Re: [mythtv-users] Suggested Encoding Rates

2005-04-29 Thread Mario Limonciello
Brad Templeton wrote: On Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 12:20:00AM -0400, Donavan Stanley wrote: On 4/28/05, Alexander Varakin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quality of PVR-?50 hardware encoder is very poor and it requires very high bit rates for decent quality (about 6Mb/s). Software MPEG2 encoders

Re: [mythtv-users] Selecting theme from command line

2005-04-29 Thread Byron Poland
On 4/28/05, Josh Burks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 4/28/05, Byron Poland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've set up my notebook to beable to run a second X session on the tv out. My goal was to be able to run Myth on the tv out while traveling, and still use my notebook display if I want to do

Re: [mythtv-users] Selecting theme from command line

2005-04-29 Thread Mario Limonciello
Byron Poland wrote: On 4/28/05, Josh Burks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 4/28/05, Byron Poland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've set up my notebook to beable to run a second X session on the tv out. My goal was to be able to run Myth on the tv out while traveling, and still use my notebook

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Status of MythTV in 64bit-FC_land

2005-04-29 Thread Jarod Wilson
On Thursday 28 April 2005 19:21, Brad Fuller wrote: Jarod Wilson wrote: It depends. If you have a 64 bit platform chances are that you have enough power to do well w/o MMX support. My Athlon 64 3500+ box plays back 720p and 1080i streams w/deint filter just fine. Just to confirm

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-350 with tv-out and PVR-150MCE combo setting

2005-04-29 Thread Jarod Wilson
On Thursday 28 April 2005 20:52, Adrian wrote: I have a very similar problems to Larry's. I have a PVR-350 which works pretty well. I recently added a PVR-150, which I have not been able to get to work (even by itself). I tried Jarod's modprobe settings, but nothing seemed to change. The

RE: [mythtv-users] Same backend bug/issue in 0.18 from 0.17: backendrunning but doesn't work!

2005-04-29 Thread mythtv-users
Bump! JY Wrote: Sorry I don't have a solution, but I have this exact same problem. At least it's not just me then!! snip Are you using a remote front end? I've had my remote frontend up only for the past 2 days, but so far it hasn't hung the backend yet, using the remote front-end

Re: [mythtv-users] Mythmusic id3 tag re-evaluation.

2005-04-29 Thread Dr. C Mythology
I sometimes need it to re-read the mp3 tags, so I just empty the table manually DELETE FROM musicmetatag And then re-scan the dir On 4/29/05, Jeff Wormsley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matt Gracie wrote: Is there any way to get Mythmusic to re-read the ID3 tags from the files in the music

[mythtv-users] Re: Possible SD frotnend-only machine?

2005-04-29 Thread BARKER, Paul
Title: Re: Possible SD frotnend-only machine? I'm looking for a small box to put in my kitchen to listen to tunes and watch recorded and live TV (standard-definition, only) on. I've noticed a bunch of Dell Optiplex GX150s (http://tinyurl.com/ar89q) on eBay for relatively cheap.

Re: [mythtv-users] Mythmusic id3 tag re-evaluation.

2005-04-29 Thread Stuart Morgan
On Friday 29 Apr 2005 01:37, Jeff Wormsley wrote: Matt Gracie wrote: Is there any way to get Mythmusic to re-read the ID3 tags from the files in the music library? Being the obsessive sort that I am, I just updated a bunch of the tags in my collection, but mythmusic is still displaying

Re: [mythtv-users] Mythmusic id3 tag re-evaluation.

2005-04-29 Thread Neil Bird
Around about 29/04/05 01:27, Matt Gracie typed ... Is there any way to get Mythmusic to re-read the ID3 tags from the files in the music library? Being the obsessive sort that I am, I just updated a bunch of the tags in my collection, but mythmusic is still displaying the old information from

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Possible SD frotnend-only machine?

2005-04-29 Thread Phil Bridges
On 4/29/05, BARKER, Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I've got a GX150 at home in use as a small workstation running FC3. The audio is supported under ALSA (can't remember which driver but I'll check). Peter is right, there's no TV out as standard so you'd need to throw in a GFX card

[mythtv-users] WAF Achieves a Positive Value !

2005-04-29 Thread Barry Jett
My better half has always had a subtle dislike for my interest in computers but displayed a wifely tolerance over the years, no doubt thinking there could be a lot worse things I could be interested in doing. My interest in mythtv over the past few months has been subject to the same spousal

Re: [mythtv-users] Recomendations for Mpeg2 transcode settings?

