Re: [mythtv-users] Laptop CPU in Desktop Mainboard

2006-01-28 Thread John Andersen
On 1/24/06, Michael Starks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The power savings are so small as to not be meaningull in a desktop. I'm sure the unstated goal here is heat and fan noise reduction. Actually, I don't care too much about heat and noise since the server is in the basement. I truly am

Re: [mythtv-users] Laptop CPU in Desktop Mainboard

2006-01-24 Thread John Andersen
On 1/24/06, Steve Adeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 24 January 2006 13:22, Tom Dombrosky wrote: On 1/24/06, Steve Adeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 24 January 2006 12:34, Michael Starks wrote: I have been thinking of using a laptop CPU to save power on a new MythTV

Re: [mythtv-users] should I just switch to SVN

2006-01-24 Thread John Andersen
On 1/24/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: Steve Nuffer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2006 10:15 PM To: mythtv-users@mythtv.org Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] should I just switch to SVN I'm hoping the new version of

Re: [mythtv-users] getting snow with PVR 350 or wintv go

2006-01-23 Thread John Andersen
On 1/23/06, Christophe Zwecker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I installed mythtv with the fedora guide, I first tried it with my PVR 350. It all seemed working so far. I installed snapshot of xmltv cause the current tv_grab_de_tvday died. It took the grab script like 3 hours to get all the

Re: [mythtv-users] Missing .nuv files?

2006-01-20 Thread John Andersen
On 1/19/06, Michael Still [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John Andersen wrote: Who knows why it happened. Could have been anything. But if you are smart enough to figure out how to run SVN then you are smart enough to learn knoda mysqladmin or any of the other mysql clients (ore even

Re: [mythtv-users] Missing .nuv files?

2006-01-19 Thread John Andersen
On 1/19/06, Michael Still [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have several recordings that have no .nuv file in the filesystem. The backend reports: 2006-01-19 20:26:04.515 MainServer::HandleQueryRecordings() Couldn't find backend for: The Simpsons :

Re: [mythtv-users] Mythweb schedule recordings - possible to add a new type weekday?

2006-01-18 Thread John Andersen
On 1/16/06, obscure information. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was wondering about too, for instance: I'm trying to record old Simpsons reruns off of Fox Monday - Friday, but there doesn't appear to be an option for this type of recording... Then again, it might just be another time for me to

Re: [mythtv-users] Setting up an FAQ for LiveTV changes

2006-01-15 Thread John Andersen
On 1/15/06, Tom E. Craddock Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jens Baumeister wrote: Hi, since the LiveTV changes seem to lead to questions again and again (and sometimes to flamewars), I volunteer to write an FAQ about it. You mean besides the archives at gossamer-threads for the -users,

Re: [mythtv-users] Live TV recording as if it was a scheduled recording

2006-01-14 Thread John Andersen
On 1/13/06, Steve Adeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I do feel that an option 'Delete LiveTV Recordings when changing channel' would be useful for many people. Chris Theres no need for it, all those little files can be hidden from view by default and get deleted when room is needed

Re: [mythtv-users] Use remote machine to control Myth frontend?

2006-01-14 Thread John Andersen
On 1/14/06, Footer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have an older machine that I'm using as a Myth box configured as both a frontend and backend hooked up in my entertainment center. Since it's old, it has limited storage so what I'd like to do, is use a remote machine (another Linux box) to store

[mythtv-users] Video Database Protection needed

2006-01-13 Thread John Andersen
Is there any way to keep a remote frontend from deciding that videos in the database should be deleted (from the database) simply because it can't see them (such as a temporary NFS unavailability)? My video collection was off line when the kid decides to surf the videos, and seeing none, goes

Re: [mythtv-users] Centralized NFS (NAS?) video partition

2006-01-09 Thread John Andersen
On 1/9/06, David Bennett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually after sending out my question to the list, I stumbled upon the Infant ReadyNAS 600 page. Does anyone use this? Will it be able to handle 3 tuners + playback? Aren't these things limited more by network band width than hard drive

Re: [mythtv-users] Cannot Change channels in Myth, Can with ivtv-tune

2006-01-07 Thread John Andersen
On 1/7/06, linux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After spending a week to get my IVTV drivers running with firmware I deciced to downgrade to 0.4.0. This worked. My next challenge is changing channels. When I use ivtv-tune I can tune the card to any station, however when I start the mythfront I

[mythtv-users] Single Instance Howto?

