[mythtv-users] Recording MPEG-4 to DVD

2006-01-29 Thread Piers Kittel
Hello, Slightly offtopic I guess, but does anyone know of a Linux based software package that'd convert MPEG-4 video for recording onto a DVD video disc - so I can play it back in any DVD recorder? Thanks very much for your help in advance! Regards - Piers

Re: [mythtv-users] Recording MPEG-4 to DVD

2006-01-29 Thread Piers Kittel
into? Thanks very much again! Regards - Piers Brian Wood wrote: On Jan 29, 2006, at 4:16 PM, Piers Kittel wrote: Hello, Slightly offtopic I guess, but does anyone know of a Linux based software package that'd convert MPEG-4 video for recording onto a DVD video disc - so I can play it back

Re: [mythtv-users] Mounting DVDs via NFS problem

2006-01-24 Thread Piers Kittel
, it was brilliant! Cheers - Piers R. G. Newbury wrote: Piers Kittel wrote: Geoff, One answer which will last through a reboot would be to amend the line in 50-udev.rules to add a Group=mythtv and Mode=770 to the line describing /dev/hdc or whatever your hardware is listed as ( as in fstab

Re: [mythtv-users] Mounting DVDs via NFS problem

2006-01-23 Thread Piers Kittel
Chad, You could change your entry in fstab or mount with option: mount -t -o umask=000 /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom Or, you can edit your existing entry in fstab, in the 'defaults' section, remove defaults and type: umask=000 Tried those two, no difference :/ mythtv:/# mount -o umask=000 /dev/hdc

Re: [mythtv-users] Mounting DVDs via NFS problem

2006-01-23 Thread Piers Kittel
Mike, When you mount a filesystem on top of a directory, the mount options--not the original directory permissions--determine the permissions/ownership of the new directory (that is the root of the filesystem) and the device permissions/ownership have nothing to do with the resulting

Re: [mythtv-users] Mounting DVDs via NFS problem

2006-01-23 Thread Piers Kittel
Dag, What kernel version are you using? I have seen this happening a lot in earlier Linux:es. The solution then was usually to re-export (exportfs -r) the filesystems AFTER the local mount of the cdrom/DVD. In my current 2.6.14 it seems to work without any problems though. I am using this

Re: [mythtv-users] Mounting DVDs via NFS problem

2006-01-23 Thread Piers Kittel
Dag, mythtv:/usr/src/linux# dpkg -l | grep nfs ii nfs-common 1.0.6-3.1 NFS support files common to client and serve ii nfs-kernel-ser 1.0.6-3.1 Kernel NFS server support mythtv:/usr/src/linux# And to answer your other email, nothing from dmesg really. When restarting NFS:

Re: [mythtv-users] Mounting DVDs via NFS problem

2006-01-23 Thread Piers Kittel
Dag, As I didn't follow this thread from the beginning: Have you tried mounting from the client with -o ro ? No, just tried it, and still the same :/ Thanks again! Cheers - Piers ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org

Re: [mythtv-users] Mounting DVDs via NFS problem

2006-01-23 Thread Piers Kittel
Followed your instructions to the letter, even added new /dvd and everything, exactly the same, but still have the problem! :( Thanks very much for your help again Cheers - Piers Dag Nygren wrote: No, just tried it, and still the same :/ Just tried the whole process here and a simple

Re: [mythtv-users] Mounting DVDs via NFS problem

2006-01-23 Thread Piers Kittel
Oookay I ejected the DVD, tried a normal CD and it didn't work, changed auto to iso9660 in the fstab, and it mounted, and tried mounting it remotely, it worked fine. So ejected that, inserted the same DVD back in, mounted it, and mounted remotely and it works. Yes. Argh! Thanks *so*

Re: [mythtv-users] Mounting DVDs via NFS problem

2006-01-23 Thread Piers Kittel
back DVDs on machines without a DVD drive. Thanks to all for all your help. Cheers - Piers Carl Fongheiser wrote: On 1/23/06, *Piers Kittel* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Seems the crux of the problem is if I mount the DVD as UDF, it won't be mounted via NFS

Re: [mythtv-users] Mounting DVDs via NFS problem

2006-01-23 Thread Piers Kittel
Hmm. Yes, you're right, it works perfectly fine on my Linux desktop, but not on my Mac desktop - mplayer just pops up This is not a video_ts directory! even tho it's painfully clear that it is. Need further investigation. Thanks very much for your help tho! Cheers - Piers Dag Nygren wrote:

