Re: [mythtv-users] skip commercials?

2004-12-30 Thread Michael T. Dean
On 12/14/2004 05:37 PM, John Andersen wrote: On Tuesday 14 December 2004 13:21, James Orr wrote: The accuracy of commerical detection can very wildly from channel to channel and show to show. I find it usually works very well on sporting events which tend not to have a lot of scene changes and

Re: [mythtv-users] modules.conf vs modprobe.conf

2004-12-30 Thread Michael T. Dean
On 12/13/2004 06:50 PM, Jarod Wilson wrote: On Monday 13 December 2004 15:27, Schwarz, Robert P wrote: I have been fighting sound for several days and have finally resolved my problem. In the write up by Robert Kulagowski he refers to adding lines to modules.conf in Jarod's document he refers

Re: [mythtv-users] ALSA Sound question

2004-12-30 Thread Michael T. Dean
On 12/13/2004 08:15 PM, Schwarz, Robert P wrote: Running FC3, with ALSA! How can I make sure that after bootup the alsamixer settings are correct? I have played with /etc/asound.state! No effect! So I played with /etc/int.d/alsasound (added set -x) and see that alsa is already loaded. So the

Re: [mythtv-users] Question about Chris's new tuners patch.

2004-12-30 Thread Michael T. Dean
On 12/16/2004 10:07 AM, Asciimonster wrote: I've got a question about the new tuner path from Chris Kennedy. Since it's marked for a specific kernel version, I'll have to downgrade my kernel (I want to stick with 2.4). Does this mean I have to recompile everything (ivtv, mythtv, mysql, lame,

Re: [mythtv-users] Should I wait for the PVR 150

2004-12-30 Thread Michael T. Dean
On 12/17/2004 07:48 PM, nate s wrote: On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 16:01:56 -0500 (EST), Cory Papenfuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is about $45 cheaper, and some wonder if it might even be better, though that remains to be seen. I'm one of the ones thinking it might be. The video capture

Re: [mythtv-users] Static on

2004-12-30 Thread Michael T. Dean
On 12/19/2004 05:59 PM, Asciimonster wrote: I'm really out of options. So I am asking for some help. If you think I'm whining please say so. Not at all. I've got a PVR350 which so far has given my nothing be static (I tried both ivtv0.1.9a, from zzz, and 0.2.0rc3b from Chris). Use one of the

Re: [mythtv-users] DVD playing through MythTV - first chapter only

2004-12-30 Thread Michael T. Dean
On 12/30/2004 12:01 PM, Clive at Rational wrote: Tried to use DVD player The Dolby THX logo plays and I hear sound but then the player closes with no error messages. I guess only Track 1, Chapter 1 is played. Any suggestions? Use xine--which supports DVD menus--instead of MPlayer (which is the

Re: [mythtv-users] ATrpms : video4linux and ivtv confusion

2004-12-31 Thread Michael T. Dean
On 12/31/2004 12:09 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I confused about the configuration of video4linux and ivtv with mythtv.I am using Atrpms as my only source.My questions are below: 1) Do I need to download and use the video4linux rpm as well as the kernel module for video4linux ? The stock kernel

1920x1080 HDTV's? (was Re: [mythtv-users] bobdeint as output filter?)

2004-12-31 Thread Michael T. Dean
While writing the below response, I started to wonder if there are *any* HDTV's available with 1920x1080 pixels. More info below. Keeping it short for those who just want to get to the point... :) On 12/31/2004 11:55 AM, Kyle Rose wrote: FWIW, I hate interlacing. Interlacing was a

Re: [mythtv-users] pvr 350 audio-in cable connectedc but no sound

2005-01-07 Thread Michael T. Dean
On 01/01/2005 02:22 PM, Bart Peeters wrote: I'm running mythtv with a prv 350 tuner card. I can watch live tv, recorded programs... It works fine.(with sound) (cable from s-video out to scart) But when I start a file via mplayer (in a xterm) I've no sound. I connected my audio output line from

Re: [mythtv-users] no audio for some recordings

2005-01-07 Thread Michael T. Dean
On 01/01/2005 08:33 PM, William Lott wrote: First, the setup: AMD Athlon XP 2k+, ASUS A7V8X-MX SE mobo, 512M ram, and two Haupguage PVR 250s running Fedora Core 1 with the most recent stable atRPMs and MythTV CVS of last night. (But I had the same problem with 0.16 from atRPMs.) The ivtv

Re: [mythtv-users] modules.conf vs modprobe.conf

2005-01-07 Thread Michael T. Dean
On 01/02/2005 02:15 PM, nate s wrote: On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 16:27:34 -0500, Michael T. Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/13/2004 06:50 PM, Jarod Wilson wrote: On Monday 13 December 2004 15:27, Schwarz, Robert P wrote: I have been fighting sound for several days and have finally resolved my

Re: [mythtv-users] Alternative to Zap2It?

