Re: [mythtv-users] question about RAID

2006-01-09 Thread chris
On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 08:53:31PM -0500, Steve Adeff wrote: > If I can add drives in after initial creation, I could add in more of my > 320gig drives I have with other media on them, increase write speed a bit and > not worry about losing the other data as well. You can't increase the number o

[mythtv-users] Comcast and Firewire 5c

2006-01-09 Thread Ian Forde
Given the recent conversations concerning firewire issues, I found it ironic that Comcast just changed a bunch of my channels to do 5c over firewire. But since I have *absolutely* no desire to test each channel to see if it works, then check the DCT-6200 menu to verify it, I did what any decent sy

Re: [mythtv-users] question about RAID

2006-01-09 Thread chris
On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 08:36:14PM -, Johnathon Meichtry wrote: > but between them you will probably have > three reads with two probably being on the same disk therefore RAID0 only > giving you a marginal performance improvement without even taking into > account disk 1 and disk 2 being on

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

2006-01-09 Thread John Andersen
On 1/9/06, David Bennett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Actually after sending out my question to the list, I stumbled upon > the Infant ReadyNAS 600 page. > > Does anyone use this? > Will it be able to handle 3 tuners + playback? Aren't these things limited more by network band width than hard driv

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

2006-01-09 Thread David Bennett
Actually after sending out my question to the list, I stumbled upon the Infant ReadyNAS 600 page. Does anyone use this? Will it be able to handle 3 tuners + playback? (it seems that any network device might be in trouble when it comes to that much bandwidth. that is why I am thinking whether i sh

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

2006-01-09 Thread Jonathan Tidmore
On 1/9/06, Jonathan Tidmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: There are some NAS appliances out there like the Buffalo TeraStation or the InfrantDon't let the glass fall on your keyboard, luckily it was empty. I've been eyeing the Infrant ReadyNAS 600 at http://www.infrant.com/products_ReadyNAS600.htm-- -

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

2006-01-09 Thread Jonathan Tidmore
There are some NAS appliances out there like the Buffalo TeraStation or the InfrantOn 1/9/06, David Bennett < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Please allow me to apologize for the mangling I am about to do to the following terminology. I am still feeling my way around Linux and knowwhat I want to do, just

Re: [mythtv-users] Forcing MythTV to ignore a tuner

2006-01-09 Thread Chris
Hello, In mythtv-setup remove the unwanted card ? Chris On Mon, 2006-01-09 at 19:25 -0500, Steve wrote: > I'd would also like to know if there's a way to make MythTV ignore a > single tuner. I have the exact same setup (1 250/1 500) but my 250 > seems to have given out a bit. It still plays TV

Re: [mythtv-users] Fwd: Sempron 3100 lag when viewing HD from 6200 STB

2006-01-09 Thread Matt Mossholder
> > I've got a Sempron 64 3100+, running Nvidia driver rev 7667, with 1080i > output over DVI, and have only some very slight tearing, which is > consistently about 20% down from the top. Load is reasonable. > > --Matt > Oh yeah, and that is with XvMC off, and a NV6200 card.

Re: [mythtv-users] XM Radio Functionality in Myth

2006-01-09 Thread Jack Trout
heck I have been tempted to setup a cheap unit *I have 3 of the roady 2's already last 2 I bought were free after rebate* and setup the lirc to send ir signals to the unit to make the unit change channels to record, I would love to play some of the standup exclusives that I am never around to liste

Re: [mythtv-users] Fwd: Sempron 3100 lag when viewing HD from 6200 STB

2006-01-09 Thread Matt Mossholder
On Mon, 2006-01-09 at 22:22 -0700, Curtis Stanford wrote: > On Jan 9, 2006, at 5:04 PM, Steve Adeff wrote: > > > On Monday 09 January 2006 17:31, Curtis Stanford wrote: > >> On Jan 9, 2006, at 3:21 PM, Steve Adeff wrote: > >>> On Monday 09 January 2006 16:58, Curtis Stanford wrote: > On Jan 9

Re: [mythtv-users] Fwd: Sempron 3100 lag when viewing HD from 6200 STB

2006-01-09 Thread Scott Alfter
On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 10:59:20PM -0500, Steve Adeff wrote: > right, but someone was saying his P4 2.4G plays 1080i at 50% cpu with no > XvMC, > whereas my Athlon64 3200+ with no XvMC uses more around 95%... Something's seriously wrong with your setup if you're maxing out your processor like th

