[mythtv-users] lirc 0.72 ebuild failing

2005-12-02 Thread Travis Osterman
I am getting the following error when trying to emerge lirc (undefined I2C_ALGO_BIT). Googling hasn't gotten me any leads, if you have any ideas, they would be appreciated. Thank you. -- Travis 57: /var/tmp/portage/lirc-0.7.2/work/lirc-0.7.2/drivers/kcompat.h:169:1: warning: this is the

Re: [mythtv-users] lirc 0.72 ebuild failing

2005-12-02 Thread Travis Osterman
I had the same problem. The newer kenrl (starting with 2.6.13) removed some of the classes used in lirc = 0.7.2. The CVS version worked for me and I modified the ebuild to use it. If you're interested you can download it from here:

Re: [mythtv-users] problem with partitions..

2005-11-30 Thread Travis Osterman
My computer does not start for some reason.. i know that my partition hda2 is full and this might be one of the reasons...I also think that there might be some other problems related wittrying to redirect mythtv recordings to a new hard drive that it was installedi am no sure if it was

[mythtv-users] forced to use xv?

2005-11-29 Thread Travis Osterman
and recordings seem to ignore them. I have also tried adding the settings to .mplayer/config to no avail. Basically, I am wondering if I need to spend my time getting xv to work so I can watch my recordings or if there is another mplayer options area I missed somewhere. Thanks for the help. -- Travis

Re: [mythtv-users] forced to use xv?

2005-11-29 Thread Travis Osterman
On 11/29/05, Carl Fongheiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: MythTV uses XV, although you can turn it off with an environment variable. (NO_XV). However, it would be a really good idea to get XV working, as it helps performance a lot. FYI, MythTV proper doesn't use mplayer or mplayer settings at

[mythtv-users] Discolored video in mythvideo, fine in mplayer

2005-11-27 Thread Travis Osterman
, I've taken out all the mplayer options on the frontend and only left 'mplayer -fs %s'. Any help you can offer would be appreciated. -- Travis Osterman ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv

Re: [mythtv-users] pvr 350 not able to record TV

2005-11-27 Thread Travis Osterman
I get an empty file. I've tried searching the mailing list, googling, various setup procedures found on the net, and just different values but no luck. I'm not sure what's wrong and any help would be appreciated. My dmesg looks very similar until the msp stuff (gentoo + pvr250). What does you

Re: [mythtv-users] pvr 350 not able to record TV

2005-11-27 Thread Travis Osterman
I've got: alias char-major-81 videodev alias char-major-81-0 ivtv alias char-major-81-1 ivtv alias char-major-61 lirc_i2c #add above ivtv lirc_dev lirc_i2c Could it be an improper capture card, video source or input connection setup? I'll admit I was a bit confused by the how to.

Re: [mythtv-users] Discolored video in mythvideo, fine in mplayer

2005-11-27 Thread Travis Osterman
Are you using your PVR-350 for output? Mike No, just onboard (intel 865G chipset) vga to a monitor. -- Travis ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

Re: [mythtv-users] Discolored video in mythvideo, fine in mplayer

2005-11-27 Thread Travis Osterman
Are you using your PVR-350 for output? Mike No, just onboard (intel 865G chipset) vga to a monitor. -- Travis Update, I was wrong, watching recordings is also affected. Everything looks great when I kill mythfrontend and watch it directly from the command line still. Thanks. --

[mythtv-users] CLI for mythvideo db update?

2005-11-25 Thread Travis Osterman
I know I can manually update my video database throught the myth gui, but is there a command line call that will do the same? I'd like to make a cron job take care of making sure that things are current. Thanks for the input. -- Travis Osterman

Re: [mythtv-users] lircd.conf

2005-11-14 Thread Travis Osterman
This rig did work before I updated so I think that the hardware is OK. I'vetried using irrecord and this does seem to work after a fashion but I cannot get all of the buttons to work this way. What OS are you running? I ran into a few bumps when moving to a newer kernel (udev) on gentoo. --

Re: [mythtv-users] lircd.conf

2005-11-14 Thread Travis Osterman
Out of curiosity, how did you solve your udevproblems? I think so. The lircd.conf file that worked really well with devfs didn't seem to sync as well with udev (in addition to the move from /dev/lirc0 to /dev/lirc/0). I manually played with a few of the options and seem to have things working

Re: [mythtv-users] Hauppauge 250/350 Output

2005-02-16 Thread Travis Osterman
First, what is the difference in these cards? Both have hardware encoding, the 350 has the addition of mpeg decoding and video out. if I buy one of these cards, do I also need a video card? If you get the 250, yes, you'll need a way to get the picture to a tv or monitor. The 350 has tv-out

Re: [mythtv-users] v.17 success stories?

2005-02-15 Thread Travis Osterman
[...] I would like to hear from folks who are having success with v.17. I don't know if I've ever liked gentoo more. # emerge mythbrowser mythdvd mythgallery mythgame mythmusic mythnews mythphone mythvideo mythweather mythtv mythweb mythtv-themes Roughly thirty minutes later I had 0.17. Two

Re: [mythtv-users] email list vs forum

2005-02-15 Thread Travis Osterman
Or get GMail. It sorts your messages into threads and the search is GREAT. I second the gmail idea. I am sure you will have no problem finding a gmail account, I alone have 50 invites now. I'll third the gmail idea ... by far my 'news client' of choice. The searching is great, the

Re: [mythtv-users] recorded video preview colors?