2005-04-21 Thread Michael T. Dean
Richard Legault wrote: My VCR gets it programming guide directly from the cable feed. I think the data is in between the image frames or something. The VCR has a limit of 24 hours advance on the listings. Is this something that a computer based PVR can use? This has been discussed many times

Re: [mythtv-users] Sharing data between two backends

2005-04-21 Thread Michael T. Dean
Mario Limonciello wrote: After reading this thread, I remembered that I will have to do something related near August this year. I have a backend at school that my roomates are using, and I currently have a backend out hear where I am for the current semester. I will want to merge both my

Re: [mythtv-users] Alternative to Zap2It?

2005-04-21 Thread Michael T. Dean
Donavan Stanley wrote: On 4/21/05, Preston Crow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... Ultimately, however, going straight to the source should get you the best data with the fewest licensing issues. Except for the other technical hurdles, and the fact that 100 different sources means 100

Re: [mythtv-users] OT: avidemux2 question

2005-04-21 Thread Michael T. Dean
On 04/21/05 16:25, James Pifer wrote: Someone else also suggested Normalize. I selected that in avidemux2 and re-saved and it came out about the same as far as I can tell. If I look at my Myth recording profiles they are all set at 90%. If I look at [Utilities/Setup]Setup/General: Mixer Device:

Re: [mythtv-users] Cell Microprocessor Simultaneously Decoding 48 MPEG-2 Streams

2005-05-02 Thread Michael T. Dean
Devan Lippman wrote: I hope I can get one of these as the CPU for my machine! np. Cell will be available in early 2006. Linux will support it in late 2005. Been a while since I read that explination but I think that its a series of power CPUs arranged similar to a beowulf cluster all on one

Re: [mythtv-users] Cell Microprocessor Simultaneously Decoding 48 MPEG-2 Streams

2005-05-02 Thread Michael T. Dean
David Wood wrote: Please correct me if I have this wrong: the changes in cell are more than just skin deep - more, even, than just adding multiple functional units and interconnects. I think it's appropriate to say that cell represents a kind of philosophical shift. Exactly! There are some

Re: [mythtv-users] SPDIF, Stutter and Query for where to look for more help

2005-05-04 Thread Michael T. Dean
Jeff Wormsley wrote: I found out why my SPDIF wasn't working on my D865GBF (duh, bad cable), but now am running into other problems. :) We've all been there... No matter what buffering I use (I've tried all four combinations of the two different audio buffering settings - why there are two and

Re: [mythtv-users] Mythstream (not mythstreamtv)

2005-05-04 Thread Michael T. Dean
Morrison, Kerry E. wrote: I decided to install mythstream over the weekend and it didn't work out well. I install all the prerequisites, qmake. make, make install. It compiles just fine. Oh yeah, I changed the mythtv path. I checked and the plugin is where it belongs. I edited the 3 .xml files and

Re: [mythtv-users] How to create MythTV templates

2005-05-04 Thread Michael T. Dean
Mattia Martinello wrote: how I can create a customized MythTV template? MythTV Theme? http://www.mythtv.info/moin.cgi/MythTvThemes HTH. Mike ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: recording HD content

2005-05-04 Thread Michael T. Dean
Brad Templeton wrote: On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 11:10:01AM -0400, Joseph A. Caputo wrote: Now I'm confused... are you saying that the cable co. is allowed to encrypt or downres firewire output even for 'broadcast equivalent' channels, and that only the raw QAM signal for such channels must be

Re: [mythtv-users] SPDIF, Stutter and Query for where to look for more help

2005-05-04 Thread Michael T. Dean
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Extra audio buffering: ... (Has no effect unless you're using a PVR-x50 and similar, and would only make a difference on dark scenes.) Ok, I don't think that is a problem. I am capturing mostly via firewire. I also have a PVR-250 for any SD programs that conflict

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-250 records only one channel

2005-05-05 Thread Michael T. Dean
Tom Lichti wrote: Nick wrote: On 5/5/05, Leo Przybylski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I figured out why it would only play for a few seconds. I needed to enable libmpeg2 decoding. Are there any errors in the backend log when you try and change to another channel? I'd also double check the other

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-250 composite sound OK, No sound on tuner!

