Re: [mythtv-users] Harmony 880 Remote?

2006-01-26 Thread Phil Bridges
On 1/26/06, Mr. Myth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can you point me to a link for this deal? I have really been wanting one of these! Michael http://slickdeals.net/#p6991 ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org

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

2006-01-23 Thread Phil Bridges
On 1/23/06, Jesse Guardiani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Howdy, I'm interested in playing with some of the new SVN features on my MythTV box sometime in the next few weeks. Does anyone know if a release is planned anytime soon? Or should I just upgrade to SVN now? Is anything broken right now?

Re: [mythtv-users] Anyway to tune a channel 125 on pvr-150?

2006-01-10 Thread Phil Bridges
In order to get MythTV to change the channels, you need the IRBlaster configured and in there. Otherwise, with MythTV configured to listen on the S-Video input, you'll always get the same channel, unless there is a serial port on your STB and a script for using it to change the

Re: [mythtv-users] New ATI Tuner that supports Cablecard

2006-01-05 Thread Phil Bridges
On 1/5/06, Joe Huffner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If someone already posted this, sorry for the dupe. I saw this at work and I don't have access to my home email and I wanted to post this asap. This looks very sweet and hopefully won't be too difficult for some decent developers to get

Re: [mythtv-users] Installing MythTV

2005-12-29 Thread Phil Bridges
On 12/29/05, James Ayoub [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I did follow the instructions and here is what happend: [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# yum install mythtv-0.18.1 Gathering header information file(s) from server(s) Server: Fedora Core 2 - i386 - Base Server: Fedora Core 2 - i386 - Released

Re: [mythtv-users] remotes (yet AGAIN)

2005-12-16 Thread Phil Bridges
On 12/16/05, Jesse Guardiani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jesse Guardiani wrote: And finally, if all else fails, should I just take back the X-Box remote and spring for an MCE remote? I've been looking at these, and they seem to have two shortcomings: 1.) They seem to fail on a regular

Re: [mythtv-users] remotes (yet AGAIN)

2005-12-16 Thread Phil Bridges
On 12/16/05, Jesse Guardiani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Phil Bridges wrote: On 12/16/05, Jesse Guardiani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jesse Guardiani wrote: And finally, if all else fails, should I just take back the X-Box remote and spring for an MCE remote? I've been looking

Re: [mythtv-users] Commercial Flagging, what are the best settings?

2005-12-13 Thread Phil Bridges
On 12/13/05, Beny Spensieri Jr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have found that the commercial flagging feature of Mythtv is not doing a great job of flagging commercials. As a result, playback is not skipping the commercials as I have indicated. Any advise on what combination of settings will

Re: [mythtv-users] MythRoku HD1000 Rev A or Rev B

2005-12-08 Thread Phil Bridges
On 12/8/05, James C. Dastrup [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you need the Rev B HD1000 with the extra RAM or is the Rev A enough for MythRoku? Thanks, Todd I use the HD1000 RevA and it works great. Of course, I always create a swap file as well. A swapfile on a CF card or NFS works fine.

Re: [mythtv-users] OT: USB IR Receiver Free after rebate

2005-12-06 Thread Phil Bridges
On 12/6/05, Kevin Kuphal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not sure what the Linux support is for this device, but it seemed interesting enough (and free enough) to post here as a possible IR receiver solution for Myth.

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

2005-11-30 Thread Phil Bridges
On 11/30/05, Michael Cowell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Steve wrote: May I point you over to, drum roll please.! http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Setup_MythTV Just follow this guide completely and you'll have a completely perfect system, bloat-free and all. I noticed you said you have KDE

Re: [mythtv-users] Recording quits early

2005-11-26 Thread Phil Bridges
On 11/26/05, Roger McClurg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Roger McClurg wrote: I'm using myth 0.18.1. When recording two hour shows, recording stops after one hour and 50 minutes. I tried using the option to record 10 minutes past the program end, but it too quit after 1 hour and 50

Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV demo

2005-11-23 Thread Phil Bridges
On 11/23/05, Mattia Martinello [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The current SVN version has a bug on LiveTV (i sent a ticket and a message to dev list) that hangs Mythfrontend with a segmentation fault error. Will this bug be solved before Saturday? Please search the mailing list archives. It has

