Re: [mythtv-users] Can MythTV ignore the keyboard and only use a remote?

2006-01-11 Thread Schlaegel
On 1/10/06, Steve Hodge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You want to have a keyboard and mouse connected, but not used by MythTV, right? You should be able to do this by giving MythTV it's own ServerLayout section in the X config file. Basically you can tell X that one screen, the mouse, and the

Re: [mythtv-users] Realtime Priority; limits.conf with pam-0.78 on gentoo

2006-01-11 Thread Nick Rosier
On 1/11/06, Tom E. Craddock Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rickard Borgmäster wrote: Nick Rosier wrote: AFAIK you need at least pam-0.78-r4 or -r5 which are not in portage; just search in the forums or on google for the ebuilds. And from the documentation the option should be rtprio.

Re: [mythtv-users] Upgrading mythweb to svn HEAD but not the backend

2006-01-11 Thread Chris Petersen
I could see in the new mythweb the ability to select the jobs to run as part of the schedule, but I want to run it once the recording is complete (i.e, I haven't had time to watch the latest episode of the simpsons on my TV, so kick off my user job to export it to my PDA for on the train).

Re: [mythtv-users] Can MythTV ignore the keyboard and only use a remote?

2006-01-11 Thread Schlaegel
On 1/10/06, Robin Gilks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I take it that this is the only PC you will be using? Anyway, the recording part of Mythtv is handled by the 'backend' and the display (selecting what to record, playing it back etc) is handled by a seperate 'frontend' program. Note that only

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR 350 all of a sudden static

2006-01-11 Thread Michael T. Dean
Steven Willis wrote: So, everything's been running fairly well with mythtv for a while, and then all of a sudden I'm just getting static from my tuner. The playback is fine, I can play previously recorded programs just fine, but watching live tv, or recording new programs gives me static. I've

Re: [mythtv-users] A couple of (theoretically) simple questions from a new user

2006-01-11 Thread Michael T. Dean
Jake wrote: On 1/10/06, Michael Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just started using MythTV recently (I use mythtv-0.18.1-r1 on a Gentoo system.) My recordings brightness level is too high. I could've sworn that when I was exploring through the mythfrontend (or might have been mythbackend

Re: [mythtv-users] Can MythTV ignore the keyboard and only use a remote?

2006-01-11 Thread Michael T. Dean
Schlaegel wrote: On 1/10/06, Steve Hodge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You want to have a keyboard and mouse connected, but not used by MythTV, right? You should be able to do this by giving MythTV it's own ServerLayout section in the X config file. Basically you can tell X that one screen, the

Re: [mythtv-users] Australian DVB-T resolution

2006-01-11 Thread Johan Venter
Phill Edwards wrote: I installed linux-dvb-utils and ran this scan command (I'm in Sydney): # scan /usr/share/doc/linuxtv-dvb-apps-1.1.0/examples/scan/dvb-t/au-sydney_north_shore But I don't the output Eyal showed. I get stuff like this which doesn't show things like resolution, aspect

Re: [mythtv-users] NFS or SAMBA for Video Stream

2006-01-11 Thread Michael T. Dean
James C. Dastrup wrote: Movies ripped by mythtv don't require much bandwidth at all to play - I would be surprised if it had anything to do with NFS vs SAMBA and proper tuning. Have you verified that there is no pause if you were to play them from a local HDD relative to the frontend? Can you

Re: [mythtv-users] Centralized NFS (NAS?) video partition

2006-01-11 Thread David
David Bennett wrote: If you want to buy an off-the-shelf NAS then that's different. Do you think that is a viable option? I can't help but thinking if I have this backend (a fairly large case too!), that I should use it to run as my backend, and run a few drives in it on a RAID setup. On

Re: [mythtv-users] How to KEEP mythtv running when user exits

2006-01-11 Thread David
Brad DerManouelian wrote: On Jan 10, 2006, at 7:50 PM, John Biundo wrote: Hi all. I've got mythtv starting up automatically upon boot (by running mythfrontend in user mythtv's .xsession). No problem there. But when my wife/kids exit from the top menu by mistake (one too many exit button

[mythtv-users] Mythburn revisited - close but no cigar

2006-01-11 Thread Neil Bird
[Using PVR-350] Following on from my previous thread where I was failing to get projectx to do anything, I finally tracked it down to my 'projectx' starter script not passing args ($@) to the java runtime. I've added that and it's now doing stuff. However, the first thing I

Re: [mythtv-users] How to KEEP mythtv running when user exits

2006-01-11 Thread John Biundo
Thanks for all the great suggestions. I'll put 'em to use tomorrow. Cheers, john ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