2005-05-05 Thread Michael T. Dean
Dave Pearson wrote: I have a PVR-250, which is working perfectly for the composite-0 input, I get a very good picture and good sound. Unfortunately I cannot get any sound out of the tuner-0 input, only a (good) picture. ... This is what my modprobe.conf in Mandrake 10.1 looks like: ... #for ivtv

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-250 records only one channel

2005-05-05 Thread Michael T. Dean
Tom Lichti wrote: Michael T. Dean wrote: Tom Lichti wrote: I would also verify that the tuner type is set correctly. I had a similar problem where if I manually set the tuner type, I could see one channel, but that was it. If I let it auto-detect and set the tuner, it works flawlessly

Re: [mythtv-users] xine causes mythtv menu selections to disappear

2005-05-05 Thread Michael T. Dean
Paul Fielding wrote: - Original Message - This is alledgedly fixed in current Xine CVS. My cheap and nasty 'solution' to this issue is to set DVDPlayerCommand to: xterm -e xine --no-splash -V xv -pfh

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: DVD recording sync issues with PVR 350

2005-05-05 Thread Michael T. Dean
John Kondis wrote: --- Cory Papenfuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'll bet that since mplayer is good enough to play with varying PTS/DTS, it doesn't try to fix that. I did mess with a few options like init_vpts, init_apts, vdelay, drop, tsaf, reorder nothing seemed to help that issue. I'm

Re: [mythtv-users] Recoding in native TS format and Setup with ATSCas DVB card

2005-05-06 Thread Michael T. Dean
On 05/06/05 02:25, Andrew Chung wrote: Howard wrote: --- Andrew Chung [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible to have MythTV record to a raw .TS file instead of its native .nuv format? What is the difference between these two file formats? My goal is to archive shows on a permanent basis and I

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: DVD recording sync issues with PVR 350

2005-05-06 Thread Michael T. Dean
John Kondis wrote: --- Michael T. Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] So, as suggested by Nick in this thread, I tried Project X. I just opened the video and demux'ed with default settings. It threw away a ton of broken video (11.278 seconds total! Started at 2:05:55.422 and ended at 2:05

Re: [mythtv-users] MythDVD Not Playing DVDs

2005-05-08 Thread Michael T. Dean
William wrote: Derek Battams wrote: Got my myth box moved to the tv... watching live tv/recordings displays fine. But I can't play a DVD. When I try to start it in MythTV I can see it reads the disc, the screen goes black then it returns to the MythDVD menu. So I then copied the mplayer command

Re: [mythtv-users] Palm video from mythtv nuv - TCPMP

2005-05-08 Thread Michael T. Dean
scunacc wrote: Has anyone a suggestion for converting a .nuv file to use with the Core Pocket Media Player on a Palm? I've played with various conversion programs but can't get the audio sync'ed back up with the video if I extract with avidemux2 for example and recombine with mplex. I'm

Re: [mythtv-users] SBLive - OpticalSPDIF issues

2005-05-08 Thread Michael T. Dean
Andy O'Brien wrote: Following Jarod's guide, I got a box with firewire capture working. (SDTV output through an nvidia geforce 4 card). ALSA appeared to be working though I wanted to get SP/DIF working so my reciever could get the 5.1 output from HBO, or whatever. Folllowed the guide a little

Re: [mythtv-users] Palm video from mythtv nuv - TCPMP

2005-05-17 Thread Michael T. Dean
Tom Lichti wrote: Michael T. Dean wrote: scunacc wrote: Has anyone a suggestion for converting a .nuv file to use with the Core Pocket Media Player on a Palm? I've played with various conversion programs but can't get the audio sync'ed back up with the video if I extract with avidemux2 for example

Re: [mythtv-users] Newbie: A few questions

2005-05-18 Thread Michael T. Dean
On 05/15/05 22:38, Michael Tiller wrote: 1) I've been using the IR port on my PVR-150. It worked great with the Hauppauge remote but then I came to find out (after spending way too much time on this) that it only understand RC-5 remotes. I was hoping to use my TiVo remote for this machine.

Re: [mythtv-users] ALL Scheduled recordings are completely black.

2005-05-18 Thread Michael T. Dean
Joseph Garner wrote: Brand new to linux and MythTV. Downloaded and installed Fedora Core 3 32 bit everything worked great. Followed the guide on wilsonet and got MythTV installed. I found great information for every kink and bump that I ran into except for this one last little bugger. ALL

Re: [mythtv-users] Remote sends command twice

2005-05-18 Thread Michael T. Dean
gLaNDix (Jesse Kaufman) wrote: Eric Jensen wrote: Finally got my Niveus remote to work with MythTV and Mplayer but for some reason it sends the remote commands twice. For example, while running irw I get output like this: [crazy code] 00 PLAY niveus [crazy code] 01 PLAY niveus It does that for

Re: [mythtv-users] OT: Cancelled 2004-2005 series

2005-05-18 Thread Michael T. Dean
Kevin Kuphal wrote: In case anyone is looking to update their recording scheuldes http://www.thefutoncritic.com/cgi/showatch.cgi?network=allstatus=1 Sweet site. So, what does it mean if nearly my entire schedule is on that list? Do I just have bad taste in TV? Mike

