Re: [mythtv-users] HDTV MythTV parts list

2005-10-13 Thread Ben Giddings
On Sep 14, 2005, at 17:52, Isaac Richards wrote: I have a 6600gt in my dev box, and it has absolutely no problem playing HD video. Hey Isaac, I've seen lots of discussion about HD content and what works, what doesn't. Could you describe what you're using, end to end? What's your HD

Re: [mythtv-users] Rendezvous broadcast mythweb page?

2005-08-11 Thread Ben Giddings
On Aug 11, 2005, at 11:20, Partington, Eric wrote: Not very good with apache and how items are broadcast, would it be the external page address ? 192.168.1.X\mythweb or the location of a page on the local pc? I don't know about the Howl version of mDNSResponder, I only know the Apple one,

Re: [mythtv-users] Key modifiers in lircrc

2005-05-31 Thread Ben Giddings
On May 27, 2005, at 19:46, Michael Carland wrote: On May 27, 2005, at 11:19 AM, Michael T. Dean wrote: Wow. 52 buttons on my remote times 5 or 10 program names (plus xine, MPlayer, and xmms) = one very big LIRC config file. :) True, the config file could get huge, but it least it would be

Re: [mythtv-users] Key modifiers in lircrc

2005-05-27 Thread Ben Giddings
On Thursday 26 May 2005 20:27, Michael Carland wrote: The problem I see with this in Myth is that there are many modes in Myth, where you may want the same remote key to perform a different function in different modes. This would be problematic if the function name was in the config line.

Re: [mythtv-users] Key modifiers in lircrc

2005-05-26 Thread Ben Giddings
On Thursday 26 May 2005 17:16, Mike Isely wrote: What I ultimately discovered was not that Control-T was silently failing, but rather that MythTV was interpretting Control-T as just plain old T. I hit upon this because during my futzing at one point I was on a page where T was active as a

Re: [mythtv-users] Volume difference between sources: is there a way to fix it?

2005-05-26 Thread Ben Giddings
Related to this, there's the difference between volume for recorded content and MythVideo files. If I set the playback volume for recorded content to 90% (so I have room to both raise and lower it). When I start a video, it seems to start with the same sound level, but mplayer is started with

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-250 - Approximately 2GB/Hr.?

2005-05-03 Thread Ben Giddings
On Wednesday 27 April 2005 17:00, Robert Tsai wrote: That is correct; all recording profiles will default to the same values of 2200kbps, etc. MythTV does not come with any sort of canned defaults for high/medium/low-quality recording profiles. So what are legal values for those settings. I

Re: [mythtv-users] What is native LIRC?

2005-05-03 Thread Ben Giddings
On Sunday 01 May 2005 13:02, Greg Grotsky wrote: begin prog = mythtv button = Aspect config = W repeat = 0 end begin prog = xine button = Aspect config = ToggleAspectRatio repeat = 3 end You can see that I'm programming the same button but for xine it's assigned

Re: [mythtv-users] Correcting/Adjusting Overscan In X.org/MythTV

2005-03-14 Thread Ben Giddings
Thanks for the detailed post. I have one bit to add for nvidia users: the nvidia-settings tool: Aran Cox wrote: 3a) Driver Options The nVidia corp. binary driver for Linux has an Overscan option called TVOverScan. My understanding is this increases the amount of overscan but cannot be used to

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

2005-03-09 Thread Ben Giddings
Phill Edwards wrote: You could try putting this in the Devices section of your xord.conf or equivalent: Option TVOverScan 0.60 Yeah, unfortunately the range that that parameter allows is smaller than the range that the nvidia-settings tool allows. I really need the nvidia-settings tool

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

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

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

2005-03-05 Thread Ben Giddings
On Mar 5, 2005, at 15:39, Will Dormann wrote: MythGame in SDL mode does cause the video modes to switch, and the overscan is lost when I exit. However, if I use mythgame in OpenGL mode, the nvidia driver doesn't switch modes. This means that under normal usage, my MythTV machine always

Re: [mythtv-users] Commercial Skip

2005-03-04 Thread Ben Giddings
Dan Christensen wrote: I automatically flag commercials and have myth set to automatically skip commercials, since usually the flagging it pretty good. But sometimes I miss a bit of the show, and I wonder what others do when this happens. If I skip back to just before the bad jump, myth just