Re: [mythtv-users] Problems with Mounting DVDs

2006-01-11 Thread Mark Rissberger
Brad DerManouelian wrote: On Jan 8, 2006, at 6:35 PM, Michael T. Dean wrote: Brad DerManouelian wrote: On Jan 8, 2006, at 2:50 PM, Mark Rissberger wrote: I'm pretty sure that they are all encrypted. Even if they were encrypted, they should still mount, right? The only problem

Re: [mythtv-users] Problems with Mounting DVDs

2006-01-11 Thread Brad DerManouelian
On Jan 11, 2006, at 6:55 AM, Mark Rissberger wrote: Brad DerManouelian wrote: On Jan 8, 2006, at 6:35 PM, Michael T. Dean wrote: Brad DerManouelian wrote: On Jan 8, 2006, at 2:50 PM, Mark Rissberger wrote: I'm pretty sure that they are all encrypted. Even if they were encrypted, they

Re: [mythtv-users] Problems with Mounting DVDs

2006-01-11 Thread Mark Rissberger
Brad DerManouelian wrote: On Jan 11, 2006, at 6:55 AM, Mark Rissberger wrote: Brad DerManouelian wrote: On Jan 8, 2006, at 6:35 PM, Michael T. Dean wrote: Brad DerManouelian wrote: On Jan 8, 2006, at 2:50 PM, Mark Rissberger wrote: I'm pretty sure that

Re: [mythtv-users] Problems with Mounting DVDs

2006-01-11 Thread Brad DerManouelian
On Jan 11, 2006, at 7:11 AM, Mark Rissberger wrote: Brad DerManouelian wrote: On Jan 11, 2006, at 6:55 AM, Mark Rissberger wrote: Brad DerManouelian wrote: On Jan 8, 2006, at 6:35 PM, Michael T. Dean wrote: Brad DerManouelian wrote: On Jan 8, 2006, at 2:50 PM, Mark Rissberger wrote:

[mythtv-users] BO interfacing

2006-01-11 Thread Ivor Hewitt
Hi, Just curious who's interested in this topic (if anyone)... I've created an interface to provide a PC interface with a BO system. The current design (http://www.ivor.it/beolink) allows you to read the non-standard BEO4 infra-red remote control signals, but the interface can also be used to

Re: [mythtv-users] fusionhdtv 5 lite -- how do i make it work?

2006-01-11 Thread Michael Freeman
the channel is set properly. everything is set properly. On 1/11/06, James C. Dastrup [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i just added a fusionhdtv 5 lite to my box...linux knows it's there, it can pick up channels with a scan, and mythfilldatabase has been run. yet when i tune to it, iget

[mythtv-users] Has somebody got a *complete* list of dependencies for mythburn?

2006-01-11 Thread Thomas R. Bruce
Crew: I've been trying to get mythburn running. This appears to be a matter of getting it from CVS and then trying to follow a progression of bug-stomps reported via various discussion spaces. I'm having trouble doing this, for a couple of reasons strongly tied to my own ignorance about how

Re: [mythtv-users] Problems with Mounting DVDs

2006-01-11 Thread Phill Edwards
Of course I could just be making that up. It's been a while... I noticed that I don't have a .kde/Autostart/Autorun.desktop file so that very well could have something to do with it. Thinking about it deeper, noauto might have something to do with LVM? I used to have an issue booting with a

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR 350 all of a sudden static

2006-01-11 Thread Steven Willis
Sounds like tuner module problems. Although you could fix it, wouldn't it be a lot easier to buy a composite or S-Video cable? Well my cable box has only coax and composite out, and the pvr350 has only coax and svideo in, so I'm kinda stuck with coax. I actually like this solution because I

[mythtv-users] Shortening Messages - Was: Re: Problems with Mounting DVDs

2006-01-11 Thread Brian Wood
At last - somebody who knows how to use an editor :-) A lot of threads on this list wind up with 8 or more levels of quoting, including the list footers every time, so I don't mean to pick on this particular thread, but could folks *please* at least edit out the unneeded footers, as well as

Re: [mythtv-users] mythtv with a pvr-350 on fedora 4

2006-01-11 Thread Dan Adams
Okay, thanks. I'll give that a try when I get home tonight. I already have the rest of my system pretty much ready to go (including mythtv) so i'm psyched to get this working. On Tue, 2006-01-10 at 19:25 -0500, Michael T. Dean wrote: Leigh wrote: Dan Adams wrote: Hey, I've got a new

[mythtv-users] Barebones Systems - Opinions on the Pundit

2006-01-11 Thread Philip Isaacs
I'm thinking about switching my hardware (p4 2.4 mhz, PVR 350) over over to a small form machine. I have my eye on the ASUS Pundit-R350. I was wondering what people think of these machines and how well does the TV out (on board ATI 9100) work with KnoppMyth? Thanks is advance. -- Philip

