Re: [mythtv-users] Dual HDTV Tuner Requirements

2005-03-05 Thread Brad Templeton
On Sat, Mar 05, 2005 at 01:05:19AM -0500, Jonathan M. Cooper wrote: I've been reading that HDTV decoding takes a substantial amount of processing power. I was wondering if anyone has gotten 2 or more HDTV tuner cards working with myth, and, if so, what the CPU and memory requirements would

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

2005-03-05 Thread Robert Rozman
Hi, since this is OT, I'll add another proposition. Currently I'm reading about Pluto 2 system (ver 2. is more open source friendly rewrite - www.plutohome.com)- it's kind of integration project of some better open sourced projects (Mythtv, Asterisk, Motion, Sphinx, Xine, etc...). It's all in

Re: [mythtv-users] Commercial cutting DVD burning

2005-03-05 Thread David
It's a doddle to do if you have a PVR350 I have about 60+ DVDs of Farscape, Stargate, Buffy, Films etc etc All have proper DVD menus, no commercials, proper printed covers All done 100% in linux Mostly by my non-linuxy wife (who now enjoys linux and gimp) Basically: * record using DVD profile on

[mythtv-users] envy24 sound and internal volume controls

2005-03-05 Thread Jeremy
Is there anyone out there using an envy24 based setup (M-Audio, Audiotrak) that is able to use the internal volume controls? If I use OSS (/dev/dsp), I get normal output but as soon as I timeshift or seek I get Audio buffer overflows (I've tried all combinations of 'extra audio buffering' and

Re: [mythtv-users] Scheduled recordings disappearing

2005-03-05 Thread Bruce Markey
Scott Minneman wrote: That's the method I used to set it up. I followed all of those instructions exactly, and it works for the rest of that day, but clears out after that. I run mythfilldatabase at night, so I think that's the culprit. Not running mythdatabase, however, is obviously not an

Re: [mythtv-users] Are transcoded files supposed to play in mplayer?

2005-03-05 Thread Chris Pinkham
of problems with them. For one, the aspect ratio is lost, so you have to tell mplayer the actual aspect ratio, but more importantly not too This should be fixed in current CVS. 0.17 and previous would set the aspect ratio to 1:1 in nuppel files, with current CVS, the correct aspect should be

Re: [mythtv-users] Commercial Skip

2005-03-05 Thread Chris Pinkham
commercial, and since I didn't notice the skip I'll get confused. BTW, one show that the commercial flagger seems to often get wrong is Teen Titans -- just in case someone wanted a test case to improve the commercial flagger. I'll make a note of this and try to record an episode or two to

Re: [mythtv-users] Commercial Skip

2005-03-05 Thread Chris Pinkham
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 6 minutes and is bogus. I think

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] Is it legal to archive and collect episodes?

2005-03-05 Thread Cory Papenfuss
However, the killing of DVI is indeed in the spec -- no DVI over 720x480x 30fps. I thought 480p was still allowed... just no resolution higher than 720x480? -Cory * * Cory Papenfuss

Re: [mythtv-users] Commercial cutting DVD burning

2005-03-05 Thread Cory Papenfuss
DVDs created with mythtvburn have mp2 sound, and I've just recently come to realize that the US DVD standard only supports ac3 sound. Most cheap DVD players will play the mp2 sound dvds just fine, but some older and more expensive players won't. I think that, strictly speaking, DVD players are

Re: [mythtv-users] Commercial cutting DVD burning

2005-03-05 Thread Cory Papenfuss
On Sat, 5 Mar 2005, David wrote: It's a doddle to do if you have a PVR350 I have about 60+ DVDs of Farscape, Stargate, Buffy, Films etc etc All have proper DVD menus, no commercials, proper printed covers All done 100% in linux Mostly by my non-linuxy wife (who now enjoys linux and gimp)

[mythtv-users] ff/rew not working

2005-03-05 Thread Pete Stagman
Hi, I had seen another thread with a problem like this, but can't seem to find it in archives. After a clean install with 0.17 my FF/REW are doing strange things. They seem to add and remove save points and jump around to random times. This happens in liveTV as well as recordings. Everywhere

Re: [mythtv-users] Are transcoded files supposed to play in mplayer?

