AW: [mythtv-users] Mounting two hard drives to single mounting point

2005-09-22 Thread Jochen Kühner
You can also use ext2 or 3, they are both resizeable, too. I use also lvm with 400gb and one 200gb drive, works great. -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von Jason McLeod Gesendet: Mittwoch, 21. September 2005 20:09 An: Azmat;

AW: [mythtv-users] *OT* Games for the mythgame plugin?

2005-09-22 Thread Jochen Kühner
You are allowed to play all freeware linux games: A list off good actual games in development is here: http://www.happypenguin.org/ And you Can download Free Roms: For Amiga: http://www.amigaland.de/spiele/gamesauswahl.php?show=agames http://www.sutum.de/index_.html For other Consoles:

Re: [mythtv-users] 16:9 video playback cutting off 10% on right side

2005-09-22 Thread Michael T. Dean
Lee wrote: I understand what you are saying, but could you please explain to me how or why Myth is switching to a different modeline during video playback? It shouldn't be doing that should it? The modeline I'm running is 4:3, and the picture doesn't go off the screen when viewing the X

Re: [mythtv-users] program remote's power key to stop mythfrontend?

2005-09-22 Thread David Watkins
On 22/09/05, Brian J. Murrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 19:03 -0700, Mark Kundinger wrote: You can have a shell script that responds to the power key and kills the frontend: Yeah. I have something similar. Killing off mythfrontend just so coarse. AFAIK there's no

Re: [mythtv-users] program remote's power key to stop mythfrontend?

2005-09-22 Thread Jo Shields
David Watkins wrote: On 22/09/05, Brian J. Murrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 19:03 -0700, Mark Kundinger wrote: You can have a shell script that responds to the power key and kills the frontend: Yeah. I have something similar. Killing off mythfrontend

[mythtv-users] any advantage in mysql 5.0 ?

2005-09-22 Thread Marius Schrecker
Hi, Is there any advantage in using Mysql 5.0 over 4.1? There seems to be a broken dependency in the debs at the moment, but will hang on, or try to force if theres an advantage. Cheers Marius ___ mythtv-users mailing list

Re: [mythtv-users] Mounting two hard drives to single mounting point

2005-09-22 Thread Andrew Herron
as is XFS :) I've got a 120gb in my box atm, LVM'd with 3/4 of the 80gb primary drive. I eventually plan to move it all to a couple of bigger drives and have an insane 60gb livetv buffer :D Andy On 22/09/05, Jochen Kühner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can also use ext2 or 3, they are both

[mythtv-users] which webserver

2005-09-22 Thread Marius Schrecker
Which webserver are people using for MythWeb. Is something like Apache necessary or is this overkill? Cheers Marius ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

Re: [mythtv-users] which webserver

2005-09-22 Thread Carl Fongheiser
On 9/22/05, Marius Schrecker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Which webserver are people using for MythWeb. Is something like Apache necessary or is this overkill? You pretty much need Apache, as MythWeb uses PHP. PHP can be built as a CGI program (usable with other web servers), but

Re: AW: [mythtv-users] Mounting two hard drives to single mounting point

2005-09-22 Thread David Morris
All of 'em are basically resizeable under LVM, however not all are shrinkable. But ext2 isn't journaled, and ext3 is *horrible* at large file deletions. I believe another poster to this list just discovered the reason for some of his problems was due to lengthy I/O caused by Myth deleting

Re: AW: [mythtv-users] Mounting two hard drives to single mounting point

2005-09-22 Thread ghuntress
hmmm, perhaps I should rethink keeping my mythstore in an ext3 partition over software raid :( All of 'em are basically resizeable under LVM, however not all are shrinkable. But ext2 isn't journaled, and ext3 is *horrible* at large file deletions. I believe another poster to this list

Re: [mythtv-users] [Mostly OT] OTA HDTV Options

2005-09-22 Thread George Nassas
On 21-Sep-05, at 11:50 PM, Brandon Stoll wrote: Sorry for being incredibly off of MythTV but I really don't know where else to be asking these questions :) www.avsforum.com, on the left side is Site Navigation, click on the HDTV Area and the first forum contains threads for different cities.