Re: [mythtv-users] Mounting DVDs via NFS problem

2006-01-23 Thread Piers Kittel
Hmm. Just unmounted the DVD off my Mac, and mounted it again, it works now, tho very jerky despite the onboard hardware DVD decoder (very strange that this Mac was supplied with a DVD decoder but no DVD drive!), tho I think that only works if there's an actual DVD drive attached to the IDE

Re: [mythtv-users] Mounting DVDs via NFS problem

2006-01-23 Thread Piers Kittel
Have fixed the problem. I mounted the DVD as an UDF filesystem, which NFS won't support. Mounting it as ISO9660 fixes the problem. Thanks very much for your help. Cheers - Piers Michael T. Dean wrote: On 01/23/2006 06:22 AM, Piers Kittel wrote: Correct user and group, great, but it still

[mythtv-users] Mounting DVDs via NFS problem

2006-01-22 Thread Piers Kittel
Hello all, Am trying to mount a DVD drive via NFS and am having problems. For note, 192.168.1.2 (hostname - destiny) is the client and 192.168.1.15 (hostname - mythtv) is the server. I have this in my /etc/exports: /media/cdrom0 192.168.1.2(ro,sync) and 192.168.1.2 is in the

Re: [mythtv-users] Mounting DVDs via NFS problem

2006-01-22 Thread Piers Kittel
Geoff, Just guessing: 2 possible answers. 1. It looks like the mount on the server is exclusive and no-one else is allowed access while the server 'owns' it. 2. You, as a user on destiny, do not have permission to actually read anything mounted on mythtv. Maybe add yourself (piers) to a

Re: [mythtv-users] Mounting DVDs via NFS problem

2006-01-22 Thread Piers Kittel
Geoff, One answer which will last through a reboot would be to amend the line in 50-udev.rules to add a Group=mythtv and Mode=770 to the line describing /dev/hdc or whatever your hardware is listed as ( as in fstab). HTH Geoff Cheers again, but I don't seem to have a 50-udev.rules

Re: [mythtv-users] Mounting DVDs via NFS problem

2006-01-22 Thread Piers Kittel
Geoff, One answer which will last through a reboot would be to amend the line in 50-udev.rules to add a Group=mythtv and Mode=770 to the line describing /dev/hdc or whatever your hardware is listed as ( as in fstab). HTH Geoff I guess I need to run apt-get install udev? Cheers - Piers

Re: [mythtv-users] Mounting DVDs via NFS problem

2006-01-22 Thread Piers Kittel
Geoff, One answer which will last through a reboot would be to amend the line in 50-udev.rules to add a Group=mythtv and Mode=770 to the line describing /dev/hdc or whatever your hardware is listed as ( as in fstab). HTH Geoff OK installed udev, and the

[mythtv-users] mythvideo

2006-01-20 Thread Piers Kittel
Hello all, I've got the following systems: a MythTV backend without a frontend a few MythTV frontends a server containing some files and several non MythTV videos. Currently, if I want to watch the movies on the frontends, I usually mount the server's hard drive via NFS and use something like

[mythtv-users] DVB subtitle ripper?

2006-01-12 Thread Piers Kittel
Hi all, Still trying to get video recorded off DVB-T in the UK onto DVD while retaining subtitles, but can't find any MPEG-2 - MPEG-4 compressors that will retain subtitles (if you know of one, please tell me) and I think one method to do this is: 1) Rip DVB subtitles from the MPEG-2 stream

Re: [mythtv-users] QMYSQL3 Error on Fedora FC4 x86_64

2006-01-09 Thread Piers Kittel
I *think* you need the MT (multithread) version of the qt-mysql driver - I know this is from a Debian system but here you go: ii libqt3c102-mt-mysql 3.3.4-3MySQL database driver for Qt3 (Threaded) and taking from your list: qt-MySQL-3.3.4-15.4 I think you need the MT version -

[mythtv-users] Werid recording problem

2006-01-06 Thread Piers Kittel
Hello all, Using MythTV from SVN version 0.19.20051208-1, using 2 x Nova-T DVB-T cards in the UK Saw something that I thought I might be interested in, decided to record it and forget about it. I don't remember which channel it was as it was from a search. Anyway, wanted to watch it, but

Re: [mythtv-users] fc4.ppc, Mac Mini and MythTV

2006-01-06 Thread Piers Kittel
Stupid question I think but why not use OSX and the MythTV OSX frontend? Somehow a recent SVN compiled successfully for the first time ever for me and it now works nicely with OSX Cheers - Piers Matt Hannan wrote: Ross Campbell wrote: Getting MythMusic to work is not the goal here. Getting