Re: [mythtv-users] Scheduling Suggestions

2005-11-17 Thread Phil Bridges
On 11/17/05, James Pifer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. I have myth 0.18.1 on FC3 with a 350 and a 250. Everything is very stable and works great (thanks to all contributors). I do have a problem on Wednesday evenings where I record three shows on three channels. One show starts at 9PM and the

Re: [mythtv-users] Unable to Watch Videos in Mythtv

2005-11-12 Thread Phil Bridges
On 11/12/05, Jason Hendrix [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I used this command line for xine: xine -pfhq --no-splash %s And I used the default command line for mplayer. Both mplayer and xine have the same result. When I click a video to watch it, nothing at all happens, and neither mplayer nor

Re: [mythtv-users] manual scheduling - no upcoming recordings

2005-11-04 Thread Phil Bridges
On 11/4/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2005 17:07:41 -0400 From: Greg Estabrooks [EMAIL PROTECTED] (for example) that there's no way to DELETE a single card from I'm pretty sure that you can just Highlight the card and hit Menu (M).

Re: [mythtv-users] KnoppMyth R5A22 seriously broken (was: RE: Mythtv -0.18.1 using protocol 15)

2005-11-03 Thread Phil Bridges
On 03 Nov 2005 09:39:30 -0800, Jim Reith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 11:04 AM 11/3/2005, you wrote: The version of ivtv distributed has absolutely nothing to do with the version of mythtv in the distribution. yes it does. It has everything to do with it. It was a package deal. There was a

Re: [mythtv-users] Failed to bindport 6543

2005-10-28 Thread Phil Bridges
On 10/28/05, Folashade Adeyosoye [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I have just ran into a problem am not familiar with, when a channel was mistakenly entered (via keyboard and hit enter) the screen froze up and was not able to watch Live TV anymore, Everything has worked before

Re: [mythtv-users] Some Quick Questions about MythTV

2005-10-25 Thread Phil Bridges
comments inline On 10/25/05, Joshua Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am seriously considering the MythTV as an alternative to having 5 satellite receivers and DVD players and computers and stuff in my house. I want desperately to consolidate my house. I questions is three fold. One is the

Re: [mythtv-users] tvlistings

2005-08-30 Thread Phil Bridges
On 8/29/05, Paul McKellar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: so my tv listings sucks. it records in the wrong place because the meta information is wrong. i looked around zap2it listings. for zip code 30316 (atl), there are 4 listings but none of them are showing the right informations. i'm getting

Re: [mythtv-users] Funny things happen when I move my pc

2005-08-30 Thread Phil Bridges
On 8/30/05, Phil Strong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I move my pc from my home office to my work office strange things are happening. The setup screen comes up asking me what language I want to use. My backend doesn't want to work. All of my settings like where my recordings are stored and

Re: [mythtv-users] ATI Tv Wonder Pro

2005-08-25 Thread Phil Bridges
On 8/25/05, Richard Bronosky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm sorry, what tuner card maker offers Linux support? -- Hauppauge. http://www.hauppauge.com/pages/faq/support_faq_linux.html ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org

Re: [mythtv-users] ATI Tv Wonder Pro

2005-08-25 Thread Phil Bridges
On 8/25/05, Simon Kenyon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 25 August 2005 19:42, Phil Bridges wrote: On 8/25/05, Richard Bronosky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm sorry, what tuner card maker offers Linux support? -- Hauppauge. http://www.hauppauge.com/pages/faq

Re: [mythtv-users] not connect to the Master backend server

2005-08-22 Thread Phil Bridges
On 8/22/05, Amyg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I choose Watch TV button or other choices,I have met with one problem! It is : Could not connect to the master backend server --is it running? Is the IP address set for it in the setup program correct? How can I solve this provlem? And how

Re: [mythtv-users] Cables and more space...ideas?

2005-08-17 Thread Phil Bridges
On 8/17/05, Jesse Kaufman gLaNDix [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hmm, i didn't know that :) ... can't recall, does xine support DTS passthrough or just DD? DD works great for me, i'm just curious :) I have some DTS demos in .vob format that play fine in Xine.

Re: [mythtv-users] VERY strange problem -- PVR-150 not detected

2005-08-16 Thread Phil Bridges
On 8/16/05, Egeekial [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay, I have an Abit VT6x4 Slot1 motherboard for my Mythbox, and for some reason, I think this is the problem. Anyway, I've tried my PVR-150 in 3 different PCI slots, and in each one, the card never shows up even with lspci. The card works, because

Re: [mythtv-users] VERY strange problem -- PVR-150 not detected

2005-08-16 Thread Phil Bridges
On 8/16/05, Egeekial [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tried all of those... and still nothing. This just doesn't make sense to me!!! It could be that the BIOS on your board does not support the PVR150. I bet that you'll need to find a newer driver - perhaps the folks at Abit could help..