[mythtv-users] Problems with detecting duplicate recordings due to subtle detail changes

2006-01-11 Thread Ant Daniel
Hi, Below is a few examples of shows which are flagged in my scheduler to be recorded even though their the same episode. 1) Title: Lost Episode: 24/25 - Exodus 2/3 Description: Drama series following the survivors of a plane crash who are forced to live with each other on a remote island, a

Re: [mythtv-users] Import DVD audio sync issues

2006-01-11 Thread Nathan Allen Stratton
On Tue, 10 Jan 2006, Nathan Allen Stratton wrote: Uh.. I am running latest SVN and having major audio sync issues with MythVideo. I have about a hundred DVDs I want to import, and so far the first dozen all have audio sync problems. Would fmpeg solve this issue?

Re: [mythtv-users] Odds of Linux CableCARD support?

2006-01-11 Thread Jason Werpy
On 1/10/06, Joe Votour [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Yeechang Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jonathan Oexner [EMAIL PROTECTED] says: Yeah, I was happy to learn that RCN Boston doesn't use 5C encryption. I'm happy to report that RCN San Francisco does not either. Once CableCARD 2.0 ships, what do

[mythtv-users] Hauppauge PVR Questions

2006-01-11 Thread Joseph Faisal Nusairat
I am sure this has been answered before, i tried to look through the archive but couldnt find the answer.Basically 2 i hope fairly simple questions that i keep getting conflicting answers from.1) IS the PVR-250 MUCH better than the 150?? Seemed in a few screen shots on web sites it appeared to me.

Re: [mythtv-users] Hauppauge PVR Questions

2006-01-11 Thread Morten Rønseth
Joseph Faisal Nusairat wrote: I am sure this has been answered before, i tried to look through the archive but couldnt find the answer. Basically 2 i hope fairly simple questions that i keep getting conflicting answers from. 1) IS the PVR-250 MUCH better than the 150?? Seemed in a few

Re: [mythtv-users] TV Display shows menu but not video

2006-01-11 Thread cardboil
Jason: I had exactly the same problem. The issue is with the ATI drivers and it's TV out support -- you will actually see some XVideo related errors in the mythfrontend log when you try to switch to any video output in Myth. Are you using the ati-fglrx drivers? What does your xorg.conf look

Re: [mythtv-users] fusionhdtv 5 lite -- how do i make it work?

2006-01-11 Thread Mudit Wahal
On 1/10/06, Michael Freeman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i just added a fusionhdtv 5 lite to my box...linux knows it's there, it can pick up channels with a scan, and mythfilldatabase has been run. yet when i tune to it, i get nothing...blackness and then mythfrontend drops back to the main menu.

Re: [mythtv-users] Slightly OT: receiver input buzzing/humming

2006-01-11 Thread matthew . garman
On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 10:18:00PM -0800, Steve Briggs wrote: What generally works to reduce the noise is to get a good heavy piece of wire (say #12 stranded or better) and screw it to both the chassis of the myth box and the stereo reciever. This provides a lower impedance path and gets the

Re: [mythtv-users] Problems with detecting duplicate recordings due to subtle detail changes

2006-01-11 Thread Peter Dash
This is something that I've found annoying as well so I think it's a great idea :) These look a lot like Radio Times listings in the UK (which I'm using as well) and I'm not sure it affects any of the other grabbers - I know for example that while I was using the EIT listings from DVB these

Re: [mythtv-users] Hauppauge PVR Questions

2006-01-11 Thread Joseph Faisal Nusairat
Thanks.I appreciate it. So this begs the question, what does the 250 have that makes it more special?FYI - sorry mod, i replied to this originally from the wrong account On 1/11/06, Morten Rønseth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joseph Faisal Nusairat wrote: I am sure this has been

Re: [mythtv-users] Nvidia decodes H.264 in hardware

2006-01-11 Thread Steve Adeff
On Wednesday 11 January 2006 01:48, Alex wrote: On 1/9/06, Steve Adeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lets see if this makes it to linux, and if overlays will still work... http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2006/01/07/nvidia_decode_h264 -- Steve Don't expect to see HW overlay(s) in 6600 and

Re: [mythtv-users] Hauppauge PVR Questions

2006-01-11 Thread Kevin Kuphal
Joseph Faisal Nusairat wrote: Thanks. I appreciate it. So this begs the question, what does the 250 have that makes it more special? Who says the 250 is special? It simply is the original and thus has had the best driver support. I have a PVR-150 and PVR-500 in my systems and they work

Re: [mythtv-users] Problems with detecting duplicate recordings due to subtle detail changes

