[mythtv-users] Help with nforce2 sound?

2004-12-01 Thread Joseph A. Caputo
Okay, I'm definitely scratching my head on this one... I recently got a new Chaintech 7NIF2 mobo w/nForce2 (MCP) sound. Everything's good, except no matter what I do I can't control the volume! I've tried the i810 OSS driver (what FC1 detected), and I've also tried the nvsound.o module from

Re: [mythtv-users] Ideas for new MythTV Features

2004-12-02 Thread Joseph A. Caputo
On Thursday 02 December 2004 10:05, Randy Winchester wrote: The first idea is about making MythNews more useful. MythNews is a great idea, but a lot of the content doesn't look that great rendered in fonts too small to see on a television. MythNews already grabs the headlines for each of

Re: [mythtv-users] Bandwidth requirements MPEG2

2004-12-03 Thread Joseph A. Caputo
On Friday 03 December 2004 07:56, Michael J. Lynch wrote: 900 kbs != 4000 kbs AFAICT Um, you didn't read correctly... he said 900 KB/s (kiloBYTES), and 4000 kb/s (kiloBITS). 900 kBytes/s is approximately 7.4 Mbits/s (not sure about the conversions, but you get the idea...). The question

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: New MythTV Hardware Review

2004-12-06 Thread Joseph A. Caputo
On Monday 06 December 2004 02:54, Brad Templeton wrote: Sadly, the protocols include copy protection, so no open source decoding of the firewire stream. In theory, if they do non-protected firewire on the broadcast shows you could get that. I thought they were required to provide access to

Re: [mythtv-users] [OT] Mailing Lists...

2004-12-07 Thread Joseph A. Caputo
On Monday 06 December 2004 17:25, Steve Berryman wrote: i just dont see the advantages of mailing lists like this that are so busy. if we had a forum, dvb posts could be in one section, patches posted to another, and all things like that. how much easier would that make things?! if you want to

Re: [mythtv-users] End-user documentation?

2004-12-08 Thread Joseph A. Caputo
On Wednesday 08 December 2004 08:58, Rob Greene wrote: Is there a good source for end-user type documentation? (Like, to do this, go there?) I had MythTV working Friday night, tried to schedule some stuff, but nothing was happening. The mythtv.org site seems to be mostly install

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: New MythTV Hardware Review

2004-12-10 Thread Joseph A. Caputo
On Friday 10 December 2004 08:41, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry, I have to ask a stupid question... Anyway, the pcHDTV card we are all talking about is rumoured to have QAM support in development, so it could tune your cable and you would not need an antenna. As to when, who knows?

Re: [mythtv-users] Security concerns for my myth box

2004-12-16 Thread Joseph A. Caputo
On Wednesday 15 December 2004 23:29, Geoff Scott wrote: On Wed, 15 Dec 2004 18:54:03 -0600, Kevin Kuphal wrote: Craig Partin wrote: Since I have a Windows machine on my net I only open the RDP port to allow remote desktop access to my Windows box and then access everything else on my net

Re: 1394 and compressing analog Re: [mythtv-users] Beginner Question

2004-12-20 Thread Joseph A. Caputo
On Sunday 19 December 2004 16:00, Brad Templeton wrote: The bad news is those firewire streams out of the cable box or satellite box are going to be encrypted and/or the box will refuse to send them to any device that doesn't have the authentication codes

Re: 1394 and compressing analog Re: [mythtv-users] Beginner Question

2004-12-20 Thread Joseph A. Caputo
On Monday 20 December 2004 12:54, Joe Barnhart wrote: --- Joseph A. Caputo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was under the impression that the FCC mandate meant that the FIreWire output had to be unencrypted, though it could be downsampled to a lower resolution. So, you couldn't get HD

Re: [mythtv-users] Hard Crash while watching TV/Playback-Only when I push on the keyboard.

2004-12-20 Thread Joseph A. Caputo
On Monday 20 December 2004 12:58, Bruce M wrote: Ok, Well I think I found the problem. I compiled 0.15 and everything works perfectly. So what changed in 0.16 that would cause me problems? Any developers have any ideas? Hmmm, which Nvidia drivers are you using? IIRC, 0.16 introduced a new

Re: 1394 and compressing analog Re: [mythtv-users] Beginner Question

2004-12-20 Thread Joseph A. Caputo
On Monday 20 December 2004 15:08, Brad Templeton wrote: On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 01:19:46PM -0500, Joseph A. Caputo wrote: Oops. No matter, resolution isn't a big issue with me since I have a 60 projection TV with only composite and RF antenna inputs, so a high-def signal doesn't do much

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR250 or HD3000?