Re: [mythtv-users] Gee, I THOUGHT I was a linux fan.

2005-08-15 Thread Phil Bridges
Comments in-line. On 8/15/05, Richard Bronosky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2. I now have my network working. (I know because I used a text based browser to hit Yahoo.com.) But, I cannot get the DataDirect Retrieve Listings button to do anything. (I get a new box to popup with no text and a

Re: [mythtv-users] Gee, I THOUGHT I was a linux fan.

2005-08-15 Thread Phil Bridges
On 8/15/05, Richard Bronosky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: calling mythfilldatabase results in: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo mythfilldatabase 2005-08-16 01:59:48.169 New DB connection, total: 1 2005-08-16 01:59:48.177 New DB connection, total: 2 Refreshing Tomorrow's data 2005-08-16 01:59:48.179

Re: [mythtv-users] OT: Comcast Chicago changing channel lineup, SCI-FI moving to digital only

2005-08-09 Thread Phil Bridges
On 8/9/05, Brian J. Murrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 14:56 -0400, Jim Reith wrote: Not really an investment in cable boxes as the cable company probably provides at least one with your digital subscription And what of the additional ones I need for the PVR recording

Re: [mythtv-users] OT: Comcast Chicago changing channel lineup, SCI-FI moving to digital only

2005-08-09 Thread Phil Bridges
On 8/9/05, Scot L. Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't look forward to having to pay extra for each cable box to have 3 or 4 of them to feed the mythtv box. Plus the added complexity of controlling those boxes. While I don't use live tv much anymore I would expect it would be easier in

Re: [mythtv-users] burn-in. Should I be worried?

2005-08-08 Thread Phil Bridges
On 8/8/05, Jesse Guardiani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kevin Kuphal wrote: Jesse Guardiani wrote: Hello, I have a normal NTSC TV. Medium quality and nothing fancy. Should I be worried about burn-in? Maybe you should turn off your TV when you're not using it. :) Yeah, I saw

Re: [mythtv-users] burn-in. Should I be worried? - Dev Idea?

2005-08-08 Thread Phil Bridges
On 8/8/05, Donavan Stanley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/8/05, Andrew Palm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Screen burning is a issue on all types of monitors, regardless of age. The use DPMS or a screensaver. Both of wcich Myth knows how to enable and disable and be done with it. Just like was

Re: [mythtv-users] FYI: pvrusb2 5 default minute recording sizes

2005-08-04 Thread Phil Bridges
On 8/4/05, roger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The first is using mythtv with the default recording profile. The second, test-5min.mpg, is created using cat /dev/v4l/video0. These are +/- 30 seconds. 468M Aug 4 10:58 3045_20050804104900_2005080413.nuv 229M Aug 4 11:38 test-5min.mpg

Re: [mythtv-users] Number of channels.

2005-08-01 Thread Phil Bridges
On 8/1/05, Mark Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The irblaster allows MythTV to change the channels on the cable box? Then the connection goes ... Wall - Cable Box - MythTV - TV? Thanks, Mark Micheal Havard wrote: To get the channels above 125 you'll have to use your cable box.

Re: [mythtv-users] [OT] Where to buy a PVR-250

2005-07-28 Thread Phil Bridges
On 7/28/05, Tim Hamer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pat Vaughan wrote: Where is a good source for a PVR-250 card (model 980). I've seen people mention that they're available for around $90, but I can't find them any less than about $130. Newegg and Amazon both carry them. Also, I'm not

Re: [mythtv-users] FC4 + MythTV 0.18-113.rhfc4.at ( LIRCD Problem )

2005-07-21 Thread Phil Bridges
On 7/21/05, Charles se [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi guys, I just bought a new P4 machine and I decided to rebuild my MythTV box with Fedora Core 4 this time ( I previously used FC3 ). Everything seams to work fine but the IR Receiver in Myth. When i test it with IRW it respond no problem

Re: [mythtv-users] How to delete channels in bulk?