2006-01-11 Thread Tom Hughes
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ant Daniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Title: Lost Episode: 24/25 - Exodus 2/3 Description: Drama series following the survivors of a plane crash who are forced to live with each other on a remote island, a dangerous world with many new threats. The column

Re: [mythtv-users] Barebones Systems - Opinions on the Pundit

2006-01-11 Thread Greg Woods
On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 09:26 -0500, Philip Isaacs wrote: I have my eye on the ASUS Pundit-R350. I've got one of those. It works great as a frontend and occasional slave backend (it's got a PVR-150 in it which is mainly only used for watching live TV and for the rare occasions when I record three

Re: [mythtv-users] Problems with detecting duplicate recordings due to subtle detail changes

2006-01-11 Thread Ant Daniel
On 11/01/06, Peter Dash [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is something that I've found annoying as well so I think it's a great idea :) These look a lot like Radio Times listings in the UK (which I'm using as well) and I'm not sure it affects any of the other grabbers - I know for example that

Re: [mythtv-users] Does mythtv support 1080p?

2006-01-11 Thread Chris Lynch
On 1/10/06, Greg Kovacs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I'm new to linux support of pvr's. I've done a little research though and from what I can tell MythTv is the most functional and stable; plus, it allows for multiple inputs and outputs. But I haven't been able to find out whether or not

Re: [mythtv-users] Problems with detecting duplicate recordings due to subtle detail changes

2006-01-11 Thread Ant Daniel
On 11/01/06, Tom Hughes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ant Daniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Title: Lost Episode: 24/25 - Exodus 2/3 Description: Drama series following the survivors of a plane crash who are forced to live with each other on a remote island,

Re: [mythtv-users] Anyway to tune a channel 125 on pvr-150?

2006-01-11 Thread Rodney D. Myers
On Tue, 10 Jan 2006 23:17:17 -0500 Phil Bridges [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In order to get MythTV to change the channels, you need the IRBlaster configured and in there. Otherwise, with MythTV configured to listen on the S-Video input, you'll always get the same channel, unless

Re: [mythtv-users] question about RAID

2006-01-11 Thread Steve Adeff
On Tuesday 10 January 2006 04:11, David wrote: James C. Dastrup wrote: mdadm RAID 0 with 3 drives, JFS (my favorite) or XFS file system. Some may disagree, but in such a simple setup, I don't see any reason to add lvm on top of this RAID array, but others may prefer it. Also note, I don't

Re: [mythtv-users] Problems with detecting duplicate recordings due to subtle detail changes

2006-01-11 Thread Ant Daniel
A correction to my own analysis :$ 2) Title: Star Trek: Enterprise Episode: Broken Bow Description: Prequel `Star Trek' series, set 100 years before the time of Captain Kirk, when interstellar travel is in its infancy. In the pilot episode, the Enterprise sets off on her maiden voyage to

Re: [mythtv-users] fusionhdtv 5 lite -- how do i make it work?

2006-01-11 Thread Matt Redmon
Check that your channel information is correct. I had to manual set my frequency/mplexid/serviceid in the database. The channel scan didn't work for me. I just set mine up yesterday and love the quality of the picture. Wow. Now to get my M179 to work in the same box. If it helps, I used the

Re: [mythtv-users] Anyway to tune a channel 125 on pvr-150?

2006-01-11 Thread R. G. Newbury
Joe Votour wrote: --- John Biundo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry for the newbie question, and I think I know the answer, but I thought I'd ask. I can tune channel 407, which isn't even listed in my program lineup, on my basic analog cable package. I use a STB - mainly for the program

[mythtv-users] ivtv and dvb living together in same box

2006-01-11 Thread mrwester
I'm in the process of setting up a new mythtv system and am having trouble getting ivtv-0.4.1 for my PVR-350 and PVR-500 and dvb kernel module from cvs of yesterday for a DViCO FusionHDTV5 lite to cooperate. I used to have all 3 cards working in an older installation- with older cvs of DVB but

Re: [mythtv-users] Partly OT - recording DCT-6412 content via firewire onto Linux box.

2006-01-11 Thread N Dugas
Steve Adeff wrote: On Tuesday 10 January 2006 22:39, N Dugas wrote: Steve Adeff wrote: On Monday 09 January 2006 22:03, N Dugas wrote: Hi all, I've managed to get my Gentoo box (new Myth box in process of being built) to be able to see my DCT-6412. Recently, I recorded a PPV and would like

Re: [mythtv-users] Odds of Linux CableCARD support?