2005-03-05 Thread Cory Papenfuss
of problems with them. For one, the aspect ratio is lost, so you have to tell mplayer the actual aspect ratio, but more importantly not too This should be fixed in current CVS. 0.17 and previous would set the aspect ratio to 1:1 in nuppel files, with current CVS, the correct aspect should be in

[mythtv-users] Still having guide data problems

2005-03-05 Thread Mark J. Small
Back in December, I started this thread about problems with guide data. http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/99927?#99927 I was hoping that the upgrade to 0.17 would include the fix that was posted. However, I am still having the same problem. Most Canadian channels show no

Re: [mythtv-users] TVOUT mode settings geforce2 mx400 PAL

2005-03-05 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 04:42:15PM +1100, Phill Edwards wrote: Identifier Monitor0 VendorName Philips ModelName80cm TV HorizSync30.0 - 50.0 # VertRefresh 60.0 - 60.0 VertRefresh 50.0 - 60.0 # ModeLine 640x480PAL 29.50 640

Re: [mythtv-users] Commercial Skip

2005-03-05 Thread Peter Dash
In the channel editor you can specify that a channel doesn't have commercials. Peter. On Sat, 05 Mar 2005 07:01:16 -0600, Bob Wiegand [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First, thanks for the good work. Overall, commercial skipping works pretty well. Is there any way to control commercial skip on a

[mythtv-users] Problem with mythtranscode

2005-03-05 Thread David Morrison
Hi, I recently installed MythTV on my Gentoo box and seem to be having trouble with the mythtranscode program. If I try to transcode from the menu, a few minutes later I get an error reported. If I try it from the command line I get the following: $ mythtranscode -i

[mythtv-users] movie trailer plugin!

2005-03-05 Thread Jeff Simpson
I just thought of this idea and wanted to share it before I forgot it again. What if there were a way from within myth to look through the program guide, and on the information screen, download and watch the trailer from it if there is one found? Or additionally, have a plugin that is in the

[mythtv-users] HD2000/HD3000 and the DVB drivers

2005-03-05 Thread john roberts
Can the new DVB drivers be used fo rthe HD2000/3000 cards? Can they be used for ATSC content in the US? I see a lot of talk about the DVB drivers and its uses outside the US - so I'm a bit confused. Are the DVB drivers and the extentions to MythTV ready for prime time? Or would you

[mythtv-users] Mythtv 0.17, Fedora Core 3

2005-03-05 Thread Charles Mills
Hi all, I've been going round and round with this issue and am out of ideas. I am trying to get MythTV to work with a Hauppauge WinTV PVR-350, Fedora Core 3, 2.6.10-1.766_FC3. The IVTV drivers appear fine, I can get a video signal in and play it out into a TV just fine and change channels

[mythtv-users] Local PBS station now not able to tune - all others OK

2005-03-05 Thread john roberts
Ok - this is very weird. All other stations can be tuned in - AND - this local PBS station used to be able to be tuned just fine with my HD2000/3000 cards. BUT now I'm getting this when I try to change the channel (this is the backend with --verbose channel): 2005-03-05 09:19:02.062

Re: [mythtv-users] HD2000/HD3000 and the DVB drivers

2005-03-05 Thread Justin Schaub
John, Speaking from personal experience, I believe that you can probably start tinkering with it, but depending on your configuration, linux distro., kernel version, etc. you will still probably have some minor inconveniences/bugs. I have Mythtv from CVS, V4L from CVS, DVB from CVS and kernel

Re: [mythtv-users] ff/rew not working

2005-03-05 Thread Byron Miller
Exact same problem here.. it goes NUTS when i use any of the video playback functions - keyboard or remote. I'm using a geforce mx 4000 (440) with XvMC enabled because i'm on a lowly celeron 733 and i'm not sure if its XvMC or backend related.. I'm going to be rebuilding my backend using

Re: [mythtv-users] Commercial Skip

2005-03-05 Thread stephen
Chris Pinkham 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 6 minutes and is

Re: [mythtv-users] Autostart frontend ONLY on manual startup?

2005-03-05 Thread Lane Schwartz
On Sat, 5 Mar 2005 13:56:36 +1100, Phill Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Someone gave me their script which uses the following logic. - Start mythfront/back ends every time the box boots up. - At the same time as mythfrontend starts, start up irw in a script which redirects its stdout to a

Re: [mythtv-users] 1hr show == 66 minutes?