Re: [mythtv-users] fc4.ppc, Mac Mini and MythTV

2006-01-06 Thread Piers Kittel
to remember when configuring the SVN build, it moaned about missing stuff so it wouldn't compile mythmusic but it was no biggie for me so I ignored it. I might be wrong though... I can check the configure script again if you want me to. Cheers - Piers Matt Hannan wrote: Piers Kittel wrote

Re: [mythtv-users] fc4.ppc, Mac Mini and MythTV

2006-01-06 Thread Piers Kittel
suggest sticking with the precompiled binary in the URL I pointed out earlier - will make your life much easier that way :) But of course, if you're using a SVN for your backend, then you need to use SVN for OSX :) But if not, don't worry about it. Cheers - Piers Matt Hannan wrote: Piers

Re: [mythtv-users] fc4.ppc, Mac Mini and MythTV

2006-01-06 Thread Piers Kittel
not. Cheers - Piers Matt Hannan wrote: Piers Kittel wrote: Wouldn't suggest using SVN - would recommend using the stable builds unless you want to use the new features. The SVN version should be released pretty soon (I hope!) - I'm only using it for DVB subtitles which isn't available in the stable

Re: [mythtv-users] fc4.ppc, Mac Mini and MythTV

2006-01-06 Thread Piers Kittel
Oh dear! Sorry to hear :/ Maybe find some alternative to iTunes? It's not the be all end all of all software! :) Cheers - Piers Matt Hannan wrote: Oy vey. I am starting to think this is not possible. I have been to the weirdest forums and lists on the web. ANYTHING that Google has with

[mythtv-users] Eh - unrequested recording of live TV?!

2005-12-28 Thread Piers Kittel
Hello all, Just did a bit of channel hopping last night and just now checked out Recorded Programs on MythWeb and found that the backend recorded every channel hop I made, something like 30 enteries in the Recorded programs about 1 or 2 minutes each - depends on how long I watched the

Re: [mythtv-users] Eh - unrequested recording of live TV?!

2005-12-28 Thread Piers Kittel
Aha. Fair enough. Thanks very much for your comment! Clears up a lot of things. Makes a lot of sense. Was away for the last 4 months so this being included confused me somewhat :) Cheers - Piers Michael T. Dean wrote: Piers Kittel wrote: Just did a bit of channel hopping last night

Re: [mythtv-users] How To: Hack a network DVD-player to a fullfledged Mythfrontend

2005-12-27 Thread Piers Kittel
I've got an frontend set up to network boot - it doesn't have any hard drive or CF card. Seems to work well - only if you know how to :) A good starting point is http://netboot.sourceforge.net/ Basically it involves getting the computer to download an image either via the BIOS or a floppy

Re: [mythtv-users] Powering off computer as non-root

2005-12-27 Thread Piers Kittel
. Geoffrey Newbury* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 27 Dec 2005 01:58:15 +, Piers Kittel wrote: Hello all, Mythfrontend is set to turn off my computer using the command halt. Mythfrontend is run as an non-root user - in this case user piers

Re: [mythtv-users] Starting up mythfrontend automatically?

2005-12-27 Thread Piers Kittel
Yeah thought of that, but don't you need to type in a password anyway? Cheers - Piers Kim Wall wrote: Piers Kittel wrote: Just need to figure out how to power off the computer as non-root ;) man sudo :) Kim. ___ mythtv-users mailing list

Re: [mythtv-users] Starting up mythfrontend automatically?

2005-12-27 Thread Piers Kittel
Hate to answer to my own email. Yup the answer's in the sudo man pages... can limit the user to invoke one command only using the /etc/sudoers file. I'm going to boil my head now :) Thanks very much for everyone's help. Cheers - Piers Piers Kittel wrote: Heh. Fair enough. OK playing

Re: [mythtv-users] Starting up mythfrontend automatically?

2005-12-27 Thread Piers Kittel
will also want to read man visudo. Piers Kittel wrote: Yeah thought of that, but don't you need to type in a password anyway? Cheers - Piers Kim Wall wrote: Piers Kittel wrote: Just need to figure out how to power off the computer as non-root ;) man sudo

Re: [mythtv-users] Powering off computer as non-root

2005-12-27 Thread Piers Kittel
and Gnome tie into their display manager's admin access to shutdown or restart the server. So if you're using KDE, use KDM and then you can shutdown your server. To use KDM edit /etc/sysconfig/desktop and add: DISPLAYMANAGER=KDE On 12/27/05, *Piers Kittel* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

[mythtv-users] Starting up mythfrontend automatically?

