Re: [mythtv-users] Re: [OT] *Real* High-Def TV!

2005-05-27 Thread Craig Partin
On 5/25/05, Greg Depasse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/24/05, Michael T. Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You know what the really annoying thing is. Since Joe Public doesn't know what HDCP stands for--and typically guesses it's some High Definition thing--the marketing guys actually have

Re: [mythtv-users] Time Warner Firewire

2005-05-16 Thread Craig Partin
On 5/14/05, Tom E. Craddock Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mario Limonciello wrote: Tom E. Craddock Jr. wrote: Mario Limonciello wrote: Tom E. Craddock Jr. wrote: Howdy, Had similar problems as well with TimeWarner/Brighthouse in Tampa Bay last year when I first wanted to

Re: [mythtv-users] cddb mythmusic

2005-05-06 Thread Craig Partin
On 5/6/05, Barker Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi does anyone have auto cddb mythmusic working? Whenever and whatever I try I just get blank entries. This has been the case with 2 FC3 machines and a gentoo machine The Information contained in this E-Mail and any

Re: [mythtv-users] Minimum hardware requirements for music-only frontend?

2005-05-04 Thread Craig Partin
On 5/4/05, Christopher David Petersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No flames. The referenced web page (which I've read carefully several times) is talking about system requirements for video. I'm interested in the minimum requirements for a music only frontend. Basically, I'd only run

Re: [mythtv-users] MythMusic

2005-04-27 Thread Craig Partin
On 4/27/05, Michael Haan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 4/27/05, Chris Hubball [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've install MythMusic but I'm slightly disappointed with it. Does anybody know if there are any improvements in the pipeline. My current complaints are: - Music stops when you

Re: [mythtv-users] DiGiMatrix and MythTV

2005-04-22 Thread Craig Partin
On 4/22/05, Roy Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 4/21/05, Geoff Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone have MythTV working on a ASUS DiGiMatrix box? I'm looking into one for a Remote Front End. I have a DM and Myth 0.17 installed on it as a remote frontend, but unfortunately, I haven't

Re: [mythtv-users] gave up on the Epia

2005-04-13 Thread Craig Partin
On 4/13/05, MagicITX [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 4/13/05, Michael Carland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Apr 13, 2005, at 5:49 AM, Matthew Phillips wrote: On 13/04/2005, at 12:35 AM, James Stembridge wrote: On Apr 12, 2005 11:58 AM, Matthew Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: so

Re: [mythtv-users] Audio - one channel doesn't play sounds

2005-04-13 Thread Craig Partin
On 4/13/05, Claude Boucher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the advice, but the problem seems to be elsewhere. I followed your advice and pulled a Sound Blaster Live from one of my other computers. I disabled the on-board audio and installed the SB in my Myth box (including editing the

Re: [mythtv-users] Time change causes problems

2005-04-04 Thread Craig Partin
On Apr 4, 2005 3:11 PM, Jeff Simpson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did you rebuild mythtv and run mythfilldatabase again? That fixed the problem for me on gentoo I had to pull some strings to make mythfilldatabase allow the --dd-grab-all to work, but it's beautiful now - Jeff On Apr 4,

Re: [mythtv-users] What's the best audio card for Myth

2005-04-04 Thread Craig Partin
On Apr 4, 2005 4:50 PM, Carrison, Stuart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dave, I use a plane old Sb Live 5.1 works like a treat - mine doesn't have optical out, it's connected to a set of Creative 5.1 speakers. http://www.soundblaster.com/products/live24bit/ Stu -Original Message-

Re: [mythtv-users] How well does commercial detection work?

2005-03-28 Thread Craig Partin
On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 08:17:57 -0700, Curtis Stanford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mar 27, 2005, at 6:40 PM, John Patrick Poet wrote: Chris Pinkham wrote: I've been using the All option since it was introduced and, I have to agree that it was MUCH better then than it is now. Must be

Re: [mythtv-users] Import archives into Gmail

2005-03-25 Thread Craig Partin
On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 09:56:41 -0500, Larry K [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jarod, the link in yur sig does work, but the advantage of gmail for threading, replying, and searching cannot be denied. I'm glad to see I'm not the only one interested in this. More interest in this means a solution is

Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV On Gentoo - Thoughts and Questions

2005-03-25 Thread Craig Partin
On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 12:23:44 -0800, Richard Sears [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dan, How do I instruct emerge to use the CVS instead of the ebuild on the system..? I have never done that! Thanks On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 12:20:32 -0800, Jim Kusznir [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dan Littlejohn

Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV On Gentoo - Thoughts and Questions

2005-03-24 Thread Craig Partin
On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 14:11:32 -0500, Jeff Simpson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: myth and gentoo work together beautifully :-) The only problems I've run into are when I tried to install myth cvs without emerging it - it copied the include files into /usr/local/mythtv and it was messing up future