2005-07-21 Thread Phil Bridges
On 7/21/05, Tachtevrenidis, Kosta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am sure this has been replied to before but when I delete the channels from the SQL db they seem to creep back up the next time a program fetch is executed. If I deleted them from the web interface the same thing. The only thing

Re: [mythtv-users] Video gets choppy when changing channels/opening prog. guide

2005-07-15 Thread Phil Bridges
On 7/15/05, JEFFERY PLEAU [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All I am a new mythtv user, having used Jarod's how-to to build my myth box. I have two issues with my myth box (front and bqackend are on same machine) 1. Whenever I change the channel, there is about a 3-4 second pause while the

Re: [mythtv-users] Connecting to DirecTV Reciever

2005-07-15 Thread Phil Bridges
On 7/15/05, Eric Jensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I ordered DirectTV because I heard you could connect to it via serial to change channels instead of using an IR blaster. When I got my reciever though it has a odd looking phone jack that says Low speed data. It looks taller then the standard

Re: [mythtv-users] Changing channels does not work

2005-07-13 Thread Phil Bridges
On 7/13/05, Daniel Agar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a pvr 150 and an ati tv wonder both working wonderfully in linux on their own, however mythtv doesn't seem to be able to change channels using them. This causes live tv to freeze when using the pvr 150 or when watching live tv with the

Re: [mythtv-users] Nvidia GeForce 4 MX 440 TV Out

2005-06-30 Thread Phil Bridges
On 6/30/05, Paul Furtado [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello everyone, I recently purchased the Jaton Nvidia GeForce 4 MX 440 graphices card because it is capable of TV-Out and uses PCI rather than AGP (My MOBO doesnt have AGP). I would like to be able to use the TV-Out in my mythtv box so that i

Re: [mythtv-users] Haupauge PVR 150

2005-06-29 Thread Phil Bridges
snip Jun 29 14:33:22 localhost kernel: cx25840: Unable to open FW file '/lib/modules/HcwMakoA.ROM'. Jun 29 14:33:22 localhost kernel: cx25840: Failed to load any FW image file snip Thanks for any help in advance, Paul Did you get a firmware file for the card? (ivtv-firmware)

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-350 versus PVR-500

2005-06-13 Thread Phil Bridges
On 6/13/05, Steve Nuffer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First, I haven't tried to build MythTV yet. I need to purchase a capture card. My proof of concent system isn't the greatest but I'm willing to spend some $$ on a card. The PVR 500 is currently $40 cheaper then the PVR 350 at Amazon.

Re: [mythtv-users] OT: building an HD Frontend for $250 or less

2005-06-06 Thread Phil Bridges
On 6/6/05, Matthew Schumacher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Blammo wrote: Very possible to put together an HD capable frontend for little $$. $241+ shipping: $75 CPU : http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E1681910341 $34 Heatsink :

Re: [mythtv-users] OT: Does this mean we can get MythTV on OS X now?

2005-06-06 Thread Phil Bridges
On 6/6/05, Ani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now that Apple is switching to Intel, does that make it easier for MythTV to be ported to OS X or is it still too dependent on Linux to run on OS X? http://www.wired.com/news/mac/0,2125,67757,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_2 -Ani Isn't MythTV already

Re: [mythtv-users] watching live tv

2005-06-02 Thread Phil Bridges
On 6/2/05, Dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone help with this error messagfe I get when trying to watch live tv. snip Couldn't read file: rbuf://127.0.0.1:6543/mnt/store//ringbuf1.nuv snip Is your buffer area set as /mnt/store/ or /mnt/store ?

Re: [mythtv-users] Serial infrared sensor

2005-06-01 Thread Phil Bridges
On 6/1/05, Dan Littlejohn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have seen a number of howto guides for building a serial infrared sensor, but are there any inexpensive retail solutions? Dan It depends on what you call inexpensive. CrystalFontz sells the IRMan for $35US:

[mythtv-users] MythVideo category doesn't stick

2005-05-28 Thread Phil Bridges
I am trying to import some videos using the MythVideo video manager (0.18.1). I have a few different categories that I'm trying to keep things in. Unfortunately, when I try to change the category more files, it takes many times to actually change, if it changes at all. Is anyone else having

Re: [mythtv-users] Problems ripping some DVDs

2005-05-27 Thread Phil Bridges
On 5/27/05, Derek Scollon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm having problems playing and ripping some DVDs (some work perfectly). mtd is reporting... libdvdread: Using libdvdcss version 1.2.8 for DVD access libdvdread: Can't seek to block 3492778 libdvdread: Can't seek to block 3492778