2005-12-26 Thread Piers Kittel
Hello all, Am using Debian Stable (Sarge) with MythTV from SVN. Trying to start up mythfrotnend automatically on a frontend. Was using GDM (for autologin) and Windowmaker. After faffing around and breaking a lot of things and fixing them - I decided to RTFM(!) the mythtv's own docs rather

Re: [mythtv-users] Starting up mythfrontend automatically?

2005-12-26 Thread Piers Kittel
OK that sounds good to me. But how to do that? :) Cheers - Piers joggl wrote: i use rungetty in inittab for autologin! and i use no windowmanger. i start xinit with mythfrontend, fastet way... ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org

[mythtv-users] LiveTV starting problems

2005-12-26 Thread Piers Kittel
Hello all, Am using Debian Sarge (stable) with MythTV version 0.19.20051208-1 downloaded off SVN a week or more ago, using dual DVB tuners, seperate backend and frontend. When I start watching Live TV it takes a long time to start, always going straight to Sky News (channel 42) showing the

Re: [mythtv-users] Starting up mythfrontend automatically?

2005-12-26 Thread Piers Kittel
and hit enter. Now voila... Log off, log on and you should have mythfrontend auto launched. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Piers Kittel Sent: Monday, December 26, 2005 4:51 PM To: Discussion about mythtv Subject: Re: [mythtv-users

Re: [mythtv-users] Starting up mythfrontend automatically?

2005-12-26 Thread Piers Kittel
- probably making a script that calls startx and add it to the bootup process using update-rc.d - would that work? Cheers for your help again Piers Petr Stehlik wrote: Piers Kittel píše v Po 26. 12. 2005 v 22:38 +: Am using Debian Stable (Sarge) I got etch/sid mix. mythfrotnend

Re: [mythtv-users] Starting up mythfrontend automatically?

2005-12-26 Thread Piers Kittel
Joggl, Petr Gavin, OK have fixed the autostart thing - changed one of my terminals to rungetty with the following line: 1:2345:respawn:/sbin/rungetty vc/1 -u piers /etc/init.d/mythfrontend_startup put in an script that exports paths and the home directory and calls startx. .xinitrc and

[mythtv-users] Powering off computer as non-root

2005-12-26 Thread Piers Kittel
Hello all, Mythfrontend is set to turn off my computer using the command halt. Mythfrontend is run as an non-root user - in this case user piers - so when I try to exit MythTV, and I select Yes, exit and shutdown - it jsut says Command not found. Obviously this command isn't available to

Re: [mythtv-users] Powering off computer as non-root

2005-12-26 Thread Piers Kittel
it's chmod not chown - but that fixed the problem. Brilliant - thanks! :) Not too worried about any users being able to power the computer off - nothing essential on that, just the frontend, and there's only 2 users - root and piers and nothing else :) Thanks very much for your help again!

Re: [mythtv-users] DVB subtitles comments

2005-12-23 Thread Piers Kittel
Dag, Yep, asked about this some days ago, but was ignored. Hmm doesn't inspire confidence in me :/ I would add the fact that the subtitles are displayed on top of the OSD stuff. Makes it difficult to see what is told on the OSD. Aha! Yup you're correct, that happens :/ I guess there's

[mythtv-users] DVB subtitles comments

2005-12-22 Thread Piers Kittel
Hello all, Referring to DVB-T subtitles, and I'm using Freeview in the UK. Been away for 3 months, and have seen lots of subtitle bug fixes since, which is excellent, so have checked out the latest SVN version of MythTV and was well impressed with the bug fixes, but one glaring bug *still*

Re: [mythtv-users] Out of spec FSB speeds for a P3?

2005-12-16 Thread Piers Kittel
Replying to Mike Wafkowski's email: Hmm I seem to remember something about this - does this still apply to my board that sets the multipiler via DIP switches? Or does the DIP switches just tell the processor what multipiler to use and the processor can ignore this? So what's the point of

[mythtv-users] Moving recordings onto DVD with subtitles

2005-12-11 Thread Piers Kittel
Hello all, As I'm deaf, I require to watch TV with subtitles - there's no choice for me really. Anyway, I'm using MythTV taken from SVN only so I can have subtitle support which 0.18.1 doesn't have. My hard drive is filling with programs I want to keep, and I want to transfer it to video

Re: [mythtv-users] Moving recordings onto DVD with subtitles

2005-12-11 Thread Piers Kittel
, and hopefully your information will be useful for someone else in the future! :) Thanks so much for your help again. Regards - Piers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2005 11:20:05 + From: Piers Kittel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello all, As I'm deaf, I require