AW: AW: [mythtv-users] Mounting two hard drives to single mountingpoint

2005-09-22 Thread Jochen Kühner
You're right, it is verry slow on large files... But how can I convert without losing my data??? -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von David Morris Gesendet: Donnerstag, 22. September 2005 14:35 An: Discussion about mythtv Betreff: Re:

Re: [mythtv-users] XvMC question

2005-09-22 Thread George Nassas
On 22-Sep-05, at 1:19 AM, Kevin Kuphal wrote: I just purchased a Chaintech MPM800-3 motherboard for use as a frontend. It has a PM800 Unichrome chipset that supports XvMC. If I compile my frontend with XvMC support, will it be used only for MPEG-2 content or will I be using it for all

Re: [mythtv-users] [Mostly OT] OTA HDTV Options

2005-09-22 Thread Andrew Gallatin
Brandon Stoll [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Earlier today I picked up an indoor antenna and to my surprise nearly every channel came in with pretty bad reception- which was better then I expected. So, I'd like to try an outdoor antenna but I have a huge problem: I'm on the second floor of a

Re: [mythtv-users] XvMC question

2005-09-22 Thread Kevin Kuphal
George Nassas wrote: On 22-Sep-05, at 1:19 AM, Kevin Kuphal wrote: I just purchased a Chaintech MPM800-3 motherboard for use as a frontend. It has a PM800 Unichrome chipset that supports XvMC. If I compile my frontend with XvMC support, will it be used only for MPEG-2 content or will I be

[mythtv-users] Various teething problems setting up mythtv, comments wanted please ;-).

2005-09-22 Thread Simon Iremonger
Hello MythTv-users [writing to list for first time] ;-). I would really appreciate the comments of some list-users out there on MythTV setup using DVB-T [i.e. uk/Mendip] and acceptable TV-output onto a ''100hz'' digial-reprocessing-TV that only takes PAL/NTSC Apologies if this is a

Re: [mythtv-users] program remote's power key to stop mythfrontend?

2005-09-22 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Thu, 2005-09-22 at 11:21 +0100, David Watkins wrote: AFAIK there's no reason why killing the frontend should prevent it making a graceful exit. Indeed. But IMHO, if you are going to catch SIGTERM, it would be nice to pop up that are you sure you want to quit dialog. That way accidental

[mythtv-users] Can MythTV Play MPEG4 (DivX/XviD) Disks?

2005-09-22 Thread Mat Kyne
I like to transcode my HDTV recordings down to a more reasonable size and then burn them to DVD+R for storage. I find that I can fit the entire season of shows on 1-2 disks. Is there a way in MythTV to just pop them into the drive and watch them from there? I can do this with my Xbox with XBMC.

Re: [mythtv-users] program remote's power key to stop mythfrontend?

2005-09-22 Thread Craig Tinson
Brian J. Murrell wrote: On Thu, 2005-09-22 at 11:21 +0100, David Watkins wrote: AFAIK there's no reason why killing the frontend should prevent it making a graceful exit. Indeed. But IMHO, if you are going to catch SIGTERM, it would be nice to pop up that are you sure you want to

Re: [mythtv-users] Can MythTV Play MPEG4 (DivX/XviD) Disks?

2005-09-22 Thread Kevin Kuphal
Mat Kyne wrote: I like to transcode my HDTV recordings down to a more reasonable size and then burn them to DVD+R for storage. I find that I can fit the entire season of shows on 1-2 disks. Is there a way in MythTV to just pop them into the drive and watch them from there? I can do this with

[mythtv-users] PS2 connected to a PVR 350

2005-09-22 Thread Franco
Hi, last evening my friends came to my place and we connected their PlayStation to my MythBox via the SCART connector of the PVR 350. Unfortunately, it was impossible to play the games as there was a noticeable delay between actions on the PS2 and actual images on the screen. We also tried

Re: [mythtv-users] Can MythTV Play MPEG4 (DivX/XviD) Disks?

2005-09-22 Thread Craig Tinson
Kevin Kuphal wrote: Mat Kyne wrote: I like to transcode my HDTV recordings down to a more reasonable size and then burn them to DVD+R for storage. I find that I can fit the entire season of shows on 1-2 disks. Is there a way in MythTV to just pop them into the drive and watch them from

Re: [mythtv-users] PS2 connected to a PVR 350

2005-09-22 Thread Craig Tinson
Franco wrote: Hi, last evening my friends came to my place and we connected their PlayStation to my MythBox via the SCART connector of the PVR 350. Unfortunately, it was impossible to play the games as there was a noticeable delay between actions on the PS2 and actual images on the screen.