2006-01-07 Thread John Andersen
Is there a way et set mythfrontend to only allow a single instance to be launched on any given machine? Via a comedy of errors I've found on a couple of occasions that more than one instance was running. I wondered where the memory went. Often after a power failure, KDE will try to re-establish

[mythtv-users] mythtv-setup for slaves...

2006-01-07 Thread John Andersen
I've noticed a number of questions on the list and a few instances of confusion on my part all of which were due to the fact that mythtv-setup on slaves shows some settings that pertain to the master backend. It would seem that these should be hidden when mythtv-setup is run on a slave. It would

Re: [mythtv-users] no audio during livetv

2006-01-06 Thread John Andersen
On 1/6/06, Rick van der Mieden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm stubled again. It's working now. Shutdown the system during the night, started it up this morning to able to login from work. Several on the ivtv list stress the need to power off the hauppage cards all the way to full discharge to get

Re: [mythtv-users] Adding a slave to existing MBE

2006-01-06 Thread John Andersen
On 1/6/06, A JM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You have to setup the new tuners on the slave backend. I've got a question about adding the tuners on the Slave. The Master Backend has a tuner in it set to /dev/video0 and all is fine. The Slave Backend has 2 tuners in it but I only have the option to

Re: [mythtv-users] no audio during livetv

2006-01-05 Thread John Andersen
On 1/5/06, Rick van der Mieden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there, Strange situation here. I've had a perfectly running myth setup (hauppauge pvr500, gentoo) All of a sudden I don't have any sound anymore during recording or watching LiveTV, Playing audio is fine and I have audio and video on

[mythtv-users] nuvexport -- ASF

2006-01-04 Thread John Andersen
Trying to do nuvexport to asf (with ffmpeg). Failed everytime with Error while opening codec for output stream #0.0 - maybe incorrect parameters such as bit_rate, rate, width or height Running with --debug caused this line to be barfed up in step 3: [msmpeg4 @ 0x403ab290]multi threaded

Re: [mythtv-users] Redirecting PVR-350 audio to soundcard for live TV / playback

2006-01-03 Thread John Andersen
On 1/2/06, Jan Kat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2006-02-01 at 17:20 -0700, Jan Kat wrote: I just noticed that, although there is no place to install a CD-ROM on this PC (no opening in the front bezel -- I had to open the case to attach one and install Gentoo), there is a CD audio

Re: [mythtv-users] Watch different live TV channels on each frontend

2006-01-02 Thread John Andersen
On 1/2/06, R [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Just a few hours ago I learned about MythTV. So please excuse my igonorance. With 1 backend and its 1 TV Tuner card and multiple frontends - Can each frontend watch a different live TV channel? No. In fact only one frontend can watch live tv at a

Re: [mythtv-users] Lost Sound on PVR-350 After Upgrade to IVTV 0.4.1

2006-01-01 Thread John Andersen
On 12/31/05, Kirk Bocek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think I will try rolling back the driver though. I'll post my results. Kirk Every time this has happened to me (more often than I care to admit) it was one or more of the modules from my distro getting loaded in preference to the ones I

Re: [mythtv-users] Do I really need a mouse on the frontend?

2006-01-01 Thread John Andersen
Along similar lines. Does Larry REALLY need 43 blank lines after EVERY two line message? On 12/31/05, Larry's Club Cars [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: With a wireless keyboard and wireless mouse in the frontend, do I really need a remote control? .

Re: [mythtv-users] can't read superblock

2006-01-01 Thread John Andersen
On 1/1/06, Brian Donaldson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am running FC4 with MythTV 0.18.1. I have a Windows 2003 Server with MS Services for Unix 3.5 installed (this includes a NFS server). I keep my divx movies on this server and access them over the network using NFS from my MythTV box. I

Re: [mythtv-users] LAN bandwidth consumption

2005-12-31 Thread John Andersen
On 12/31/05, Larry's Club Cars [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Newbie here. I have a 100Mb LAN. I plan to have 1 Myth backend and 2 frontends. Assuming that the 2 frontends are running simultaneously. How much of the 100Mb LAN will be used? According to my quick glance at gkrellm, I'm pulling

Re: [mythtv-users] Adding a slave to existing MBE

2005-12-31 Thread John Andersen
On 12/31/05, A JM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to add a slave to my master backend how do I do this? Do I do a full install of Myth and is there a checkbox somewhere that tells the master there is now a slave? Does anyone have a quick how-to? My master has a tuner and my slave

[mythtv-users] nuvexport: Ok here Bad over there?

