Re: [mythtv-users] Sports events, LiveTV or Watch Recording?

2006-01-27 Thread Robert Tsai
On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 02:26:05PM -0500, Michael T. Dean wrote: On 01/27/2006 01:54 PM, Greg Woods wrote: Setting it to record NFL Football any time on any channel automatically caught all the football games for me, but I did have to manually resolve conflicts caused by my record 30

Re: [mythtv-users] Sports events, LiveTV or Watch Recording?

2006-01-27 Thread Robert Tsai
On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 03:01:28PM -0500, Michael T. Dean wrote: On 01/27/2006 02:42 PM, Robert Tsai wrote: I use a global pre-/post-roll of 5 minutes to deal with the networks' purposeful DVR-defeating schedule-skew, without causing hard conflicts (although I have two tuners, so

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

2006-01-26 Thread Robert Tsai
On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 08:00:18PM +0100, Marius Schrecker wrote: On Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 09:49:41AM -0500, Steve Adeff wrote: Robert Tsai wrote: I have an Athlon64 3500+ Winchester. By default, the cpufreq-ondemand governor only lets it go from 2.2GHz down to 1.8GHz. I had to tweak

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

2006-01-25 Thread Robert Tsai
On Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 09:49:41AM -0500, Steve Adeff wrote: Robert Tsai wrote: I have an Athlon64 3500+ Winchester. By default, the cpufreq-ondemand governor only lets it go from 2.2GHz down to 1.8GHz. I had to tweak it manually to drop it down to 1.0GHz (nothing available in between

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

2006-01-24 Thread Robert Tsai
On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 09:37:24PM +0100, Marius Schrecker wrote: Tom Dombrosky wrote: On 1/24/06, *Steve Adeff* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 24 January 2006 12:34, Michael Starks wrote: I have been thinking of using a laptop CPU to save power

Re: [mythtv-users] Cost of MythTV Machines

2006-01-23 Thread Robert Tsai
On Sun, Jan 22, 2006 at 09:26:02PM -0700, Brian Wood wrote: With some recent discussion here about CPUs and costs I wonder what the average cost of a MythTV machine might be. I have seen some turnkey machines offered for what I consider to be very high prices, even given the fact that the

Re: [mythtv-users] DVB OTA channel help

2006-01-22 Thread Robert Tsai
On Sun, Jan 22, 2006 at 04:57:18PM -0600, Brian Foddy wrote: I've been trying to get one last atsc channel working correctly in the myth database. Its the local ABC channel, and its HD broadcasting on channel 50. I admit my channel database is very old, since the wee-early days of hd in

Re: [mythtv-users] DVB OTA channel help

2006-01-22 Thread Robert Tsai
On Sun, Jan 22, 2006 at 09:06:44PM -0600, Brian Foddy wrote: On Sunday 22 January 2006 06:30 pm, Robert Tsai wrote: On Sun, Jan 22, 2006 at 04:57:18PM -0600, Brian Foddy wrote: I've been trying to get one last atsc channel working correctly in the myth database. Its the local ABC channel

Re: [mythtv-users] lm_sensors and MythTV

2006-01-21 Thread Robert Tsai
On Sat, Jan 21, 2006 at 05:44:40PM -0700, Brian Wood wrote: On Jan 21, 2006, at 5:38 PM, Ben Holt wrote: On 21/01/06, Brian Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know the sensors use the i2c bus, as do my Hauppauge cards. The sensor-detect program seemed to want to activate the sensors on the

Re: [mythtv-users] Logrotate settings for mythbackend.log?

2006-01-17 Thread Robert Tsai
On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 07:39:05AM -0800, Jonathan Tidmore wrote: On 1/17/06, Stef Coene [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, signal HUP means reload and start a new config file (a proces can do what ever it wants with a HUP signal, but most of the times it's used to rotate the logfiles). This

Re: [mythtv-users] Logrotate settings for mythbackend.log?

2006-01-17 Thread Robert Tsai
On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 11:12:29AM -0500, Robert Tsai wrote: On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 07:39:05AM -0800, Jonathan Tidmore wrote: On 1/17/06, Stef Coene [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, signal HUP means reload and start a new config file (a proces can do what ever it wants with a HUP signal

Re: [mythtv-users] Replacing MythTV remote... anyone have any experience with RS 15-2136 (or 15-2137?)

2006-01-16 Thread Robert Tsai
On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 01:12:52PM -0500, obscure information. wrote: I'm looking at the FC4 guide provided by Jarod, and his information regarding using a Radio Shack remote piqued my interest, as I'm really not satisfied with the remote that came with my PVR-150, and I'd like to use the same

Re: [mythtv-users] Replacing MythTV remote... anyone have any experience with RS 15-2136 (or 15-2137?)