2005-04-29 Thread Barry Jett
What is the best format and settings to give a good reduction in file size without noticably reducing the quality of the picture? Please note that I am viewing on a hi-def widescreen monitor so good picture quality is vital. The format does not need to be directly

Re: [mythtv-users] WAF Achieves a Positive Value !

2005-04-29 Thread John Kuhn
ya.. just wait.. last night i was in the dog house because of my WAF is at 110% so much she doesnt really watch live tv anymore.. well instead of Joey last night.. we got bushie and i was in trouble :) --John My better half has always had a subtle dislike for my interest in computers but

[mythtv-users] remote control shortcuts

2005-04-29 Thread Chris Hubball
I've got lirc and lirxevent running nicely with Myth and my Video Player. The remote also has short-cut buttons for TV, Music, Video, Pictures etc and I'd like to make them jump indirectly to the corresponding section in Myth - is this possible? Chris.

Re: [mythtv-users] remote control shortcuts

2005-04-29 Thread Niels den Otter
Chris Hubball schreef: I've got lirc and lirxevent running nicely with Myth and my Video Player. The remote also has short-cut buttons for TV, Music, Video, Pictures etc and I'd like to make them jump indirectly to the corresponding section in Myth - is this possible? Sure. Check the keybinding

Re: [mythtv-users] backend crashed with mythweb

2005-04-29 Thread Nathan Ford
Whenever I delete a recording through mythweb the backend crashes. Haven't tried scheduling recordings or such. Myth 0.18 --Nate On 4/28/05, Nezar Nielsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 4/29/05, Florin Andrei [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was using mythweb for the first time. I scheduled a record

[mythtv-users] dumb question about slave backend setup

2005-04-29 Thread Loren H. Burlingame
ok, I have read the docs and skimmed the mailing list archive but am not really finding what I am looking for which probably means I am doing something obviously wrong. Anyway, my question is about setting up a slave backend. I set up the slave to point to the master mysql db (which works, I have

Re: [mythtv-users] Selecting theme from command line

2005-04-29 Thread Byron Poland
On 4/29/05, Mario Limonciello [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now if you running this on your notebook while traveling, what are your plans for where your backend is? Are you caching all of your recordings locally to this laptop? a I have a Plextor PX-TV402U which I'll use as the capture device

Re: [mythtv-users] WAF Achieves a Positive Value !

2005-04-29 Thread Donavan Stanley
On 4/29/05, John Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ya.. just wait.. last night i was in the dog house because of my WAF is at 110% so much she doesnt really watch live tv anymore.. well instead of Joey last night.. we got bushie and i was in trouble :) Don't worry you didn't miss an episode.

Re: [mythtv-users] WAF Achieves a Positive Value !

2005-04-29 Thread PAUL WILLIAMSON
Barry Jett [EMAIL PROTECTED] 04/29/05 8:25 AM snip Here was my chance...I sank lower in my chair and with an air of superiority, answered, It's already being done. Then, after Survivor, I fired up the Hauppage Media MVP I had hidden in the TV cabinet, selected The Apprentice from my

Re: [mythtv-users] WAF Achieves a Positive Value !

2005-04-29 Thread dave
Then, after Survivor, I fired up the Hauppage Media MVP I had hidden in the TV cabinet, selected The Apprentice from my remote Myth box, and we enjoyed a fine episode of the Trump (sans commercials). Barry, Good for you!My wife is still using the VCR, but perhaps my moment will

Re: [mythtv-users] WAF Achieves a Positive Value !

2005-04-29 Thread David
John Kuhn wrote: ya.. just wait.. last night i was in the dog house because of my WAF is at 110% so much she doesnt really watch live tv anymore.. well instead of Joey last night.. we got bushie and i was in trouble :) and you noticed? ___

Re: [mythtv-users] WAF Achieves a Positive Value !

2005-04-29 Thread John Kuhn
John Kuhn wrote: ya.. just wait.. last night i was in the dog house because of my WAF is at 110% so much she doesnt really watch live tv anymore.. well instead of Joey last night.. we got bushie and i was in trouble :) and you noticed? besides that the episode of Bushie was funnier...

Re: [mythtv-users] WAF Achieves a Positive Value !

2005-04-29 Thread Matt
Yea... nice huh? I'm in a similar boat... I'm always asked why do you spend so much time at your computer... blah blah blah But, she think's the myth box is great. Frequently, there are shows that she wants to watch that I have no interest in watching. So, when I'm watching TV with her, we'll

Re: [mythtv-users] WAF Achieves a Positive Value !

