[mythtv-users] MythTV on Kanotix based Debian for HD-3000

2005-10-04 Thread Steve Adeff
Howdy all, entering the realm of MythTV. I've got a HD-3000 card and once I get my new video card am hoping to get up and running. I have an AMD64 processor and have been running Kanotix64 and with Stable/Testing sources. I'm attempting to compile MythTV(since theres no debs for Debian64) and

Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV on Kanotix based Debian for HD-3000

2005-10-05 Thread Steve Adeff
thanks for the reply Mark! Does anyone run an x64 distro or is Myth basically just for ix86 distro's? Steve got my new PCIXpress video card installed and my HD-3000 card installed, time to start playing! wish me luck ;-) On Wednesday 05 October 2005 13:51, Mark Linford wrote: Steve: I don't

Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV on Kanotix based Debian for HD-3000

2005-10-05 Thread Steve Adeff
ld: cannot find -lXxf86vm can't figure out what package I'm missing? thanks! Steve On Wednesday 05 October 2005 15:50, Adam Egger wrote: On 10/5/05, Steve Adeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, I'm gunna give it a shot in Debian and see what happens. I just priced a P4 system minus

Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV on Kanotix based Debian for HD-3000

2005-10-06 Thread Steve Adeff
or anything comes up, but pressing ESC does go back to the MythTV menu. any ideas? Thanks! Steve On Thursday 06 October 2005 08:34, Adam Egger wrote: It seems you've executed qmake on the wrong .pro file. Just do a make distclean and qmake mythtv.pro and ./configure On 10/6/05, Steve Adeff

Re: [mythtv-users] Mythtv 0.18.1 on Debian

2005-10-07 Thread Steve Adeff
Max, download from SVN. I'm the same as you, I have a Debian stable system and found that the source in SVN fixes the problems. I know through all my playing I ended up having to install ~4 packages from testing, but I can't remember if they were required by MythTV or another of the many DVB

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Comcast being coy?

2005-10-07 Thread Steve Adeff
wow, this is awesome. I was hesitant to do it because I'm always the guy that would end up getting a non-firewire box with no way to get a new one, or getting a new one that still doesn't have firewire... out of curiosity, would I need the DVR version of the box or would the regular version

Re: [mythtv-users] Need suggestion for Frontend only fanless solution

2005-10-07 Thread Steve Adeff
Is there anything the Roku won't do that a regular MythTV frontend will? This seems like the perfect frontend for MythTV, especially for the $300 asking price! Steve On Friday 07 October 2005 10:44, A JM wrote: Chris, How about some insight on installation, setup and what not? It's looking

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Comcast being coy?

2005-10-07 Thread Steve Adeff
On Friday 07 October 2005 12:07, Marc Infield wrote: I went through the same thing with Comcast in the bay area. When I called and and pressed it with customer service person they said it seemed fine to get the HD box with firewire (motorola 6200 I think), but when he checked with his manager

Re: [mythtv-users] HD from Comcast ...was:Positive Experience with pcHDTV

2005-10-07 Thread Steve Adeff
On Friday 07 October 2005 12:17, Richard Bronosky wrote: Chuck Lloyd wrote: I don't use an antenna. I use the dvb drivers to receive QAM directly from my cable. My cable modem, TVs, and PVR-250 seem to be fine so I don't suspect a problem there. How would you suggest I test the

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Comcast being coy?

2005-10-07 Thread Steve Adeff
On Friday 07 October 2005 12:40, Alex Brekken wrote: Agreed. About the only claim to fame that the Comcast DVR box has is that it will record HD. I don't *think* any of the other cable/satellite provided DVR's can do that. (yet) If you really want a commercial DVR then go TiVo. Adelphia and

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Comcast being coy?

2005-10-07 Thread Steve Adeff
On Friday 07 October 2005 12:29, Joseph A. Caputo wrote: On Friday 07 October 2005 12:04, Alex Brekken wrote: No, you don't need (or want) the DVR version. The DCT-6200 box is what you want. The Comcast reps definitely don't know what they're talking about, and have no idea what Firewire

Re: [mythtv-users] Can't seem to build Mythtv in SUSE 10 on a 64 bit amd system

2005-10-07 Thread Steve Adeff
On my Debian64 system I had to compile from SVN, have you tried this? -- Steve On Friday 07 October 2005 14:17, Brad Dorner wrote: Is there a problem with this type of setup? It seems to be looking in the wrong location for the files. Thanks Brad

[mythtv-users] comcast digital audio channels

2005-10-07 Thread Steve Adeff
in playing with my HD-3000 I'm finding that I can tune in to the MusicMatch digital audio channels as they're unencrypted. theres no video though (well, there is, but its on a PID that I can't tune to with the card for whatever reason, though my TV's ATSC tuner looks able to find it), but is

