RE: [mythtv-users] [ Matrox G400 TV-Out ] RGB Cable

2005-03-03 Thread Duncan Kennington
Have a look at http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=2646 I have a couple of G400s - one of which I have been meaning to put into my Myth box. Unfortunately now the good woman has her hands on it I'm not allowed to touch it lest I break it! So I can't say it works for me, but it's a

Re: [mythtv-users] is my processor to blame? (lockups, problems with FF and REW)

2005-03-03 Thread Niklas Brunlid
On Wed, 2 Mar 2005 22:40:49 -0500, Aaron Aguilar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you can move the sound card to another IRQ in your BIOS setup and see if that solves your problem. Heck, share it with some other device instead of your PVR-250. If it fixes the ff/rew lockups, please let me know! :)

[mythtv-users] Couldn't get the color key color; frontend crashes

2005-03-03 Thread Marcel Lanz
I don't know exactly why, since yesterday my frontend crashes if I want to watch TV the frontend logs: 2005-03-03 10:18:13.834 Connecting to backend server: 127.0.0.1:6543 (try 1 of 5) 2005-03-03 10:18:13.842 Using protocol version 14 2005-03-03 10:18:14.239 Using protocol version 14

[mythtv-users] Problems Editing a DVB recording

2005-03-03 Thread jonny Linux
Hi, I've been using MythTV for about 2 months now, and I'm very impressed with it! Well done to everyone involved! I have a VisionPlus (Twinhan) DVB-T card in the UK, running 0.17 on FC3 but I'm yet to find a way to edit the recordings. I assumed it generates MPEG2 files. So I discovered a

Re: [mythtv-users] FC3, lirc and irman

2005-03-03 Thread MB
Thanks from me too. These posts help me get lirc up and running with the irman and the radioshack 15-2116 remote. hondaman wrote: Thanks Andy, Jerod and Jeff. That will give me enough information to beat my head against for a while :) Jeff Wormsley wrote: hondaman wrote: I got my irman in the

[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] Weird audio problem

2005-03-03 Thread Phill Edwards
I have a strange problem. Whenever I restart mythbackend there's no sound in live TV or in any recordings. I've discovered that if I just restart the backend and leave it, any new recordings will not have any sound. If I watch live TV there will not be any sound either. The only way

Re: [mythtv-users] 2 questions - Running out of disk space and transcoding

2005-03-03 Thread Phill Edwards
Running Myth .17 Athlon xp2200 512mb of ram Hauppauge v4l card 40gb hard drive nvidia gforce 4 1. I keep running out of disk space and am unable to record anything new. Even if i delete ALL recordings, I am still out of space. I must manually delete several .nuv files from my drive.

Re: [mythtv-users] Remote Options.

2005-03-03 Thread Phill Edwards
I'm looking for IR options. I know you get one with the PVR-250/350s and I could build one I suppose, but I was wondering does anyone have any experience using a commercially build IR receiver, and if so... Who makes it, and what model is it? Thanks in advance. I bought a packard

Re: [mythtv-users] Audio out of Sync with Video.

2005-03-03 Thread Phill Edwards
A little read up tells me that I do not need to route the external wire. Does anyone know how to enable the TV Tuner sound card . There's a btaudio HOWTO at http://www.mythtv.info/moin.cgi/BtaudioHowTo ___ mythtv-users mailing list

Re: [mythtv-users] bug on visible flag during channel browse

2005-03-03 Thread Phill Edwards
1) The visible flag correctly hides the channel from the channel guide but does not hide it from the channels that show up when you are watching live TV and you are in browse mode. If you don't want this channel you can delete it from mythweb. Regards, Phill

Re: [mythtv-users] No automatic Commercial Flagging DVB-T AC3 in Aus

2005-03-03 Thread Phill Edwards
I turned automatic commercial flagging on after upgrading to 0.17 and it didn't flag commercials. It turns out you have to change this setting in each recording schedule individually. I guess the global setting just changes what the default will be when you create a new recording schedule.

RE: [mythtv-users] MythTV on Xbox - praise

2005-03-03 Thread William
Well, we installed according to the instructions on bltblk and it was beautiful. It pulled down MythTV v0.17 like a champ (looks like it's hosted at RIT.. Yeah Rochester!). I Hey Brian, Good to know there are fellow rochesterians on the list. So here is a hello from the sleepy town of

Re: [mythtv-users] No automatic Commercial Flagging DVB-T AC3 in Aus

2005-03-03 Thread David Whyte
No, I think the issue is that all the old recordings that have been scheduled will not be updated with the newly set flag. If, when you scheduled them, you didn't have the flag set to scan for commercials, you need to go back to them and update them. All new ones will be set as per the flag.