2006-01-16 Thread Robert Tsai
On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 03:50:48PM -0500, obscure information. wrote: Hi Rob, What JP1 software are you using? Some stuff called RemoteMaster and IR, which I got from hifi-remote.com and/or the JP1 Yahoo! Groups. I'm a little leery of going that route, only because I know that the 15-2133

Re: [mythtv-users] Logrotate settings for mythbackend.log?

2006-01-14 Thread Robert Tsai
On Sat, Jan 14, 2006 at 08:46:16AM -0500, Joseph A. Caputo wrote: Adam Bodnar wrote: Just a thought, but could be part of the reason it's not working is caue you have it set to rotate at 100 megs? Mine is set to: /var/log/mythtv/mythbackend.log { notifempty missingok

Re: [mythtv-users] Wireless Keyboards Learning Remotes, Just don't get it!

2006-01-14 Thread Robert Tsai
On Sat, Jan 14, 2006 at 08:45:50AM -0600, Ramzy Darwish wrote: If someone could either tell me, or point me in the right direction to the actual process of finding the keyboard codes or whatever I need to proceed, it would be greatly appreciatd. Again, I have searched and have found info so

Re: [mythtv-users] Logrotate settings for mythbackend.log?

2006-01-13 Thread Robert Tsai
On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 03:19:18PM -0500, Joseph A. Caputo wrote: OK, well I thought this was working, but I guess it's not. Anybody have a good logrotate configuration for mythbackend.log? Here's mine, but it doesn't seem to be working. (I'm running FC3) % cat

Re: [mythtv-users] SVN mythtranscode

2006-01-11 Thread Robert Tsai
On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 11:09:38AM +1300, Robin Gilks wrote: Does Mythtranscode from SVN still support mpeg2 - mpeg4 (xvid) compression or is it mpeg2 - mpeg2 lossless only now. I ask as using the -m switch (which should turn ON lossless) creates a file the same size as without it. I'd expect

Re: [mythtv-users] of crontab, tv_grab, and mythfilldatabase

2005-11-22 Thread Robert Tsai
{ rm -f /media/dvb.xml date /root/env.sh perl /usr/bin/tv_grab_uk_rt --config-file /root/.mythtv/RadioTimes.xmltv --quiet /media/dvb.xml /usr/bin/mythfilldatabase --file 2 -1 /media/dvb.xml } /root/log.log 21 This script needs to say: . /root/env.sh

Re: [mythtv-users] Scripting help -- check whether mythfrontend is running or not

2005-11-22 Thread Robert Tsai
On Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 07:50:59PM -0800, cardboil wrote: I'd like to write a little script and attach it to my one of my remote control keys. However, I only want the commands to execute when mythfrontend is NOT running. Can someone help me write the IF statement that will check whether

Re: [mythtv-users] Performance of the HD MPEG2 decoders

2005-11-17 Thread Robert Tsai
On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 03:43:52PM -0800, Todd Ignasiak wrote: I have seen several reports of performance expectations with the various MPEG decoders, and what I am seeing is not exactly what other people have seen, so I wanted to start a discussion here. Also, I thought others might be

Re: [mythtv-users] Selective transcoding

2005-11-14 Thread Robert Tsai
On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 09:52:30PM +1100, Phill Edwards wrote: What I've done is: - Set up recording profiles to enable auto-transcode. - In recording schedules, configure the desired schedules for auto-transcode (or not) depending on what is desired. [These

Re: [mythtv-users] Selective transcoding

2005-11-13 Thread Robert Tsai
On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 08:49:39PM +1100, Phill Edwards wrote: Does anyone know how to NOT transcode certain recordings? I'm guessing that you would set up another profile which doesn't have automatic transcoding and ensure the recording is in that profile when you set it up. Or something like

Re: [mythtv-users] recordings playlist usability question (or suggestion)

2005-11-12 Thread Robert Tsai
On Sat, Nov 12, 2005 at 02:50:39PM -0600, Kevin Kuphal wrote: Just a question about how to use the playlist function with recordings. I use this mainly to queue up some recordings for the kids. I have my recordings sorted to display the newest first. I'll descripbe the actions I now do to

Re: [mythtv-users] Transcoding Error

2005-11-11 Thread Robert Tsai
On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 07:42:59PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do you trouble shoot transcoding error? I have a MythTV with PVR250 Transcoding failing; mythbackend.log Have you configured the Autodetect transcoding profiles? You have to go to Recording Profiles - Transcoders and

Re: [mythtv-users] how can i turn off autotranscode

2005-10-30 Thread Robert Tsai
On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 09:01:43AM +1000, ffrr wrote: Reza Naima wrote: I used to transcode mpeg2 (pvr) - mpeg4, however, given the file nuv format is useless with anything but mythtv, I wen to the recoridng profiles and turned off all the transcoding options. This seemed to take effect for