Re: [mythtv-users] Podcasting and Myth

2005-10-07 Thread Steve Adeff
On Friday 07 October 2005 18:03, Scott S. wrote: Hello, I'm not sure if this is the correct place for this question but is there a projects out there to make a plug-in for MythTV to download podcasts into it based on RSS feeds? I think this would be a really cool feature and could be

Re: [mythtv-users] Need suggestion for Frontend only fanless solution

2005-10-07 Thread Steve Adeff
On Friday 07 October 2005 20:26, Patrick Watson wrote: bill peck wrote: On 10/7/05, *Bruce Smith* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Will it play shows from the backend that have been transcoded to MPEG-4? No it will not. The roku can only decode MPEG1 and

Re: [mythtv-users] HD from Comcast ...was:Positive Experience with pcHDTV

2005-10-07 Thread Steve Adeff
On Friday 07 October 2005 20:33, Patrick Watson wrote: Steve Adeff wrote: On Friday 07 October 2005 12:17, Richard Bronosky wrote: Chuck Lloyd wrote: I don't use an antenna. I use the dvb drivers to receive QAM directly from my cable. My cable modem, TVs, and PVR-250 seem to be fine so

Re: [mythtv-users] Need suggestion for Frontend only fanless solution

2005-10-08 Thread Steve Adeff
On Friday 07 October 2005 22:06, Patrick Watson wrote: Steve Adeff wrote: On Friday 07 October 2005 20:26, Patrick Watson wrote: bill peck wrote: On 10/7/05, *Bruce Smith* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Will it play shows from the backend that have been

Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV on Kanotix based Debian for HD-3000

2005-10-11 Thread Steve Adeff
, it compiled fine again. I'm not running x64 though, but I suspect that it might be your problem anyway. On 10/6/05, Steve Adeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Howdy all, entering the realm of MythTV. I've got a HD-3000 card and once I get my new video card am hoping to get up and running. I have

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Comcast being coy?

2005-10-11 Thread Steve Adeff
On Tuesday 11 October 2005 16:57, Chris Ribe wrote: I'm pleased to report that I found a Moto DCT6200 waiting for me when I arrived home from work today. The install guy was confused enough that he called me, but I just told him that I was going to hook it up to a computer and he was fine

[mythtv-users] dvb ts file playback in mplayer liba52 problems...?

2005-10-12 Thread Steve Adeff
anyone else with a dvb card try playing back their TS files in mplayer have problems with liba52 upon playback? I get a bunch of crc errors and the the sound quite out on me, but things seem to playback fine in myth. Steve ___ mythtv-users mailing

[mythtv-users] seperate frontend settings for different machines?

2005-10-12 Thread Steve Adeff
I just got myth compiled on my laptop to use as a frontend and I'm noticing that its using the same settings as the frontend on my backend. is this supposed to happen? Steve ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: DMA not enabled

2005-10-12 Thread Steve Adeff
On Wednesday 12 October 2005 07:37, Phil Strong wrote: SATA and DMA not working how can I resolve this guys? On 10/11/05, Phil Strong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I recently replaced my mythbox with a shiny new machine that now has SATA drives. After initial install of OS and Myth ... I play

Re: [Fwd: [mythtv-users] Guides For MythVideo and MythMusic?]

2005-10-13 Thread Steve Adeff
On Wednesday 12 October 2005 23:57, Drew Tomlinson wrote: I posted the following message a few days ago but received no responses. Trying one more time. I'll take anything that might help. :) Thanks, Drew Original Message Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 09:57:49 -0700

Re: [mythtv-users] Best Soundcard?

2005-10-13 Thread Steve Adeff
On Wednesday 12 October 2005 14:03, Derek Meek wrote: so what sound card (or AMD-CPU motherboard with integrated sound) would you recommend - i noticed the ~$80 price for the audigy 2 zs plat. pro was 'noise' on pricewatch and the cheapest one is actually $200, which is waay too much I've

Re: [mythtv-users] configure did not detect my cpu

2005-10-13 Thread Steve Adeff
:40, Daniel Kristjansson wrote: On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 18:58 -0400, Steve Adeff wrote: model name: AMD Turion(tm) 64 Mobile Technology ML-28 Heh, I wonder if they know the English definition of Turion over at AMD HQ: A growing thick fleshy rod. Of course, they do have penis parades in Japan

Re: [mythtv-users] Firewire and DCT-6200

2005-10-13 Thread Steve Adeff
On Thursday 13 October 2005 01:09, Curtis Stanford wrote: On Oct 12, 2005, at 11:04 PM, Donald Oakes wrote: Curtis Stanford wrote: On Oct 12, 2005, at 2:35 PM, Todd Greene wrote: For what its worth, I use the DCT-6200 and Firewire reliably. However, I can't give you my system specifics,