2004-12-20 Thread Joseph A. Caputo
On Monday 20 December 2004 15:24, Michael J. Lynch wrote: Preston Crow wrote: On Mon, 2004-12-20 at 14:56, Michael J. Lynch wrote: Other than cost, is there any reason to choose a PVR250 over a pchdtv hd3000 since the latter can MPEG2 encode both NTSC and ATSC? You need to go back and do

Re: [mythtv-users] Beginner Question

2004-12-20 Thread Joseph A. Caputo
On Monday 20 December 2004 15:19, Brad Templeton wrote: On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 10:54:32AM -0500, Joseph A. Caputo wrote: Again, AFAIK, there is no consumer-level HD analog capture solution. You can't capture HD over composite or S-Video, and a component video capture card would cost $USD

Re: [mythtv-users] Newbie Question(s)

2005-01-13 Thread Joseph A. Caputo
On Thursday 13 January 2005 13:22, Michael Haan wrote: htmldiv style='background-color:'DIV class=RTE PGood info, thanks.nbsp; This box is actually going to run more than just Myth, like my music system (A href=http://www.slimdevices.com;www.slimdevices.com/A) among other things.nbsp; I still

Re: [mythtv-users] FW: New Source Forge Project MythStreamTV

2005-01-18 Thread Joseph A. Caputo
On Tuesday 11 January 2005 23:55, Joshua Ebel wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Harondel J. Sibble Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2005 4:54 PM To: Discussion about mythtv Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] FW: New Source Forge Project

Re: [mythtv-users] FW: New Source Forge Project MythStreamTV

2005-01-18 Thread Joseph A. Caputo
On Tuesday 18 January 2005 14:16, Joshua Ebel wrote: You've assumed correctly. Unfortunately there is no support in Videolan Client for the MPEG-4/RTjpeg Nuppel video files. To avoid confusion, you might want to stop referring to the files produced by PVR-x50, ATSC or DVB cards as NuppelVideo.

Re: [mythtv-users] HDTV, Myth, HD-2000, HD-3000, questions galore (and hopefully answers from the smart people... )

2005-01-18 Thread Joseph A. Caputo
On Tuesday 18 January 2005 14:17, Michael Haan wrote: Other than trolling through forums, is there any other way to determine if my cable company encrypts or not? You could try asking them, but you might as well as ask a brick wall. By the time you found someone that you could speak with who

Re: [mythtv-users] FW: New Source Forge Project MythStreamTV

2005-01-19 Thread Joseph A. Caputo
On Wednesday 19 January 2005 11:58, Geoff Scott wrote: I've been having a hell of a time getting VLC to compile. I've used the ./configure options above (with the correct path for my ffmpeg tree) but get the following error: checking mpeg2dec/mpeg2.h usability... no checking

[mythtv-users] Looking for a *nix DAAP client player w/Ogg support

2005-01-19 Thread Joseph A. Caputo
So, I've got my Myth box serving out my music collection with mfd. Now I can use the mfe plugin (just for experimentation, mythmusic is still more mature...), and I can listen to music via iTunes on my wife's iBook. But, what do I use to access my collection from another Linux box? I have a

Re: [mythtv-users] FW: New Source Forge Project MythStreamTV

2005-01-19 Thread Joseph A. Caputo
On Wednesday 19 January 2005 15:01, Geoff Scott wrote: Ok, it's working, sort of ;) I won't go into the details of getting it work because frankly I'm ashamed to (read that, port forwarding of port 8001 should go to the Myth Box, and not another box on the network that isn't streaming a damn

Re: [mythtv-users] CableCard for the PC and MythTv

2005-01-27 Thread Joseph A. Caputo
On Thursday 27 January 2005 14:22, Peter Judge wrote: Hi, Does anyone know if there are plans to support CableCard within Myth? I guess this is a 2 part question. The first part being, are there any efforts out there to make a CableCard reader for the PC, and secondly, will Myth support

Re: [mythtv-users] Has anyone figured out how to foreground mplayer?

2005-01-28 Thread Joseph A. Caputo
On Friday 28 January 2005 16:03, Mike Green wrote: I am running mythtv 0.16, mythdvd, and mythvideo. No window manager, just launch mythfrontend on bootup via my .xinitrc. I am not using lirc, I went the wireless keyboard with universal learning remote route. I can run mplayer directly

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Has anyone figured out how to foreground mplayer?

2005-01-31 Thread Joseph A. Caputo
On Sunday 30 January 2005 12:06, Mike Green wrote: In any event, I don't believe there's any reason why you wouldn't be able to use Xv. Maybe it was my ivtv module that does not support Xv? Unless you're using the TV-out on a PVR-350, ivtv doesn't figure into it. It's for output only; it

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Has anyone figured out how to foreground mplayer?

