Re: [mythtv-users] Methods for perfecting NVidia TV Output (was 350 Tv Out vs. Nvidia 5200)

2005-08-26 Thread Stephen Williams
On 8/26/05, Craig Tinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi there > > I'm in the UK too - with a sony skybox and a mx440 going to an *old* > Sanyo widescreen CRT TV (which I *wish* I could figure out how to get a > proper modeline to work with that TV!) > > Can you buy convertors like you describe?

Re: [mythtv-users] Methods for perfecting NVidia TV Output (was 350 Tv Out vs. Nvidia 5200)

2005-08-26 Thread Stephen Williams
On 8/26/05, Justin Hornsby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So does this trick work with newer nvidia cards (and drivers of course) > or is it just older ones? I've read that some recent nvidia drivers > didn't output interlaced signals properly (if at all). > > And - most of all - will it work with

Re: [mythtv-users] Methods for perfecting NVidia TV Output (was 350 Tv Out vs. Nvidia 5200)

2005-08-26 Thread Stephen Williams
On 8/26/05, Mark J. Small <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On August 26, 2005 06:18 am, Louie Ilievski wrote: > > This sounds like a really good idea to me. My big question: > > If I have an interlaced signal recorded, why would I want to de-interlace to > send it my TV? Wouldn't an interlaced signa

Re: [mythtv-users] Methods for perfecting NVidia TV Output (was 350 Tv Out vs. Nvidia 5200)

2005-08-26 Thread Stephen Williams
If your TV has a SCART socket then i'd highly recommend soldering up your own VGA to SCART convertor. Then you can use an interlaced modeline to output a legal PAL/NTSC signal from vid card (i'm using an Nvidia MX440). The output quality is as good as you'll get short of going to DVI (which my TV

Re: [mythtv-users] NOVA-T Hauppauge testing to see if my card is working

2005-08-23 Thread Stephen Kitchener
On Tuesday 23 Aug 2005 09:18, Julian Edwards wrote: Hi Julian, > On Mon, August 22, 2005 23:45, Stephen Kitchener said: > > I did this - no change at all :-( > > > > I get the same messages in dmesg > > The only other thing that I can suggest is that you get hold of

Re: [mythtv-users] Zap2it question.

2005-08-22 Thread stephen
7th, but I logged in and the survey was ready so I filled it out. It would kinda suck with no listings ... Stephen ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

[mythtv-users] NOVA-T Hauppauge testing to see if my card is working

2005-08-22 Thread Stephen Kitchener
ED]> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed >Stephen Kitchener wrote: >>modprobe v4l1-compat >>modprobe v4l2-common >>modprobe video-buf >>modprobe dvb-core >>modprobe tda1004x >>modprobe saa7146 >>modprobe saa7146_vv >>mo

Re: [mythtv-users] NOVA-T Hauppauge testing to see if my card is working

2005-08-22 Thread Stephen Kitchener
Couldn't work out how to respond to a digest, so I've changed my settings, and replied this way >Stephen Kitchener wrote: > >>Hi, >> >>I would like to able to see if my card is working before I get into the full >>mythtv install process, so I trie

[mythtv-users] NOVA-T Hauppauge testing to see if my card is working

2005-08-22 Thread Stephen Kitchener
Hi, I would like to able to see if my card is working before I get into the full mythtv install process, so I tried to install the modules as described in various howto's and documents that I have found, but I have not been able to get the frontend installed or get the device entries added to /

[mythtv-users] Just tuning and displaying video

2005-08-20 Thread Stephen Kitchener
Hi List, While I appriciate that this mailing list is dedicated to mythtv, I feel that this is the best place to ask knowlageable people. :-) Anyway, crawling aside, I have a simple question, I have a DVB PCI card in my PC and I would like just to be able to select a channel on it and display a

Re: [mythtv-users] mythmusic issues

2005-08-19 Thread Stephen Cole
Dewey Smolka wrote: I've found that the music module likes to crash to the desktop with a seg fault if mythvideo was playing previoulsy but the machine has been idle for a while. I haven't been able to track down what's wrong, but restarting mythfrontend in the morning is no big deal. It doesn

[mythtv-users] mythmusic issues

2005-08-17 Thread Stephen Cole
to save it to file. Would it not be better to have some config option that said "keep db and files in sync, always save to db and files". thanks, stephen ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