Re: [mythtv-users] run transcode on selected programs schedules

2005-10-18 Thread Robert Tsai
On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 10:24:18PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: I want to transcode some shows automatically, but not all. The frontend and mythweb allow you to specify per-schedule whether to run the commercial flagger or not, but I don't see any option for transcoding. The mythtv-setup

Re: [mythtv-users] not expiring

2005-10-17 Thread Robert Tsai
On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 05:16:57PM -0400, Joseph A. Caputo wrote: On Saturday 15 October 2005 19:18, perlguy9 wrote: I've got a bunch of recorded programs filling up the disk, all of which have Auto-Expire: Yes in the Mythweb listing, but none of them are being expired when the disk fills

Re: [mythtv-users] how to delay commercial flagging?

2005-09-27 Thread Robert Tsai
On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 02:22:05PM -0400, Andrew Gallatin wrote: I recently upgraded my mythtv box and added a second HDTV tuner card, along the way, I updated to a SVN version from early September (how do I find the exact SVN number anyway?). I've noticed that when recording from both

Re: [mythtv-users] Turning Timestretch On and Off

2005-09-25 Thread Robert Tsai
On Sun, Sep 25, 2005 at 08:42:49PM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote: On Sun, Sep 25, 2005 at 07:44:22PM -0400, Larry K wrote: On a related subject, I would like to see a global default for timestretch. Something that applies to all recordings played back. This way, I wouldn't have to bother

Re: [mythtv-users] Automatic Transcoding

2005-09-23 Thread Robert Tsai
On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 04:01:17PM +0900, Craig Hagerman wrote: On 9/23/05, Robert Tsai [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In your recording schedules' post-processing options you also need to enable automatically transcode. Is that the ONLY thing that is necessary to set up Rob? Like Michael I

Re: [mythtv-users] Automatic Transcoding

2005-09-22 Thread Robert Tsai
On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 10:18:37AM +0930, Michael Cheshire (Mailing Lists) wrote: I cant for the likes of me get my mythtv box to automatically transcode stuff recorded from my DVB card.. (Dvico Fusion DVB-T Lite). I'm sure there's a box I should be ticking somewhere - which recording

Re: [mythtv-users] mythcomflag - how do I set nice level?

2005-09-22 Thread Robert Tsai
On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 06:18:11PM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: Is it possible to somehow nice mythcomflag? It appears that in cases where I'm recording two shows and also doing commercial detection on two shows that just completed that my poor 3GHz P4 cannot keep up. This is resulting in bad

Re: [mythtv-users] mythcomflag - how do I set nice level?

2005-09-22 Thread Robert Tsai
, record two more off of HD-3000 cards (digital broadcast so no encoding), and mythcommflagging, all at the same time, with no problems with anything. On 9/22/05, Robert Tsai [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 06:18:11PM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: Is it possible to somehow nice

Re: [mythtv-users] Disk activity at end of recording

2005-09-22 Thread Robert Tsai
On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 09:19:24PM -0700, Jack Perveiler wrote: 1) Does myth do some sort of minimal post-processing when a recording finishes? Or is this just the OS flushing the remainder of the buffer to disk and closing the file? Is this maybe something that XFS is just slow at? I'm

[mythtv-users] Re: [mythtv] tracking program deletion in log?

2005-09-21 Thread Robert Tsai
[moving to mythtv-users] On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 06:57:24PM -0700, Mark Kundinger wrote: I apologize that this is of a somewhat troubleshooting nature, but the users list wasn't able to help. For some reason, MythTV really likes to delete recordings of mine, even though it's not set to. I'm

Re: [mythtv-users] Auto transcode and commercial cutting not happening

2005-09-21 Thread Robert Tsai
On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 11:23:42AM +0900, Craig Hagerman wrote: On 9/22/05, Kevin Kuphal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I believe Adam accurately answered your question about the NUV. As for the commerical flagging, you notice that it is flagging, not cutting that is done. If you are looking

Re: [mythtv-users] Tutorial on Encoding (mostly re: file sizes)

2005-09-20 Thread Robert Tsai
On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 02:31:36PM -0500, Tony McDowell wrote: I doubt that you can see the difference between a 720x480 pixel and a 480x480 pixel recording, so I would recommed go down to 480x480 pixels. That saves 25% of the data. If you want to export to DVD you might however consider

Re: [mythtv-users] Commercial CUT

2005-09-14 Thread Robert Tsai
On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 07:38:37AM -0500, Mike Daugird wrote: Is it possible to have myth CUT OUT commercials instead of skip them? It seems that in all my recordings the commercials are still there, to save space for putting them on a DVD I would like to automatically cut them out. It would