2005-04-29 Thread Tom Lichti
Matt wrote: Yea... nice huh? I'm in a similar boat... I'm always asked why do you spend so much time at your computer... blah blah blah But, she think's the myth box is great. Frequently, there are shows that she wants to watch that I have no interest in watching. So, when I'm watching TV with

[mythtv-users] Recording, but still not?

2005-04-29 Thread j2
Sporadically, my .16 system (Jarod, FC2) just stops recording in a show, and the log gives no clue as to why. 2005-04-29 16:10:03 Changing from None to RecordingOnly 2005-04-29 16:45:30 Finished recording Simpsons on channel: 4 2005-04-29 16:45:30 Changing from RecordingOnly to None 2005-04-29

Re: [mythtv-users] WAF Achieves a Positive Value !

2005-04-29 Thread Preet Khalsa
After the show, she remarked, Hey, that TV thing is pretty handy ! This was truly my moment of glory ! Thanks to all the fine MythTV developers and of course, Isaac, for giving me this brief, (and no doubt still rare) moment of marital triumph ! I am in the same situation. What I did was

[mythtv-users] XvMC Bad Alloc:11

2005-04-29 Thread Michael Haan
So, with .18 and an nVidia 6600GT running 7174 i had XvMC running just fine. Then one day the GF tried to watch something and I got an XvMC error. Something about Bad Alloc: 11. I fired-up a movie, shut it down, and tried again and it was fine. Then a day or so later the same thing happened

Re: [mythtv-users] WAF Achieves a Positive Value !

2005-04-29 Thread Louis Adamich
I think all of us with wives go through the same thing. I setup frontends on all our TV's in the house despite the "why are you doing that" and "other things need done", etc. Nothing was said until I upgraded to 0.18 and hadn't finished. The world was going to end because she couldn't use

Re: [mythtv-users] WAF Achieves a Positive Value !

2005-04-29 Thread PAUL WILLIAMSON
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 04/29/05 10:27 AM snip A question, though I was thinking of getting a Media MVP for the children to use. My 6 and 9 year olds use it to select programs to watch all by themselves. How user-friendly is it? I'd give it an 8 compared to a full Myth box. I

Re: [mythtv-users] WAF Achieves a Positive Value !

2005-04-29 Thread Tom Lichti
PAUL WILLIAMSON wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 04/29/05 10:27 AM snip A question, though I was thinking of getting a Media MVP for the children to use. My 6 and 9 year olds use it to select programs to watch all by themselves. How hard was it to setup? And what software did you use? A web

Re: [mythtv-users] WAF Achieves a Positive Value !

2005-04-29 Thread PAUL WILLIAMSON
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 04/29/05 12:08 PM How hard was it to setup? And what software did you use? A web site pointer would be sufficient... :) http://mvpmc.sf.net You need the basics: DHCP server TFTP Server NFS exports There are pre-compiled bin files, I'd rate it a 7 on a scale of 1 to 10

Re: [mythtv-users] dumb question about slave backend setup

2005-04-29 Thread Bruce Markey
Loren H. Burlingame wrote: ok, I have read the docs and skimmed the mailing list archive but am not really finding what I am looking for which probably means I am doing something obviously wrong. Anyway, my question is about setting up a slave backend. I set up the slave to point to the master

[mythtv-users] Re: Possible SD frotnend-only machine?

2005-04-29 Thread belcampo
Hi Dell/Other users with noisy cdroms Add at the end of /etc/rc.local hdparm -E 1 /dev/hdx (x is your cdrom hdc probably) Noisy, when seeking, harddisk goes away with hdparm -M 128 /dev/hdx (x is your bootdrive hda probably) Henk Schoneveld ___

Re: [mythtv-users] WAF Achieves a Positive Value !

2005-04-29 Thread Tom Lichti
PAUL WILLIAMSON wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 04/29/05 12:08 PM How hard was it to setup? And what software did you use? A web site pointer would be sufficient... :) http://mvpmc.sf.net You need the basics: DHCP server TFTP Server NFS exports There are pre-compiled bin files, I'd rate it a 7 on a

Re: [mythtv-users] apt-get install of mythtv-suite conflict w/ xorg-x11-devel on new fc3 install.