[mythtv-users] compilation artist question

2005-08-13 Thread Stephen Cole
I'm trying to understand compilation artists and either I'm missing the point or it just doesn't work the way I'd like. When playing a song that has a compilation artist I don't see the actual artist on the display. It shows the song title, album and compilation artist, but to see the real ar

Re: [mythtv-users] Using DVI Output

2005-08-12 Thread Stephen Boddy
On Friday 12 August 2005 14:19, Marius Schrecker wrote: > Ooops! Tell me in plain Ingalaish if I should avoid a 64 bit os for MythTV, > I'm busy setting up 64 bit Debian, but will abort if everyone agrees that > 32 bit is still the way to go. There is a 32 bit emulation that seems to > work for som

Re: [mythtv-users] stoooopid question

2005-08-11 Thread Stephen Boddy
On Friday 12 August 2005 00:01, Robin Gilks wrote: > Greetings > > Here's a good Friday morning silly question for you... > > > I'm running a diskless Epia as a frontend and a backend with a crappy > BT848 card. I'm about to put a pvr-150 into the Epia box - does this mean > I'll have to run the ba

Re: [mythtv-users] Using DVI Output

2005-08-11 Thread Stephen Boddy
On Thursday 11 August 2005 03:54, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am also running a 6600 GT over DVI to an HDTV. Do you have any > experience getting Xv or XvMC to work with mythtv in this setup. My DVD > playback looks awesome with xine but I am having problems cleaning up > standard def playback i

Re: [mythtv-users] Using DVI Output

2005-08-10 Thread Stephen Boddy
On Thursday 11 August 2005 01:20, Jesse D. Guardiani wrote: > On Wed, 2005-08-10 at 20:01 -0400, Gerald J. Berg wrote: > > I am considering an nVidia GE Force 5200 AGP video card for my > > > > MythTV front end box. > > > > > > > > There are a few brands that offer s-video, VGA and DVI output ports

Re: [mythtv-users] Nuv file screen size

2005-07-26 Thread Stephen Williams
On 7/26/05, Brad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When I view a recorded show I have to change view to zoom 16:9. This > way it fills the whole TV screen without stretching or distortion. > When I transfer this .nuv file onto my windows box and burn to DVD the > picture has a black border around it , m

[mythtv-users] Force Xv output in mythfrontend?

2005-07-25 Thread Stephen Tait
I've just set up a new combined front/backend (gentoo, x86 on an AMD 3500 with an nVidia graphics card via display on a CRT monitor), but the frontend seems to default to OpenGL output for video, rather than use Xv as I'd prefer (TTBOMK OGL sync is best suited for TV output, which'll be for the

Re: [mythtv-users] FC3 LIRC IR Problem

2005-07-23 Thread Stephen Roebuck
it done irsend --device=/dev/lircd1 SEND_ONCE $REMOTE_NAME Select ~ Any light you can shed on the problem would be great, I'm really stuck on this final problem Cheers Steve On 7/21/05, Nick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 7/21/05, Stephen Roebuck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:>

[mythtv-users] FC3 LIRC IR Problem

2005-07-21 Thread Stephen Roebuck
Hi,   I'm having problems getting my IR blaster to work, I have followed the very good instructions at http://www.lircsetup.com/lirc/blaster/index.php to setup my mythtv box to control my SKY TV box (Thomson DSI4212).  I'm using FC3 and running mythtv18.1 on a pundit-r using a PVR250 (setup using

Re: [mythtv-users] Aopen XCcube as frontend

2005-07-21 Thread Stephen Williams
On 7/20/05, David Maher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Has anyone out there set up an Aopen XCcube as a myth front end? I am in > the process of doing this with FC4 and would appreciate any tips for the > remote etc. > > Regards > > David I'm also using an nforce2 based xcCube as a combined fronte

Re: [mythtv-users] tv_grab_au, Canberra and associated oddities.

2005-07-07 Thread Stephen Hocking
e tarballs) . Has anyone entered these in by hand and can send me a DB dump? Stephen PS - It's interesting to see that it uses less CPU when displayhing than Xine. The high-def channels seem to use about 40% (with XvMC on an Nvidia 5200 with an Athlon XP 2600+) where Xine would use about

Re: [mythtv-users] Perplexing one - On screens with lots of black playback judder s

2005-07-06 Thread Stephen Williams
On 7/6/05, Barker Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is a weird one, I admit it. I have no idea what it could be. Any > suggestions much welcomed. > > Ok, When I am watching TV be it live or recorded and the scene changes to a > mostly black scene, the video and audio judder. It is only a b

[mythtv-users] tv_grab_au, Canberra and associated oddities.