[mythtv-users] recent SVN DVB LiveTV audio problems

2005-09-12 Thread Robert Tsai
This past weekend I've been having problems with LiveTV over-the-air HDTV broadcasts on both FOX NFL (WFXT) and ABC Monday Night Football (WCVB). I get the game audio, but no broadcasters' commentary. I am in the Boston area. As far as I can tell, other broadcasts have been fine. Is anyone else

Re: [mythtv-users] mythweb question

2005-08-28 Thread Robert Tsai
On Sun, Aug 28, 2005 at 09:04:01AM -0700, Vincent Yau wrote: I just installed mythweb and it works great. I have a few recordings made. When I pulled down the page with recorded programs and clicked on each of the program, I got an error in my apache log: Value too large for defined data

Re: [mythtv-users] Playing dvd images (iso) using xine

2005-08-27 Thread Robert Tsai
On Sat, Aug 27, 2005 at 11:32:14AM -0700, Jason Mcmillon wrote: Like many other people on this list, I am trying to create a Myth DVD juke box. I want to be able to create images (iso) of my dvd collection and be able to play them back in MythVideo with full menus. I have successfully created

Re: [mythtv-users] Confusion about transcoding, Nuvexport / ffmpeg / mythtranscode

2005-08-25 Thread Robert Tsai
On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 08:09:48AM -0400, Matt Mousseau wrote: What exactly happens when I tell myth to transcode a recording from the Watch Recordings screen? Previously to re-encode files I have used nuvexport, which I know is just a perl script that pulls information about all your

Re: [mythtv-users] Confusion about transcoding, Nuvexport / ffmpeg / mythtranscode

2005-08-25 Thread Robert Tsai
flagging is not always 100% correct, so if you go automatically cutting commercials you risk losing real content. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Robert Tsai Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2005 11:37 AM To: Discussion about mythtv Subject

Re: [mythtv-users] Confusion about transcoding, Nuvexport / ffmpeg/ mythtranscode

2005-08-25 Thread Robert Tsai
On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 01:42:23PM -0400, Matt Mousseau wrote: Can said nupplevideo files be converted at a later time (not-reencoded) to a standard avi? Or would that require re-processing? I'd like all my transcoded recordings to be on the watch recordings screen. Myth Video I plan on using

[mythtv-users] Re: [mythtv] Re: Can't Compile MythMusic (Goom) in latest SVN

2005-08-24 Thread Robert Tsai
[moving to mythtv-users] On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 07:01:49AM -0600, Greg Grotsky wrote: Has anyone been able to compile mythplugins with mythmusic support and all the bells and whistles from latest SVN? I'd like to know if it's my setup or the code. :) Works for me. You have weird flags on

Re: [mythtv-users] Transcode interlace issues

2005-08-24 Thread Robert Tsai
On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 05:23:11PM +1000, David Griffith wrote: Hi all, I'm having issues when myth transcodes a DVB recording from mpeg2 to mpeg4 - there's obvious interlace on any moving objects. Playing back mpeg2 DVB recordings are fine - it's just when it's transcoded. I've twiddled all

Re: [mythtv-users] watch/delete recordings sort order

2005-08-19 Thread Robert Tsai
On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 09:43:47AM -0400, Jesse Guardiani wrote: I've noticed that in my watch/delete recordings menus, the sort order defaults to the oldest recorded first. Is there a way to change this to newest recorded first? Eh. Try the frontend setup menus, probably under TV Settings or

Re: [mythtv-users] transcoded nuv/mpeg4: really mpeg4?

2005-08-18 Thread Robert Tsai
On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 10:21:05AM -0400, Brian J. Murrell wrote: I transcode all of my ivtv recording to the NUV/MPEG4 format simply to save space. Why not just configure your recording profiles to record at a lower bitrate in the first place? That way you get space savings without the

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: mythmusic shuts down mythfrontend

2005-08-10 Thread Robert Tsai
On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 11:44:58PM -0500, Neil wrote: I found the cause of mythfrontend's shutting down. I deleted the value in visualmode in settings table. My mythfrontend doesn't crash anymore when playing mythmusic. I've tried running closing/opening mythmusic more than hundred times. This

Re: [mythtv-users] Channel Icons

2005-08-10 Thread Robert Tsai
On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 10:27:05PM +1000, Marty Ravell wrote: I'm thinking of putting some icons together for Australian TV channels as the tv_grab_au script doesn't seem to load this stuff. I will of course post the results to the list but I'd like to know what the optimal size would be

