Re: Re[2]: [mythtv-users] Slightly OT: MythTV as Senior Project?

2005-03-14 Thread Andrew Close
On Sat, 12 Mar 2005 21:53:39 -0500, lkxx [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Another possibility might be something like the MythTV Community which has been discussed from time to time. This is something like Amazon's People who purchased this book also purchased XYZ. There would be some number

Re[2]: [mythtv-users] Slightly OT: MythTV as Senior Project?

2005-03-12 Thread lkxx
Friday, March 4, 2005, 5:47:30 PM, Louie Ilievski wrote: Thanks to every one of you for your suggestions so far. They are greatly appreciated. I am seeing some interesting ideas here, and I will be going over some of these with my partner and see if we can make them proposable to our

Re: [mythtv-users] Slightly OT: MythTV as Senior Project?

2005-03-05 Thread Cory Papenfuss
sweet piece of software :-) I'm starting to lean a little toward this lossless mpeg2-mpeg2 cutting, because this is a feature I've wanted to have as well. My friend also though of maybe the possibility of The nice thing about this is that it can be as simple, or grow to be as complicated as

Re: [mythtv-users] Slightly OT: MythTV as Senior Project?

2005-03-05 Thread Martin Ebourne
On Fri, 04 Mar 2005 16:43:06 -0800, Brad Templeton wrote: There are probably other programs out there, but if somebody wants to code this, I wrote a C program long ago that controls the x-10 serial controller on linux that could be used.Certainly for people who want to show off a home

Re: [mythtv-users] Slightly OT: MythTV as Senior Project?

2005-03-05 Thread Josh Burks
On Sat, 05 Mar 2005 15:51:25 +, Martin Ebourne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 04 Mar 2005 16:43:06 -0800, Brad Templeton wrote: There are probably other programs out there, but if somebody wants to code this, I wrote a C program long ago that controls the x-10 serial controller on

Re: [mythtv-users] Slightly OT: MythTV as Senior Project?

2005-03-05 Thread Tim Sailer
On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 09:52:46AM -0500, Dewey Smolka wrote: I've got a much simpler Wish List feature that I could probably hack together myself if I had the time. I use MythMusic all the time, and would really like it if it could support a sort of multiple playlist feature, something like

Re: [mythtv-users] Slightly OT: MythTV as Senior Project?

2005-03-04 Thread Cory Papenfuss
What about just a fix to the problem with multiplexing mpeg2? I think it basically boils down to there is no decent tool to accomplish this, so as a result anyone that wants to record the hauppauge mpeg2 recordings to a dvd have to use avidemux, which never seems to work right and doesn't have a

Re: [mythtv-users] Slightly OT: MythTV as Senior Project?

2005-03-04 Thread Robert Kulagowski
Sure...it could use AI to make itself better and better at interpreting the logs and telling the user how to fix the problem. Watch out if you're you're thinking of implementing an AI; it's going to start looking at your recording schedules and optimizing them as well. You're a grown up, so no

Re: [mythtv-users] Slightly OT: MythTV as Senior Project?

2005-03-04 Thread Dewey Smolka
I've got a much simpler Wish List feature that I could probably hack together myself if I had the time. I use MythMusic all the time, and would really like it if it could support a sort of multiple playlist feature, something like in a bar jukebox. Let me explain. I've got several hundred

Re: [mythtv-users] Slightly OT: MythTV as Senior Project?

2005-03-04 Thread Joseph A. Caputo
On Friday 04 March 2005 0:11, Brad Templeton wrote: On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 09:31:33PM -0700, Garry Cook wrote: responded and mentioned this Tivo feature, which I did not know existed. It would be really cool IMHO, as I still do watch some live TV. Right, but how hard is it to do alt-tab

Re: [mythtv-users] Slightly OT: MythTV as Senior Project?

2005-03-04 Thread Brad Templeton
On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 10:39:09AM -0500, Joseph A. Caputo wrote: On Friday 04 March 2005 0:11, Brad Templeton wrote: If you don't already, get one of the super cheap lite-on or acer IR keyboards. Under 30 bucks and work great, I am typing on one at my tv set right now. (a) All of Myth

Re: [mythtv-users] Slightly OT: MythTV as Senior Project?