2005-07-05 Thread Stephen Hocking
info? I can hand edit the channel info in the DB, so that the program updates go in the right place, but compared to the setup I had working over in the US, it is a little frustrating. Stephen ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Program time/length not correct

2005-07-01 Thread Stephen Williams
On 7/1/05, Brad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have just changd to TS recording on my DVB-T VisionPlus card as > sound was dropping out occasionally. HAs fixed the sound issue but now > some channels dont report the correct time of the recording. I am > using knoppmyth R5A12 which i think is .16 I

Re: [mythtv-users] Program time/length not correct

2005-06-30 Thread Stephen Williams
On 6/30/05, Brad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For some reason on 2 free to air channels the whole program records > but the skip ahead time only says 2 minutes or so. I have tried > running the mysql fixes but nothing has changed yet ? Any ideas ? What build are you running? Is this DVB, if so are

Re: [mythtv-users] uc: Singal monitoring - How?

2005-06-28 Thread Stephen Williams
ut with the aerial until you find how to maximise snr whilst minimizing ber (hopefully to zero). Stephen Williams p.s. I know quite a few people at QinetiQ, which site do you work at? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mytht

[mythtv-users] What will be the function fo MythTV

2005-06-21 Thread Stephen Liu
curiosity how can it go through the firewall? If it does then disturbence can be done by some bad guys. If I'm wrong please correct me. TIA B.R. Stephen Liu ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/ma

Re: [mythtv-users] Feature Request: allowable overlap for recordings?

2005-06-16 Thread Stephen Williams
On 6/16/05, Blammo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Maybe it checks every minute, and if a tuner suddenly became > free, it would start recording. > > Thoughts? This seems related to a currently outstanding DVB bug report where recordings fail if the channel is not transmitting when the recording

Re: [mythtv-users] DVB-T card and V4l card, how do I configure it?- SOLUTION

2005-06-10 Thread Stephen Brooks
23:26, Stephen Brooks wrote: > First of all as this is my first submission to the list, thanks to all the > myth developers for a great piece of code! It works a treat.. > > I have got a mythtv box up and running with a DVB-T card running 0.17 > everything is running fine. This is

[mythtv-users] DVB-T card and V4l card, how do I configure it?

2005-06-09 Thread Stephen Brooks
First of all as this is my first submission to the list, thanks to all the myth developers for a great piece of code! It works a treat.. I have got a mythtv box up and running with a DVB-T card running 0.17 everything is running fine. This is my first question so please be kind. I recently

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-350 and playing DVD's

2005-06-04 Thread stephen
io-driver alsa --no-logo --no-splash dvd:// video command: mplayer -fs -zoom -quiet -vo xv %s specs: ivtv-0.3.5z (by hand, no emerge) gentoo (2.6.11-gentoo-r9 kernel) pIII 733 384 MB ram Stephen ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.

Re: [mythtv-users] Configuring the idle DVB channel? Mythtv-setup problem?

2005-06-02 Thread Stephen Williams
> > Run mythtvsetup then choose Input --> Select input connection --> > > change Starting channel in the setup page. > > The problem with this is that it gets reset each time you change the > channel to the currently tuned one. > As my original positing said, i've already tried this and it doesn

Re: [mythtv-users] Configuring the idle DVB channel? Mythtv-setup problem?

2005-06-02 Thread Stephen Williams
On 6/2/05, Mudit Wahal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This helps on a single HD3000 tuner using DVB drivers. > > mysql -D mythconverg -e "update cardinput set startchan='11_1'" Thanks for the input. As a work-around this is much appreciated! However, having to directly manipulate the database seem

[mythtv-users] Configuring the idle DVB channel? Mythtv-setup problem?

2005-06-02 Thread Stephen Williams
When a DVB card is not in use (e.g. for recording or liveTV) and the "DVB on demand" option is not used, both of my DVB cards tune to channel 3. What i'd prefer is for them to tune to channel 1 (since the mux associated with channel 1 has complete guide data, whilst the mux associated with channel

Re: [mythtv-users] Fanless HDTV backend on EPIA SP 8000E Vs.EPIAPD6000E

2005-06-01 Thread Stephen Boddy
gt; -Original Message- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:mythtv-users- > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stephen Boddy > > Sent: Wednesday, 1 June 2005 4:25 PM > > To: mythtv-users@mythtv.org > > Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Fanless HDTV backend on EPIA SP 8000E >