Re: [mythtv-users] Help converting HD recording to burn to dvd

2005-10-13 Thread Steve Adeff
On Wednesday 12 October 2005 20:27, Byron Poland wrote: I am recording something for a friend. I have an HD only back end. Does anyone have a formula for going from a HD mpeg2 stream to a DVD compatible mpeg2 stream? Thanks. run through ProjectX, edit and convert in avidemux2. Steve

Re: [mythtv-users] myth music is so slow

2005-10-13 Thread Steve Adeff
On Wednesday 12 October 2005 21:43, Nick wrote: On 12/10/05, Justin Hunt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everyone, I finnaly decided to setup myth music and imported about 200 songs (i have 6500 copying to the server, but wanted to have some output...). I then proceded to the select music

Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV and Comcast On Demand

2005-10-13 Thread Steve Adeff
On Thursday 13 October 2005 07:40, jesse k wrote: This would make sense. It does appear that Comcast can query my set-top box but cannot receive information in return. The only concern I have with the splitter is that if I remove the amplifier and power supply from the setup, On Demand is

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Who wants to help me develop a new theme? It's time.

2005-10-13 Thread Steve Adeff
On Thursday 13 October 2005 00:00, Andrew Hogue wrote: Hi, I would totally be willing to help out, I have lots of experience with openGL which I would think would be great to use since I'm sure that most people have some form of openGL (I'm not talking about rendering hundreds of thousands

Re: [mythtv-users] UK Freeview - More4

2005-10-13 Thread Steve Adeff
On Wednesday 12 October 2005 04:29, Justin Hornsby wrote: Also - is it just me or is the video quality of 'The Daily Show' really bad? It seems to be very lacking in contrast, chroma (colour) and detail. I know it's sourced in NTSC, but NTSC to PAL conversion has come a long way since we

Re: [mythtv-users] myth music is so slow

2005-10-13 Thread Steve Adeff
On Thursday 13 October 2005 11:30, Timothy McFadden wrote: I second that. It only took me a few minutes to import 2000+ tracks. There's also no delay for me when trying to select tracks ( although it is a bit awkward ). I'm running a combined FE/BE machine. Maybe there's a connection

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: DMA not enabled

2005-10-13 Thread Steve Adeff
On Thursday 13 October 2005 12:50, Kirk Bocek wrote: Here's the output on my SATA drive: # hdparm -Tt /dev/sda /dev/sda: Timing cached reads: 3832 MB in 2.00 seconds = 1915.88 MB/sec HDIO_DRIVE_CMD(null) (wait for flush complete) failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device Timing buffered

[mythtv-users] running backend as debian runlevel service?

2005-10-13 Thread Steve Adeff
I tried setting up mythbackend to run as a debian service in init.d/ but when I do so I get errors that don't allow it to record or the frontends to connect. the log files don't seem to show any problems though. I was wondering if anyone else has set this up and how you did it? thanks, Steve

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: DMA not enabled

2005-10-13 Thread Steve Adeff
On Thursday 13 October 2005 13:13, Kirk Bocek wrote: I've used hdparm -Tt on all sorts of non-IDE devices: flash-memory drives, Raid devices, RAM drives. It's never been a problem. Kirk Steve Adeff wrote: On Thursday 13 October 2005 12:50, Kirk Bocek wrote: Here's the output on my SATA

Re: [Fwd: [mythtv-users] Guides For MythVideo and MythMusic?]

2005-10-13 Thread Steve Adeff
On Thursday 13 October 2005 13:25, Drew Tomlinson wrote: On 10/13/2005 5:16 AM Steve Adeff wrote: On Wednesday 12 October 2005 23:57, Drew Tomlinson wrote: I posted the following message a few days ago but received no responses. Trying one more time. I'll take anything that might help

Re: [mythtv-users] running backend as debian runlevel service?

2005-10-13 Thread Steve Adeff
On Thursday 13 October 2005 13:22, Greg Woods wrote: On Thu, 2005-10-13 at 13:15 -0400, Steve Adeff wrote: I tried setting up mythbackend to run as a debian service in init.d/ but when I do so I get errors that don't allow it to record If the errors you see have anything to do

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: DMA not enabled

2005-10-13 Thread Steve Adeff
On Thursday 13 October 2005 13:58, Kirk Bocek wrote: I ran this on kernel 2.6.13.2. So I'm not so sure it's a kernel issue. Kirk Steve Adeff wrote: On Thursday 13 October 2005 13:13, Kirk Bocek wrote: I've used hdparm -Tt on all sorts of non-IDE devices: flash-memory drives, Raid devices

[mythtv-users] QAM tuning issues

2005-10-13 Thread Steve Adeff
I'm running a build from SVN about a week ago. HD-3000 card works great when using, say mplayer, or azap+mplayer to tune. So far have had no issues tuning between HD channels, but I have noticed the following: first, the mapping in the mythconverg channels do not work properly for ED(again,

Re: [mythtv-users] Best Soundcard?