Re: [mythtv-users] directv d10-300 ... impossible?

2005-09-22 Thread Mickey Chandler
At 06:43 PM 9/21/2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been using this script on my D10-200 box at least since July. There is an occasional snafu where the channel doesn't change for some reason I haven't yet been able to track down, but I'm recording Stargate SG-1, NFL Football, and the odd Buffy

[mythtv-users] program guide channel mash-up in SF bay area?

2005-09-22 Thread Paul Traina
I'm installing 0.18.1 on a debian etch/unstable system with MDZ's packages and a pcHDTV3000 card using the DVB drivers in kernel 2.6.12. The hardware is working fine, everything is installed. I am using the Zap2It service, us-bcast in the general page, default on the video sources page. The

Re: [mythtv-users] PS2 connected to a PVR 350

2005-09-22 Thread Jan Ophey
Craig Tinson wrote: Franco wrote: Hi, last evening my friends came to my place and we connected their PlayStation to my MythBox via the SCART connector of the PVR 350. Unfortunately, it was impossible to play the games as there was a noticeable delay between actions on the PS2 and actual

Re: [mythtv-users] about to take the plunge

2005-09-22 Thread Bill Omer
Erik Pettersen wrote: Then again, for stability linux may be the cure you're looking for ;) Well that is what I'm hoping for. I had a feeling I might be setting my self up for a fight, and I believe that I am right. I installed KnoppMyth last night and it was not without troubles (but

Re: [mythtv-users] program remote's power key to stop mythfrontend?

2005-09-22 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 03:15:25PM +0100, Craig Tinson wrote: am not an expert on this.. but couldn't you just use irexec to send half-a-dozen ESC keys? no matter where you are in myth that should take you to the close screen? not exactly pretty but should do what your asking.. and you can

[mythtv-users] .asoundrc hw numbers for nForce4

2005-09-22 Thread Marius Schrecker
Hi, Following Jarods guide and looking at the link to the difinitive nForce2/4 .asoundrc for spdiff out I'm still a little unsure about the hw numbers. So, just to double check... #aplay -l shows this: # aplay -l List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices card 0: CK804 [NVidia CK804], device

[mythtv-users] MythTV, DBox2 and capture/stream digital cable TV to a PC network

2005-09-22 Thread Chris Swinney
Hi All, I am pretty new to all of this so bare with me. I am looking for a way to set up my home PC network so that PC can view digital cable channels directly and channels can be recorded and played back later. So far I can see two ways of doing this using a standard PCI card in a

[mythtv-users] Choppy Video on Playback and LiveTV, not with mplayer

2005-09-22 Thread Lee Koloszyc
Hello all, I am having a problem with mythtv 0.18.1 on Gentoo kernel 2.6.12-r10 on both livetv and playing pre-recorded videos. The play back is supper choppy and pauses about every 2 seconds. Playing the same file directly through mplayer or gmplayer and it runs as smooth as butter. The

[mythtv-users] Jarod's 27 TV and xorg.conf question

2005-09-22 Thread Craig Tinson
okies.. quick question on Jarod's site he mentions he has a standard 27 analog TV plugged into his mx440 nv card First of all he doesn't specify if it's a widescreen - which mine is If his is.. and remembering he's in the US and i'm in UK.. in theory I should be able to just copy his

[mythtv-users] AIR2PC 5th gen HD tuner -- failed install :( :(

2005-09-22 Thread Paul B. Henson
After six months of waiting, I finally received my three next generation AIR2PC HD tuner cards yesterday, and of course had to immediately install them :). After physically installing the cards, lspci showed all three cards. Obviously, support for this card is not yet in the stock kernel, nor

[mythtv-users] Various questions

2005-09-22 Thread kteague
Good day Ladies and Gent's, Long time lurker, first time poster with a few questions up my sleeve regarding hardware requirements for my type of setup. Service Provider: DirecTV (from here on, referred to as D*) Video Format: NTSC Receiver: Any HD capable D* receiver Television: Westinghouse

Re: [mythtv-users] program remote's power key to stop mythfrontend?