Re: [mythtv-users] OT: Cancelled 2004-2005 series

2005-05-18 Thread Michael T. Dean
Tom Lichti wrote: Kevin Kuphal wrote: In case anyone is looking to update their recording scheuldes http://www.thefutoncritic.com/cgi/showatch.cgi?network=allstatus=1 It lists Revelations, which to my knowledge is a mini-series, which doesn't really fit the definition of 'cancelled', at least to

Re: [mythtv-users] Time Warner Firewire

2005-05-18 Thread Michael T. Dean
OK, I realize that the broadcast flag, per se, does not apply to DVD's and other non-broadcast material, but to simplify the below discussion, I've lumped all the 5C technologies (DTCP, HDCP, D-VHS, CPRM--and even future Table A technologies) under the term, broadcast flag. Brad Templeton

Re: [mythtv-users] Remote sends command twice

2005-05-18 Thread Michael T. Dean
gLaNDix (Jesse Kaufman) wrote: Michael T. Dean wrote: Note, also, that you can configure LIRC to ignore multiple keypresses using the repeat and/or delay tokens (from http://lirc.org/faq.html ): thing is, here is my entry for the power button: ...configuration to support the claim that multiple

Re: [mythtv-users] Remote sends command twice

2005-05-18 Thread Michael T. Dean
gLaNDix (Jesse Kaufman) wrote: Michael T. Dean wrote: As for the other buttons, I'm not sure what's happening. I'm starting to think it may have something to do with the remote's only sending the signal when the button is pressed firmly--meaning that if I press the button enough for it to send

Re: [mythtv-users] Remote sends command twice

2005-05-18 Thread Michael T. Dean
gLaNDix (Jesse Kaufman) wrote: gLaNDix (Jesse Kaufman) wrote: Yeah, I have repeat=0 (explicitly set) on everything except volume. Are you using delay for volume? Have you played with min_repeat at all? If so, I'd be interested in seeing your config (you can send it to me offline if you

Re: [mythtv-users] Remote sends command twice

2005-05-18 Thread Michael T. Dean
On 05/18/05 22:52, gLaNDix (Jesse Kaufman) wrote: Michael T. Dean wrote: gLaNDix (Jesse Kaufman) wrote: Wow. I had no idea that you could do different codes for mouse button up and down! And double clicks! (How do you do a double click with the remote, anyway?) heh, yah, they came up

Re: [mythtv-users] tv programs that run long

2005-05-19 Thread Michael T. Dean
Mat Mrosko wrote: On 5/18/05, Michael T. Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oh, and here's my favorite (from http://customersupport.tivo.com/knowbase/root/public/tv1521.htm? ): For 4 to 8 hours after making your connection to the TiVo service, your Program Guide Data may show TBA with descriptions

Re: [mythtv-users] SQL Tables for recordings.

2005-05-19 Thread Michael T. Dean
Mat Mrosko wrote: I am just wondering if anybody knows what tables (besides recorded and recordedmarkup) hold information about the recorded shows... I copied some recordings from a friend's box (the NUVs, and the relavent information from recorded (i commercial flagged myself again, to be sure))

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Resolution, screen size, and other related 'size' question

2005-05-19 Thread Michael T. Dean
Chad wrote: Anybody have any input? Specify the DisplaySize of your monitor in XF86Config/xorg.conf such that X runs at 100dpi *or* use startx -- -dpi 100 (yes, that's startx, space, dash, dash, space, dash, space, 100). Yeah. That's probably not the input you wanted, but I felt guessing from

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-250 / IVTV brightness problems

2005-05-19 Thread Michael T. Dean
vala ki wrote: I'm having serious problems with colors on my PVR-250. All bright spots are super bright and contrast is way too much... Tried to adjust color settings from inside mythtv, but i'm unable to compensate this issue with them. Have you tried playing the video on some computer other

Re: [mythtv-users] Record Programs Playback

2005-05-19 Thread Michael T. Dean
Jason C. Greb wrote: I am using MythTV on two different monitors, one DVI and one RGB to S-Video convertor (which then goes to a RF Modulator so I can beam it to another room). This works great, and I can see it in both rooms. However, when I play videos, I get a blue screen in the other room

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-250 / IVTV brightness problems

2005-05-19 Thread Michael T. Dean
vala ki wrote: On 5/19/05, *Michael T. Dean* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: vala ki wrote: I'm having serious problems with colors on my PVR-250. All bright spots are super bright and contrast is way too much... Tried to adjust color settings from inside

Re: [mythtv-users] saa7115 messages in dmesg

2005-05-19 Thread Michael T. Dean
Mark Knecht wrote: On 5/19/05, Greg Estabrooks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: suffer from dmesg filling up with this set of messages? saa7115: decoder set picture bright=127 contrast=63 saturation=63 hue=0 saa7115: decoder set picture bright=127 contrast=63 saturation=63 hue=0 Those are purely

Re: [mythtv-users] RH9 RPMs?