2005-04-29 Thread mark luntzel
On 4/28/05, Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 4/28/05, Geoff Hackett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! Kind of new at this but I am trying to set up a myth box ona fresh fc3 following the Fedora Myth(TV)ology guide using apt. Unfortunately there is a depency conflict with xorg-x11-devel. I

Re: [mythtv-users] WAF Achieves a Positive Value !

2005-04-29 Thread Barry Jett
On 4/29/05, Tom Lichti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: PAUL WILLIAMSON wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 04/29/05 12:08 PM How hard was it to setup? And what software did you use? A web site pointer would be sufficient... :) http://mvpmc.sf.net You need the basics: DHCP server TFTP Server

Re: [mythtv-users] WAF Achieves a Positive Value !

2005-04-29 Thread Brad Templeton
On Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 09:23:14AM -0400, John Kuhn wrote: ya.. just wait.. last night i was in the dog house because of my WAF is at 110% so much she doesnt really watch live tv anymore.. well instead of Joey last night.. we got bushie and i was in trouble :) It is actually the curse of

Re: [mythtv-users] WAF Achieves a Positive Value !

2005-04-29 Thread Dave Ansell
- Original Message - From: PAUL WILLIAMSON [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: mythtv-users@mythtv.org Sent: Friday, April 29, 2005 5:22 PM Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] WAF Achieves a Positive Value ! One downer is the thing can only play mpeg1 2 videos (and nuv's!). So, if you transcode to mpeg4,

[mythtv-users] Interview with Jack Kelliher of pcHDTV

2005-04-29 Thread Villalovos, John L
I didn't see this in the mail archives. Thought it might be interesting to people. http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/digitalmedia/2005/04/20/pctv.htm l An Interview with Jack Kelliher of pcHDTV by Matthew Gast 04/20/2005 Open source is alive and well in the realm of digital video

[mythtv-users] How to Cancel a running Job

2005-04-29 Thread Mercury Morris
What is a safe or preferred way to cancel a running Job ? A mythcommflag job has been running for several hours and I would like to cancel it without doing any damage to the other jobs, the database, etc. I tried the sequence: Information Center-SystemStatus- Job Queue and then selected the

Re: [mythtv-users] apt-get install of mythtv-suite conflict w/ xorg-x11-devel on new fc3 install.

2005-04-29 Thread Jarod Wilson
On Friday 29 April 2005 10:34, mark luntzel wrote: Like me, you probably installed kde, X dev rpms during install. Well, I had to uninstall them, or some anyway. try rpm -e xorg-x11-devel-6.8.2-1.FC3.13_2.rhfc3.at this will kick out a list of dependencies. It will take you about 10

[mythtv-users] mythfrontend hangs sometimes

2005-04-29 Thread Lukas Kasprowicz
Hi there, The mythfrontend hangs sometimes. The X takes the whole CPU doing something. Sometimes it happenes with watching TV, Videos, listening to Music, or looking at the Systemmonitor. Never tried if it hangs watching videos with mplayer, because i love my remote and i can not predict

Re: [mythtv-users] Music player + gallery playback software bounty $100 for meeting requirments

2005-04-29 Thread Griffon --
Yeah that is sort of why I was thinking that taking it from the perspective of being a visual plug in might be the simplest approach, then it's only relying on the underlying player being present and X. -Griffon On 4/28/05, Cecil Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Howdy, Griffon -- wrote:

Re: [mythtv-users] WAF Achieves a Positive Value !

2005-04-29 Thread Tim Sailer
On Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 12:47:20PM -0500, Barry Jett wrote: No support for live TV yet. It works great with PVR-250 recorded shows quality is quite good. I haven't had any luck playing shows recorded from firewire yet (mpeg-ts files) but I'm working on figuring out a way to transcode

Re: [mythtv-users] How to Cancel a running Job

2005-04-29 Thread Chris Pinkham
What is a safe or preferred way to cancel a running Job ? A mythcommflag job has been running for several hours I tried the sequence: Information Center-SystemStatus- Job Queue and then selected the running job and pressed ENTER. A menu popped up with Pause, Stop, No Change for choices.

