Re: [mythtv-users] Confused about video card

2005-12-20 Thread Micha Kersloot
Hi, Op 19-dec-2005, om 9:15 heeft Ronald Wielink het volgende geschreven: Hoi Micha, it seems like you've made quite some progress. Since I'm struggling with optimising my nvidia card as well (and living in Dutchland just like you), would you please share the settings you are using now?

Re: [mythtv-users] Confused about video card

2005-12-19 Thread Ronald Wielink
Hoi Micha, it seems like you've made quite some progress. Since I'm struggling with optimising my nvidia card as well (and living in Dutchland just like you), would you please share the settings you are using now?   Thanks,   Ronald  On 12/15/05, Micha Kersloot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi,Nick sc

Re: [mythtv-users] Confused about video card

2005-12-15 Thread Micha Kersloot
Hi, Nick schreef: On 14/12/05, Micha Kersloot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I've found that the Ati card has quite a better quality output on my Television (SVIDEO) than the NVidia card. On the other side, BOB isn't working (a static 'screendump' flickering with the life stream) and i'm unable to

Re: [mythtv-users] Confused about video card

2005-12-15 Thread Nick
On 14/12/05, Micha Kersloot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm in the lucky possition to be able to test 2 different graphic cards > in my system. I'm living in the Netherlands (PAL) and using 0.18.1 release. > > The two cards are a ATI Radeon RX9550 and a NVidia FX5200 both from MSI. > I'm u

Re: [mythtv-users] Confused about video card

2005-12-15 Thread Tomi Makinen
Hey, I switched from ati to nvidia card just because nvidia has much better support for linux. I changed to knoppmyth release and  I did not succeed to use 1280*720 resolution (that is native for my projector) and I had to scale the image to 1280*768. With fedora I did not have this problem or any

Re: [mythtv-users] Confused about video card

2005-12-14 Thread Micha Kersloot
Hi, Cymen Vig schreef: On 12/14/05, Micha Kersloot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I've found that the Ati card has quite a better quality output on my Television (SVIDEO) than the NVidia card. On the other side, BOB isn't working (a static 'screendump' flickering with the life stream) and i'm unabl

Re: [mythtv-users] Confused about video card

2005-12-14 Thread Cymen Vig
On 12/14/05, Micha Kersloot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm in the lucky possition to be able to test 2 different graphic cards > in my system. I'm living in the Netherlands (PAL) and using 0.18.1 release. > > The two cards are a ATI Radeon RX9550 and a NVidia FX5200 both from MSI. > I'm using the

[mythtv-users] Confused about video card

2005-12-14 Thread Micha Kersloot
Hi, I'm in the lucky possition to be able to test 2 different graphic cards in my system. I'm living in the Netherlands (PAL) and using 0.18.1 release. The two cards are a ATI Radeon RX9550 and a NVidia FX5200 both from MSI. I'm using the fglrx driver for the ATI and the nvidia driver for the

Re: [mythtv-users] confused by MythMusic - alternatives?

2005-06-15 Thread Herman Kuiper
I was thinking of adding a search interface so that it is easier to find songs. The interface would look something like the search bar in itunes. I have a hard time finding stuff in mythmusic. You might want to try a patch I've submitted on -dev which allows the "smart playlists" to be used t

SV: [mythtv-users] confused by MythMusic - alternatives?

2005-06-13 Thread Meyland, Peter
ythtv-users- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] På vegne af Phill Edwards > Sendt: 13. juni 2005 00:35 > Til: Discussion about mythtv > Emne: Re: [mythtv-users] confused by MythMusic - alternatives? > > > I'm confused by the MythMusic interface. By default it seems to list > > every

Re: [mythtv-users] confused by MythMusic - alternatives?

2005-06-12 Thread Oliver Groht
Monkey Pet schrieb: I was thinking of adding a search interface so that it is easier to find songs. The interface would look something like the search bar in itunes. I have a hard time finding stuff in mythmusic. I think this would be a great Idea. A wildcard search would be useful an

Re: [mythtv-users] confused by MythMusic - alternatives?

2005-06-12 Thread Monkey Pet
I was thinking of adding a search interface so that it is easier to find songs. The interface would look something like the search bar in itunes. I have a hard time finding stuff in mythmusic. On 6/12/05, Phill Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm confused by the MythMusic interface. By d

Re: [mythtv-users] confused by MythMusic - alternatives?

2005-06-12 Thread Phill Edwards
> I'm confused by the MythMusic interface. By default it seems to list > every track I have in one big list, and starts playing the very first > each time. Going into the play list editors allows to me to browse > artists but then you have to select individual tracks; then I'm not sure > how to act

Re: [mythtv-users] confused by MythMusic - alternatives?

2005-06-12 Thread Fedor Pikus
On 6/12/05, Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm confused by the MythMusic interface. By default it seems to list > every track I have in one big list, and starts playing the very first > each time. Going into the play list editors allows to me to browse > artists but then you h

[mythtv-users] confused by MythMusic - alternatives?