Re: [mythtv-users] Confusing highlight in recorded programs list in mythfrontend

2005-08-10 Thread Robert Tsai
On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 09:56:29AM +1000, David Maher wrote: The kids are starting to complain about a few things in myth tv. This is good, it means they are starting to use it. One complaint that I had last night, was about the recorded programs list. when you first view the recordings list,

Re: [mythtv-users] Using DVI Output

2005-08-10 Thread Robert Tsai
On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 08:44:56PM -0400, Gerald J. Berg wrote: I am considering an nVidia GE Force 5200 AGP video card for my MythTV front end box. There are a few brands that offer s-video, VGA and DVI output ports. I especially like the idea of using the DVI output to drive my

Re: [mythtv-users] HDTV Video Modes with MythTV

2005-08-01 Thread Robert Tsai
On Mon, Aug 01, 2005 at 11:53:16AM -0700, Brandon Rogers wrote: At first, I thought the clarity of the 1080i (540p in some cases) is actually better than the NTSC output. However, after playing with things, I'm not sure this is the case. Most of the clarity seems to come from simply having

[mythtv-users] question about Channel Recording Priorities

2005-07-29 Thread Robert Tsai
If channel recording priorities are adjusted, does that mean for a given showing, the scheduler will prefer to use one channel over another? Or does it mean that for a given time slot, the scheduler will prefer a show on one channel over another channel? --Rob signature.asc Description: Digital

Re: [mythtv-users] program deletion question

2005-07-21 Thread Robert Tsai
On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 11:54:40AM -0400, David Asher wrote: Is an episode of a program deleted because the number to record was exceeded eligible to be re-recorded? Or will it it be ignored forever? There used to be a GUI option that said auto-expired programs may be re-recorded. I don't

Re: [mythtv-users] mythweather scheduling

2005-07-21 Thread Robert Tsai
On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 11:35:42AM -0400, Pat Vaughan wrote: I'm setting up my first myth box, and am struggling with a few issues. One is that I have a dial-up connection because there isn't any available broadband in my area. And, mythweather isn't real dial-up friendly. It pretty often

Re: [mythtv-users] OT: Indoor OTA HDTV Antenna Recommendations

2005-07-20 Thread Robert Tsai
On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 09:14:27AM -0400, al wrote: Can anyone recommend a good indoor OTA HDTV antenna? According to antennaweb.org, I live ~6.2 miles from a bunch of OTA stations (center city Philadelphia). I'm on the 10th floor of an apartment building, so an outdoor antenna is not an

Re: [mythtv-users] Getting a Plasma, Scared of Burn-In

2005-07-13 Thread Robert Tsai
On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 01:51:30PM -0700, Peter Santerre wrote: What do other users of Myth do to prevent this issue, while still keeping the WAF rating high? I guess I imagine while watching DVD, TV, etc the screen would not blank, but if it was idle on a menu for 30s or so it would black it

Re: [mythtv-users] Mythcommflag job stuck in queue

2005-07-12 Thread Robert Tsai
On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 08:43:14AM -0400, Khanh Tran wrote: I had set up a slave backend which started mythcommflag job. The job failed because it couldn't find mythcommflag, but now it won't leave the job queue. Can anyone help? Quick-n-dirty hack: use phpMyAdmin and delete it from the

Re: [mythtv-users] Mythcommflag job stuck in queue

2005-07-12 Thread Robert Tsai
On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 02:43:42PM -0400, Khanh Tran wrote: On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 08:43:14AM -0400, Khanh Tran wrote: I had set up a slave backend which started mythcommflag job. The job failed because it couldn't find mythcommflag, but now it won't leave the job queue. Can anyone

Re: [mythtv-users] DVD rip preserving menus

2005-07-12 Thread Robert Tsai
On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 12:08:42AM -0500, Matthew K. Lee wrote: On 5/24/05, Jonathan Watmough [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From Andrew's instructions, I've done the following and it seems to work... 1. Insert DVD and run xine, let it start playing the DVD, then exit it. 2. dd

Re: [mythtv-users] Transcode errors out

2005-07-09 Thread Robert Tsai
On Sat, Jul 09, 2005 at 09:15:02PM +1000, ffrr wrote: I just tried watching a recorded tv show and hit x to transcode it to mp4 (if I have configured it correctly anyway), but the terminal that I started mythbackend in reports... 2005-07-09 21:10:05.401 Autodetect transcode of Doctor Who

Re: [mythtv-users] Transcode errors out

2005-07-09 Thread Robert Tsai
On Sat, Jul 09, 2005 at 09:33:24PM +1000, ffrr wrote: On Sat, Jul 09, 2005 at 09:15:02PM +1000, ffrr wrote: I just tried watching a recorded tv show and hit x to transcode it to mp4 (if I have configured it correctly anyway), but the terminal that I started mythbackend in reports...