2005-12-30 Thread John Andersen
I use nuvexport to convert to Xvid (using transcode) with the same settings on two machines. One is an older celeron 1.3ghz, the other a 3.0ghz P4. The machines are running the same software load (SuSE 9.3 Myth .18.1, etc), and nuvexport is using the same settings on both machines, Using the

Re: [mythtv-users] nuvexport: Ok here Bad over there?

2005-12-30 Thread John Andersen
On 12/30/05, Chris Petersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Using the same .nuv file the on exported on the celeron is smooth, The one exported on the p4 has occasional jerkeyness. (obvious in the CNBC scroller across the bottom of the screen). For something I want to time shift this is

Re: [mythtv-users] nuvexport: Ok here Bad over there?

2005-12-30 Thread John Andersen
On 12/30/05, Jarod Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Another possibly-relevant data point... I recently transcoded a bunch of shows off a network mount using ffmpeg (via myth2ipod) on an smp machine, each using only one cpu, and the resulting transcodes are flawless. Was that with real cpus or

Re: [mythtv-users] nuvexport: Ok here Bad over there?

2005-12-30 Thread John Andersen
On 12/30/05, Chris Petersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just to be fair and complete in this test I'm going to reboot with hyperthreading turned on again and try it again. That way each test will start from the clean state. When you're done with that, can you do me a favor and disable lines

Re: [mythtv-users] nuvexport: Ok here Bad over there?

2005-12-30 Thread John Andersen
On 12/30/05, Chris Petersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Awesome. Same with my test. I've commented these out and posted a new version of nuvexport. Does the new version have any additional fixes other than the above changes? -- --JSA-

Re: [mythtv-users] nuvexport: Ok here Bad over there?

2005-12-30 Thread John Andersen
On 12/30/05, Wendy Seltzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When you're done with that, can you do me a favor and disable lines 83-86 of export/transcode.pm and test again (I'm doing the same, just wanted a bigger test group).. Should now look like: # Take advantage of multiple

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Samba 3 better than NFS 3 for recording over Ethernet

2005-12-29 Thread John Andersen
On 12/28/05, Mike Frisch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At least the following NFS mount options should be used if not already: mount -o rsize=32768,wsize=32768,nfsvers=3,tcp server:/nfs/export / local/mountpoint On my slave I mount nfs with read/write sizes of 8192, which I think I got from the

Re: [mythtv-users] iptables and MythTV

2005-12-27 Thread John Andersen
On 12/27/05, Doug Bunger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You turn off the firewall during instalation, because you are often using software like apt, yum, up2date, synaptic, etc to resolve dependancies. During operation the open ports will depend on you hardware deployment: database needs port

Re: [mythtv-users] barebones MSI Hetis 865GV-E questions

2005-12-26 Thread John Andersen
On 12/26/05, travis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm looking at MSI Hetis 865GV-E for my mythtv box. http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16856101227 This will be a front and back end, stand alone. I might turn it into a front end later and build a bigger backend. But for now, this

Re: [mythtv-users] Slave Backend woes

2005-12-25 Thread John Andersen
On 12/25/05, Kyle Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I'm in the process of setting up a Slave Backend, using the exact same type of card that's in my Master Backend. So far MythTV has been exemplary. I've set up the database connection, along with the (hopefully) relevant bits in

Re: [mythtv-users] ide controller advice

2005-12-25 Thread John Andersen
On 12/16/05, Jon Whitear [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My research indicated that 'cheap' IDE RAID controllers aren't worth it - they do the RAID in software (the driver) anyway, so you might as well use Linux software RAID. If you want RAID in hardware, the 3ware controllers are well supported.

Re: [mythtv-users] Newbie's Hardware any problems?

2005-12-23 Thread John Andersen
On 12/23/05, Matt - MythTV Users Group List [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Should I be worried about anything here? Memory – 512 GB Well, for starters you should be worried about your wallet and how you are going to fit 512 GB of memory on that mobo... /smirk ... -- --JSA-

Re: [mythtv-users] Newbie's Hardware any problems?