RE: [mythtv-users] is my processor to blame? (lockups, problems with FF and REW)

2005-03-03 Thread William
First off thanks so much to this list and to Jared for helping me set up a working mythtv box. My setup: AMD Duron 650Mhz 384mb RAM Samsung 160GB HDD FX5200 Hauppauge PVR250 FC3 2.6.10kernel This may not be what you wanted to hear but I was having loads of problems keeping my system

Re: [mythtv-users] Commercial Skip

2005-03-03 Thread James Armstrong
While I'm writing, I have a wishlist request: it'd be nice to be able to have the automatic skipping start 1 or 2 seconds after the beginning of the commercial (the number should be configurable and could default to zero, or course). The reason is that sometimes the skips are so perfect that I

Re: [mythtv-users] Commercial Skip

2005-03-03 Thread David George
On 3/3/2005 8:56 AM, James Armstrong wrote: How about a configurable feature for Commercial flagging that will not save any 'supposed' commercials over xx minutes. I have been having good luck with commercial flagging lately but there is an occasional commercial that is flagged and is over 5 or

Re: [mythtv-users] gentoo cvs ebuild

2005-03-03 Thread Jeff Simpson
I tried re-emerging yesterday: emerge mythtv-cvs mythweather-cvs mythtv compiled and worked, mythweather borked out with the same error. Anything else I can try? On Wed, 2 Mar 2005 19:28:11 +, Simon Kenyon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 02 March 2005 15:26, Jeff Simpson wrote: I

Re: [mythtv-users] Commercial Skip

2005-03-03 Thread Henrik Nielsen
On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 08:56:34 -0500, James Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: While I'm writing, I have a wishlist request: it'd be nice to be able to have the automatic skipping start 1 or 2 seconds after the beginning of the commercial (the number should be configurable and could default

Re: [mythtv-users] parts list

2005-03-03 Thread Nicholas McCoy
SP1614N is the drive I've got too. Its unbelievably quite. I've heard some complaints about vibrational noise, but I don't get that. I think it has to do with my 8 year old steel case. For a while I unpluged my CPU fan (500 Mhz P3) and the whole system was inaudible. That configuration wasn't

Re: [mythtv-users] parts list

2005-03-03 Thread Dan wolf
I own 2 seagates currently, and in my history with comptuers Seagates have never failed me. On Wed, 02 Mar 2005 15:30:14 -0800, Bill Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Probably less disk than you need. You can only get so many disks in a box (not just because of slots, but because of power

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] Help with pcHDTV-2000

2005-03-03 Thread mythtv
Quoting Brandon Beattie [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 09:04:32AM -0800, Nathan Whittacre wrote: I actually followed those steps pretty closely. That's how I got the video working. US-broadcast is the frequency table, and only the HD channels are selected in Zap2It. I'm

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] [OT] 1080i

2005-03-03 Thread Joseph A. Caputo
On Wednesday 02 March 2005 18:00, Josh Burks wrote: I hope Leadtek has improved the quality of fans they put on their cards. We have ~2 Dozen white box oem pc's that came with Leadtek nvidia cards. Over half of them growl, due to bearing/bushing failure. The noise drives my co-workers nuts.

Re: [mythtv-users] Tvtime instead of mplayer?

2005-03-03 Thread Joseph A. Caputo
On Wednesday 02 March 2005 19:18, Sapan Ganguly wrote: I also tried putting the following into mainmenu.xml under the Watch TV section - EXECTV tvtime -m -D %s This stopped the menu option doing anything at all. You might need to use the full path of the tvtime executable, i.e.

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] Audio out of Sync with Video.

