[mythtv-users] Modeline headaches with Radeon 9200SE

2005-12-09 Thread Bean
Having tried for the past couple of weeks to get it right, I thought I had best ask for help before I throw a brick at the TV. I am currently outputing through SVHS (VGA to Scart cable will get soldered up over Christmas) from a Radeon 9200SE to a Toshiba 28 widescreen 100hz capable CRT TV.

Re: [mythtv-users] Modeline headaches with Radeon 9200SE

2005-12-09 Thread Nick
On 09/12/05, Bean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Having tried for the past couple of weeks to get it right, I thought I had best ask for help before I throw a brick at the TV. I am currently outputing through SVHS (VGA to Scart cable will get soldered up over Christmas) from a Radeon 9200SE to a

Re: [mythtv-users] Modeline headaches with Radeon 9200SE

2005-12-09 Thread Bean
Nick, Thanks for the quick response... I have pretty much the same screen/display set up as you defined, just with the Monitor having been called simply TV and Modes having 720x576 in it only. - Start Original Message - From: Nick [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], Discussion

Re: [mythtv-users] where's the patch to stop DVB from automatically scanning and adding channels?

2005-12-09 Thread Andy Foster
Thank you nick, that's it exactly.Just out of curiousity how did you find it? I tried various combinations of dvb, channel, auto, scan and so on while search ing gossamer-threads without any luck. On 12/9/05, Nick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 08/12/05, Andy Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm

Re: [mythtv-users] where's the patch to stop DVB from automatically scanning and adding channels?

2005-12-09 Thread Nick
On 09/12/05, Andy Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you nick, that's it exactly. Just out of curiousity how did you find it? I tried various combinations of dvb, channel, auto, scan and so on while search ing gossamer-threads without any luck. I went to the -dev archive

[mythtv-users] Key mappings in MythVideo

2005-12-09 Thread Phill Edwards
I have the player set to Internal in MythVideo settings. I thought that meant it behaves i nthe same way as the player you use when playing back TV recordings. However, the keys that I use to move fwd/back 30secs/5mins don't work when playing back videos such as XVid and DivX files. When I say

Re: [mythtv-users] What's your recording file size?

2005-12-09 Thread Niels Dybdahl
As mentioned it is normal. You can adjust the data rate in the recording profiles. If you are recording analog from the air, then you might reduce the horizontal resolution from 720 pixels to 400 and reduce the datarate accordingly. And you can transcode to MPEG4 to reduce the data rate even

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-250 composite-in gives black video---why?

2005-12-09 Thread Nick
On 09/12/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In 0.18.1, ivtv 0.4.1: I'm convinced I'm doing something dumb, but I can't see it. I'm trying to set up a PVR-250 such that it can record from either analog cable via its RF-in, or from digital cable via its composite input, which is

[mythtv-users] Is it possible to add new recording profiles in addition to the basic 4?

2005-12-09 Thread Nick
Before I manually edit the database to see whether this works, I want to see if it's actually possible to create extra profiles (for my PVR-x50 cards) that give me more flexibility than the existing 4 (Live, default, HQ, LQ) give me. I really want to be able to have profiles for 480x576, 640x480

Re: [mythtv-users] Myth/Debian distribution

2005-12-09 Thread Mike Robinson
Steve Adeff wrote: On Thursday 08 December 2005 20:53, Mike Robinson wrote: I was considering using Debian (or Ubuntu) for my new Myth box, but then I saw that the distribution isn't being supported anymore: http://dijkstra.csh.rit.edu/~mdz/debian/dists/unstable/mythtv/README Does this mean

Re: [mythtv-users] Myth/Debian distribution

2005-12-09 Thread Michael Fox
On 09/12/2005, at 10:18 PM, Mike Robinson wrote: Why do you recommend agains Ubuntu? I was actually going to attempt it tonight...now I'm concerned! Another factor to throw into the mix, my system has an AMD64. Does that change things if I want to run an AMD64 distribution? You

Re: [mythtv-users] red_eye script

2005-12-09 Thread Craig Tinson
Neil Bird wrote: Hmm. Well, I posted a semi-recent one a month or so ago along with the redeye stuff I was using. Since then, I think I added one more failsafe channel change ~10 s. after triggering as I managed to miss one channel change once. I think it was because another IR (TV or

[mythtv-users] Make problem Transcode

2005-12-09 Thread A JM
I'm having a bit of a make problem, can anyone help? make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/mythtv/mythtv/mythplugins/mythcontrols' cd mythdvd make -f Makefile make[1]: Entering directory `/home/mythtv/mythtv/mythplugins/mythdvd' cd mythdvd make -f Makefile make[2]: Entering directory