2005-01-31 Thread Joseph A. Caputo
On Sunday 30 January 2005 12:06, Mike Green wrote: In any event, I don't believe there's any reason why you wouldn't be able to use Xv. Maybe it was my ivtv module that does not support Xv? Regardless, I have yet to find an answer to the mplayer foreground question. I have persued

Re: [mythtv-users] Sorry - This should have been - IR Blaster

2005-02-03 Thread Joseph A. Caputo
On Wednesday 02 February 2005 22:36, Mark Clement wrote: Hi All, Has anyone got the basic (LED/DIODE/RESISTOR) blaster working on a Dishnet 3000 or 4000 Receiver ? If so i would like to know what ledxmtd.conf file you are using Well, you changed the subject line, so I suppose that's

Re: [mythtv-users] Can the audio stream be split off and re-streamed ?

2005-02-03 Thread Joseph A. Caputo
On Thursday 03 February 2005 7:47, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings, Just an idea - I recently bought a squeezebox (http://www.slimdevices.com) which plays a lot of streaming formats... which got me to thinking (this is where the trouble begins :) ) Is there an easy way to split out

Re: [mythtv-users] is directfb only used for NuppelVideoPlayer?

2005-02-03 Thread Joseph A. Caputo
On Thursday 03 February 2005 12:48, Brian J. Murrell wrote: I'm trying to get mythtv 0.16 to work with directfb with little success. So in looking through the code, I am starting to get this feeling that DirectFB is only used in the actual NuppelVideoPlayer. Is that correct? How is the

Re: [mythtv-users] Thank You

2005-02-04 Thread Joseph A. Caputo
On Friday 04 February 2005 9:22, Andy Whitworth wrote: On Fri, 4 Feb 2005 08:19:14 -0500, Colin Smillie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Allan, I think you should read the link below, its not the NYT Article...

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: [mythtv] TWC / Brighthouse SA3250 and firewire support

2005-02-09 Thread Joseph A. Caputo
On Tuesday 08 February 2005 17:24, Ian Forde wrote: 3. I also saw mention that the video output (except analog/HD) is encrypted. Is this true? Not necessarily. In my case, it's coming through quite nicely and unencrypted. I believe the whole point of the FCC mandate to provide enabled

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: [mythtv] TWC / Brighthouse SA3250 and firewire support

2005-02-09 Thread Joseph A. Caputo
On Tuesday 08 February 2005 20:37, Ian Forde wrote: On Tue, 2005-02-08 at 19:40 -0500, wheaty wrote: I think I read somewhere that the firewire port can be disabled via software by the cable company? Yes, but that would be *ILLEGAL*. ;) No, it wouldn't be illegal. The firewire

Re: [mythtv-users] Mythstreamtv nuppel divx

2005-02-09 Thread Joseph A. Caputo
On Wednesday 09 February 2005 3:11, Chris Germano wrote: Alright so i've heard mythstream doesn't support nuppel divx files recorded using bttv cards because videolan doesn't support it. Well why can't mythtranscode be added as a layer here? nuppel divx - mythtranscode - mythstream -

Re: [mythtv-users] Cable Modem == Free Basic Cable.

2005-02-09 Thread Joseph A. Caputo
On Wednesday 09 February 2005 2:44, Jack Trout wrote: Sure it is. If I leave my car in your driveway with the keys in the ignition and the car running and you decide to take it for a test-drive can I report my car stolen? Just because they didn't put the filter on doesn't give

Re: [mythtv-users] Mythstreamtv nuppel divx

2005-02-09 Thread Joseph A. Caputo
On Wednesday 09 February 2005 13:57, Cory Papenfuss wrote: My question is how funky is the mythtv-modified .nuv file? It's not normal nuppelvideo, since even mplayer can't play it directly. Not sure; that question's out of my league. IIRC, the original NuppelVideo container was designed

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: [mythtv] TWC / Brighthouse SA3250 and firewire support

2005-02-09 Thread Joseph A. Caputo
On Wednesday 09 February 2005 15:29, Ian Forde wrote: On Wed, 2005-02-09 at 13:10 -0500, Joseph A. Caputo wrote: The cable companies are not required to provide HD resolution on the Firewire output. Most likely any HD content will be transcoded inside the cable box to, say, 480p

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: [mythtv] TWC / Brighthouse SA3250 and firewire support

2005-02-09 Thread Joseph A. Caputo
On Wednesday 09 February 2005 15:57, Joseph A. Caputo wrote: Right now you're getting some HD resolutions, but AFAIK the cable co. is not *required* to give you anything higher than HD, as long as the content is viewable. Ooops, that should read: not *required* to give you anything higher

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: [mythtv] TWC / Brighthouse SA3250 and firewire support

2005-02-09 Thread Joseph A. Caputo
On Wednesday 09 February 2005 16:10, Ian Forde wrote: On Wed, 2005-02-09 at 15:57 -0500, Joseph A. Caputo wrote: On Wednesday 09 February 2005 15:29, Ian Forde wrote: On Wed, 2005-02-09 at 13:10 -0500, Joseph A. Caputo wrote: The cable companies are not required to provide HD resolution

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: what feature for this?

