That's ok. My cell is 617-633-8939. Let me know if you if you are going
to be later than 1900. BTW: JABR also works in Westford.
On Wed, 08 Nov 2006 00:55:11 -0500
Jon Masters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Jerry Feldman wrote:
When: November 15, 2006 7:00PM (6:30 for QA)
Topic: Porting the
On 11/7/06, Randy Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Those of you here who are already using MythTV, how do you find it
works in day-to-day usage?
Brilliantly. I have a back end on Debian Etch/Testing with 3 tuners (a
PVR-350 and a PVR-500) and while the IVTV drivers aren't the most
On 11/8/06, Tom Buskey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Can Myth be used like a PC displaying on the TV?I use Galleon on theTivo to play shoutcast, show weather, podcasts, movie times andlocations, etc.I'd imagine Myth can do that. *nod* It can web browse, minus the Java, etc..
And if the data is present
On Nov 7, 2006, at 8:43 PM, Ben Scott wrote:
Absolutely. The thought of TV without a good DVR is totally
unacceptable to me now.
It's obvious we don't have to sell you on the joys of PVR.
The question you asked was whether MythTV is as Hands-Off as Tivo,
and I think the answer is No.
On Nov 8, 2006, at 8:10 AM, Tom Buskey wrote:
On the Tivo, I can tell it to record everything with an actor (Tom
Hanks say) or genre (motorcycle racing) or keyword (quilting). When I
select a series, I can say only 1st run; no repeats. I guess alot of
that comes down to the quality of your
Ben Scott writes:
Those of you here who are already using MythTV, how do you find it
works in day-to-day usage?
I've been using MythTV for about 2 years or so. I like it alot better
than the tivo I had before that. It has it's bugs, but they are
usually minor and can be worked around
If you want the best how-to for MythTV for just getting a box up and
working then this is it:
http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/fcmyth.php
I used it the two times I set up a myth box and it was great.
But having a Tivo that just works and as somebody that loves the
suggestions feature (something
On 11/8/06, Tom Buskey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yup, that's been my mindset, and Myth has met that criteria well. It's
completely revamped the way I watch TV. The number of hours watched has
fallen a lot, but the quality of what I watch has skyrocketed. I'm in a
All good stuff for
On 11/8/06, Dave Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I really like the split model [backend + frontend(s)] which allows me
to have a fanless, diskless, no-moving-parts frontend computer for the
TV and a big server in the garage^H^H^H^H^H^H^H server-room.
Now, that is neat. And, ironically,
On 11/8/06, Ted Roche [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The question you asked was whether MythTV is as Hands-Off as Tivo,
and I think the answer is No. While the tweaking involved is pretty
minor, there probably are a few more rough edges to work out.
[...]
Well, I haven't even read the manual yet.
Ted Roche wrote:
I've got a client who would like to image his half-dozen workstations
and store the images off-site as part of a disaster recovery plan.
We're planning on using Knoppix and partimage to snapshot the machines,
The workstations are run-of-the-mill Dell Dimensions, fairly new,
We are, after all, comparing a multi-million-dollar consumer
appliance with an unfunded open-source project. The fact that they
are of a comparable value is a remarkable tribute to the Open Source
process, imo.
Absolutely. I'm not trying to disparage MythTV. I'm just trying to
make a
What's the payback for giving away guide data?
It's funny you mention that. Just yesterday I corrected the guide's
channel listings for my local cable company. Besides corrections like that,
the guide needs to encourage people to code apps to their service, which some
Mythers do.
Ben Scott writes:
Note you can get unencrypted HD off of Cable in addition to OTA.
Any idea how many unencrypted HD channels there are?
Every broadcast channel. In my case that's the HD versions of: 2, 4,
5, 7, 9, 25, 38 last I checked
In addition, comcast sends 2 version of the analog
On 11/8/06, Randy Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What's the payback for giving away guide data?
It's funny you mention that. Just yesterday I corrected the guide's
channel listings for my local cable company.
Hmmm, kinda like a FreeDB.org for TV. *nods*
Besides corrections like that,
This has been a very interesting and informative thread, thanks for
the education!