2005-09-22 Thread Craig Tinson
Dave Sherohman wrote: On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 03:15:25PM +0100, Craig Tinson wrote: am not an expert on this.. but couldn't you just use irexec to send half-a-dozen ESC keys? no matter where you are in myth that should take you to the close screen? not exactly pretty but should do what

[mythtv-users] compile barfs at mpegvideo.c:

2005-09-22 Thread Marius Schrecker
Hi, compiling mythtv-0.18.1 on amd64 debian sid with gcc 3.4 (where much of system compiled on 4.0). Following www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-4.html at : # dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -us -uc -b [...] I'm getting: mpegvideo.c: In function `ff_copy_bits': mpegvideo.c:26: error: extended

Re: [mythtv-users] Various questions

2005-09-22 Thread Kevin Kuphal
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good day Ladies and Gent's, Long time lurker, first time poster with a few questions up my sleeve regarding hardware requirements for my type of setup. Service Provider: DirecTV (from here on, referred to as D*) Video Format: NTSC Receiver: Any HD capable D*

[mythtv-users] No sound on specific channel

2005-09-22 Thread Tobias Larsson
Hi all, After some tinkering I have now a working MythTV setup, except one thing. On one of the channels I don't have any sound, while the others are working just fine. I have also tried fine-tuning the channel, without much luck. Either I managed to get sound but lousy image, or good image

Re: [mythtv-users] program remote's power key to stop mythfrontend?

2005-09-22 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Thu, 2005-09-22 at 20:02 +0100, Craig Tinson wrote: Dave Sherohman wrote: Try pressing ESC half a dozen times... Once you get to the shutdown confirmation, ESC cancels the shutdown. So this would have a 50/50 chance of working, depending on how deep you are in the Myth menus. (Although

Re: [mythtv-users] AIR2PC 5th gen HD tuner -- failed install :( :(

2005-09-22 Thread Paul B. Henson
On Thu, 22 Sep 2005, Paul B. Henson wrote: Obviously, support for this card is not yet in the stock kernel, nor is there support even in the current dvb-kernel CVS. However, I had a pointer to Taylor's patch on the mailing list:

Re: [mythtv-users] program remote's power key to stop mythfrontend?

2005-09-22 Thread Craig Tinson
Brian J. Murrell wrote: On Thu, 2005-09-22 at 20:02 +0100, Craig Tinson wrote: Dave Sherohman wrote: Try pressing ESC half a dozen times... Once you get to the shutdown confirmation, ESC cancels the shutdown. So this would have a 50/50 chance of working, depending on how deep you

Re: [mythtv-users] Various questions

2005-09-22 Thread Richard Bronosky
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good day Ladies and Gent's, Long time lurker, first time poster with a few questions up my sleeve regarding hardware requirements for my type of setup. Service Provider: DirecTV (from here on, referred to as D*) Video Format: NTSC Receiver: Any HD capable D*

Re: [mythtv-users] Various questions

2005-09-22 Thread Mickey Chandler
At 02:10 PM 9/22/2005, Kevin Kuphal wrote: Video card. Highly recommend nVidia card of some kind since ATI has poor linux support. Your mileage may vary on this one. I'm using an ATI 9200 card in my Myth box and have had excellent results with livna keeping the ATI fglrx rpm package up to

[mythtv-users] make failure

2005-09-22 Thread R. G. Newbury
I' m trying to rebuild mythtv with some more features enabled. When I get to 'make' it fails with the following error(s) Basically it's not seeing/finding something which it should, but I have no idea why this version should fail, while the one I grabbed a week ago did not... Anyone have

Re: [mythtv-users] make failure

2005-09-22 Thread Asher Schaffer
On 9/22/05, R. G. Newbury [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I' m trying to rebuild mythtv with some more features enabled. What features did you change? Maybe post the output from configure? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org

[mythtv-users] Beginners question

2005-09-22 Thread Paul Schied
Hello everyone, I am new to this forum and am considering trying to get mythtv working but want to clear a couple of questions up before going any further. I have comcast cable, extended basic cable. To my knowledge it is not digital but IDO have a cablebox. From what I've been reading I will

[mythtv-users] VBI subtitles with ivtv cards?

2005-09-22 Thread Joseph A. Caputo
Hi, Please 'scuse my ignorance, but while going through the commit history for the week that I was on vacation in August, I saw some changes in SVN related to VBI subtitles w/ivtv-driven cards. Does this mean that subtitles are now working/supported for these cards (assuming I have a recent

[mythtv-users] 1st Myth Box Setup

2005-09-22 Thread Luke Olson
Hey all, just found this list and i am loving it. I will be building a Front end box for a friend that knows a moderate amount about computers, so i want to build a box set it up, and never have to chage it again. Fat chance i know. Just wanted to run a list of components by you and hope that

RE: [mythtv-users] Beginners question

2005-09-22 Thread Folashade Adeyosoye
Just put a splitter when it comes out of the cablebox, one to the computer and the other to the TV. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Schied Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2005 4:24 PM To: mythtv-users@mythtv.org Subject: [mythtv-users]

Re: [mythtv-users] VBI subtitles with ivtv cards?