Re: [mythtv-users] How to Cancel a running Job

2005-04-29 Thread Mercury Morris
On 4/29/05, Chris Pinkham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is a safe or preferred way to cancel a running Job ? A mythcommflag job has been running for several hours I tried the sequence: Information Center-SystemStatus- Job Queue and then selected the running job and pressed ENTER. A

Re: [mythtv-users] How to Cancel a running Job

2005-04-29 Thread Robert Tsai
On Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 02:41:19PM -0400, Chris Pinkham wrote: What is a safe or preferred way to cancel a running Job ? A mythcommflag job has been running for several hours I tried the sequence: Information Center-SystemStatus- Job Queue and then selected the running job and pressed

Re: [mythtv-users] How to Cancel a running Job

2005-04-29 Thread Mercury Morris
Thanks for the reply. I will use the kill command and see what happens. There are several additional jobs in the queue that will presumably start when the kill command is issued. I will not delete the show. And, I will requeue the flagging job, or at least I will TRY to requeue it. I

Re: [mythtv-users] Suggested Encoding Rates

2005-04-29 Thread Niels Dybdahl
I myself have been trying to properly setup transcoding properly. I believe I have some acceptable settings now to transcode my mpeg2 hauppauge based recordings into an mpeg4 type recording, but run into issues with aspect ratios. The recordings play back fine if I was to play them back in

Re: [mythtv-users] mythfrontend hangs sometimes

2005-04-29 Thread Lukas Kasprowicz
I got following while watching TV now, and it hang: stderr: [mpeg2video @ 0xb7835b94]00 motion_type at 1 3 [mpeg2video @ 0xb7835b94]00 motion_type at 2 4 [mpeg2video @ 0xb7835b94]00 motion_type at 21 5 [mpeg2video @ 0xb7835b94]mb incr damaged [mpeg2video @ 0xb7835b94]slice mismatch [mpeg2video @

Re: [mythtv-users] How to Cancel a running Job

2005-04-29 Thread Mercury Morris
On 4/29/05, Chris Pinkham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From the Watch Recordings screen on the INFO popup menu, there is a Job Options button that will take you to another menu that allows you to schedule all the JobQueue jobs (both the built-in transcoding and commercial flagging as well as the

Re: [mythtv-users] WAF Achieves a Positive Value !

2005-04-29 Thread James Pifer
http://mvpmc.sf.net You need the basics: DHCP server TFTP Server NFS exports There are pre-compiled bin files, I'd rate it a 7 on a scale of 1 to 10 just because of the nfs mounting and tftp booting. Once you get the syntax of the boot config right, it takes about 30 seconds

[mythtv-users] Re: Resolution, screen size, and other related 'size' question

2005-04-29 Thread Chad
Not a big deal, just bringing to the top to see if anyone has any input. Cool ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

Re: [mythtv-users] HDTV clip request

2005-04-29 Thread Brad Fuller
Adam Gianola wrote: I think something screwy is going on with the pchdtv.com website. The downloads of their driver tar's are also failing, or have been for the past few days. can anyone post the ts.tar that they have dnl'd from pchdtv.com? Or another suitable test clip? it would be much

[mythtv-users] How to handle schedule pre-emptions?

2005-04-29 Thread makalu
So the President held a one-hour news conference last night, then each of the networks did their own thing afterwards. For example NBC dropped the 8:00 shows and went right to The Donald, while CBS showed everything delayed. As a result, the zap2it-provided schedules were no longer accurate.

Re: [mythtv-users] How to handle schedule pre-emptions?

2005-04-29 Thread Kevin Kuphal
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So the President held a one-hour news conference last night, then each of the networks did their own thing afterwards. For example NBC dropped the 8:00 shows and went right to The Donald, while CBS showed everything delayed. As a result, the zap2it-provided schedules

Re: [mythtv-users] How to Cancel a running Job

2005-04-29 Thread Mercury Morris
The requeued mythcommflag job has been running for one hour never changing from Searching for Logo. This was what I observed for the three-hour run earlier today. I'd say it's quite likely that there will be no change in that status. So Chris, may I proceed to re-compile? It appears that the

RE: [mythtv-users] How to handle schedule pre-emptions?

2005-04-29 Thread Dean Collins
Yep - don't worry about it - even the networks on cable boxes didn't pick it up (as I found out this morning when I went to watch Survivor) These things happen, move along. Now if anyone has a survivor show they want to upload :) Cheers, Dean -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

Re: [mythtv-users] How to handle schedule pre-emptions?

2005-04-29 Thread Brad Templeton
On Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 03:50:25PM -0500, Kevin Kuphal wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So the President held a one-hour news conference last night, then each of the networks did their own thing afterwards. For example NBC dropped the 8:00 shows and went right to The Donald, while CBS

Re: [mythtv-users] WAF Achieves a Positive Value !

2005-04-29 Thread Greg Estabrooks
No support for live TV yet. It works great with PVR-250 recorded shows Actually there has been live-tv support for a while now. You just need to run one of the more recent images and add a commandline to the dongle.config to enable live-tv ___

Re: [mythtv-users] WAF Achieves a Positive Value !