2005-10-13 Thread Steve Adeff
On Thursday 13 October 2005 14:29, Brian Bosch wrote: On 10/13/05, Steve Adeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 12 October 2005 14:03, Derek Meek wrote: so what sound card (or AMD-CPU motherboard with integrated sound) would you recommend - i noticed the ~$80 price

Re: [mythtv-users] running backend as debian runlevel service?

2005-10-13 Thread Steve Adeff
On Thursday 13 October 2005 19:42, Kim Wall wrote: Steve Adeff wrote: Thanks for the lead, that was one of the errors I received, the other has to do with mythbackend not recording anything, let see if this fixes that as well! Is it starting after everything that needs to be started

Re: [mythtv-users] REPOST: OTA Channels Comcast Channels

2005-10-13 Thread Steve Adeff
On Thursday 13 October 2005 19:45, Folashade Adeyosoye wrote: Hi all, I have a working box but I only seem to get a few channels compared to what in the channel section under setup. My card is plugged to my Comcast analog cable but I can not view anything above channel 13. The rest is

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: DMA not enabled

2005-10-13 Thread Steve Adeff
, Steve Adeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 13 October 2005 13:58, Kirk Bocek wrote: I ran this on kernel 2.6.13.2 http://2.6.13.2. So I'm not so sure it's a kernel issue. Kirk Steve Adeff wrote: On Thursday 13 October 2005 13:13, Kirk Bocek wrote: I've used

Re: [mythtv-users] running backend as debian runlevel service?

2005-10-14 Thread Steve Adeff
On Friday 14 October 2005 06:00, Robert Denier wrote: I'm not sure if this helps, but this is Gentoo's Script. I also included the /etc/conf.d/mythbackend file. This is the first I noticed that there was an option to run Myth as another user than root. Since this is a dedicated box, there

Re: [mythtv-users] Highest number of simultaneous streams recorded?

2005-10-14 Thread Steve Adeff
On Friday 14 October 2005 02:56, Jake wrote: we have 2 pvr-500's and we regularily record 4 streams at once at an average bitrate of about 4500 without any loss of quality. we have actually been contemplating putting another 500 into the mix. the bitrates of the recordings on a pvr-500 are

Re: [mythtv-users] Highest number of simultaneous streams recorded?

2005-10-14 Thread Steve Adeff
On Friday 14 October 2005 10:16, Brandon Beattie wrote: The current limitations on number of streams has to do with what hardware you choose to use. This includes tuner cards, hard drives, network cards, and CPU. I think it would still be rather easy to get 10+ streams recording and 4-5

Re: [mythtv-users] why do i have a 2 gig limit on avi files

2005-10-14 Thread Steve Adeff
On Friday 14 October 2005 10:47, jondz wrote: Hi I'm new(re-subscribed) to the list. Has anybody encountered this before: I seem to have a 2 gigabyte limit on avi files (transcoded movies). When either the Internal player or the mythcommflag reaches that they just hang. I know the

LVM *was* Re: [mythtv-users] Highest number of simultaneous streams recorded?

2005-10-14 Thread Steve Adeff
/05, Steve Adeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 14 October 2005 10:16, Brandon Beattie wrote: The current limitations on number of streams has to do with what hardware you choose to use. This includes tuner cards, hard drives, network cards, and CPU. I think it would still be rather

Re: LVM *was* Re: [mythtv-users] Highest number of simultaneous streams recorded?

2005-10-14 Thread Steve Adeff
On Friday 14 October 2005 16:13, Brandon Beattie wrote: Before you go running off let me give you a warning. Although LVM supports striping, adding/removing disks, shrinking and growing fs's, they do _not_ all work together. If you stripe you can't add/remove disks or change fs size. If

Re: LVM *was* Re: [mythtv-users] Highest number of simultaneous streams recorded?

2005-10-14 Thread Steve Adeff
On Friday 14 October 2005 16:45, Alex Brekken wrote: If one wanted redundancy only (is that RAID-0??) then I take it you would skip LVM entirely, correct? - IOW, are the 2 mutually exclusive or can you use LVM with RAID? The reason I ask is because I'm starting to put together some plans to

Re: [mythtv-users] Help converting HD recording to burn to dvd

2005-10-14 Thread Steve Adeff
On Friday 14 October 2005 16:53, Byron Poland wrote: On 10/13/05, Steve Adeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 12 October 2005 20:27, Byron Poland wrote: I am recording something for a friend. I have an HD only back end. Does anyone have a formula for going from a HD mpeg2 stream

Re: [mythtv-users] Help converting HD recording to burn to dvd

2005-10-14 Thread Steve Adeff
On Friday 14 October 2005 17:37, Byron Poland wrote: On 10/14/05, Steve Adeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 14 October 2005 16:53, Byron Poland wrote: On 10/13/05, Steve Adeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 12 October 2005 20:27, Byron Poland wrote: I am recording

Re: [mythtv-users] Automated update of video database

2005-10-15 Thread Steve Adeff
On Friday 14 October 2005 22:40, Chris Ribe wrote: This would be a major shift from the current setup, but I would like to see the distinction between MythVideo and Recordings disappear from the UI. Once a piece of video is on my harddrive, I don't really care where it came from. Regardless

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-350 only records TV at MPEG-1 ??