Re: [mythtv-users] Fanless HDTV backend on EPIA SP 8000E Vs. EPIAPD6000E

2005-06-01 Thread Stephen Boddy
ythtv-users- > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stephen Boddy > > Sent: Wednesday, 1 June 2005 3:27 PM > > To: mythtv-users@mythtv.org > > Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Fanless HDTV backend on EPIA SP 8000E Vs. > > EPIAPD6000E > > > > On Wednesday 01 June

Re: [mythtv-users] Fanless HDTV backend on EPIA SP 8000E Vs. EPIA PD6000E

2005-06-01 Thread Stephen Boddy
On Wednesday 01 June 2005 20:17, Dean Collins wrote: > I know it's not applicable for lounge room based machines but I cant > help but comment here how blown away I've been with the Zalman Reserator > water cooling system I installed. > > I have a large server rack in my office and have now install

Re: [mythtv-users] EPG data from DVB(-T)

2005-05-31 Thread Stephen Williams
On 5/31/05, James Stembridge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 5/30/05, Dirk Aust <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > That might be right, but nevertheless, scanning around all DVB-EGP enabled > > channels would also be a good idea, isn't it? > > In the UK at least there's no need, afaik the full EPG is

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: tv programs that run long

2005-05-31 Thread Stephen Williams
On 5/31/05, Jit V <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I know that someone was working on PDC (programme delivery control, or > something like that). > > Anyway... not sure if this is an international standard, but in the UK the > broadcasts contain extra information which can be picked up by PDC enabled

Re: [mythtv-users] Wireless Keyboards

2005-05-20 Thread stephen
Hydrian wrote: Hey all, I am currently putting together a HTPC. I am look for a RF wireless keyboard that has a build in trackball. Anybody know who makes a good keyboard that fits these specs? Also if you see an other flaws in the spec mind yelling at me. Specs: AMD Athlon Thunderbir

Re: [mythtv-users] Hardware Platforms

2005-05-10 Thread Stephen L. Ulmer
come. My front/back-end is currently in an Antec Overture -- the wife loves it. The case is designed to be very quiet, and has enough drive bays for most people. The fit and finish are quite nice too -- piano black. -- Stephen pgppj6Cnz6dcp.pgp De

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

2005-05-07 Thread Stephen Boddy
On Friday 06 May 2005 15:23, Ryan A. Carris wrote: > They have been as open and generous as they can. If you don't agree > with that statement, I suggest you try and use one of the listing > scappers, like we used to have to do and like the rest of the world > uses. Just to point out that I, bei

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

2005-05-07 Thread Stephen Boddy
On Friday 06 May 2005 13:13, Donavan Stanley wrote: > On 5/5/05, Stephen Boddy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I hate to sound like a knocker, and for the most part I like the design, > > but I can see 4 problems with that theme > > Bear in mind that the theme isn'

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

2005-05-05 Thread Stephen Boddy
On Thursday 05 May 2005 22:41, Donavan Stanley wrote: > * The first of many new themes. James Meyer has been working closely > with some artists/UI designers hired by Technovera to produce the > first of many themes. It's nearly complete and is *really* sharp, I'm > currently running it on my main

[mythtv-users] weird skipping and pixelation on xbox

2005-05-03 Thread Stephen Atkins
de this weekend anyway but I just want to know if this is a known problem. Stephen ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

[mythtv-users] Hard lock-up has toasted DB's recorded table

2005-04-23 Thread Stephen Boddy
Hi all, I'm messing about with a "getting to know you" install. I had a hard lock-up when viewing LiveTV. I starting getting errors about not being able to access some of the tables, so I ran myisamchk to recover things, but then my recorded table was knackered. It basically had no columns, so

Re: [mythtv-users] mythepg compile issues

2005-04-18 Thread Stephen Williams
You're trying to compile with XRANDR enabled, but you don'r have it installed. You'll need to 'make clean' and re-configure with the '--disable-xrandr' switch before 'qmake maythtv.pro; make'. Steve ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org h

Re: [mythtv-users] DVB - Recording from 'part time' channels

2005-04-11 Thread Stephen Williams
I reported the problem with failed recordings from part-time channels two weeks ago. Just to let you know that there's already an open bug report (no. 261) for this: http://www.mythtv.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=261 Feel free to add any more detail (e.g. the problem with following recordings on the

Re: [mythtv-users] DVD sing xine on PVR-350 TV out?