[mythtv-users] Press select to change the channel in the program guide

2005-12-09 Thread Paul Sicard
While messing with keybindings and lirc to try and get my remote functioning in a fashion logical to me (OK, honestly... logical to my wife), I found the setting labeled "Press select to change the channel in the program guide" I checked that box and it worked as advertised. After some more

Re: [mythtv-users] Press select to change the channel in the program guide

2005-12-09 Thread chris
On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 07:08:32AM -0600, Paul Sicard wrote: Now, the behavior is the same whether the box is checked or unchecked and I can not change the channel in the EPG by pushing anything (keyboard or remote). If I press select (return, space, etc.), I get the recording settings. If I

Re: [mythtv-users] Internal DVD player

2005-12-09 Thread Josh Burks
On 12/8/05, Steve Pugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dave Oxley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've just seen issue #511, but I hadn't realised that Myth had its only DVD player. I currently use xine, but would like to try Myth's out. So a couple of questions: 1. How to I enable it? 2. What will I

Re: [mythtv-users] Key mappings in MythVideo

2005-12-09 Thread korebantic
Doesn't setting it to internal mean it will use mplayer? I think so, in which case you need to setup a /home/mythtv/.lircrc file for mplayer (note that mplayer doesn't read the lircrc file in /home/mythtv/.mythtv/lircrc). I've attached a sample one, just to get you started, it is by no means

Re: [mythtv-users] How to obtain serviceids and atscsrcid

2005-12-09 Thread Daniel Kristjansson
On Thu, 2005-12-08 at 21:26 -0800, Mitko Haralanov wrote: I am trying to set up my channel table (I was missing the mplexid, serviceid and atscsrcid) but I having trouble getting the serviceid and atscsrcid. The Full Scan in mythtv-setup left the fields empty when doing the scan

Re: [mythtv-users] Key mappings in MythVideo

2005-12-09 Thread Greg Estabrooks
Doesn't setting it to internal mean it will use mplayer? I think so, No, Internal means it will use the internal mythtv player. The same player thatis used for LiveTV/Watching recordings. So the keys should be identical. I use the Internal player and have never had a key not work just like

Re: [mythtv-users] Myth/Debian distribution

2005-12-09 Thread Adrian Skehill
FWIW, I build my myth box using ubutnu 5.0.4 AMD 64 (3200, 1GB RAM, 300GB sata drive, hauppage 350) and it's working a treat. I built myth from source without too much hassle. Adrian.On 12/9/05, Michael Fox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 09/12/2005, at 10:18 PM, Mike Robinson wrote: Why do you

Re: [mythtv-users] Correcting overscan in MythVideo/mplayer

2005-12-09 Thread korebantic
mplayer -fs -display :0 -quiet -vf scale=520:-2,expand=640:480:45:40 \ -zoom -vo xv /var/video/mythvideo/Lunar_Bleach_58.avi Does the trick. I'm not sure I really understand resolutions very well. For example, scale=540:-2, along with other resolutions, completely garbled the image. Do you know

[mythtv-users] Nvidia 8174+OpenGLVSync = High CPU

2005-12-09 Thread Greg Estabrooks
Just a friendly note of warning to all of the NVIDIA users out there who have upgraded to use version 8174 of the NVIDIA driver that you could be using a lot more CPU than with earlier driver versions. It has been reported by a few people (myself included) that using OpenGL Vsync with 8174

Re: [mythtv-users] Correcting overscan in MythVideo/mplayer

2005-12-09 Thread Keith C
On Dec 9, 2005, at 8:54 AM, korebantic wrote: mplayer -fs -display :0 -quiet -vf scale=520:-2,expand=640:480:45:40 \ -zoom -vo xv /var/video/mythvideo/Lunar_Bleach_58.avi Does the trick. I'm not sure I really understand resolutions very well. For example, scale=540:-2, along with other

Re: [mythtv-users] HDTV questions

2005-12-09 Thread Steve Adeff
On Friday 09 December 2005 02:09, Todd Ignasiak wrote: In the U.S., HDTV is broadcast as MPEG2. The articles I have read about HDTV in Europe have said MPEG4 (probably H.264 / MPEG4.10 / AVC) will be used. H.264 takes much more CPU horsepower to decode. A 3GHz P4 may not ave the horsepower

Re: [mythtv-users] Building a Basic MythTV box

2005-12-09 Thread Steve Adeff
On Friday 09 December 2005 02:43, Kichigai Mentat wrote: On Dec 8, 2005, at 23.38, Michael Weinbergs - Network Administrator wrote: Don't even bother with 802.11b - it really doesn't work (I've tried it).. Upgrade to 802.11G and you will be fine.. The problem is that 11Mb is not reall