2005-10-15 Thread Steve Adeff
On Saturday 15 October 2005 14:13, Niklas Brunlid wrote: On Sat, 15 Oct 2005 19:42:59 +0200, Matt SF [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: wow I guess it pays to not only RTFM but RTFM very carefully :) I spotted this old post in looking for ways to improve the image quality of my PVR-350...

Re: [mythtv-users] apt-get upgrade = borked mythtv

2005-10-16 Thread Steve Adeff
On Sunday 16 October 2005 04:21, Michael Stevens wrote: I'm having some similar issues, because recently Debian standardised on GCC 4.0, which seems to have issues compiling mythtv. If this is the case, then you may need to downgrade to debian stable. If you were already running debian stable

Re: [mythtv-users] apt-get upgrade = borked mythtv

2005-10-16 Thread Steve Adeff
On Sunday 16 October 2005 09:56, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd love to know the etymology of that word. Wikipedia says possibly related to the Swedish Chef (which was the first thing I thought of), although it could be an homage to the failed nomination of Robert Bork to the US Supreme Court.

Re: [mythtv-users] apt-get upgrade = borked mythtv

2005-10-16 Thread Steve Adeff
On Sunday 16 October 2005 09:56, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd love to know the etymology of that word. Wikipedia says possibly related to the Swedish Chef (which was the first thing I thought of), although it could be an homage to the failed nomination of Robert Bork to the US Supreme Court.

[mythtv-users] MythMusic and AAC/MP4/M4A files

2005-10-16 Thread Steve Adeff
How do i get MythMusic to work with mp4 files? My whole personal collection is in m4a and I can't get it to display them, even when I have it list all files by directory structure. Steve ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org

Re: [mythtv-users] apt-get upgrade = borked mythtv

2005-10-16 Thread Steve Adeff
On Sunday 16 October 2005 16:44, Tom Hines wrote: On 10/15/05, Kevin Kuphal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Word to the wise (and I'm sure this doesn't help you much now), but I think you're much better off keeping to the if it ain't broke dont' fix it philosophy with the underlying components

Re: [mythtv-users] using a* search algorithm to implement the scheduler.

2005-10-17 Thread Steve Adeff
On Monday 17 October 2005 04:45, Lucas Meijer wrote: Hey, I'm wondering what people would think of this idea: Implement the scheduler as an a* search. Heuristic of a found path could be roughly calculated as: + points for a recording a show that needed to be recorded. - points for not

Re: [mythtv-users] Mozilla/Firefox search plugin for MythTV Mailing Lists now available

2005-10-17 Thread Steve Adeff
On Monday 17 October 2005 06:40, Alex Cruz wrote: Nice job on the search plugin, Mike. Extremely handy for trying to find that fix that I can never remember :-) Cheers! -alex amen, this search plugin is gunna make dealing with mythtv much easier! Steve

Re: [mythtv-users] Ubuntu mythtv guide?

2005-10-17 Thread Steve Adeff
On Monday 17 October 2005 10:54, Phil Strong wrote: Does anyone know of a good working guide to install mythtv and devices from fresh install of Ubuntu/Debian? Ubuntu is a hacked version of Debian, so don't think following a Debian guide will necesarily work. There are a few folks running with

Re: [mythtv-users] apt-get upgrade = borked mythtv

2005-10-17 Thread Steve Adeff
On Monday 17 October 2005 11:08, Tom Lichti wrote: I've done an apt-get upgrade of my (rarely used) slave backend, and one frontend, and they both still work. I use Myth from source though, not rpms. I still haven't worked up the nerve to do my main combined front/backend (see next sentence!)