Re: [mythtv-users] getting old TV listings

2005-07-09 Thread Robert Tsai
On Sat, Jul 09, 2005 at 09:21:14PM -0400, Dan Christensen wrote: Does anyone know how to get TV listings from two or three weeks back? I checked on the zap2it site, but could only find one day back. I'd like this so I can try to figure out why a program wasn't recorded correctly. If it

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

2005-07-07 Thread Robert Tsai
On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 08:16:22AM -0700, Monkey Pet wrote: 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,

Re: [mythtv-users] Feature request

2005-07-07 Thread Robert Tsai
On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 06:12:54PM -0400, Brad Benson wrote: On 7/7/05, Robert Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I searched the archives for pre-roll and early/late bute didn't see this exact request. I know we can stop late and start early, but how about a stop early and start late? With

Re: [mythtv-users] Sync/stutter when both tuners record? WAF crashing and burning

2005-07-07 Thread Robert Tsai
On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 10:11:46PM -0400, Michael T. Dean wrote: TTBOMK, there's no way to find out which encoder was used to record your recordings (other than in special circumstances, as above). TTBOMK? Anyway, the backend logs (shown in mythweb, also somewhere in the database) -do- record

Re: [mythtv-users] Anyone tried MPEG2 to MPEG2 transcoding?

2005-07-05 Thread Robert Tsai
On Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 10:31:56PM +1000, Phill Edwards wrote: Looking through the archives I've found that it's possible top set up MPEG2 to MPEG2 automatic transcoding by issuing the following update command in mysql: update recordingprofiles set videocodec = MPEG-2 where name = MPEG2;

Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV and DVD ISO files?

2005-07-04 Thread Robert Tsai
On Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 11:29:41AM -0400, Dg B wrote: I am new to this group. I am looking into the possibility of setting up a MythTV box. but have a question for you all. I have a large collection of DVD ISO images on my computer, which I would like to take advantage of through

Re: [mythtv-users] HD3000, DVB and Sound Stuttering

2005-07-03 Thread Robert Tsai
On Sun, Jul 03, 2005 at 07:51:44AM -0700, Mudit Wahal wrote: Which video card are you using ? I've sempron 3000+, ge force 2 mmx 440 (quite older card). But I dont have any stuttering/jerkiness when I watch 1080i/720p. I'm running 0.18 and nvidia 7174 driver. When I installed using knoppix

Re: [mythtv-users] Mythbrowser and keyboard

2005-07-03 Thread Robert Tsai
On Sun, Jul 03, 2005 at 05:19:35PM -0400, Egeekial wrote: I like many others have a wireless keyboard for my Mythbox. One thing I would like to be able to do with this keyboard is to surf the web using Mythbrowser, but I find that very difficult considering that some keys don't actually type

Re: [mythtv-users] Compile error for mythmusic in Ubuntu

2005-06-30 Thread Robert Tsai
On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 06:08:24PM -0500, Jason Werpy wrote: I cannot get mythmusic to compile I have all the prerequisites installed, but still get this error, I think it has to do with libid3tag, but thats installed in /usr/local/lib. That is for *runtime*; you're having compile problems.

Re: [mythtv-users] DVI-HDMI on Toshiba DLP

2005-06-29 Thread Robert Tsai
On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 12:16:21PM -0400, Preston Crow wrote: On Wed, 2005-06-29 at 08:47 -0400, Nate Thompson wrote: Not to go too off topic, but have either of you successfully generated a modeline that eliminates most of the vertical overscan when running at 1280x720p? I've managed to

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Recording Profiles dont seem to work with a PVR350 mpeg2 encoder chip!?

2005-06-27 Thread Robert Tsai
On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 02:09:37PM +0200, Robert Krig wrote: Probably not, I'll have to check. But why should that matter? Im not asking MythTV to transcode my recordings once theyve been recorded. After all, that would just result in more loss of quality. I'm trying to get to the point were

Re: [mythtv-users] Mythbackend.log stops getting written to after logrotate

2005-06-27 Thread Robert Tsai
On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 10:10:21PM +1000, Chris Edwards wrote: On 6/27/05, Phill Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are you using the copytruncate option in the logrotate entry for mythtv? No I haven't been so I will give that a go. Thanks for the suggestion. My mythbackend file for

Re: [mythtv-users] [slightly OT] Radio Shack 15-2116 remote control

2005-06-27 Thread Robert Tsai
On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 09:39:38AM -0700, john sturgeon wrote: On 6/23/05, Peter Loron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got a 15-2116 that I've set up with JP-1 for my (non-myth at the moment) AV system. Great remote. The volume button works properly with my receiver: I can hold it down and

Re: [mythtv-users] Recording Profiles dont seem to work with a PVR350 mpeg2 encoder chip!?

