Re: [mythtv-users] Software RAID problems - the unspoken mythtv problem?

2006-01-09 Thread ffrr
Fedor Pikus wrote: Or just use JFS instead of XFS. My greatest fear with the hardware raid is what would happen to it if something failes in the system itself. If my PC with softRAID dies, I can connect the disks to any Linux PC and it will recognize the RAID. At least as long as the

Re: [mythtv-users] Something about ivtv not tuning

2006-01-09 Thread Marius Schrecker
linux wrote: On 1/7/06, linux wrote: After spending a week to get my IVTV drivers running with firmware I deciced to downgrade to 0.4.0. This worked. My next challenge is changing channels. When I use ivtv-tune I can tune the card to any station, however when I start the mythfront I cannot

Re: [mythtv-users] Fail to tune channels in UK using Rowridgetransmitter

2006-01-09 Thread David Watkins
On 08/01/06, Myth TV [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Message Received: Jan 08 2006, 11:00 AM From: Steve Daniels [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Discussion about mythtv mythtv-users@mythtv.org Cc: Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Fail to tune channels in UK using

Re: [mythtv-users] replaceing a Hauppage 150 with a pvr 500

2006-01-09 Thread Marius Schrecker
On Saturday 07 Jan 2006 15:25, Chris wrote: Thanks Chris. RMA ready and waiting.. Steve When I did ivtv-tune -f759.25 -d/dev/video0 All I got was this. /dev/video0: 759.250 MHz But when I tried the other device. ivtv-tune -f759.25 -d/dev/video1 I got,

RE: [mythtv-users] ivtv0 warning: ENC Stream 0 OVERFLOW

2006-01-09 Thread Marius Schrecker
Keith C wrote: On Dec 15, 2005, at 3:41 AM, Marius Schrecker wrote: Dec 15 07:28:27 mythbox kernel: ivtv0 warning: ENC Stream 0 OVERFLOW #2: Stealing a Buf fer, 512 currently allocated This means the client app is not pulling data fast enough from the driver buffer and you could loose

RE: [mythtv-users] File system benchmark

2006-01-09 Thread Marius Schrecker
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Adeff Sent: Friday, January 06, 2006 1:38 PM To: mythtv-users@mythtv.org Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] File system benchmark On Friday 06 January 2006 14:04, Stef Coene wrote:

Re: [mythtv-users] please help :( TVRec(1) Error: Channel: '1' was not found in the database. Using setup DBOX

2006-01-09 Thread John C
On Mon, 09 Jan 2006 02:30:42 -0500 Michael T. Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Mike, just had a look at that and it seems to be setup fine. It also changes correctly when i change the setting in mythtv-setup. Still no change to my problem though. Could it be related to mysql5? Should i

Re: [mythtv-users] Ratpoisonrc example

2006-01-09 Thread Support [ Ian Ward ]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ more .Xclients exec ./.Xclients-ratpoison [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ more .Xclients-ratpoison #!/bin/bash /usr/bin/ratpoison # To get an xterm with Ratpoison, Control-c Control-t c # Load nVidia driver custom settings #nvidia-settings --load-config-only # Stop the Nvidia

Re: [mythtv-users] replaceing a Hauppage 150 with a pvr 500

2006-01-09 Thread Stephen Kitchener
On Monday 09 Jan 2006 09:23, Marius Schrecker wrote: On Saturday 07 Jan 2006 15:25, Chris wrote: Thanks Chris. RMA ready and waiting.. Steve When I did ivtv-tune -f759.25 -d/dev/video0 All I got was this. /dev/video0: 759.250 MHz But when I tried the

[mythtv-users] Surging video in LiveTV

2006-01-09 Thread Adrian Wilkins
Don't know if anyone else has noticed this... This is a DVB-T only box. LiveTV is configured to start in the Program Guide. The default channel is usually my daughters favourite (CBeebies). Thus, the default action is usually to simply hit OK to chose the currently selected channel. LiveTV then

[mythtv-users] Australian DVB-T resolution

2006-01-09 Thread Phill Edwards
My DVB-T recordings in Sydney all seem to be 704 x 576. I thought SD was supposed to be 720 x 576. What am I misunderstanding here? Regards, Phill ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org

[mythtv-users] MythTV Hanging on Video Exit via xvmc-vld

2006-01-09 Thread Sam Davies
Hi there I have a EPIA SP13000 which was running FC4 with the RPMs from http://washington.kelkoo.net/epia/FC4/RPMS/ with mythTV using via xvmc-vld mpeg2 decoding, and despite a few glitches, all was fine. I then needed to update X, and did so with yum update xorg-x11\* (with the epia

[mythtv-users] DirectFB Matrox TV-Out

2006-01-09 Thread Wied Pakusa
Hello. I hope you can help me, because i'm almost getting mad about the mythtv installation :-) My hardware: - Hauppauge PVR 250 - Matrox G450 DH After many hours of trying and many cups of tea i suceeded in compiling mythtv with --enable-directfb. I have also compiled mythtv with

Re: [mythtv-users] Software RAID problems - the unspoken mythtv problem?