2005-09-22 Thread Isaac Richards
On Thursday 22 September 2005 04:29 pm, Joseph A. Caputo wrote: Hi, Please 'scuse my ignorance, but while going through the commit history for the week that I was on vacation in August, I saw some changes in SVN related to VBI subtitles w/ivtv-driven cards. Does this mean that subtitles

Re: [mythtv-users] Beginners question

2005-09-22 Thread Erik Pettersen
You'd need two cable boxes... if you split the cable after the cable box you'll just get two versions of the same channel =P I think what I'd do is confirm what cable I have or didn't have, if I were you... I'd run (temporarily) coax straight from the wall to the TV (assuming your TV has a TV

Re: [mythtv-users] Various questions

2005-09-22 Thread kteague
Thanks so much for the quick replies! Sort of. You need a card that can capture from s-video or composite since this is the only output you can get from your DirecTV receiver (unless they offer one with firewire). Most cards that have this (PVR series from Hauppauge, etc) also have a tuner

Re: [mythtv-users] make failure

2005-09-22 Thread R. G. Newbury
Asher Schaffer wrote: On 9/22/05, R. G. Newbury [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I' m trying to rebuild mythtv with some more features enabled. What features did you change? Maybe post the output from configure? ___ Well since my post I've

Re: [mythtv-users] Various questions

2005-09-22 Thread Bill Omer
Newer D* receivers have both DVI and HDMI outputs. The D* HD10-250 (POS) I just bought has an HDMI port and comes with a HDMI - DVI cable. Are there any cards that can support either a DVI or HDMI input? Sadly ... no. Not yet anyway. Sure would be nice though, since I can't get any

Re: [mythtv-users] Beginners question

2005-09-22 Thread Scot L. Harris
On Thu, 2005-09-22 at 16:23, Paul Schied wrote: Hello everyone, I am new to this forum and am considering trying to get mythtv working but want to clear a couple of questions up before going any further. I have comcast cable, extended basic cable. To my knowledge it is not digital but

Re: [mythtv-users] Beginners question

2005-09-22 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 04:23:46PM -0400, Paul Schied wrote: I have comcast cable, extended basic cable. To my knowledge it is not digital but I DO have a cablebox. From what I've been reading I will need to hook up the cable to my tuner card after it goes through the cablebox (so it is

Re: [mythtv-users] PS2 connected to a PVR 350

2005-09-22 Thread Franco
the hardware encoder (also the decoder) have a delay of 1.5 to 2 secs you will always have this delay if you get the video from /dev/video0. ivtv-driver (/dev/video32 or 48; don't know exactly) that did direct pass-through with nearly zero-delay. You can try to watch this via mplayer. Maybe

Re: [mythtv-users] Beginners question

2005-09-22 Thread Erik Pettersen
On 9/22/05, Folashade Adeyosoye [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just put a splitter when it comes out of the cablebox, one to the computer and the other to the TV. This won't work... you'd want the split BEFORE the cable box for analog cable. The outstanding question is if somehow his cable

Re: [mythtv-users] PS2 connected to a PVR 350

2005-09-22 Thread Kevin Kuphal
Franco wrote: the hardware encoder (also the decoder) have a delay of 1.5 to 2 secs you will always have this delay if you get the video from /dev/video0. ivtv-driver (/dev/video32 or 48; don't know exactly) that did direct pass-through with nearly zero-delay. You can try to watch this via

[mythtv-users] Isaac, are you looking for a job? :)

2005-09-22 Thread Andrew Close
http://www.google.com/support/jobs/bin/answer.py?answer=26151query=googletvtopic=0type=googletv GoogleTV is hiring! Responsibilities: In this role, you will provide leadership on product vision and execution of projects that enable using Google's search and advertising technologies to enhance

Re: [mythtv-users] make failure

2005-09-22 Thread Robert Johnston
On 22/09/05, R. G. Newbury [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I' m trying to rebuild mythtv with some more features enabled. When I get to 'make' it fails with the following error(s) Basically it's not seeing/finding something which it should, but I have no idea why this version should fail, while