2005-03-05 Thread Andy Rabin
On Sat, 5 Mar 2005 10:41:35 -0500, Andrew Gallatin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andrew Gallatin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When watching one hour HD shows recorded by my Air2PC, I've noticed that the progress meter claims the show is 1:05:29 long. This is off by roughly 10% from the real

Re: [mythtv-users] Hauppage 350 .nuv to mpeg-2

2005-03-05 Thread Lane Schwartz
On Fri, 04 Mar 2005 14:05:41 +, Craig H Fry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Opening is not the issue. The quality is. I just downloaded VDub-MPEG2 and it looks just like every other MPEG2 player I have used. Is the quality also bad using mplayer or xine on Linux? Or is the problem just on

Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV Presentation - Requesting Comments/Opinions

2005-03-05 Thread stephen
Matt Mencel wrote: Excellent...this what I'm looking for. To me MythTV means commercial free TV watching consumer empowerment, my kids ALWAYS have something recorded that's ok for them to watch. To some, it's the coolness or technology/geek factor of just how MythTV looks/works. To another it's

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

[mythtv-users] RE: How slow can we go, cpu wise? P2-333?

2005-03-05 Thread Andrew Lynch
mindfuq at fairfieldi wrote [snip] I think adding an MPEG2 encoder would definitely increase performance as would an NVidia card but then it wouldn't be practically free anymore. A decent PVR-250 on special dealnews is $100 and an NVidia card is $40. A PVR-350 is an easy $150. Add any

Re: [mythtv-users] HELP about TV output

2005-03-05 Thread Ashu Desai
Hi, I did the overscan option. I went for TVOverScan upto 5.5, but nothing happened!!! Thanks in advance for your help. --a-- On Fri, 04 Mar 2005 11:29:30 -0500, Calvin Harrigan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ashu Desai wrote: Hello guys, A newbie here. I wrote a couple of weeks back, and

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

[mythtv-users] Can't change VIDIOC_S_FMT

2005-03-05 Thread mythtv
I'm trying to set vidoe capture to 720x572, but it does not work. ivtvctl -f width=720,height=572 ioctl: VIDIOC_S_FMT Before: Type : Video Capture Width : 480 Height : 480 ioctl: VIDIOC_S_FMT failed After: Type : Video Capture Width

[mythtv-users] Script to refresh MythMusic database?

2005-03-05 Thread Jon Hoyt
Hi, I have a Myth box running in my living room (with no keyboard). I maintain my music collection, updating tags, etc. from another machine on the network. After making changes to mp3 or flac tags, they don't show up in MythMusic until I dump the database and rescan. I ssh to my Myth box and

[mythtv-users] Conflict resolution between HD3000's NTSC and ATSC tuners?

2005-03-05 Thread Craig Eaton
I recently setup my HD3000 card, and its working well in both the ATSC and NTSC modes. To make this work in mythtv, I setup the HD3000 card to look like two different capture cards. My myth setup currently has one capture card entry for the ATSC mode (which points to /dev/dtv0), and a

[mythtv-users] AMD64 FC3 MythTV 0.17 installation

2005-03-05 Thread Mike Ryan
Hi I've just built a new system around an AMD 64 3200 processor. Did a new installation of Redhat Fedora Core 3 (64 bit distro) and was then hoping to follow Jarrod's installation guide. So, did the installation of atrpms using: rpm -Uvh

[mythtv-users] Channel Changer Script error

2005-03-05 Thread the Dragon King
Hello! I ran a myth box for ~20 months; did a couple of upgrades, some went very well, some went harder. When 0.17 came out, I decided to bite the bullet, and reinstall the box and go from RH9 to FC3. Numerous rpm/apt difficulties led to this decision (I'd unwisely 'forced' some things, and

Re: [mythtv-users] HD2000/HD3000 and the DVB drivers

2005-03-05 Thread ffrf
I generally agree that the DVB drivers do work with the HD3000, but they are not 100% reliable compared to the 'official' pcHDTV drivers. Comments I have on the DVB drivers with HD3000 in MythTv (in the US): - Guide data integration is not as plug-and-play as it is with the pcHDTV drivers because

Re: [mythtv-users] Commercial Skip

2005-03-05 Thread Robin Smith
While the commercial detection is very good (perhaps my favourite feature), I have noticed that since the upgrade to .17 (and using the All method), it tends to skip over the last 5 or 6 minutes of many shows I watch. Big candidates for this include Carson Daly, and The Daily Show. Both of these

Re: [mythtv-users] AMD64 FC3 MythTV 0.17 installation

2005-03-05 Thread Mike Ryan
Just come across this on Bugzilla: http://bugzilla.atrpms.net/show_bug.cgi?id=334#c2 I assume this is still the case? If I do a manual installation of MythTV from the RPM's http://apt.physik.fu-berlin.de/fedora/3/en/x86_64/RPMS.at-good/ does anyone have a list of all dependencies somwhere?

[mythtv-users] Channel 7/SBS AU, Can't Tune DVB-T, What the FEC?