Re: [mythtv-users] Correcting overscan in MythVideo/mplayer

2005-12-09 Thread Steve Adeff
On Friday 09 December 2005 09:54, korebantic wrote: mplayer -fs -display :0 -quiet -vf scale=520:-2,expand=640:480:45:40 \ -zoom -vo xv /var/video/mythvideo/Lunar_Bleach_58.avi Does the trick. I'm not sure I really understand resolutions very well. For example, scale=540:-2, along with other

Re: [mythtv-users] Myth/Debian distribution

2005-12-09 Thread Steve Adeff
On Friday 09 December 2005 06:18, Mike Robinson wrote: Steve Adeff wrote: On Thursday 08 December 2005 20:53, Mike Robinson wrote: I was considering using Debian (or Ubuntu) for my new Myth box, but then I saw that the distribution isn't being supported anymore:

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: pvr-150 image looks soft

2005-12-09 Thread Steve Adeff
On Friday 09 December 2005 00:27, Paul Andreassen wrote: On Fri, 9 Dec 2005 01:31 am, Steve Adeff wrote: On Thursday 08 December 2005 10:03, Steve Adeff wrote: On Thursday 08 December 2005 01:26, Paul Andreassen wrote: On Thu, 8 Dec 2005 11:58 am, Mike Frisch wrote: On 7-Dec-05, at

RE: [mythtv-users] Key mappings in MythVideo

2005-12-09 Thread James C. Dastrup
Doesn't setting it to internal mean it will use mplayer? I think so, No, Internal means it will use the internal mythtv player. The same player thatis used for LiveTV/Watching recordings. So the keys should be identical. I use the Internal player and have never had a key not work just like

[mythtv-users] Re: How to obtain serviceids and atscsrcid

2005-12-09 Thread Boleslaw Ciesielski
Mitko Haralanov wrote: umping lists (2 services) KBWB-HD (0x0003) 00: PCR == V V 0x0031 A 0x0034 (eng) 0x0034 (eng) KBWB-SD (0x0004) 00: PCR == V V 0x0041 A 0x0044 (eng) 0x0044 (eng) As you can see the service id is replaced by the channel name.

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Start of Cut Points not Honored In Recordings.

2005-12-09 Thread Greg Grotsky
On 12/8/05, Chris Pinkham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you know if the recording has FPS changes like if the commercials areat one FPS and the show is at another? Chris, what's the easiest way to check this? I have no idea. I tried playing it in mplayer but it doesn't seem to spit out this kind of

Re: [mythtv-users] Nvidia 8174+OpenGLVSync = High CPU

2005-12-09 Thread Doug Larrick
Greg Estabrooks wrote: Just a friendly note of warning to all of the NVIDIA users out there who have upgraded to use version 8174 of the NVIDIA driver that you could be using a lot more CPU than with earlier driver versions. Did you try messing with the various sync-to-vblank settings in

Re: [mythtv-users] Building a Basic MythTV box

2005-12-09 Thread Mudit Wahal
5 Port 10/100 switches are under $10 after rebate. No reason not get one. SMC 5 port switch under $10 after rebate. http://microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0210478 My local electronics store (fry's) sells 5 port for 4.99 (airlink). I've 4 of these in house (one in each room

Re: [mythtv-users] Building a Basic MythTV box

2005-12-09 Thread Mudit Wahal
Amazon has also good prices for ethernet switches from netgear. Search for ethernet switch. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B6B9H8/sr=1-1/qid=1134145698/ref=pd_bbs_1/002-1643016-1566425?%5Fencoding=UTF8 On 12/9/05, Mudit Wahal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 5 Port 10/100 switches are under $10

Re: [mythtv-users] Nvidia 8174+OpenGLVSync = High CPU

2005-12-09 Thread Greg Estabrooks
Did you try messing with the various sync-to-vblank settings in the nvidia-settings program? IIRC there are two: one for video, one for OpenGL. Yeah, in my tests neither seemed to have an effect., but turning off GL sync or going back to 7676 both did the trick.

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Start of Cut Points not Honored In Recordings.