2006-01-09 Thread chris
On Sun, Jan 08, 2006 at 08:57:51PM -0700, Blammo wrote: As I have found (and has Jarod/others) there's a nasty couple of bugs when you combine SWRaid/XFS/NFS together. I've never had a problem with it, although I'm only running one tuner card. The problem might be with delayed writes of lock

Re: [mythtv-users] MythWeb returns blank pages

2006-01-09 Thread Kyle Hoondert
Chris, I did this, and it helped me to figure out some things, but I'm still stuck with this in my error log: [09-Jan-2006 09:10:46] PHP Fatal error: Cannot redeclare setting() (previously declared in /var/www/localhost/htdocs/includes/utils.php:24) in /var/www/localhost/htdocs/includes/utils.php

[mythtv-users] Audio Authority VGA to component converter or Nvidia 6600GT with component dongle?

2006-01-09 Thread Nedim Cholich
I have started working on my Mythtv frontend and am still not sure how to connect it to my TV which is 42' Toshiba CRT projection HDTV.Since the TV only has component input (YPbPr), my understanding is that I have two choices: a) Buy Audio Authority VGA to Component converter and hook it to my VGA

Re: [mythtv-users] NFS suggestions under heavy load?

2006-01-09 Thread shadestalker
On 1/9/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:I suspect that the answer to this question is, Don't do that, then, but in case anyone has any suggestions:The question is, can I do better?I don't imagine I'll often be rsyncing the entire disk, but I will certainly be rsyncing the deltasince

[mythtv-users] Re: LiveTV MythMusic - Just lost sound

2006-01-09 Thread Brian Donaldson
Could it have something to do with this line in my modprobe.conf? remove snd-via82xx { /usr/sbin/alsactl store /dev/null 21 || : ; }; /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove snd-via82xx On 1/8/06, Brian Donaldson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm running MythTV 0.18.1 with a PVR-250. I'm using the

[mythtv-users] QMYSQL3 Error on Fedora FC4 x86_64

2006-01-09 Thread Brian Fischer
I followed Jarod's guide exactly as written using yum on my system, but there seems to be an issue with the updated SQL drivers on a clean install of FC4_64. I had been reading different forums and it seems like this one can be fixed by installing qt-MySQL. It was installed in my environment

Re: [mythtv-users] Problems with installing mythtv-suite on FC4

2006-01-09 Thread A JM
I believe you need to edit the yum.repos and change it from RPM-GPG-KEY-fedoratoRPM-GPG-KEYit worked for me the other day./etc/yum.repos.d/fedora.repo: [base]name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Basebaseurl=http://fedora.server4you.net/fedora/core/$releasever/$basearch/os/# mirrorlist=

Re: [mythtv-users] question about RAID

2006-01-09 Thread Steve Adeff
On Sunday 08 January 2006 19:50, Gavin Haslett wrote: RAID 0 would be a straight stripe with no data protection. You were talking about three drives, so in order to use all three you'd be talking this or a RAID 5 in order to get some modicum of protection. I was under the impression RAID 0 was

Re: [mythtv-users] QMYSQL3 Error on Fedora FC4 x86_64

2006-01-09 Thread Piers Kittel
I *think* you need the MT (multithread) version of the qt-mysql driver - I know this is from a Debian system but here you go: ii libqt3c102-mt-mysql 3.3.4-3MySQL database driver for Qt3 (Threaded) and taking from your list: qt-MySQL-3.3.4-15.4 I think you need the MT version -

Re: [mythtv-users] NFS suggestions under heavy load?

2006-01-09 Thread Jonathan Tidmore
On 1/8/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I suspect that the answer to this question is, Don't do that, then,but in case anyone has any suggestions: This list just went over finetuning nfs last week. Search for it. And try reading the man page for nfs (e.g. 'man 5 nfs'). Your

[mythtv-users] Universal Remote Code for Leadtek TV2000XP Remote (OK, a little off topic)

2006-01-09 Thread David Krainess
Hi all, I figured if anybody knew this, it would be in this group. What is the code to use to setup a universal remote for the Leadtek TV200XP CoolCommand remote IR receiver. I.E. the Hauppage Gray remote is 0081 for the signal protocol. Does anybode know the Leadtek one? Thanks in advance.