Re: [mythtv-users] Cheap GeForce4 MX 440

2005-03-23 Thread Craig Partin
On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 14:40:36 -0700, Shawn Asmussen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 11:28:25 -0600, Stimpy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For anyone looking to make the switch to a Nvidia card for their Myth system, TigerDirect has a MX 440 for $19.99 after rebate. Pretty easy on the

Re: [mythtv-users] Backend Crashes / Status Monitoring

2005-03-22 Thread Craig Partin
On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 20:18:40 +, David [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It must be the time of year :) I'm installing a full blown Nagios setup for my network but for my myth box I run 'monit' The config file I use is below (there's a patch accepted by the Debian maintainer to allow 'delayed'

Re: [mythtv-users] Too slow?

2005-03-21 Thread Craig Partin
On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 10:05:45 -0500, Mario L [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You would have much better luck with a graphics card, I'd say pick one up from a local retailer with a 30 day return exchange policy, give it a shot and see how it works for you. Also use a more lightweight window manager,

Re: [mythtv-users] Thanks...

2005-03-18 Thread Craig Partin
On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 10:58:43 -0800, Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: With all the bug reports, feature request and other items of discussion, I just want to thank all of the developers for all of their hard work. For me, MythTV was an excellent project to build a TV Recorder from. Also,

Re: [mythtv-users] Any reason not to run commflag as a cron job

2005-03-17 Thread Craig Partin
On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 12:46:56 -0800 (PST), Listman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any reason not to run commflag as a cron job? I do a lot of recording at night while I'm playing vengeance on my server and if commflag starts up the server starts laggin and people start complaining. Is there any reason

[mythtv-users] Mythmusic: 24bit audio playback

2005-03-15 Thread Craig Partin
Last night I attempted to play a 24bit/48KHz flac file. Mythmusic hung on please wait and spit this message out in the logs AudioOutput only supports 8 or 16bit audio. I also tried mplayer, which recognized the 24 bit file but seemed to try to play it as 16bit/44.1KHz. The log was full of flac

Re: [mythtv-users] Is mythTV ready for prime time?

2005-03-12 Thread Craig Partin
On Sat, 12 Mar 2005 18:07:19 -0700, Justin Gombos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After fighting with database issues on Suse 9.1, I switched to KnoppMyth, which supposedly auto-installs all the prereqs and sets up the database. Yet it cannot connect to the master backend database. I'm throwing

Re: [mythtv-users] New Gentoo Myth Install - No Sound

2005-03-11 Thread Craig Partin
14:43:48 -0500, Craig Partin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 07 Mar 2005 13:25:05 -0600, jl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I spent a very long time with the same problem - 3 sound cards, 2 sets of speakers - even headphones! If I remeber correctly (knew I was going to forget) I

Re: [mythtv-users] create a new plugin

2005-03-11 Thread Craig Partin
On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 17:13:07 +0100, andrea [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I'm new to mythtv and I'm looking how to create a new plugin in c++. There are any tutorials? or the unique way is to read an existing module and try? thanks, andrea

Re: [mythtv-users] Distro of choice?

2005-03-10 Thread Craig Partin
On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 10:42:12 -0700, Shawn Willden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael Haan wrote: The great thing is that once you have the base OS up and running its just a simple emerge mythtv and then the next morning your system is ready. All the dependencies are handled automatically and

Re: [mythtv-users] Distro of choice?

2005-03-09 Thread Craig Partin
On Wed, 9 Mar 2005 11:34:21 -0800, Scott Alfter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 06:10:09PM -0600, Timothy Waters wrote: I just wanted to see what distro a lot of you are using for your myth boxen currently. I've been playing with it on Fedore Core 3 for a week or two and

Re: [mythtv-users] MythGame supported versions

2005-03-08 Thread Craig Partin
There are other things besides the version that will cause that error. Make sure your paths in setup are all correct and that the myth user is in the games group. That last one stumped me for a while. On Tue, 8 Mar 2005 12:30:53 -0800, Ross Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The last portion

Re: [mythtv-users] New Gentoo Myth Install - No Sound

2005-03-07 Thread Craig Partin
On Mon, 07 Mar 2005 13:25:05 -0600, jl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I spent a very long time with the same problem - 3 sound cards, 2 sets of speakers - even headphones! If I remeber correctly (knew I was going to forget) I think alsactl store finally saved the mixer settings so I could get

Re: [mythtv-users] Slightly OT: MythTV as Senior Project?

2005-03-03 Thread Craig Partin
On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 09:33:48 -0500, Nicholas McCoy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe he'll do that for his thesis! On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 08:25:31 -0600, Michael J. Lynch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How about something that can be used to parse through all of the assorted log files when

Re: [mythtv-users] Slightly OT: MythTV as Senior Project?