2005-12-09 Thread Greg Grotsky
On 12/8/05, Peter Schachte [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I haven't gotten nuvexport working yet, but I have noticed that when Iplay back some recordings after editing commercials, the playback cutstoo early for the commercials.Surprisingly, the commercial endpoints seem to be correct.I'm using svn

Re: [mythtv-users] Nvidia 8174+OpenGLVSync = High CPU

2005-12-09 Thread Greg Estabrooks
Yeah, in my tests neither seemed to have an effect., but turning off GL sync or going back to 7676 both did the trick. I should be more clear, when I disable GL Sync usage in myth it clears up :) Changes in nvidia-settings didn't affect the CPU usage

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: pvr-150 image looks soft

2005-12-09 Thread Paul Andreassen
On Sat, 10 Dec 2005 01:49 am, Steve Adeff wrote: On Friday 09 December 2005 00:27, Paul Andreassen wrote: On Fri, 9 Dec 2005 01:31 am, Steve Adeff wrote: On Thursday 08 December 2005 10:03, Steve Adeff wrote: On Thursday 08 December 2005 01:26, Paul Andreassen wrote: On Thu, 8 Dec

Re: [mythtv-users] Correcting overscan in MythVideo/mplayer

2005-12-09 Thread Ian Armstrong
On Friday 09 Dec 2005 15:20, Keith C wrote: On Dec 9, 2005, at 8:54 AM, korebantic wrote: mplayer -fs -display :0 -quiet -vf scale=520:-2,expand=640:480:45:40 \ -zoom -vo xv /var/video/mythvideo/Lunar_Bleach_58.avi Does the trick. I'm not sure I really understand resolutions very well.

[mythtv-users] MythTV and Firewire

2005-12-09 Thread Rick Pries
Hey there, I just signed up on this list so forgive me if I'm making a double post. Can Myth TV send what is has recorded to a TV via a Firewire (IEEE 1394) port? I have an HDTV with a firewire port (seems to be only good for hooking a digital camcorder directly to the TV to play it).

[mythtv-users] Mythtv users in South Africa

2005-12-09 Thread Chris Mulder
Good day all, I would like to construct a Mythtv box, and would like to know if there are any user on this list who have done this down in South Africa. Would like to share some thoughts on available hardware, config and general usage. Thanx.-- Chris Mulder+27 83 301 8734

Re: [mythtv-users] Key mappings in MythVideo

2005-12-09 Thread Greg Estabrooks
I have the same problem. I'm using 0.18.1. I sure wish it was fixed, too. Maybe it's fixed in the current release? Is the problem even being addressed? Well, I haven't run 0.18 since the day after it came out, so I dont' remember that far back, BUT I've been using the internal player with

Re: [mythtv-users] Correcting overscan in MythVideo/mplayer

2005-12-09 Thread korebantic
$ mplayer -version MPlayer 1.0pre7try2-3.2.3 (C) 2000-2005 MPlayer Team Interesting that you can scale to values I can't. Maybe it has something to do with the PVR350 Xdriver. Just for kicks I'm going to test the multiple of 8/16 theory out. I'll give xine a try -- I like the idea of being able

[mythtv-users] NUVEXPORT and cutpoints

2005-12-09 Thread Ramon Redondo
I have a MythTV setup, currently running 0.18.1 with a frame-grabber card, and have been a big fan of using NUVEXPORT to convert to MPEG2 for the creation of DVDs. Before exporting, I've always manually edited the cutlist to tweak commercial locations, and to verify that all the cutpoints are on

[mythtv-users] Glitches in firewire capture from DCT-6200

2005-12-09 Thread Azmat
Hi, My mythtv system is running on an AMD Athlon XP 2400+ (2 GHz) with 1G RAM, a PVR-350 and firewire capture from my Motorola DCT-6200 cable box. Whenever I do firewire capture from the box through Myth, the recording exhibits a audio/video glitching. The picture will momentarily become

Re: [mythtv-users] NUVEXPORT and cutpoints

2005-12-09 Thread Chris Petersen
1) Is this still necessary, or am I doing a little extra needless work? never was. nuvexport reencodes, it's not lossless unless you use the mpeg2cut function.. and even then, mpeg2cut calls avidemux, which can reencode frames around the ones you cut out, without cutting at a GOP

Re: [mythtv-users] Myth/Debian distribution

2005-12-09 Thread casey dunn
On 12/9/05, Steve Adeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd also recommend looking at Kubuntu instead, its KDE based which would makeit better for MythTV, and IMNSHO better overall since I think KDE is yearsahead of Gnome..I'll try not to start a flame war but i do want to point something out... Kubuntu

Re: [mythtv-users] NUVEXPORT and cutpoints

2005-12-09 Thread Pascal Favre
4) I've noticed that Xine doesn't seem to understand the length of the file... if I bring up the information text, the bar that shows the % of the file is correct, but the time is wrong (i.e. it might show that I'm 7 minutes into a 15 minute program, but I'm really 21 minutes into a 45 minute

Re: [mythtv-users] Nuvexport honorcutlist doesn't cut correctly.

