Re: [mythtv-users] ALSA Digital output

2005-08-24 Thread David George
On 8/24/2005 9:33 PM, Nick wrote: On 8/25/05, Peter Judge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 13:54 +0200, Peter Osterberg wrote: mplayer -ao alsa:device=hw=0.0 is the correct setting for analog output mplayer -ao alsa:device=hw=0.3 should be the correct setting for

Re: [mythtv-users] Anyone using YPbPr on Commell 667T ?

2005-08-10 Thread David George
Jonathan Harding wrote: I am wondering how stable this is and how well it works? How are you recoring HD? I am looking at making an all-in-one based on this board, Firewire for HD input and a pvr-150 for SD input. I would like to as stated in the subject, use the YPbPr for display to an

Re: [mythtv-users] DirectTV external tuner help

2005-08-02 Thread David George
Alex Van Deusen wrote: I have a Sony Bat55 directv box. It is connected via a serial cable to my mythbackend. The ports are enabled in bios. I downloaded the script from tarek sony.pl. Then put it into /usr/local/sony.pl. In mythtv-setup I set the command to reference that location. I tried

Re: [mythtv-users] YPrPb component out for MythTV

2005-07-30 Thread David George
James Oltman wrote: On 7/29/05, Richard Bronosky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm looking for a video card or mother board with on-board video supported by MythTV that has simple YPrPb component output. I've seen a few cards from ATI, but I fear Linux support for those. NVidia makes several

Re: [mythtv-users] YPrPb component out for MythTV

2005-07-30 Thread David George
Phill Edwards wrote: fanless nVidia 6200 based, came with component video output. It works great on my Samsung HDTV in 480p mode. 1080i mode works, but I am having a problem with Xv. With X in 1080i mode watching something in mplayer or mythtv X goes to ~100% CPU and I have to ssh and kill

Re: [mythtv-users] YPrPb component out for MythTV

2005-07-30 Thread David George
Phill Edwards wrote: fanless nVidia 6200 based, came with component video output. It works great on my Samsung HDTV in 480p mode. 1080i mode works, but I am having a problem with Xv. With X in 1080i mode watching something in mplayer or mythtv X goes to ~100% CPU and I have to ssh and kill

nVidia 6200 HDTV out - high CPU usage (was Re: [mythtv-users] TurboCache Video Cards)

2005-06-27 Thread David George
Tom Dombrosky wrote: I had a lot of problems getting my 6200TC card to work. I ended up selling it. I only tried up to the 7174 drivers though. The main problem I had was extremely high cpu usage for the X process whenever playing video. You were getting that back on 7174?. I just tried

Re: [mythtv-users] Direct TV implementation?

2005-06-24 Thread David George
On 6/24/2005 12:46 AM, Jim Trudell wrote: - Original Message - From: David George [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Discussion about mythtv mythtv-users@mythtv.org Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2005 11:13 PM Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Direct TV implementation? Here is a link that should help you

Re: [mythtv-users] Direct TV implementation?

2005-06-24 Thread David George
On 6/24/2005 1:12 PM, Jim Trudell wrote: I'm just going to pick up one of them DirecTiVo boxes like mentioned and a satelite signal splitter and stick my account card into it. Done deal. Unfortunately, not quite that simple. If you buy a directivo from a 3rd party (say ebay) you will, more

Re: [mythtv-users] Direct TV implementation?

2005-06-23 Thread David George
Jim Trudell wrote: First off, i'm new, so Hello everyone. Alright, i'm ready to build this thing, but i'm trying to figure out how i would go about using it with DirectTV. Is there an easy way to do it? How should i start? My set top box doesnt have a USB/Firewire port or anything.

Re: [mythtv-users] Mythbackend: page allocation failure

2005-06-14 Thread David George
On 6/14/2005 1:25 PM, Khanh Tran wrote: -Original Message- From: Fedor Pikus [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 12:16 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Discussion about mythtv Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Mythbackend: page allocation failure Which kernel version?

Re: [mythtv-users] OT: RG-6 crimping question

2005-05-19 Thread David George
PAUL WILLIAMSON wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 05/19/05 3:05 PM just bought a house and needed some info on running my own rg-6 cable for my myth setup (and cable internet) ... i've had experience running rg-6 (i used to do sprint broadband installs w/ getronics), but unfortunately

Re: [mythtv-users] CVS: How to downgrade to a special date?

2005-05-17 Thread David George
Christian Schuglitsch wrote: The cvs checkout had some changed files since 11-May-2005. I don't know how to use the date option correctly and google may be a search engine but not a find engine :-/ Thanks for help. man cvs look at the -D option. There are examples in the man page. -- David

Re: [mythtv-users] $80 Air2PC cards (Rev 0.2?)