2005-03-05 Thread David Whyte
I am unable to tune both SBS and Seven in Brisbane. I just upgraded to 0.17 (hence why I am still awake at 3:30am) and managed to get ten, nine and abc running, but not seven or SBS. I never had SBS going on 0.16 but never investigated why, though seven was working just dandy. From what I can

Re: [mythtv-users] AMD64 FC3 MythTV 0.17 installation

2005-03-05 Thread Edward Rudd
On Sat, 2005-03-05 at 11:38, Mike Ryan wrote: Hi [snip] Should I be doing this another way for an AMD-64 installation? Yes, add atrpms as a yum source to yum or add it to up2date's source file. OR install smart from atrpms. All are viable options until the APT group gets around to fixing

Re: [mythtv-users] Commercial Skip

2005-03-05 Thread Chris Pinkham
Is there any way to control commercial skip on a per-show or per-channel basis? I get false positives on some PBS shows where I know there aren't any commercials. In the channel editor you can specify that a channel doesn't have commercials. And in the scheduled recording editor, you can

RE: [mythtv-users] Mythtv 0.17, Fedora Core 3

2005-03-05 Thread Andrew
Have you set `/usr/bin/ivtvctl -p 4`? With my MythTV, FC3, PVR-350 machine this is necessary. Though since you have video running I assume this is correct. However, it is possible to not set -p 4 and use the ptune-ui.pl script to do this manually I think. Andrew -Original Message-

[mythtv-users] Livetv PVR350 poor quality

2005-03-05 Thread mythtv
I'm trying now for a few months to get the live tv right with X Watching live tv is not sharp. Everything else like mythvideo and even the menus have a very good quality. The input cable is checked and good. I'm using the pvr-out cable with scart in to the analoge tv-set. In the settings i've set

Re: [mythtv-users] Problem with mythtranscode

2005-03-05 Thread Chris Pinkham
'/mnt/monster/store/1006_20050305125500_20050305144500.nuv': Stream #0.0: Video: mpeg2video, 720x576, 25.00 fps, 15000 kb/s Stream #0.1: Audio: mp2, 48000 Hz, stereo, 192 kb/s Only MP2 audio is currently supported mythtranscode: mpeg2trans.cpp:375: uint32_t

Re: [mythtv-users] Commercial Skip

2005-03-05 Thread Chris Pinkham
I've been using the All method since I upgraded to .17, and I still occasionally see short false positives (9 or 11 seconds). I think the idea of a user setting for min/max commercial break length would be kind of handy. This can occur even with ALL if the following are true: * You're

Re: [mythtv-users] ff/rew not working

2005-03-05 Thread Chris Birkinshaw
Quoting Byron Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Exact same problem here.. it goes NUTS when i use any of the video playback functions - keyboard or remote. I'm using a geforce mx 4000 (440) with XvMC enabled because i'm on a lowly celeron 733 and i'm not sure if its XvMC or backend related..

[mythtv-users] [DESPARATE] Is anyone using an ATI TVout with Xorg 6.8?

2005-03-05 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
We've just upgraded our Mythbox from SuSE 9.1 to 9.1. We had *enough* trouble trying to get TVout on our Radeon 9200SE clone to work in the first place; ATI's 3.14.6 drivers will do TVout just fine (in fact, we scarcely had any trouble on the TVout side -- the card syncs up from boot,

Re: [mythtv-users] Commercial Skip

2005-03-05 Thread Chris Pinkham
feature), I have noticed that since the upgrade to .17 (and using the All method), it tends to skip over the last 5 or 6 minutes of many shows I watch. Big candidates for this include Carson Daly, and The Daily Show. Both of these shows go for a final 2 minute commercial break, then come back

[mythtv-users] iPaq NetRemote???

2005-03-05 Thread Chris Birkinshaw
There is an app called NetRemote for windows which allows you to use a PDA with WLAN (or a tablet PC, desktop with touchscreen/mouse, etc on the LAN) to control multimedia apps on yoru HTPC. Is there any project for linux which replicates this? Maybe even if we had a java based mythtv remote

[mythtv-users] MythDVD woes (mplayer vs xine)

2005-03-05 Thread Richard Holroyd
Not being satisfied with the lack of dvd menu support in mplayer I opted to apt-get xine and integrate it as the replacement player for dvds in Myth. However, unlike with mplayer which appeared seamlessly when loading, xine kicks back to the desktop whilst loading before jumping into full screen

[mythtv-users] recommendations to solve a frontend problem

2005-03-05 Thread Harondel J. Sibble
Currently I have a combined front/backend computer in the living room running Knoppmyth. I am using an SBlive with all audio output through the spdif connection to spdif connection on the Creative Labs Desktop Theatre 5.1 (DTT) sound system. The computer is hooked up to our tv via svideo. I