2005-02-09 Thread Joseph A. Caputo
On Wednesday 09 February 2005 16:38, Neil wrote: Great! If that is just mythtv, how do I display that kind of screen in my setup? What key do I press on the keyboard to show that schedule? While watching LiveTV, press 'M', then select Program Guide. The same screen (without the LiveTV

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: what feature for this?

2005-02-10 Thread Joseph A. Caputo
On Wednesday 09 February 2005 22:05, Dan Christensen wrote: Dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The guide I get while watching Live TV is an overlay on the TV show currently being watched. Is there a different guide theme or whatever, that pops live TV up in the corner with the guide on

Re: [mythtv-users] TWC / Brighthouse SA3250 and firewire support

2005-02-10 Thread Joseph A. Caputo
On Wednesday 09 February 2005 17:14, Brad Templeton wrote: On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 01:20:28PM -0500, Joseph A. Caputo wrote: On Tuesday 08 February 2005 20:37, Ian Forde wrote: On Tue, 2005-02-08 at 19:40 -0500, wheaty wrote: I think I read somewhere that the firewire port can

Re: [mythtv-users] Can you get ota hd content over standard cable?

2005-02-11 Thread Joseph A. Caputo
Top-posting rearranged to protect the innocent :-) On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 17:48:05 -0500, William [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have time-warner cable here and was wondering if I could receive over the air hd content thru my cable connection without adding something like a cable box?

Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV Nuppel (.nuv) Patch for Current Version of MPLayer?

2005-02-11 Thread Joseph A. Caputo
On Friday 11 February 2005 12:53, Robin Elvin wrote: I have tried the current version of Mplayer on both Windows and Linux and it plays nuv files fine. Sounds like you have a bad installation. No, it sounds like _you_ have a PVR-x50, M-179, pcHDTVx000, Air2PC or DVB card. If you do, then

Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV Nuppel (.nuv) Patch for Current Version of MPLayer?

2005-02-11 Thread Joseph A. Caputo
On Friday 11 February 2005 14:54, Dave Misevich wrote: On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 13:55:10 -0500, Joseph A. Caputo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 11 February 2005 12:53, Robin Elvin wrote: I have tried the current version of Mplayer on both Windows and Linux and it plays nuv files

Re: [mythtv-users] Playing DVD Rips on PVR-350 TV Out

2005-02-11 Thread Joseph A. Caputo
On Friday 11 February 2005 15:03, Ronald Kohsman wrote: Any ideas why it does not work? It just shows loading What player command are you using? What kind of DVD rips; perfect (VOB or .iso), MPEG-2 or MPEG-4, mpeg or avi container? Are you telling it to use the PVR-350 output?

Re: Playlists (was: Re: [mythtv-users] 0.17)

2005-02-14 Thread Joseph A. Caputo
On Friday 11 February 2005 15:39, Brad Templeton wrote: Not that I don't think this is a fine ability to have when dumping to VHS tape, but the question that comes up in my mind is, why would you want to dump to VHS tape when blank DVDs are only about 30 cents? Umm, how about because not

Re: [mythtv-users] Playing DVD Rips on PVR-350 TV Out

2005-02-14 Thread Joseph A. Caputo
On Friday 11 February 2005 18:53, Ronald Kohsman wrote: Straight out of the can install myth. 16. Mpeg2 Mplayer -fs -zoom -quiet -vo ivtv %s -aid 128 So what output do you get when you run this command from a terminal window? -JAC ___

Re: [mythtv-users] Block Video Manager on Frontend?

2005-02-14 Thread Joseph A. Caputo
On Saturday 12 February 2005 0:52, TJ wrote: Well, just setup my frontend on OSX and what do you know? I accidentally go into video manager and destroy my whole database b/c it sets the place where the vid's are stored to my mac. So after a few hours of getting my backups, bypassing the

Re: [mythtv-users] Mono or stereo on Brooktree cards? 2-3 tuners? More Q..

2005-02-14 Thread Joseph A. Caputo
On Sunday 13 February 2005 8:35, Cory Papenfuss wrote: On Sat, 12 Feb 2005, colliepon wrote: Researcing into Bt848 and Bt878 based cards and a bit confused on some issues. From what I understand BT848 cards have NO audio built in and require a sound card to rip, but can rip

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Mono or stereo on Brooktree cards? 2-3 tuners? More Q..

2005-02-14 Thread Joseph A. Caputo
On Sunday 13 February 2005 12:22, colliepon wrote: Btw if this doesn't add to the correct thread someone please tell me (and also tell me how) No, it didn't show up in the correct thread. For threading to work, you must reply to the message. Composing a new message and copying the subject

Re: [mythtv-users] [OT] Air2PC with Cable Card?