2005-05-17 Thread David George
Blammo wrote: Anyone seen (and bought) one of these? http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemcategory=3761item=5195966400rd=1ssPageName=WDVW I'm curious if anyone has one working in a myth box? I'm a little wary given the verbage about updated tuners... I need another tuner with all the

Re: [mythtv-users] $80 Air2PC cards (Rev 0.2?)

2005-05-17 Thread David George
Tom Dombrosky wrote: If it's the same one as this one: http://www.cyberestore.com/product_info.php?cPath=34products_id=103 then I got it working in my Myth setup. Some people have had problems with the QAM tuning, but I fortunately haven't. They aren't the same. This is an older model with an

Re: [mythtv-users] DirecTV Receiver Recommendations?

2005-05-14 Thread David George
Matt D. Robinson wrote: Hi, all. I've been using my MythTV setup off and on, but now I'm looking for a better DirecTV receiver. The original one I have from the first DirecTV installation is extremely old. I'd like to get something that can handle channel changer signal inputs from my

Re: [mythtv-users] Hardware Platforms

2005-05-13 Thread David George
On 5/13/2005 12:07 PM, Anil Gupte wrote: P.S. What is WAF? Others have already answered this, but I believe in teaching someone to fish rather than giving them a fish (to paraphrase a popular quote). :-) http://www.gaarde.org/acronyms/ P.S. I found this site using http://google.com ;-) --

Re: [mythtv-users] OT: Commell LV-667T; Real HDTV? Or just really good SDTV?

2005-05-10 Thread David George
On 5/10/2005 2:02 PM, Eric Gilbert wrote: Maybe I'm not reading this right (or something is buried in doublespeak) but it looks like the VT1625 on the Commell LV-667T doesn't actually take HDTV resolutions as input. I think that is talking about two different things. The VT1625 does take in

Re: [mythtv-users] OT: Commell LV-667T; Real HDTV? Or just really good SDTV?

2005-05-10 Thread David George
On 5/10/2005 3:00 PM, David George wrote: I think that is talking about two different things. The VT1625 does take in 640x480, 800x600, and 1024x768 and scale to SDTV resolutions, but it also accepts 1280x720p and 1920x1080i modelines and display those natively without scaling. Sorry

Re: [mythtv-users] record in HD, but watch in analog ?

2005-05-09 Thread David George
On 5/9/2005 3:19 PM, Mudit Wahal wrote: I'm building a backend where I'm going to put one HD3000 card. My frontend is still up in the air (several variables). In the meantime, I still want to connect a basic frontend with tv-out (svideo) to analog TV. Will I be able to play the programs recorded

Re: [mythtv-users] record in HD, but watch in analog ?

2005-05-09 Thread David George
On 5/9/2005 3:40 PM, Trey Boudreau wrote: On Mon, May 09, 2005 at 03:24:38PM -0400, David George wrote: On 5/9/2005 3:19 PM, Mudit Wahal wrote: Will I be able to play the programs recorded in HD in the backend on an analog TV (connected via a frontend-svideo) ? Yes, no problem. One

Re: [mythtv-users] ALSA mixer

2005-05-05 Thread David George
Rich Goodin wrote: I'm setting up Myth to use the ALSA drivers by setting ALSA:default. How do I specify an ALSA mixer so I can control my volume from within Myth? I've tried ALSA:default and ALSA:mixer with no luck. Wow, I can see why you didn't search the list archives. A whopping 885

Re: [mythtv-users] is there a simple recording status light avaliable?

2005-05-04 Thread David George
On 5/4/2005 1:47 PM, Christopher David Petersen wrote: The recently formed PoORMUG (Portland, OR MythTV Users Group) just had a project to show the status of multiple backend on up to 8 LEDs on multiple front-ends. It's called MythLEDd and I'm the primary developer. Basically, the software runs

Re: [mythtv-users] is there a simple recording status light avaliable?