Re: [mythtv-users] An idea for one of the firewire problems

2006-01-09 Thread Steve Adeff
On Sunday 08 January 2006 23:34, Adam Propeck wrote: On 1/8/06, Steve Adeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 08 January 2006 21:20, Adam Propeck wrote: On 1/8/06, Steve Adeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gentlemen, I posted this to the dev list, but haven't gotten a response, I

Re: [mythtv-users] ATI X850 - TV-Out?

2006-01-09 Thread Raphael Pooser
Michael T. Dean wrote: Andrew Casper wrote: I'm trying to go component out of my ATI Radeon X850 to my TV. I've tried many different edits to /etc/X11/xorg.conf, but nothing seems to make it display anything more that 800x600. I'm trying to get 1920x1080 and DVI isn't an option right

Re: [mythtv-users] File system benchmark

2006-01-09 Thread Chris Rouch
On 1/9/06, Marius Schrecker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Adeff Sent: Friday, January 06, 2006 1:38 PM To: mythtv-users@mythtv.org Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] File system benchmark On Friday

[mythtv-users] LIRC with a laptop's native IR blaster?

2006-01-09 Thread Bret Schuhmacher
I have a Dell Latitude (CPXJ, I think) with an onboard IR emitter. I cannot figure out how to get it to blast IR codes to my Dish 301 (JVC) settop box. I'm not worried about receiving IR, just sending IR now. I used the trick of viewing the IR with a digital camera - I can see handheld remotes

Re: [mythtv-users] ongoing DataDirect problems?

2006-01-09 Thread Raphael Pooser
John Biundo wrote: Michael T. Dean wrote: In the interest of fair time... . . . OK, let me put it this way. Anybody thinking about setting up a MythTV box should, BEFORE DOING ANYTHING ELSE, evaluate zap2it. Here I am, having spent lots of $$$ and DAYS OF TIME building and setting up

Re: [mythtv-users] Playback performance [all platforms]

2006-01-09 Thread David Abrahams
Jens Baumeister [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 1/9/06, David Abrahams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I notice that the performance of playback seems to be suboptimal. For example, I captured some HDTV video over firewire using MythTV. When I try to play it back using the frontend, it is totally

Re: [mythtv-users] Ratpoisonrc example

2006-01-09 Thread Petr Stehlik
Robin Gilks píše v Po 09. 01. 2006 v 15:33 +1300: Greetings Does someone have an example ratpoisonrc file they could post that sets default focus options etc correctly for mythtv/mplayer/xine frontend? I've been suffering from the focus problem after running xine as well but then someone

RE: [mythtv-users] File system benchmark

2006-01-09 Thread Ray Lischner
On Monday 09 January 2006 04:35 am, Marius Schrecker wrote: What about staability? Are XFS and JFS equally resistant to corruption? I dont't have a UPS and at Christmas the frequent power outages (caused by extra heaters and simultaneous massive numbers of cups of tea) made me very wary

Re: [mythtv-users] Sempron 3100 lag when viewing HD from 6200 STB

2006-01-09 Thread Adam Propeck
Sorry! I seem to be able to record shows alright and play them back on another PC (AMD64 3200+) just fine. Watching live TV or playing back a recorded program is what is laggy.On 1/8/06, Kevin Kuphal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Adam Propeck wrote: Running: Sempron 3100 512 MB DDR400 ECS Nforce 3 MB

[mythtv-users] DVB-T and DVB-S on same box

2006-01-09 Thread James Pattinson
Hi All I have been running a mythTV system using a DVB-S card for a many months with great success. I can get all the free to air BBC channels. I've now added a Freecom DVB-S adaptor, which is also working well. However I thought I would be able to integrate the two systems as there is a

Re: [mythtv-users] AC3 through SPDIF?

2006-01-09 Thread Petr Stehlik
Chris Lynch píše v Ne 08. 01. 2006 v 10:26 -0800: All, I'm trying to get the last set of config done on my recently upgraded MythTV box. I finally did the HDTV plunge over the holidays and have everything working with the exception of AC3 passthrough on DVB/HD recordings (it works fine for

Re: [mythtv-users] Playback performance [all platforms]

2006-01-09 Thread Greg Estabrooks
AFAICT, there's no processor-specific optimization in playback at all. So if performance is bad on PPC/Darwin, it's probably bad (compared to what's possible) on x86/Linux as well. The differences is that scalling/display through XV is hardware accelerated whereas on the PPC it's using

Re: [mythtv-users] MythWeb returns blank pages

2006-01-09 Thread Chris Petersen
Chris, I did this, and it helped me to figure out some things, but I'm still stuck with this in my error log: [09-Jan-2006 09:10:46] PHP Fatal error: Cannot redeclare setting() (previously declared in /var/www/localhost/htdocs/includes/utils.php:24) in