Re: [mythtv-users] remote control recommendations

2005-10-17 Thread Steve Adeff
On Monday 17 October 2005 02:30, Mark Kundinger wrote: --- Ricardo Kleemann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have a PVR150 MCE which doesn't come with a remote. I'm trying to setup mythtv, but I need to buy a remote which will work well with lircd. Does the PVR150 MCE come with an IR

Re: [mythtv-users] apt-get upgrade = borked mythtv

2005-10-17 Thread Steve Adeff
On Monday 17 October 2005 12:39, Kevin Kuphal wrote: Steve Adeff wrote: Yea, its even a internal conflict for me, I really do want to make sure I get my shows recorded, but the desire to see what new fixes, bugs and features have been added is a pretty a big desire as well I've found

Re: [mythtv-users] remote control recommendations

2005-10-17 Thread Steve Adeff
On Monday 17 October 2005 12:56, Kevin Kuphal wrote: Steve Adeff wrote: On Monday 17 October 2005 02:30, Mark Kundinger wrote: --- Ricardo Kleemann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have a PVR150 MCE which doesn't come with a remote. I'm trying to setup mythtv, but I need to buy a remote

Re: [mythtv-users] remote control recommendations

2005-10-17 Thread Steve Adeff
On Monday 17 October 2005 12:52, Tom Lichti wrote: Steve Adeff wrote: On Monday 17 October 2005 02:30, Mark Kundinger wrote: --- Ricardo Kleemann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have a PVR150 MCE which doesn't come with a remote. I'm trying to setup mythtv, but I need to buy a remote which

Re: [mythtv-users] HD-3000 and changes from 18.1 to SVN

2005-10-17 Thread Steve Adeff
On Monday 17 October 2005 14:25, Chris Dos wrote: I have a HD-3000 card that I got working using the 18.1 Debian packages. However, upgrading to SVN resulted in the frontend spewing A/V diverged by dropped frames number here frames, extending frame to keep audio in sync in it's logs. I guess

Re: [mythtv-users] New Digimatrix questions

2005-10-17 Thread Steve Adeff
On Monday 17 October 2005 15:55, David Ellis wrote: I have a digimatrix running briliiantly (for about a year now). This site has it all (including how to get TV Tuner, Remote, LCD, Volume Dial etc). http://asusfan.linux-site.net/index.html David neat, how does this do playing back HDTV?

Re: [mythtv-users] New Digimatrix questions

2005-10-18 Thread Steve Adeff
On Tuesday 18 October 2005 01:42, Peter Darley wrote: Steve, The HDTV playback is great. I've got mine hooked up to my TV doing 1080i at 1280x1024px, which is the highest that the digimatrix does, tho it occures to me writing this that it may not be as large as 1080i allows. Didn't

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: New Digimatrix questions

2005-10-18 Thread Steve Adeff
On Tuesday 18 October 2005 15:34, Mike Frisch wrote: On Tue, October 18, 2005 3:22 pm, Steve Adeff said: was concerned more with processing power, but I think the Northwood can be had in speeds that will be able to playback this stream. 3.4GHz is the fastest S478 CPU that my local supplier

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Re: New Digimatrix questions

2005-10-18 Thread Steve Adeff
On Tuesday 18 October 2005 16:19, Mike Frisch wrote: On Tue, October 18, 2005 3:49 pm, James Oltman said: I have been researching the Digimatrix for quite some time. It can ONLY ONLY ONLY use the Northwood core P4 procs. The max speed as I recall was only 2.8GHz (something like that).

Re: [mythtv-users] Starting to think I should use Kaffeine instead of Mythtv

2005-10-18 Thread Steve Adeff
On Tuesday 18 October 2005 23:33, Tj wrote: ffrr wrote: Actually, running mythfrontend from a terminal still generates a long list of errors when TV is being watched. I have pasted a selection below. Is this normal for DVB streams received? [mpeg2video @ 0xb77d0434]Warning MVs not

[mythtv-users] can't download libiec61883...

2005-10-19 Thread Steve Adeff
Hey folks, linux1394.org seems to be down, I'm trying to get the tarballz for libiec61883 (and I'll prbly need libraw1394 if its newer than the one debian has). If someone could email them to me or send a link to another site I can download them I would greatly appreciate it! thanks, Steve

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Re: New Digimatrix questions

2005-10-19 Thread Steve Adeff
On Wednesday 19 October 2005 10:48, Mike Frisch wrote: On Tue, October 18, 2005 11:31 pm, Steve Adeff said: u know, I've been giving this Digimatrix thing some thought, and for ~$100 more you could have a very nice Silverstone or Ahanix case with a newer mobo. But I don't want to spend

Re: [mythtv-users] can't download libiec61883...