2006-01-11 Thread Joe Votour
--- Jason Werpy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/10/06, Joe Votour [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Yeechang Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jonathan Oexner [EMAIL PROTECTED] says: Yeah, I was happy to learn that RCN Boston doesn't use 5C encryption. I'm happy to report

Re: [mythtv-users] ivtv and dvb living together in same box

2006-01-11 Thread Brian Wood
I'm not going to quote all of those logs, but I can tell you that I have a PVR-150, a PVR-350 and an HD-3000 card and I'm using ivtv 0.4.0 and the built-in kernel DVB stuff and it all seems to more or less work together. I was using a Win-TV (bttv) card with the above cards and that ran me

Re: [mythtv-users] Barebones Systems - Opinions on the Pundit

2006-01-11 Thread Philip Isaacs
Thanks for the feedback. Did you have any trouble setting up the ATI video card under Linux? I'm just curious because I heard mix reviews. Thanks PS What is a slave backend? Greg Woods wrote: On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 09:26 -0500, Philip Isaacs wrote: I have my eye on the ASUS

Re: [mythtv-users] Shortening Messages - Was: Re: Problems with

2006-01-11 Thread Chris Pinkham
formatting left in to make a point At last - somebody who knows how to use an editor :-) A lot of threads on this list wind up with 8 or more levels of quoting, including the list footers every time, so I don't mean to pick on this particular thread, but could folks *please* at least

Re: [mythtv-users] Shortening Messages - Was: Re: Problems with

2006-01-11 Thread Brian Wood
On Jan 11, 2006, at 10:32 AM, Chris Pinkham wrote: SARCASM Comments on knowing how to use an editor and tedius reading from someone who top-posts??? ;) /SARCASM Point well taken, but I hope mine was as well. ___ mythtv-users mailing list

Re: [mythtv-users] Slightly OT: receiver input buzzing/humming

2006-01-11 Thread Steve Adeff
On Wednesday 11 January 2006 10:12, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After I posted the message, however, I started reading about SPDIF and digital audio IO. Looks like my 7NIF2 lacks the SPDIF header on the motherboard. But I *do* have a Creative SoundBlaster Live in my pile of old components.

Re: [mythtv-users] ivtv and dvb living together in same box

2006-01-11 Thread casey dunn
On 1/11/06, Brian Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I believe there are problems using the bttv and dvb stuff at the sametime. Works fine here (WintvGO + Air2PC). Somehow, every time they improve the kernel I wind up spending many hours just trying to get things working the way they used to:-)I

Re: [mythtv-users] Odds of Linux CableCARD support?

2006-01-11 Thread Steve Adeff
On Wednesday 11 January 2006 12:21, Joe Votour wrote: --- Jason Werpy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/10/06, Joe Votour [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Yeechang Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jonathan Oexner [EMAIL PROTECTED] says: Yeah, I was happy to learn that RCN Boston doesn't

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR500 static on both tuners

2006-01-11 Thread Marius Schrecker
Does anyone have some straightforward instructions to get my PVR500 working under knoppmyth r5a30 ? I originally had a PVR-350 but removed it in order to troubleshoot this problem. I have installed the IVTV drivers Ver. 0.4.1 I have copied my firmware to all of the places mentioned in the

Re: [mythtv-users] Nvidia decodes H.264 in hardware

2006-01-11 Thread Alex
On 1/11/06, Steve Adeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: any idea what they will be using? I don't know much of these things, so howwill overlays work with the newer cores? The traditional overlay would handle YUV to RGB conversion, scaling, color control, and keying. I don't have in depth knowledge of

Re: [mythtv-users] Partly OT - recording DCT-6412 content via firewire onto Linux box.

2006-01-11 Thread Steve Adeff
On Wednesday 11 January 2006 12:19, N Dugas wrote: Steve Adeff wrote: On Tuesday 10 January 2006 22:39, N Dugas wrote: Steve Adeff wrote: On Monday 09 January 2006 22:03, N Dugas wrote: Hi all, I've managed to get my Gentoo box (new Myth box in process of being built) to be able to see

Re: [mythtv-users] Shortening Messages - Was: Re: Problems with

2006-01-11 Thread Chris Pinkham
SARCASM Point well taken, but I hope mine was as well. Yes. It seems like the frequency of 100+ line quoted posts with a 1-line reply appended has increased recently, but maybe I've just been more annoyed by them recently. :) Would be nice to have a script that I could call from .procmailrc

Re: [mythtv-users] limits.conf for realtime priority

2006-01-11 Thread Marius Schrecker
According to http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-5.html#ss5.4 I can set up realtime priority using: * - rt_priority 0 * - nice0 @audio - rt_priority 50 @audio - nice0 According to

[mythtv-users] Versions, Was: ivtv and dvb living together in same box

2006-01-11 Thread Brian Wood
On Jan 11, 2006, at 10:44 AM, casey dunn wrote:On 1/11/06, Brian Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What we have to do is not upgrade once we've got a' working' config.  It's like the livetv fixes.  If you stayed out of SVN you where fine, nothing broke. I agree with the versioning comment, it was a

Re: [mythtv-users] Partly OT - recording DCT-6412 content via firewire onto Linux box.