2005-05-04 Thread David George
On 5/4/2005 2:55 PM, Christopher David Petersen wrote: On 5/4/05, *James Armstrong* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can probably make it simpler by just querying the master backend for the status. It will do tuner status, disk space free, and we recently

Re: [mythtv-users] Coventive Uranus

2005-05-04 Thread David George
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This looks like a really neat mobo for a myth system. If anyone want to develop drivers for it, then please do. Don't let the 16k licensing fee scare you off. http://linuxdevices.com/news/NS2122942691.html Yes, I saw this a couple of months ago. Tell you what, you

Re: [mythtv-users] component video capture cards

2005-05-03 Thread David George
On 5/3/2005 12:06 PM, Jeff Simpson wrote: There are no known consumer-level capture devices which will allow you to capture the HDTV output (either DVI or HDMI) from a set-top box commonly found with digital cable systems or satellite systems. There are no known

Re: [mythtv-users] ALSA and Digital Output

2005-04-28 Thread David George
On 4/28/2005 6:24 AM, Meyland Peter wrote: Can anyone here help me to get S/P DIF to working on ASUS P4R800V Deluxe so all sound goes throug the digital output? Output from aplay - l: List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices card 0: IXP [ATI IXP], device 0: ATI IXP AC97 [ATI IXP AC97]

Re: Small quiet HDTV frontend (was Re: [mythtv-users]kernel 2.6.12support)

2005-04-28 Thread David George
On 4/28/2005 1:14 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: Paul, How is the CN400 linked into the system? Is it on a card or on the motherboard? It is on the motherboard. -- David HDTV frontend I'm working on (pictures, mythmon source) http://mythhd.info ___

Re: Small quiet HDTV frontend (was Re: [mythtv-users] kernel 2.6.12support)

2005-04-27 Thread David George
On 4/27/2005 2:23 AM, Phil K wrote: Any idea of where to purchase the DVI version of the Commell board? Appears this thing is not distributed in vast quantities by any means ;) http://bwi.com/product/12806 -- David HDTV frontend I'm working on (pictures, mythmon source) http://mythhd.info

Re: [mythtv-users] Recommendations for New Sound Card

2005-04-27 Thread David George
On 4/27/2005 9:23 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: I haven't tried it with MythTV but I use a USB to spdif converter from ADS Tech for our music collection playback. It works great. If I knew where to configure Myth to use hw:1,0 instead of default then I'd give it a quick shot with Myth also. I'll bet it

Re: [mythtv-users] Recommendations for New Sound Card

2005-04-27 Thread David George
On 4/27/2005 9:47 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: On 4/27/05, David George [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You could try changing AudioDevice from ALSA:default to ALSA:hw:1,0. See the sound section of the docs for where this is located: http://mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-7.html Well, the front page

Re: Small quiet HDTV frontend (was Re: [mythtv-users] kernel 2.6.12support)

2005-04-27 Thread David George
On 4/27/2005 12:54 PM, Devan Lippman wrote: I wonder if we got a group buy going on this board how much we could bring the price down... has BWI mentioned this to you at all David? Yes, I had already talked to them and I can get quantity pricing. I don't have the numbers handy right now, but

Re: [mythtv-users] Article in Linuxjournal.com on Myth and PVR's

2005-04-22 Thread David George
On 4/22/2005 1:55 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6690 This article is two years old, and not even really worth the read. I checked it out yesterday when it hit linuxtoday.com (again). -- David HDTV frontend I'm working on (picture of back, mythmon source)

Re: [mythtv-users] INFO: RAID comparison for MythTV

2005-04-21 Thread David George
MagicITX wrote: snippage While the number of drives in a RAID 5 array is theoretically unlimited, some recommend no more than 14 drives. The problem is RAID 5 is hosed if two drives fail. The more drives you have the more statistically likely you are to suffer a two drive failure. While still

[mythtv-users] Re: [mythtv] mythfilldatabase failing today?

2005-04-20 Thread David George
On 4/20/2005 10:44 AM, Derek Atkins wrote: Running 0.18 and I'm having lots of problems with mythfilldatabase today. I've got two data sources and it seems to only be able to successfully grab one of them.. But even tho it's failing for one it winds up destroying all the program data anyways.

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Small quiet HDTV frontend

2005-04-13 Thread David George
On 4/12/2005 6:27 PM, Phil K wrote: Hi David, Just wondering what the progress is on your instructions for this box you have shown on mythhd.info. I've been looking for a frontend HD box for quite sometime and been messing with ModeLines for my HDTV for months now. Macmini looked great but then

Re: [mythtv-users] Play Music and ALSA

2005-04-13 Thread David George
On 4/12/2005 6:53 PM, Bryan Brannigan wrote: Does anyone know if this patch was included in the .17 release? Looks like no-one else has replied yet, so I'll answer this part. I have good news and bad news. The bad news is mythmusic doesn't support native ALSA. The good news is there is a

Re: [mythtv-users] recording HD content

2005-04-12 Thread David George
On 4/11/2005 11:34 PM, Neil wrote: Is it possible to record Discovery HD or other non-local broadcast HD from Dish Network, Direct TV, Comcast or other program providers using HTPC? Right now, I only have OTA HD recording via air2pc. Any comments will be greatly appreciated! With Dish Network

Re: [mythtv-users] Can someone describe an HDTV 3000 setup?