2005-03-03 Thread Matt Vollmar
Phill Edwards wrote: A little read up tells me that I do not need to route the external wire. Does anyone know how to enable the TV Tuner sound card . There's a btaudio HOWTO at http://www.mythtv.info/moin.cgi/BtaudioHowTo

[mythtv-users] Bob and artifacts

2005-03-03 Thread John Kuhn
I'm a recent convert from the pvr-350 tv-out to a new nvidia 6200 tv-out. while i think the tv-out quality of nvidia is on par with the 350 the tv playback using it isnt. By turning on Bob deinterlacing the picture is much more comparable to the 350. my problem now is that when i fast

Re: [mythtv-users] parts list

2005-03-03 Thread Ken Mink
On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 01:37:28 -0500, Maverick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SNIP And basically found out 2.5 drives are uselessly expensive. I gave a Samsung drive a try, based on a recommendation of silentpcreview.com (I think). I got a the SP1614N 8MB and it's VERY quiet. In fact, it's so quiet

[mythtv-users] Broadcast Flag Article mentions MythTV and quotes Issac

2005-03-03 Thread Maverick
Thought some of you all might want to read... http://www.sfbg.com/39/22/cover_fcc.html ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

Re: [mythtv-users] parts list

2005-03-03 Thread Maverick
+1 on the Samsung SP1614N I went with one of these drives. The first time I fired the machine up, I thought the drive was DOA as it was silent. There is no whine from rotation and head movement is the quietest I've even heard. It's quieter than all the 2.5 drives I've used. Haha, same

Re: [mythtv-users] Bob and artifacts

2005-03-03 Thread Will Dormann
John Kuhn wrote: I'm a recent convert from the pvr-350 tv-out to a new nvidia 6200 tv-out. while i think the tv-out quality of nvidia is on par with the 350 the tv playback using it isnt. By turning on Bob deinterlacing the picture is much more comparable to the 350. my problem now is that

Re: [mythtv-users] Bob and artifacts

2005-03-03 Thread John Kuhn
I think I read somewhere that enabling the option to seek to exact frame (Under playback settings) might help with this? It's worth a shot. Just out of curiosity, how is the picture resolution look with your system set to Bob? I like the smoothness of motion, but there's a distinct hit

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Torrentocracy Patch against Mythtv-cvs

2005-03-03 Thread Simon Kenyon
On Thursday 03 March 2005 07:14, Maverick wrote: how about sharing the locations of the commercials? would need a way of accurately setting time - or a hash of the frames a bit like cddb - somebody does an accurate commerical cut and then sends it to a central repository now that

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] Bob and artifacts

2005-03-03 Thread Will Dormann
John Kuhn wrote: it seems to be the best of the bunch for me.. picture quality seems as good as the source (which isnt that great) what looks even better is using bob with xvmc.. but that's a trick i cant seem to pull off yet.. xvmc causes lockups and strange issues when the osd is displayed

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] Re: Torrentocracy Patch against Mythtv-cvs

2005-03-03 Thread Kevin Kuphal
Simon Kenyon wrote: we use freedb, imdb and amazon already - so the point is moot all you would need is: None of those are hosted, operated, or under the control of anyone related to MythTV which was the point being made. Kevin ___ mythtv-users

Re: [mythtv-users] Asus S-pressio

2005-03-03 Thread Simon Kenyon
On Thursday 03 March 2005 06:29, David Bennett wrote: I seem to be slowly settling on a smaller case and my local electronics store is pushing the Asus S-presso. Does anyone have any opinions? Will this have troubles with Linux? (Thinking of running Gentoo but am open to anything really!) Is

Re: [mythtv-users] Broadcast Flag Article mentions MythTV and quotes Issac

2005-03-03 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 09:58:37AM -0500, Maverick wrote: Thought some of you all might want to read... http://www.sfbg.com/39/22/cover_fcc.html Oh. The writer is a policy analyst for EFF. No *wonder* the piece is so good. :-) Well, I blogged it, and posted it on mythtv.info; let's hope

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

[mythtv-users] MythTV frontend for Mac OS X testimony requests

2005-03-03 Thread Valéry Marchive
Hello everyone, I'm a french independent journalist preparing an investigation on the Mac mini as a Media Center projects for the french magazine Univers Mac. I'd like to get testimonies of MythTV frontend for Mac OS X users. Here are my preliminary questions : - What made you when did you

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Torrentocracy Patch against Mythtv-cvs

2005-03-03 Thread Garry Cook
On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 09:32:07 -0600, Kevin Kuphal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Simon Kenyon wrote: we use freedb, imdb and amazon already - so the point is moot all you would need is: None of those are hosted, operated, or under the control of anyone related to MythTV which was the point

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Torrentocracy Patch against Mythtv-cvs