2005-05-19 Thread Michael T. Dean
James L. Paul wrote: I recently had need to quickly update my 0.15 box to 0.18, so used apt-get using the ATRPMS source before I noticed that only the main mythtv packages are there for 0.18. Now that I have a bit of time I'd like to finish updating the rest (mythvideo, etc.) Should I rebuild

Re: [mythtv-users] OT: NUV player for windows (MPEG4 transcoded)

2005-05-20 Thread Michael T. Dean
EC wrote: On Fri, 2005-05-20 at 13:53 -0400, Preston Crow wrote: I'm looking for a way to convert files trancoded into mpeg4 into standard .avi files without re-encoding them. On Windows, the dsMyth stuff will convert a .nuv to a .avi without trans-coding. The resulting .avi seems fine,

Re: [mythtv-users] Fastest Remote in the west....

2005-05-20 Thread Michael T. Dean
Scott Arthur wrote: I'm running a stock 2.6 Ubuntu Hoary kernel. Haven't had much luck with compiling my own kernel, but found a good Debian tutorial so will give it a try. Where should I look for pre-emptible in the kernel config? Are you sure you don't already have a pre-emptible kernel?

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Resolution, screen size, and other related 'size' question

2005-05-21 Thread Michael T. Dean
Chad wrote: On 4/28/05, Chad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I see posts and FAQ's and specs that display different numbers and I'm wondering what one means over the other. For example: I have a Samsung DLP Monitor that has the following specs: It's a 61 16x9 TV. It has a resolution of

[mythtv-users] [OT] *Real* High-Def TV!

2005-05-21 Thread Michael T. Dean
One reason that I haven't yet purchased a high-definition TV is the fact that TV's being sold today do not fully support the ATSC standard. Whereas the maximum resolution allowable in the ATSC standard is 1920x1080 pixels, today's TV's only support 1280x720 pixels resolution. While it's true

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Resolution, screen size, and other related 'size' question

2005-05-21 Thread Michael T. Dean
Michael T. Dean wrote: Chad wrote: On 4/28/05, Chad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What resolution should I have in my xorg.conf? Ideally, since your TV has a native resolution of 1280x720, you would use that resolution. Then, your TV doesn't have to scale the video and you get a pixel

Re: [mythtv-users] [OT] *Real* High-Def TV!

2005-05-21 Thread Michael T. Dean
gLaNDix (Jesse Kaufman) wrote: Michael T. Dean wrote: it's been impossible to buy a brand new TV that supports full 1080i resolution pretty much since the introduction of DLP. i think you mean 1080p? Actually, 1080p and (true) 1080i both have the same resolution. The difference is how

Re: [mythtv-users] [OT] *Real* High-Def TV!

2005-05-21 Thread Michael T. Dean
Donavan Stanley wrote: On 5/21/05, Michael T. Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do any broadcasters actually use 1080p, anyway (either 1080p30 or 1080p24)? Most don't even use 1080i from waht I've seen. Pretty much every show I record is in 720p. I guess that makes the most sense

Re: [mythtv-users] [OT] *Real* High-Def TV!

2005-05-21 Thread Michael T. Dean
Gregorio Gervasio, Jr. wrote: The first post in this thread contains a bunch of information that people have gathered about Samsung's 1080p DLPs: http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?s=089d8abb2bcac71df9fa69f04eaf555fthreadid=493443 Many other manufacturers have also announced 1080p

Re: [mythtv-users] Greater Toronto Area

2005-05-21 Thread Michael T. Dean
Ian Trider wrote: Is there anything behind the scenes that i can do to force Cable 6 to always record on tuner 1? (i.e. fiddle with priorities somewhere in Mythtv?) Yes. Using mythtvsetup, adjust the channel's priority on tuner 1 so that it is higher than the channel on tuner 2. Unless

Re: [mythtv-users] [OT] *Real* High-Def TV!

2005-05-21 Thread Michael T. Dean
Jay R. Ashworth wrote: On Sat, May 21, 2005 at 02:18:54PM -0400, Michael T. Dean wrote: i think you mean 1080p? Actually, 1080p and (true) 1080i both have the same resolution. Not really. 1080p is a 1080 scanline, 30 *frame* per second format. 1080i is a 540 scanline, 60

Re: [mythtv-users] ProjectX DVD maker

2005-05-21 Thread Michael T. Dean
Jonathan Markevich wrote: Ok, here's a couple of scripts I have been using very successfully. Make sure you have run ProjectX once and have the X.ini file. OK, so my initial infatuation with ProjectX is wearing off and I'm starting to get concerned... Has anyone watched any of the videos

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: What is the correct version of Qt to use on FC3?