2006-01-11 Thread N Dugas
Steve Adeff wrote: On Wednesday 11 January 2006 12:19, N Dugas wrote: Steve Adeff wrote: On Tuesday 10 January 2006 22:39, N Dugas wrote: Steve Adeff wrote: On Monday 09 January 2006 22:03, N Dugas wrote: Hi all, I've managed to get my Gentoo box (new Myth box in process of being built) to

Re: [mythtv-users] Partly OT - recording DCT-6412 content via firewire onto Linux box.

2006-01-11 Thread N Dugas
N Dugas wrote: Steve Adeff wrote: On Wednesday 11 January 2006 12:19, N Dugas wrote: Steve Adeff wrote: On Tuesday 10 January 2006 22:39, N Dugas wrote: Steve Adeff wrote: On Monday 09 January 2006 22:03, N Dugas wrote: Hi all, I've managed to get my Gentoo box (new Myth box in

Re: [mythtv-users] ivtv0 warning: ENC Stream 0 OVERFLOW

2006-01-11 Thread Al McIntosh
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Jan 07, 2006 at 09:34:41AM -0500, Al McIntosh wrote: Dec 15 07:28:27 mythbox kernel: ivtv0 warning: ENC Stream 0 OVERFLOW #2: Stealing a Buf fer, 512 currently allocated More memory does not appear to help. Did anyone manage a fix for this?

Re: [mythtv-users] Revised MythTV Subversion ebuilds for Gentoo available

2006-01-11 Thread Scott Alfter
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chad wrote: On 1/10/06, Scott Alfter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The MythTV Subversion ebuild I obtained from Gentoo Bugzilla won't build MythTV with FireWire support because the dependencies are incorrect/outdated. I don't know if someone else has

Re: [mythtv-users] Revised MythTV Subversion ebuilds for Gentoo available

2006-01-11 Thread Preston Crow
On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 10:43 -0800, Scott Alfter wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chad wrote: On 1/10/06, Scott Alfter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The MythTV Subversion ebuild I obtained from Gentoo Bugzilla won't build MythTV with FireWire support because the

[mythtv-users] Fedora-based diskless frontends -- anybody have one working?

2006-01-11 Thread Sean Cier
I'm wondering if anybody's successfully set up a Fedora-based diskless frontend booting over the network. I'm trying to get an ATRPMS-based (pretty much Jarod's-guide-style) FC4 machine booting up over the net and mounting the root read/write over NFS -- not because I don't have a spare

Re: [mythtv-users] Revised MythTV Subversion ebuilds f or Gentoo available

2006-01-11 Thread Isaac Richards
On Wednesday 11 January 2006 13:46, Preston Crow wrote: On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 10:43 -0800, Scott Alfter wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chad wrote: On 1/10/06, Scott Alfter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The MythTV Subversion ebuild I obtained from Gentoo Bugzilla

[mythtv-users] Static, static, static on every channel

2006-01-11 Thread H P Ladds
Installing Mythtv for the first time -- G. 1st Problem (as indicated by my mythbackend error messages below) seems to be that I don't have the correct encoding set up or the correct codec for my ATI Wonder VE card: 2006-01-11 13:23:35.164 Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV 2006-01-11

Re: [mythtv-users] Revised MythTV Subversion ebuilds for Gentoo available

2006-01-11 Thread Trey Boudreau
On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 01:46:28PM -0500, Preston Crow wrote: On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 10:43 -0800, Scott Alfter wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chad wrote: On 1/10/06, Scott Alfter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The MythTV Subversion ebuild I obtained from Gentoo

Re: [mythtv-users] How to KEEP mythtv running when user exits

2006-01-11 Thread MythTV
Jarod's how-to under Tips and Tricks Make Myth more Wife friendly (http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/tips.php) has a technique to make a button the remote restart the frontend. - Todd -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

Re: [mythtv-users] Does mythtv support 1080p?

