some lawyers seem confused. Suffice it to say, it'd be much safer to buy one before June. At the very least,

Re: [mythtv-users] ATC-620 Antec Phantom 350 fan less Power Supply

2004-12-05 Thread nate s
From my expierence, as well as what I've read, antec is one of the best, (if not the best, though I haven't tried all of 'em,) power supply manufacturers. I have a True380 in this box right now. Rock solid, stable voltages. For a couple good power supply reviews, look here:

Re: Dish channel changing Re: [mythtv-users] Feature Suggestions(Tivo)

2004-12-05 Thread nate s
stand this i can make a howto or something ( i just have to find my dirgram of how i did this i build my deal like 2 years about, it just sits tucked in it's little corner ) -travis From: nate s [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: nate s [EMAIL PROTECTED],Discussion about mythtv [EMAIL

Re: [mythtv-users] [OT] Recommended Motherboard/Chipset

2004-12-04 Thread nate s
What Gigabyte mobo exactly? I remember there was this one around the 2100 era that had serious voltage regulation problems. If not that, I'd look next at your power supply. You'd be amazed how much a bad power supply can cause instability. (and, for the record, both taiwan and the US make both

Re: Dish channel changing Re: [mythtv-users] Feature Suggestions (Tivo)

2004-12-04 Thread nate s
I've been wondering how exactly something like that would be done for some time. Not for the same reason; I was wondering if there might be some way to control a device, such as a AV switchbox, that does not have a remote, with relays, but I never really looked in to it. I'm curious to know how

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: ivtv site down... please help!

2004-12-04 Thread nate s
Lol, that was the problem? I noticed as well, though in my case, google's cache provided all I needed. -Nate On Sat, 4 Dec 2004 18:43:52 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The IVTV Dev mailing list is now on gossamer... http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/ivtv/devel/

Re: [mythtv-users] CVS: edit/cutlist problems

2004-12-02 Thread nate s
: This is fixed in the latest CVS. Thanks David Engel! On Wed, 1 Dec 2004, nate s wrote: PVR 250 recordings, gentoo system w/ kernel-2.6.9-nitro4 and ivtv-0.1.10-ck100z, and cvs as of nov 20ish (is there a way to tell?) On Wed, 1 Dec 2004 20:29:01 +, Simon Kenyon [EMAIL

Re: [mythtv-users] CVS: edit/cutlist problems

2004-12-01 Thread nate s
I can confirm that I've noticed the same problem. In my case, when I try to jump back one frame, it instead goes foward 2 frames. I can work around by jumping back 1/2 sec, then going foward. Also, jumping back to the last cutpoint doesn't work either, though, again, foward works fine (and it

Re: [mythtv-users] RGB Output?

2004-12-01 Thread nate s
You can get at the RGB signal of most any video card through the VGA connector. In fact, I believe you can even get pre-made VGA to SCART-RGB adapters. As far as for providing low line rate and interlaced output, I believe that most any card can do that if you can find the right modeline. -Nate

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: widespread reports of (sort of) the same failures

2004-11-30 Thread nate s
I'd just like to mention that I've been using the ~x86 branch of gentoo with no problems, son it's not necessairly a gentoo, ~x86 thing. -Nate On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 21:59:03 -0700, Dean Vanden Heuvel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I also am using Gentoo, and have tried (as I said above) may MANY