Re: [mythtv-users] FIXED - Complete and total crash problems :/

2005-07-25 Thread Piers Kittel
Fixed - was due to either a flaky motherboard or a flaky PSU. Cheers - Piers Piers Kittel wrote: Hello all, Am having big probs with MythTV - when I start mythfrontend, and then try to play back a recording, or watch live TV, it utterly crashes my computer, and it only started last night

[mythtv-users] Complete and total crash problems :/

2005-07-20 Thread Piers Kittel
Hello all, Am having big probs with MythTV - when I start mythfrontend, and then try to play back a recording, or watch live TV, it utterly crashes my computer, and it only started last night. Before last night, it was working just fine. Only major thing I've done is to upgrade Debian

Re: [mythtv-users] UK Freeview compatible tuner

2005-07-07 Thread Piers Kittel
I occasionally see load averages of 4.00 4.00 4.00 on my backend even tho CPU is 0% idle, but I see it's all the drivers. Load averages just measures the number of jobs waiting to be processed, so in my case it's 4 job processes (1 the DVB drivers, 1 the PVR350 drivers, and 2 others) being

Re: [mythtv-users] Recording the wrong program on the wrong encoder?

2005-07-03 Thread Piers Kittel
Michael, OK. This sounds like a problem with your external channel change (script/transmitter or serial link/STB). If Myth said it's going to record on channel 4, but recorded 3, it wasn't Myth's doing. No it isn't. It works perfectly fine when I use it for Live TV, and it works

[mythtv-users] OS X connect to database problem

2005-07-03 Thread Piers Kittel
Hi all, Due to other reasons, I have had to upgrade my backend to the SVN version, and thus I need to compile the MacOSX frontend with the source from SVN/CVS. I followed the instructions from: http://www.mythtv.info/moin.cgi/MythOnMacOsx and followed the instructions on how to set up OSX

[mythtv-users] Problems when scheduling repeat programs

2005-07-03 Thread Piers Kittel
Hello all, I have found a problem when scheduling some repeat programs - there is this program I like to watch - Cutting Edge, but the problem is that its title for this week is Cutting Edge: Gridlock, and the following week it is called Cutting Edge: The House Cleaners and you can imagine

[mythtv-users] Recording the wrong program on the wrong encoder?

2005-07-02 Thread Piers Kittel
Hello all, I've got 2 TV tuners on my MythTV box - they both can receive exactly the same programs, but I've created 2 sets of channels each - i.e. encoder 1 has channel 1: BBC1, channel 2: BBC2 and so on. And encoder 2 has channel 1001: BBC1, channel 1002: BBC2 and so on. It all works

Re: [mythtv-users] Recording the wrong program on the wrong encoder?

2005-07-02 Thread Piers Kittel
Hello, Thing is that encoder 1 is set up properly and working fine, and encoder 2 is experimental, I don't mind if I lose all the rubbish I record on that, but the good things I use encoder 1. Anyway, no it wasn't a typo. I told it to use channel 1004, but recorded channel 3 (i.e. ITV),

[mythtv-users] Re: [mythtv] MythTV DVB Subtitles Patch v0.4 released

2005-06-15 Thread Piers Kittel
Pekka, I have noted missing subs occasionally myself. Also there's still some timing issues (subs appearing too early). It should not be due to bad reception. I'll see what I can do. I do have bad reception anyway - the digital external STB connected via my PVR350 has the same problem - it's

[mythtv-users] Screen capture?

2005-06-15 Thread Piers Kittel
Hello all, Is it possible to do a screen capture of the video playing in the frontend - and yes I do know about mounting the video partition onto my main PC and using xine, but it doesn't work the way I want it to, and I need to do it with the frontend - any ideas anyone? Thanks very much

Re: [mythtv-users] How to enable DVB statistics...?

2005-06-14 Thread Piers Kittel
As another poster said - why is it not available from 0.17 onwards? Cheers - Piers John Pullan wrote: They've not been available from 0.17 onwards, I guess it should be removed from mythweb ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org

[mythtv-users] Re: [mythtv] MythTV DVB Subtitles Patch v0.4 released

2005-06-14 Thread Piers Kittel
Been on holiday, and back now and watched 4 ep of bad soap that I programmed to be recorded from the DVB card instead of my PVR350 - worked perfectly tho some subs missed out but I suspect that's due to bad reception. Anyway, rewinding, fast forwarding etc works great - only one problem is

[mythtv-users] How to enable DVB statistics...?