2005-05-22 Thread Michael T. Dean
EJS wrote: Otherwise, does anyone have a recommended workaround using a remote only? I tried using Xmodmap to map a key to ctrl-enter, but no luck. You could get a working QT by downgrading or, if you really want the one that needs Ctrl-Enter, try: begin prog = irxevent button = select

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Resolution, screen size, and other related 'size' question

2005-05-23 Thread Michael T. Dean
Chad wrote: That is extremely odd that VGA does a DAC first, and then the monitor has to do the ADC back, it would seem intelligent to have changed this WAAYYY back in the 'day' not wait until LCD's come out that require the DVI input (probably the fix I'm referring to). Only a digital

Re: [mythtv-users] Attention 24 watchers: check your upcoming recordings

2005-05-23 Thread Michael T. Dean
Kyle Rose wrote: I'm curious as to why you used that as your profile rather than a plain Record on any/this channel with Record new only? What you say might help improve the interface. Just lazy. I've probably been setting my recurring recordings up this way all along. Probably record

Re: [mythtv-users] upgraded ivtvdrivers and showing incorrect card

2005-05-23 Thread Michael T. Dean
Gregg wrote: I upgraded to the newest ivtv drivers using apt-get and when I run dmesg it shows a PVR150 but the card is aPVR250. Anyone now how to fix it. I upgraded because I was getting ivtv errors and it could not record a whole show. You need to patch IvyTV to recognize the PCI ID of

Re: [mythtv-users] Clock in myth

2005-05-23 Thread Michael T. Dean
Julian Edwards wrote: On Mon, 2005-05-23 at 22:46 +1000, Andrew Palm wrote: One thing I loved with Tivo, a quick right arrow watching something and it brought up the menu bar, with the time... great way to find out the time. I use a clock or a watch. I find it incredibly reliable and

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Re: What is the correct version of Qt to use on FC3?

2005-05-23 Thread Michael T. Dean
EJS wrote: Mike wrote: You could get a working QT by downgrading or, if you really want the one that needs Ctrl-Enter, try: Are you sure that you can just downgrade QT? I had tried this a while ago but apt won't let you do it. It reports that myth 0.18 is dependent on qt 3.3.4.

Re: [mythtv-users] DVB Devices

2005-05-23 Thread Michael T. Dean
Nigel Metheringham wrote: On Mon, 2005-05-23 at 17:18 +0100, A Thomson wrote: You need an appropriate permissions script in /etc/udev/permissions.d/ And how would i go about that? if you look in that directory you should see current permissions scriptlets, which should give you the

Re: [mythtv-users] Attention 24 watchers: check your upcoming recordings

2005-05-23 Thread Michael T. Dean
Brad Templeton wrote: On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 10:37:26AM -0400, Michael T. Dean wrote: Remember, also, that you can train MythTV to ignore the repeats that you don't want. Basically, just set the episodes to Never Record if you've seen them or don't care to see them. It's very easy to do

Re: [mythtv-users] Fox 3 hour HD program size ?

2005-05-23 Thread Michael T. Dean
John Patrick Poet wrote: On Mon, 23 May 2005, Mudit Wahal wrote: The file size for the 3 hour HD program recorded on Fox yesterday evening from 7 to 10pm? Mine is only 12GB. -rw-r--r-- 1 mythtv mythtv 12912449684 May 22 22:00 1031_2005052219_200505.nuv Is it recorded correctly

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Re: Re: What is the correct version of Qt to use on FC3?

2005-05-23 Thread Michael T. Dean
EJS wrote: Mike wrote: I'm using QT 3.3.1 with the correct time in CVS Tue May 17 11:55:08 EDT 2005. http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/132014#132014 Well this definitely worked. I was able to downgrade to QT 3.3.1 (I'm am sure that tried this before unsuccesfully -

Re: [mythtv-users] Mythtv frontend directly to framebuffer (without X)?

2005-05-24 Thread Michael T. Dean
Aurelien Marchand wrote: c) I want to use my T20 thinkpad laptop (its screen is dead, but I have an LCD attached to it and an S-video port out) as a frontend. It is a 750 MHz with 192 MB of RAM. I have used it to watch DVDs under X when I used XFree's X server but now that I use Xorg's X

Re: [mythtv-users] Re:Mythstream Tips Tricks

2005-05-24 Thread Michael T. Dean
Dennis Hand wrote: My problem is that even though the rpm installs without a problem, it never creates the streams table in MySQL. I'm using mythtv-0.18-1 and FC3. I looked at the spec file and it looks to be using libmyth-0.18 and not libmyth-0.18.1. I wonder if this is the problem?