2005-12-23 Thread John Andersen
On 12/23/05, Dewey Smolka [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All things considered I'd probably go first for WD or Seagate, second for Maxtor. I can't recommend Samsung. Well, nowdays (or very soon) Maxtor will BE Seagate... I've also had really good luck with the Ex-IBM Hitachi drives even tho there

Re: [mythtv-users] 2005 MCE REMOTE

2005-12-23 Thread John Andersen
On 12/23/05, Phill Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now, I have everything installed and working great… except the remote in MythTV. When I run /usr/bin/irw I get the output I can see the remote is working. An lsmod shows the the remote drivers are loaded. I have a .lircrc file in the

Re: [mythtv-users] New IVTV 4.1 Stable issues

2005-12-22 Thread John Andersen
On 12/22/05, Curtis Porter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2005-12-22 at 16:08 -0500, Jeff volckaert wrote: I was having a problem with periodic clipping of long shows. A 2 hour movie might cut out at 50 minutes for some reason. Hopefully the new driver will fix it. If not, then it

Re: [mythtv-users] Hauppauge NOVA-T - MCE vs. non-MCE

2005-12-22 Thread John Andersen
On 12/22/05, Shanon Mulley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm doing a little research into DVB cards that are available, as I want to add a second card to my mythtv machine. One thing I noticed is that for the Hauppauge NOVA-T, the price fluctuates wildly, from $170AUD, to $350AUD+. I have found

Re: [mythtv-users] Thoughts please

2005-12-18 Thread John Andersen
On 12/18/05, Marty Ravell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a hidden MythTV box. The wife was pissed MythTV box ... custom built cabinet under the floor (timber frame house). Any ideas? I suppose Wife in custom built cabinet under the floor in out of the question ? --

Re: [mythtv-users] LIRC with Myth and Mplayer = interference

2005-12-18 Thread John Andersen
On 12/18/05, Dr. C Mythology [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm wondering if it's possible to use MythTV's native LIRC support , and still be able to control mplayer without affecting MythTV: Example: (entry in my .lircrc file) begin prog = mythtv button = Pause config = P end

Re: [mythtv-users] LIRC with Myth and Mplayer = interference

2005-12-18 Thread John Andersen
On 12/18/05, John Andersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It has been my expierence that myth wants its lircrc in the ~./mythtv directory but all other programs expect it in ~.lircrc Should have been ~/.mythtv/lircrc -- --JSA

Re: [mythtv-users] mythtv kde autostart

2005-12-18 Thread John Andersen
On 12/18/05, Rick van der Mieden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm a bit lost with the startup sequence of X and kde. I use gentoo and start with kde as the displaymanager (/etc/rc.conf) I configured kde with kcontrol to login automatically to the mythtv user. In /home/mythtv/.kde/Autostart I've

Re: [mythtv-users] Building first MythTV back end box...

2005-12-17 Thread John Andersen
On 12/16/05, Kirk Grell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You guys are awesome!! Thanks for helping me with this. I'll definitely go with the 150 (probably the MCE version). Smaller board, less heat, cheaper, easier to setup, yet good quality. And It didn't even dawn on me that I'd be using the

Re: [mythtv-users] recording every day....

2005-12-17 Thread John Andersen
On 12/16/05, Maurizio Salvadeo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi, is my first time in the list. i'd like to record a program every day, also saturday and sunday, and for a long period. my mythtv schedules only weekdays for 2 weeks. someone know how to do it? -- Just tell it to record one showing of

Re: [mythtv-users] Building first MythTV back end box...

2005-12-17 Thread John Andersen
On 12/16/05, Kirk Grell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You guys are awesome!! Thanks for helping me with this. I'll definitely go with the 150 (probably the MCE version). Here is a comparison shot someone did of a 250 and a 150. You can see what I mean when I said the 150 was softer.

Re: [mythtv-users] nuvexport and ffmpeg-CVS

2005-12-17 Thread John Andersen
On 12/17/05, Matt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yea, I got it to finally work by installing transcode from source rather than the ubuntu package, although I think the error had to do with something else, but I do realize that it's slow as John said. I kicked off 12 half hour shows last night (12

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-150

2005-12-17 Thread John Andersen
On 12/17/05, Wylie Swanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unfortunately, cold power cycle has not seemed to do the trick. I even took the machine out of the cabinet, removed the cards, hung out, put them back in, and still no luck. I have the problem with two PVR-250's. The PcHDTV 3000 and Air2PC