2005-03-04 Thread Joseph A. Caputo
On Friday 04 March 2005 14:19, Brad Templeton wrote: On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 10:39:09AM -0500, Joseph A. Caputo wrote: On Friday 04 March 2005 0:11, Brad Templeton wrote: If you don't already, get one of the super cheap lite-on or acer IR keyboards. Under 30 bucks and work great, I am

Re: [mythtv-users] Slightly OT: MythTV as Senior Project?

2005-03-04 Thread Brad Templeton
On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 04:34:15PM -0500, Joseph A. Caputo wrote: On Friday 04 March 2005 14:19, Brad Templeton wrote: Excepting, of course, the search facilities which use a keyboard Simple text can be entered using the remote, as with a cell phone keypad. If the search text boxes don't

Re: [mythtv-users] Slightly OT: MythTV as Senior Project?

2005-03-04 Thread Louie Ilievski
Thanks to every one of you for your suggestions so far. They are greatly appreciated. I am seeing some interesting ideas here, and I will be going over some of these with my partner and see if we can make them proposable to our professor. I think, whether or not he has heard of MythTV, it'll

Re: [mythtv-users] Slightly OT: MythTV as Senior Project?

2005-03-04 Thread Simon Kenyon
On Friday 04 March 2005 21:34, Joseph A. Caputo wrote: Simple text can be entered using the remote, as with a cell phone keypad. If the search text boxes don't support this, they should be converted to use the Myth text input widget that handles this. there are several places where a remote is

Re: [mythtv-users] Slightly OT: MythTV as Senior Project?

2005-03-04 Thread Ross Campbell
My friend also though of maybe the possibility of creating a plugin to handle X10 equipment? I don't know how many of you use it (I sure don't, but it would be a neat new set of toys to have), but I think it is a possible candidate. At the most basic level, you can add a static menu with a

Re: [mythtv-users] Slightly OT: MythTV as Senior Project?

2005-03-04 Thread Andrew Close
On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 16:29:03 -0800, Ross Campbell snip A mythweb interface that would allow scheduling of on/off events would be very nice, and it would be very cool to have a trigger for X10 events before and after watching recordings and livetv - you know... dim the lights, turn off hallway

Re: [mythtv-users] Slightly OT: MythTV as Senior Project?

2005-03-04 Thread Brad Templeton
On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 06:35:03PM -0600, Andrew Close wrote: On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 16:29:03 -0800, Ross Campbell snip A mythweb interface that would allow scheduling of on/off events would be very nice, and it would be very cool to have a trigger for X10 events before and after watching

[mythtv-users] Slightly OT: MythTV as Senior Project?

2005-03-03 Thread Louie Ilievski
Hi everyone. I have been an avid MythTV user for over 6 months now and I love it. I also have wanted to get involved in some development for it. My friend and I are seniors at the University of California, Riverside, and we are trying to find a fun project we can work on for our senior project.

Re: [mythtv-users] Slightly OT: MythTV as Senior Project?

2005-03-03 Thread Nicholas McCoy
Check this out for a list of ideas: http://www.mythtv.info/moin.cgi/UserWishList Personnally I want to see something like MythAlarm, but I don't really see where parsing can come into it (unless you did an overly complex implementation.) On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 03:03:21 -0800, Louie Ilievski [EMAIL

Re: [mythtv-users] Slightly OT: MythTV as Senior Project?

2005-03-03 Thread PAUL WILLIAMSON
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/03/05 6:03 AM snip Anyhow, any and all ideas would be greatly appreciated. If we can pull this one off then we would be able to code for something we're actually interested in, while at the same time helping out the project. And of course, we could both possibly learn a

Re: [mythtv-users] Slightly OT: MythTV as Senior Project?

2005-03-03 Thread Nicholas McCoy
Maybe he'll do that for his thesis! On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 08:25:31 -0600, Michael J. Lynch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How about something that can be used to parse through all of the assorted log files when something goes wrong and tell you how to fix whatever is broken. :-) PAUL WILLIAMSON

Re: [mythtv-users] Slightly OT: MythTV as Senior Project?