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Wireless Keyboards

2005-05-23 Thread Phil Bridges
On 5/23/05, James Oltman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just bought that keyboard as well and I tried learning my Sony RM-2100 remote to a couple of buttons. Whenever I press the button on my remote, Myth receives two signals. So I hit the next button in mythmusic (the Greater Than symbol on the

Re: [mythtv-users] Power-saving

2005-05-23 Thread Phil Bridges
On 5/23/05, Fedor Pikus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/23/05, Derek Scollon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm running Fedora Core 3. I've switched off the screensaver, but after a while the screen goes blank. Moving the mouse brings the image back. I'm assuming this is a power-saving feature

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Slightly OT - How do I get the FC3 cdrom to be bootable?

2005-05-22 Thread Phil Bridges
On 5/22/05, Dewey Smolka [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FWIW, I picked up a DVD burner a few weeks ago for around $80 (and a spindle of 50 DVDs for $20). As long as you don't insist on 16x+ speeds (which are pretty much unnecessary anyway) or a dual-layer capable drive (which means paying a lot

Re: [mythtv-users] Adding a HD to an LVM for a VERY new Linux User

2005-05-22 Thread Phil Bridges
On 5/22/05, Rob Bongiovi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm a very new Linux user feeling my way around. Following Jarod's guide, I was able to get MythTV up and running on Fedora Core 3 with a relatively small amount of problems. Here's my current one: I picked up a 300GB HD on sale last week

Re: [mythtv-users] Keyboard release problem in MythTV menus

2005-05-22 Thread Phil Bridges
On 5/22/05, Nils Emil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello I've installed MythTV 0.18.1 very much like Jarod Wilson's excellent HOWTO: http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/fcmyth.php Problem is: When I navigate some of the menus in MythTV (like the confirm exit screen) and I press a button in the GUI

Re: [mythtv-users] Is there a problem with Gnome and keyboard menu confirmation?

2005-05-21 Thread Phil Bridges
On 5/21/05, Steve Malenfant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm having an issue here with simply exiting mythtv, when I press enter on a menu option (like do you want to exit?) the menu gets highlighted but doesn't exit. I'm having this at a bunch of places, mostly mythtvsetup (can't use the

Re: [mythtv-users] Best remote control

2005-05-20 Thread Phil Bridges
On 5/20/05, Ian Trider [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My main problems with it is that it has buttons on it that would be very useful, but because of the way MythTV behaves (can't map discrete actions to buttons, only keystrokes) I can't really use all the buttons, like, say the 'Videos' and

Re: [mythtv-users] Need Help creating LVM on FC3...

2005-05-20 Thread Phil Bridges
On 5/20/05, A JM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I could use some pointers and help increating a LVM on FC3. I'm partially there but I'm having a problem with configuring the drive? When I run vgdisplay -v I see that the volume group is VGforMyth and is 141.56GB PE is 64MB. So it exist but size

Re: [mythtv-users] Small HDTV Front End using VIA EPIA N Mainboard

2005-05-16 Thread Phil Bridges
On 5/16/05, Vincent K. Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry that was supposed to contain this link: http://www.viaembedded.com/product/epia_N_spec.jsp?motherboardId=221 A search of the mailing list archives says yes, people are using them:

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Unable to download program guide

2005-05-16 Thread Phil Bridges
On 5/16/05, mythtv users [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have the same problem, but I also notice I can't log into their web site either. Thinking they had locked old unused accounts, I tried to create a new one and found that the new account didn't work. I just tried to renew my subscription,

[mythtv-users] Re: Time Stretch question

2005-05-16 Thread Phil Bridges
On 5/15/05, Phil Bridges [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just started using the time stretch option this evening, and I really enjoy it. I noticed, though, that the show that I was recording while time-stretching the first skipped around quite a bit when watching it in normal mode; it was also

[mythtv-users] Time Stretch question

2005-05-15 Thread Phil Bridges
I just started using the time stretch option this evening, and I really enjoy it. I noticed, though, that the show that I was recording while time-stretching the first skipped around quite a bit when watching it in normal mode; it was also listed as 57 minutes rather than the hour the recording

Re: [mythtv-users] how much space does an HD recording take?

