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

2005-12-09 Thread Monkey Pet
I used the cheapest 802.11g products available on the market without major issues both PCI and USB. Although, I used the NDISwrapper to get them working. I have no complaints.On 12/8/05, Franco [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello,just wanted to tell everybody that now I have a workingnetwork at home

Re: [mythtv-users] Are there any xbox mythtv distros still being supported?

2005-11-30 Thread Monkey Pet
I just got done installing mythtv on the xbox using the xebian distro. Hopefully, this will help you: http://www.xbox-linux.org/wiki/MythTV_on_Xebian_HOWTO Also take a look at the reference links at the bottom. On 11/30/05, William [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been trying to get my xbox

[mythtv-users] MythTV howto posted on xbox-linux.org

2005-11-19 Thread Monkey Pet
Here is a twiki page I started as an installation guide for mythtv frontend on a xbox using the xebian distribution as the base. It is very simple right now. Feel free to contribute to the guide since it is in twiki format. http://www.xbox-linux.org/wiki/MythTV_on_Xebian_HOWTO

Re: [mythtv-users] Does it work like this?

2005-09-22 Thread Monkey Pet
Yes, mythbackend can stream to multiple mythfrontends. Say you have a backend which has tuner cards, you can then watch tv on a frontend which can be seperate from the backend meaning on another computer, if that computer has the frontend software installed and configured. On 9/22/05, Tommy Denton

Re: [mythtv-users] RE: Mythfrontend on Xbox

2005-09-20 Thread Monkey Pet
Thanks for the link, it hinted at some missing some sources in my apt sources, putting those in made my dependency problems go away, myth seems to be working fine now, but my homebrewed wireless-to-lan gateway laptop now crashes :) Thanks again.#nano /etc/apt/sources.list deb

[mythtv-users] Mythfrontend on Xbox

2005-09-19 Thread Monkey Pet
Have anyone successfully running mythfrontend on xbox?? I recently installed linux on my xbox. The distribution was xebian. Of course the next thing I want to do is install mythfrontend. Simply doing an apt-get on the mythfrontend packages results in a nighmarish dependency hell issue. Any easy

Re: [mythtv-users] Watching nuv in windows.

2005-09-12 Thread Monkey Pet
keeps going. Does anyone else have this working over a wireless lan? Thanks for any input AllanOn 8/31/05, Monkey Pet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The simplest thing I have used for this purpose are: 1. symlinking untility that renames complicated.nuv nice_name.nuv files. I think this script can be found

Re: [mythtv-users] OT: Recommendation for a WLAN PCI card (UK-based)

2005-09-05 Thread Monkey Pet
I have bought various cheapo Wireless 802.11g PCI cards (less than $20) over the past couple years: 1. TrendNet 2. AirLink+ 3. Viewsonic I got all of them to work under the ndiswrapper (ndiswrapper.sf.net). However, many die hard open source fans would frown on using the ndiswrapper.On 9/5/05,

[mythtv-users] trancoding foo'bar'd

2005-08-31 Thread Monkey Pet
I have a haugpage 350 card. Recently, I noticed that all my transcoding from mpeg2 to mpeg4 has gone awry. The video is all messed up. Here is what I see when I play using mplayer: Checking audio filter chain for 48000Hz/2ch/s16le - 48000Hz/2ch/s16le... AF_pre: 48000Hz/2ch/s16le alsa-init: 1

Re: [mythtv-users] Upgrading FC3 - FC4?

2005-08-31 Thread Monkey Pet
There was a thread on this awhile back: http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/141406 Basically, I have had no major problems and I have upgrade to from almost every fedora release.On 8/30/05, Darren Black [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Hi there, I'm considering upgrading m mythbox to

Re: [mythtv-users] Watching nuv in windows.

2005-08-31 Thread Monkey Pet
The simplest thing I have used for this purpose are: 1. symlinking untility that renames complicated.nuv nice_name.nuv files. I think this script can be found in the contrib directory. 2. Samba to share files with CIFS/windows 3. videolan player to open play files. Some other players will attempt

Re: [mythtv-users] Converting to MPEG and/or buring to DVD - a guide?

2005-08-31 Thread Monkey Pet
There are many ways to do this. However, I don't find any of them very usuable since they are external to the mythtv interface and have complicated dependencies and features. So, i am writing my own, select shows from the mythfrontend interface, then bam, it will literally dump it onto a dvd

Re: [mythtv-users] Front end choice: Mac Mini versus VIA EPIA. Mac OS X remote control?

2005-08-31 Thread Monkey Pet
Unfortunately, I regret buying a minimac. I haven't found a good use for it except as a paperweight. A better use would have been to buy a PC of the same form factor with lots of bells and whistles for about the same price. However, this is just my opinion. On 8/31/05, Andrew Morley [EMAIL

Re: [mythtv-users] Archiving Shows to DVD

2005-08-01 Thread Monkey Pet
I started on a project to develop a plugin that will do the simple task of burning shows to a DVD readable by any dvd player. However, this will probably not be as advanced as nuvexport, mythburn, or anything else out there. My goal is to make it integrated into myth as a plugin, easy to use and

[mythtv-users] mythburn scripts

2005-07-30 Thread Monkey Pet
Anyone know where I can download the mythburn scripts?? I checked mythburn.sf.net, but it lead me to mysettopbox.tv to a forum without any posts. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org

Re: [mythtv-users] Myth tv ready for FC-4 ?