[mythtv-users] Re: [linux-lvm] Re: more info on the hang with 2.6.15-rc5

2006-01-09 Thread Yeechang Lee
Matt Darcy [EMAIL PROTECTED] says: Judging from the ammount of problems with this driver it is %90 the driver and %10 raid interaction with the dirver I don't believe this is an LVM issue, more a case of the driver's just not ready for use, so if you use it with raid and lvm you speed up

Re: [mythtv-users] MythWeb returns blank pages

2006-01-09 Thread Kyle Hoondert
mythtv htdocs # find . -name "*php" -print0 | xargs -r0 grep "function setting" "." ./includes/utils.php: function setting($field, $new_value = "old\0old") {mythtv htdocs # Yep, only one. Kyle ---Original Message---From: Chris Petersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Subject: Re: [mythtv-users]

Re: [mythtv-users] File system benchmark

2006-01-09 Thread Steve Adeff
On Monday 09 January 2006 11:26, Ray Lischner wrote: On Monday 09 January 2006 04:35 am, Marius Schrecker wrote: What about staability? Are XFS and JFS equally resistant to corruption? I dont't have a UPS and at Christmas the frequent power outages (caused by extra heaters and

Re: [mythtv-users] QMYSQL3 Error on Fedora FC4 x86_64

2006-01-09 Thread e squid2
I don't think there is a multithreaded RPM for Fedora. Don't see anything on the updates sites and the spec file for qt-MySQL mentions threading support. I have the same issue basically (qt3.3, mysql4.1, AMD64 bit playing nicely). Even recompiled qt against mysql-4.1.16 as both a mysql plugin and

[mythtv-users] Harddrive

2006-01-09 Thread Yann Lehmann
My planned MythTV-System is taking form, with following drives already in the system (1 Hauppauge PVR-500 MCE and Kubuntu installed): - 1 60GB Harddrive as hda, for system and data (master on first IDE) - 1 100MB IDE internal Zip drive as hdc (master on second IDE) - 1 dvd-rom as hdd (slave on

Re: [mythtv-users] Harddrive

2006-01-09 Thread Brian Wood
Well 2 IDE drives on one channel will not slow things down more than it does on most systems, just don't put an optical or Zip drive on the same channel as an HDD. I am curious though, where are you going to store recorded programs? Looks like all your IDE channels are used up.

[mythtv-users] I can't get my HDD to spindown when idle

2006-01-09 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'm trying to get my MythTV backend server to spindown its HDDs after a given period of time in order to save power and reduce unnecessary heat generation. My videos are stored on /dev/hdd, and it spins down fine. However, /dev/hdc only contains the /home mount and it never seems to spindown. I

Re: [mythtv-users] I can't get my HDD to spindown when idle

2006-01-09 Thread Johnathon Meichtry
You can use the command fuser -c /dev/hdc to determine which processes are using that device. - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Discussion about mythtv mythtv-users@mythtv.org Sent: Monday, January 09, 2006 6:00 PM Subject: [mythtv-users] I can't get

[mythtv-users] Webiste www.mythtv.org not working

2006-01-09 Thread Paul Wheeler
Just tried to go to the website www.mythtv.org and got the following error messages: Warning: mysql_select_db(): Too many connections in /data/www/virtual/mythtv.org/htdocs/includes/sql_layer.php on line 80 Warning: mysql_select_db(): A link to the server could not be established in

[mythtv-users] OT: ntp won't synchronize

2006-01-09 Thread matthew . garman
I tried recording with MythTV for the first time last night. Everything work as expected---except for the time! My computer was running 15 minutes fast, so my recorded TV was off. Now I'm struggling with NTP. Actually, I've been struggling with ntp for some time now. I've followed the gentoo

[mythtv-users] Backend / Frontend advise

2006-01-09 Thread N Dugas
After having Myth running for about 6 months, I and thinking of changing how I have it set up. Right now, both the front and back ends are on the same box which has a PVR-350 tuner. What I'd like to do is this: Make my current Myth box a backend only but also add a firewire connection to my

Re: [mythtv-users] question about RAID

2006-01-09 Thread Johnathon Meichtry
Steve, All RAID0 does is join (or grow) partitions together. It is very useful if you have, for example, three 100GB disks about like them joined into a 300GB partition. What I have is follows on my Master Backend: Root Disk (/boot, /,Swap and /cache for ringbuffer ): Dual 160GB

Re: [mythtv-users] Still Can't Get pcHDTV-3000 Installed

2006-01-09 Thread Nedim Cholich
Drew, I'm running PVR500 and HD3000 on Gentoo. I have had problems until I upgraded to kernel 2.6.14 and ivtv 0.4. Now everything works great. As others have pointed out the main problem are the three modules that ivtv installs but are already present (from the kernel). Once you get rid of those

