Re: [mythtv-users] FAQ

2005-10-08 Thread Chris Martin
Thanks to everyone who's replied on this. I'll correct all the mistakes that people have pointed out and put it on the wiki on Monday so anyone can edit it. I think I am right on the display size question (the resolution should just be 800x600 or whatever you are running at), but again if I am

[mythtv-users] FAQ

2005-10-07 Thread Chris Martin
Hello All, I've had a go at doing an FAQ for this mailing list. Consider it in a rough state at the moment with more questions to be added. If anyone has any suggestions then please let me know. it's at http://users.ox.ac.uk/~wolf1473/MythFAQ.html thanks, Chris

Re: [mythtv-users] FAQ

2005-10-07 Thread Chris Martin
On 10/7/05, David [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yep Q: Why isn't this FAQ on the Wiki at http://www.mythtv.info/ A: Why David, what a good idea!! I'll put it up there straight away so other people can contribute. Not only that, but I'll 'register' on the page so I get an email whenever someone

[mythtv-users] list FAQ

2005-09-27 Thread Chris Martin
I'm thinking of putting together some sort of FAQ to answer those questions that come up on the mailing list on a regular basis. Before I start I just want to check that I'm not duplicating anyone's work or treading on anyone's toes. If so then speak up now! Chris

Re: [mythtv-users] Best deal on premade lirc receivers?

2005-09-02 Thread Chris Martin
If you're in Europe I don'e think you can do better than http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/IR-InfraRot-Empfaenger-LIRC-Modul-EINFUHRUNGSPREIS_W0QQitemZ5235660827QQcategoryZ38861QQssPageNameZWD2VQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem I don't speak a word of German, so I ordered in on the strength of a Babelfish translation,

Re: [mythtv-users] MythGame

2005-08-23 Thread Chris Martin
On 8/23/05, Marty Ravell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've just upgraded to ivtv 0.3.7h in an attempt to get MythGame going but seem to be having some problems. XMame is installed and I can launch it from the command line (output is on X using the framebuffer of my PVR-350). Seems to run fine

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-250 Image Quality

2005-08-23 Thread Chris Martin
On 8/23/05, todd Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I am getting close to actually having a working box. 5 months and counting... Whew! Now I am seeing some new issues that I find annoying, namely the image quality of live tv. To be more precise, I see a fair bit of motion blur. Is

Re: [mythtv-users] Is this any good for mythtv?

2005-08-19 Thread Chris Martin
I don't know if you are planning to use the Tv out on the Pundit-R, but I've never been satisfied with mine (I'm currently using the output from my PVR 350 which works far better). The main problem is that all motion looks blurred, unless bob deinterlacing is turned on. Unfortunatley bob

[mythtv-users] Aspect ratio troubles

2005-08-01 Thread Chris Martin
I'm using a Nova-T card with the tv output going through a PVR 350 tv out to a 4:3 tv. As far as I can tell all Uk digital broadcasts are 16:9, however the picture that is displayed on my tv fills the entire screen and is stectched vertically. It is quite possibly missing portions form the sides

[mythtv-users] osd-theming questions

2005-07-15 Thread Chris Martin
A few questions about osd theming. 1. Is it possible to vertically centre text within a container? 2. Reading the release notes for Myth 0.16 is says that OSD text can be in colour. However I can only get shades of gray. 3. There is a noticable difference in colour between an image rendered on

[mythtv-users] theming question

2005-07-12 Thread Chris Martin
I've been playing about with making a new theme and can't work out where the data relating to the recorded programs window (mainmedialibrarywatch a recording) is kept. Presumably it is somewhere in ui.xml, but I can't for the life of me find out where. Any help would be much appreciated.

Re: [mythtv-users] theming question

2005-07-12 Thread Chris Martin
It's in ui.xml, the playbackbox window. Thanks, I knew it had to be in there somewhere. Chris ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

Re: [mythtv-users] Good TV Out (long -sorry)

2005-04-12 Thread Chris Martin
This is what I call a 'straddle' event. If there is no retrace timing for the card, the frame buffer is updated at equal frame intervals unaware of when the actual retraces will occur. If the update and retrace are at almost the exact same time, the update could happen just before or just

Re: [mythtv-users] Good TV Out (long -sorry)

2005-04-11 Thread Chris Martin
On Apr 11, 2005 2:32 PM, Nick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Apr 11, 2005 2:10 PM, Chris Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I started playing with MythTv in January when I decided it would be a fun project with which to learn Linux. Knowing I'd be less likely to give up on it if I had some money

Re: [mythtv-users] [PVR-350 TVOUT - Watch DivX?]

2005-03-14 Thread Chris Martin
On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 23:41:49 +1030, Michael Cheshire (Mailing Lists) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually - that line below now works fine :) Can someone else tell me if it works for them? I don't get any sound, and the video has lots of mpeg artifacts when compared with the original divx

[mythtv-users] Pundit-R TV Out

2005-02-28 Thread Chris Martin
I'm currently using the onboard tv-out from my Pundit-R to drive a PAL TV. Using the bob deinterlacer live TV initially looks great (not significantly worse than using the output on my PVR 350), however the picture seems to get jittery and flickery with time, to the point that after about 5

Re: [mythtv-users] how to decrease time needed for switch channels in live-TV ?