2005-02-14 Thread Joseph A. Caputo
On Monday 14 February 2005 6:49, Cory Papenfuss wrote: Really doubt this becomes available before July 05, which is when the broadcast flag comes into effect. Even if it comes out afterwards, I doubt myth will be able to use any card that obeys the boradcast flag. So you will

Re: [mythtv-users] [OT] Air2PC with Cable Card?

2005-02-14 Thread Joseph A. Caputo
On Monday 14 February 2005 12:19, Tom E. Craddock, Jr. wrote: Joseph A. Caputo wrote: Kind of ironic, but I have to say it's quite possible that Microsoft might actually be a help in this... for Windows MCE to suceed in the long-term, it's going to need to be able to record play back

Re: [mythtv-users] [OT] Air2PC with Cable Card?

2005-02-14 Thread Joseph A. Caputo
On Monday 14 February 2005 14:20, Cory Papenfuss wrote: I would be perfectly happy tuning and storing the fully encrypted datastream under myth. For playback, just send it to the TV with a cable card and let it decrypt it. This would possibly mean I can't share my programs with

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: MythTV and Commercial Skipping

2005-02-15 Thread Joseph A. Caputo
On Tuesday 15 February 2005 3:06, Ow Mun Heng wrote: One question, for my sanity, before I go. If you don't have internet access to search google, how did you send emails to the mailing list? hehe.. This is a company thingy. We have email access but no I-net Access. If I do

Re: [mythtv-users] Can't FF or RW after cutting commercials

2005-02-15 Thread Joseph A. Caputo
On Tuesday 15 February 2005 11:19, Chris Clarke wrote: Hi All, I re-transcoded a bunch of old shows to cut out the commercials and seem to have screwed it up some how :( The shows are still watchable but if you try to FF or RW the video stops playing, I can still exit out to the menu

Re: [mythtv-users] MythWeb 0.17 vs. Safari et al

2005-02-15 Thread Joseph A. Caputo
On Tuesday 15 February 2005 14:02, Dennis Lou wrote: The latest MythWeb seems to have broken the mouseovers in Safari and IE5 (last version available for Mac). I presume Konquerer probably has the same problem. Before I go about patching it, has anyone else started looking at the

Re: [mythtv-users] Can't FF or RW after cutting commercials

2005-02-15 Thread Joseph A. Caputo
On Tuesday 15 February 2005 14:24, Chris Pinkham wrote: Thanks for the tips guys, is running mythcommflag the same as selecting Start Commercial flagging under Job Options? Yes, that puts an entry in the JobQueue to tell Myth to run mythcommflag for that recording. ...but won't be as fast

Re: [mythtv-users] VLC as player?

2005-02-15 Thread Joseph A. Caputo
On Tuesday 15 February 2005 15:17, Magnus Ekhall wrote: Hello folks, I'm having problems with both mplayer and xine as a player in Myth. Mplayer refuses to play some files and xine ends up playing everything in black and white (except the little preview clips...) What little preview clips?

Re: [mythtv-users] Feature Request: Shoutcast streams and Apple trailers like on Xbox Media center.

2005-02-16 Thread Joseph A. Caputo
On Wednesday 16 February 2005 9:55, Ryszard wrote: On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 21:07:44 -0800, Lonnie Borntreger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2005-02-15 at 23:49 -0500, Brad Benson wrote: Hmm, you do appear to be correct. I know I saw something for myth that would play internet radio, but I

Re: [mythtv-users] mythstream

2005-02-16 Thread Joseph A. Caputo
On Wednesday 16 February 2005 10:09, Lan User wrote: Hi, Sorry to hijack this thread but I just have a few questions. 1. How is this version of MythStream different than the project found here: http://mythstreamtv.sourceforge.net/ Did you even look at that web site? That project is

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-350 vs FX-5200 TVOut

2005-02-16 Thread Joseph A. Caputo
On Wednesday 16 February 2005 10:03, Cory Papenfuss wrote: I've got an NVidia card (MX-400) with such a horrendously crappy tvout chip on it, the most I ever see is 240 lines. The chip just plain blows chunks. Cory, just curious, what TV encoder chip does your Nvidia card use? My old

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-350 vs FX-5200 TVOut

2005-02-16 Thread Joseph A. Caputo
On Wednesday 16 February 2005 11:09, Tom Hughes wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Joseph A. Caputo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Cory, just curious, what TV encoder chip does your Nvidia card use? My old LeadTek GF4MX-420 card used an NV17 TV encoder and the output

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-350 vs FX-5200 TVOut

2005-02-16 Thread Joseph A. Caputo
On Wednesday 16 February 2005 12:29, PAUL WILLIAMSON wrote: I am surprised to hear about all these horror stories of s-video being so bad. I've done s-video on an MX440 and an FX5200 plus, both with excellent results. The s-video out on my mediamvp is pretty good, but there is

