Re: [mythtv-users] whats the best graphics card for HD playback?

2006-01-23 Thread sean darcy
On 1/23/06, Jarod Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday 23 January 2006 08:44, William Lewis wrote: > > >The truth is graphics drivers aren't there yet, for any card, for the > > >kind of tasks we might want to do with mythtv, when it comes to HD. > > >Raphael > > > > I couldn't disagree wi

Re: [mythtv-users] whats the best graphics card for HD playback?

2006-01-23 Thread sean darcy
On 1/23/06, Raphael Pooser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > sean darcy wrote: > > On 1/21/06, Michael T. Dean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> Frank Lynch wrote: > >> > >> > >>> On 1/21/06, Chris Ribe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote

Re: [mythtv-users] Intel integrated video sufficient for MythTV HD?

2006-01-23 Thread sean darcy
On 1/23/06, Yeechang Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > sean darcy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> says: > > First up was intel 945g integrated video. Supports hdtv, 1080p and > > mpeg-2 hw decoding. > > But are there HD Myth-capable accelerated drivers for the Intel video >

Re: [mythtv-users] whats the best graphics card for HD playback?

2006-01-22 Thread sean darcy
On 1/22/06, Wim Fokkens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > -Oorspronkelijk bericht- > > Van: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:mythtv-users- > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Namens sean darcy > > Verzonden: zondag 22 januari 2006 20:30 > > Aan: Discussion about myth

Re: [mythtv-users] whats the best graphics card for HD playback?

2006-01-22 Thread sean darcy
On 1/21/06, Michael T. Dean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Frank Lynch wrote: > > >On 1/21/06, Chris Ribe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >>I'm in a similar situation to you, Frank, and I am looking for an answer to > >>the same question. > >> > >>From what I've gathered so far, the NVidia 5200

Re: [mythtv-users] can't download libiec61883...

2005-10-20 Thread sean darcy
On 10/19/05, Tom Lichti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Steve Adeff wrote:>Hey folks, linux1394.org seems to be down, I'm trying to get the tarballz for>libiec61883 (and I'll prbly need libraw1394 if its newer than the one debian >has). If someone could email them to me or send a link to another site I

Re: [mythtv-users] Cable Co. QAM via pcHDTV HD3000 vs. STB and Firewire

2005-04-10 Thread sean darcy
On Apr 9, 2005 12:05 AM, Byron Poland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: .. > In looking for channels, I did the tedious > searching with dvbstream, and spliting up the stream with dtvstream > I'm trying to do the same

[mythtv-users] cvs configure says no dvb - but it build with it

2005-04-09 Thread sean darcy
Building today's cvs, output from configure shows: # Input Support Joystick menuyes lirc support no ivtv support yes FireWire support no DVB support no [/usr/src/linux-2.6.12-rc2/include] # Sound Output Support OSS support yes ALSA support yes aRts support no JACK su

Re: [mythtv-users] HD3000 FC3 Install guide

2005-03-05 Thread sean darcy
> > I did try mythtvsetup after running azap, thinking maybe the firmware > drivers stayed loaded. Maybe they did stay loaded or they didn't, but the > same error message from mythtvsetup - and no log entries. > > I see ffrf has reverted back to the pcHDTV drivers. I may do that, though I > never

Re: [mythtv-users] HD3000 FC3 Install guide

2005-03-05 Thread sean darcy
Original Message Follows From: Eric Gilbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [snip] >> Aha. /etc/hotplug/blacklist didn't work. The kernel inserted the module >> before udev. But I mv cx88_blackbird and cx8800 out of /lib/modules. dmesg >> now gives: >> >> Linux video capture interface: v1.00 >> cx2

Re: [mythtv-users] mythfrontend can't connect to database

2005-03-05 Thread sean darcy
I have the same issues. I'm not sure how to troublesolve them either and I posted it to the list as well with no responce. I too am running CVS from a few days ago. There's a thread on the mythtv-dev list on this. They're working on it. There's at least one patch. I don't think it's been commit

Re: [mythtv-users] HD3000 FC3 Install guide

2005-03-04 Thread sean darcy
I need a brilliant idea. ... ls -l /dev/dvb drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 200 Mar 3 14:06 adapter0 Looks like initially still a permissions issue. My guess would be that since the adapter directories are owned by the root group, if you chown -R root:video /dev/dvb it would solve your issue. Go

Re: [mythtv-users] HD3000 FC3 Install guide

2005-03-03 Thread sean darcy
Now let's see if I can get the rest to work! Well, I couldn't. I start mythtvsetup, clear capture cards and clear channels. Capture Cards. I select Digital Video Broadcast card (DVB). For DVB Card Number 0 I get: Could not get card info for card #0! For all other numbers I get Could not open car