2005-04-12 Thread David George
On 4/12/2005 5:23 AM, Chad wrote: I'm looking at getting an HDTV 3000 from pchdtv.com I am pretty confused about a few things though, so here is what I think: I strap in the HDTV 3000 into an empty PCI. From there I run a coax cable from an antenna I buy from somewhere like bestbuy (something

List etiquette (was Re: [mythtv-users] www.d1.com.au)

2005-04-07 Thread David George
On 4/7/2005 9:13 AM, dean collins wrote: I agree with you about a mix of top and bottom posting. Not sure what OE has to do with this, I just don't get it, you are reading messages group by conversation most of the time so you don't want to scroll all the way to the bottom each time you read the

Small quiet HDTV frontend (was Re: [mythtv-users] kernel 2.6.12 support)

2005-04-06 Thread David George
On 4/2/2005 7:55 PM, John Patrick Poet wrote: David George wrote: HDTV capable frontend I am working on (now with a picture) http://mythhd.info David, this looks very promising. How would the S/PDIF connector fit in that case? Are you looking at using the component video or DVI? How would

Re: Small quiet HDTV frontend (was Re: [mythtv-users] kernel 2.6.12support)

2005-04-06 Thread David George
On 4/6/2005 3:44 PM, David Shay wrote: How loud is the fan on the Commell LV667? I can't hear it. This may have a different CPU fan than earlier LV667, because when I ordered the motherboard they were on hold while Commell worked out a CPU fan issue. Does the Morex 3677 have a built in fan?

Re: Small quiet HDTV frontend (was Re: [mythtv-users] kernel 2.6.12 support)

2005-04-06 Thread David George
On 4/6/2005 3:45 PM, John Patrick Poet wrote: Nice! Any idea what this hardware configuration is going to cost? Not including the LED board (and LEDs), I've got about $600 in it (not including shipping and taxes), but I could have cut some corners. Could have save about $30 using a regular

Re: Small quiet HDTV frontend (was Re: [mythtv-users] kernel 2.6.12 support)

2005-04-06 Thread David George
On 4/6/2005 3:47 PM, Big Wave Dave wrote: I'm surprised you can play HDTV with a 1Ghz. I thought you need a lot more power than that for HDTV... even when offloading some to the GPU. We'll see. Ivor Hewitt has posted some results of playing HDTV with the Via C3 using the CN400 chipset. He

Re: [mythtv-users] Unable to find mythcommflag in 0.17

2005-04-05 Thread David George
On 4/5/2005 12:00 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chris Pinkham wrote: This error message means mythbackend can't find mythcommflag, so even though mythcommflag is in _your_ PATH, it evidently isn't in the PATH of the user running mythbackend or the script that is running mythbackend. No,

Re: [mythtv-users] frontend only remote?

2005-04-04 Thread David George
On 4/4/2005 1:47 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Don't forget about the ATi Remote Wonder, it has worked very nicely for me. I would love to hear some options on this. It is pretty cheap and might be a good solution. Does it work with FC3?

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: [ivtv-devel] kernel 2.6.12 support

2005-04-03 Thread David George
John Patrick Poet wrote: David George wrote: HDTV capable frontend I am working on (now with a picture) http://mythhd.info David, this looks very promising. How would the S/PDIF connector fit in that case? I had to punch holes in the back. Are you looking at using the component video or DVI

Re: [mythtv-users] Playing AVI files from CD/DVD

2005-04-01 Thread David George
On 4/1/2005 5:15 AM, Chris Picton wrote: I have a quick question which I can't seem to find the answer for: Interestingly enough I was wondering this myself a few days ago. In my case it wasn't too hard to find the answer. I have a fair amount of video data which I have recorded in the past.

Re: [mythtv-users] Frontends does not reconnect after a backend restart

2005-03-30 Thread David George
On 3/30/2005 11:45 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 17:01:38 +0100, David [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't have this problem at all. I have 2 frontends, 1 on the same box as the backend, 1 is remote. They both behave the same. When the backend goes away I get a message that says

Re: [mythtv-users] Myth/spdif no audio, mplayer works fine

2005-03-29 Thread David George
On 3/29/2005 2:29 AM, John Patrick Poet wrote: I was using an old SoundBlaster Live! card, and everything worked fine. I just exchanged that card for a M-AUDIO Delta 410. Configure ALSA to drive it, and tested with aplay and mplayer. Everything worked beautifully. Then I tried Myth. Myth