Re: [mythtv-users] Looking for a cheap PCMCIA card

2005-02-17 Thread Joseph A. Caputo
On Wednesday 16 February 2005 22:13, Jorge Guzmán wrote: Ok, I have just found this new connection on the laptop that looks like a PS/2 connection with more pins, it has a TV with an arrow going outside from it on one on one side. Do I have something helpful here? Sorry for the dumb

Re: [mythtv-users] Looking for a cheap PCMCIA card

2005-02-17 Thread Joseph A. Caputo
On Wednesday 16 February 2005 19:40, Jorge Guzmán wrote: well, anything that works, I don't really know. My laptop has a Firewire card alreay, my cable does not have a firewire output, I want a TV capture card and I believe the way to go is with firewire or pcmcia. Does anybody know about a

Re: [mythtv-users] How to interface transcode to mythtranscode?

2005-02-17 Thread Joseph A. Caputo
On Thursday 17 February 2005 13:35, Chase Douglas wrote: I have been unable to get ffmpeg to work properly when transcoding shows. However, transcode works marvelously for me. The problem is that I can't get transcode to take input from the audout and vidout streams produced by

Re: [mythtv-users] Host requirements

2005-02-17 Thread Joseph A. Caputo
On Thursday 17 February 2005 13:57, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 17 Feb 2005, Joseph A. Caputo wrote: The LML33 is a hardware MJPEG capture card, right? Depsite doing some Yes encoding in hardware, they take a surprising amount of processing from the host computer

Re: [mythtv-users] Reuters: FCC Overstepped Authority on Digital TV

2005-02-23 Thread Joseph A. Caputo
On Wednesday 23 February 2005 8:47, Donavan Stanley wrote: On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 18:22:53 -0800, Wendy Seltzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So long as the judges find we have standing as consumer advocacy groups and library associations to challenge the flag rule, yes. From the reports I've

Re: subtitles Re: [mythtv-users] Reuters: FCC Overstepped Authority on Digital TV

2005-02-24 Thread Joseph A. Caputo
On Thursday 24 February 2005 0:50, Max Waterman wrote: Joseph A. Caputo wrote: I don't want to come off as insensitive here, but... how about someone who was hearing impaired, and couldn't time shift programs from digital cable because they lose the subtitles embedded

Re: [mythtv-users] Latest CVS build for mythgame not working?

2005-02-24 Thread Joseph A. Caputo
On Thursday 24 February 2005 12:21, john roberts wrote: I've been building out of CVS for over a year now - and just saw this with mythgame (CVS as of this morning): This is after a distclean/make/install of mythtv. I've also made sure the old lib's were gone. Anyone seen this? If

Re: [mythtv-users] Release 0.17 has serious database issue with HDTV

2005-02-24 Thread Joseph A. Caputo
On Thursday 24 February 2005 14:28, Brad Templeton wrote: I would hope that the two most common suggestions here would not make the project any less fun. a) There's a period of about 1-2 weeks every few months between release candidate and release where new features are not checked

Re: subtitles Re: [mythtv-users] Reuters: FCC Overstepped Authority on Digital TV

2005-02-25 Thread Joseph A. Caputo
On Thursday 24 February 2005 20:00, Max Waterman wrote: Hrm. Even though I had 'digital cable' when I recorded the shows, I think many of the channels were actually still transmitted in analogue - mostly those below channel 100, IIRC. Yep; many cable companies do this -- channels 125 or

Re: [mythtv-users] OT: Cable co. refuses to offer firewire enabled box

2005-02-25 Thread Joseph A. Caputo
On Friday 25 February 2005 12:03, Ryan wrote: So I take my digital cable box to the Cable One office in Boise ID. [snip] She dissapears to the back and says it will cost me $10 more a month to have a box with firewire because only their DVR boxes have them. I pulled out the fcc document

Re: [mythtv-users] mythsetup? I don't have it...

2005-02-25 Thread Joseph A. Caputo
On Friday 25 February 2005 13:34, Greg Grotsky wrote: I have the mythtv/setup/setup program That's it. It doesn't get installed if you compile from source, just run it from there or copy it to /usr/local/bin and rename it to whatever you want (mythsetup, mythtvsetup, etc). -JAC

Re: [mythtv-users] Looking for a cheap PCMCIA card

2005-02-28 Thread Joseph A. Caputo
On Sunday 27 February 2005 2:01, Hamish Moffatt wrote: On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 09:08:35AM -0500, Joseph A. Caputo wrote: I don't know of any PCMCIA tuner/capture cards. The only TV tuners are typically PCI or USB. USB tuners are currently not supported in Myth, though hopefully

Re: [mythtv-users] mplayer options when xvideo fails

2005-02-28 Thread Joseph A. Caputo
On Saturday 26 February 2005 10:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I still can't get my ATI 9800 to use xvideo at over about 1024 resolutions; so I can't watch HD shows in myth with xv on. (1920 and 1280 both fail with the insufficient resources issue) Currently if I run myth with NO_XV it

Re: [mythtv-users] mplayer options when xvideo fails

2005-02-28 Thread Joseph A. Caputo
On Monday 28 February 2005 12:35, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also, you could wrap MPlayer in a script that uses XrandR to change the display resolution to the movie's native resolution on playback, so no scaling would be required. Well. I am currrently trying to display HD

Re: [mythtv-users] Ping...