[mythtv-users] mythconverg Error message

2006-01-09 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I am getting the following error from mythconverg: Error: Got error 124 from storage engine ... when I issue the following SQL statment: SELECT MAX( endtime ) FROM program Any idea what this error message means or how to fix it? The perl script I had containing this SQL statement has been

Re: [mythtv-users] Harddrive

2006-01-09 Thread Jens Baumeister
On 1/9/06, Yann Lehmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - 1 60GB Harddrive as hda, for system and data (master on first IDE) If I understand you correctly, you're planning to use this for recordings and the system, right? If that's so, you may want to re-think that: 60 GB fill up rather quickly.

Re: [mythtv-users] Cannot record (anymore)

2006-01-09 Thread Morten Rønseth
Morten Rønseth wrote: Hi all, I have a mythbox, Mandriva 2006, 1 x PVR-150, 1 x PVR-500, IVTV 0.4.0. About a month ago the box crashed (badly) and I decided to rebuild from scratch. It used to run Mandriva 2005 so I updated to 2006. I also decided to create the MySQL database from

Re: [mythtv-users] question about RAID

2006-01-09 Thread James C. Dastrup
All RAID0 does is join (or grow) partitions together. It is very useful if you have, for example, three 100GB disks about like them joined into a 300GB partition. Not exactly. A true RAID 0 (or a striped set) alternates writing each block from one disk to the other. This increases performance

Re: [mythtv-users] OT: ntp won't synchronize

2006-01-09 Thread Michael T. Dean
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried recording with MythTV for the first time last night. Everything work as expected---except for the time! My computer was running 15 minutes fast, so my recorded TV was off. Now I'm struggling with NTP. Actually, I've been struggling with ntp for some time now.

[mythtv-users] NFS or SAMBA for Video Stream

2006-01-09 Thread Chris Gardner
I am running mythtv with a separate video server. I currently have it connect with a smb share. The only problem is a quick pause in movies every 5 minutes or so. Not really a bother, but is a tweek to smb available or would nfs do better? Thanks, Chris Gardner

Re: [mythtv-users] An idea for one of the firewire problems

2006-01-09 Thread Michael Haan
On 1/9/06, Steve Adeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 08 January 2006 23:34, Adam Propeck wrote: On 1/8/06, Steve Adeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 08 January 2006 21:20, Adam Propeck wrote: On 1/8/06, Steve Adeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Gentlemen, I posted this to the dev list,

[mythtv-users] 64bit IDE RAID options?

2006-01-09 Thread James C. Dastrup
Is anyone aware of a PCI-X 64bit / 133MHz capable IDE RAID HBA? Or, how about a PCI 64bit / 33 Mhz MHz capable IDE RAID HBA? All the ones I'm seeing are 32-bit / 33mhz. In case you're wondering why, I have a server-class machine (hence the unique PCI slots) but would like to make use of

Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV Hanging on Video Exit via xvmc-vld

2006-01-09 Thread Paul Bender
Sam Davies wrote: Hi there I have a EPIA SP13000 which was running FC4 with the RPMs from http://washington.kelkoo.net/epia/FC4/RPMS/ with mythTV using via xvmc-vld mpeg2 decoding, and despite a few glitches, all was fine. I then needed to update X, and did so with yum update xorg-x11\*

Re: [mythtv-users] ATI X850 - TV-Out?

2006-01-09 Thread Andrew Casper
Message: 16 Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2006 10:47:17 -0500 From: Raphael Pooser [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] ATI X850 - TV-Out? To: Discussion about mythtv mythtv-users@mythtv.org Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Michael T.

Re: [mythtv-users] File system benchmark

2006-01-09 Thread Marius Schrecker
On Monday 09 January 2006 11:26, Ray Lischner wrote: On Monday 09 January 2006 04:35 am, Marius Schrecker wrote: What about staability? Are XFS and JFS equally resistant to corruption? I dont't have a UPS and at Christmas the frequent power outages (caused by extra heaters and

Re: [mythtv-users] question about RAID

2006-01-09 Thread Steve Adeff
On Monday 09 January 2006 14:53, James C. Dastrup wrote: All RAID0 does is join (or grow) partitions together. It is very useful if you have, for example, three 100GB disks about like them joined into a 300GB partition. Not exactly. A true RAID 0 (or a striped set) alternates writing each

Re: [mythtv-users] question about RAID

2006-01-09 Thread Steve Adeff
On Monday 09 January 2006 14:32, Johnathon Meichtry wrote: - Original Message - From: Steve Adeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: mythtv-users@mythtv.org Sent: Monday, January 09, 2006 3:03 PM Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] question about RAID On Sunday 08 January 2006 19:50, Gavin Haslett

Re: [mythtv-users] IOBOUND - blocking in ThreadedFileWriter::Write() --- WTH?