Re: [mythtv-users] HD3000 FC3 Install guide

2005-03-03 Thread sean darcy
All worked well until the very end - installing the v4l drivers: . + /sbin/ldconfig + /sbin/depmod -aq + /sbin/modprobe cx88-dvb FATAL: Error inserting cx88_dvb (/lib/modules/2.6.11/kernel/drivers/media/video/cx88/cx88-dvb.ko): >Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (se

Re: [mythtv-users] HD3000 FC3 Install guide

2005-03-02 Thread sean darcy
Original Message Follows ffrf wrote: >Thought I'd post a step-by-step install guide I put together to get >the >HD3000 working with MythTV 0.17. It installs the DVB drivers and >works >very well (thanks to the V4l commits made in the past week)! > >Hopefully someone will find the guide us

[mythtv-users] can this list go on gmane?

2005-03-02 Thread sean darcy
I find this list - busy as it is - difficult to keep up with. Would it be possible for the powers-that-be to put this list on gmane? Or is it already on some gmane-like newsgroup? sean ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://myt

Re: [mythtv-users] mythfrontend can't connect to database

2005-03-01 Thread sean darcy
Original Message Follows From: Kevin Saenz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: Kevin Saenz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: sean darcy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] mythfrontend can't connect to database Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2005 09:38:01 +1100 what is the logged er

[mythtv-users] Really simple - how do I get to program guide?

2005-02-28 Thread sean darcy
Using 0.17. Followed the guides in setting it up. mythbackend seems to work. mythfilldatabase exited without an error. mythsetup shows the channels I chose on zapit. But when I run mythfrontend -> Watch TV all I get is a black screen. I was expecting the EPG. mythbackend.log asks "Signal le

Re: [mythtv-users] mythfrontend can't connect to database

2005-02-28 Thread sean darcy
>From: Kevin Saenz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: Kevin Saenz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,Discussion about mythtv >To: Discussion about mythtv >Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] mythfrontend can't connect to database >Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2005 07:58:30 +1100 > >i

RE: [mythtv-users] Need recommendation for upgradeable system

2005-02-27 Thread sean darcy
>I am in the USA and planning on building a Gentoo MythTV system. >Currently I have the standard Direct TV with no HD since I don't have >a HD tv yet. I am working on putting together an Intel 3.0ghz/512meg >system to plug into my entertainment system. I am thinking of using a >HD-3000 card for

[mythtv-users] now I get just a blank screen!

2005-02-27 Thread sean darcy
Muddling my way through setting up mythtv on fc3. mythfrontend -> watch tv just gives a blackscreen. Even shortcut keys from keys.txt have no effect. top shows lots of cpu cycles. I'd appeciate any suggestions on troubleshooting. But the console and the log don't show a problem: [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: [mythtv-users] where does mysql.txt go?

2005-02-27 Thread sean darcy
>From: Jarod Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: Discussion about mythtv <mythtv-users@mythtv.org> >To: Discussion about mythtv <mythtv-users@mythtv.org> >Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] where does mysql.txt go? >Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 10:53:35 -0800 > >On Su

[mythtv-users] mythfrontend can't connect to database

2005-02-27 Thread sean darcy
in mythfrontend Setup->General the first screen says myth can't connect to the database. I filled in: Host 127.0.0.1 Database mythconverg User mythtv Password mythtv and Database Type was set as MySQL. I think these are correct: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ mysql -umythtv -pmythtv mythconverg Readin

[mythtv-users] where does mysql.txt go?

2005-02-27 Thread sean darcy
I've used atrpms to install. mysql.txt appears twice: locate mysql.txt /.mythtv/mysql.txt /home/mythtv/.mythtv/mysql.txt .mythtv under the root directory look fishy. Is this where it should be? Also the root file has: cat mysql.txt DBHostName=localhost DBUserName=mythtv DBPassword=mythtv DBName=m

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

2004-12-28 Thread sean darcy
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. I see that xbox has a component adapter. But how does the rest of this work? I have another machine that has the hd3000, and then what..

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

2004-12-28 Thread sean darcy
I've got an hd3000 which I want to use to drive a 47" panasonic rptv. The rptv can do 1080i, but only has component input. I'm getting an athlon-xp 3000, 512mb, and an FX5200 ( which I gather is the card of choice around here, right?). I'll need a vga -> component converter. Looking at Audio Au

[mythtv-users] how do I get component-out?

2004-12-22 Thread sean darcy
I just got my pcHDTV 3000. I'm posting here because the pcHDTV web site is down. My first objective is to use the card as a receiver for over-the-air hdtv broadcasts and play it on a panasonic 47" hdtv. My first question is what do I need to get component video - which is what the tv needs for