2005-04-10 Thread stephen
ad xine doesn't make use of the 350's decoder ... stephen ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

Re: [mythtv-users] My channel Listings are all 1 hour off.

2005-04-10 Thread stephen
Tattersall here's a handy little thread that will probably help with that issue: http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/122546 i had the same problem, and was able to fix it after reviewing all the posts on that topic (there are a few other threads as well). st

Re: [mythtv-users] DVD sing xine on PVR-350 TV out?

2005-04-10 Thread stephen
--no-logo --no-splash dvd:// and it seems to work pretty good for me. is there a way to get xine to use the 350's decoder? or does that only work with mplayer? i'd much rather have the dvdnav support that xine offers ... stephen ___ mythtv-

Re: [mythtv-users] cablecard

2005-04-07 Thread Stephen Boddy
On Thursday 07 April 2005 23:30, Brad Templeton wrote: > On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 03:35:27PM -0400, David Wood wrote: > > On Thu, 7 Apr 2005, Gabe Rubin wrote: > > > > >As others have said, it is not just the money that is an issue. They > > >have no desire to issue a license to open source projec

Re: [mythtv-users] Possible OT: Newest nvidia drivers and interlaced modes

2005-04-06 Thread Stephen Boddy
On Wednesday 06 April 2005 04:09, Jeff Wormsley wrote: > Stephen Boddy wrote: > > >Sounds like you have the OpenGL "Sync to VBlank" turned on. Check it using > >nvidia-settings from the command line. Either that or you need to upgrade the > >386 ;-) > >

Re: [mythtv-users] Possible OT: Newest nvidia drivers and interlaced modes

2005-04-06 Thread Stephen Boddy
On Wednesday 06 April 2005 04:09, Jeff Wormsley wrote: > Stephen Boddy wrote: > > >Sounds like you have the OpenGL "Sync to VBlank" turned on. Check it using > >nvidia-settings from the command line. Either that or you need to upgrade the > >386 ;-) > >

Re: [mythtv-users] Possible OT: Newest nvidia drivers and interlaced modes

2005-04-04 Thread Stephen Boddy
On Sunday 03 April 2005 20:32, Jeff Wormsley wrote: > On a slightly related note, on the 6629 drivers, glxgears would crash > X. Now, it runs, but at only 50fps. Could this be related? The 5200 > card in this box should be able to do at least 1000 fps on this, > shouldn't it? Sounds like you

[mythtv-users] Change channel in PIP window

2005-04-01 Thread Stephen Atkins
(like 21). It will change to chaange 2. Acttually thats really the only problem. Thanks. Stephen ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

Re: [mythtv-users] MYthTV replacement for Intercom?

2005-03-30 Thread Stephen Boddy
On Tuesday 29 March 2005 22:40, Paul Volkaerts wrote: > If you tick the "autoanswer" option, they will auto-answer any call from a > person in the directory. This is not what I call "secure" but is a start. I would be very careful of where you activate autoanswer if you're thinking of an intercom

Re: [mythtv-users] Mythtv playback problem with NVIDIA videoacceleration - HELP!

2005-03-27 Thread Stephen Boddy
On Monday 28 March 2005 00:28, John Sturgeon wrote: > Michael Cheshire (Mailing Lists) wrote: > > Is your 6600GT the PCI-E version? - does linux work correctly with > > PCI-E yet? > > > > I have a 6600GT in my desktop box - nice card :) > > > > But that other box is just my tv recording box. > > >

Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV .18 impending release? If so, what's in it?

2005-03-25 Thread Stephen Boddy
On Saturday 26 March 2005 01:33, Maverick wrote: > > A big one will be 0.19 when the whole GUI engine gets a thorough > > reworking. If you've played with the MythUI test app, you'll know what > > I'm talking about. > > I assume MythUI is in CVS? I'd kinda like to see what it's all > about... Is th

Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV .18 impending release? If so, what's in it?

2005-03-25 Thread Stephen Boddy
On Friday 25 March 2005 23:42, John Andersen wrote: > On Friday 25 March 2005 14:29, Maverick wrote: > > > Wow! That's pretty quick. 0.17 isn't THAT old yet. > > > > I for one am glad that the releases are (maybe going to be?) more > > frequent, I think it encourages users to test new features they

Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV .18 impending release? If so, what's in it?