2005-12-09 Thread Chris Petersen
I adjusted the cutpoints manually within mythtv so that they are right at the commercial breaks. Then when I run nuvexport and use the cut commercials option it's not cutting on the boundry I gave it. I don't think it's on the boundry that mythtv found either. It seems that one of the

Re: [mythtv-users] Key mappings in MythVideo

2005-12-09 Thread Phill Edwards
Doesn't setting it to internal mean it will use mplayer? I think so, in which case you need to setup a /home/mythtv/.lircrc file for mplayer (note that mplayer doesn't read the lircrc file in /home/mythtv/.mythtv/lircrc). I've attached a sample one, just to get you started, it is by no means

[mythtv-users] how many concurrent recordings possible? in HD?

2005-12-09 Thread mrwester
Hi- My mythtv system has 1xPVR-350, 1xPVR-500 using ivtv 0.4, and a newly added DViCO FusionHDTV 5 Lite using DVB drivers. 1x200GB seagate+1x300GB seagate HD LVM with XFS for /video and 1x40GB seagate for FC4 OS. I have DMA enabled. DVI out via fx5200 at 1280x768. Chaintech nforce2 mobo, AMD2900

Re: [mythtv-users] Internal DVD player

2005-12-09 Thread Phill Edwards
xine -pfhq --no-splash dvd:// Those are great instructions if he wasn't already using xine. I think he may have meant that he was using xine as a stand-alone app outside of MythTV. This way he can play the DVDs from MythTV using the same UI, remote etc. At least, I think that's what he

Re: [mythtv-users] Glitches in firewire capture from DCT-6200

2005-12-09 Thread Steve Adeff
On Friday 09 December 2005 12:44, Azmat wrote: Hi, My mythtv system is running on an AMD Athlon XP 2400+ (2 GHz) with 1G RAM, a PVR-350 and firewire capture from my Motorola DCT-6200 cable box. Whenever I do firewire capture from the box through Myth, the recording exhibits a audio/video

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: sorry to bother you about your xbox mythtv image

2005-12-09 Thread Phill Edwards
I was finally able to download the file and it does work. I need to figure out how you are setting up the smb mount but at least its able to play recorded tv. I've also downloaded this but don't understand how to install it on the XBox. Do I just FTP it over into a directory called

Re: [mythtv-users] Glitches in firewire capture from DCT-6200

2005-12-09 Thread Azmat
Here's my plugreport output: Host Adapter 0 == Node 0 GUID 0xd10080357942 -- libiec61883 error: error reading oMPR libiec61883 error: error reading iMPR Node 1 GUID 0x4279358080357942 -- libiec61883 error: error reading oMPR

Re: [mythtv-users] Myth/Debian distribution

2005-12-09 Thread Steve Adeff
On Friday 09 December 2005 12:56, casey dunn wrote: On 12/9/05, Steve Adeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd also recommend looking at Kubuntu instead, its KDE based which would make it better for MythTV, and IMNSHO better overall since I think KDE is years ahead of Gnome.. I'll try not to

Re: [mythtv-users] Glitches in firewire capture from DCT-6200

2005-12-09 Thread Steve Adeff
there was a thread a while back regarding this. You can search on Gossamer for more info. basically you want to run this bash script. It will set the p2p or broadcast connection to 1 depending on what your machine will use. From what I've found bcast is prefered when available, which is why it

[mythtv-users] MythTV client node: xbox or mac mini?

2005-12-09 Thread Owen Mehegan
I used MythTV with great success a couple of years ago, using one system for the frontend and backend. I planned for this to just be a proof of concept for me, but it worked out well enough that I never bothered to upgrade it or anything. I then moved to an apartment where my roommate had, and was

Re: [mythtv-users] Building a Basic MythTV box

2005-12-09 Thread Jeff Clemens
I'd highly recommend getting a tuner with hardware compression (such as a PVRx50). I originally tried using an old BT type card on my P3-700 box (using it as both a frontend and backend) to no avail. I switched to a PVR350 and now I have clock cycles to spare, even when recording and viewing

[mythtv-users] Help with pcHDTV

2005-12-09 Thread E. Mike Durbin
Hi. I've been using MythTV for over a year now with a PVR-250. However, I can't get my new pcHDTV 3000 to work. I compile with the DVB modules. /var/log/message: Dec 9 10:13:20 video kernel: cx2388x v4l2 driver version 0.0.5 loaded Dec 9 10:13:20 video kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt

Re: [mythtv-users] STAY AWAY FROM WI-FI !!!

2005-12-09 Thread Franco
Do you by chance have plaster walls and ceilings? If so, there is probably a metal mesh embedded in the plaster I'm not sure about the exact translation (I'm not a native English speaker) but yes, my ceilings and some walls are made by a metal mesh embedded in concrete That metal mesh works

Re: [mythtv-users] STAY AWAY FROM WI-FI !!!