Re: [mythtv-users] .19 on Ubuntu working sort of

2006-01-09 Thread Colin Humphreys
No. ldconfig checks /etc/ld.so.conf for extra paths to examine for libraries. e.g. I install myth to /opt/mythtv, so I need to add /opt/mythtv/lib to /etc/ld.so.conf before running ldconfig. Adam Propeck wrote: > Does LD config need to be run in the make folder? I ran it but still > seem to be h

Re: [mythtv-users] Fwd: Sempron 3100 lag when viewing HD from 6200 STB

2006-01-09 Thread Steve Adeff
On Tuesday 10 January 2006 00:22, Curtis Stanford wrote: > On Jan 9, 2006, at 5:04 PM, Steve Adeff wrote: > > On Monday 09 January 2006 17:31, Curtis Stanford wrote: > >> On Jan 9, 2006, at 3:21 PM, Steve Adeff wrote: > >>> On Monday 09 January 2006 16:58, Curtis Stanford wrote: > On Jan 9, 20

Re: [mythtv-users] Fwd: Sempron 3100 lag when viewing HD from 6200 STB

2006-01-09 Thread Curtis Stanford
On Jan 9, 2006, at 5:04 PM, Steve Adeff wrote: > On Monday 09 January 2006 17:31, Curtis Stanford wrote: >> On Jan 9, 2006, at 3:21 PM, Steve Adeff wrote: >>> On Monday 09 January 2006 16:58, Curtis Stanford wrote: On Jan 9, 2006, at 2:49 PM, Steve Adeff wrote: > On Monday 09 January 200

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

2006-01-09 Thread David Bennett
Please allow me to apologize for the mangling I am about to do to the following terminology. I am still feeling my way around Linux and know what I want to do, just am not sure how to go about doing it (or if it is possible.) I have been getting some help with some software RAID problems I have be

Re: [mythtv-users] OS X & MythFrontend 0.18.1 with plugins

2006-01-09 Thread Matt Hannan
Well, sir, you may want to check that build of the frontend. I downloaded it twice and they both seem borked up. Are there any other locations to get frontend with the plugins? I'm looking for 0.18.1 stable. And thanks for the tips on mplayer. My last go-round, I used the Apple DVD player as we

Re: [mythtv-users] OSX frontend mouse?

2006-01-09 Thread Todd Houle
On Jan 8, 2006, at 9:23 PM, Brad DerManouelian wrote:A remote would help quite a bit actually. I've set up mine and I never have to touch the keyboard. Full control from across the room is nice. :) The only time I ever touch the keyboard is when I enter a search phrase.Also keep in mind that there

Re: [mythtv-users] Fwd: Sempron 3100 lag when viewing HD from 6200 STB

2006-01-09 Thread Steve Adeff
On Monday 09 January 2006 22:51, Kevin Kuphal wrote: > Steve Adeff wrote: > >On Monday 09 January 2006 21:06, Kevin Kuphal wrote: > >>Adam Propeck wrote: > >>>I find it frustrating that this is a Linux only issue. If I had > >>>trouble playing an 1080i stream on a Windows box with a 3 ghz proc, > >

Re: [mythtv-users] OS X & MythFrontend 0.18.1 with plugins

2006-01-09 Thread David Snider
Thanks for downloading the binary. I'm very interested in your feedback, if a build doesn't work, I'll want to pull it off the site.. As for me, I use mplayer, but until recently, DVD VOB's with AC3 had noticeable static feedback. However, I found that you can download the CVS version of m

Re: [mythtv-users] Software RAID problems - the unspoken mythtvproblem?

2006-01-09 Thread Steve Adeff
On Monday 09 January 2006 21:49, James C. Dastrup wrote: > >Just another datapoint - I've been using a software raid setup for 12 > >months now with no issues with mythtv. My raid arrays are in a > >seperate machine from my dedicated backend and two frontends, they are > >all networked over gigibi

Re: [mythtv-users] Fwd: Sempron 3100 lag when viewing HD from 6200 STB

2006-01-09 Thread Kevin Kuphal
Steve Adeff wrote: >On Monday 09 January 2006 21:06, Kevin Kuphal wrote: > > >>Adam Propeck wrote: >> >> >>>I find it frustrating that this is a Linux only issue. If I had >>>trouble playing an 1080i stream on a Windows box with a 3 ghz proc, >>>I'd go crazy. Why is it that Linux has so much