2005-06-10 Thread Piers Kittel
Hello all, As now I've got a DVB card, and I'm interested in seeing all the DVB statistics, but at the bottom of Backend status of mythweb, I see: DVB Signal Information Details of DVB error statistics for last 48 hours: There is no DVB signal quality data available to display. So I look up

[mythtv-users] MythTV 0.18.1 compile problem

2005-06-08 Thread Piers Kittel
Hello all, Have wiped my MythTV's hard drive to start again, installed Debian Sarge, but have not installed X as the box will not be used as a frontend (though am worrying how I would run setup without X...). Anyway, am having a problem with missing libraries, but seem to have installed

Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV 0.18.1 compile problem

2005-06-08 Thread Piers Kittel
Problem fixed. How? I've no idea somehow I fixed it lucky me! Cheers - Piers Piers Kittel wrote: Hello all, Have wiped my MythTV's hard drive to start again, installed Debian Sarge, but have not installed X as the box will not be used as a frontend (though am worrying how I would

[mythtv-users] Anyone got a copy of the DVB Subtitles patch?

2005-06-07 Thread Piers Kittel
Hello all, Does anyone have the DVB subtitles patch for MythTV as contained in this now defunct URL: http://columbia.ton.tut.fi/~riffraff/dvb/patch/ ? Thanks very much for your help in advance Cheers - Piers ___ mythtv-users mailing list

Re: [mythtv-users] Anyone got a copy of the DVB Subtitles patch?

2005-06-07 Thread Piers Kittel
Ignore last message - apologies. If anyone can delete this one and the last one, please do so. Thanks - Piers Piers Kittel wrote: Hello all, Does anyone have the DVB subtitles patch for MythTV as contained in this now defunct URL: http://columbia.ton.tut.fi/~riffraff/dvb/patch/ ? Thanks

[mythtv-users] Reinstalling MythTV

2005-06-07 Thread Piers Kittel
As I've accumulated a lot of cruft on my MythTV install, and a couple things that needs changing, so I want to do a major clean up and the best way I can see to do this is to reformat the /boot and / partitions, reinstall Linux and set up MythTV again. But I don't want to lose MythTV access

Re: [mythtv-users] MythFillDatabase problem

2005-06-06 Thread Piers Kittel
Fixed this - the xmltv file for the DVB card wasn't populated. I expected this to be done automatically but apparently not! Cheers - Piers Piers Kittel wrote: Hello all, Have finally got my DVB card to work, but for some strange reason, it's not downloading the info for any channels

Re: [mythtv-users] DVB channels unwatchable?

2005-06-05 Thread Piers Kittel
Yes I fixed the problem now. The issue was that my DVB card is the secondary card on another computer - and the start up channel was set to 1, which I assumed to be the card's inbuilt channel, but I realised it was supposed to be set to MythTV's database channel, which is 2001, put the number

Re: [mythtv-users] DVB card not *quite* working

2005-06-05 Thread Piers Kittel
Finally fixed this problem my problem was that the DVB card is the secondary tuner card, and when it said Change to channel at startup: (or whatever it's called) I assumed that it meant the internal channel the card is set to, so I put 1 in for BBC1, but it didn't work. Then realised, it

[mythtv-users] MythFillDatabase problem

2005-06-05 Thread Piers Kittel
Hello all, Have finally got my DVB card to work, but for some strange reason, it's not downloading the info for any channels related to the DVB card though BBC1 works just fine. I've got 2 tuner cards, a PVR350 and a Nova-T card, the PVR350 is in the main MythTV backend, and the Nova-T is

[mythtv-users] DVB channels unwatchable?

2005-05-16 Thread Piers Kittel
Hello all, Recently received my new DVB card and have put it in a different computer to test it before putting it in my actual backend, so I've got 2 backends - one master containing my PVR350 card, one slave containing my Nova-T card. Have confirmed that the Nova-T card works fine under

[mythtv-users] DVB card not *quite* working

2005-05-14 Thread Piers Kittel
Hello all, Have received my Hauppauge Nova-T card, but as it is of the newer one with a Conexant chipset, I had to jump through a lot of hoops to get it to work, and got the kernel driver to work, then followed Martin Smith's excellent DVB howto (http://www.ethics-gradient.net/myth/) - but am

[mythtv-users] Suttery video on Mac Mini?