2005-12-09 Thread Michael J. Lynch
Franco wrote: Do you by chance have plaster walls and ceilings? If so, there is probably a metal mesh embedded in the plaster I'm not sure about the exact translation (I'm not a native English speaker) but yes, my ceilings and some walls are made by a metal mesh embedded in concrete That

Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV client node: xbox or mac mini?

2005-12-09 Thread Andrew Ziobro
I was originally planning to buy a Mac Mini for this purpose, but I have since become the owner of an original Xbox. I know there are people using their Xboxes as Myth systems also, and I'm wondering how practical this really is. My box is modded, so I presume that I just need to install Linux and

Re: [mythtv-users] Help with pcHDTV

2005-12-09 Thread Keith C
On Dec 9, 2005, at 2:16 PM, E. Mike Durbin wrote: Hi. I've been using MythTV for over a year now with a PVR-250. However, I can't get my new pcHDTV 3000 to work. I compile with the DVB modules. /var/log/message: Dec 9 10:13:20 video kernel: cx2388x v4l2 driver version 0.0.5 loaded Dec 9

Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV client node: xbox or mac mini?

2005-12-09 Thread Jarod Wilson
On Friday 09 December 2005 12:13, Owen Mehegan wrote: On a related note, if I decide to go with the Mac, is there enough   bandwidth over 802.11G wireless to run video to the client node, or   am I totally better off just running ethernet for it? I've had pretty good success watching

[mythtv-users] Re: Make problem Transcode

2005-12-09 Thread A JM
Maybe I should ask this question another way. This appears to be possibly a pathing problem with make? I already coompiled the plugins but without 'transcoding' support for which I now want to include, can I only compile the 'transcoding' in the plugins or do I need to recompile all the pieces of

Re: [mythtv-users] Help with pcHDTV

2005-12-09 Thread Steve Adeff
On Friday 09 December 2005 15:16, E. Mike Durbin wrote: Hi. I've been using MythTV for over a year now with a PVR-250. However, I can't get my new pcHDTV 3000 to work. I compile with the DVB modules. /var/log/message: Dec 9 10:13:20 video kernel: cx2388x v4l2 driver version 0.0.5

Re: [mythtv-users] Help with pcHDTV

2005-12-09 Thread Brandon Beattie
On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 02:16:43PM -0600, E. Mike Durbin wrote: Hi. I've been using MythTV for over a year now with a PVR-250. However, I can't get my new pcHDTV 3000 to work. I compile with the DVB modules. /var/log/message: Dec 9 10:13:20 video kernel: cx2388x v4l2 driver

Re: [mythtv-users] Help with pcHDTV

2005-12-09 Thread E. Mike Durbin
Just to be sure, I took the PVR-250 out of the box. Also, I ran the atscscan as root. # ls -l /dev/dvb total 175 drwxr-xr-x 6 root root144 2005-04-01 02:07 . drwxr-xr-x 35 root root 178680 2005-12-09 10:11 .. drwxr-xr-x 2 root root248 2005-04-01 02:07 adapter0 drwxr-xr-x 2 root

Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV client node: xbox or mac mini?

2005-12-09 Thread Johan Kihlström
I use a modded Xbox with a bigger harddrive as my mythfrontend. Haven't had any problems with that so far, easy to control from the Xbox DVD remote. Also quiet if you replace the stock fan with something suitable. If I want to play games, I just boot into standard MS dashboard and go. On

Re: [mythtv-users] Nuvexport honorcutlist doesn't cut correctly.

2005-12-09 Thread Greg Grotsky
Chris, I'm using a pcHDTV HD-3000 I don't know if it's software or hardware, I think it just grabs the MPEG2 stream out of the air and just dumps it to disk (hardware?). I'm pretty sure that it's a problem with how the mythtranscode program reads the stream. I think it's also the same problem

Re: [mythtv-users] how many concurrent recordings possible? in HD?

2005-12-09 Thread Mudit Wahal
I was recording two HDTV streams at a time (HD3000 and Fusion HDTV Lite 5) and commercial flagging at the sametime. I was getting lot of corrupt/bad video when all 3 were happening simultaneously. It has more to do with IO bottlenecks than cpu/etc. The %wait was very high, about 80+. Remember

Re: [mythtv-users] Nuvexport honorcutlist doesn't cut correctly.

