Re: [mythtv-users] LIRC Problem

2006-01-17 Thread Colin Smillie
I'm having the same problem my FC4 system. I've tried kernel 2.6.14-1.1656_FC4smp and have now fallend back to 2.6.13-1.1532_FC4. I can't get the /dev/lirc or /dev/lirc0 to appear with either my Hauppauge remote or my MCE_USB. I'm using the following lirc versions: lirc-devices-0.7.0-1.rhfc4.at

Re: [mythtv-users] LIRC Problem

2006-01-17 Thread Colin Smillie
On 1/17/06, Brian Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't know where FC4 stores these options but it looks like you have found the LIRCD spot, but you have put the LIRC option there. Try putting the character device from a ls -al /dev/lirc* listing in the LIRCD opts and testing with irw.Looks

[mythtv-users] MythTV Presentation at the GTALUG Metting on July 12th, 2005

2005-07-07 Thread Colin Smillie
Hi, I'm doing a presentation on MythTV at the GTALUG ( Greater Toronto Area ) on July 12th, 2005. More details are available here: http://www.gtalug.org/index.php/Meetings:2005-07 Thanks, Colin Smillie http://colin.smillie.ca ___ mythtv-users mailing

Re: [mythtv-users] How to upgrade to 0.18?

2005-05-10 Thread Colin Smillie
On 5/10/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First, do I just do apt-get update mythtv-suite to upgrade the software? Do I then need to run mythtvsetup or anything else to configure any settings. Also, how can I make a backup of the mythconverg db in case anything goes wrong?

Re: [mythtv-users] Best O/S

2005-05-09 Thread Colin Smillie
On 5/9/05, Anil Gupte [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi: I am a newbie at MythTV. I want to create a stable MythTV system that I can actually use and forget like an appliance. What is the best Linux version I should use? By that I mean the most stable, and having the most drivers. I have used

Re: [mythtv-users] Multiple (duplicate) instances of mythfrontend

2005-05-08 Thread Colin Smillie
On 5/8/05, Larry K [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: to restart the frontend if it is not running. Problem is, when I restart the frontend, I sometimes (but not always) get two instances of the frontend, and this causes conflicts with sound, among other things. It's Are you sure your getting 2 new

Re: [mythtv-users] MTD can't see DVD drive .... beuhler check....

2005-04-28 Thread Colin Smillie
On 4/28/05, mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 24 April 2005 05:50 pm, Mark wrote: I've been having problems getting mythDVD to work. Looking through the archives, I've seen posts that indicate my mtd daemon can't see the dvd drive. Do you have a /dev/dvd created? I recently went

Re: [mythtv-users] Can't watch LiveTV until program recorded

2005-04-26 Thread Colin Smillie
On 4/24/05, Kent Ypma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello! I have this problem that LiveTV just won't work. It plays for one second and then after 10-20 seconds the main menu in mythfrontend will appear again. The strange thing is that if I record a program for 1 minute (as an example)

Re: [mythtv-users] Standalone video file player?

2005-04-19 Thread Colin Smillie
On 4/19/05, Mr AG!! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to know if I can use Myth-TV to play my collection of audio, and video files. I don't have a DVB card, or even the ability to receive the signal ... *deep in a basement!*. I would like to hook up a decent monitor to my base unit, with no

Re: [mythtv-users] cpu cooling recommendations?

2005-04-19 Thread Colin Smillie
On 4/19/05, Aaron Aguilar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The fan on my AMD XP2100 is really loud and I want to upgrade to something that I can't hear from about 4 feet away, it also has to keep my proc cool obviously. Should I invest in a fanless heatpipe? I would appreciate any ideas, suggestions,

Re: [mythtv-users] Installation problem

2005-04-17 Thread Colin Smillie
On 4/17/05, Dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now I am able to get past the clear card/channel settings however the menu system never comes up to configure mythtv. Can you provide more details on this? When I run mythtvsetup on my system it takes a few seconds after the initial

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: MythMusic playback error message help

2005-04-17 Thread Colin Smillie
On 4/17/05, Chad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 4/16/05, Devan Lippman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: oddly enough the error message has just gone away and it seems to play fine... Wierd. No logs or anything explaining why? Generally there isn't any log for the DecoderMad error, not certain

Re: [mythtv-users] Installation problem

2005-04-16 Thread Colin Smillie
On 4/16/05, Cyber Source [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello All, I've installed Mythtv many times without troubles, now I can't seem to get 0.17 installed. It behaves very strangely, running mythtvsetup gets me to the startup screens but then it will not move between screens, only the esc key

Re: [mythtv-users] Unable to change channel from MythTv when using aPVR250 card

2005-04-16 Thread Colin Smillie
On 4/16/05, Guy Muller (ntct1) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Thanks for the feedback. It did not work, I'm currently trying different values for the tuner parameter but none worked in mythtv. How are you loading the mythbackend? Are you using Jarod's udev patch for Fedora? I'm wondering

Re: [mythtv-users] commercial flagging idea - commercialfingerprinting

2005-04-12 Thread Colin Smillie
On Apr 12, 2005 1:06 PM, Ramon Redondo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you read elsewhere in this thread (although not in the many lines you quoted in your short reply), commercial breaks can easily be longer or shorter on different affiliates of the same network. Here's a relevant quote from

Re: [mythtv-users] No TV sound (which module?)

