Re: [mythtv-users] Performance from a different perspective

2006-01-24 Thread Paul V. Gratz
On Tuesday 24 January 2006 12:14 pm, Raphael Pooser wrote: Well Cache is important. Another reason a Celeron will suck compared to a P4 is the bandwidth between the processor and RAM is crippled. The Celeron front side bus was always chopped in half compared to a pentium. The netburst

Re: [mythtv-users] AC3 and/or S/PDIF (again)

2006-01-23 Thread Paul V. Gratz
On Monday 23 January 2006 02:34 am, Michael T. Dean wrote: mike choy wrote: The simple way to do all this is to use an Infrared remote. Programme up the vol control on your remote to move the vol on your av amp only. There's no need to change inputs or devices on your remote. Leave the

Re: [mythtv-users] AC3 and/or S/PDIF (again)

2006-01-22 Thread Paul V. Gratz
On Sunday 22 January 2006 08:29 am, Ben Suffolk wrote: No, Ben, I don't. And, as I understand it, this is impossible. Since we're just passing through a digital signal to the receiver, it's all up to the receiver to deal with it. In order to change the volume, we would need

[mythtv-users] autotranscode old shows?

2006-01-02 Thread Paul V. Gratz
Hey all, I was just wondering if there was an easy way to set myth up to go back and transcode a bunch of shows that I have already recorded from mpeg2 - mpeg4. I tried a couple things with phpmyadmin like marking them 1 for autotranscode and 1 for autojob but they do not seem to get scheduled

Re: [mythtv-users] RE: Configuring SPDIF digital out.

2005-12-17 Thread Paul V. Gratz
On Saturday 17 December 2005 04:59 pm, James C. Dastrup wrote: I might suggest that all alsa utilities, alsactl, and everything else is NOT required to use digital out with MythTV. I'm using MythTV 0.18.1 on Gentoo and I only have the necessary alsa drivers compiled in the kernel. I've never

[mythtv-users] Using ALSA's Softvol plugin to create a volume control for SPDIF output?

2005-12-03 Thread Paul V. Gratz
Hey All, A little while back someone mentioned that you could use softvol to create a volume control for S/PDIF output. I've been trying to make this work. I've got S/PDIF output working great (thanks to help from reading this mailing list and a few sites found w/ google) however my receiver

Re: [mythtv-users] Using ALSA's Softvol plugin to create a volume control for SPDIF output?

2005-12-03 Thread Paul V. Gratz
On Saturday 03 December 2005 04:56 pm, Kevin Kuphal wrote: Paul V. Gratz wrote: Hey All, A little while back someone mentioned that you could use softvol to create a volume control for S/PDIF output. I've been trying to make this work. I've got S/PDIF output working great (thanks to help

Re: [mythtv-users] Distributing TV throughout house w/MythTV

2005-11-30 Thread Paul V. Gratz
Absolutely. I have two tuners in my backend (a single PVR500 card) and two front ends connected to it, one in the living room and one in the bedroom. Take a look at the docs on the mythtv website, they go into how to set this up. Paul On Wednesday 30 November 2005 11:23 am, Robert La Ferla

Re: [mythtv-users] Gentoo n00b needing advice!

2005-11-30 Thread Paul V. Gratz
On Wednesday 30 November 2005 08:25 pm, stephen wrote: Yup - that's what I'm running. Now if I can only figure out how to get it to auto-login and startx automatically. I'm using evilwm for a window manager on gentoo, and used some info from this site to get the autologin working:

Re: [mythtv-users] Converting shows to PDA suitable format

2005-11-26 Thread Paul V. Gratz
On Saturday 26 November 2005 06:26 am, ffrr wrote: Paul V. Gratz wrote: I use nuvexport to give me the raw *.nuv file What is a raw *.nuv file? I feed the nuv files, as recorded, straight into ffmpeg. It can handle the mpeg2-TS directly. I've recently switched from software to hardware

Re: [mythtv-users] Converting shows to PDA suitable format

2005-11-26 Thread Paul V. Gratz
On Saturday 26 November 2005 09:38 am, Wendy Seltzer wrote: On 11/26/05, Nathan Allen Stratton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What player are you using on your 650? Have you been able to stream anything to your treo using mythstream? Not the original poster, but I've transcoded a few shows to the