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

2005-03-05 Thread Nav Jagpal
Thanks.. I wanted to know about the picture before I went and purchased the remote. My experience with VNC on Debian is that you cannot control the console, but can control what I call virtual desktops ? -- N On Sat, 5 Mar 2005 09:47:10 -0500, Brian Meehan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I chose NFS

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR 350 - No Sound

2005-03-05 Thread greg
On Sat, 2005-03-05 at 01:41, James Emmrich wrote: Thanks greg! Im using fedora 3 so im not sure of the differences... however i tried what you said and after a few reboots with different places i found it. I deleted that file like you said, then i went: cp

Re: [mythtv-users] ff/rew not working

2005-03-05 Thread Pete Stagman
On Sat, 5 Mar 2005 18:15:52 +, Chris Birkinshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Byron Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Exact same problem here.. it goes NUTS when i use any of the video playback functions - keyboard or remote. I'm using a geforce mx 4000 (440) with XvMC enabled because

Re: [mythtv-users] ff/rew not working

2005-03-05 Thread Byron Miller
One question, do you guys have a SWITCH or a HUB for your backend? I'm just wondering if that is causing issues (half duplex network may be causing commands to be lost or something) However its suspicious we are all getting this. -byron On Sat, 5 Mar 2005 13:55:05 -0500, Pete Stagman [EMAIL

Re: [mythtv-users] EPIA + mythtv can my hardware cope with both front and back end?

2005-03-05 Thread Henk Poley
Op vrijdag 04 maart 2005 12:36, schreef jerome lacoste: - VIA EPIA M (nehemiah core) board - a Terratec Cinergy 600 TV (saa7134 driver) snip I have no problem watching TV (xawtv / tvtime) but mythbackend goes 95% when watching live TV. I'm sorry but what is your recording resolution? I

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR 350 - No Sound

2005-03-05 Thread James Emmrich
Weird, i never did any modprobes other than the modprobe.conf file, i reboot and it works.. Being that i never modprobed does that mean the old copy might still be attached to the kernel? James greg wrote: On Sat, 2005-03-05 at 01:41, James Emmrich wrote: Thanks greg! Im using fedora 3 so

Re: [mythtv-users] iPaq NetRemote???

2005-03-05 Thread kedlm
I use x2x to control my TV machine from our laptops. Just move the mouse off the right (or left) side of the screen and your keys/mouse are controlling the remote machine. I have used a VNC viewer on my laptop, other machines and my Palm PDA to control it as well, but x2x from the laptop is the

AW: [mythtv-users] [DESPARATE] Is anyone using an ATI TVout with Xorg6.8?

2005-03-05 Thread Bene Martin
Well, come along 9.2, and now we've got Xorg 6.8.1, instead. And there are two ATI driver releases for it: 8.8.25 and 8.10.19. Both give me the Big Blue Band. I'm about to rip Xorg out by the roots, and go back to the 4.3.99 that was in 9.1 (which will not be especially pleasant),

Re: [mythtv-users] AMD64 FC3 MythTV 0.17 installation

2005-03-05 Thread Ian Forde
On Sat, 2005-03-05 at 12:51 -0500, Edward Rudd wrote: On Sat, 2005-03-05 at 11:38, Mike Ryan wrote: Hi [snip] Should I be doing this another way for an AMD-64 installation? Yes, add atrpms as a yum source to yum or add it to up2date's source file. OR install smart from atrpms.

[mythtv-users] How I got great quality TV-out on my nVidia MX4000

2005-03-05 Thread Will Dormann
I recently added an nVidia graphics card to my Asus Pundit, in hopes of improving the TV-out quality. The onboard SIS chip isn't bad, but I figured I could do better. After tweaking settings for quite a bit, here's how I achieved what I believe to be the optimal output. I have an SDTV

Re: [mythtv-users] [DESPARATE] Is anyone using an ATI TVout with Xorg6.8?