2005-04-12 Thread Colin Smillie
On Apr 12, 2005 11:43 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Last night I typed modprobe capacity and I suddenly got sound (only on the left channel though). Is this the right module to load? Are all the necessary modules loaded (check my modprobe.conf file below). If not, what do I

Re: [mythtv-users] MythTv and Camera: Initiating recording on some action

2005-04-11 Thread Colin Smillie
On Apr 11, 2005 3:49 AM, Pancham Gupta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anybody has an idea on how to go about in achieving the same? I am relatively new to MythTv. My best guess is that we need to call some MythTV API to initiate the recording, once we detect the RFID tag. I would really

Re: [mythtv-users] Mythtv: mythmusiv (0.17) compile fault .. will no-one reply?

2005-04-11 Thread Colin Smillie
On Apr 11, 2005 12:40 AM, Bernard Mentink [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am having trouble compiling *mythmusic* (ver 0.17) on my laptop (which I am using as a mythfrontend). The same version compiles fine on my main *Mythtv* server. I would check the versions you have of cdparanoia and the dev

Re: [mythtv-users] Mythfrontend locks after 30 minutes on live TV

2005-04-11 Thread Colin Smillie
On Apr 11, 2005 4:18 PM, Khanh Tran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After about 30 minutes of live TV, Mythfrontend freezes. I can exit back to the menu and start watch live TV again, but that's annoying. I've coped the log below, which keep repeating until I exit back to the menu. Any help is

Re: [mythtv-users] FC3 Mysql problems - HELP STILL NEEDED PLS...

2005-04-10 Thread Colin Smillie
On Apr 10, 2005 5:55 AM, Craig Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tried Michael's suggestion, but cannot enter sql command line. Suspect I need to use sqladmin, with the service stopped. Can anyone please help me with this. It has been three weeks since installing, and I still cannot run

Re: [mythtv-users] Firewire with Shaw Cable in Western Canada

2005-04-10 Thread Colin Smillie
On Apr 10, 2005 1:52 PM, Greg Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone tried to connect to a Shaw cable box with firewire? I sent them an email asking if their boxes supported firewire. The first reply indicated that the firewire ports on their boxes were active but not supported by shaw. I

Re: [mythtv-users] Patents again

2005-04-09 Thread Colin Smillie
On Apr 8, 2005 3:13 PM, Robert Johnston [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Patent No. 6,674,960 (The one in question, which relates to recording to a hard-drive) was filed in 2002, that's 10 years after Hauppauge make a system for doing so. Therefore Patent No. 6,674,960 is moot under the terms of Prior

Re: [mythtv-users] FC3 Install has never worked

2005-04-05 Thread Colin Smillie
On Apr 4, 2005 11:05 PM, Reggie Braswell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Problem 1: Once I install anything that deals with an alsa update from AT good bye S/PDIF. Noted earlier was working fine before ATrpms. (Doesn't matter aRts off or on, alsamixer kmix no matter what setting there is nothing) I

Re: [mythtv-users] Cannot delete recording

2005-04-04 Thread Colin Smillie
On Apr 3, 2005 11:28 AM, aaron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2005-04-03 11:18:54.987 ERROR when trying to delete file: /store/1002_2005040300 3500_20050403034000.nuv. File doesn't exist. Database metadata will not be removed. I've had this problem on a times. I think the easiest is to fix

Re: [mythtv-users] Native Remote Control

2005-04-01 Thread Colin Smillie
On Apr 1, 2005 10:22 AM, Chris Picton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Another question :) I am using native lirc remote control (not irxevent) My remote has a Power button and a cancel button. I have mapped the cancel button to Esc, and want to map the power to Ctrl-Esc, however, I can't

Re: [mythtv-users] lircd stopped working

2005-03-29 Thread Colin Smillie
On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 19:40:57 -0800, Frutillar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 29 March 2005 7:26 pm, Gabe Rubin wrote: do an apt-get update and apt-get install lirc-kmdl-$MYKERNEL (or whatever the variable name you have set for your kernel is--see Jarod's guide for this). I did and it

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Mythmusic and directory listing issues after upgrade

2005-03-28 Thread Colin Smillie
On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 22:37:08 -, Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think I have found the problem. The metadata is extracted from the filename in the Metadata* MetaIO::readFromFilename() function in the metaio.cpp file. The problem is in the parameters passed to new Metadata(...) are passed

Re: [mythtv-users] XvMC compiled in by default?