2005-07-20 Thread Monkey Pet
I upgraded from fc2-fc3-fc4 without any major problems. Haven't lost my shows yet, knock on wood. On 7/20/05, Todd Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, once again, and right on schedule fc-3 is corrupted beyond anything but a full reinstall. I am wondering since fc-4 had been out for a while I

Re: [mythtv-users] Myth tv ready for FC-4 ?

2005-07-20 Thread Monkey Pet
recompiled my kernel and need to disable 8k stats to run the evil ndiswrapper for my wireless card. On 7/20/05, Brad Fuller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Monkey Pet wrote: I upgraded from fc2-fc3-fc4 without any major problems. Haven't lost my shows yet, knock on wood. Any particular

Re: [mythtv-users] IRW not connecting to LIRCD

2005-07-19 Thread Monkey Pet
mythtv-server lircd-0.7.1[5318]: check if /dev/lirc is a LIRC device make sure the device exists, that is what I ran into: ls -lag /dev |grep lirc Sometimes the device is called lirc0... I hacked mine by symlinking, but that is an ugly hack. Also make sure the lirc daemons and utilities are

[mythtv-users] Remote Control image/guide for the PVR-350

2005-07-14 Thread Monkey Pet
Here is a remote control image/guide I put together for the new grey/black remote for the PVR-350. Basically, the buttons are labeled, many of which are obvious, but it might be useful for a newbie. The gif is attached also here: http://yoeu.net/~fayoeu/grey_remote_generic.gif Here is the the

Re: [mythtv-users] Package unmet dependencies using apt-get for version 0.18.1 on fedora core 4

2005-07-13 Thread Monkey Pet
I ran into the same problems. I ran the same command with yum and it worked, however ,my fedora 4 was an upgrade from 2. On 7/12/05, Dirk Townsend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I'm having a problem with package dependencies on a brand new fedora core 4 install. I hardly have anything

Re: [mythtv-users] X and 350

2005-07-12 Thread Monkey Pet
I upgrade from fedora1-fedora2-fedora4... the box just keeps on running for me. On my upgrade from fedora2-fedora4, I had problems with the busID, but was able to specify it in dec instead of hex. snippets of xorg.conf: Section ServerLayout Screen 0 TV Screen 0 0 # InputDevice

Re: [mythtv-users] BackEnd FrontEnd, how does it work??

2005-07-12 Thread Monkey Pet
I don't know about live TV (someone else can answer that question), but all your recordings are accessible from the frontends. The way it works is that the frontend accesses the db from the backends through the network. Then it accesses the recording files through a nfs mounted filesystem. Make

[mythtv-users] Clearing previously/currently recorded programs from db

2005-07-07 Thread Monkey Pet
I would like to clear the following from the db: o Previously recorded programs o All scheduled recordings o All currently scheduled recordings However, I don't want to touch any of the configuration information, settings, channel info, and programming guides. Basically, after QAing the box, I

Re: [mythtv-users] location of logs?

2005-06-26 Thread Monkey Pet
My logs are located in /var/log/mythtv/mythbackend.log. Here is the options line from the mythbackend startup script. OPTIONS=$OPTIONS --daemon --logfile /var/log/mythtv/$prog.log --pidfile /var/run/$prog.pid I think the frontend writes to stdout and is pretty verbose about it. On 6/26/05,

Re: [mythtv-users] Tvout: Did anyone get it work with suse?

2005-06-26 Thread Monkey Pet
I had alot of success with fedora FC23 following the guide: http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/fcmyth.php On 6/26/05, Oscar Curero [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I thought that suse was the best option, but I'm finding a lot of problems. So, Is anyone using the tv-out of the pvr-350 with suse (9.3 or 9.2)?

Re: [mythtv-users] kernel 2.6.11from atrpms and cx88-dvb

2005-06-16 Thread Monkey Pet
Yeah, I was also kinda irked when atrpm removed the rhf3 series kernel. On 6/15/05, David Watkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is anyone successfully using kernel 2.6.11-1.27_FC3 from atrpms with the nova t dvb board? I was so close to having a working system on 2.6.10-1.770_14.rhfc3.at. I'd

[mythtv-users] Re: Minimum memory for myth system

2005-06-15 Thread Monkey Pet
On 6/14/05, Monkey Pet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: lots of DMA errors. I am going to attempt to install 512Megs of memory in tonight and see if the problem goes away. Upgrading to 256MB did solve the problem. My system is now functional, here is my configuration: 1. PIII-550 2. 256MB memory 3

Re: [mythtv-users] Mythtv setup total failure - how to start over?

2005-06-15 Thread Monkey Pet
You aren't giving us much to go on. I would yank out the other capture card and put the PVR in, in order to isolate the configuration. Please repost with more info like what ivtv version you are trying use, kernel version, etc. the output of dmesg and /etc/modprobe.conf would also be useful. On

[mythtv-users] Minimum memory for myth system

2005-06-14 Thread Monkey Pet
I have a PVR350 and a pentium 1Ghz with about 64Megs of memory running FC3. This is the second system that I have built and was trying to go 'ala cheapo. I am wondering if anyone knows what is the recommended minimum memory configuration of a myth system. I know that everything seems to work

Re: [mythtv-users] confused by MythMusic - alternatives?

2005-06-12 Thread Monkey Pet
I was thinking of adding a search interface so that it is easier to find songs. The interface would look something like the search bar in itunes. I have a hard time finding stuff in mythmusic. On 6/12/05, Phill Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm confused by the MythMusic interface. By