2005-02-23 Thread Chris Martin
On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 00:19:47 -0500, Brad Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 00:15:54 -0500, Brad Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, the first thing you'd have to do, from my understanding, is remove the PVR functions from live TV watching. The reason for the delay in

Re: [mythtv-users] ivtv Not starting at boot

2005-02-22 Thread Chris Martin
On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 12:15:08 -0800, Chance [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here is my problem. I just installed .17, I was using knoppmyth but I switched because I wanted more options. I am running a pvr-250 off of Jarods Guide. I get through everything and I goto reboot (after I configured

[mythtv-users] Sound woes

2005-02-21 Thread Chris Martin
My Mythbox is currently working pretty well, however I just have one more thing to fix before I show it to the wife. Whenever I enter live TV, I get sound as normal, however performing any action (changing channel, pause, going to the EPG) causes the sound to disappear and a crackling noise to

Re: [mythtv-users] Sound woes

2005-02-21 Thread Chris Martin
Use ALSA:default instead of /dev/adsp Lonnie Excellent, that fixed it! thanks Chris ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

RE: [mythtv-users] Sample MythTV plugin

2005-02-14 Thread Chris Martin
I'm using MythGallery as an example. I got so fed up with MythMusic that I'm porting the music code from XBMC to Myth. If this is a success, I may do the video code as well because MythVideo is bothering me as well. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On

RE: [mythtv-users] Sample MythTV plugin

2005-02-14 Thread Chris Martin
I will do that. Don't expect anything for a month or two though. I'm doing this in my spare time. Chris -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Phill Edwards Sent: Monday, February 14, 2005 3:45 PM To: Discussion about mythtv Subject: Re:

RE: [mythtv-users] Re: PVR-150MCE no longer working in MythTV

2005-02-07 Thread Chris Martin
Make sure that you've set yourself up to capture at that size in IVTV. ivtvctl -f width=720,height=576 My capture card would hang as well if I was trying to capture an image larger that what IVTV was setup to capture. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [mythtv-users] Hard Drive Question

2005-02-02 Thread Chris Martin
I've just gotten over live tv locking up on me. I had to do with me trying to capture a bigger quality image than IVTV was set to. For NTSC the highest is 720x480. You need to make sure your capture range is within that in myth. Try running ivtvctl -f width=720,height=480 then set your myth

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR 350 TV Out

2005-02-01 Thread Chris Martin
searched the archives and it seems that my symptoms are exactly like those experienced by Chris Martin on January 18 in the archives. However, he did email that he had found a solution. My case in a nutshell: I can see test pattern using $/sbin/modprobe saa7127 test_capture=1. Removing test

RE: [mythtv-users] GUI

2005-01-31 Thread Chris Martin
apt-get install gnome That should get you up and running with Gnome. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Max Waterman Sent: Monday, January 31, 2005 11:32 PM To: mythtv-users@mythtv.org Subject: [mythtv-users] GUI Hi, I am trying to build a

Re: [mythtv-users] X and PVR 350

2005-01-28 Thread Chris Martin
On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 21:13:55 -0800, Alex Harford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 23:12:19 -0500, Maverick wrote: How about the magic checkbox in Utilities/Setup, Setup, TV Settings, Playback, next, next, next, next, Check Use the PVR-350's TV out / MPEG decoder. Is yours

Re: [mythtv-users] X and PVR 350

2005-01-28 Thread Chris Martin
I believe this uses the decoder on the 350 but X is running on top and solid so you wont see the output. You could try adding calls to ivtvctl to set the alpha value on the way in and out so that the video shows up. Something like ivtvctl -alpha=0; mplayer... ; ivtvctl -alpha 255 I

Re: [mythtv-users] X and PVR 350

2005-01-28 Thread Chris Martin
If the files are not the exact size (and therefore need scaling), then this has to be done in software. This means each frame has to be copied to the 350's framebuffer, which is too slow to be useable. Or, if the files are not in MPEG2 format, then you're in the same boat, because the 350

[mythtv-users] PVR-250 Recording Problem

2005-01-27 Thread Chris Martin
What I previously thought was a screen positioning problem turns out to be a problem with the recording from the pvr250. Im getting a black bar on the right-hand side of the recording. Has anyone had this problem? And how would I go about fixing it? Thanks, Chris

Re: [mythtv-users] X and PVR 350

2005-01-27 Thread Chris Martin
On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 12:21:58 -0600, Will Otte [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Chris - I recently had a problem similar to yours. See below for my comments. Chris Martin wrote: I've finally managed to pass some video through my PVR 350' s TV out* so the next step is to try and get X running

[mythtv-users] X and PVR 350

2005-01-26 Thread Chris Martin
I've finally managed to pass some video through my PVR 350' s TV out* so the next step is to try and get X running. For some reason IVTV is not being run while the system boots, so I'm currently doing: # /sbin/depmod -a # /sbin/modprobe ivtv Then editing my xorg.conf file to give me the

[mythtv-users] Screen Positioning

2005-01-24 Thread Chris Martin
Hey all, I cant begin to describe how much this list has helped me in the last two weeks. Thanks goes out to all of you! ;) Well, after about 5 Debian installs, 4 Ubuntu installs, a brief relapse to XP, and one Fedora Core 2 two install, I finally found a winner with Fedora Core 3.

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR 350 TV out

2005-01-18 Thread Chris Martin
On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 10:55:44 -, Nick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been following Jarod's guide for FC3, and have got most things working. Unfortunately I'm having great difficulty getting my PVR 350's TV out to work. If I run the commands # /sbin/rmmod saa7127 #

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR 350 TV out

2005-01-18 Thread Chris Martin
On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 13:16:25 -, Nick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi again, I'm in the UK too, so hopefully will be a similar card (is it a 990 model or the newer 992?) When I used the svid connection, input 6 was the correct one (4 is the tuner, 0 the composite which I use now)

[mythtv-users] mythfilldatabase errors

2005-01-12 Thread Chris Martin
I've been following Jarod's guide for setting up mythtv on FC3. Unfortunately I've got stuck on the mythfilldatabase section when grabbing listings information from radio times. If I run mythfilldatabase with no channels set up through channel editor, I get the following errors Query was:

[mythtv-users] ignore

2005-01-12 Thread Chris Martin
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