Re: [mythtv-users] Converting shows to PDA suitable format

2005-11-25 Thread Paul V. Gratz
On Friday 25 November 2005 04:32 pm, ffrr wrote: I am fairly new to converting video, so I have been trying to discover the best way to convert my recordings (PAL mpeg-TS from a DVB-T card) to a small format suitable for my Palm Tx PDA. Firstly, I have read that divx is a popular format and

Re: [mythtv-users] Converting shows to PDA suitable format

2005-11-25 Thread Paul V. Gratz
Doh, I mispoke, see my change below: On Friday 25 November 2005 11:12 pm, Paul V. Gratz wrote: On Friday 25 November 2005 04:32 pm, ffrr wrote: I am fairly new to converting video, so I have been trying to discover the best way to convert my recordings (PAL mpeg-TS from a DVB-T card

Re: [mythtv-users] FYI: The Current Zap2it survey/Reqeust.

2005-11-15 Thread Paul V. Gratz
Yeah that was me. I was hoping we could get them to chime in on what they would like us to do. Paul On Tuesday 15 November 2005 11:51 am, George Nassas wrote: On 15-Nov-05, at 11:08 AM, Michael T. Dean wrote: So, I would say don't make any changes until you're explicitly asked to do so.

Re: [mythtv-users] $20 tuner at CompUSA

2005-11-15 Thread Paul V. Gratz
You could always buy it, see if it works with linux and if not return it. Worst case you are out $20 if they wont let you return it... Paul On Tuesday 15 November 2005 11:08 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 12G per hour? 4G per 20 minutes? Holie! Sounds like uncompressed recording... $20

Re: [mythtv-users] $20 tuner at CompUSA

2005-11-15 Thread Paul V. Gratz
On Tuesday 15 November 2005 12:50 pm, Jeff Simpson wrote: On 11/15/05, Paul V. Gratz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You could always buy it, see if it works with linux and if not return it. Worst case you are out $20 if they wont let you return it... Paul Worst case is you spend $20

Re: [mythtv-users] LiveTV Broken or Bad Permissions?

2005-11-15 Thread Paul V. Gratz
On Tuesday 15 November 2005 10:03 pm, Dustin Nicholas Jenkins wrote: Hello all, I've been using the Subversion build of MythTV for the past couple of weeks now, and the 'Watch TV' (LiveTV) link hasn't worked at all (i.e. the link text flashes and does nothing, no log entry or

Re: [mythtv-users] LiveTV Broken or Bad Permissions?

2005-11-15 Thread Paul V. Gratz
On Tuesday 15 November 2005 11:31 pm, Michael T. Dean wrote: Paul V. Gratz wrote: On Tuesday 15 November 2005 10:03 pm, Dustin Nicholas Jenkins wrote: I've been using the Subversion build of MythTV for the past couple of weeks now, and the 'Watch TV' (LiveTV) link hasn't worked at all (i.e

Re: [mythtv-users] Is gentoo the way to go?

2005-11-04 Thread Paul V. Gratz
On Thursday 03 November 2005 05:29 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 09:07:24PM +0800, William Kenworthy wrote: There seems to be a lot of gentoo users here! And maybe one of them can help me. I have a Xebian/Debian mix on my xbox right now and effectively can't use it

Re: [mythtv-users] Getting started, which tuner card Haup. or NVTV

2005-10-14 Thread Paul V. Gratz
On Friday 14 October 2005 10:11 am, Frank Dux wrote: Hello, I am trying to figure out which tv tuner card to buy for mythtv. I plan on running Xbox (XBMC mythtv plugin) as frontend. However, for my backend I am trying to decide between Hauppauge series or eVGA NVTV series card. Does eVGA

Re: [mythtv-users] Thanks to developers, plus a few tips from someone who finally got it working

2005-10-05 Thread Paul V. Gratz
On Wednesday 05 October 2005 09:42 am, Kevin Kuphal wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, 2) Don't mess with wireless! I know this will probably start some flames, but to be honest, I never had much luck with 802.11g under Linux. I got it to work sometimes, but it was always flakey and

Re: [mythtv-users] ability to do quick manual recording ?