2005-10-19 Thread Steve Adeff
On Wednesday 19 October 2005 10:16, Tom Lichti wrote: Steve Adeff wrote: Hey folks, linux1394.org seems to be down, I'm trying to get the tarballz for libiec61883 (and I'll prbly need libraw1394 if its newer than the one debian has). If someone could email them to me or send a link

Re: [mythtv-users] Firewire and DCT-6200

2005-10-19 Thread Steve Adeff
So I got my DCT-6200 the other day, bought a firewire cable, connected them got it running so I can capture streams, compiled 6200ch and can change channels. Its amazing how painless my MythTV experience has been, props to all involved. now on to why I responded to this thread... How do I set

Firewire+PVR on same cablebox? WAS [Re: [mythtv-users] Firewire and DCT-6200]

2005-10-19 Thread Steve Adeff
On Wednesday 19 October 2005 15:14, Curtis Stanford wrote: Congrats! My box is on Node 1 but I don't think that matters much. You don't need to set the speed with plugctl. I just set it to 100 in the mythtv-setup GUI and the backend sets it for me. I don't think it matters that much what it's

Re: Firewire+PVR on same cablebox? WAS [Re: [mythtv-users] Firewire and DCT-6200]

2005-10-19 Thread Steve Adeff
On Wednesday 19 October 2005 16:09, Steve Adeff wrote: On Wednesday 19 October 2005 15:14, Curtis Stanford wrote: Congrats! My box is on Node 1 but I don't think that matters much. You don't need to set the speed with plugctl. I just set it to 100 in the mythtv-setup GUI and the backend

Re: [mythtv-users] Mythtv on ubuntu horay with dvb-t (freeview) - will it work?

2005-10-19 Thread Steve Adeff
On Wednesday 19 October 2005 21:21, Ben Edwards wrote: I have given up getting mythtv working on breezy and am thinking of giving hoary but wanted to check that at least one other person has got it working. I will be using a nova-t dvb-t card. Anyone got this working or shall I give gentoo

Re: [mythtv-users] Firewire+PVR on same cablebox? WAS [Re: Firewire and DCT-6200]

2005-10-20 Thread Steve Adeff
On Thursday 20 October 2005 08:27, Peter Judge wrote: On Wed, 2005-10-19 at 16:09 -0400, Steve Adeff wrote: snip I got HD working. but no ESPNHD, TNTHD, etc. ugh. I also notice that the only channels I can get are the OTA and basic cable package channels. So no digital cable, no spanish

Re: [mythtv-users] Setting time on backend machine

2005-10-20 Thread Steve Adeff
On Thursday 20 October 2005 11:29, Michael J. Lynch wrote: I saw the recent discussion about NTP and something occurred to me. I have a VCR (a SONY) that sets it's clock from information transmitted in the NTSC broadcasts. In this area, it happens to be channel 3 that is broadcasting the

[mythtv-users] HD3000 tuning QAM digital cable channels in Program Guide

2005-10-20 Thread Steve Adeff
HD3000 card, first running a SVN from ~ Oct5 and now still with 7526, and using Comcast. When using the Program Guide, if I use M to tune to the new channel, the guide dissapears and shows the last frame of the current channel, then it freezes. mythbackend.log: 2005-10-20 13:14:00.803 DVB#0

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Shuttle M1000 like case?

2005-10-20 Thread Steve Adeff
On Thursday 20 October 2005 13:24, Ricardo Kleemann wrote: These look very cool... but I can't find pricing anywhere? It looks like these may be expensive units. Ricardo - Original Message - From: Stefan Wrobel To: Discussion about mythtv ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

Re: [mythtv-users] mythtv supoprt for lcdproc/other lcds

2005-10-20 Thread Steve Adeff
On Thursday 20 October 2005 14:33, R. Geoffrey Newbury wrote: On Thu, 20 Oct 2005 14:11:40 +0100, Shaun Lowry wrote: David Watkins wrote: It might be worth having a look to see if there's anything else you fancy in the pipeline that would make use of a four-line display. 2x20 is a bit

Re: [mythtv-users] can't download libiec61883...

2005-10-20 Thread Steve Adeff
On Thursday 20 October 2005 18:26, sean darcy wrote: On 10/19/05, Tom Lichti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Steve Adeff wrote: Hey folks, linux1394.org http://linux1394.org seems to be down, I'm trying to get the tarballz for libiec61883 (and I'll prbly need libraw1394 if its newer than

Re: [mythtv-users] Best audio crard for AC3/DTS over SPIDF

2005-10-20 Thread Steve Adeff
On Thursday 20 October 2005 18:48, Greg Whalin wrote: I currently have a Shuttle w/ A7N8X-Delux (nforce2) mboard and a direct coax digital connection over spidf to my receiver (Sony STR-DE995). PCM 2 channel works great. However, I am unable to use AC3 or DTS passthrough in myth, xine, or

Re: [mythtv-users] can't download libiec61883...

2005-10-20 Thread Steve Adeff
On Thursday 20 October 2005 20:00, Tom Lichti wrote: sean darcy wrote: On 10/19/05, *Tom Lichti* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Steve Adeff wrote: Hey folks, linux1394.org http://linux1394.org seems to be down, I'm trying to get the tarballz

Re: [mythtv-users] Serial control of DirecTV of H10 (Solved)

2005-10-21 Thread Steve Adeff
On Thursday 20 October 2005 22:46, Dave wrote: Well, after some fiddling with the satcontrol code (svn trunk), I've gotten channel change working on the DirecTV H10 HD sat receiver. I'm going to clean up my changes and post some diffs. Dave are you able to then record the HD feeds with

Re: [mythtv-users] which dial-up modem?