Re: [mythtv-users] FW: Linux/MythTV drivers for 2nd gen PVR cards

2005-03-29 Thread David George
On 3/29/2005 4:08 PM, Cory Papenfuss wrote: I got the same message. It has a faint smell of targetted spam to me. Faint? I got it also. Looks like they sent it to several people on the list. They also sent it to the video4linux list. Guess they don't realize if you send it to the list

Re: [mythtv-users] Bug in MythPPV Script fixed

2005-03-28 Thread David George
On 3/28/2005 11:06 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Dishnetwork Myth users, Don fixed the server side script, and I am going to clean up the data files you download from me. Remember if you are using this script and you see errors with it, please email me directly at [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: How to renew zap2it subscription

2005-03-28 Thread David George
On 3/28/2005 2:01 PM, Mike McLaughlin wrote: Is there anyway to get a longer subscription? No Recreating the subscription every 3 months seems kind of an annoyance. You aren't re-creating the subscription. You are just answering a few survey questions. Your channel lineups remain as they were

Re: [mythtv-users] Bug in MythPPV Script fixed

2005-03-28 Thread David George
On 3/28/2005 2:26 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is already a script made for DirectTV and Myth. Check out this posting: http://mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-users/2004-March/035671.html or http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/dev/1320#1320 Thought that one was dead/no longer

Re: [mythtv-users] how to select from multiple input sources?

2005-03-28 Thread David George
Paul Leppert wrote: I have an HD-3000 and a PVR-250. In mythtvsetup, I have two channel lineups (using zap2it): one for HDTV OTA broadcast channels and one for DirecTV. The HDTV lineup is attached to the HD-3000 Television input and the DirecTV is attached to the PVR-250 S-Video. When I am

Re: [mythtv-users] Tivo as backend

2005-03-28 Thread David George
Rob Walker wrote: Has anyone figured out how to point their front end to a Tivo box? I was thinking that we could get a lot of the listings via the web interface, and then use the mplayer which can play the tmf files. Have you tried MythTiVo? http://tivo-mplayer.sourceforge.net/mythtivo.html

Re: [mythtv-users] datadirect download issues

2005-03-23 Thread David George
On 03/23/2005 02:12 AM, Edwin Chang wrote: I'm still running myth 0.15, but I'm having troubles getting data from datadirect. When I specify a video source in mythtvsetup, the console prints out and freezes at: snip Has something changed that breaks datadirect tv data with 0.15? wget is 1.9 and

Re: [mythtv-users] Blank screen when trying to watch Live-TV

2005-03-23 Thread David George
On 03/22/2005 10:43 AM, Mogens Lunde wrote: Finally got MythTV working, and everything seems to work perfect except Live-TV. Below is shown the log from a recent mythfrontend session. The only thing that seems strange and might explain the phenomenon is the text Realtime priority would require

Re: [mythtv-users] Capture Sat content using PVR-250

2005-03-22 Thread David George
On 3/22/2005 1:04 PM, john roberts wrote: Hey - a buddy of mine has a Tivo series 2 box. I believe it acts as the sat receiver and the traditional tivo like features. How would you capture the sat content with a PVR-250 -AND- change the channel? I've seen talk about perl scripts which change

Re: [mythtv-users] Capture Sat content using PVR-250

2005-03-22 Thread David George
On 3/22/2005 3:06 PM, john roberts wrote: Does the RCA box have composite video out and some sort of audio line out? This would then be fed into the PVR-250? Yes, on both counts. You would actually want to connect the s-video output and the audio L/R to the inputs on the PVR-250. Are there

Re: [mythtv-users] directv and dish network

2005-03-16 Thread David George
On 03/16/2005 05:36 PM, Ricardo Kleemann wrote: Hi all, I just found out about mythtv and it really looks exciting. I have a number of newbie questions... Is it possible to use mythtv in conjunction with either directv or dish network (or even both...?) Yes, even both. Can I plug in the

Re: [mythtv-users] directv and dish network

2005-03-16 Thread David George
On 03/16/2005 05:46 PM, Ricardo Kleemann wrote: This is awesome, thanks. :-) A couple more questions... how can I control mythtv via a remote control instead of using keyboard? http://mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-8.html If I hooked up a VCR to save some tapes to disk (or even burn DVDs), how

Re: [mythtv-users] Shopping for an HDTV for Myth

2005-03-15 Thread David George
On 3/14/2005 10:03 PM, Jeff Wormsley wrote: Could you post your xorg.conf? Sounds like your Samsung may be very similar to mine, and I still haven't found good modeline (what I have now works, but shimmers - don't know a better way to describe it). Mine's an HCL5515W, and I have a 5200 and

Re: [mythtv-users] Shopping for an HDTV for Myth

2005-03-15 Thread David George
On 3/14/2005 10:09 PM, Jeff Wormsley wrote: With my TV when scenes when somewhat dark, the TV would think that the video signal was gone and display the Component message moving around on the screen (very annoying). Further evidence you may have a very close TV to mine. I found how to stop