2005-12-09 Thread Chris Petersen
I'm using a pcHDTV HD-3000 I don't know if it's software or hardware, I think it just grabs the MPEG2 stream out of the air and just dumps it to disk (hardware?). I'm pretty sure that it's a problem with how the mythtranscode program reads the stream. I think it's also the same problem that

Re: [mythtv-users] Glitches in firewire capture from DCT-6200

2005-12-09 Thread Curtis Stanford
My DCT-6200 works pretty well with firewire and I do all that is mentioned below. However, I do get some of the glitches you talk about. Mine occur mainly at the very beginning of the recording. It seems to just skip 5 seconds or so and pick up afterwards. I also have a weird problem where

Re: [mythtv-users] Myth/Debian distribution

2005-12-09 Thread Raphael Pooser
Steve Adeff wrote: On Friday 09 December 2005 12:56, casey dunn wrote: On 12/9/05, Steve Adeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd also recommend looking at Kubuntu instead, its KDE based which would make it better for MythTV, and IMNSHO better overall since I think KDE is years ahead of

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Myth/Debian distribution

2005-12-09 Thread Raphael Pooser
Casey Dunn wrote: */[EMAIL PROTECTED]/* wrote: I'm using Ubuntu and it's mythtv packages and it works great. bt878 and Air2PC HDTV. I had a little trouble with breezy and a mismatch between the plugin and backend versions (I need mythweb). But I don't think that is still an issue. I'm

Re: [mythtv-users] Building a Basic MythTV box

2005-12-09 Thread Nick
On 09/12/05, Steve Adeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: transfer speeds are more dependant on harddrive speeds. 802.11b is faster than your average harddrive (raid withstanding). I'd venture this is untrue for both 11b and 11g wireless devices and average drives from the past couple of years.

Re: [mythtv-users] STAY AWAY FROM WI-FI !!!

2005-12-09 Thread Raphael Pooser
John Andersen wrote: On 12/8/05, *Raphael Pooser* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Um, linux isn't really that bad with wifi as people seem to think. All you need is a good chipset. ANYTHING RALINK WILL DO. Why? because they have provided the

Re: [mythtv-users] Myth/Debian distribution

2005-12-09 Thread Mike Robinson
Steve Adeff wrote: On Friday 09 December 2005 06:18, Mike Robinson wrote: Steve Adeff wrote: On Thursday 08 December 2005 20:53, Mike Robinson wrote: I was considering using Debian (or Ubuntu) for my new Myth box, but then I saw that the distribution isn't being supported anymore:

Re: [mythtv-users] fanless Epia, Mediamvp or network dvd player for frontend?

2005-12-09 Thread Mark Emery
Hi, Just to be sure what I'm getting in to, can the MediaMVP with mvpmc software play .nuv files? At 45 pounds it's great value. Thanks, Mark Emery Kalle Pokki wrote: Shaun Lowry wrote: So MediaMVP can play back MPEG-2 DVB-t broadcasts? TS or PS mode? How about live DVB-t? Yes.

Re: [mythtv-users] how many concurrent recordings possible? in HD?

2005-12-09 Thread John P Poet
On 12/9/05, mrwester [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi- My mythtv system has 1xPVR-350, 1xPVR-500 using ivtv 0.4, and a newly added DViCO FusionHDTV 5 Lite using DVB drivers. 1x200GB seagate+1x300GB seagate HD LVM with XFS for /video and 1x40GB seagate for FC4 OS. I have DMA enabled. DVI out via

Re: [mythtv-users] fanless Epia, Mediamvp or network dvd player for frontend?

2005-12-09 Thread Rick Smith
Mark Emery wrote: Hi, Just to be sure what I'm getting in to, can the MediaMVP with mvpmc software play .nuv files? At 45 pounds it's great value. Thanks, Mark Emery Kalle Pokki wrote: Shaun Lowry wrote: So MediaMVP can play back MPEG-2 DVB-t broadcasts? TS or PS mode? How about

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: sorry to bother you about your xbox mythtv image

2005-12-09 Thread Robert Anderson
On 12/9/05, Phill Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was finally able to download the file and it does work. I need to figure out how you are setting up the smb mount but at least its able to play recorded tv.I've also downloaded this but don't understand how to install it onthe XBox. Do I just

Re: [mythtv-users] XBox Media Center Question

2005-12-09 Thread Robert Anderson
On 12/8/05, Kichigai Mentat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-Hash: SHA1On Dec 8, 2005, at 18.18, Mlists wrote: On Thu, 2005-08-12 at 09:38 -0600, Kichigai Mentat wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Dec 8, 2005, at 04.01, Phill Edwards wrote: I think

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Mythbackend losing sql connection on the start of some recordings

2005-12-09 Thread Sasha Z
Anybody have further information on this? (ie, bump) On 12/3/05, Michael Eldridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have to restart the backend about once a day for things to work properly. Should we open a ticket about this issue? On 11/28/05, Sasha Z [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I seem to

Re: [mythtv-users] how many concurrent recordings possible? in HD?