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Problem with Mythburn

2005-05-24 Thread Michael T. Dean
Ross Campbell wrote: On 5/24/05, Carrison, Stuart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The recorded is a PVR-250, the file has been transcoded to MPEG4 at a decent bit rate (the source file is ~2.5Gb). You should not need to to anything with the pvr250 recording to put it onto a DVD. The

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: [OT] *Real* High-Def TV!

2005-05-24 Thread Michael T. Dean
Greg Grotsky wrote: On 5/24/05, Thor Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Another consideration about Samsung, is iirc there was someone on this list that couldn't get mythtv over the HDMI port. After much headbanging, he found that Samsung wouldn't accept HDMI without HDCP... That is

Re: [mythtv-users] DVD rip preserving menus

2005-05-24 Thread Michael T. Dean
Kyle Rose wrote: This was on the list a while back. It will make a perfect copy to the HD of the entire DVD. I found you need to open the DVD with xine first to unlock it and then you can copy it. dd if=/dev/dvd of=/tmp/copy_of.iso bs=2048 xine dvd:///tmp/copy_of.dvd/ It works and it's

Re: [mythtv-users] DVD rip preserving menus

2005-05-24 Thread Michael T. Dean
Kyle Rose wrote: Actually, libdvdcss will generate new keys for the material off the copy since you're copying everything (including Xing's unencrypted private key and all the encrypted keys along with the encrypted content--you're copying all the bits from the disc). Remember in *nix,

Re: [mythtv-users] VCR video to MythTV (USB, 1394 or S-Video capture solutions)

2005-05-25 Thread Michael T. Dean
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wouldn't the simple solution be: 1) Run the cable/satellite connection into the VCR's TV-INPUT. 2) Split the VCR's output: 1 - To TV, 2 - To Mythtv box. Then, the input will come from the cable/satellite (if you have analog cable, and you are using the capture card

Re: [mythtv-users] Newbie questions...

2005-05-25 Thread Michael T. Dean
Ben Bargabus wrote: I think $50 is worth not having to deal with mystery differences, at least on my first build. Definitely true! At this point, first-timers should stick with PVR-{2,3}50's. Jason and Craig: do the same compatibility issues apply to the 500? I think in Jason's

Re: [mythtv-users] Newbie questions...

2005-05-25 Thread Michael T. Dean
Ben Bargabus wrote: snip 1. I've not had trouble with the VIA DMA problem. I seem to recall some talk that it could be an FC3 on VIA problem. Maybe I shouldn't say that since I can't recall specifics of the conversation. YMMV FC3 as in Fedora? I'm a debian guy, I assume then that

Re: [mythtv-users] IVTV not retaining settings on reboot?

2005-05-25 Thread Michael T. Dean
A JM wrote: My backend is running 0.18 and has 2 pvr250's in it. I've initially set the ivtv settings using the following: # /usr/bin/ivtvctl -u 0x3000 # /usr/bin/ivtvctl -p 6 # /usr/bin/ivtvctl -f width=720,height=480 # /usr/bin/ivtvctl -u 0x3000 -d /dev/video1 # /usr/bin/ivtvctl -p 6 -d

Re: [mythtv-users] Volume Change in MythTV

2005-05-25 Thread Michael T. Dean
Jochen Kühner wrote: I can enter in MythTV Wich Volume control it sould change! Must I enter here The Alsa name or the oss name of the control?? Or is it the same??? If you're using ALSA's OSS-compatibility (i.e. /dev/dsp) for the audio output device, you'd use the OSS name of the

Re: [mythtv-users] Newbie questions...

2005-05-25 Thread Michael T. Dean
MagicITX wrote: It is hard for me to comment on the DMA issue because I've never encountered it. I personally have 3 mythtv boxes in the room with me running on the VIA M1, the ME6000 and the SP13000. All have either a PVR150, 250, or 500. I have one running as a backend for the ME6000.

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Problem with Mythburn

2005-05-25 Thread Michael T. Dean
Jonathan Markevich wrote: indicate that ProjectX can fix the problems, but I have noticed spurious A/V sync errors in my recordings processed with ProjectX (instead of gradual loss of sync resulting in a noticeable difference at the end of the recording, I have 5-10 seconds of sync offset 2-3

Re: [mythtv-users] Mythfilldatabase halts ; unconfigured http cache??