Re: [mythtv-users] 150MCE remote quetion

2005-12-17 Thread John Andersen
On 12/17/05, Don Sheehan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone tell me which remote this is? I have tried Jarod's howto and many others from the archives but none seem to make this work. I have tried it in Gentoo to no avail and have fallen back to Knoppmyth. Any help appreciated! About half

Re: [mythtv-users] Playing dvb nuv files with vlc

2005-12-17 Thread John Andersen
On 12/17/05, Mike Ryan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: May be of interest/use to this list. I finally got vlc to compile. I've documented everything here http://www.londoncrime.org/blog If I get the thing to work fully with myth file I'll document it all and post an update Cheers Mike If there

Re: [mythtv-users] 150MCE remote quetion

2005-12-17 Thread John Andersen
On 12/17/05, Carl Fongheiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's a Windows MCE remote. It works great with the mceusb2 lirc driver. It's a really nice remote, too. Oh, and it is a Hauppauge-specific remote, in the sense that it's laid out a little differently from other MCE remotes I've seen.

Re: [mythtv-users] mythtv-setup?

2005-12-17 Thread John Andersen
On 12/17/05, Kevin Kuphal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jeremiah Jester wrote: I'm at the point in my setup where i can go ahead and start the 'mythtv-setup' but am unable to locate this file anywere. My setup is debain and I've compiled from source. If I remember correctly, this file isn't

Re: [mythtv-users] nuvexport and ffmpeg-CVS

2005-12-17 Thread John Andersen
On 12/17/05, Matt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The output file size is slightly different (350095580 vs 349024640) and the transcode version is indeed a little better, but not 5 times better. Thats right it took transcode 3 hours and 45 minutes to transcode a 1 hour show, and it took

Re: [mythtv-users] LIRC weirdness

2005-12-17 Thread John Andersen
On 12/17/05, Marty Ravell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In following the troubleshooting pages on lircsetup.com I tried the test_script.sh idea. This works fine from within MythTV. i.e. I get the output log produced. Next test I tried was to put the line which writes the test log entry into

Re: [mythtv-users] Building first MythTV back end box...

2005-12-16 Thread John Andersen
On 12/16/05, Kirk Grell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I could bump down to PVR-150. Main thing is that I really want as high quality of video as I can get before transcoding. In terms of MPEG2, does output from the PVR-150 look as good as output from the PVR-350? I have one of each. I think

Re: [mythtv-users] nuvexport and ffmpeg-CVS

2005-12-16 Thread John Andersen
On 12/16/05, Chris Petersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: yeah. --transcode, or just set it up in the nuvexportrc file. The difference is that it runs transcode instead of ffmpeg. Different encoder, different quality. For whatever reason, ffmpeg is faster at encoding mpeg1/mpeg2 data (ffmpeg

[mythtv-users] Slave Tuner not used ?

2005-12-15 Thread John Andersen
Ok, I don't get it,,, I set up a second backend with a tuner, and got that all running just fine. Can watch live TV while another show is recording, can watch PIP etc. Today I was watching live TV at the Master (using the master's tuner), when a scheduled recording came due. It popped up and

Re: [mythtv-users] Hard disk access

2005-12-15 Thread John Andersen
On 12/12/05, Mike Grusin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nah, I like blinky lights. ;) My probably naive concern is that hopefully Myth (and the underlying distro) would minimize disk access to maximize the lifetime of the drive(s) (I do know that Linux configuration is my responsibility ;). Other

[mythtv-users] Should be local only query: IsReallyRecording -- Filling my Logs

2005-12-10 Thread John Andersen
What is this, and why is it filling my myth backend log? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

[mythtv-users] Re: Should be local only query: IsReallyRecording -- Filling my Logs

2005-12-10 Thread John Andersen
On 12/10/05, John Andersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is this, and why is it filling my myth backend log? Ok, found the source of the Should be local only query: IsReallyRecording message in logs. For the google crowd: If you get this message streaming into your backend log, or on your

Re: [mythtv-users] Need to prioritise cards/inputs for live tv

2005-12-10 Thread John Andersen
On 12/4/05, Bruce Markey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: W.Kenworthy wrote: I am not at the machine to try this: is it possible to just renumber the cards within the database? e.g, the cardid field in a number of tables. What else? Yes, in the capturecard and cardinput tables only. However it

Re: [mythtv-users] A good quiz game for those party nights, for linux??