2005-02-04 Thread Travis Osterman
[...] recorded video previews with colors that made the frames look like photo negatives, i.e. the wrong colors. I added support for my r128 into my kernel and that solved the problem for that machine I'm having the same inverted preview colors on my i865G chipset output on my gentoo 0.16

Re: [mythtv-users] set up of mythtv

2005-02-04 Thread Travis Osterman
Mythtv comes up . but the problem is it says : =- Couldnot connect to the master backend server -- is it running? is the IP address set for it in the setup program correct? could anyone please help me in this regard Could you tell us what operating system you're using? Also, if you having

Re: [mythtv-users] osd overscan

2005-02-04 Thread Travis Osterman
I've set X to overscan on my epia M9000 and fixed up the myth gui so that it pretty much fits (some screens remain too large). However, the osd menus etc. are too large and partly off the screen. Is there anyway to adjust the overscan percentages and so forth just for the OSD. Changing the

[mythtv-users] [OT] - Ebaying Knoppmyth

2005-02-04 Thread Travis Osterman
I came across this while browsing ebay today: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=7131344272 Is this just in bad taste, or is it against the GPL to sell copies of the software? -- Travis ___ mythtv-users mailing list

Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV and MS-6215 (Chrontel CH-7007A, Intel 82801BA)

2005-01-25 Thread Travis Osterman
Paul(or anyone), Did you ever find whether the on-board video/TV-out of your MS-6215 (Chrontel CH-7007A video encoder, Intel 82801BA graphics, Intel 815 chipset), worked ok with MythTv ? I have the i865G chipset on my myth box with the Chrontel chip described above. My board has vga, RCA,

Re: [mythtv-users] mythsetup error on new gentoo install

2005-01-23 Thread Travis Osterman
Try rebooting to insure everything is running on the new versions after all that. Tried You might also try a /etc/init.d/mysql restart Tried just to be sure. Also check out the logs afterward to see if anythings wierd there. # tail /var/log/mysql/mysqld.err 050123 11:03:38

Re: [mythtv-users] mythsetup error on new gentoo install

2005-01-23 Thread Travis Osterman
not only do you not want to put the -qt flag in the USE variable, you want to explicitly state the qt flag in there. re-emerge mysql after you do that to build it with QT support. I am a bit confused. The mysql package doesn't appear to use the qt flag. # emerge -pv --newuse mysql These are

Re: [mythtv-users] mythsetup error on new gentoo install

2005-01-23 Thread Travis Osterman
It would be usefull if you did put in some more verbose answers. Here is a recap of what I have tried without success: I have tried restarting both mythbackend and mysql. I have have rebooted (several times) I have tried running mythsetup as both root and as mythtv without change I have looked

Re: [mythtv-users] mythsetup error on new gentoo install

2005-01-23 Thread Travis Osterman
I thought it was the other way round, you have to emerge qt with mysql support not mysql with qt support. Ash. Loren suggested: not only do you not want to put the -qt flag in the USE variable, you want to explicitly state the qt flag in there. re-emerge mysql after you do that to build it

Re: [mythtv-users] mythsetup error on new gentoo install

2005-01-23 Thread Travis Osterman
I suppose you could try that for a bit and remove mysql, qt, mythtv and then remerge mythtv which should catch them all. You might want to add qt to the use variable as well to be on the safe side. # cat /etc/make.conf | grep USE USE=aac aalib alsa apache2 bootsplash divx4linux doc dv dvd

[mythtv-users] mythsetup error on new gentoo install

2005-01-22 Thread Travis Osterman
real samba tiff transcode v4l v4ls X xinerama xvid I unmerged and remerged qt with no change and am a bit frustrated as to how I need to proceed. I thank you for any assistance. -- Travis Osterman ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org

Re: [mythtv-users] Whats the most stable system at the monent?

2005-01-21 Thread Travis Osterman
What is the most stable system at this time? just run and allow recording and playback of TV plus Music. I don't know that you'll notice that you'll notice a stability difference between any *nix systems running Myth. My guess is that any instability your system incurs is from the packages

Re: [mythtv-users] Mythvideo question

2005-01-19 Thread Travis Osterman
I was wondering if its possible for mythvideo to have videos from multiple folders, ie if i have more than one hard drive with videos on them? You were right on with the sym-links, that is exactly what I do. My setup is like this: /video/videos is the folder I point myth to when I want to

Re: [mythtv-users] Which Window Manager?

2005-01-19 Thread Travis Osterman
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Re: [mythtv-users] Which Window Manager?

2005-01-19 Thread Travis Osterman
Sorry - I've always been curious - what's so wrong with KDE? I have a Barton2500 w/ 512MB RAM on a combined frontend/backend box. Are the lightweight WMs more for people with Epia boxes, and/or those that just want to try something else? I'm just wondering if there would be any actual

Re: [mythtv-users] System crashes when I try to do data transfer over ethernet

2005-01-10 Thread Travis Osterman
Anybody have any ideas? sftp and ftp work for me ... smb transfers give me problems -- Travis ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

Re: [mythtv-users] newbie 2 question

2005-01-10 Thread Travis Osterman
- snip - picture is similar to this one http://www.boldata.com/html/minipc.cfm i only want to record tv programs and nothing else will a huppage tv card fit in this? There aren't any full-size pci slots in those systems, so no, the pvr 250 will not work. If you're in love with the form

[mythtv-users] Lightweight window manager recommendation

2004-12-07 Thread Travis Osterman
I've been using Myth on my dedicated fc1 box for roughly one year now and have only wonderful things to say. During the holidays I am planning on performing some hardware upgrades to my system and am will be installing gentoo on my Myth box. I haven't ventured far in the relm of window managers

Re: [mythtv-users] Lightweight window manager recommendation

2004-12-07 Thread Travis Osterman
Thanks to all for the quick responses. Here's the list of recommendations that were posted. I will probably start with the smallest and work my way up until I find one that fits the bill. ratpoison, fluxbox,WMI, icewm, xfce, fvwm, flwm -- Travis ___