2005-03-05 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
On Sat, Mar 05, 2005 at 08:12:20PM +0100, Bene Martin wrote: Sure, I'm doing this (just watching Return of the King right now :-)), ATI 9200SE Graphics Card. Driver: I'm using the open source gatos drivers, not ati binaries; the binaries at http://mabene.icomedias.com/gatos-stuff/ should

[mythtv-users] DV Recording via IEEE-1394 Firewire with MythTV

2005-03-05 Thread Rich Shumaker
Can MythTV record DV files using the IEEE-1394 port? Would they be in NUV files and would they need to be transcoded? If they are in NUV files is there a transcoder to DV? Thanks Rich Shumaker ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org

[mythtv-users] Re: AMD64 FC3 MythTV 0.17 installation

2005-03-05 Thread Axel Thimm
On Sat, Mar 05, 2005 at 11:22:04AM -0800, Ian Forde wrote: 7. Fix /etc/grub.conf to *NOT* boot the new 770_14 kernel. ( At this point, the kernel installed (770_14) would cause kernel oopses with the nvidia video driver, so I had to replace it with the stock Fedora 770 kernel). Eeeck! Can

Re: [mythtv-users] Commercial Skip

2005-03-05 Thread Brad Templeton
On Sat, Mar 05, 2005 at 01:24:32PM -0500, Chris Pinkham wrote: Part of this is due to the fact that it assumes that show segments must be at least 65 seconds long. I've seen what you're talking about once or twice, but if I crank that number down, then you will get missdetection at other

[mythtv-users] New Gentoo Myth Install - No Sound

2005-03-05 Thread Michael Haan
Finished my new myth install last night, and there's no sound. The simple explanation might be that I didn't install alsa, trying instead to get it to work with just the nvidia driver. So, I emerge'd alsa-tools (it's a gentoo system) and loaded alsa (/etc/init.d/alsasound start), and adjusted my

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: AMD64 FC3 MythTV 0.17 installation

2005-03-05 Thread Ian Forde
On Sat, 2005-03-05 at 20:45 +0100, Axel Thimm wrote: On Sat, Mar 05, 2005 at 11:22:04AM -0800, Ian Forde wrote: 7. Fix /etc/grub.conf to *NOT* boot the new 770_14 kernel. ( At this point, the kernel installed (770_14) would cause kernel oopses with the nvidia video driver, so I had to

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: AMD64 FC3 MythTV 0.17 installation

2005-03-05 Thread Ian Forde
On Sat, 2005-03-05 at 12:04 -0800, Ian Forde wrote: On Sat, 2005-03-05 at 20:45 +0100, Axel Thimm wrote: On Sat, Mar 05, 2005 at 11:22:04AM -0800, Ian Forde wrote: 7. Fix /etc/grub.conf to *NOT* boot the new 770_14 kernel. ( At this point, the kernel installed (770_14) would cause kernel

[mythtv-users] watch tv on video0 and record on video1

2005-03-05 Thread Mythtv
Is it possible to record only on /dev/video1 and watch tv on /dev/video1 I've the following setup /dev/video0 - PVR350 /dev/video1 - BT878 The only thing i want is that mythtv always record on /dev/video1. Is this possible. Thanks patrick ___

[mythtv-users] The nvidia-settings tool and Myth (keeping overscan right)

2005-03-05 Thread Ben Giddings
Hi all, I'm running a MythTV 0.17 box on Gentoo, and I'm getting closer and closer to nirvana. I can now play music, view pics, view movies, record TV, and all that good stuff. One of the few remaining issues for me is using all of my TV's screen real-estate. If I use the 'nvidia-settings'

Re: [mythtv-users] New Gentoo Myth Install - No Sound

2005-03-05 Thread Mark Emery
Hi, I'm running FC3, so the package names may well be different. I could set mixer levels, had /dev/dsp, etc. but had the same problem re no sound. It turned out I only had alsa-utils install and was missing alsa-driver. I'd do a double check of the Gentoo ALSA packages. alsa-tools sounds much

Re: [mythtv-users] DV Recording via IEEE-1394 Firewire with MythTV

2005-03-05 Thread Byron Miller
MythTV isn't for DV if you mean from a DV source such as a camcorder or other video format other than tv sources.. there are tons of great applications for linux to use with camcorder video editing. -byron On Sat, 05 Mar 2005 15:04:07 -0500, Rich Shumaker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can MythTV

Re: [mythtv-users] The nvidia-settings tool and Myth (keeping overscan right)

2005-03-05 Thread Will Dormann
Ben Giddings wrote: I know this isn't a Myth issue, it's poor design on nVidia's part, but how are other people dealing with nvidia-settings? Does anybody have a way to re-maximize the display without leaving Myth, or at least without having to bring up the GUI? Ah yes, I've run into this

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR 350 - No Sound

2005-03-05 Thread greg
Oh, you rebooted between deleting it and running cat, that will work to. On Sat, 2005-03-05 at 13:07, James Emmrich wrote: Weird, i never did any modprobes other than the modprobe.conf file, i reboot and it works.. Being that i never modprobed does that mean the old copy might still be