2005-12-10 Thread John Andersen
On 12/10/05, Sami Röppänen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Just a thought... I dont know if you people know these touchscreen quiz machines laying around the service stations and restaurants... I admit I am a bit addicted to the quiz part of those machines, and can't understand why

Re: [mythtv-users] Need to prioritise cards/inputs for live tv

2005-12-10 Thread John Andersen
On 12/10/05, Bruce Markey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John Andersen wrote: On 12/4/05, Bruce Markey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: W.Kenworthy wrote: I am not at the machine to try this: is it possible to just renumber the cards within the database? e.g, the cardid field in a number of tables

Re: [mythtv-users] Need to prioritise cards/inputs for live tv

2005-12-10 Thread John Andersen
On 12/10/05, Keith C [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Dec 10, 2005, at 6:00 AM, John Andersen wrote: On 12/4/05, Bruce Markey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: W.Kenworthy wrote: I am not at the machine to try this: is it possible to just renumber the cards within the database? e.g, the cardid

Re: [mythtv-users] Need to prioritise cards/inputs for live tv

2005-12-10 Thread John Andersen
On 12/10/05, Keith C [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Dec 10, 2005, at 6:00 AM, John Andersen wrote: On 12/4/05, Bruce Markey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: W.Kenworthy wrote: I am not at the machine to try this: is it possible to just renumber the cards within the database? e.g, the cardid

Re: [mythtv-users] Need to prioritise cards/inputs for live tv

2005-12-10 Thread John Andersen
On 12/10/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For live, by default it chooses an available card with the same hostname as the requesting frontend. If none, it chooses the lowest numbered cardid that is available. Yet this is clearly not the case in my example. The slave's

Re: [mythtv-users] Video distortion/fracturing at top quarter of screen

2005-12-10 Thread John Andersen
On 12/10/05, Hallous [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, The problem is that after viewing live tv for a while (anywhere from 5 min to 5 hours) the top quarter of the screen becomes fractured/distorted, it's I'm pretty sure this is a recording issue either associated with the PVR card or MythTv.

Re: [mythtv-users] Fast-forward/rewind does not work after 50 minutes over remote frontend

2005-12-10 Thread John Andersen
On 12/10/05, Andrew Freeman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Like the subject line says, it just doesn't work. It will change the displayed time index but the running video does not change at all, apart from some artifacting. Isn't that about the time the ringbuffer approaches 2gig? What

Re: [mythtv-users] Fast-forward/rewind does not work after 50 minutes over remote frontend

2005-12-10 Thread John Andersen
On 12/10/05, Andrew Freeman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I see where you're going with this and no, I don't see how it could be a file size limitation problem. I was under the impression that ext3 was ext2 under the skin and was 2gig max. But the last time I used it was a gazillion years ago so

Re: [mythtv-users] STAY AWAY FROM WI-FI !!!

2005-12-08 Thread John Andersen
On 12/8/05, Raphael Pooser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Um, linux isn't really that bad with wifi as people seem to think.Allyou need is a good chipset.ANYTHING RALINK WILL DO.Why? because theyhave provided the source for their drivers to the linux community and now there are good high quality drivers

[mythtv-users] Slave Backend Configuration obscure

2005-12-08 Thread John Andersen
I have my Master Backend Frontend working quite nicely with .18.1 and wanted to add another machine. This second machine works fine as a remote frontend. But I wanted to slap another tuner in this remote machine and use it also as a slave backend (I'd put both cards in the Master If I had the

Re: [mythtv-users] STAY AWAY FROM WI-FI !!!

2005-12-08 Thread John Andersen
On 12/8/05, Todd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not to fan the flames here...but...1.MAC filtering is a joke, any bored 12 year old kid can spoof a trustedMAC.So is thinking you are hidden by turning off broadcast SSID..etc.Ifyou have a machine talking to your AP, the snoop can see all they need to

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: remote control unresponsive

2005-12-07 Thread John Andersen
On 12/6/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 07 December 2005 07:49 am, John Andersen wrote: I bet the Kernel recompile hozed your lircd.You need to recompile it after setting it up properly again for your remote.Are we talking about /etc/conf.d/lircd or /etc/lircd.conf

[mythtv-users] Re: remote control unresponsive

2005-12-06 Thread John Andersen
I bet the Kernel recompile hozed your lircd. You need to recompile it after setting it up properly again for your remote. On 12/6/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After a kernel recompile my remote control has become extremely unresponsive. Sometimes working and sometimes not.