2005-05-01 Thread Piers Kittel
Hello all, Got a Mac Mini, outputting video via S-Video using the adaptor, though all kinds of video output (DVD, MythTV) is very slightly suttery - not very noticeable, but gets annoying over time, and it's more noticeable when the camera moves quickly. I'm a bit surprised a 1.2GHz G4 can't

[mythtv-users] Upgrading to 0.17 killed all frontends

2005-04-03 Thread Piers Kittel
Hello all, Got myself a new Mac for MythTV and as the Mac binaries required version 0.17 of the backend, so I duly did an apt-get update apt-get install mythtv on all MythTV capable computers, and it upgraded MythTV to version 0.17. Version 0.16 worked fine before, but now all frontends

Re: [mythtv-users] Upgrading to 0.17 killed all frontends

2005-04-03 Thread Piers Kittel
Ah that fixed it! Thanks! Forgot how to set up mythtv already - probably blanked it out from my mind in response of blocking out traumatic memories maybe... ;) Cheers - Piers Rob Hillis wrote: Piers Kittel wrote: Database error was: Access denied for user: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' (Using password

[mythtv-users] Mac Mini memory?

2005-02-27 Thread Piers Kittel
If I order the Mac Mini, would 256MB be enough for MythTV plus OSX, also for DVD/video playback - and if not, should I order 256MB extra (£50) or buy it seperately (£44) and flog off the memory and put it in myself? Thanks very much for your help in advance! Cheers - Piers

[mythtv-users] A way to bypass DVD region locking?

2005-02-26 Thread Piers Kittel
Hello all, Would like a Mac Mini as a frontend, but have a small problem with region locking as a hack for the mac's DVD drive isn't available. I've tried out playing a DVD over the network - and it seems to be of good quality and no jerks. I was wondering if it was possible if I put a DVD

[mythtv-users] Mac Mini DVD drive multiregion possible?

2005-02-24 Thread Piers Kittel
Is it possible to make the Mac Mini's DVD-ROM drive multiregion? Or will I have to play DVD's via the network? Thanks! Cheers - Piers ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

[mythtv-users] Transcode properly?

2005-02-22 Thread Piers Kittel
Hello all, A friend of mine wanted to watch a certain program, and so I recorded it via my PVR350, edited it, and transcoded it. But the original recording was 2 1/2 hours long, around 4GB, playable with mplayer or xine. The new edit is around 25 mins long, but the file size is now 5GB! Also

Re: [mythtv-users] Faint horizontal lines - PVR350

2005-02-19 Thread Piers Kittel
-on -globalalpha -nolocalalpha Then run the dd test again, and with luck, the picture will look like it should. If not, rinse and repeat from the beginning... --- Piers Kittel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, When playing back recordings, I see very faint horizontal lines on the screen - only

Re: [mythtv-users] Unichrome video out probs

2005-02-19 Thread Piers Kittel
Nah - when I switch to the PVR350's TV out for X, the VGA/onboard TV out shuts down. People say I can use both at the same time, but never got that to work, but not too important as I only use one output at a time (PVR350 for TV stuff, Onboard TV output for DVD/Video both plugged to the same

Re: [mythtv-users] Mythfrontend completely crashes computer - Fixed

2005-02-19 Thread Piers Kittel
, and it worked fine afterwards. Don't ask me why... Cheers - Piers Kevin Kuphal wrote: Piers Kittel wrote: Hmmm... Very strange thing is happening. Have been using a mythfrontend on my main PC, playing video from the backend in the living room for 1 1/2 months without any problems, but now

Re: [mythtv-users] Unichrome video out probs

2005-02-19 Thread Piers Kittel
Hello Ivor, 1) Video playback from hard drive/through the network is very jittery 2) DVD playback slightly jittery and some discs ghosts badly For these you need to check if your CPU is maxed out. Don't seem too bad - roughly only 25%-50% of the CPU is used when playing DVD: PID USER PR

Re: [mythtv-users] Faint horizontal lines - PVR350

2005-02-19 Thread Piers Kittel
I just start X with the card details in the XF86Config-4 file - is it possible to add the options in the Options field? Section Device Identifier PVR Driver ivtvdev Option fbdev /dev/fb0 BusID 0:20:0 EndSection Thanks very much for your help again! Cheers -

[mythtv-users] Remote control don't work in one section

2005-02-16 Thread Piers Kittel
Hello all, Am using mythtv version 0.16, and I find when I go to Watch recordings screen, my remote control doesn't work at all, and it seems that the button presses I do are cached - i.e. when I press buttons on my remote in that screen, nothing happens, until I select a recording using my

[mythtv-users] Default recording profiles figures?