2005-04-29 Thread Mudit Wahal
i know it supports mpeg1/2 but not mpeg4. mpeg4 -- is it not possible because of hardware issues or software issues ? I went to the source forge site but couldn't find any explanation why the mpeg4 is not supported. thanks mudit --- Greg Estabrooks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No support for

Re: [mythtv-users] IR Adapter: Recommendations?

2005-04-29 Thread Tony Rein
On Friday 29 April 2005 04:10 pm, Paul Check wrote: Hi: I have a MythTV backend/frontend on one machine using the PVR-350, and have just configured a MythTV frontend on another system. My final piece on the frontend only system is to get an IR adapter. I have no clue what to buy (started with

[mythtv-users] Preview begins with green flashes (current cvs)

2005-04-29 Thread Wendy Seltzer
I've noticed that in recent cvs, preview thumbnails on the Watch Recordings screen begin with green flashes as the video begins. Previously, it might have taken a bit longer for the video to appear, but it was correctly colored from the start. This is most noticeable in HD recordings, but can

Re: [mythtv-users] WAF Achieves a Positive Value !

2005-04-29 Thread Mudit Wahal
On the product information webpage it says that it supports divx. The bundled software for MVP plays divx. So, is the mpeg4 issue only wuth mvpmc software ? - http://www.hauppauge.com/pages/products/data_mediamvp.html --- Plays MPEG-1, MPEG-2 and DivX recordings made with the Hauppauge WinTV

Re: [mythtv-users] How to handle schedule pre-emptions?

2005-04-29 Thread Brad Templeton
On Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 02:39:07PM -0700, Brad Templeton wrote: Well, if some brave volunteer wanted to offer a service to notice pre-emptions and broadcast database updates for the networks, I could produce code to read these off the web or an e-mail to update the database. A mailing list

RE: [mythtv-users] How to handle schedule pre-emptions?

2005-04-29 Thread Dean Collins
Brad, like I said earlier, - it's a lot of work for little effective gain and opens up a number of holes or potential areas for concern. I think we just need to accept that very infrequently shit happens and move along. Cheers, Dean -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [mythtv-users] WAF Achieves a Positive Value !\

2005-04-29 Thread Greg Estabrooks
i know it supports mpeg1/2 but not mpeg4. mpeg4 -- is it not possible because of hardware issues or software issues ? I went to the source forge site but couldn't find any explanation why the mpeg4 is not supported. It doesn't support it because the hardware doesn't have a built in mpeg4

Re: [mythtv-users] IR Adapter: Recommendations?

2005-04-29 Thread Preet Khalsa
On Fri, 2005-29-04 at 16:10 -0400, Paul Check wrote: Hi: I have a MythTV backend/frontend on one machine using the PVR-350, and have just configured a MythTV frontend on another system. My final piece on the frontend only system is to get an IR adapter. I have no clue what to buy (started

Re: [mythtv-users] IR Adapter: Recommendations?

2005-04-29 Thread Paul Check
Wouldn't you need an ATI card to ue this? What does it plug into? --Paul Preet Khalsa wrote: On Fri, 2005-29-04 at 16:10 -0400, Paul Check wrote: Hi: I have a MythTV backend/frontend on one machine using the PVR-350, and have just configured a MythTV frontend on another system.

[mythtv-users] Setting up USB MCE remote in LIRC?

2005-04-29 Thread Lee
Having just got my new MythTV install running nicely, I'd like to integrate my (old style) Windows MCE remote into the set up. I've googled for ages and there are lot's of people that seem to have got it working (include Jarod), but I can't find any how-to's or crib sheets. Being a total Linux

Re: [mythtv-users] IR Adapter: Recommendations?

2005-04-29 Thread Phil Bridges
On 4/29/05, Paul Check [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Preet Khalsa wrote: On Fri, 2005-29-04 at 16:10 -0400, Paul Check wrote: Hi: I have a MythTV backend/frontend on one machine using the PVR-350, and have just configured a MythTV frontend on another system. My final piece on the

Re: [mythtv-users] IR Adapter: Recommendations?

2005-04-29 Thread Preet Khalsa
Wouldn't you need an ATI card to ue this? What does it plug into? -- Paul The remote is stand-alone. The receiver plugs into USB. I have nothing else ATI on my machine and it is fine. You actually have your choice of drivers. I like the pure LIRC approach with libusb so it is all in

Re: [mythtv-users] WAF Achieves a Positive Value !