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

2006-01-09 Thread Steve Adeff
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 to x-fer it to my PC to offload some PVR content (to make > space for my series reco

Re: [mythtv-users] Fwd: Sempron 3100 lag when viewing HD from 6200 STB

2006-01-09 Thread Steve Adeff
On Monday 09 January 2006 21:06, Kevin Kuphal wrote: > Adam Propeck wrote: > > I find it frustrating that this is a Linux only issue. If I had > > trouble playing an 1080i stream on a Windows box with a 3 ghz proc, > > I'd go crazy. Why is it that Linux has so much trouble with this? I > > would th

Re: [mythtv-users] 64bit IDE RAID options?

2006-01-09 Thread Steve Adeff
On Monday 09 January 2006 21:53, Trey Boudreau wrote: > On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 07:42:28PM -0500, Steve Adeff wrote: > > On Monday 09 January 2006 17:36, Trey Boudreau wrote: > > > On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 12:26:18PM -0800, Yeechang Lee wrote: > > > > James C. Dastrup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> says: > > >

[mythtv-users] OS X & MythFrontend 0.18.1 with plugins

2006-01-09 Thread Matt Hannan
OK, so I have reloaded OS X and am currently installing MythFrontend 0.18.1 from thesniderpad.com. This build includes some plugins, like MythVideo and MythDVD. I have tried this build before, but always gave up on it because I could never figure out the player commands for the plugins. Do any

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

2006-01-09 Thread N Dugas
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 to x-fer it to my PC to offload some PVR content (to make space for my series recordings). Until now, I've been able to play back the co

[mythtv-users] IR Problem with FC4

2006-01-09 Thread Matt Rude
I have Mythtv running on FC4 with a PVR-350. Everything is running but the remote control. I have installed lirc & lirc-kmdl via yum along with the reset of the Mythtv suite. I edited my modprobe.conf file and ran these commands. $mkdir /home/mythtv/.mythtv $wget http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/lircrc-

Re: [mythtv-users] 64bit IDE RAID options?

2006-01-09 Thread Trey Boudreau
On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 07:42:28PM -0500, Steve Adeff wrote: > On Monday 09 January 2006 17:36, Trey Boudreau wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 12:26:18PM -0800, Yeechang Lee wrote: > > > James C. Dastrup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> says: > > > > Is anyone aware of a PCI-X 64bit / 133MHz capable IDE RAID

Re: [mythtv-users] Software RAID problems - the unspoken mythtvproblem?

2006-01-09 Thread James C. Dastrup
>Just another datapoint - I've been using a software raid setup for 12 >months now with no issues with mythtv. My raid arrays are in a >seperate machine from my dedicated backend and two frontends, they are >all networked over gigibit ethernet using NFS. I've recorded 4 >streams from PVR250s befo

Re: [mythtv-users] Software RAID problems - the unspoken mythtv problem?

2006-01-09 Thread Gordon Rimac
Just another datapoint - I've been using a software raid setup for 12 months now with no issues with mythtv. My raid arrays are in a seperate machine from my dedicated backend and two frontends, they are all networked over gigibit ethernet using NFS. I've recorded 4 streams from PVR250s before wh

Re: [mythtv-users] DVB-T and DVB-S on same box

2006-01-09 Thread jason
Hi, I am away and will be unable to check my emails until the 22 January 2006. Please email [EMAIL PROTECTED] for any enquiries or call the office on 02 8399 0122. Thanks, Jason ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.or

Re: [mythtv-users] Fwd: Sempron 3100 lag when viewing HD from 6200 STB

2006-01-09 Thread jason
Hi, I am away and will be unable to check my emails until the 22 January 2006. Please email [EMAIL PROTECTED] for any enquiries or call the office on 02 8399 0122. Thanks, Jason ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.or

Re: [mythtv-users] Project Grayhem <> theme now available

2006-01-09 Thread Justin Hornsby
Steve Adeff wrote: > you rule! if I lived near you I'd buy you a few rounds at the pub. > > I'm gunna install this and let you know how it goes, thanks for all your > work!! > If you're anywhere near LUGRadio Live this summer (www.lugradio.org/live/2006) drop in & say hello. I'll be the guy