2005-05-09 Thread Phil Bridges
On 5/9/05, Robert Kulagowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to get a good idea of how much disk space I need. I want around 100 hrs. I tried to search but didn't come up with much exact figures. Something in the range of 6-10GB/hr? is this right? You're not asking the right

Re: [mythtv-users] how much space does an HD recording take?

2005-05-09 Thread Phil Bridges
On 5/9/05, Joe Barnhart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Phil Bridges [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think the 7-8GB/hr estimate is the best guess- so you need ~ 80GB of TV storage, before transcoding. If the OP wants to store 100 hours of high-def, he needs 800G, not 80G. I have 750G

Re: [mythtv-users] Full system/CPU upgrade and still no DVD

2005-05-01 Thread Phil Bridges
On 5/1/05, Scott Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm just livid. The wife is away and inspired by everyone else's WAF comments and the fact that Chris Kennedy has done an awesome job lately of getting all the bugs worked out of the ivtv driver so there are no more freezes.Fry's is 3

[mythtv-users] Occasionally missing commercial skip

2005-04-30 Thread Phil Bridges
I've noticed recently that sometime during a show, Myth will miss the beginning of a commercial break, and will play right through. Typically, though, if I rewind to the point where it should skip, the behavior is normal. Has anybody else had this happen? Using 0.17, btw.

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Possible SD frotnend-only machine?

2005-04-29 Thread Phil Bridges
On 4/29/05, BARKER, Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I've got a GX150 at home in use as a small workstation running FC3. The audio is supported under ALSA (can't remember which driver but I'll check). Peter is right, there's no TV out as standard so you'd need to throw in a GFX card

Re: [mythtv-users] IR Adapter: Recommendations?

2005-04-29 Thread Phil Bridges
On 4/29/05, Paul Check [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Preet Khalsa wrote: On Fri, 2005-29-04 at 16:10 -0400, Paul Check wrote: Hi: I have a MythTV backend/frontend on one machine using the PVR-350, and have just configured a MythTV frontend on another system. My final piece on the

[mythtv-users] Re: No Internet access and my service provider has changed

2005-04-26 Thread Phil Bridges
On 4/26/05, Phil Bridges [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all - I am stuck in the predicament of having no Internet access for my Mythbox at the moment, and my cable provider has changed. I have been manually importing the Zap2It listings by downloading them at work and slapping them on a CD

Re: [mythtv-users] Sound only after changing channels?

2005-04-20 Thread Phil Bridges
On 4/20/05, Aaron Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey gang, I'm running Myth 0.17-r2 under gentoo (x86), but I'm having an issue where sound is only working after switching channels. I'm running kernel 2.6.11 and the latest emerge of alsa. Sound *is* working, but only after changing

Re: [mythtv-users] MythVideo Question

2005-04-13 Thread Phil Bridges
On 4/13/05, Chris Clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I have some movies that are in 2 files (cd1 cd2.) I've got them playing no problem, with the second file starting at the end of the first, but I was wondering if there was a way to only show the first file in the listings.

Re: [mythtv-users] AVerMedia AVerTVHD MCE A180?

2005-04-13 Thread Phil Bridges
On 4/13/05, Alan Hagge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anybody know anything about this ATSC HD tuner card? Looks like it should be out within the month (might even be out now) for around US $90.00 (!) retail. http://www.aver.com/products/tvtuner_avertvhd_mce_a180.shtml Anybody have one? Know

Re: [mythtv-users] Does the PVR500 have one or two cable connectors?

2005-04-12 Thread Phil Bridges
On Apr 12, 2005 12:59 PM, Niklas Brunlid [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since the PVR500 has two tuners on one card, is the cable/antenna connection split to both tuners or does each one have a separate connector? / Niklas It has one coaxial cable connection, - the other connection is for the FM

Re: [mythtv-users] pvr150 or pvr500

2005-03-23 Thread Phil Bridges
Jarod Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 23 March 2005 14:44, John Williams wrote: On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 16:36:32 -0600, Matt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd definitely go 500, since you don't even need a splitter to get both tuners fed (the signal is split internally). Jarod, can you elaborate on this? Does

Re: [mythtv-users] pvr150 or pvr500

2005-03-23 Thread Phil Bridges
Jarod Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 23 March 2005 14:52, Phil Bridges wrote: Jarod Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 23 March 2005 14:44, John Williams wrote: On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 16:36:32 -0600, Matt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd definitely go 500, since you don't even need a splitter to get both tuners fed