2005-03-03 Thread Craig Partin
On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 09:12:03 -0600, Robert Denier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 09:43 -0500, Craig Partin wrote: [snip] If its going to figure out what's wrong and tell you how to fix it, then it might as well just fix it itself right? Its usually not that simple

Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV Presentation - Requesting Comments/Opinions

2005-03-03 Thread Craig Partin
On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 15:48:57 -0600, Andy Long [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Some other things you might mention: -Ability to configure the frontend to have a multitude of different themes. Can really make your box stand out as opposed to the more generic Tivo/Replay themes -Ability to add

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

2005-03-01 Thread Craig Partin
On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 02:42:42 -0800, Dan wolf [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 =) On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 11:08:29 -0500, Ben Giddings [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [mythtv-users] Mythgames

2005-02-28 Thread Craig Partin
On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 19:35:28 +0100, Marcus Larsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! I am trying to figure out how mythgame works. I run a special mythsystem where I show myth on a screen and then send movies,dvd etc to the TV however. The command line to the emulators only seem to want the

Re: [mythtv-users] nVidia Sound vs ALSA for Myth

2005-02-25 Thread Craig Partin
On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 07:43:42 -0500, Scott Elliott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2005-02-24 at 23:13, Brent Borghese wrote: I have been trying every thing to get AC3 SPDIF working, with no luck. All I get is 2 channel sound, no matter what I do. But, the nvidia audio drivers did do AC3

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

2005-02-23 Thread Craig Partin
On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 09:00:30 -0500, Peter Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 11:44:21 +, Ian Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 04:52 -0500, Brad Benson wrote: On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 09:31:37 +, Chris Martin Two ideas that I had on this subject:

Re: [mythtv-users] OT: Flashing Pundit BIOS to 1009 KILLED IT! :(

2005-02-17 Thread Craig Partin
On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 01:40:11 +0100, Radek Svoboda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everybody, today, I tried to flash (using ASUS windows Update utility from the file) the Pundit BIOS from the 1005 to latest release found on the web - 1009. During the flash process it failed to verify -

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: The death of MythDVD? [RipGuard]

2005-02-16 Thread Craig Partin
On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 10:30:21 -0500, Neil Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 10:27:06AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Macrovision plans to unveil technology to block 97% of software used to duplicate discs. If you can write software to block it you can write software

Re: [mythtv-users] Queue commercial flagging on old recordings using .17

2005-02-16 Thread Craig Partin
You can run mythcommflag from the command line. It will automatically flag all the shows not marked as previously flagged. On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 10:08:30 -0600 (CST), Kelly Reed Schuerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I had automatic commercial detection turned off under .16 because it seemed to

Re: [mythtv-users] Myth gets mplayer key events...

2005-02-16 Thread Craig Partin
On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 12:31:22 -0700, Clint Silvester [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Magnus Ekhall wrote: I'm now using mplayer as a player in MythVideo, but I have some problems. During playback, mplayer does not respond to my keyboard. However, when the playback is finished I can see that the

Re: [mythtv-users] Tuner card recommendation for US-NTSC analog cable (Feb 2005)?

2005-02-10 Thread Craig Partin
You forgot the AverMedia M179, which is a Hauppauge knockoff. Lots of people seem to think they are lower quality cards than the PVR-x50s. They run about $80. I've had one as my main recording card and its worked fine for over a year now with no signs of slowing down. My wife records about 25

Re: [mythtv-users] Tuner card recommendation for US-NTSC analog cable (Feb 2005)?

2005-02-10 Thread Craig Partin
On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 19:34:10 -0800, Scott Alfter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 02:35:36PM -0500, Craig Partin top-posted (grr): You forgot the AverMedia M179, which is a Hauppauge knockoff. Lots of people seem to think they are lower quality cards than the PVR-x50s

Re: [mythtv-users] DVD Rip

2005-02-08 Thread Craig Partin
I'm pretty sure there's a preferred langauge setting in the DVD rip setup screen. You might want to check that first. On Tue, 8 Feb 2005 09:12:37 -0500, Ronald Kohsman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have tried to rip a couple DVD's and it continues to be in French. Although the French

Re: [mythtv-users] Cable Modem == Free Basic Cable.

2005-02-07 Thread Craig Partin
I have Adelphia and had internet only service in Burlington VT. A few months ago they sent us a letter saying that they were upgrading our service and that we got the basic analog channels . They bumped the bill up about $10. I guess they figured that since everyone on the internet was probably

Re: [mythtv-users] Can anyone explain these messages that are logged?