2006-01-09 Thread Mudit Wahal
run top and see how much iowait do you have in the system. On 1/8/06, Blammo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/8/06, Kevin Kuphal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Blammo wrote: On 1/8/06, Mudit Wahal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: elevator=cfq didnt help in my setup. I never got around to moving my

Re: [mythtv-users] 64bit IDE RAID options?

2006-01-09 Thread Yeechang Lee
James C. Dastrup [EMAIL PROTECTED] says: Is anyone aware of a PCI-X 64bit / 133MHz capable IDE RAID HBA? Or, how about a PCI 64bit / 33 Mhz MHz capable IDE RAID HBA? People generally consider 3Ware's 7xxx (ATA) and 8xxx/9xxx-series (SATA) cards, which all support 64-bit/66MHz PCI-X, the

Re: [mythtv-users] File system benchmark

2006-01-09 Thread Steve Adeff
On Monday 09 January 2006 15:10, Marius Schrecker wrote: On Monday 09 January 2006 11:26, Ray Lischner wrote: On Monday 09 January 2006 04:35 am, Marius Schrecker wrote: What about staability? Are XFS and JFS equally resistant to corruption? I dont't have a UPS and at Christmas the

Re: [mythtv-users] question about RAID

2006-01-09 Thread Johnathon Meichtry
James, Thanks, I was putting it in layman's terms but your right I should have been more precise. If one was going to be technically correct then it isn't even that straight forward as with most systems you will probably have three random access reads for every sequential write therefore with

Re: [mythtv-users] I can't get my HDD to spindown when idle

2006-01-09 Thread Greg Cope
/proc/sys/vm/block-dump. When set to 1, it will dump info to the kernel message buffer about what process caused the io. you might lik to look at laptop mode as well! ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org

Re: [mythtv-users] fc4.ppc, Mac Mini and MythTV

2006-01-09 Thread Wade Maxfield
Happy New Year to you all. I finally have FC4 running on my Mac Mini. MythTV is installed but I am having several issues. First, MythMusic emits just a horrible blast of static, even if the volume control is set to mute. Any one got this running? [...deleted...] Well, I think that will do it

Re: [mythtv-users] NFS or SAMBA for Video Stream

2006-01-09 Thread Johnathon Meichtry
Chris, My thoughts are that Samba sucks and NFS rocks. "Why?" I hear you ask, well for no other reason than personal observation ... when transferring a file by NFS and also by SMB the NFS transfer always tends to take 30-40% less time. I have never bothered to look into the technical

Re: [mythtv-users] NFS or SAMBA for Video Stream

2006-01-09 Thread Brian Foddy
On Mon, 9 Jan 2006, Chris Gardner wrote: I am running mythtv with a separate video server. I currently have it connect with a smb share. The only problem is a quick pause in movies every 5 minutes or so. Not really a bother, but is a tweek to smb available or would nfs do better? Thanks,

Re: [mythtv-users] question about RAID

2006-01-09 Thread Johnathon Meichtry
Steve, My OS is Gentoo and the Logical Volume Manager I use is LVM2. To be honest I don't know what the difference is between the mdadm tool and the various tools which make up lvm2 it's just that I know how to use lvm2. If you have two disks then I suppose you ought to use RAID1 and mirror

Re: [mythtv-users] question about RAID

2006-01-09 Thread James C. Dastrup
?On Monday 09 January 2006 14:53, James C. Dastrup wrote: All RAID0 does is join (or grow) partitions together. It is very useful if you have, for example, three 100GB disks about like them joined into a 300GB partition. Not exactly. A true RAID 0 (or a striped set) alternates writing each

Re: [mythtv-users] Backend / Frontend advise

2006-01-09 Thread Robert Anderson
On 1/9/06, N Dugas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After having Myth running for about 6 months, I and thinking of changinghow I have it set up.Right now, both the front and back ends are on the same box which has a PVR-350 tuner.What I'd like to do is this:Make my current Myth box a backend only but

[mythtv-users] Fwd: Sempron 3100 lag when viewing HD from 6200 STB

2006-01-09 Thread Adam Propeck
-- Forwarded message --From: Adam Propeck [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: Jan 9, 2006 12:21 PM Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Sempron 3100 lag when viewing HD from 6200 STBTo: Discussion about mythtv mythtv-users@mythtv.orgHere is some more detail. ( Xrog.conf and some hdparm info) I'm

Re: [mythtv-users] OT: ntp won't synchronize

2006-01-09 Thread matthew . garman
On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 02:54:46PM -0500, Michael T. Dean wrote: outrageous synchronization distance -- did you ever set your clock to be closer to the real time than 15 minutes off? NTP will refuse to synch if the delta is large. Yes, I forgot to mention that, indeed, I start ntpd *after*

Re: [mythtv-users] NFS or SAMBA for Video Stream

2006-01-09 Thread Michael T. Dean
Chris Gardner wrote: I am running mythtv with a separate video server. I currently have it connect with a smb share. The only problem is a quick pause in movies every 5 minutes or so. Not really a bother, but is a tweek to smb available or would nfs do better? Most real world

Re: [mythtv-users] LIRC with a laptop's native IR blaster?