Re: [mythtv-users] DVB-T and DVB-S on same box

2006-01-09 Thread Steve Hodge
On 1/10/06, Michael Cowell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For each shared channel: you have two separate channels set up > (different names, ids, etc) but you set the channel number to the same > thing (or the chanid or whatever it's called, I can't get to my mythbox > at the moment), as well as the

Re: [mythtv-users] Fwd: Sempron 3100 lag when viewing HD from 6200 STB

2006-01-09 Thread Kevin Kuphal
Adam Propeck wrote: > I find it frustrating that this is a Linux only issue. If I had > trouble playing an 1080i stream on a Windows box with a 3 ghz proc, > I'd go crazy. Why is it that Linux has so much trouble with this? I > would think that it would be an easy thing like enabling the correc

Re: [mythtv-users] Fwd: Sempron 3100 lag when viewing HD from 6200 STB

2006-01-09 Thread Adam Propeck
I find it frustrating that this is a Linux only issue. If I had trouble playing an 1080i stream on a Windows box with a 3 ghz proc, I'd go crazy. Why is it that Linux has so much trouble with this? I would think that it would be an easy thing like enabling the correct video driver or something. I t

Re: [mythtv-users] question about RAID

2006-01-09 Thread Steve Adeff
On Monday 09 January 2006 19:58, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 10:03:50AM -0500, Steve Adeff wrote: > > I was under the impression RAID 0 was the fastest RAID, but has no data > > protection? Is there no way to get RAID 0 to use more than one drive? > > A RAID-0 array with only

Re: [mythtv-users] question about RAID

2006-01-09 Thread chris
On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 03:44:05PM -0700, James C. Dastrup wrote: > Also note, I don't believe you can boot off of a md RAID 0 drive, so you'll > need another driver (or network boot) for your boot partition. The mdadm tools will build arrays out of partitions, so you can divide up your disks to

Re: [mythtv-users] XM Radio Functionality in Myth

2006-01-09 Thread Bret Schuhmacher
Don't slam the XM feed too badly - I listen to them all day, every day, mostly online, since my office doesn't have a Southern window. Sometimes they crack up a bit, but very rarely. I'd be interested in an XM Plugin, too. In fact, I was thinking about this just the other day. I was wondering if

Re: [mythtv-users] Channel groups

2006-01-09 Thread Steve Adeff
On Monday 09 January 2006 19:52, Justin Hornsby wrote: > It occurred to me tonight that a good number of mythtv users probably > have access to a _lot_ of TV channels (duh). > > With the DVB radio patch, I now have access to some more. > > I'm currently working on integrating my cable box into myth

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

2006-01-09 Thread Steve Adeff
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 ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

Re: [mythtv-users] question about RAID

2006-01-09 Thread chris
On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 10:03:50AM -0500, Steve Adeff wrote: > I was under the impression RAID 0 was the fastest RAID, but has no data > protection? Is there no way to get RAID 0 to use more than one drive? A RAID-0 array with only one drive in it would be pointless, but possible. The mdadm tool

Re: [mythtv-users] 64bit IDE RAID options?

2006-01-09 Thread Nathan Allen Stratton
On Mon, 9 Jan 2006, James C. Dastrup wrote: > Is anyone aware of a PCI-X 64bit / 133MHz capable IDE RAID HBA? > > Or, how about a PCI 64bit / 33 Mhz MHz capable IDE RAID HBA? > > All the ones I'm seeing are 32-bit / 33mhz. I am using 9500S-12 with 12 320 gig disks and it works like a charm in m

[mythtv-users] Channel groups

2006-01-09 Thread Justin Hornsby
It occurred to me tonight that a good number of mythtv users probably have access to a _lot_ of TV channels (duh). With the DVB radio patch, I now have access to some more. I'm currently working on integrating my cable box into mythtv. When that's done I'll have even more channels (like about 2

Re: [mythtv-users] 64bit IDE RAID options?