Re: [mythtv-users] initally no sound, but sound when switching channel

2005-03-16 Thread Phil Bridges
Marcel Janssen wrote: Hi, When I switch to live TV I have no sound. when I change the channel I get sound. When I leave live TV and enter it again I again have no sound. Switch channel and sound is there. This makes recordings to have no sound at all. Any solution ? Once again, a search of

Re: [mythtv-users] Moving to Digital Sound

2005-03-10 Thread Phil Bridges
john roberts wrote: Ok - I've been using MythTV for over a year now - and I'm ready to try my hand at Digital Audio. Any advice out there before I jump in? I've seen Jarod's HowTo on the subject and I'll be following that. I'll be buying some SoundBlaster make/model which will have a Digital

Re: [mythtv-users] Newbie question about designing a split system

2005-03-10 Thread Phil Bridges
Ron Johnson wrote: - The PVR-250 only has S-Video and composite inputs, but I have cable service. Is there any way to convert 75-ohm coax input to composite output? (Yes, a VCR would work, but I'd need 2 of them, and would not use the VCR part of the VCR...) The PVR-250 has a standard

Re: [mythtv-users] Newbie question about designing a split system

2005-03-10 Thread Phil Bridges
Ron Johnson wrote: On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 12:27 -0500, Phil Bridges wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: - The PVR-250 only has S-Video and composite inputs, but I have cable service. Is there any way to convert 75-ohm coax input to composite output? (Yes, a VCR would work, but I'd need 2 of them

RE: [mythtv-users] AGP Video Capture Cards...

2005-03-03 Thread Phil Bridges
Yes I use an agp card. I would assume that if you can get it to work under linux myth will use, I don't think (or am just not aware) that myth does anything that foreign with the graphics drivers that another linux tv program doesnt. Nvidia, as you linked, is usually a good selection as

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

2005-02-23 Thread Phil Bridges
Sergio Ammirata wrote: I got the Air2PCI and a pvr-500 working together in harmony with the following setup: [snip] Is your PVR-500 working fine? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org

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

2005-02-23 Thread Phil Bridges
Isaac Richards wrote: On Wednesday 23 February 2005 02:16 pm, Risto Treksler wrote: 2) i set the live tv to always use browse mode ie - when you hit the channel change button it just pops up info about the next channel and you can choose whether to change to it Would anyone

[mythtv-users] How long should it take to transcode a DVD to xvid?

2005-02-17 Thread Phil Bridges
I tried my first DVD rip last night. After a couple of minutes of making sure I had mtd running, I put in the DVD, and it ripped to my hard drive fine (in less than 15 minutes). I chose Good quality, with subtitiles and AC3 audio. When it started off, Myth estimated about 4 hours to encode.

Re: [mythtv-users] mythbackend wont start

2005-02-17 Thread Phil Bridges
Shalem Shem-Tov wrote: Hi. I'm pretty new to MythTV and need some help here. I installed Fedora C3 and followed Jarod's HOWTO. I got it to (basically) work once, but then I guess I did something and now I can't start mythbackend. When I try I get this error: Starting up as the master

RE: [mythtv-users] What is a cheap S/PDIF sound card?

2005-02-09 Thread Phil Bridges
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of CrAzY mAD Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2005 8:17 PM To: mythtv-users@mythtv.org Subject: [mythtv-users] What is a cheap S/PDIF sound card? Playing AC3 movies through Myth and want to pass the signal

RE: [mythtv-users] Myth-TV Themes

2005-02-09 Thread Phil Bridges
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of MacNean C. Tyrrell Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2005 9:31 PM To: Discussion about mythtv Subject: [mythtv-users] Myth-TV Themes Was wondeering if someone could point me in the right direction to

Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV.org OFFLINE or too much traffic

2005-01-31 Thread Phil Bridges
Mardin wrote: Hi folks :-) Are there any problems connecting to homepage of mythtv..org? Ping goes ok to dns or ip direct? What about the homepage? Maybe there's a lot of (t much) traffic for the site? Thanks for response Martin Works fine for me.

RE: [mythtv-users] MythTV in Jan 30 NY Times

2005-01-30 Thread Phil Bridges
I'm surprised that no one has yet commented on the mention of MythTV on the front page of the Arts seciton of today's (Sunday, Jan 30) New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/30/arts/television/30manl.html). It's quite unfortunate that the article is mainly about unauthorized

Re: [mythtv-users] commercial flagging after transcoding?