Re: [mythtv-users] 1st Myth Box Setup

2005-09-22 Thread Erik Pettersen
One thought/suggestion: I'm of the opinion that if you want to record BOTH ATSC/HDTV and NTSC/regular cable you'll probably be best of, IMHO, with a separate HDTV card (like the HD-3000) from the analog tuner card... maybe a PVR150 AND a HD3000 if budget allows? I strongly think for most PVR'ing

Re: [mythtv-users] Beginners question

2005-09-22 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 04:58:18PM -0400, Erik Pettersen wrote: The outstanding question is if somehow his cable company is the kinda that actually scrambles analog and requires cable box to view anythign at all... I have Comcast and no convertor. (I used a Tivo from its initial release until

Re: [mythtv-users] Beginners question

2005-09-22 Thread thomas scott urban
On Thu, 2005-09-22 at 16:23 -0400, Paul Schied wrote: Hello everyone, I am new to this forum and am considering trying to get mythtv working but want to clear a couple of questions up before going any further. I have comcast cable, extended basic cable. To my knowledge it is not

Re: [mythtv-users] Beginners question

2005-09-22 Thread Erik Pettersen
On 9/22/05, Dave Sherohman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have Comcast and no convertor. (I used a Tivo from its initial release until it died a couple months ago and made a point of only getting the clear channels so I wouldn't have to deal with an IR blaster.) I doubt that they would scramble

[mythtv-users] Does it work like this?

2005-09-22 Thread Tommy Denton
If I have a mythtv box, can I view TV on another computer? Tommy ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

Re: [mythtv-users] Does it work like this?

2005-09-22 Thread Kevin Kuphal
Tommy Denton wrote: If I have a mythtv box, can I view TV on another computer? Running mythfrontend, yes. Kevin ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

Re: [mythtv-users] Does it work like this?

2005-09-22 Thread Tommy Denton
Is that an add-on or does it come ready on a distro?On 9/22/05, Kevin Kuphal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tommy Denton wrote: If I have a mythtv box, can I view TV on another computer?Running mythfrontend, yes.Kevin___mythtv-users mailing list

Re: [mythtv-users] Does it work like this?

2005-09-22 Thread Monkey Pet
Yes, mythbackend can stream to multiple mythfrontends. Say you have a backend which has tuner cards, you can then watch tv on a frontend which can be seperate from the backend meaning on another computer, if that computer has the frontend software installed and configured. On 9/22/05, Tommy Denton

Re: [mythtv-users] Does it work like this?

2005-09-22 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 05:33:04PM -0400, Tommy Denton wrote: Is that an add-on or does it come ready on a distro? The 'normal' setup is to run both mythfrontend and mythbackend on the same machine. To view your programs on a separate computer, all you have to do is install mythtv on it, but

Re: [mythtv-users] Does it work like this?

2005-09-22 Thread Kevin Kuphal
Tommy Denton wrote: Is that an add-on or does it come ready on a distro? Google KnoppMyth Kevin ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

Re: [mythtv-users] Does it work like this?

2005-09-22 Thread Tommy Denton
the viewing computers are winblows.. client requirment. now what are my optionsOn 9/22/05, Kevin Kuphal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Tommy Denton wrote: Is that an add-on or does it come ready on a distro? Google KnoppMythKevin___mythtv-users mailing

[mythtv-users] Myth Box Components

2005-09-22 Thread Luke Olson
Hey sorry about the crappy formating beofre i hope this one is better Hey all, just found this list and i am loving it.I will be building a Front end box for a friend that knows a moderateamount about computers, so i want to build a box set it up, and never haveto chage it again. Fat chance i

Re: [mythtv-users] Does it work like this?