I've been on-the-fence wrt Tivo for several years now. I've always
loved the idea, but just never gotten around to getting one. I
thought about setting up MythTV, but at the time it sounded like it
something you
On Nov 8, 2006, at 8:56 AM, Ben Scott wrote:
I do wonder about the guide data for MythTV. I guess it's freely
available on the 'net right now? Will that last, I wonder, if MythTV
really started to gain market share. (Say, because turn-key MythTV
boxes enabled more adoption.) I'm always
Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
From what I've read, Hauppauge is *the* brand of card to get, but
I'm a little confused about the differences between the PVR-150 and
the PVR-250. Is it just the software bundle, or is the hardware
different, too? Also, does the decoder/output on the
Apologies to Dan as he'll be seeing this message twice.
Ted Roche wrote: I've got a client who would like to image his half-dozen workstations and store the images off-site as part of a disaster recovery planSo have you looked at S3 at Amazon? Just do all this stuff over the net.
-- Jeff
On Nov 7, 2006, at 11:16 AM, Ted Roche wrote:
I've got a client who would like to image his half-dozen
workstations and store the images off-site as part of a disaster
recovery plan.
Follow-up:
Picked up a Seagate 250 Gb drive at Circuit City last night for $135.
Tested it out on my
Dave Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Every broadcast channel. In my case that's the HD versions of: 2, 4,
5, 7, 9, 25, 38 last I checked
In addition, comcast sends 2 version of the analog channels over the
coax. An analog version for for people without set-top boxes and a
digital SD
-- Original message --
From: Dave Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ben Scott writes:
Those of you here who are already using MythTV, how do you find it
works in day-to-day usage?
I've been using MythTV for about 2 years or so. I like it alot better
than the
I'd like a back-end server with lots of disk space and maybe 2 or 3
capture cards that I can stuff somewhere out of site,
There are a variety of tuner cards available for Myth now. To me, multiple
cards are about mandatory, even if you don't watch much TV. I love the
PVR-500 (2 tuners
Follow-up:
Picked up a Seagate 250 Gb drive at Circuit City last night for $135.
...and for my follow-up (not that anybody asked) I'm happy
to report that I was able to back-port USB support from the
kernel.org/2.4.33 sources into the RHEL3 2.4.21-ish sources
and, so far, it's looking pretty
Dave Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
You can also just plug in the coax to a HDTV with a digital tuner and
get the same result.
Hmm, I didn't know that. How do I find the HD channels? When I tune
my TV to the channel number advertised by Comcast, I get a black
screen. Presumably that
Paul Lussier writes:
Dave Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
You can also just plug in the coax to a HDTV with a digital tuner and
get the same result.
Hmm, I didn't know that. How do I find the HD channels? When I tune
my TV to the channel number advertised by Comcast, I get a black
See http://www.pchdtv.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=882sid=790b0250ceaa189090e790e53c445505 Comcast does randomize their frequency usage, which is a big nono for them to do, but they do it apperently.
But basically, you just have to find the frequency. There are utilizites that will scan for them,
I for one am really enjoying this thread. I don't watch a lot of TV
shows, don't own a DVR device, etc., but maybe some sort of DVR or HD
device will be in my future. I used to work at a small video editing
shop a long time ago but ever since then I am woefully behind the
times when it comes to
The higher end PVR cards will work with MythTV and work well with nearly all major brand motherboards out there. The cost diference between, say, the PVR-150, 250, 300, 500, etc, is the inclusion of hardware based encoders. A 600 Mhz machine can easily recoder 2 channels when a dual input board
Hrm.. It would seem I was partially incorrect. DirecTV USED to have a DirecTV/Tivo HD box named the HR10-250. They dont make them anymore, I'm looking into the differences between the capabilities the HR10-250 providers. It can aperently be hacked as easy as any other Tivo, and hence, get it's
Paul Lussier writes:
So, for these 2 systems, can someone give me a rough list of the
essential-to-have hardware and the cost analysis?
My main goal here is ease of installation/configuration and minimizing
as much as possible hardware incompatibility frustration. I.e., if
there's a
Scratch that. Would kinda work, but can't record the majority of the new HD content beng broadcast from DirecTV's new sats. Guess I just leave 'em at low def and cry. Thomas
On 11/8/06, Thomas Charron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hrm.. It would seem I was partially incorrect. DirecTV USED to have a
On 11/8/06, Dave Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Paul Lussier writes: So, for these 2 systems, can someone give me a rough list of the essential-to-have hardware and the cost analysis?Or you could just buy a pre-built system.
http://www.monolithmc.com/Courtesy of Google Ads (note, I haven't
On Nov 8, 2006, at 12:02 PM, Michael ODonnell wrote:
...and for my follow-up (not that anybody asked) I'm happy
to report that I was able to back-port USB support from the
kernel.org/2.4.33 sources into the RHEL3 2.4.21-ish sources
and, so far, it's looking pretty stable.