2005-04-29 Thread Mudit Wahal
Greg, Thanks for the explanation. So i guess in the end, mvp only understands mpeg2. So, like you said, the transcoding from mpeg4/divx etc has to happen at the server side. IMHO, media mvp can be a very good frontend under $100 for serving analog/SDTV. I was thinking about using an XBOX as

Re: [mythtv-users] Mythmusic id3 tag re-evaluation.

2005-04-29 Thread Jeff Wormsley
Stuart Morgan wrote: The problem with that method is that it destroys the old playlists. If you have thousands of MP3s and have spent ages building up different playlists the last thing you want to do is start from scratch. Ah, having never built a playlist, I wasn't aware of that.

Re: [mythtv-users] How to handle schedule pre-emptions?

2005-04-29 Thread Brad Templeton
On Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 06:26:58PM -0400, Dean Collins wrote: Brad, like I said earlier, - it's a lot of work for little effective gain and opens up a number of holes or potential areas for concern. I think we just need to accept that very infrequently shit happens and move along. As I was

[mythtv-users] Timestretch = chipmunk audio, also timestamp problem with 3x FF

2005-04-29 Thread Louie Ilievski
Hi all, I'm using a PVR-350 TV-Out on my Myth box and I've always had this problem from the time timestretch was added as a feature to CVS from a couple days ago. Timestretch when using the 350 does not compensate for pitch, and so the audio is either high or low pitched, depending on whether

Re: [mythtv-users] How to Cancel a running Job

2005-04-29 Thread Chris Pinkham
On Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 02:41:19PM -0400, Chris Pinkham wrote: an extremely long recording. It is safe to kill the mythcommflag process. The JobQueue will think the program ended and will say Finished, 0 break(s) found or something similar, and will not restart the job. If using

Re: [mythtv-users] How to handle schedule pre-emptions?

2005-04-29 Thread Tom Lichti
Dean Collins wrote: Yep - don't worry about it - even the networks on cable boxes didn't pick it up (as I found out this morning when I went to watch Survivor) These things happen, move along. Now if anyone has a survivor show they want to upload :) Well, I have a copy of Survivor that was

Re: [mythtv-users] IR Adapter: Recommendations?

2005-04-29 Thread Paul Check
Does anyone have the irman working with usb? I've searched and don't see anything. --Paul Tony Rein wrote: On Friday 29 April 2005 04:10 pm, Paul Check wrote: Hi: I have a MythTV backend/frontend on one machine using the PVR-350, and have just configured a MythTV frontend on

Re: [mythtv-users] HDTV clip request

2005-04-29 Thread Howard Cokl
OK, I have put turned on anon ftp and it's in there. ip address is 68.252.18.14 I'm only leaving it up overnight, let me know if you have problems Howard --- Brad Fuller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Adam Gianola wrote: I think something screwy is going on with the pchdtv.com website. The

Re: [mythtv-users] IR Adapter: Recommendations?

2005-04-29 Thread Mario Limonciello
Preet Khalsa wrote: Wouldn't you need an ATI card to ue this? What does it plug into? -- Paul The remote is stand-alone. The receiver plugs into USB. I have nothing else ATI on my machine and it is fine. You actually have your choice of drivers. I like the pure LIRC approach with

Re: [mythtv-users] HDTV clip request

2005-04-29 Thread Howard Cokl
--- Brad Fuller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Adam Gianola wrote: I think something screwy is going on with the pchdtv.com website. The downloads of their driver tar's are also failing, or have been for the past few days. can anyone post the ts.tar that they have dnl'd from pchdtv.com?

Re: [mythtv-users] HDTV clip request

2005-04-29 Thread Brad Fuller
Howard Cokl wrote: --- Brad Fuller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Adam Gianola wrote: I think something screwy is going on with the pchdtv.com website. The downloads of their driver tar's are also failing, or have been

Re: [mythtv-users] Timestretch = chipmunk audio, also timestamp problem with 3x FF

2005-04-29 Thread Donavan Stanley
On 4/29/05, Louie Ilievski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is this due to the fact that I'm using the 350's decoder? Yes Any way to fix this? No ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

[mythtv-users] TV/out Connection - is 640x480 the max?