Re: [mythtv-users] New Gentoo Myth Install - No Sound

2005-03-05 Thread greg
What kind of tuner/decoder/encoder card are you using? what driver? On Sat, 2005-03-05 at 13:58, Michael Haan wrote: Finished my new myth install last night, and there's no sound. The simple explanation might be that I didn't install alsa, trying instead to get it to work with just the nvidia

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: AMD64 FC3 MythTV 0.17 installation

2005-03-05 Thread Ian Forde
On Sat, 2005-03-05 at 12:06 -0800, Ian Forde wrote: On Sat, 2005-03-05 at 12:04 -0800, Ian Forde wrote: On Sat, 2005-03-05 at 20:45 +0100, Axel Thimm wrote: On Sat, Mar 05, 2005 at 11:22:04AM -0800, Ian Forde wrote: 7. Fix /etc/grub.conf to *NOT* boot the new 770_14 kernel. ( At this

Re: [mythtv-users] watch tv on video0 and record on video1

2005-03-05 Thread Joel Anderson
Is it possible to record only on /dev/video1 and watch tv on /dev/video1 I've the following setup /dev/video0 - PVR350 /dev/video1 - BT878 The only thing i want is that mythtv always record on /dev/video1. Is this possible. Thanks patrick I haven't upgraded recently, but as

Re: [mythtv-users] DV Recording via IEEE-1394 Firewire with MythTV

2005-03-05 Thread Rich Shumaker
Man. I seem to get spanked for this question everywhere. So two places I post up this basic question considering Myth just got IEEE-1394(firewire) support and in both places I get the same negative response. MythTV isn't for DV. Go away. Use something else. Wasn't Myth originally designed as a

Re: [mythtv-users] EPIA + mythtv can my hardware cope with both front and back end?

2005-03-05 Thread jerome lacoste
On Sat, 5 Mar 2005 20:02:55 +0100, Henk Poley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Op vrijdag 04 maart 2005 12:36, schreef jerome lacoste: - VIA EPIA M (nehemiah core) board - a Terratec Cinergy 600 TV (saa7134 driver) snip I have no problem watching TV (xawtv / tvtime) but mythbackend goes 95%

Re: [mythtv-users] mythfrontend can't connect to database

2005-03-05 Thread sean darcy
I have the same issues. I'm not sure how to troublesolve them either and I posted it to the list as well with no responce. I too am running CVS from a few days ago. There's a thread on the mythtv-dev list on this. They're working on it. There's at least one patch. I don't think it's been

Re: [mythtv-users] DV Recording via IEEE-1394 Firewire with MythTV

2005-03-05 Thread Cecil Watson
Rich Shumaker wrote: Man. I seem to get spanked for this question everywhere. So two places I post up this basic question considering Myth just got IEEE-1394(firewire) support and in both places I get the same negative response. MythTV isn't for DV. Go away. Use something else. I don't think I

Re: [mythtv-users] Mythtv 0.17, Fedora Core 3

2005-03-05 Thread Jarod Wilson
On Saturday 05 March 2005 06:06, Charles Mills wrote: Hi all, I've been going round and round with this issue and am out of ideas. I am trying to get MythTV to work with a Hauppauge WinTV PVR-350, Fedora Core 3, 2.6.10-1.766_FC3. The IVTV drivers appear fine, I can get a video signal

Re: [mythtv-users] DirectTV and Changing Channels on the Front End.

2005-03-05 Thread hondaman
Just a follow up. I plugged in the DTV reciever into my front end via the low speed port. I can change the channel at the command line running the perl script from this site: http://knoppmythwiki.homelinux.org/index.php?page=DirecTVSetUP then I headed over to

Re: [mythtv-users] I think mythweb 0.17 is killing mythbackend

2005-03-05 Thread Robert Middleswarth
Matthew Daubenspeck wrote: On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 09:33:44PM -0700, Shawn Asmussen wrote: Since we were on the subject, I decided to give mythweb another shot tonight. My mythbackend had been running for 11 days, without any troubles. I went into mythweb, and deleted 1 show, and my mythbackend

Re: [mythtv-users] HD3000 FC3 Install guide

2005-03-05 Thread sean darcy
Original Message Follows From: Eric Gilbert lt;[EMAIL PROTECTED]gt; [snip] Aha. /etc/hotplug/blacklist didn't work. The kernel inserted the module before udev. But I mv cx88_blackbird and cx8800 out of /lib/modules. dmesg now gives: Linux video capture interface: v1.00 cx2388x