2005-02-28 Thread Joseph A. Caputo
On Monday 28 February 2005 15:55, Alberto Hernando wrote: El Lunes, 28 de Febrero de 2005 21:38, Scott Carr escribió: I just subscribed this morning and havn't been getting any posts. Any posts? This is not a quiet list. I've been subscribed for 13 days, and I have 2725 messages...

Re: [mythtv-users] mplayer options when xvideo fails

2005-03-02 Thread Joseph A. Caputo
On Monday 28 February 2005 17:26, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am currrently trying to display HD on my 36 Tube TV. As in boring old NTSC TV. I cannot drive it at HD resolutions! It is not an HD TV. Hence my need to scale. Sorry; I went back and read your original post... I assumed that

Re: [mythtv-users] How to reply to messages in mythtv-users Archives?

2005-03-02 Thread Joseph A. Caputo
On Tuesday 01 March 2005 1:04, Sammo wrote: Sorry for this rather dumb question, but how do I reply to messages in mythtv-users Archives? If I click on View by: [Thread] (e.g. for March 2005), then click on a subject heading, I can read the message. Then, if I click on the sender's name,

Re: [mythtv-users] How to reply to messages in mythtv-users Archives?

2005-03-02 Thread Joseph A. Caputo
On Tuesday 01 March 2005 17:17, Josh Burks wrote: Try importing the archived messages: http://mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-users/2005-March.txt.gz http://mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-users/2005-February.txt.gz and then try to reply to them in a normal fashion. They are in mbox format, so

Re: [mythtv-users] [OT] 1080i

2005-03-03 Thread Joseph A. Caputo
On Wednesday 02 March 2005 18:00, Josh Burks wrote: I hope Leadtek has improved the quality of fans they put on their cards. We have ~2 Dozen white box oem pc's that came with Leadtek nvidia cards. Over half of them growl, due to bearing/bushing failure. The noise drives my co-workers nuts.

Re: [mythtv-users] Tvtime instead of mplayer?

2005-03-03 Thread Joseph A. Caputo
On Wednesday 02 March 2005 19:18, Sapan Ganguly wrote: I also tried putting the following into mainmenu.xml under the Watch TV section - EXECTV tvtime -m -D %s This stopped the menu option doing anything at all. You might need to use the full path of the tvtime executable, i.e.

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Torrentocracy Patch against Mythtv-cvs

2005-03-03 Thread Joseph A. Caputo
On Thursday 03 March 2005 10:39, Garry Cook wrote: I've had my MythTV box up for a little over a week now, and one thing that really kills me is when I see a commercial (watching live TV of course) for a program that is of interest. What do I do? Stop watching and go schedule it? Write it

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: 1080i

2005-03-03 Thread Joseph A. Caputo
On Thursday 03 March 2005 11:29, Neil wrote: I still haven't notice anything with my leadtek card's fan. I will have to check it tonight. Seems quiet to me though. Perhaps *too* quiet... :-) -JAC ___ mythtv-users mailing list

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Torrentocracy Patch against Mythtv-cvs

2005-03-03 Thread Joseph A. Caputo
On Thursday 03 March 2005 14:51, Brad Templeton wrote: On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 08:53:01AM -0800, Chris Petersen wrote: This is pretty standard -- shows are edited such that there are commercial breaks in certain places. However, it does NOT account for the commercial breaks being the

Re: [mythtv-users] Progress bar on import images

2005-03-03 Thread Joseph A. Caputo
Dennis Lou wrote: How do you intend to send a message from your script to MythGallery? As I recall, scripts just run from a system() call. Instead of using system(), you could use a QProcess to run the script, and attach to its stdin/stdout. Then you could have the script output progress

Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV review from a long-time TiVo user

2005-03-04 Thread Joseph A. Caputo
On Friday 04 March 2005 2:37, Bob Cottingham wrote: Donavan Stanley said: On Wed, 02 Mar 2005 09:20:21 -0600 (CST), Bob Cottingham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Donavan Stanley said: Myth will allow your existing screensaver to kick in as needed, provided you have one of course. This

Re: [mythtv-users] Slightly OT: MythTV as Senior Project?