That's great. Now,
...and for my follow-up (not that anybody asked) I'm happy
to report that I was able to back-port USB support from the
kernel.org/2.4.33 sources into the RHEL3 2.4.21-ish sources
and, so far, it's looking pretty stable.
That's great. Now, is this USB for storage devices or for HID (Human
Worthless. the HD TiVo box that DirecTV sold only supports premium HD
content and will NOT support DirecTV HD Local channels.
They are encrypted in a different way (mpeg4) that the HD DirecTiVo
can never support due to hardware limitations.
On Nov 8, 2006, at 2:15 PM, Thomas Charron
On 11/8/06, Travis Roy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Worthless. the HD TiVo box that DirecTV sold only supports premium HDcontent and will NOT support DirecTV HD Local channels.They are encrypted in a different way (mpeg4) that the HD DirecTiVocan never support due to hardware limitations.
Yea, I was
Unless, of course, DirecTV wanted to set them up so they could
move away. ;-)
DirecTV/TiVo contract was going to be up in 2006 when they came up
with it, and they both knew it wasn't going to be renewed.
They have since been forced by the customer base to support existing
Sad part is, if I had a choice, I'd go with Tivo or some other solution. But with no choice, all I can do is complain and eat their PVR solution for HD. I'd rather have something I dislike then nada at all. Thomas ( Going back to pouting and sighing)
On 11/8/06, Travis Roy [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 11/8/06, Thomas Charron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Comcast does randomize their frequency usage, which is a big nono for them
to do, but they do it apperently.
I'm *shocked* to hear that. ;-)
Bear in mind, this is for NON ENCRYPTED HD signals. Some channels
transmitted in HD will
On 11/8/06, Thomas Charron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
But with no choice, all I can do is complain and eat their PVR solution for
HD. I'd rather have something I dislike then nada at all.
Unfortunately, most of their customer base does the same thing.
If everyone said, No, I'm the customer
On 11/8/06, Michael ODonnell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
... the box would wedge tightly while accessing
Storage devices, but after a lot of analysis it became clear
to me that the ehci-hcd module was likely the primary culprit.
Further translation: The bug(s) were in the Linux kernel's use of
So, with all this talk about PVRs etc., a question arose I figured
someone here might know the answer to. I occassionally download a
missed show via bit-torrent. I know from trial and error, that I want
to get files named like Some.Show.S02E07.HDTV.XviD-, where ''
if one of: NoTV, XOR,
As i understand it that is the person/group who put the rip/release to
the Internet
show.season(SX)Episode(EX).Resolution.Codec-Releaser and somtime you
will see the network it
was release on EX .Bittorent/eMule ..etc
Steven
Paul Lussier wrote:
So, with all this talk about PVRs etc., a
Hi list,
Hoping someone who knows more about Apache than I do can answer this
quickly and easily, or point me in the right direction.
Say I've got a lame web application running on a lame OS. No real
authentication in the app. No SSL. Can't touch the config of the
app's host OS or web
I found http://3cx.org/item/46, which I think tells me how to use
mod_proxy to do the forwarding and SSL encapsulation. That's kind of
what I was thinking. But can I throw some HTTP authentication on top
of that, too?
Sounds reasonable. But I don't know if you can force local
On November 08, 2006, Ben Scott sent me the following:
Another practical upshot of all that is that you'll never see a
Linux PC that you can plug a CableCARD into. I suspect you'll never
even be able to do it on 'doze. The cable operators want things
locked up tight.
There are/will be
On 11/8/06, Chip Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There are/will be CableCard adapters for PCs, such as the ATi OCUR (Open
Cable Uni-directional Receiver), but from what I've seen, they'll only
be available to Windows Media Center PC OEMs.
Well, since all a CableCARD is is a PCMCIA card,
On 11/8/06, Thomas Charron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The cost diference between, say,
the PVR-150, 250, 300, 500, etc, is the inclusion of hardware based
encoders.
That's what I expected, but it's confusing as hell. Their marketing
department needs to work on product differentiation on their
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