2005-05-25 Thread Michael T. Dean
Rickard Borgmäster wrote: I have some problem with mythfilldatabase. If I run it from the command line just as is, there is no problem. Data is fetched and has always been stable. However, if myth itself calls mythfilldatabase to fetch program info, it never completes. Trying to find out why it

Re: [mythtv-users] High level system architecture questions

2005-05-25 Thread Michael T. Dean
Ben Bargabus wrote: Hello again, So as I'm planning my hardware purchases for my first system I have some questions about how this system is intended to be used, best used, and most commonly used (maybe all three are the same but most likely not). The vision I have in my head based off of the

Re: [mythtv-users] OT: RG-6 crimping question

2005-05-25 Thread Michael T. Dean
Jean Connelly wrote: Anybody good at folding back quad shield without getting braid embedded in fingers? When I ran the cable in my house, I had enough braid in my fingers after the second connection that the rest were painless... My fingers were basically wearing chainmail armor. Mike

Re: [mythtv-users] Strange scheduling problem

2005-05-25 Thread Michael T. Dean
Shaun Bryant wrote: I am running .18 from the deb install, we have 3 direct TV feeds and one cable feed all on PVR-250s in the same dedicated backend. My wife sent me the below as a description of the problem she is having. I just set up a recording schedule for a UPN show. We have DirecTV

Re: [mythtv-users] Frontend crashes when exiting Watch-TV and Watch Recording

2005-05-25 Thread Michael T. Dean
Sasha Z wrote: I'm getting nothing in the logs when it happens, but it doesn't seem to happen exactly when I exit the recording. It seems to happen when I exit the recording menu after watching a recording. If you change the recording group in Watch Recordings (using the menu button) and exit

Re: [mythtv-users] Can't mute, can't change 6cg AC3 volume, audio volume shift on play

2005-05-25 Thread Michael T. Dean
Sasha Z wrote: I don't have a receiver, just dumb speakers plugged in to my nf2's output... I don't want any pass through. I also stopped using my TV for speakers because I wanted 5.1 audio for my movie collection, and a real bass for music. So it seems that I can boil it down to two

Re: [mythtv-users] High level system architecture questions

2005-05-25 Thread Michael T. Dean
Ben Bargabus wrote: Also--and probably more importantly--you lose much of the benefit of DVD. This relates to another question I have. With a DTV receiver connected to the backend is the output decoded by the receiver, encoded by the PVR-250, sent across the network, and decoded by the

Re: [mythtv-users] OT: RG-6 crimping question

2005-05-25 Thread Michael T. Dean
Kyle Rose wrote: LOL. There are actually three (somewhat tongue-in-cheek), and I accidentally combined the second and third in my statement: 1. Cable quality doesn't matter when the data flowing over it is digital. http://forum.ecoustics.com/bbs/messages/34579/122868.html See the

Re: [mythtv-users] OT: RG-6 crimping question

2005-05-26 Thread Michael T. Dean
Kyle Rose wrote: Michael T. Dean wrote: Kyle Rose wrote: LOL. There are actually three (somewhat tongue-in-cheek), and I accidentally combined the second and third in my statement: 1. Cable quality doesn't matter when the data flowing over it is digital. http://forum.ecoustics.com/bbs

Re: [mythtv-users] Program Guide

2005-05-26 Thread Michael T. Dean
Joe Henley wrote: So far everything with MythTV runs cool except the Program Guide. I have to go thru some hinky menu to get to it, and when I select a show to watch, the screen goes dark. If I press the OK button again on the remote I finally get the show.

Re: [mythtv-users] WHISH-LIST: what I always wanted.

2005-05-26 Thread Michael T. Dean
John Williams wrote: On 5/25/05, Karsten Jeppesen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is a very very important thing missing in MythTV. At least I have been missing this feature on every single TV I have had: A volumen-preset-while-the-bloody-commercials-are-running button. Ever noticed that

Re: [mythtv-users] Key modifiers in lircrc

2005-05-26 Thread Michael T. Dean
Michael Carland wrote: Sorry if this is answered somewhere, searching in gossamer for using the control key as a modifier for lircrc returns almost every message regarding remotes, due to remote control being in most of them. I have used mythweb to add a jump point to mythweather of Ctrl+W.

Re: [mythtv-users] Volume difference between sources: is there a way to fix it?

2005-05-26 Thread Michael T. Dean
Ben Giddings wrote: Related to this, there's the difference between volume for recorded content and MythVideo files. If I set the playback volume for recorded content to 90% (so I have room to both raise and lower it). When I start a video, it seems to start with the same sound level, but

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Mythstream Tips Tricks

2005-05-27 Thread Michael T. Dean
Ross Campbell wrote: Sometimes finding the actual stream URL is a bit challenging -- I.E. buried or hidden in clickwraps, redirect, java, or javascript. If you can use wget to grab a .ram or .asx or whatever file, you can usually find right URLs inside of there. You can also put the URL of the

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