2005-03-25 Thread Stephen Boddy
On Friday 25 March 2005 23:04, Shawn Asmussen wrote: > On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 12:54:07 -0600, John Williams > > Wow! That's pretty quick. 0.17 isn't THAT old yet. I get the feeling that 0.18 is more of an unofficial stabilising release to firm things up in general from the 0.17, without any major ch

Re: [mythtv-users] Remote Scheduling Frontend

2005-03-24 Thread Stephen Boddy
On Thursday 24 March 2005 13:12, Robert Kulagowski wrote: > > When you are out and about just do: > > ssh -L8080::80 user@ > > Log in. Now just open a full featured browser (i.e. firefox) and put the > > following in the address bar: > > http://localhost:8080/mythweb > > Hey presto! No faffing arou

[mythtv-users] OT: System failed to shutdown

2005-03-24 Thread Stephen Williams
I know this isn't strictly a Myth problem but I don't know where else to post this. This morning I woke up to find my Myth box had not powered off correctly, it was supposed to shutdown after finishing a recording roughly 9 hours earlier. As far I could tell, everything had happened except cutting

Re: [mythtv-users] Remote Scheduling Frontend

2005-03-23 Thread Stephen Boddy
On Tuesday 22 March 2005 06:40, Jason Barto wrote: > What options are there for scheduling programs remotely? From the features > list there appears to be a web-based front-end for scheduling (although I'm > not sure how to get that installed). I also remember seeing an SMS > interface (text mess

Re: [mythtv-users] FE/BE card priority

2005-03-23 Thread Stephen Boddy
On Monday 21 March 2005 18:44, Matt MacDonald wrote: > Hello All, > > I apologize if this has been covered before but a search of the > archives didn't come up with anything. > > I am planning on setting up a Myth Box in the near future but I've got > a question about the logistics of it. > > My pl

Re: [mythtv-users] OT: 160 gig WD - $40

2005-03-22 Thread Stephen Boddy
On Monday 21 March 2005 02:02, Jeff Simpson wrote: > that sounds like a famously bad idea to me... > > > On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 21:54:26 -0400, Jonathan Markevich > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Anthony Vito wrote: > > >>Now I just need to find some places to mount all > > >>these drives > > >

Re: [mythtv-users] Myth weather features

2005-03-21 Thread Stephen Atkins
Josh Burks wrote: On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 06:44:32 -0700, Stephen Atkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I just know someone is going to tell me to do this myself but I just have to ask. Would it be possilbe to have a few locations for myth weather. I do a bit of travelling and would like to l

[mythtv-users] Myth weather features

2005-03-20 Thread Stephen Atkins
there and see what happens. Stephen atkinss at shaw dot ca P.S. This is off topic but if some one wanted to email me directly that would be great. I'm mostly a VB6 coder so I've lost alot of my skills when it comes to non integrated development. Could someone suggest and IDE

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Xbox frontend problems with recordings

2005-03-20 Thread Stephen Atkins
Aran Cox wrote: On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 03:11:47PM -0700, Stephen Atkins wrote: Well I'm happy to report that that seems to have fixed things for now. It does seem that with a udp nfs to my video/record dir the playback of the recordings was not good. With out it mounted it worked fine

Re: [mythtv-users] DVB EIT/EPG

2005-03-19 Thread Stephen Williams
Having restarted a few times things seemed to have improved, maybe there was something a little screwy about that inital run. One recurring issue i'm still having is that a few channels (e.g. channel 5, BBC Three, The Hits, Sky News) are only getting guide data for up to 3 days ahead instead of th

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Xbox frontend problems with recordings

2005-03-18 Thread Stephen Atkins
Well I'm happy to report that that seems to have fixed things for now. It does seem that with a udp nfs to my video/record dir the playback of the recordings was not good. With out it mounted it worked fine. It now also playes fine with a tcp nfs mount. Thanks for the sugestion. Stephe

Re: [mythtv-users] DVB EIT/EPG

2005-03-18 Thread Stephen Williams
> Check that you haven't got "on demand" set for your card. It isn't. > > Secondly, I only appear to be getting guide data for the mux/transport > > i'm tuned to, even though in the UK (Freeview) the guide data for all > > muxes are sent on every mux, is this correct / expected? > > Not quite t

[mythtv-users] DVB EIT/EPG

2005-03-18 Thread Stephen Williams
I have a system with two DVB-T (uk) receivers which i've just upgraded to 0.17 from 0.16. I have a few questions regarding program guide data (EPG). I've tried enabing the in-built guide grabber (by uncommenting the DVB_USING_EIT setting) but i'm having a few problems. Firstly, it only appears to