Re: [mythtv-users] Mythtv 0.17, Fedora Core 3

2005-03-05 Thread Charles Mills
Jarod, Thanks - I saw that in an earlier thread and double-checked it. I am selecting the PVR-X50 specific setting in the setup which has me puzzled. I'm thinking I missed a step somewhere along the way but can't figure out where. Could there be something somewhere that I set incorrectly to

Re: [mythtv-users] MythDVD woes (mplayer vs xine)

2005-03-05 Thread Robert Tsai
On Sat, Mar 05, 2005 at 06:33:17PM +, Richard Holroyd wrote: Not being satisfied with the lack of dvd menu support in mplayer I opted to apt-get xine and integrate it as the replacement player for dvds in Myth. However, unlike with mplayer which appeared seamlessly when loading, xine kicks

Re: [mythtv-users] AMD64 FC3 MythTV 0.17 installation

2005-03-05 Thread Mike Ryan
Ian Thanks for that - seemed to move me a little bit further. I now have all the latest packages installed and am running from the stock Fedora kernel. However, apt-get still complains about an insane number of unmet dependencies if I try apt-get install mythtv-suite, so I didn't pursue that

Re: [mythtv-users] AMD64 FC3 MythTV 0.17 installation

2005-03-05 Thread Ian Forde
On Sat, 2005-03-05 at 22:18 +, Mike Ryan wrote: Ian Thanks for that - seemed to move me a little bit further. I now have all the latest packages installed and am running from the stock Fedora kernel. Glad to help... However, apt-get still complains about an insane number of unmet

[mythtv-users] [Opinion] FC3 really sucks for mythtv use

2005-03-05 Thread William
Hi everyone, I wanted to pass along my results with FC3 and it's new udev system. I have to warn everyone who is not a linux guru to avoid FC3 at all costs. FC2 works great and should be used instead. After a complete wipe and virgin install of FC3 and following Jarods guide I wound up with a

Re: [mythtv-users] HD3000 FC3 Install guide

2005-03-05 Thread Eric Gilbert
[snip] mediaserver kernel: or51132: Waiting for firmware upload(dvb-fe-or51132-vsb.fw)... mediaserver kernel: or51132: Version: 10001134-1943 (113-4-194-3) mediaserver kernel: or51132: Firmware upload complete. Perhaps mythtvsetup doesn't load the firmware? Is there a way to load

[mythtv-users] Re: AMD64 FC3 MythTV 0.17 installation

2005-03-05 Thread Axel Thimm
On Sat, Mar 05, 2005 at 12:04:39PM -0800, Ian Forde wrote: On Sat, 2005-03-05 at 20:45 +0100, Axel Thimm wrote: On Sat, Mar 05, 2005 at 11:22:04AM -0800, Ian Forde wrote: 7. Fix /etc/grub.conf to *NOT* boot the new 770_14 kernel. ( At this point, the kernel installed (770_14) would cause

Re: [mythtv-users] [Opinion] FC3 really sucks for mythtv use

2005-03-05 Thread Andy Long
I am not a guru either (in fact, I'm about a green as a user gets), and I have had zero probelms with FC3. I think you warning all people off it because it didn't work for you is a bit premature, especially given the fact that a sizeable portion of the people on this list use FC3 and have

[mythtv-users] Re: FC3 really sucks for mythtv use

2005-03-05 Thread Axel Thimm
On Sat, Mar 05, 2005 at 05:31:59PM -0500, William wrote: Hi everyone, I wanted to pass along my results with FC3 and it's new udev system. I have to warn everyone who is not a linux guru to avoid FC3 at all costs. FC2 works great and should be used instead. After a complete wipe and

Re: [mythtv-users] AMD64 FC3 MythTV 0.17 installation

2005-03-05 Thread Mike Ryan
Thanks again! I tried that, but yum doesn't seem to be aware of these as package names: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# yum install perl-Term-ReadKey Setting up Install Process Setting up Repos at-stable 100% |=| 951 B00:00 Reading repository metadata in from

Re: [mythtv-users] [Opinion] FC3 really sucks for mythtv use

2005-03-05 Thread James Emmrich
I'll add my comment, Although im not a guru myself, and still pretty new to linux when it comes to configuring/compiling and editing my rpm sources... I do run fedora core 3 without much error. Ive been working on this thing for 3 days straight tho, its now to the point im fustrated so much i

Re: [mythtv-users] AMD64 FC3 MythTV 0.17 installation

2005-03-05 Thread Ian Forde
On Sat, 2005-03-05 at 22:48 +, Mike Ryan wrote: Thanks again! I tried that, but yum doesn't seem to be aware of these as package names: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# yum install perl-Term-ReadKey Setting up Install Process Setting up Repos at-stable 100%

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