2005-09-22 Thread Robert Johnston
On 22/09/05, Tommy Denton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the viewing computers are winblows.. client requirment. now what are my options No Live TV, but you can use Samba to view pre-recorded programs. In thoery, you can also use WinMyth, but it's not so stable (Or reliable) IME -- Robert Anaerin

Re: [mythtv-users] Myth Box Components

2005-09-22 Thread Sérgio Gaspar
Hi, Better not mix PVR500MCE with VIA chipsets, the board you selected has a VIA chipset. I've had problems with that mix, although on a different board. Try performing a search on the list archives for problems with VIA chipsets. I used to like VIA, but my preference has changed since I

[mythtv-users] Myth Box Components

2005-09-22 Thread Luke Olson
-- Forwarded message --From: Sérgio Gaspar [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: Sep 22, 2005 5:15 PM Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Myth Box ComponentsTo: Luke Olson [EMAIL PROTECTED], Discussion about mythtv mythtv-users@mythtv.org Hi,Better not mix PVR500MCE with VIA chipsets, the board you

Re: [mythtv-users] Myth Box Components

2005-09-22 Thread Sérgio Gaspar
What chipset would suggest then? I have turned to nVidia, but SiS and Uli are probably fully functional too with PVR500MCE. It is probably some bug or unimplemented feature on VIA chipsets which does not apply to other chipset manufacturers. I have read somewhere (probably

RE: [mythtv-users] Does it work like this?

2005-09-22 Thread Chris Swinney
Ok,a DBox question based on this line of talking. Can I assume that MythTV will install on the DBox and that various other computer will be able to view with front end clients? I then assume that ONE computer can be specified to record to? Thanks, Chris -Original

[mythtv-users] frontend /Backend Compatibility

2005-09-22 Thread Vincent K. Britton
Hi all. I am still running a .16 backend. I just downloaded knoppmyth and it isnt working. I read that knoppmyth was based on version .18 and that got me wondering if the frontends and backend have to be the same version? The error I am getting is that the frontend cant see the

Re: [mythtv-users] Does it work like this?

2005-09-22 Thread Kevin Kuphal
Tommy Denton wrote: the viewing computers are winblows.. client requirment. now what are my options 1. Put the KnoppMyth CD in and reboot to a CD based frontend installation. Does not affect windows 2. Use VMware or Virtual PC to run a frontend in a virtual machine 3. Use any of the

Re: [mythtv-users] frontend /Backend Compatibility

2005-09-22 Thread Kevin Kuphal
Vincent K. Britton wrote: Hi all. I am still running a .16 backend. I just downloaded knoppmyth and it isn’t working. I read that knoppmyth was based on version .18 and that got me wondering if the frontends and backend have to be the same version? The error I am getting is that the

RE: [mythtv-users] frontend /Backend Compatibility

2005-09-22 Thread Vincent K. Britton
Well I'll upgrade my backend soon. Right now the wife is on it. I checked the logs and there was barely anything there for the day: tail -100 /var/log/mythtv/mythbackend.log 2005-09-22 02:06:35 Found changes in the todo list. 2005-09-22 02:06:36 Scheduled 8 items in 0.075427 seconds.

[mythtv-users] Last error. Almost there. Help appreciated!

2005-09-22 Thread Gus
I have the latest 19 release of Mythtv on Fedora 4 following Jarod's guide. All is working, I can capture from /dev/video0 and play it. Backend is setup, and master ip is 192.168.0.1 Frontend is on the same machine PVR250 My error is this: When I try to play live TV, I get a blank screen for

Re: [mythtv-users] Does it work like this?

2005-09-22 Thread Ross Campbell
On 9/22/05, Kevin Kuphal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the viewing computers are winblows.. client requirment. now what are my options 1. Put the KnoppMyth CD in and reboot to a CD based frontend installation. Does not affect windows 2. Use VMware or Virtual PC to run a frontend in a virtual

RE: [mythtv-users] Last error. Almost there. Help appreciated!

2005-09-22 Thread Folashade Adeyosoye
Good job Gus, If I may ask you, it seems we have the same environment * Fedora 4 also following Jarod's guide. Installed a fresh copy of Fedora 4 I did the yum upgrade Did get both atrpms.repo and freshrpms.repo Got and installed mythtv-suite But when I was going to setup the database, the

[mythtv-users] mythtv, nvidia drivers, and renderaccel

2005-09-22 Thread Nathan Caldwell
Hi, I hope that someone can answer this, I looked around and it looks like the issue with X freezing up when using the RenderAccel option is a known issue. What I'm wondering if there's a workaround to get myth to work with RenderAccel on? Is there a certian nvidia driver that plays nice with

[mythtv-users] Mythweb on your mobile phone: a chtml theme? (non-WAP) for DoCoMo I-mode phones

2005-09-22 Thread David Bennett
A big thank you for all of your help so far... I am re-writing this message after a few replies asking me what the hell I was talking about. I am trying to access Mythweb from over my Mobile Phone. After posting about it on this list, I got tons of help about how to view it on a WAP enabled