2006-01-11 Thread Michael T. Dean
Chris Lynch wrote: You can get 1080p working - I have it up and running on my box. The biggest thing to keep in mind is a CPU powerful enough to play back 1080p (3Ghz+ is a good idea I think), a video board that can output the resolution and has DVI on it Only if your TV supports 1080p

Re: [mythtv-users] Barebones Systems - Opinions on the Pundit

2006-01-11 Thread MythTV
Not sure about that model, but I'm happy with my Pundit-AB except that the SPDIF output is on the front panel. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Philip Isaacs Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2006 12:32 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Discussion about

Re: [mythtv-users] Revised MythTV Subversion ebuilds f or Gentoo available

2006-01-11 Thread Isaac Richards
On Wednesday 11 January 2006 14:08, Trey Boudreau wrote: On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 01:46:28PM -0500, Preston Crow wrote: Yup, that's why I haven't updated it, even though I've made few fixes, such as supporting new plugins and fixing mythfrontend-svn to build the frontend only instead of the

Re: [mythtv-users] Barebones Systems - Opinions on the Pundit

2006-01-11 Thread Greg Woods
On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 12:31 -0500, Philip Isaacs wrote: Did you have any trouble setting up the ATI video card under Linux? None at all. You have to download the driver from the ATI web site and run their configuration program. I'm just curious because I heard mix reviews. Most of the bad

[mythtv-users] Suspend options with mythtv

2006-01-11 Thread Mark J. Small
HI everybody, I've been thinking about the things that still bother me about my mythtv setup, and the worst one is definately boot time on the frontend. It takes my P3-733 a couple of minutes to boot fully in to mythtv. I was hoping that some sort of hibernation/suspend to disk setup would

Re: [mythtv-users] Static, static, static on every channel

2006-01-11 Thread Michael T. Dean
H P Ladds wrote: 2nd problem (as indicated by mythfrontend error messages): I don't have a remote, so I didn't even try to set up lirc. Is that the problem? 2006-01-11 13:49:41.198 mythfrontend version: 0.18.2.20051227-1 www.mythtv.org 2006-01-11 13:49:41.198 Enabled verbose msgs : important

Re: [mythtv-users] Hauppauge PVR Questions

2006-01-11 Thread Michael T. Dean
Joseph Faisal Nusairat wrote: I appreciate it. So this begs the question, what does the 250 have that makes it more special? More parts (giving no extra functionality) and is a better heater than the 150. It's an older design, so it uses 2 chips where the 150 uses 1. Also, the 250 will

Re: [mythtv-users] Does mythtv support 1080p?

2006-01-11 Thread Michael Chmilar
The 1920x1200 computer monitors (like Apple's 23 Cinema monitor, or others from Dell, Samsung, etc.) all do 1920x1200 over single-link DVI. Why are TV's any different? Chris Lynch wrote: a single-link DVI connection only supports 1080i and a dual-link DVI connection is required for 1080p.

Re: [mythtv-users] Does mythtv support 1080p?

2006-01-11 Thread Steve Adeff
On Wednesday 11 January 2006 14:21, Michael T. Dean wrote: Chris Lynch wrote: You can get 1080p working - I have it up and running on my box. The biggest thing to keep in mind is a CPU powerful enough to play back 1080p (3Ghz+ is a good idea I think), a video board that can output the

Re: [mythtv-users] List etiquette re: selling something on the list.

2006-01-11 Thread Tom Lichti
Petr Stehlik wrote: Tom Lichti píše v Út 10. 01. 2006 v 11:49 -0500: I have a couple of items that I no longer need and that are really of use only to someone running MythTV and I know someone here can probably use them. Or should I just put it on ebay and hope someone here sees it?

Re: [mythtv-users] How to KEEP mythtv running when user exits

2006-01-11 Thread Matt Mossholder
I don't know why everyone keeps focusing on restarting myth, when what is actually needed is to solve the root cause as mentioned here: But when my wife/kids exit from the top menu by mistake (one too many exit button presses) they're left at the befuddling command prompt. All you need to do is

Re: [mythtv-users] Hauppauge PVR Questions

2006-01-11 Thread Greg Estabrooks
the 150. It's an older design, so it uses 2 chips where the 150 uses 1. I thought it was the other way around. That with the 150's they placed a chip in front of the encoder that the 250's didn't have. That way drivers just had to talk to the front chip rather than directly to the encoder.

Re: [mythtv-users] Hauppauge PVR Questions

2006-01-11 Thread MagicITX
On 1/11/06, Michael T. Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joseph Faisal Nusairat wrote: I appreciate it. So this begs the question, what does the 250 have that makes it more special?More parts (giving no extra functionality) and is a better heater than the 150.It's an older design, so it uses 2 chips

Re: [mythtv-users] Playing back PVR500 recordings on PVR350 decoder

2006-01-11 Thread Ole Andre Schistad
Les Gondor wrote: Ole Andre Schistad wrote: I recently added a PVR500 to my existing mythtv box, and am hoping there is a way to play back all recordings using the hardware decoder chip on the 350. My primary reason for this is simply that mpeg2 looks much better when output through the HW