2005-10-04 Thread Paul V. Gratz
Pressing the record button from Live TV does the correct thing in that it records the show you are watching from now until it ends. It would be nice though to have a way to extend past the end time of a given show. This comes up fairly often when watching sports programs. After being burned

[mythtv-users] Mythburn confusion, how do I install it on gentoo?

2005-09-29 Thread Paul V. Gratz
Hey all, I'm totally confused by the various emails, the howto's and forum threads. Is it possible to install mythtvburn on a gentoo platform? The install scripts seem to have been written for a debian variant (I guess Knoppmyth?) I have seen a couple posts though from people running gentoo

Re: [mythtv-users] Slave backend keeps crashing

2005-09-28 Thread Paul V. Gratz
On Tuesday 27 September 2005 08:20 pm, Paul V. Gratz wrote: Hi, I recently got a PVR-500mce and put it in my front end machine. It is setup with a shared NFS mount from the machine running the master backend. Anyways, mostly it works well except that about once every 24 hours or so

[mythtv-users] Slave backend keeps crashing

2005-09-27 Thread Paul V. Gratz
Hi, I recently got a PVR-500mce and put it in my front end machine. It is setup with a shared NFS mount from the machine running the master backend. Anyways, mostly it works well except that about once every 24 hours or so the slave backed seems to crash. The master keeps going and luckly I

Re: [mythtv-users] ACPI sleep problems

2005-09-20 Thread Paul V. Gratz
On Tuesday 20 September 2005 04:56 am, John Pullan wrote: On 19/09/05, Paul V. Gratz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I actually use the suspend to ACPI ram all the time on my laptop (dell inspiron 8500). I did have some pretty heavy problems trying to get it running on my mythfrontend though

Re: [mythtv-users] ACPI sleep problems

2005-09-19 Thread Paul V. Gratz
I actually use the suspend to ACPI ram all the time on my laptop (dell inspiron 8500). I did have some pretty heavy problems trying to get it running on my mythfrontend though. There the problem was mainly in getting the motherboard to respect a USB wake-up event (crappy cheap MB). In any

Re: [mythtv-users] Recommended OS

2005-07-16 Thread Paul V. Gratz
Hmmm, are you meaning Linux vs Mac vs Windows? In that case I think its mostly Linux although I hear there is a MythWin project and possibly a similar Mac project as ports from the linux version. If you are asking what distribution of Linux, I think there is a fairly wide range. I and several

Re: [mythtv-users] Multi backend TV card preference?

2005-07-15 Thread Paul V. Gratz
On Tuesday 12 July 2005 08:07 pm, Gregorio Gervasio, Jr. wrote: Michael T Dean writes: m Paul V. Gratz wrote: Is there any way that I can set it up so that the master backend always records or is used for Live TV unless it is already being used for a recording? I'd like it if the only

Re: [mythtv-users] New Install Recommendations

2005-07-13 Thread Paul V. Gratz
On Wednesday 13 July 2005 08:29 pm, Thom Paine wrote: I'm downloading KnoppMyth as I type this, and will give it a try. I recently tried installing Gentoo on my spare laptop, and had had really good success. Many people running Gentoo using Myth? I have both my backend and my frontends

Re: [mythtv-users] Multi backend TV card preference?

2005-07-12 Thread Paul V. Gratz
On Tuesday 12 July 2005 08:07 pm, Gregorio Gervasio, Jr. wrote: Michael T Dean writes: m Paul V. Gratz wrote: Is there any way that I can set it up so that the master backend always records or is used for Live TV unless it is already being used for a recording? I'd like it if the only

[mythtv-users] Multi backend TV card preference?

2005-07-11 Thread Paul V. Gratz
Hey all, I just wanted to ask a quick question about setting up a slave backend. I have successfully setup a master server with one winTV Go capture card in it. I have a front end machine that also has a TV card in it however the processor in it is an old 1.6GHz P4 and the TV card is also