Re: [mythtv-users] Lower power usage ideas? (for backend)

2005-03-15 Thread David George
On 3/14/2005 11:27 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When the cpu is idle it's not eatting up power anyways. Maybe some CPUs with power saving mode (or using cpuspeed). But the above is dangerous as a general statement. Just as an example: ok, your CPU is idling and not eating power. Is it safe to

Re: [mythtv-users] Shopping for an HDTV for Myth

2005-03-14 Thread David George
On 3/12/2005 10:34 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: On Sat, 2005-03-12 at 22:27 -0500, john roberts wrote: I've helped several of my friends build MythTV boxes and they have many different makes/models of HDTV's. I would say the best HDTV I've seen so far has been the Samsung. Any particular model,

Re: [mythtv-users] Shopping for an HDTV for Myth

2005-03-14 Thread David George
On 3/14/2005 11:13 AM, Jim Oltman wrote: How well does this frontend work for HD? Are you referring to the link in my sig? (Hard to tell because you didn't trim your quote to the relevant portion of the message you were replying to. :-( ) If so, I am still working on it. :-) I hope to

Re: [mythtv-users] Shopping for an HDTV for Myth

2005-03-14 Thread David George
On 3/14/2005 12:27 PM, Jim Oltman wrote: How much did this system set you back, excluding the LED board. Not including the LED board, about $600. I could have cut corners a little. I could have probably used a 512MB flash instead of 1GB (about $40 cheaper at the time). Also the case is fairly

Re: [mythtv-users] Can a master backend have no inputs?

2005-03-11 Thread David George
On 3/11/2005 7:03 AM, William wrote: Can a master backend have no capture cards or devices, and only have them in one or more slave backends? The docs seem a bit ambiguous about this (admittedly unusual) case. What is the point? If you want to put your storage somewhere else thats easy to

Re: [mythtv-users] Mythtv -- New Directv Serial Control Program

2005-03-11 Thread David George
On 3/10/2005 8:43 PM, Jim Gifford wrote: Based on the c program in the forums I have created a new program which has a little more functionaility. I added the ability to turn on and off the receiver. Enter in the locks and limits code. Get the time/date, current channel #, and satellite

Re: [mythtv-users] possible new HD front end in small package?

2005-03-11 Thread David George
On 03/11/2005 04:59 PM, Andrew Close wrote: any idea if this new via DP-310 could handle HDTV as a front end? A lot of work is currently going on at the unichrome project to support the CN400. Ivor sent a message earlier on the unichrome list that he had 1920x1080 working on the CN400 (at

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: mythtv backend on a headless fileserver

2005-03-10 Thread David George
On 3/9/2005 7:28 PM, Jarod Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 09 March 2005 16:05, Jarod Wilson wrote: Until someone writes something like an ncurses-based setup utility This would still be a nice alternative, but nice to haves need to be coded up by someone who really needs/wants it, or it'll

Re: [mythtv-users] Thinking of Switching from Cable to DirectTv

2005-03-07 Thread David George
On 3/6/2005 4:18 PM, Brad Templeton wrote: But in general, analog cable is _so_ much better than satellite or digital cable when it comes to a PVR. Pros: Guaranteed channel changes, tuning is instant (even though there is still a delay to restart the digital capture in your PVR)

Re: [mythtv-users] Thinking of Switching from Cable to DirectTv

2005-03-07 Thread David George
On 3/7/2005 10:49 AM, Dave Packham wrote: Would you mind sharing your scripts? They aren't actually my scripts, just a script that I found that has worked perfectly for me. Here you go: http://mythhd.info/directv.html -- David ___ mythtv-users

Re: [mythtv-users] DirectTV and Changing Channels on the Front End.

2005-03-07 Thread David George
On 03/07/2005 10:51 PM, hondaman wrote: Could you tell me how this is done? How to control the backend with the dtv reciever connected to it from the front end? What programs/scripts/hardware do I need? Your video capture card is in the backend. The audio/video from the Directv receiver

Re: [mythtv-users] gopdit, for MPEG-2 - MPEG-2 cutting

2005-03-04 Thread David George
On 3/4/2005 7:46 AM, Cory Papenfuss wrote: I wasn't aware that he'd added the ability to deal with other cutlist formats. That's quite good because I belive that the MythTV format is a combination of frame and file offset... someone correct me if I'm wrong. An exported .sql of an MPEG-2