2006-01-09 Thread Steve Adeff
On Monday 09 January 2006 17:36, Trey Boudreau wrote: > On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 12:26:18PM -0800, Yeechang Lee wrote: > > James C. Dastrup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> says: > > > Is anyone aware of a PCI-X 64bit / 133MHz capable IDE RAID HBA? > > > Or, how about a PCI 64bit / 33 Mhz MHz capable IDE RAID

Re: [mythtv-users] question about RAID

2006-01-09 Thread Steve Adeff
On Monday 09 January 2006 19:25, 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

Re: [mythtv-users] apt-get install mythtv-suite has problem with myth-plugins

2006-01-09 Thread Jason Rottman
Anybody know if this is a problem with my machine, or with atrpms.net? On 1/9/06, Bill White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: My apoligies, I did not intend to hijack this thread. bwJason Rottman < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Is this still a problem with atrpms.net?  I am having this problem right now. 

Re: [mythtv-users] apt-get install mythtv-suite has problem with myth-plugins

2006-01-09 Thread Chris Ribe
I am currently attempting a reinstall via yum and I am getting the errors: Error: Missing Dependency: libmyth-0.18.1.so.0 is needed by package mythbrowser Error: Missing Dependency: libmyth-0.18.1.so.0 is needed by package mythdvd On 1/9/06, Bill White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: My apoligies, I di

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

2006-01-09 Thread Phill Edwards
> As you can see below (in Canberra) most SD is 720x576 but WIN is 704x, SBS > EPG is 480x, one Prime is 544x... it seems to vary. Thanks. How did you get that log? I'd like to do that too. Regards, Phill ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@myth

Re: [mythtv-users] question about RAID

2006-01-09 Thread James C. Dastrup
>> 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 believe you can boot off of a md RAID 0 drive, so you'll >> ne

Re: [mythtv-users] Forcing MythTV to ignore a tuner

2006-01-09 Thread Steve
I'd would also like to know if there's a way to make MythTV ignore a single tuner. I have the exact same setup (1 250/1 500) but my 250 seems to have given out a bit. It still plays TV it's just a bit fuzzier than it should be. On 1/9/06, Bill White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have been running

Re: [mythtv-users] XM Radio Functionality in Myth

2006-01-09 Thread Steve Adeff
On Monday 09 January 2006 17:33, Matt wrote: > Hello, > >I did a little searching, but never found any real discussion on > integrating XM (or other satellite radio) into MythTV. Are any of the > developers interested in this? I bring it up because over Christmas, > my family and I subscribed

Re: [mythtv-users] apt-get install mythtv-suite has problem with myth-plugins

2006-01-09 Thread Bill White
My apoligies, I did not intend to hijack this thread. bwJason Rottman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Is this still a problem with atrpms.net?  I am having this problem right now.  I cant install with yum either, missing dependancy.  Did you ever get this resolved Adam? Jason On 11/23/05, Adam Prenti

[mythtv-users] Forcing MythTV to ignore a tuner

2006-01-09 Thread Bill White
I have been running mythtv for about a year now.  First with a single PVR-250, then I added a PVR-500 this past June.  Everything worked very well, even when I upgraded to .18 in May until last week when I stopped getting reception on Tuner 2, which I believe is the first tuner on the PVR-500. Whi

Re: [mythtv-users] apt-get install mythtv-suite has problem with myth-plugins

2006-01-09 Thread Bill White
I have been running mythtv for about a year now.  First with a single PVR-250, then I added a PVR-500 this past June.  Everything worked very well, even when I upgraded to .18 in May until last week when I stopped getting reception on Tuner 2, which I believe is the first tuner on the PVR-500. Whi

Re: [mythtv-users] question about RAID

2006-01-09 Thread Steve Adeff
On Monday 09 January 2006 17:44, James C. Dastrup wrote: > >> >So what will mdadm do? What is my best option for using 2 drives to get > >> > the most speed out of them as a combined drive? > >> > >> mdadm does a true RAID 0 > > > >Ok, let me ask the question again... > > > >I have 2, possibly 3, 3

Re: [mythtv-users] XM Radio Functionality in Myth

2006-01-09 Thread Chris Ribe
Mythstream is a plugin for streaming audio/internet radio.  XM and Sirius may be the only option for commercial free radio in your car, but there are plenty of other options on the internet. On 1/9/06, Egeekial <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Matt wrote:>Hello,>>   I did a little searching, but never fo

Re: [mythtv-users] Fwd: Sempron 3100 lag when viewing HD from 6200 STB

2006-01-09 Thread Steve Adeff
On Monday 09 January 2006 17:31, Curtis Stanford wrote: > On Jan 9, 2006, at 3:21 PM, Steve Adeff wrote: > > On Monday 09 January 2006 16:58, Curtis Stanford wrote: > >> On Jan 9, 2006, at 2:49 PM, Steve Adeff wrote: > >>> On Monday 09 January 2006 16:35, Kevin Kuphal wrote: > Adam Propeck wro

Re: [mythtv-users] apt-get install mythtv-suite has problem with myth-plugins

2006-01-09 Thread Jason Rottman
Is this still a problem with atrpms.net?  I am having this problem right now.  I cant install with yum either, missing dependancy.  Did you ever get this resolved Adam? Jason On 11/23/05, Adam Prentice <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I was able to use apt-get install mythtv-suite a couple weeks ago...