2005-10-21 Thread Steve Adeff
On Friday 21 October 2005 17:27, Scott Alfter wrote: Asher Schaffer wrote: On 10/20/05, Chris Trown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There used to be a time(LONG time ago when I was taking care of dialup modem banks) that I pushed modems with Lucent chipsets. These days, however, it just

Re: [mythtv-users] Low end experiment with latest Knoppmyth

2005-10-23 Thread Steve Adeff
On Sunday 23 October 2005 09:27, Alex Cruz wrote: From what I've read, you are going to need some horsepower to record in HD. Not to mention that if you don't have an HD capable TV, what's the point. I can live with standard definition for now. I'm done jumping on the cutting edge hardware

Re: [mythtv-users] export HD (1920x1080i) to dvd with mencoder?

2005-10-24 Thread Steve Adeff
On Monday 24 October 2005 11:38, Andrew Gallatin wrote: I've been using nuvexport to transcode some of my HD programs. I have to use the -mencoder option to nuvexport, otherwise mythtranscode seems to leak memory like a seive. Unfortunately, nuvexport does not have an easy way to export to

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Re: Transcode to DVD-compatible MPEG-2 without quality loss?

2005-10-24 Thread Steve Adeff
On Monday 24 October 2005 09:45, Mike Frisch wrote: On Sat, Oct 22, 2005 at 11:03:32PM -0600, Robert Johnston wrote: You know, I just mount my Myth NFS share in Windows XP and use Tsunami MPEG's DVDAuthor to grab 4 .nuv's (Or .mpg's as the newer svn versions are correctly naming them) which

Re: [mythtv-users] best THX/Dolby digital speaker system for price?

2005-10-24 Thread Steve Adeff
On Monday 24 October 2005 13:15, Jesse Guardiani wrote: Hello all, I'm thinking about buying a digital 5.1 sound system for my MythTV setup. I saw some decent 5.1 capable sound cards on this list a few weeks ago for under $40, and I'm wondering what listers recommend for an inexpensive

Re: [mythtv-users] tv-out quality problems

2005-10-24 Thread Steve Adeff
On Monday 24 October 2005 15:07, Michael T. Dean wrote: Michael Bochynski wrote: On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 13:41 -0400, Michael T. Dean wrote: Michael Bochynski wrote: I want to replace one of those components, by my question is whether it makes more sense to get PVR-350 (I don't need dual tuners

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Re: Transcode to DVD-compatible MPEG-2 without quality loss?

2005-10-24 Thread Steve Adeff
On Monday 24 October 2005 16:04, Mike Frisch wrote: On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 12:44:21PM -0400, Steve Adeff wrote: Have you tried processing your mpeg with ProjectX before encoding? I've had great luck using ProjectX, mencoder, and avidemux2 on my ATSC mpeg2 files. I've had no luck

Re: [mythtv-users] Feature Idea: Put PIP window to far right on 16:9 when 4:3 sources

2005-10-24 Thread Steve Adeff
On Monday 24 October 2005 16:43, Robert Denier wrote: It looks like on a 16:9 display you could put the 4:3 image on the left and the PIP window on the right, perhaps even with the default sizes. Obviously there would be black space below the pip window, but that way both video sources would

Re: [mythtv-users] Hardware Selection for backend

2005-10-24 Thread Steve Adeff
On Monday 24 October 2005 20:18, Jon Solomon wrote: I am building my first Mythtv Backend from scratch. I plan on using 3 Hauppauge PVR 500's to record 4-6 stearms at time. My question is how fast of a processor and how much ram should I get? Which Motherboard would you recommend that have

[mythtv-users] cx88 comments in dmesg with HD3000

2005-10-24 Thread Steve Adeff
I was wondering if any others with the HD3000 card see these in their dmesg log? cx88[0]/2: queue is empty - first active cx88[0]/2: cx8802_start_dma 752 cx88[0]/2: setting the interrupt mask cx88[0]/2: [81003090f600/20] cx8802_buf_queue - first active cx88[0]/2: cx8802_restart_queue

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Re: Transcode to DVD-compatible MPEG-2 without quality loss?

2005-10-24 Thread Steve Adeff
On Monday 24 October 2005 22:25, Mike Frisch wrote: On Mon, October 24, 2005 4:44 pm, Steve Adeff said: I've used the latest version of ProjectX on my QAM recordings through my HD3000. When I play them back through mplayer the sync is fine. ProjectX You da man, Steve! PX seems

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