2006-01-09 Thread Dan Wilga
This is a common misconception. The IR port built into many laptops uses the IRda protocol, which has a different IR LED frequency from the kind of LED used in remote controls. The hardware is physically incapable of generating a signal compatible with that sent by most remote controls. It's

Re: [mythtv-users] ivtv0 warning: ENC Stream 0 OVERFLOW

2006-01-09 Thread Niels den Otter
Al, Al McIntosh wrote: The last few occurances have been in the evening or night. mythfilldatabase has been running around 11am. I do have mythcommflag set to run when the recording starts. Are you using MythTV SVN? I had a similar problem recently (after LiveTV changes) which was solved

Re: [mythtv-users] question about RAID

2006-01-09 Thread Brian Wood
Given that this must be taken with a bit of a grain of salt: hdparm -tT /dev/hda Timing cached reads: 2820 MB in 2.00 second = 1409.91 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 200 MB in 3.02 seconds = 66.31 MB/sec hdparm -tT /dev/MD0 Timing cached reads: 2804 MB in 2.00 seconds = 1401.91 MB/sec

Re: [mythtv-users] Australian DVB-T resolution

2006-01-09 Thread Eyal Lebedinsky
Phill Edwards wrote: My DVB-T recordings in Sydney all seem to be 704 x 576. I thought SD was supposed to be 720 x 576. What am I misunderstanding here? As you can see below (in Canberra) most SD is 720x576 but WIN is 704x, SBS EPG is 480x, one Prime is 544x... it seems to vary. SC10

Re: [mythtv-users] QMYSQL3 Error on Fedora FC4 x86_64

2006-01-09 Thread R. G. Newbury
e squid2 wrote: I don't think there is a multithreaded RPM for Fedora. Don't see anything on the updates sites and the spec file for qt-MySQL mentions threading support. I have the same issue basically (qt3.3, mysql4.1, AMD64 bit playing nicely). Even recompiled qt against mysql-4.1.16

Re: [mythtv-users] Fwd: Sempron 3100 lag when viewing HD from 6200 STB

2006-01-09 Thread Kevin Kuphal
Adam Propeck wrote: Here is some more detail. ( Xrog.conf and some hdparm info) I'm wondering if livetv isn't playing well because of the specific firewire port/driver? I'm using the single port that comes with the audigy 2 PCI card I'm using. Also, I guess I was wondering if I need to

Re: [mythtv-users] Backend / Frontend advise

2006-01-09 Thread Steve Adeff
On Monday 09 January 2006 14:00, N Dugas wrote: After having Myth running for about 6 months, I and thinking of changing how I have it set up. Right now, both the front and back ends are on the same box which has a PVR-350 tuner. What I'd like to do is this: Make my current Myth box a

Re: [mythtv-users] I can't get my HDD to spindown when idle

2006-01-09 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks everyone - it looks like fuser was the command I was looking for. I've found the culprit, and moved it to my OS' drive. Now the disk is sleeping (After running almost continuously for the last year or so) ___ mythtv-users mailing list

Re: [mythtv-users] Fwd: Sempron 3100 lag when viewing HD from 6200 STB

2006-01-09 Thread Steve Adeff
On Monday 09 January 2006 16:35, Kevin Kuphal wrote: Adam Propeck wrote: Here is some more detail. ( Xrog.conf and some hdparm info) I'm wondering if livetv isn't playing well because of the specific firewire port/driver? I'm using the single port that comes with the audigy 2 PCI card I'm

Re: [mythtv-users] OT: ntp won't synchronize

2006-01-09 Thread Steve Adeff
On Monday 09 January 2006 16:20, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 02:54:46PM -0500, Michael T. Dean wrote: outrageous synchronization distance -- did you ever set your clock to be closer to the real time than 15 minutes off? NTP will refuse to synch if the delta is large.