2005-12-09 Thread Mudit Wahal
My system is ECS KT800A motherboard (frys $99 combo) Sempron 3000+ 180GB HD for recording shows (ext3 for all partitions) 200GB HD for storage (xfs file system) pcHD3000 2.6.12 kernel Fusion HDTV5 Lite 512MB DDR SDRAM No raid, no lvm, nothing. On 12/9/05, Mudit Wahal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

[mythtv-users] Black and White S-Video Problem

2005-12-09 Thread Rich Schumacher
Hey all, I've looked through the archives and have found the same problem as mine, but the responses haven't corrected my situation. I'm currently running a GeForce2 with nvidia 7667 drivers on my frontend box using an s-video out to my htdv. Problem is it will only display black and white.

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Strange MythBackend troubles

2005-12-09 Thread Jeff Clemens
I think I figured out the remote system problem. I wasn't aware that you don't need to run a database on the remote system. Once I turned that off, and re set everything up between the master and slave boxes, the delete problem, and the inability to jump forward and back cleared up. Now, I have

[mythtv-users] Re: Strange MythBackend troubles

2005-12-09 Thread f-myth-users
Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2005 16:58:53 -0800 From: Jeff Clemens [EMAIL PROTECTED] I think I figured out the remote system problem. I wasn't aware that you don't need to run a database on the remote system. Once I turned that off, and re set everything up between the master and slave

Re: Re: [mythtv-users] Press select to change the channel in the program guide

2005-12-09 Thread Paul Sicard
Thanks for the suggestion. Recording Threshold is (was) set at 16 minutes. I've been trying to select shows that are in progress from the EPG with no luck, so I wouldn't think the Recording Threshold setting would matter. I did lose the live TV window in the upper right corner of the EPG

[mythtv-users] PVR-250 composite-in gives black video---why?

2005-12-09 Thread f-myth-users
Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2005 11:00:43 + From: Nick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Also, when setting up a PVR-x50, the correct input (S-Video or composite) is not always necessarily #0 for the first card. Indeed; it seems that on my -250's, the card's built-in input is Composite 4 in myth, and

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Strange MythBackend troubles

2005-12-09 Thread Greg Estabrooks
hadn't occurred to me that this is a problem, and in fact I thought that certain SBE/FE settings were stored locally. Where -is- this info stored? Should I disable mysql on my SBE/FE, too? I should Everything for all frontends/backends is stored in the single database pointed to by your

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Strange MythBackend troubles

2005-12-09 Thread Sasha Z
Are you sure you guys aren't experiencing the same problems as I am in this thread? http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/164194 What do your backend logs say? On 12/9/05, Greg Estabrooks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hadn't occurred to me that this is a problem, and in fact I thought

[mythtv-users] Use of the Rerun flag?

2005-12-09 Thread Michael Freeman
I was wondering if anyone had a trick to exclude reruns (and, no, manually telling mythtv to never record a certain episode again isn't what I'm looking for...too many episodes of too many shows). I really don't want to record reruns or have to manually check what's airing in my various recording

Re: [mythtv-users] Use of the Rerun flag?

2005-12-09 Thread Deyan Bektchiev
This is already in Myth and I spent sometime looking for it (even created a couple of custom rules to do this) but it's available in the Scheduling options - Record new episodes only (The other options on that menu are related to matching duplicates). Dejan Michael Freeman wrote: I was

Re: [mythtv-users] Internal DVD player

2005-12-09 Thread Dave Oxley
No, sorry. I was already using xine as suggested. I was talking about the Myth internal DVD player. Cheers, Dave. Phill Edwards wrote: xine -pfhq --no-splash dvd:// Those are great instructions if he wasn't already using xine. I think he may have meant that he was using xine

Re: [mythtv-users] Internal DVD player

2005-12-09 Thread Dave Oxley
Jason, I tried that but it does not appear to work. Is there a configure switch I need to use? I notice this when I run configure: # Misc Features DVD playback no Cheers, Dave. jason bright wrote: On 12/9/05, *Dave Oxley* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've

Re: [mythtv-users] Internal DVD player

2005-12-09 Thread Greg Estabrooks
# Misc Features DVD playback no --enable-dvd You might also try running ./configure --help ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

Re: [mythtv-users] Internal DVD player

2005-12-09 Thread Dave Oxley
Cheers for that, I'll give it a go. I did run ./configure --help but it only listed disable-dvd as an option so I assumed it was enabled by default. I probably should have tried it though ;) ./configure --help |grep dvd --disable-dvddisable native DVD playback Dave. Greg

Re: [mythtv-users] [may be OT] Linksys NSLU2 for streaming videos (SD and HD) ?

2005-12-09 Thread Steve Malenfant
I've made a little script that copies my local recording to the NSLU2 when I decide. The script query's the database with some code stolen from the contrib directory and copy it to the slug and link the file back... For example, after I run the script it will look like this : lrwxrwxrwx 1 root

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