2005-01-27 Thread Phil Bridges
Brian J. Murrell wrote: Does commercial flagging not survive the transcoding process? I am capturing on a pvr-250 and transcoding to MPEG4, but while commercial flagging seems to work on the pre-transcoded MPEG2 file, it does not work on the post-transcoded MPEG4 file. Is this information lost in

Re: [mythtv-users] MythLED Picture

2005-01-27 Thread Phil Bridges
James Armstrong wrote: Here is the location for viewing the MythLED box we made. http://www.thearmstrongs.org/images/mythled.jpg It uses a standard serial interface to communicate with the monitoring software. The software queries the mythbackend to get the status of the tuners, free drive

[mythtv-users] MythLCD questions

2005-01-26 Thread Phil Bridges
I'm considering getting a LCD or VFD for my MythBox, but I have a few questions first: 1. Does MythLCD support graphical LCDs/VFDs? I saw a few posts back in February (http://tinyurl.com/6qe2l) where somebody was working on this, but I can't find a real follow-up. 2. What sort of

Re: [mythtv-users] How-to Moving History of Recordings to New Backend?

2005-01-26 Thread Phil Bridges
Tim wrote: Kevin Wentland wrote: I think he is looking to backup the database Here is a link on how to do this. http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/backup.html On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 14:51:49 -0600, Kevin Kuphal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tim wrote: I've googled for this but not found an

Re: [mythtv-users] Custom channel surfing

2005-01-24 Thread Phil Bridges
Andrew Close wrote: On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 14:49:30 -0500, Jeff Simpson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I like the idea - I already went through and physically removed all the channels I didn't watch (QVC, HSN, GOLF, all the religious networks, CMT, etc). do these channels that you manually deleted

[mythtv-users] RE: nuvexport mpeg problems -- fixed?

2005-01-20 Thread Phil Bridges
Chris - I just re-installed nuvexport (I'd forgotten to install it after rebuilding my system) and ran it once on one program - a conversion to divx. On subsequent attempts, I get: Unrecognized mpeg stream type. Please email this to the nuvexport author: MPlayer 1.0pre6-3.3.3 (C) 2000-2004

Re: [mythtv-users] fastest Myth start

2005-01-19 Thread Phil Bridges
Bill Bradley wrote: What...startup time? 0 secondsI never turn mine off. On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 17:59:32 -, mail.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Interested to know how fast you guys can get your machines to boot from cold As a starter for 10 i'm currently at 2mins from cold to the myth menu

Re: [mythtv-users] Mythvideo mythdvd cause mythfrontend to loose focus

2005-01-19 Thread Phil Bridges
Justin Hunt wrote: Ok heres a new problem, Whenever i watch something in mythvideo or mythdvd, it works great till its done. It shows the screen in mythfrontend where it should be but the KDE bar shows at the bottom of the scree and my remote doesnt do anything, i presume if i had a keyboard i

RE: [mythtv-users] Switching between capture card

2005-01-19 Thread Phil Bridges
Hi all, I have multiple BT 878 cards in one MythTV. How can I switch between capture card? The C key only switch between the inputs of one card. * On a related note: I have 2 ivtv cards in my box - a PVR250 and a M179. My M179 is my main watch card, primarily because I tend

RE: [mythtv-users] OT: gmail invites, I have 4

2005-01-15 Thread Phil Bridges
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Pete Stagman Sent: Saturday, January 15, 2005 2:52 PM To: mythtv-users@mythtv.org Subject: [mythtv-users] OT: gmail invites, I have 4 Anybody want one? --P Please keep this crap off the list. It's

RE: [mythtv-users] Where are xine and ogle for Jarod followers

2005-01-15 Thread Phil Bridges
These two programs seem essential to get a DVD to work, but if you follow Jarod's instructions they don't seem to become available. I should add that I took the less adventurous route here: The adventurous people out there might want to enable at-testing and install medley-package-config

Re: [mythtv-users] Recordings starting early, ending early

2005-01-14 Thread Phil Bridges
Brian Donaldson wrote: It starts recording early and stops early on all channels. I made sure to test that. I recorded the same shows when I was running MythTV .15 and I didn't have this problem. Thanks, Brian On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 18:07:39 +0100, Maarten [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 14

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