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

2005-03-04 Thread Ben Giddings
Donavan Stanley wrote: Myth will allow your existing screensaver to kick in as needed, provided you have one of course. This doesn't appear to be entirely accurate to me. I believe that Myth only supports DPMS. If you turn on screensavers in KDE or use xscreensaver, the screensaver will kick in

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

2005-03-01 Thread Ben Giddings
On Feb 28, 2005, at 23:59, Paul Leppert wrote: The thing I miss most from the TiVo is the Live TV buffer. The Tivo is always recording live TV, so if you turn on the TV, TiVo has the last 30 minutes of the current channel. I'll probably get over this with Myth, but it's nice to start watching

Re: [mythtv-users] LIRC problems....Aargh!

2005-03-01 Thread Ben Giddings
Christopher Robbins wrote: I can´t seem to get mythfrontend to use my remote. I´m using a PVR-350 with LIRC-0.7.1pre2 on kernel 2.6.10. I´ve attached my lircd.conf, lircrc, and /var/log/lircd. I have linked ~/.lircrc to /home/mythtv/.mythtv/lircrc properly. I´m using the lirc_i2c and lirc_dev

Re: [mythtv-users] [Improving] The Current State of Myth - DVD

2005-02-28 Thread Ben Giddings
Ben Dash wrote: No, I was talking about this: http://www.interlinkelectronics.com/products/retail/rfkeyboard.htm Wow, $200 for a keyboard/pointer combo on a box I don't plan to type on very often? Sounds like a hard investment to justify. Do you think it's worth it? I have thought about

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

2005-02-28 Thread Ben Giddings
Dan wolf wrote: If you have the right receiver, I don't see how using your old TiVo controller couldn't be done. I'm not the person to ask how to do this however =) I remember reading that lirc knows how to deal with the TiVo remote, unfortunately I'm still using both boxes until I'm sure I can

Re: [mythtv-users] mythweb: Invalid command php_value

2005-02-28 Thread Ben Giddings
Scott Minneman wrote: Apologies for the newbie question, I'm new to both apache and mythtv. Make sure you have -D PHP4 in /etc/conf.d/apache2 Ben ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org

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

2005-02-27 Thread Ben Giddings
On Feb 26, 2005, at 18:25, Fa Yoeu wrote: Although I don't use it, I think mythtv has lirc integration, so you don't have to do external keyboard bindings. Apparently that's not what lirc integration means. I guess it means that you don't have to use irxevent to send keypresses to the program,

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

2005-02-27 Thread Ben Giddings
On Feb 26, 2005, at 18:29, Donavan Stanley wrote: Hitting the TiVo button from anywhere in the UI will bring you back to the main menu. In Myth, I don't think you can do this. Myth goes a lot further than that. Check out the jump points you can bind remote presses to. (again in mythweb) You can

Re: [mythtv-users] lirc native support and Ctrl keys

2005-02-26 Thread Ben Giddings
On Feb 26, 2005, at 01:11, Garry Cook wrote: Haven't done anything like this, so I don't know if it will work, but have you tried: config = ^G I tried this and got an error message from mythfrontend (at the console, not in the GUI) saying Attempt to convert ^H to a key sequence failed. Fix your

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

2005-02-26 Thread Ben Giddings
Hi list! I've just finished installing MythTV and started using it, and I thought I'd post some comments on how a long-time TiVo user. Even though there are some things I like better about how my TiVo works, I'm not just writing to complain. I'm interested to hear if other people agree that

[mythtv-users] lirc native support and Ctrl keys

2005-02-25 Thread Ben Giddings
I've mapped a bunch of keys to Ctrl keys using the web interface. They work fine, only I can't seem to get to them using the remote. For example, I mapped the gallery to Ctrl+G. According to the lircrc docs, this should work: begin prog = mythtv button = Pictures config = \G end

Re: [mythtv-users] Re:I cannot see EPG data

2005-02-04 Thread Ben Giddings
Mattia Martinello wrote: Alexander Petkov ha scritto: Hehe, I think we all know what you meant... I don't understand... Excuse me, could you tell me what I meant? From your original message: === Yes, I am using Mythtv from CVS got on 2004-01-30. === If you're using MythTV from 1