2005-06-26 Thread Robert Tsai
On Sun, Jun 26, 2005 at 09:53:45PM +0200, Robert Krig wrote: Perhaps I am doing something wrong, but it seems as though MythTV just completely ignores whatever I setup as a recording profile. I have a Hauppauge WinTV PVR 350 by the way. I have setup all profiles (Live TV, default, Lo

Re: [mythtv-users] Problem with CVS (mythplugins-mythcontrols)

2005-06-25 Thread Robert Tsai
On Sat, Jun 25, 2005 at 09:54:21AM -0500, Paul Leppert wrote: Okay, I switched over to SVN and deleted my entire CVS tree and started over with SVN. Unfortunately, I get the same problem with mythcontrols in the mythplugins folder. What I did was to create a myth-svn folder and then while I

Re: [mythtv-users] MythWeb Showing no Schedule Data

2005-06-25 Thread Robert Tsai
mythfilldatabase --help You want --refresh-today (or something like that) On Sat, Jun 25, 2005 at 11:56:57AM -0400, Michael Haan wrote: I'm definitely missing random data (generally at 10 pm) for several days. mythfilldatabase won't refresh that time if I run it with no options. Is there a

Re: [mythtv-users] MythWeb Showing no Schedule Data

2005-06-25 Thread Robert Tsai
On Sat, Jun 25, 2005 at 01:04:07PM -0400, Michael Haan wrote: On 6/25/05, Robert Tsai [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: mythfilldatabase --help You want --refresh-today (or something like that) On Sat, Jun 25, 2005 at 11:56:57AM -0400, Michael Haan wrote: I'm definitely missing random data

Re: [mythtv-users] One schedule not being transcoded

2005-06-25 Thread Robert Tsai
On Sat, Jun 25, 2005 at 01:02:40PM -0400, Sasha Z wrote: My ST:TNG schedule isn't being run through the transcoder - so it's filling up my storage array very quickly. All of my schedules have been created through Mythweb, but this is the only one where transcoding doesn't work. Also,

Re: [mythtv-users] One schedule not being transcoded

2005-06-25 Thread Robert Tsai
On Sat, Jun 25, 2005 at 01:53:57PM -0400, Sasha Z wrote: I'm limited to mythweb right now, as I'm very much so away from home for a while (I'll have a good chunk of shows to watch when I come back... unless my HDD's fill up!) I also have only one capture card, so all shows are recorded on

filesystem choice [was Re: [mythtv-users] Problem: Mythfrontend thinks there are no recordings]

2005-06-24 Thread Robert Tsai
On Fri, Jun 24, 2005 at 12:33:21PM +0100, Neil Bird wrote: Around about 23/06/05 16:04, Donavan Stanley typed ... However, using ext3 for storing your recordings is a bad idea. xfs, jfs or Reiser is a much better choice. Is it really that bad? I used ext3 'just because' (I set up some

Re: [mythtv-users] mythtranscode MPEG-2 to MPEG-4

2005-06-24 Thread Robert Tsai
On Fri, Jun 24, 2005 at 12:44:30AM -0500, Steve wrote: I have a PVR250 generated MPEG-2 file which I would like to convert with mythtranscode. When I try to run it manually I get the following error: ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) /video$mythtranscode -p autodetect -i

Re: [mythtv-users] mythtranscode MPEG-2 to MPEG-4

2005-06-24 Thread Robert Tsai
On Fri, Jun 24, 2005 at 05:29:22PM -0500, Steve wrote: On Fri, Jun 24, 2005 at 09:55:06AM -0400, Robert Tsai wrote: It's not designed to be run from the command-line. You're supposed to go to the Watch Recordings menu, select your recording, press right, Job Options, Begin Transcoding

[mythtv-users] Re: AutoExpireDefault in settings table

2005-06-23 Thread Robert Tsai
On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 07:05:16AM -0500, Mercury Morris wrote: The Question: Can I add AutoExpireDefault to the settings table in mythconverge ? The background: Comparing two separate MythTV systems' settings tables, the older system built in 2004 has AutoExpireDefault in the database.