Re: [mythtv-users] cd ripping slow? - What's to be expected.

2005-12-05 Thread John Andersen
On 12/1/05, Ronald Wielink [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear all, I've recently put together a setup with fairly decent specifications, see below. As far as I can judge right now everything works ok. However, ripping CDs (to mp3) takes quite a while, about 10 minutes. Intel Celeron D 325J 2.53 GHz,

[mythtv-users] Re: PVR350 remote not working in mythvideo

2005-11-30 Thread John Andersen
On 11/30/05, Sdk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snippity do dah Sounds like your MPlayer was compiled without LIRC support. Mike I got mplayer through Atrpms and I built my machine using Jarod's guide. Is there an mplayer on Atrpms that has lirc support built-in? I wonder if the OP has an

Re: [mythtv-users] Xbox Lirc not working on new install

2005-11-30 Thread John Andersen
On 11/30/05, Mlists [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there,Had to re-install my config so decided to compile myth rather theninstall the debs so that I could use a newer svn version to match myback-end.Lirc is installed.Running irw shows that I'm getting keys but for some reason the keys aren't working

Re: [mythtv-users] Samba or NFS?

2005-04-10 Thread John Andersen
On Sunday 10 April 2005 5:06 am, Henk Poley wrote: Op zaterdag 09 april 2005 12:03, schreef David Morrison: Apologies first if this has been asked before but I couldn't find it in my archives. Which would be best from a performance viewpoint to stream MythVideo to my remote frontend?

Re: [mythtv-users] Samba or NFS?

2005-04-09 Thread John Andersen
On Saturday 09 April 2005 8:52 am, Tony Godshall wrote: Perhaps cfs? It's encrypted nfs, and security is a concern if on wireless even more than wired because it does not require physical access. Oh for pete's sake. Someone is worried about efficiency enough to think about abandoning

Re: [mythtv-users] Samba or NFS?

2005-04-09 Thread John Andersen
On Saturday 09 April 2005 4:10 pm, Brent McGuire wrote: I did some reading up on this a while back and everyone I talked to sugjestted if you connecting Linux to Linux, you want NFS.  If your connecting to a linux box from a windows box, you want Samba. Yes, that's the often mouthed

Re: [mythtv-users] Myth-TV SUSE 9.1 Pro X86_64 LAME

2005-04-07 Thread John Andersen
On Wednesday 06 April 2005 9:44 pm, herminio wrote: John Andersen wrote: On Wednesday 06 April 2005 3:09 pm, herminio wrote: I have LAME installed, but this RPM won't detect it, and won't install. Any idea how to fix this? rpm -ivh mythtv-0.17-8.i586.rpm warning: mythtv-0.17-8

Re: [mythtv-users] Feature Idea - P2P Bad Idea

2005-04-06 Thread John Andersen
On Wednesday 06 April 2005 9:54 am, dean collins wrote: I don't know if I'm explaining this well, or if I am, if what I'm thinking is possible, but if it were, the idea of being able to increase the number of channels you have available to could be quite exciting. The last two words of

Re: [mythtv-users] Feature Idea - P2P Bad Idea

2005-04-06 Thread John Andersen
On Wednesday 06 April 2005 11:37 am, John Andersen wrote: On Wednesday 06 April 2005 9:54 am, dean collins wrote: I don't know if I'm explaining this well, or if I am, if what I'm thinking is possible, but if it were, the idea of being able to increase the number of channels you have

Re: [mythtv-users] LVM RAID 5 partition schemes

2005-04-06 Thread John Andersen
On Wednesday 06 April 2005 10:32 am, Milan Andric wrote: I'm basically stuck on the RAID.  Since I  do not have enough data *right now* to use the 3 x 300G RAID 5,  I'd like to just buy two drives now and use mdadmin to setup a RAID 5 with 2 missing drives and add drives as time goes Bad

Re: [mythtv-users] LVM RAID 5 partition schemes

2005-04-06 Thread John Andersen
On Wednesday 06 April 2005 12:00 pm, Schlomo Schapiro wrote: PATA disks consume only about 9w power whereas other (faster, bigger, better) drives consume 15-20w, which results in a huge difference in temperature output. How could it? Assuming the total difference went to heat, at worst