[mythtv-users] Automatic Transcoding

2005-09-22 Thread Michael Cheshire \(Mailing Lists\)
Howdy, I cant for the likes of me get my mythtv box to automatically transcode stuff recorded from my DVB card.. (Dvico Fusion DVB-T Lite). I'm sure there's a box I should be ticking somewhere - which recording profile should I tick "automatically transcode" in - I've ticked all the boxes

Re: [mythtv-users] frontend /Backend Compatibility

2005-09-22 Thread Kevin Kuphal
Vincent K. Britton wrote: Well I'll upgrade my backend soon. Right now the wife is on it. I checked the logs and there was barely anything there for the day: tail -100 /var/log/mythtv/mythbackend.log 2005-09-22 02:06:35 Found changes in the todo list. 2005-09-22 02:06:36 Scheduled 8

[mythtv-users] mythcomflag - how do I set nice level?

2005-09-22 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, Is it possible to somehow nice mythcomflag? It appears that in cases where I'm recording two shows and also doing commercial detection on two shows that just completed that my poor 3GHz P4 cannot keep up. This is resulting in bad recordings. I think that if I lowered priorities on

Re: [mythtv-users] Automatic Transcoding

2005-09-22 Thread Robert Tsai
On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 10:18:37AM +0930, Michael Cheshire (Mailing Lists) wrote: I cant for the likes of me get my mythtv box to automatically transcode stuff recorded from my DVB card.. (Dvico Fusion DVB-T Lite). I'm sure there's a box I should be ticking somewhere - which recording

Re: [mythtv-users] mythcomflag - how do I set nice level?

2005-09-22 Thread Robert Tsai
On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 06:18:11PM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: Is it possible to somehow nice mythcomflag? It appears that in cases where I'm recording two shows and also doing commercial detection on two shows that just completed that my poor 3GHz P4 cannot keep up. This is resulting in bad

[mythtv-users] Frontend not working

2005-09-22 Thread Vincent K. Britton
Okay I upgraded my frontend to .18 to get it to work with knoppmyth. However it still doesnt work. I get the message: Could not connect to the master backend Server is it running? Is the IP Address set for it in the setup Program correct? No video options work but some of the

[mythtv-users] Still having trouble with transcoding on the wrong backend

2005-09-22 Thread Moasat
I have one master backend and one slave backend. Single recordings occur on the Master but when they finish, the slave tries to come in and transcode it. Below is a clip from the slave backend log. I have both backends configured to allow commercial flagging, transcoding and User Job #1. I

Re: [mythtv-users] mythcomflag - how do I set nice level?

2005-09-22 Thread Mark Knecht
Thanks very much. I did have it set to one job, but CPU usage was medium so I've set it to low. Additionally I saw an option to start commercial flagging when recording starts. I've disabled that also, at least as a test. Probably 70% of our recording is late night stuff so commercial flagging

[mythtv-users] tvtime vs ptune.pl

2005-09-22 Thread Brian M. Sperlongano
Hi, I'm still trying to get my PVR-500 working 100%. Right now, I can use ptune.pl to change the channel, and then cat /dev/video0 /tmp/test.mpg, and then play that in mplayer. Works like a charm. However, when I try to launch tvtime, I get the following: Running tvtime 0.9.15. Reading

Re: [mythtv-users] mythcomflag - how do I set nice level?

2005-09-22 Thread Robert Tsai
On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 06:52:15PM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: Thanks very much. I did have it set to one job, but CPU usage was medium so I've set it to low. Additionally I saw an option to start commercial flagging when recording starts. I've disabled that also, at least as a test.

Re: [mythtv-users] mythcomflag - how do I set nice level?

2005-09-22 Thread Mark Knecht
On 9/22/05, Robert Tsai [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 06:52:15PM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: Thanks very much. I did have it set to one job, but CPU usage was medium so I've set it to low. Additionally I saw an option to start commercial flagging when recording starts.

Re: [mythtv-users] AIR2PC 5th gen HD tuner -- failed install :( :(

2005-09-22 Thread Matt
On 9/22/05, Paul B. Henson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 22 Sep 2005, Paul B. Henson wrote: Obviously, support for this card is not yet in the stock kernel, nor is there support even in the current dvb-kernel CVS. However, I had a pointer to Taylor's patch on the mailing list:

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