2005-03-28 Thread Colin Smillie
On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 20:08:59 -0800, Ricardo Kleemann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Just wondering, the default mythtv installed via apt-get (on FC3), does it already have XvMC compiled in? Yes, assuming you use ATrpms. ___ mythtv-users mailing list

Re: [mythtv-users] Rerecording a deleted program

2005-03-26 Thread Colin Smillie
On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 19:20:39 -0500, Stuart Hodges [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way to allow myth to re-record an episode thats previously been recorded and deleted (without selecting the allow re-recording option). I believe changing the duplicate check in recording profile to only check

Re: [mythtv-users] alsactl restore and Jarod's guide

2005-03-21 Thread Colin Smillie
On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 16:03:28 -0500, Bill Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have just about everything working and have been using Myth for a few weeks. There are a few details I'm trying to iron out. First is getting the ALSA settings restored on boot. I followed Jarod's guide and a few other

Re: [mythtv-users] strange problem with keypresses

2005-03-19 Thread Colin Smillie
On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 09:22:27 -0500, William [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I try to exit mythtv, I choose Yes, Exit now and you see the button depress, but it never comes back up I believe this is the QT compatibility issue on FC3. You can find details here:

Re: [mythtv-users] Can't run myth-setup

2005-03-19 Thread Colin Smillie
On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 14:21:17 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I get as far (2nd screen?) as the message Would you like to clear all capture card settings before starting configuration? and then choosing either YES or NO causes things to hang forever... I

Re: [mythtv-users] IR Blaster Howto updated for Fedora Core 3

2005-03-14 Thread Colin Smillie
On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 21:32:31 -0800, Robert Wamble [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings! I've finished my move to Oregon, gotten a great job, and am enjoying the lovely San Diego weather we've been having up here. Thanks for the update Robert, I've used your page several times. Hope the move

Re: [mythtv-users] Rogers SA3250 with Firewire?

2005-03-10 Thread Colin Smillie
On Wed, 09 Mar 2005 16:06:30 -0700, Greg Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just checked with shaw cable in Calgary and the said that they have cable boxes that support firewire. Greg Unfortunately I'm in Toronto and only Rogers covers my building. I sent an email yesterday to Rogers after

[mythtv-users] Rogers SA3250 with Firewire?

2005-03-09 Thread Colin Smillie
Hi, Has anyone had any success with a Roger's SA3250 with Firewire? All of the information I've been reading about Firewire access seems to be linked to an FCC requirement ( http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/FCC-03-225A1.pdf ). I don't believe there' s any equivalent requirement

Re: [mythtv-users] error compiling 0.17 - FC3

2005-03-08 Thread Colin Smillie
On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:48:14 -0800, Bruce Markey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Keith Olsen wrote: When compiling mythtv, I am getting the follwoing error: /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lqt-mt ... what am I missing? qt-mt I'm ran into this also, the the instructions to upgrade from ATRPMs to

Re: [mythtv-users] Thank You

2005-02-04 Thread Colin Smillie
Allan, I think you should read the link below, its not the NYT Article... http://advancedmediacommittee.typepad.com/emmyadvancedmedia/2005/01/mythtv_a_nonmyt.html Thank you?!?!? Why, do you like being called a thief? Cheers, Allan. ___

Re: [mythtv-users] Only static of FC3 with PVR350

2005-02-04 Thread Colin Smillie
I had some smilar problems with with FC3 and my PVR350 card. I believe I resolved it by adding the following to my modprobe.conf: options ivtv tuner=2 options msp3400 once=0 simpler=1 simple=0 On Thu, 3 Feb 2005 18:45:48 -0800 (PST), [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have

Re: [mythtv-users] vonage caller id

2005-02-03 Thread Colin Smillie
Sounds great, is the script posted somewhere? Thanks, Colin On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 13:43:42 -0500, James Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't know how many people here are using Vonage for phone service. I have a perl script I hacked up that monitors the sip traffic to the vonage phone

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Newbie: FC3 - MythTVsetup GUI issue.

2005-01-17 Thread Colin Smillie
Going to the FC2 fonts on FC3 has definetly corrected my problems. I've tried a couple different theme and its perfect in all now. On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 16:02:54 -0500, Ian Trider [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 13:25:16 +1100, jani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The problem is to do

[mythtv-users] XFX Nvidia HDTV Output?

2005-01-17 Thread Colin Smillie
://www.tigerdirect.ca/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1121824Sku=P450-8529 Or on the XFX site here: http://www.xfxforce.com/product_view.php?sku=PVT43AND Not alot of detail beyond the built-in HDTV encoder... Thanks, Colin Smillie ___ mythtv-users mailing

Re: [mythtv-users] Trouble with PVR 350

2005-01-16 Thread Colin Smillie
Can you provide more details? Do you see any errors when you the mythfrontend at a command prompt? What distribution are you using? On Sat, 15 Jan 2005 18:39:11 -0800 (PST), Joey Moe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am having trouble getting TV input on my PVR 350. I get all the proper testing

Re: [mythtv-users] ivtv, PVR-250, FC3, Jarod's guide and no capture - newbie

2005-01-16 Thread Colin Smillie
Yes, they should match. I would have expected errors when you load a mis-matched module. You might want to check if you do have the 681 module installed too. Try: rpm -qa | grep ivtv I needed to add the following to mymodprobe.conf to get ivtv to load. options ivtv tuner=2 options msp3400