Re: [mythtv-users] Myth-TV SUSE 9.1 Pro X86_64 LAME

2005-04-06 Thread John Andersen
On Wednesday 06 April 2005 3:09 pm, herminio wrote: I have LAME installed, but this RPM won't detect it, and won't install. Any idea how to fix this? rpm -ivh mythtv-0.17-8.i586.rpm warning: mythtv-0.17-8.i586.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 3a8f0245 error: Failed dependencies:

Re: [mythtv-users] Myth-TV SUSE 9.1 Pro X86_64 LAME

2005-04-06 Thread John Andersen
On Wednesday 06 April 2005 6:34 pm, Pete Buelow wrote: Actually, for this, just do   rpm -qa | grep lame to see if lame is installed via rpm. Just checking for it doesn't help because rpm just queries the db for presence of packages, not the FS for the file. Actually, you have things

Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV build problem on Suse 9.2

2005-03-28 Thread John Andersen
On Sunday 27 March 2005 7:16 pm, Earl Gooch wrote: Having no luck at all here with Suse 9.2. I built and ran MythTV with no problems on Suse 9.1, but on 9.2 (on same hardware) am getting errors when Does this SSE instruction set not enabled indicate a config file somewhere is not propely set

Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV .18 impending release? If so, what's in it?

2005-03-25 Thread John Andersen
On Friday 25 March 2005 14:29, Maverick wrote: Wow! That's pretty quick. 0.17 isn't THAT old yet. I for one am glad that the releases are (maybe going to be?) more frequent, I think it encourages users to test new features they wouldn't otherwise bother to pull CVS and test. My sentiments

Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV .18 impending release? If so, what's in it?

2005-03-25 Thread John Andersen
On Friday 25 March 2005 15:04, Stephen Boddy wrote: On Friday 25 March 2005 23:42, John Andersen wrote: On Friday 25 March 2005 14:29, Maverick wrote: Wow! That's pretty quick. 0.17 isn't THAT old yet. I for one am glad that the releases are (maybe going to be?) more frequent, I

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Energy Usage of MythBoxes

2005-03-20 Thread John Andersen
On Thursday 17 March 2005 05:59, Charles Choukalos wrote: Hi John, Actually I'm in Texas (makes Jersy look like Paradise) and during oh what 9 months out of the year its hotter then hells kitchen (brown and ugly too). When I lived in New England electricity was a lot more expensive but

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Energy Usage of MythBoxes

2005-03-20 Thread John Andersen
On Sunday 20 March 2005 09:24, Rich Hall wrote: William wrote: Your typical 19 inch CRT monitor draws about 500 watts. They draw close to 1000 watts at startup (mostly due to filiment startup current and the degausing coil). Your newer lcd displays draw less than 150 watts so there is a huge

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Energy Usage of MythBoxes

2005-03-20 Thread John Andersen
On Sunday 20 March 2005 14:33, Brad Templeton wrote: The power is growing. Even the CPUs are taking up to 80 watts to run. But anyway, 100 watts is over $120 a year in California, less in some places, more in others. The whole thread has been about debunking that myth. California prices are

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Energy Usage of MythBoxes

2005-03-20 Thread John Andersen
On Sunday 20 March 2005 17:20, Thor Johnson wrote: I mostly agree with what you're saying but I figure I'll thow a few logs in the fire; except:  Most US power supplies are ~50% efficient, so you can draw up to 700 KW (mine says 750 KVA), but the power factor for these puppies is terrible

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Energy Usage of MythBoxes

2005-03-20 Thread John Andersen
On Sunday 20 March 2005 19:40, Brad Templeton wrote: Well, no, that is indeed what many always-on servers with 3 disk drives and a high speed processor and a fancy graphics card and various other cards do indeed draw, all day long. No its not. Measure it and you will find out. with no

Re: [mythtv-users] Where is Jarod's guide to automatic shutdown and restart?

2005-03-16 Thread John Andersen
On Tuesday 15 March 2005 21:43, Jarod Wilson wrote: On Monday 14 March 2005 04:21, Phill Edwards wrote: I went looking for this as nvram-wakeup's not working for me any more for some reason, and I remembered that Jarod uses wake-on-lan from another machine. I think you may have me

Re: [mythtv-users] Live TV viewing blocked by non-existent recordings

2005-03-15 Thread John Andersen
On Tuesday 15 March 2005 17:59, Justin Gombos wrote: MythTV is already using all available inputs for recording. If you want to watch an in-progress recording, select one from the playback menu. If you want to watch live TV, cancel one of the in-progress recordings from the delete menu.

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