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: AutoExpireDefault in settings table

2005-06-23 Thread Robert Tsai
On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 10:33:36AM -0400, Chris Pinkham wrote: On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 07:05:16AM -0500, Mercury Morris wrote: The Question: Can I add AutoExpireDefault to the settings table in I just added it manually to the database (mysql, phpadmin, etc. are all fine). The rest

Re: [mythtv-users] [OT] Radio Shack 15-2116 remote control

2005-06-23 Thread Robert Tsai
15-2116 owner here: I'm pretty happy with the remote, except (heh) for one thing. I can't find a good/obvious button to emit the D key (delete recording). There is no Clear button (a la TiVo remote). For now, I just navigate my way through the menus, but it takes too many keystrokes to delete

Re: [mythtv-users] Frontend hangs on show delete or exit Watch Recordings screen

2005-06-23 Thread Robert Tsai
On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 06:20:11PM +0100, Stuart Morgan wrote: On Thu 23 June 2005 17:40, Wendy Seltzer wrote: Lately (recent CVS), I've been finding the frontend often hangs when I try to delete a show (at the Yes, Yes and allow re-record, No screen) or when I leave the Watch Recordings

Re: [mythtv-users] [OT] Radio Shack 15-2116 remote control

2005-06-23 Thread Robert Tsai
On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 12:59:34PM -0500, John Williams wrote: On 6/23/05, Robert Tsai [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 15-2116 owner here: I'm pretty happy with the remote, except (heh) for one thing. I can't find a good/obvious button to emit the D key (delete recording). There is no Clear

Re: [mythtv-users] Frontend hangs on show delete or exit Watch Recordings screen

2005-06-23 Thread Robert Tsai
On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 07:11:28PM +0100, Stuart Morgan wrote: On Thu 23 June 2005 18:38, Robert Tsai wrote: So if you change this screen to just show a still preview instead of a live preview, does the problem go away? Good question! I'll let you know - might be a while though

[mythtv-users] [slightly OT] Radio Shack 15-2116 remote control

2005-06-22 Thread Robert Tsai
I'm starting down the JP1 road. For starters (to give myself something to be happy about while I figure out this JP1 stuff) I just did the normal learning functionality with the remote and a wireless keyboard and quickly used up all the memory. I learned the volume keys to my audio receiver (a

Re: [mythtv-users] Setting transcoding

2005-06-21 Thread Robert Tsai
On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 09:50:28PM -0400, Jack Lowry wrote: I'm trying to setup transcoding in order to reduce the space I'm used by my pvr-250 recodings. I go into setup-recording profiles-Transcoders-select from MPG2, leave the image size the same as I'm recording (480x480), select MPEG-4

Re: [mythtv-users] Mythfilldatabase auto run - again sorry

2005-06-18 Thread Robert Tsai
On Sun, Jun 19, 2005 at 12:28:08PM +1000, Matthew Carle wrote: I've got mythfilldatabase set to run daily at any time from within mythtvsetup. The problem is that it doesn't insert any guide data. I get messages like this on mythweb: Last mythfilldatabase run started on 2005-06-19 11:55 and

Re: [mythtv-users] Seeking driving me nuts

2005-06-17 Thread Robert Tsai
On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 10:13:07AM -0400, Joseph A. Caputo wrote: On Friday 17 June 2005 0:56, Sasha Z wrote: [Sasha Z wrote some stuff about undoubtedly important things, but Joseph cleverly hijacked the thread into a detour for his own nefarious purposes :).] I've also been having problems

Re: [mythtv-users] recordedmarkup table corruption

2005-06-17 Thread Robert Tsai
On Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 07:39:47PM -0700, Chris Petersen wrote: Since I've posted this everywhere else (and probably here before, too), feel free to take a look at this: http://forevermore.net/files/mythtv_misc/optimize_mythdb.pl.txt It loads the mysql.txt file from your mythtv

Re: [mythtv-users] Feature Request: allowable overlap for recordings?

2005-06-16 Thread Robert Tsai
On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 11:26:37AM -0400, Isaac Richards wrote: On Thursday 16 June 2005 11:22 am, Blammo wrote: Agreed. It's normal, easy to spot, and increases the hands on factor of something that is supposed to make my life, and those who watch TV in my household, easier. While the

Re: [mythtv-users] Myth TV without recording live!

2005-06-16 Thread Robert Tsai
On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 08:59:52AM -0700, Tachtevrenidis, Kosta wrote: Can I make Myth TV not record live TV when I don't want it? Let's say I am doing something data bound on my MythTV box and I don't want mythtv to add to the load by recording live TV. Can I do that? Sure; just don't watch

Re: [mythtv-users] Myth TV without recording live!

2005-06-16 Thread Robert Tsai
On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 10:32:54AM -0700, Mudit Wahal wrote: I think the OP (original poster) meant by not recording a program even if its scheduled. Sort of an override to not record. May be a script which checks the load or just a file/database entry. It can be as simple as user$ cp

Re: [mythtv-users] mythfrontend without Watch TV?

2005-06-16 Thread Robert Tsai
On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 01:11:59PM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: Is there any simple option to configure mythfrontend to allow it to do everything except the Watch TV function? I'd like to give my kid access to the system but I want to restrict, for now, how he uses it. If you're

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