Re: [mythtv-users] Commercial Skip

2005-03-03 Thread David George
On 3/3/2005 8:56 AM, James Armstrong wrote: How about a configurable feature for Commercial flagging that will not save any 'supposed' commercials over xx minutes. I have been having good luck with commercial flagging lately but there is an occasional commercial that is flagged and is over 5 or

Re: [mythtv-users] Problem Is DirecTV [was: LiveTV - blank screen only]

2005-03-02 Thread David George
On 3/2/2005 10:08 AM, Sarah Roberts wrote: What I assume I need to do is to go from cable to DirecTV decoder box, and from decoder box to my MythTV box. From what I've gleaned from other posts on the archive, I understand I also need a serial cable from the decoder box to my MythTV box in order

ALSA mixer is 'default' (again) Re: [mythtv-users] Sound woes

2005-03-01 Thread David George
On 3/1/2005 12:38 AM, Sammo wrote: Changed /dev/dsp to ALSA:default and then myth gives an error with /dev/mixer (set in the lower part of the screen) same as your error. Tried to change /dev/mixer to ALSA:default as well and it didn't like that either. You'll also need to uncheck the Use

Re: [mythtv-users] Confused on OSS/ALSA compiling

2005-02-26 Thread David George
On 02/26/2005 03:10 AM, Lonnie Borntreger wrote: In the settings.pro file it says to not comment out the OSS stuff unless you're not on Linux. However, I have found that even though the option to turn on ALSA is activated (un-commented), it never seems to link with libasound, only libaudio,

Re: [mythtv-users] Noobie question re physical setup

2005-02-24 Thread David George
Williams, Allan wrote: Sorry for the stupid question, but I haven't found any references to this yet. I want to build a myth box to replace/complement my DirecTV box (TivoToGo is not an option on this box). What gets plugged into what? You will need to use audio/video cables from the Directv

Re: [mythtv-users] Success with Air2PCI and pvr-500 on same box

2005-02-23 Thread David George
On 2/23/2005 9:49 AM, Jean Connelly wrote: What testing were you able to do successfully? I've been trying to figure out if azap CHANNEL -r and cat /dev/dvb/adapter?/dvr0 newfile is supposed to work, because it doesn't work for me. Shouldn't that be azap -r CHANNEL Typically opts go

Re: [mythtv-users] Success with Air2PCI and pvr-500 on same box

2005-02-23 Thread David George
On 2/23/2005 9:49 AM, Jean Connelly wrote: What testing were you able to do successfully? I've been trying to figure out if azap CHANNEL -r and cat /dev/dvb/adapter?/dvr0 newfile is supposed to work, because it doesn't work for me. Oops, I also forgot to write. You aren't really using cat

Re: [mythtv-users] PCHDTV 3000 what to buy Intel p4 3.0+ or AMD 64

2005-02-23 Thread David George
On 2/23/2005 1:25 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Every thread I've seen about minimum hardware says a p4 3.0Ghz intel with Hyperthreading is needed to watch HDTV. These same threads are usually older. So can I use a AMD 64 3200+ based system? Would it have enough horsepower to be a

Re: [mythtv-users] Air2PC vague question

2005-02-22 Thread David George
On 2/22/2005 11:21 AM, Jean Connelly wrote: Hi, I've been trying to get my Air2PC card working following the advice I've seen on this list. I am confused by several references I've seen about the saa7115 module/chip . What is that, how is it involved? Angel's page

Re: [mythtv-users] nuvexport - isn't numeric in numeric eq error

2005-02-21 Thread David George
On 2/21/2005 7:56 AM, Khanh Tran wrote: I finally got my ffmpeg and transcode recompiled and installed. Now when I run nuvexport 0.2 I get the following errors: First pass... Argument pes isn't numeric in numeric eq (==) at /usr/local/share/nuvexport/export/transcode.pm line 117, STDIN line 15.

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-250 and bttv card both think they are /dev/video0

2005-02-21 Thread David George
On 2/20/2005 12:40 AM, Jason Blair wrote: I'm having a issue with my dual tuner setup. Both my ivtv and bttv card think they are /dev/video0. Mythtv recognizes /dev/video0 as only having the inputs of my bttv card and not the pvr-250. Trying to swap the cards in my modprobe.conf and setting up

Re: [mythtv-users] Dumb Question Regarding TV Capture and DirectTV

2005-02-21 Thread David George
On 2/21/2005 12:25 PM, hondaman wrote: I have never done tv capture before, so this is an incredibly basic question for which I cant find an answer. I have directtv, and a wintv-pvr 250. How do I recieve the signal from the satellite dish? Directly from the dish into the card? From the

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-250 and bttv card both think they are /dev/video0

2005-02-21 Thread David George
On 2/21/2005 1:03 PM, Jason Blair wrote: Also, doesn't this line tell me that the ivtv card is /dev/video0? ivtv: Initialized WinTV PVR 250, card #0 Nope. That just means that it is the first ivtv card. If I pull out the bttv card the ivtv card works fine on /dev/video0. I upgraded this

Re: [mythtv-users] How do you get SP/DIF output working on FC2 with 0.17??