2005-06-12 Thread Hamish Moffatt
Hi, I'm confused by the MythMusic interface. By default it seems to list every track I have in one big list, and starts playing the very first each time. Going into the play list editors allows to me to browse artists but then you have to select individual tracks; then I'm not sure how to actually

Re: [mythtv-users] Confused about mythtranscode

2005-06-07 Thread Chris Pinkham
> On Tue, 2005-06-07 at 09:05 -0700, Fedor Pikus wrote: > > Is there a howto or any other documentation which describes how to set > > it up to do this? > I used the information found in the changelog for 0.17. Yeah, the long commit log was my documentation when I added the JobQueue. :) Not sure

Re: [mythtv-users] Confused about mythtranscode

2005-06-07 Thread Andrew Close
On 6/7/05, Dan Christensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Robert Tsai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > If you typically just watch something and delete it right away, then > > it's probably not worth using mythtranscode; > > Is it possible to have myth transcode MPEG-2 content to MPEG-4 when it >

Re: [mythtv-users] Confused about mythtranscode

2005-06-07 Thread Robert Tsai
On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 02:45:56PM -0400, Dan Christensen wrote: > Robert Tsai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > If you typically just watch something and delete it right away, > > then it's probably not worth using mythtranscode; > > Is it possible to have myth transcode MPEG-2 content to MPEG-4 w

Re: [mythtv-users] Confused about mythtranscode

2005-06-07 Thread Dan Christensen
Robert Tsai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If you typically just watch something and delete it right away, then > it's probably not worth using mythtranscode; Is it possible to have myth transcode MPEG-2 content to MPEG-4 when it is a week old? That way, shows I watch and delete right away are i

Re: [mythtv-users] Confused about mythtranscode

2005-06-07 Thread EC
I used the information found in the changelog for 0.17. http://www.mythtv.info/moin.cgi/0_2e17 - look for Job Queues. It tells how to use it, what variables can be passed, and how. There may be better locations, I don't know. I googled for "job queue" mythtv. Hope this helps. -- EC On

Re: [mythtv-users] Confused about mythtranscode

2005-06-07 Thread Fedor Pikus
On 6/7/05, Robert Tsai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And yes, the obvious "interesting" use for mythtranscode is to remove > commercials (and possible disk space savings) for long-time archiving. > But I think lots of people prefer to use nuvexport/ffmpeg via "User > Jobs" for those kinds of applica

Re: [mythtv-users] Confused about mythtranscode

2005-06-07 Thread Robert Tsai
On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 11:33:50PM -0600, Devan Lippman wrote: > What mythtranscode converts it to depends on your settings, for my > they bocome mpeg4. What I really use it for is to edit the file down > using the cutlist **cough** no commercials **cough**. I'd say the > combination of the two abo

Re: [mythtv-users] Confused about mythtranscode

2005-06-06 Thread Devan Lippman
What mythtranscode converts it to depends on your settings, for my they bocome mpeg4.  What I really use it for is to edit the file down using the cutlist **cough** no commercials **cough**.  I'd say the combination of the two about triples my recording capacity.  You can set this all up in the tra

[mythtv-users] Confused about mythtranscode

2005-06-06 Thread Fedor Pikus
Can someone explain me what exactly does mythtranscode do? After I recorded something, I can choose from a menu to transcode it. I see that mythtranscode runs, it's also mentioned in mythbackend log, and if I had a file X.nuv, now X.nuv.tmp appears. The menu where I launched the transcode from now

Re: [mythtv-users] Confused about lirc_i2c

2005-06-03 Thread Nick
On 6/3/05, Mercury Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Where does the lirc_i2c module come from? > > On an up-to-date Fedora Core 3 system, I cannot find anything > named lirc_i2c. The system has MythTV installed from CVS > and IVTV installed from source (ivtv-0.2.0-rc3j). > > In the IVTV docume

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 time

[mythtv-users] Confused about lirc_i2c

2005-06-03 Thread Mercury Morris
Where does the lirc_i2c module come from? On an up-to-date Fedora Core 3 system, I cannot find anything named lirc_i2c. The system has MythTV installed from CVS and IVTV installed from source (ivtv-0.2.0-rc3j). In the IVTV documentation for Lirc support, the Installation steps indicate that ther

Re: [mythtv-users] Confused about resolution for DVB-T

2005-05-13 Thread Phill Edwards
> > 1) How come the recording settings only offer RTJPEG and MPEG4? I > > thought DVB was an MPEG2 stream which the DVB tuner card basically > > just dumps to disk. > > It is, so from my understandng all the settings in the recording > profiles (resolution, encoding, everything) are ignored when u

Re: [mythtv-users] Confused about resolution for DVB-T

2005-05-12 Thread David Whyte
> > As an aside, I've noticed that if you press "i" to get the programme > description when watching LiveTV on some of my digital channels, the > description box comes up skewed to the right of the screen with the > right hand end off screen. This makes me suspicious that a lot of the > picture is