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Xbox frontend problems with recordings

2005-03-18 Thread Stephen Atkins
Thanks for the suggestion. I'm recompiling my kernel now. I'll let you know if that works. I have had a few problems with playing an avi in both xine and mplayer so I'll let you know if this works for that also. Stephen On Thu, 2005-03-17 at 11:01 -0800, M.Barnabas Luntzel

[mythtv-users] Xbox frontend problems with recordings

2005-03-17 Thread Stephen Atkins
machines on the network so I'm sure its not other network congestion. I was wondering if anyone out there who has an xbox setup could let me know what settings they are using in their recording profiles or any where else that might make a difference. I'm using a pvr-

Re: [mythtv-users] Is Mplayer going away? Anyone seen their WWW site recently?

2005-03-16 Thread Stephen Williams
> Sorry, but as a patent attorney I assume she gets a salary? Makes a profit for > the company she works for? She therefore has a vested interest, and that > would make her biased, as her livelyhood depends on the need for patent > attorneys. Contrary to popular belief and propaganda, patent atto

Re: [mythtv-users] Is Mplayer going away? Anyone seen their WWW site recently?

2005-03-15 Thread Stephen Boddy
Apologies if some think this is OT, but I need an outlet ;-) On Tuesday 15 March 2005 09:42, Stephen Williams wrote: > > No offence, but DUH!!! Of course a patent attorney is going to say that > > this law is all hunky-dory, it's his future bread and butter!!! > > Well, act

Re: [mythtv-users] OT - Linux utility to merge wmv files ? (SOLVED)

2005-03-15 Thread Stephen Boddy
Just thinking out loud (you may be doing this already,) but you could use named pipes to avoid the temporary use of all that disk space. i.e. sources="" for each file in arguments mkfifo file.pipe mencoder file -oac pcm -ovc raw -o file.pipe & sources = sources + file.pipe

Re: Practicality of backing up huge hard drives (was Re: [mythtv-users] Dieing Hard Drive)

2005-03-15 Thread Stephen Boddy
On Tuesday 15 March 2005 15:08, David Morrison wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > | If you need 2 machines for other reasons, then obviously that's the > | way to go. If you just need to backup files, big drives and > | firewire enclosures are the cheap way. > | > | Stuff this puppy with 320GB drives,

Re: [mythtv-users] Is Mplayer going away? Anyone seen their WWW site recently?

2005-03-15 Thread Stephen Williams
> No offence, but DUH!!! Of course a patent attorney is going to say that this > law is all hunky-dory, it's his future bread and butter!!! Well, actually no. Her firm does not take work of this kind and as such is unbiassed in this matter. On the other hand they are fully informed as to what is

Re: [mythtv-users] Is Mplayer going away? Anyone seen their WWW site recently?

2005-03-14 Thread Stephen Boddy
On Monday 14 March 2005 17:18, Stephen Williams wrote: > No, they're not having legal issues. There just making some misguided > protest about a subject they clearly don't understand. The software > patents directive is a non-issue blown out of all proportion. > > My par

Re: [mythtv-users] Is Mplayer going away? Anyone seen their WWW site recently?

2005-03-14 Thread Stephen Williams
On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 11:36:29 -0500, john roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I went to download the latest version of Mplayer and I found: > > http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/index.html > > They seem to be dealing with legal issues. :( > > -John > -- > __

Re: [mythtv-users] [OT] How may bytes available on a single layer DVD-R?

2005-03-13 Thread Stephen Boddy
On Sunday 13 March 2005 17:59, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Sun, 2005-03-13 at 12:02 -0500, Cory Papenfuss wrote: > > > How may bytes or MB is the capacity of a DVD-R disc? I am currently > > > using a guessitimate of 4250MB as the limit for my shrinking routine > > > but it would be nice to have the ac

Re: [mythtv-users] Playback on xbox

2005-03-11 Thread Stephen Atkins
- Original Message - From: "Stephen Atkins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, March 11, 2005 6:47 PM Subject: [mythtv-users] Playback on xbox > Hello all. I've got a AMD 2500+ with a 120 gig HD and a pvr-250 backend and > myth .17. Everything works grea

[mythtv-users] Playback on xbox

2005-03-11 Thread Stephen Atkins
ate I use (transcoded to mpg4 or not) it pauses for two seconds plays for two then pauses again repeat until stopped. There really isn't much difference between live tv and playing a recorded show so I'm not sure whats going on. Any one have any

Re: [mythtv-users] Can a master backend have no inputs?