2005-02-21 Thread David George
On 2/21/2005 2:46 PM, Joe Barnhart wrote: In my case, the secret was to specify ALSA:spdif (caps important) as the audio output device instead of /dev/dsp. Also, I had to DISABLE the volume control via myth checkbox because it didn't like the /dev/mixer device when using SPDIF. Or you could

Re: [mythtv-users] Who's running a silent (or near silent) frontend with a fast chip? (slightly OT question)

2005-02-18 Thread David George
On 2/17/2005 4:07 PM, Mark L. Cukier wrote: David (or anyone): I've been trying to get the DVI output on my FX5200 to work on my HDTV with no success. Have you had any luck with this? I can only get the SVideo (or VGA) to work... Sorry, I use VGA to component right now. My three year old 1080i

Re: [mythtv-users] Who's running a silent (or near silent) frontendwith a fast chip?

2005-02-18 Thread David George
On 2/17/2005 5:44 PM, Adam Prentice wrote: I've been working on building a box for the past couple weeks. The board I'm using is the Commell LV667 which can be seen here http://www.commell.com.tw/News/News/News_20041216_LV-667.htm I thought it would have no fan, however it did come with a

Re: [mythtv-users] ATSC/DVB what's the difference

2005-02-18 Thread David George
On 2/18/2005 2:57 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So a Air2PC, already ordered, will allow me to receive local OTA HDTV transmitions. Yes. If you take a look at http://www.lyngsat.com/freetv/United-States.html, what type of receiver do I need for these channels? I have also looked at those in

Re: [mythtv-users] Dish TV question

2005-02-18 Thread David George
On 2/18/2005 3:05 PM, Pete Stagman wrote: Or, you could go with the how-to Andy Long and I have been working on for a few weeks. www.lircsetup.com You can build your own irblaster for about $8-10 USD or buy one from irblaster.info for $15 with shipping. I have 3 dishnetwork receivers running on a

Re: [mythtv-users] ATSC/DVB what's the difference

2005-02-18 Thread David George
On 2/18/2005 3:20 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was followin along just fine till you threw that band jargon in. Before ya'll get tired of my questions, can you point me to any online resources for this information? http://www.lyngsat.com/america.html , searching google may also help. -- David

Re: [mythtv-users] Firewire and Satellite?

2005-02-17 Thread David George
On 2/17/2005 2:22 PM, Paul Gratz wrote: I'm thinking about switching to satellite (probably DishNet possibly DirectTV) I was wondering do these boxes have firewire No, and I have been looking hard and wanting much (like my english?). I have Directv, but the same applies to Dish. The only

Re: [mythtv-users] Who's running a silent (or near silent) frontend with a fast chip?

2005-02-17 Thread David George
On 2/17/2005 3:15 PM, Ackster wrote: I'm looking to move my combo front/backend AMD64 machine to become only backend and transcoder, etc, etc. As such, I want to slap together a fast machine using a microATX Mobo (I'm looking at maybe a D.Vine 5 HTPC Case by Ahanix, or another smaller

Re: [mythtv-users] Mixer Error in 0.17

2005-02-12 Thread David George
On 02/12/2005 11:22 AM, Adam Felson wrote: I'm having the same problem. I'm setting up a mythfrontend on an epia box running gentoo and gentoo's alsa-oss doesn't work so I have to get mythtv's alsa mode working. 'alsamixer -D via82xx' works as does 'alsamixer -D default', but I get the -2 error

Re: [mythtv-users] Sound Problem etc. in 0.17.

2005-02-12 Thread David George
On 02/13/2005 12:09 AM, Chris Lynch wrote: Not sure if this helps, but I also have no sound in .17 after upgrading so I'm interested in hearing if you find a solution. Anyone else? Here's the error I have: 2005-02-12 14:22:42.596 Opening audio device 'spdif'. ALSA lib

Re: [mythtv-users] How can I test pcHDTV HD-3000 card outside of MythTV

2005-02-12 Thread David George
On 02/12/2005 11:41 PM, Jonathan McIndoe Hunt wrote: A friend helped me setup my box, upgrading to MythTV 0.17 and getting the drivers installed for the HD-3000. When ever I launch the backend with the HD-3000 enabled (through mythtvsetup) it crashes complaining of no signal strength. What

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