Re: [mythtv-users] Suspend options with mythtv

2006-01-11 Thread James C. Dastrup
HI everybody, I've been thinking about the things that still bother me about my mythtv setup, and the worst one is definately boot time on the frontend. It takes my P3-733 a couple of minutes to boot fully in to mythtv. I was hoping that some sort of hibernation/suspend to disk setup would

Re: [mythtv-users] Suspend options with mythtv

2006-01-11 Thread Mark J. Small
On January 11, 2006 03:51 pm, James C. Dastrup wrote: HI everybody, I've been thinking about the things that still bother me about my mythtv setup, and the worst one is definately boot time on the frontend. It takes my P3-733 a couple of minutes to boot fully in to mythtv. I was hoping

[mythtv-users] AV sync and PVR-150

2006-01-11 Thread James C. Dastrup
I know this topic has been discussed before, so if someone can direct me to a previous thread that addressed my exact issue, let me know. I couldn't find one. I have a PVR-150 and every recording it makes has an audio delay of exactly 111 ms. How do I know the exact amount? Because when I open

Re: [mythtv-users] Watch Videos

2006-01-11 Thread Joseph A. Caputo
On Monday 09 January 2006 17:43, David Abrahams wrote: I'm not doing that. In the SVN at least, when you fire up Watch Videos you get complaints about all the videos that are known to the backend database but can't be found in the local filesystem. Only a common mountpoint can cure that

[mythtv-users] Questionaire: What do you have your case power button do?

2006-01-11 Thread Steve Adeff
So I just discovered that with ACPI I can control what my case's power button does. I have a combined fe/be so I don't want it to turn off or go to sleep or anything, so right now I just have it setup as a backup killall mythfrontend in case mythfrontend crashes without restarting (which it

Re: [mythtv-users] Versions, Was: ivtv and dvb living together in same box

2006-01-11 Thread Jason Beck
--- Brian Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 11, 2006, at 10:44 AM, casey dunn wrote: On 1/11/06, Brian Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What we have to do is not upgrade once we've got a' working' config. It's like the livetv fixes. If you stayed out of SVN you where

Re: [mythtv-users] How to KEEP mythtv running when user exits

2006-01-11 Thread Brad Fuller
Matt Mossholder wrote: I don't know why everyone keeps focusing on restarting myth, when what is actually needed is to solve the root cause as mentioned here: But when my wife/kids exit from the top menu by mistake (one too many exit button presses) they're left at the befuddling command

Re: [mythtv-users] Static, static, static on every channel

2006-01-11 Thread Wendy Seltzer
On 1/11/06, H P Ladds [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Installing Mythtv for the first time -- G.1st Problem (as indicated by my mythbackend error messages below)seems to be that I don't have the correct encoding set up or thecorrect codec for my ATI Wonder VE card: 2006-01-11 13:23:35.164 Changing

[mythtv-users] ALSA and onboard sound card (ASUS A8V Deluxe with VIA K8T800Pro)

2006-01-11 Thread Joacim J
It has a onboard Realtek ALC850 8-channels CODEC with S/PDIF. When shutting down the sound server in FC4 as described in Jarods guide the 5.1 sound disappears. Does anyone have this motherboard and using ALSA with S/PDIF? If so can you post your .asoundrc file? My is taken from

Re: [mythtv-users] [linux-dvb] ivtv and dvb living together in same box

2006-01-11 Thread mrwester
Mike,Please post your modprobe.conf.-jason There are some commented items that are left over from old ivtv drivers... # cat /etc/modprobe.conf alias eth0 8139too alias char-major-61 lirc_i2c alias scsi_hostadapter sata_nv alias snd-card-0 snd-intel8x0 options snd-card-0 index=0 install

[mythtv-users] ATA 33 fast enough?

2006-01-11 Thread bic1
I have an old P 3 @ 450 mhz slot 1 cpu and an ATA 33 IDE / motherboard laying around. Is this fast enough for PVR 150? I am considering making it a backend with an AMD 1.2 ghz PVR 350 frontend. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org

Re: [mythtv-users] ALSA and onboard sound card (ASUS A8V Deluxe with VIA K8T800Pro)

2006-01-11 Thread Steve Adeff
On Wednesday 11 January 2006 15:49, Joacim J wrote: It has a onboard Realtek ALC850 8-channels CODEC with S/PDIF. When shutting down the sound server in FC4 as described in Jarods guide the 5.1 sound disappears. Does anyone have this motherboard and using ALSA with S/PDIF? If so can you post

Re: [mythtv-users] Odds of Linux CableCARD support?

2006-01-11 Thread Joe Votour
--- H P Ladds [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The cable companies will wind up killing shooting themselves in the foot if they're not careful. IPTV over DSL using MPEG-4 is steadily catching up. Will IPTV help us? The consortium of content producers (CableLabs) will still demand that the

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