2005-03-03 Thread Joseph A. Caputo
On Thursday 03 March 2005 10:39, Garry Cook wrote: I've had my MythTV box up for a little over a week now, and one thing that really kills me is when I see a commercial (watching live TV of course) for a program that is of interest. What do I do? Stop watching and go schedule it? Write it

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Torrentocracy Patch against Mythtv-cvs

2005-03-03 Thread Maverick
You will find this suggestion from me in a number of threads in the past (I think I first suggested it to the Replay guys 5 years ago but they never did anything with it.) It will happen. Actually, where it would come in handy is not just commercials (which software today can detect) but

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Torrentocracy Patch against Mythtv-cvs

2005-03-03 Thread Maverick
we use freedb, imdb and amazon already - so the point is moot all you would need is: channel, date and time (though additional info like program title might help) what would be returned would be a set of cut point you would probably need to be able to slide them around as a group to cater

Re: [mythtv-users] Broadcast Flag Article mentions MythTV and quotes Issac

2005-03-03 Thread Maverick
Oh. The writer is a policy analyst for EFF. No *wonder* the piece is so good. :-) Yeah, but he makes that plenty clear, heh. Well, I blogged it, and posted it on mythtv.info; let's hope it gets some traction in the media. Thanks for the pointer. Agreed. The whole broadcast flag thing is

[mythtv-users] Nuvexport

2005-03-03 Thread Sigurd Nes
Updated nuvexport from cvs. After passing through the optional choises (width, height) it just quits no nothing even with -debug and -transcode. Any clues? Sigurd ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org

Re: [mythtv-users] Broadcast Flag Article mentions MythTV and quotes Issac

2005-03-03 Thread Mark L. Cukier
Currently I would NEVER consider getting a black box-- I'm not going to steal cable. But, once the black boxes output a signal with the flag filtered out... well, I'll still pay for my cable but I'll definitely have a black box! :-D Maverick wrote: Oh. The writer is a policy analyst

Re: [mythtv-users] Broadcast Flag Article mentions MythTV and quotes Issac

2005-03-03 Thread Allan Stirling
Maverick wrote: Thought some of you all might want to read... http://www.sfbg.com/39/22/cover_fcc.html The article is great - Mainly. However, opening with this quote: 'ALL I WANT is to make a high-definition copy of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, save it on a DVD, and loan it to my friend, says

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Torrentocracy Patch against Mythtv-cvs

2005-03-03 Thread Shaul Kedem
Actually, where it would come in handy is not just commercials (which software today can detect) but other things like pitching changes, boring academy awards acceptance speeches, long driving scenes to no purpose etc. This gives me an idea.. how about having more than one sort of flag? - Over

Re: [mythtv-users] Broadcast Flag Article mentions MythTV and quotes Issac

2005-03-03 Thread Garry Cook
On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 16:09:36 +, Allan Stirling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maverick wrote: Thought some of you all might want to read... http://www.sfbg.com/39/22/cover_fcc.html The article is great - Mainly. However, opening with this quote: 'ALL I WANT is to make a

Re: [mythtv-users] Broadcast Flag Article mentions MythTV and quotes Issac

2005-03-03 Thread Maverick
The article is great - Mainly. However, opening with this quote: 'ALL I WANT is to make a high-definition copy of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, save it on a DVD, and loan it to my friend, says Sarah Brydon, looking up from a long table covered with half-built computers. REALLY gets my back

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] Nuvexport

2005-03-03 Thread Chris Petersen
Any clues? cvs is broken. read the commit logs. Will hopefully finish my changes today. As a temporary fix, try installing the nuvexportrc file. -Chris ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org

[mythtv-users] Re: 1080i

2005-03-03 Thread Neil
Joseph A. Caputo writes: On Wednesday 02 March 2005 18:00, Josh Burks wrote: I hope Leadtek has improved the quality of fans they put on their cards. We have ~2 Dozen white box oem pc's that came with Leadtek nvidia cards. Over half of them growl, due to bearing/bushing failure. The noise drives

Re: [mythtv-users] mysql error with mythweb

2005-03-03 Thread Chris Petersen
When I get that error, it means my disk is full. That's the only time I've gotten that. If your disk isn't full... I don't know what the problem is. could also mean that the disk *was* full (or something else) and the table got corrupted. In any case, googling for the error string will