2005-03-03 Thread Craig Partin
On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 09:33:48 -0500, Nicholas McCoy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe he'll do that for his thesis! On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 08:25:31 -0600, Michael J. Lynch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How about something that can be used to parse through all of the assorted log files when

Re: [mythtv-users] Slightly OT: MythTV as Senior Project?

2005-03-03 Thread Robert Denier
On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 09:43 -0500, Craig Partin wrote: [snip] If its going to figure out what's wrong and tell you how to fix it, then it might as well just fix it itself right? Its usually not that simple. A tool like that ultimately can propose possible solutions to a problem, and give

Re: [mythtv-users] Slightly OT: MythTV as Senior Project?

2005-03-03 Thread Craig Partin
On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 09:12:03 -0600, Robert Denier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 09:43 -0500, Craig Partin wrote: [snip] If its going to figure out what's wrong and tell you how to fix it, then it might as well just fix it itself right? Its usually not that simple. A

Re: [mythtv-users] Slightly OT: MythTV as Senior Project?

2005-03-03 Thread Michael J. Lynch
Sure...it could use AI to make itself better and better at interpreting the logs and telling the user how to fix the problem. Once it got to certain proficientcy level it could just fix the problem itself by making changes to the system. If the problem couldn't be fixed via software fixes and/or

Re: [mythtv-users] Slightly OT: MythTV as Senior Project?

2005-03-03 Thread Andy Long
This might be kinda douche (i'm known for coming up with that sort of idea in the morning), but how about a reccomendation-type feature, similar to what Tivo has but on a much smaller scale. Maybe have it keep a log/database of important characteristics about what you watch and record (such as

Re: [mythtv-users] Slightly OT: MythTV as Senior Project?

2005-03-03 Thread Vijay Gill
You could try to fix something which gives problem: When I use mythtranscode + mencoder to encode movies to mpeg2, there is a sudden noise at the beginning of the recording. This can be removed by making the sound coming from mythtranscode to have fade-in effect. This is just a suggestion. VJ

Re: [mythtv-users] Slightly OT: MythTV as Senior Project?

2005-03-03 Thread Jeff Simpson
What about just a fix to the problem with multiplexing mpeg2? I think it basically boils down to there is no decent tool to accomplish this, so as a result anyone that wants to record the hauppauge mpeg2 recordings to a dvd have to use avidemux, which never seems to work right and doesn't have a

Re: [mythtv-users] Slightly OT: MythTV as Senior Project?

2005-03-03 Thread Josh Burks
On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 13:12:44 -0500, Jeff Simpson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What about just a fix to the problem with multiplexing mpeg2? I think it basically boils down to there is no decent tool to accomplish this, so as a result anyone that wants to record the hauppauge mpeg2 recordings to a

Re: [mythtv-users] Slightly OT: MythTV as Senior Project?

2005-03-03 Thread Dan Christensen
Jeff Simpson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What about just a fix to the problem with multiplexing mpeg2? I think it basically boils down to there is no decent tool to accomplish this, so as a result anyone that wants to record the hauppauge mpeg2 recordings to a dvd have to use avidemux, which

Re: [mythtv-users] Slightly OT: MythTV as Senior Project?

2005-03-03 Thread Matt Mossholder
How about parsing out the VBI information from the video feed, and grabbing out the record this type information that TiVo has convinced the networks to broadcast. That way we get an easy way to record shows that have interesting commercials. Oh, wait. We don't watch commercials anymore, do

Re: [mythtv-users] Slightly OT: MythTV as Senior Project?

2005-03-03 Thread Garry Cook
On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 23:23:42 -0500, Matt Mossholder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How about parsing out the VBI information from the video feed, and grabbing out the record this type information that TiVo has convinced the networks to broadcast. That way we get an easy way to record shows that have

Re: [mythtv-users] Slightly OT: MythTV as Senior Project?

2005-03-03 Thread Brad Templeton
On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 09:31:33PM -0700, Garry Cook wrote: responded and mentioned this Tivo feature, which I did not know existed. It would be really cool IMHO, as I still do watch some live TV. Right, but how hard is it to do alt-tab to get to your web browser, call up mythweb from your