Re: [mythtv-users] Fwd: Sempron 3100 lag when viewing HD from 6200 STB

2006-01-09 Thread Adam Propeck
Ok, so does anyone have an Nvidia card they'd like to trade for an ATI Fire GL X1 - 128MB? hehe. I can hope.On 1/9/06, Steve Adeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:On Monday 09 January 2006 16:35, Kevin Kuphal wrote: Adam Propeck wrote: Here is some more detail. ( Xrog.conf and some hdparm info) I'm

Re: [mythtv-users] Fwd: Sempron 3100 lag when viewing HD from 6200 STB

2006-01-09 Thread Curtis Stanford
On Jan 9, 2006, at 2:49 PM, Steve Adeff wrote: On Monday 09 January 2006 16:35, Kevin Kuphal wrote: Adam Propeck wrote: Here is some more detail. ( Xrog.conf and some hdparm info) I'm wondering if livetv isn't playing well because of the specific firewire port/driver? I'm using the single

Re: [mythtv-users] Playback performance [all platforms]

2006-01-09 Thread David Abrahams
Greg Estabrooks [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: AFAICT, there's no processor-specific optimization in playback at all. So if performance is bad on PPC/Darwin, it's probably bad (compared to what's possible) on x86/Linux as well. The differences is that scalling/display through XV is hardware

Re: [mythtv-users] Fwd: Sempron 3100 lag when viewing HD from 6200 STB

2006-01-09 Thread Kevin Kuphal
Adam Propeck wrote: Ok, so does anyone have an Nvidia card they'd like to trade for an ATI Fire GL X1 - 128MB? hehe. I can hope. :) have you tried using libmpeg2 playback instead of the regular playback? Sometimes that can help lighten the load a little bit if you are just at the edge.

[mythtv-users] Watch Videos

2006-01-09 Thread David Abrahams
It appears that the Watch Videos feature only looks on the frontend's local filesystem for files, but a record of all the recorded videos is kept in the backend's database, causing it to complain about all the missing videos that were recorded on other machines every time I fire it up. Is this

Re: [mythtv-users] Backend / Frontend advise

2006-01-09 Thread N Dugas
Steve Adeff wrote: On Monday 09 January 2006 14:00, N Dugas wrote: After having Myth running for about 6 months, I and thinking of changing how I have it set up. Right now, both the front and back ends are on the same box which has a PVR-350 tuner. What I'd like to do is this: Make my

Re: [mythtv-users] Import existing video file?

2006-01-09 Thread David Abrahams
Brad DerManouelian [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Jan 8, 2006, at 6:35 PM, David Abrahams wrote: I have an existing video recording in a format already supported by MythTV playback. How can I add it to my backend's list of recordings? Thanks in advance, Dave Drop it in your mythvideo

Re: [mythtv-users] ivtv0 warning: ENC Stream 0 OVERFLOW

2006-01-09 Thread Al McIntosh
Niels den Otter wrote: Al, Al McIntosh wrote: The last few occurances have been in the evening or night. mythfilldatabase has been running around 11am. I do have mythcommflag set to run when the recording starts. Are you using MythTV SVN? I had a similar problem recently (after

Re: [mythtv-users] Import existing video file?

2006-01-09 Thread Isaac Richards
On Monday 09 January 2006 17:12, David Abrahams wrote: Brad DerManouelian [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Jan 8, 2006, at 6:35 PM, David Abrahams wrote: I have an existing video recording in a format already supported by MythTV playback. How can I add it to my backend's list of recordings?

Re: [mythtv-users] Backend / Frontend advise

2006-01-09 Thread Fred Squires
I'm hoping to do HD since I've got a handful of HD chanels.I've beenhearing that the Nvidia card should be able to do it if I enable XvMC. If you're doing HD the frontend should be the more powerful machine. All the backend has to do to record HD is write the stream to disk.-- I probably still

Re: [mythtv-users] DVB-T and DVB-S on same box

2006-01-09 Thread Michael Cowell
James Pattinson wrote: I've now added a Freecom DVB-S adaptor, which is also working well. However I thought I would be able to integrate the two systems as there is a lot of channel overlap, but not all channels on -T are available on -S and vice versa. How can I tell MythTV that, for

Re: [mythtv-users] Import existing video file?

2006-01-09 Thread James C. Dastrup
I don't think the video manager is what I want. First of all, it's apparently only designed for using an external player, not for playing within the MythTV frontend. Secondly, the video manager seems completely messed up when you are running multiple frontends, since they are recorded in the

Re: [mythtv-users] Fwd: Sempron 3100 lag when viewing HD from 6200 STB

2006-01-09 Thread Steve Adeff
On Monday 09 January 2006 16:55, Adam Propeck wrote: On 1/9/06, Steve Adeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 09 January 2006 16:35, Kevin Kuphal wrote: Adam Propeck wrote: Here is some more detail. ( Xrog.conf and some hdparm info) I'm wondering if livetv isn't playing well because

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