Re: [mythtv-users] Broadcast Flag Article mentions MythTV and quotes Issac

2005-03-03 Thread Andy Long
On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 16:09:36 +, Allan Stirling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maverick wrote: Thought some of you all might want to read... http://www.sfbg.com/39/22/cover_fcc.html The article is great - Mainly. However, opening with this quote: 'ALL I WANT is to make a

Re: [mythtv-users] Broadcast Flag Article mentions MythTV and quotes Issac

2005-03-03 Thread Geoff Scott
On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 09:20:39 -0700, Garry Cook [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah, I thought the same thing. Perhaps we, as actual users of these apps/cards/etc., should write our own article, a manifesto of sorts, and post it somewhere highly visible. Maybe there is something already out there, I

Re: [mythtv-users] Broadcast Flag Article mentions MythTV and quotes Issac

2005-03-03 Thread Geoff Scott
On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 08:39:40 -0800, Geoff Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there we start the drive to put a firefox-like add in the NYT? I hate the flag, and I hate the greed it's come to represent. gs Damn, I typed too fast. Severe caffeine deficiency. Is this where we start... gs

Re: [mythtv-users] Broadcast Flag Article mentions MythTV and quotes Issac

2005-03-03 Thread Maverick
Yeah, I thought the same thing. Perhaps we, as actual users of these apps/cards/etc., should write our own article, a manifesto of sorts, and post it somewhere highly visible. Maybe there is something already out there, I dunno, but with the press that this keeps getting, an update may be in

Re: [mythtv-users] Broadcast Flag Article mentions MythTV and quotes Issac

2005-03-03 Thread Matt Grommes
REALLY gets my back up. Again. This is what the media companies are trying to (rightly) prevent with the broadcast flag. Andy Long wrote: == No, this is not rightly something that media companies should be allowed to prevent. Under current law, they CAN'T prevent it. It is perfectly legal of

Re: [mythtv-users] Broadcast Flag Article mentions MythTV and quotes Issac

2005-03-03 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 08:39 -0800, Geoff Scott wrote: Is there we start the drive to put a firefox-like add in the NYT? I hate the flag, and I hate the greed it's come to represent. The problem with this issue and all like it (CSS for example just as the article mentions) is that most

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Torrentocracy Patch against Mythtv-cvs

2005-03-03 Thread Chris Petersen
a.) every instance of the show puts the commercials in the same place b.) the same show airing on different channels have the commercials in the same place (SkyONE has radically different commercial placement than, say, the sciFI channel). c.) the commercials are the same length (could be gotten

Re: [mythtv-users] Broadcast Flag Article mentions MythTV and quotes Issac

2005-03-03 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 11:47 -0500, Maverick wrote: Will MythTV obey the broadcast flag if it where to become law? Being an open source project, seems like everyone would just remove that section of code using illegal patches. You are missing the point of the problem. Software like Myth will

Re: [mythtv-users] Broadcast Flag Article mentions MythTV and quotes Issac

2005-03-03 Thread Allan Stirling
Andy Long wrote: On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 16:09:36 +, Allan Stirling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: REALLY gets my back up. Again. This is what the media companies are trying to (rightly) prevent with the broadcast flag. No, this is not rightly something that media companies should be allowed to

Re: [mythtv-users] Broadcast Flag Article mentions MythTV and quotes Issac

2005-03-03 Thread Allan Stirling
Matt Grommes wrote: Yes, thank you. The willingness people have to just cave to anything the media industry says is very disheartening. We need to have some common sense about these things and not just allow industry to dictate the features and uses we're allowed to have. Following this to

Re: [mythtv-users] parts list

2005-03-03 Thread Maverick
I have three of the SP1614C drives (the SATA version) and find that they are silent when idle, but I hear some vibrational noise when they are writing. I use xfs on lvm over raid-5, and for some reason the drives seem to seek a lot. Raid 5? You afraid of loosing tv shows? Hehe. I'd say it's

Re: [mythtv-users] Broadcast Flag Article mentions MythTV and quotes Issac

2005-03-03 Thread Aaron Stewart
Close, but not quite.. IIRC, the law still prohibits group viewing, which is a gathering of over 12 people.. That law applies to commercially available DVDs, VHS, as well as recordings of shows. It also seems to me that the new law would only prohibit *selling* of devices that don't obey the new