Re: [mythtv-users] Confused about resolution for DVB-T

2005-05-12 Thread Jens Baumeister
On 5/12/05, Phill Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1) How come the recording settings only offer RTJPEG and MPEG4? I > thought DVB was an MPEG2 stream which the DVB tuner card basically > just dumps to disk. It is, so from my understandng all the settings in the recording profiles (resolutio

[mythtv-users] Confused about resolution for DVB-T

2005-05-12 Thread Phill Edwards
I know with analogue cards there are lots of tweaks that can be made to affect image quality, but with DVB cards I'm a little confused about the following: 1) How come the recording settings only offer RTJPEG and MPEG4? I thought DVB was an MPEG2 stream which the DVB tuner card basically just dump

Re: [mythtv-users] Confused on OSS/ALSA compiling

2005-02-26 Thread David George
On 02/26/2005 03:10 AM, Lonnie Borntreger wrote: In the settings.pro file it says to not comment out the OSS stuff unless you're not on Linux. However, I have found that even though the option to turn on ALSA is "activated" (un-commented), it never seems to link with libasound, only libaudio, unle

[mythtv-users] Confused on OSS/ALSA compiling

2005-02-26 Thread Lonnie Borntreger
In the settings.pro file it says to not comment out the OSS stuff unless you're not on Linux. However, I have found that even though the option to turn on ALSA is "activated" (un-commented), it never seems to link with libasound, only libaudio, unless I comment out the OSS line. So, is something

Re: [mythtv-users] Confused on multi-tuner systems

2005-02-17 Thread Aran Cox
On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 10:11:03PM -0800, Lonnie Borntreger wrote: > If I understand things correctly, myth obtains the sound for a tv > program it is recorded from the sound card, which gets its signal from > the "loop" wire (taking the audio out from the tv card and putting it > into the aux or l

Re: [mythtv-users] Confused on multi-tuner systems

2005-02-17 Thread Jeffrey Crystal
> I think this has been discussed before, but you have to have as many > sound cards as bttv tuners. Whew! Good. At least my brain wasn't failing me. ;-) [snip] > If you do multiple sound cards you need to look up how to specify the > inputs to be recorded. I think one way would be somethi

Re: [mythtv-users] Confused on multi-tuner systems

2005-02-16 Thread Lonnie Borntreger
On Thu, 2005-02-17 at 00:21 -0600, Robert Denier wrote: > On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 22:11 -0800, Lonnie Borntreger wrote: > > If I understand things correctly, myth obtains the sound for a tv > > program it is recorded from the sound card, which gets its signal from > > the "loop" wire (taking the audi

Re: [mythtv-users] Confused on multi-tuner systems

2005-02-16 Thread Robert Denier
On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 22:11 -0800, Lonnie Borntreger wrote: > If I understand things correctly, myth obtains the sound for a tv > program it is recorded from the sound card, which gets its signal from > the "loop" wire (taking the audio out from the tv card and putting it > into the aux or line in

[mythtv-users] Confused on multi-tuner systems

2005-02-16 Thread Lonnie Borntreger
If I understand things correctly, myth obtains the sound for a tv program it is recorded from the sound card, which gets its signal from the "loop" wire (taking the audio out from the tv card and putting it into the aux or line in on the sound card). So, if you put two bttv based cards in one syst

Re: [mythtv-users] Confused Newbie

2005-01-14 Thread Cecil Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just found out about MythTV about a week ago and I have a couple of questions. First I would just like to say that the MythTV (and other Myth plug-ins), is a brilliant idea and from what I have seen, can be very usefull. My first question is about compiling. Is it n

[mythtv-users] Confused Newbie

2005-01-14 Thread nova
I just found out about MythTV about a week ago and I have a couple of questions. First I would just like to say that the MythTV (and other Myth plug-ins), is a brilliant idea and from what I have seen, can be very usefull. My first question is about compiling. Is it necessary to be able to wr

[mythtv-users] Confused about mythtv settings, X settings, filters and CPU usage

2004-12-09 Thread Phill Edwards
I'm trying to find a decent compromise between the quality of the recordings/playback and the amount of CPU used. I have investigated this but I don't really understand the different settings and options, so I have a few questions. My system is FC2, with 2.4GHz Celeron CPU, 256 MB DDRAM and a P

HD-2000 and PVR-250 (was Re: [mythtv-users] Confused...)

2004-12-02 Thread David George
On 12/02/2004 06:33 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Im having more problems with getting MythTV up than I have ever had with any other piece of software. I have a machine here with a PVR-250 and a pcHDTV HD2000 in it, along with a Sound Blaster Live 5.1 (tho if it would make things any easier to get

RE: [mythtv-users] Confused...

2004-12-02 Thread Phill Edwards
way as it holds your hand through the process. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Discussion about mythtv <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [mythtv-users] Confused... Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2004 16:33:05 -0700 Im having more problems with getting MythTV up than I have ever ha

[mythtv-users] Confused...

2004-12-02 Thread clemens
Im having more problems with getting MythTV up than I have ever had with any other piece of software. I have a machine here with a PVR-250 and a pcHDTV HD2000 in it, along with a Sound Blaster Live 5.1 (tho if it would make things any easier to get this thing started, I could easily pull one or th