2005-02-16 Thread Piers Kittel
Hello all, Am in a PAL country using digital TV (but recording via analogue) what would be the best numbers to use (resolution etc) for each recording profiles (default, high, med and low)? Thanks very much for your help in advance Cheers - Piers ___

[mythtv-users] Mythfrontend completely crashes computer

2005-02-14 Thread Piers Kittel
Hmmm... Very strange thing is happening. Have been using a mythfrontend on my main PC, playing video from the backend in the living room for 1 1/2 months without any problems, but now whenever I try to playback a recording, the computer totally crashes, absouletly nothing works - no mouse

Re: [mythtv-users] Mythfrontend completely crashes computer

2005-02-14 Thread Piers Kittel
Kevin, Kevin Kuphal wrote: It isn't likely the frontend process crashing your computer but rather a hardware driver of some kind. You may want to run mythfrontend from a terminal window with full verbose debugging messages (-v all) and pipe the output to a file so you can see maybe what is

[mythtv-users] Unichrome video out probs

2005-02-12 Thread Piers Kittel
Hello all, I have the EPIA MII 12000 and am using Debian Unstable, using mythtv via the PVR350 output which is reasonably OK but playing back DVD and video via the TV out of the motherboard. Have installed the unichrome drivers following the instructions found here

Re: [mythtv-users] Slightly poor DVD playback with MII 12000?

2005-01-31 Thread Piers Kittel
ghosting effect, as if I'm watching it on an old DSTN LCD screen ;) Also panning isn't perfectly smooth, jerks rapidly a little bit. Any ideas? Thanks very much for your help in advance again Cheers - Piers Gordon Rimac wrote: On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 23:43:54 +, Piers Kittel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

[mythtv-users] Slightly poor DVD playback with MII 12000?

2005-01-30 Thread Piers Kittel
Hello all, Have played a whole DVD using Xine on my Debian (unstable) MythTV box, with an EPIA Mini-ITX MII 12000 motherboard, outputting via the onboard TV out (via the PVR-350 is terrible, only plays at 2fps!) and while the DVD and subtitles all work fine, there is a slight jerk - maybe every

Re: [mythtv-users] External tuner channel changing problems ***FIXED***

2005-01-16 Thread Piers Kittel
Fixed this problem - needed the channel number in the Frequency ID. Cheers - Piers Piers Kittel wrote: Hello all, Have set up an IR blaster and have put in the scripts required by MythTV to change the channels: channel_change being: #!/bin/csh echo changing to $1 /usr/local/bin/channel.pl $1

[mythtv-users] Eject DVD drive using remote's eject button

2005-01-08 Thread Piers Kittel
Hello all, Is it possible to set up lirc to eject the CD/DVD drive when the eject button is pressed? Thanks very much for your help Cheers - Piers ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org

[mythtv-users] Some remote control buttons won't work

2005-01-08 Thread Piers Kittel
Hello all, Have set up a remote control on my mythtv box - everything works just fine, apart from 2 semi-critical items. I'm using my DVD player remote to control my mythtv box, and it has 4 buttons I'd like to use - Skip back, Skip forward, Rewind and Fast Forward. I've mapped those and

Re: [mythtv-users] mythweb probs with .htaccess

2004-12-31 Thread Piers Kittel
Aha found it! Thanks very much for your help :) Cheers - Piers Gordon Rimac wrote: On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 18:38:29 -0800, Chris Petersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No README file in Mythweb's directory - I'm using Debian's apt-get install mythweb You can usually find things like that in

[mythtv-users] Strange mythfilldatabase error?

2004-12-30 Thread Piers Kittel
Hello all, Have configured the XML grabber to work with mythtv, and mythfilldatabase runs every day and it grabs listings fine - but I get an error message every time: Last mythfilldatabase run started on 2004-12-30 06:26 and ended on 2004-12-30 06:26. FAILED: xmltv returned error code 8192.

Re: [mythtv-users] mythweb probs with .htaccess

2004-12-30 Thread Piers Kittel
Excellent cheers! Thanks! Nothing in the online documentation for mythweb actually. Although when I've logged in, I get: Warning at /usr/share/mythtv/mythweb/includes/init.php, line 50: session_start(): open(php_sessions/sess_854b667731ae817536ed5cd65713e68a, O_RDWR) failed: No such file or

Re: [mythtv-users] Program guide segfaults [NON-ISSUE]

2004-12-28 Thread Piers Kittel
Disregard this thread - the problem seems to have vanished somehow... Cheers - Piers Piers Kittel wrote: Hello all, Whenever I want to access the Program Guide, the MythTV frontend always segfaults instantly each time I want to access the guide. Here is the output from terminal as soon as I hit

Re: [mythtv-users] X through PVR350 probs

2004-12-28 Thread Piers Kittel
Hello again, Very good guide, but my prob is that when I start up with no window manager at all, I then do an startX (following your guide) and then switch to a different virtual console (both times via SSH tho) and do an startx - the original display vanishes and the other display loads up

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