Re: [mythtv-users] HD3000 FC3 Install guide

2005-03-03 Thread sean darcy
All worked well until the very end - installing the v4l drivers: . + /sbin/ldconfig + /sbin/depmod -aq + /sbin/modprobe cx88-dvb FATAL: Error inserting cx88_dvb (/lib/modules/2.6.11/kernel/drivers/media/video/cx88/cx88-dvb.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Torrentocracy Patch against Mythtv-cvs

2005-03-03 Thread Simon Kenyon
On Thursday 03 March 2005 15:32, Kevin Kuphal wrote: Simon Kenyon wrote: we use freedb, imdb and amazon already - so the point is moot all you would need is: None of those are hosted, operated, or under the control of anyone related to MythTV which was the point being made. this is not

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Torrentocracy Patch against Mythtv-cvs

2005-03-03 Thread Simon Kenyon
On Thursday 03 March 2005 17:35, Aaron Stewart wrote: Problem is that one must assume that: a.) every instance of the show puts the commercials in the same place b.) the same show airing on different channels have the commercials in the same place (SkyONE has radically different commercial

Re: [mythtv-users] Broadcast Flag Article mentions MythTV and quotes Issac

2005-03-03 Thread Andy Long
On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 16:57:20 +, Allan Stirling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andy Long wrote: On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 16:09:36 +, Allan Stirling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: REALLY gets my back up. Again. This is what the media companies are trying to (rightly) prevent with the broadcast flag.

Re: [mythtv-users] Broadcast Flag Article mentions MythTV and quotes Issac

2005-03-03 Thread Maverick
Will MythTV obey the broadcast flag if it where to become law? Being an open source project, seems like everyone would just remove that section of code using illegal patches. You are missing the point of the problem. Software like Myth will not even get access to the content to

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: 1080i

2005-03-03 Thread Joseph A. Caputo
On Thursday 03 March 2005 11:29, Neil wrote: I still haven't notice anything with my leadtek card's fan. I will have to check it tonight. Seems quiet to me though. Perhaps *too* quiet... :-) -JAC ___ mythtv-users mailing list

Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV review from a long-time TiVo user

2005-03-03 Thread Lane Schwartz
On Wed, 2 Mar 2005 20:36:54 -0500, Donavan Stanley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've just done a quick instrumentation of the code and verified that the calls are being made to disable/enable the screensaver properly as well as turn off dpms. Why they're not working for all users, I'm not sure

Re: [mythtv-users] Broadcast Flag Article mentions MythTV and quotes Issac

2005-03-03 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 12:24 -0500, Maverick wrote: OK, so the software decoding driver on the pcHDTV would have to be patched? cracked you mean? to strip the flag? i guess that would fall under the category of the legislation that says that a manufacturer of a device needs to make it not

Re: [mythtv-users] Broadcast Flag Article mentions MythTV and quotes Issac

2005-03-03 Thread Andy Long
Cable isn't losing money throught people sharing TV shows. The networks maybe are (and that is risky). What about the case of broadcast television or OTA-HD content. No one pays a nickel for that, and never have, yet I haven't seen NBC, ABC, FOX, CBS or any others go belly up. Most people pay

[mythtv-users] Problems following instructions for MythTV on Fedora Core 3

2005-03-03 Thread James Emmrich
Hi everyone *sorry if this email has gone twice, oops* I am following the article: http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/fcmyth.php Everything has went perfect so far, cept when i try to install a kernal module for ivtv. apt-cache search ivtv-kmdl shows ivtv-kmdl-2.6.10-1.12_FC2 - IVTV kernel drivers.

Re: [mythtv-users] Broadcast Flag Article mentions MythTV and quotes Issac

2005-03-03 Thread Geoff Scott
On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 12:24:57 -0500, Maverick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I put my name on the Firefox ad, I'd do the same for a MythTV supported cause. I agree with Brian, getting people to care is the real problem. -Kenneth Can't we just use scare tactics? gs -- I have some G-Mail

Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV review from a long-time TiVo user

2005-03-03 Thread Mario L
I was about to mention it does seem that myth makes the appropriate calls to xscreensaver consistently for me. I can watch TV without worrying about the screensaver coming up, but when I am at the main menu, if I just wait xscreensaver will enable, and then later my dpms will kick in. I can even

Re: [mythtv-users] Broadcast Flag Article mentions MythTV and quotes Issac

2005-03-03 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 09:44 -0800, Geoff Scott wrote: Can't we just use scare tactics? What would you scare the average consumer with? If you have an idea, you might have the magic bullet. b. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