2005-02-06 Thread Craig Partin
The saa7115 is a module used by the capture card. My logs are full of them too, and I assume everyone else as well. There are channel fine tuning controls that may help with your snowy reception. On Sun, 6 Feb 2005 10:58:55 -0500, Gary McMeekin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am running a

Re: [mythtv-users] Recorded Show preview color inverted?

2005-02-04 Thread Craig Partin
you can turn off the preview and have it just be a still image. its in one of the settings menus. On Fri, 4 Feb 2005 12:17:10 -0500, Jeff Simpson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oh, I love ME-TOOs put one in for me, too, I have the same problem. Except mine is a newer PVR-350 (rev990). Used to

[mythtv-users] OT: LCD Monitor vs. LCD TV for Display

2005-02-03 Thread Craig Partin
In doing some recent window shopping it seemed to me that you get more for your money in buying an LCD monitor than a TV. With a myth system the need for a tuner in the TV isn't really necessary. You also wouldn't have any of the HDCP worries like that poor guy with the Samsung. The drawbacks

[mythtv-users] MythTv hits Slashdot, New York Times

2005-01-30 Thread Craig Partin
Wow, is everyone ready for the big time? Too bad the article is so focused on the stealing of content, and the media corps defending their industry from piracy. It also stinks that MythTV is being lumped in with all the software that people use for copyright infringement. Last I checked it

Re: [mythtv-users] no one on here uses dial up then?

2005-01-28 Thread Craig Partin
I don't see any reason why you couldn't use dial up. The only reason mythtv needs an internet connection is to download the program listings. This doesn't require a high speed connection as its only text data. You would have to do a little more work to get this going. Something like a cron job

Re: [mythtv-users] is there an easy way to reboot in software through myth

2005-01-19 Thread Craig Partin
You can also use daemontools http://cr.yp.to/daemontools.html to monitor the backend and restart it. On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 13:31:05 -0400, Paul Pick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is a log file monitoring tool called swatch that some people are using to monitor for the crash and restart the

Re: [mythtv-users] Happy...but picture is grainy

2005-01-14 Thread Craig Partin
You can also try changing the mpeg2 type in recording options. I noticed a big difference when changing from mpeg PS to DVD-special 1 (actual syntax may differ slightly). It did create larger files at the same bitrate but the picture was much clearer IMO. On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 07:06:44 -0500

Re: [mythtv-users] Happy...but picture is grainy

2005-01-14 Thread Craig Partin
I actually have an AverMedia M179, but its essentially a PVR 250 (same mpeg encoder chip). Short answer is Yes. On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 09:58:57 -0600, Steve Frank [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can also try changing the mpeg2 type in recording options. I noticed a big

Re: [mythtv-users] Which Distribution?

2005-01-13 Thread Craig Partin
I use Gentoo. Aside from being a nice distro generally, it handles the dependencies well for mythtv. The portage system is killer. Once you have a stable base, you just type emerge mythtv then wait for three days. ;) Downside is compiling everything manually takes forever. On Thu, 13 Jan

Re: [mythtv-users] Stuttering / tearing video in recordings - PVR-250, Celeron 500MHz

2005-01-13 Thread Craig Partin
I had a very similar system that worked reasonably well. You absolutely cannot use the machine for anything else. I killed all non-essential programs/daemons. Try re-niceing X and the frontend process to -19. Also, try a lower bitrate. Mine was around 2200 for the video I think. On Thu, 13

Re: [mythtv-users] ivtv and mpeg type

2005-01-10 Thread Craig Partin
Spend some time experimenting to find which one works best for you. I use DVD-special-1 (not sure if that syntax is correct) as it gives me the best picture quality. On my system the MPEG PS and TS looked blocky or pixely. The DVD options use more disk space for similar bitrates but I saw a

Re: [mythtv-users] Mythmusic + restore database information

2005-01-06 Thread Craig Partin
You should just have to hit scan for new music and it will repopulate the music tables in the database. You'll have to make playlists again but all the track info is generated from the scan. On Thu, 6 Jan 2005 12:38:55 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, Crisis has

Re: [mythtv-users] Slightly OT - XLiveCD and Myth on a Windows Machine

2004-12-15 Thread Craig Partin
You might have better luck with this: http://winmyth.sourceforge.net/ Unless you could somehow get mythfrontend onto the XLiveCD On Wed, 15 Dec 2004 19:39:20 +1000, David Whyte [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just read this article on /. about XLiveCD, this allows you to run X gui apps over an SSH

[mythtv-users] Security concerns for my myth box

2004-12-15 Thread Craig Partin
After reading the post about the poor soul who's box was rooted, it got me to worrying about my own. Right now I feel pretty safe with the box behind a NAT hardware firewall. I do want to open some ports for SSH and HTTP connections and wonder what security considerations I might be missing.