2005-03-11 Thread Stephen Boddy
On Friday 11 March 2005 21:18, cythraul wrote: > Since this setup in kind of non-standard giving the fact that people > usually use a Myth box to capture TV, no authoritative answer will > probably be provided. > > Since the backend will probably complain about no card or lineup > defined, I sugges

Re: [mythtv-users] Can a master backend have no inputs?

2005-03-11 Thread Stephen Boddy
No body got an answer to this then? :-( -- Steve Boddy ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

Re: [mythtv-users] Question about Video's loading time.

2005-03-11 Thread Stephen Boddy
On Friday 11 March 2005 17:58, Jay wrote: > of just under 15000 videos. From the time I click Videos, to the time it Tell me that's a typo... 15000!!! If that was 700 MB / video you'd need 10 Terabytes!!! Or are they all real small clips? I can't answer you question directly, but at the risk of

Re: [mythtv-users] Can a master backend have no inputs?

2005-03-11 Thread STEPHEN BODDY
--- David George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 3/11/2005 7:03 AM, William wrote: > > >>Can a master backend have no capture cards or > devices, and > >>only have them in > >>one or more slave backends? The docs seem a bit > ambiguous about this > >>(admittedly unusual) case. > >> > >> > >

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Can a master backend have no inputs?

2005-03-11 Thread STEPHEN BODDY
Grrr! Human error >:-( --- STEPHEN BODDY <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've not tried posting via the web mail client, so > apologies if it stuffs up threading. > > --- Garry Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > OK, I'm not doubting you here, you may v

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Can a master backend have no inputs?

2005-03-11 Thread STEPHEN BODDY
I've not tried posting via the web mail client, so apologies if it stuffs up threading. --- Garry Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OK, I'm not doubting you here, you may very well be > correct. I don't > know the answer to these questions, as I currently > only run one MythTV > box, combo BE/FE.

[mythtv-users] Can a master backend have no inputs?

2005-03-10 Thread Stephen Boddy
Can a master backend have no capture cards or devices, and only have them in one or more slave backends? The docs seem a bit ambiguous about this (admittedly unusual) case. Last time I asked this it was wrapped up in a bloody big post, and I think people couldn't be bothered, hence the "to-the-

Re: [mythtv-users] How I got great quality TV-out on my nVidia MX4000

2005-03-10 Thread Stephen Williams
> Someone else here wrote, that RGB is *too* sharp for MPEG2 video, > meaning that you see the artifacts then. > > Thomas I expect it depends on where you got the MPEG2 video from. Using a VGA -> SCART converter in the UK with DVB-T I get an amazing image which rarely has any visible artifacts. B

Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV in my spam

2005-03-09 Thread Stephen Boddy
On Wednesday 09 March 2005 11:43, Simon Kenyon wrote: > here in europe they have finally agreed on what HDTV standards are going to > be adopted. Sky TV (the major satellite broadcaster in the UK and Ireland) > has stated that their boxes will only have HDMI (with HDCP protection) > output for HD.

Re: [mythtv-users] How I got great quality TV-out on my nVidia MX4000

2005-03-09 Thread Stephen Williams
> Stephen Williams wrote: > > Of course, the way to get 'optimal' TV-out from your Nvidia (or other) > > card is not to use it's TV-out facilities at all and build a VGA -> > > SCART converter for SDTVs (see http://www.sput.nl/hardware/tv-x.html > >

Re: [mythtv-users] How I got great quality TV-out on my nVidia MX4000

2005-03-09 Thread Stephen Williams
Of course, the way to get 'optimal' TV-out from your Nvidia (or other) card is not to use it's TV-out facilities at all and build a VGA -> SCART converter for SDTVs (see http://www.sput.nl/hardware/tv-x.html for example). This is only true of home-built converters, commercial converters perform sca

Re: [mythtv-users] Commercial Skip

2005-03-06 Thread stephen
Chris Pinkham wrote: I've been using the "All" method since I upgraded to .17, and I still occasionally see short false positives (9 or 11 seconds). I think the idea of a user setting for min/max commercial break length would be kind of handy. This can occur even with ALL if the following are

Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV Presentation - Requesting Comments/Opinions

2005-03-05 Thread stephen
hTV." and then going and making it happen...can't do that with Tivo! Thanks All... Matt Also, I *really* like being able to use MythWeb to schedule upcoming shows. As long as I have an internet connection, I can get at my MythTV box and not miss anything. Stephen __

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