2005-03-04 Thread Joseph A. Caputo
On Friday 04 March 2005 0:11, Brad Templeton wrote: On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 09:31:33PM -0700, Garry Cook wrote: responded and mentioned this Tivo feature, which I did not know existed. It would be really cool IMHO, as I still do watch some live TV. Right, but how hard is it to do alt-tab

Re: [mythtv-users] MPEG4 playback over Hauppauge PVR 350

2005-03-04 Thread Joseph A. Caputo
On Thursday 03 March 2005 23:19, Robert Denier wrote: On Fri, 2005-03-04 at 03:52 +0100, Bernd Müller wrote: Hello; I've heard about some mythtv-users successfully playing back MPEG4 video files over the ivtv-fb of the Hauppauge PVR 350 using a realtime MPEG2 conversion. Does

Re: [mythtv-users] Program Guide Whilst Playing scaling problem

2005-03-04 Thread Joseph A. Caputo
On Friday 04 March 2005 9:01, Robert Johnston wrote: I've noticed this in both 0.16 and 0.17. When the capture size is 480x480, the Now Playing display in the program guide is complete. However, when the capture size is 720x480, you only get the left-half of the capture, and it is stretched to

Re: [mythtv-users] Program Guide Whilst Playing scaling problem

2005-03-04 Thread Joseph A. Caputo
On Friday 04 March 2005 11:00, Robert Johnston wrote: On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 10:50:41 -0500, Joseph A. Caputo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 04 March 2005 9:01, Robert Johnston wrote: I've noticed this in both 0.16 and 0.17. When the capture size is 480x480, the Now Playing display

Re: [mythtv-users] Program Guide Whilst Playing scaling problem

2005-03-04 Thread Joseph A. Caputo
On Friday 04 March 2005 11:58, Robert Johnston wrote: On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 11:25:43 -0500, Joseph A. Caputo Separate modes for GUI and Playback uses XRandR to change the resolution of your display based on whether you're in GUI or Playback mode. The question is, do you have it turned

Re: [mythtv-users] Program Guide Whilst Playing scaling problem

2005-03-04 Thread Joseph A. Caputo
On Friday 04 March 2005 12:56, Robert Johnston wrote: Never mind, though; I just checked and it looks like it's disabled by default in settings.pro, which explains why you don't see the option :-) Yup, that'd explain it alright. :) So, any ideas what's going on? X is using an

Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV review from a long-time TiVo user

2005-03-04 Thread Joseph A. Caputo
On Friday 04 March 2005 13:06, Donavan Stanley wrote: On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 10:25:38 -0500, Joseph A. Caputo wrote: Just wanted to chime in here -- I tried last night with 2/12 CVS. DPMS behaves properly, but xscreensaver doesn't. Myth doesn't end the screensaver when remote buttons

Re: [mythtv-users] Slightly OT: MythTV as Senior Project?

2005-03-04 Thread Joseph A. Caputo
On Friday 04 March 2005 14:19, Brad Templeton wrote: On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 10:39:09AM -0500, Joseph A. Caputo wrote: On Friday 04 March 2005 0:11, Brad Templeton wrote: If you don't already, get one of the super cheap lite-on or acer IR keyboards. Under 30 bucks and work great, I am

Re: [mythtv-users] movie trailer plugin!

2005-03-07 Thread Joseph A. Caputo
On Sunday 06 March 2005 16:47, Robert Tsai wrote: On Sun, Mar 06, 2005 at 03:22:05PM -0600, Andy Long wrote: How about bookmark a search for movie:your-zip-code on google into your mythweb bookmarks? I am actually looking at writing a movie listings (as in what time something plays

Re: [mythtv-users] DPMS and televisions; some useful ideas and a question

2005-03-08 Thread Joseph A. Caputo
On Tuesday 08 March 2005 14:17, Brian J. Murrell wrote: On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 14:12 -0500, Mark L. Cukier wrote: Isn't this topic better suited to the child-rearing list? :-) I find 300 on-topic messages per day is enough for me Yeah, me too. But this list seems to set the

Re: [mythtv-users] DPMS and televisions; some useful ideas and a question

2005-03-08 Thread Joseph A. Caputo
On Tuesday 08 March 2005 14:01, Shawn Willden wrote: Brian J. Murrell wrote: How about teaching the kids some responsibility to your television, the environment and their future and turn the thing off when they are done with it? I responded privately to this in some detail.

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: How to reply to messages in mythtv-users Archives?

2005-03-11 Thread Joseph A. Caputo
On Friday 11 March 2005 10:45, Andrew Close wrote: On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 07:40:38 -0800, Mathew Mrosko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 11 March 2005 02:43 am, Mark Crutch wrote: 1) Subscribe to the list 2) Set your preferences so that it doesn't deliver any mails to you. 3)

Re: [mythtv-users] Playing music while browsing photos

2005-03-15 Thread Joseph A. Caputo
On Tuesday 15 March 2005 10:31, Niels den Otter wrote: MythTV Users, One of the features that (for me) would be neat in MythTV is the support of playing music while browsing photos or walking through the menus. Currently leaving mythmusic also means that the music stops playing. I

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