2005-04-29 Thread David Bennett
Hello! Just a quick question. I have finally managed to get X11 to make use of my ATi Tv-out that is internal to my motherboard. The problem is, it looks like crap. The only resolution that I get legible text is at 640x480. The bigger problem is, I have never hooked up a PC to TV before so I am

Re: [mythtv-users] HDTV clip request

2005-04-29 Thread Howard Cokl
--- Brad Fuller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Adam Gianola wrote: I think something screwy is going on with the pchdtv.com website. The downloads of their driver tar's are also failing, or have been for the past few days. can anyone post the ts.tar that they have dnl'd from pchdtv.com?

Re: [mythtv-users] HDTV clip request

2005-04-29 Thread Andrew Bassett
just tried it - bad tracker from client On Fri, 2005-04-29 at 18:09 -0700, Howard Cokl wrote: --- Brad Fuller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Adam Gianola wrote: I think something screwy is going on with the pchdtv.com website. The downloads of their driver tar's are also failing, or

Re: [mythtv-users] TV/out Connection - is 640x480 the max?

2005-04-29 Thread Joe Votour
It depends on what your video card is capable of, as well as what the TV is capable of. The PVR-350, for instance, outputs only at 720x480 for NTSC (or 720x576 for PAL), which is the native resolution. At this resolution, there is no up or down sampling of the picture. Your video card is

Re: [mythtv-users] Setting up USB MCE remote in LIRC?

2005-04-29 Thread David Sims
On Apr 29, 2005, at 4:53 PM, Lee wrote: Having just got my new MythTV install running nicely, I'd like to integrate my (old style) Windows MCE remote into the set up. I've googled for ages and there are lot's of people that seem to have got it working (include Jarod), but I can't find any

Re: [mythtv-users] TV/out Connection - is 640x480 the max?

2005-04-29 Thread Jonathan Watmough
On 4/29/05, Joe Votour [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It depends on what your video card is capable of, aswell as what the TV is capable of.The PVR-350, for instance, outputs only at 720x480 forNTSC (or 720x576 for PAL), which is the nativeresolution.At this resolution, there is no up or down sampling

[mythtv-users] Qt version?

2005-04-29 Thread Bret Wortman
Okay, so I'm guessing that my problem is Qt. What version can I downgrade to and have this work? I'm still not getting past the first two screens on mythtvsetup, and after dropping my database and recreating it, I get this when I try again: = [EMAIL PROTECTED] etc]$ mysql

Re: [mythtv-users] HDTV clip request

2005-04-29 Thread Chad
Nope, didn't work, too big apparently... On 4/29/05, Chad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Attached the file, if it works... ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

Re: [mythtv-users] TV/out Connection - is 640x480 the max?

2005-04-29 Thread cythrault
On 4/29/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Idem for Matrox cards Under Winblows, I've yet to see a clearer picture. Under Linux, forget support (In fact, forget support for home users from Matrox under any OSes.) The best I could achieve using Shaun Jackman's matrox-tvout

Re: [mythtv-users] TV/out Connection - is 640x480 the max?

2005-04-29 Thread Joe Votour
I don't seem to recall whether or not acceleration worked on the TV-Out head on my G400, but I do seem to recall that it had Xv support. Three reasons why I gave up on the G400, despite very good quality: 1. Making modelines was absolutely rediculous. I'd use fbset to get a good picture (after

Re: [mythtv-users] TV/out Connection - is 640x480 the max?

2005-04-29 Thread Joe Votour
The nvidia-settings program does help a lot, especially with the flicker filter. I've found over the years, that quality wise, the cards rated in the order of Matrox, ATI, with nVidia in last. In terms of overall usefulness though, they rated nVidia, ATI, Matrox (again, my opinion). It would be

[mythtv-users] AUS :- EPG data

2005-04-29 Thread Mary Wright
Has anyone seen or know about this company ? http://www.icetv.com.au/ ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

Re: [mythtv-users] WAF Achieves a Positive Value !

2005-04-29 Thread Lonnie Borntreger
On Fri, 2005-04-29 at 15:18 -0700, Mudit Wahal wrote: On the product information webpage it says that it supports divx. The bundled software for MVP plays divx. So, is the mpeg4 issue only wuth mvpmc software ? - http://www.hauppauge.com/pages/products/data_mediamvp.html --- Plays

Re: [mythtv-users] WAF Achieves a Positive Value !

2005-04-29 Thread Mudit Wahal
Lonnie, Yes I read that on the hauppage web site. I was hoping that linux has something similar in server software which transcodes divx to mpeg2 on the fly and feed it to the mpv. I just bought a yellow dot media mpv from circuit city. It was the last yellow dotted one in my local store. Had

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