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

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

2005-03-03 Thread Ross Campbell
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. However, this is supposed to be a compilers class, but our professor is open to ideas for our project, as long as it is somewhat compiler

Re: [mythtv-users] Broadcast Flag Article mentions MythTV and quotes Issac

2005-03-03 Thread Risto Treksler
On Thursday 03 March 2005 10:01 am, Allan Stirling wrote: Matt Grommes wrote: Yes, thank you. The willingness people have to just cave to anything the media industry says is very disheartening. We need to have some common sense about these things and not just allow industry to dictate the

Re: [mythtv-users] Broadcast Flag Article mentions MythTV and quotes Issac

2005-03-03 Thread Maverick
Can't we just use scare tactics? What would you scare the average consumer with? If you have an idea, you might have the magic bullet. Sadly, that probably would be most effective. I know a lot of people are addicted to TV, but I wouldn't die if it just stopped existing in all forms.

Re: [mythtv-users] Broadcast Flag Article mentions MythTV and quotes Issac

2005-03-03 Thread Michael Chmilar
--- Andy Long [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What about the case of broadcast television or OTA-HD content. No one pays a nickel for that, and never have, yet I haven't seen NBC, ABC, FOX, CBS or any others go belly up. The networks make their money by selling you (the audience) to advertisers.

Re: [mythtv-users] Broadcast Flag Article mentions MythTV and quotes Issac

2005-03-03 Thread Geoff Scott
On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 12:58:17 -0500, Brian J. Murrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 09:44 -0800, Geoff Scott wrote: Can't we just use scare tactics? What would you scare the average consumer with? If you have an idea, you might have the magic bullet. b. Given one of

Re: [mythtv-users] Broadcast Flag Article mentions MythTV and quotes Issac

2005-03-03 Thread Maverick
Can't we just use scare tactics? What would you scare the average consumer with? If you have an idea, you might have the magic bullet. Given one of the posters thoughts, which I think are really good, how about something like: The Big Media Companies are about to buy you. The

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] Broadcast Flag Article mentions MythTV and quotes Issac

2005-03-03 Thread Neil Watson
On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 10:41:31AM -0800, Geoff Scott wrote: Given one of the posters thoughts, which I think are really good, how about something like: The Big Media Companies are about to buy you. The Government is about to sell you. Do you want to be a digital slave? or Imagine a world with

Re: [mythtv-users] Broadcast Flag Article mentions MythTV and quotes Issac

2005-03-03 Thread Jason Werpy
On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 11:07:17 -0500, Mark L. Cukier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Currently I would NEVER consider getting a black box-- I'm not going to steal cable. But, once the black boxes output a signal with the flag filtered out... well, I'll still pay for my cable but I'll definitely have a

Re: [mythtv-users] Commercial Skip

2005-03-03 Thread Brad Templeton
On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 08:56:34AM -0500, James Armstrong wrote: While I'm writing, I have a wishlist request: it'd be nice to be able to have the automatic skipping start 1 or 2 seconds after the beginning of the commercial (the number should be configurable and could default to zero, or

[mythtv-users] PVR350 frame buffer blanking before calling mplayer

2005-03-03 Thread jgmtfia Mr
I am looking for a way to blank the frame buffer before mplayer is called to view video files. mplayer sometimes in unable to black out the areas that lie outside of its chosen playback area even though I have selected that option on the mplayer command line.

Re: [mythtv-users] Broadcast Flag Article mentions MythTV and quotes Issac

2005-03-03 Thread Mark L. Cukier
LEIA: The more you tighten your grip, Tarkin, the more star systems will slip through your fingers Neil Watson wrote: On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 10:41:31AM -0800, Geoff Scott wrote: Given one of the posters thoughts, which I think are really good, how about something like: The Big Media

Re: [mythtv-users] upgrading from CVS?

2005-03-03 Thread Matt S.
Thank you... that really was helpful. :) I use Debian, so the rpms are out, but I really don't mind just redoing it each time. It's not really that big of a deal for me. I usually try to upgrade once a month, or if a major change is made in CVS. I like to get fixes, particularly since mythtv

[mythtv-users] RF remote options / XBox Remote

2005-03-03 Thread Reza Naima
Does anyone know of a RF remote that can works w/ linux, and what remote are xbox frontend users using? thnx, reza ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

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