Re: [mythtv-users] XM Radio Functionality in Myth

2006-01-09 Thread Egeekial
Matt wrote: >Hello, > > I did a little searching, but never found any real discussion on >integrating XM (or other satellite radio) into MythTV. Are any of the >developers interested in this? I bring it up because over Christmas, >my family and I subscribed to XM radio. While I can hook it di

Re: [mythtv-users] fc4.ppc, Mac Mini and MythTV

2006-01-09 Thread Matt Hannan
Wade Maxfield wrote: >> Happy New Year to you all. >> >> I finally have FC4 running on my Mac Mini. >> MythTV is installed but I am having several issues. >> >> First, MythMusic emits just a horrible blast of static, even if the >> volume control is set to mute. >> Any one got this running? >> >> [

[mythtv-users] Scan displacement and over/underscan

2006-01-09 Thread Kevin Kuphal
Does anyone know what the scan displacement values in the Playback setup of MythTV do? Since moving from my BTTV cards to a PVR-150 and PVR-500, I noticed that my recordings have a small (maybe 10-20 pixel) black bar at the bottom of the playback that I'd like to try to fix by moving the image

Re: [mythtv-users] Watch Videos

2006-01-09 Thread David Abrahams
Kevin Kuphal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > David Abrahams wrote: > >>It appears that the Watch Videos feature only looks on the frontend's >>local filesystem for files, but a record of all the recorded videos is >>kept in the backend's database, causing it to complain about all the >>missing video

Re: [mythtv-users] question about RAID

2006-01-09 Thread James C. Dastrup
>> >So what will mdadm do? What is my best option for using 2 drives to get >> > the most speed out of them as a combined drive? >> >> mdadm does a true RAID 0 >> > >Ok, let me ask the question again... > >I have 2, possibly 3, 320gig SATA drives. I want to build a RAID array that >will maximize th

Re: [mythtv-users] Import existing video file?

2006-01-09 Thread David Abrahams
"James C. Dastrup" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>I don't think the video manager is what I want. First of all, it's >>apparently only designed for using an external player, not for playing >>within the MythTV frontend. Secondly, the video manager seems >>completely messed up when you are running

Re: [mythtv-users] OSX frontend mouse?

2006-01-09 Thread David Abrahams
Brad DerManouelian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Jan 8, 2006, at 9:03 PM, David Abrahams wrote: > >> Brad DerManouelian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> There's very little I've found in the MythTV UI that can really take >> advantage of the keyboard anyway. In fact, it seems like in many >>

Re: [mythtv-users] 64bit IDE RAID options?

2006-01-09 Thread Trey Boudreau
On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 12:26:18PM -0800, Yeechang Lee wrote: > James C. Dastrup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> says: > > Is anyone aware of a PCI-X 64bit / 133MHz capable IDE RAID HBA? > > Or, how about a PCI 64bit / 33 Mhz MHz capable IDE RAID HBA? > > People generally consider 3Ware's 7xxx (ATA) and 8xx

Re: [mythtv-users] [Announce] OSX backend support

2006-01-09 Thread David Abrahams
Jens Baumeister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi! > > On 1/8/06, David Abrahams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> I have posted a patch that allows you to run the MythTV backend on >> MacOS > [...] >> If you download the linked .bin file and treat it as a patch to the >> current MythTV SVN state, i

[mythtv-users] XM Radio Functionality in Myth

2006-01-09 Thread Matt
Hello, I did a little searching, but never found any real discussion on integrating XM (or other satellite radio) into MythTV. Are any of the developers interested in this? I bring it up because over Christmas, my family and I subscribed to XM radio. While I can hook it directly to my stereo

Re: [mythtv-users] Fwd: Sempron 3100 lag when viewing HD from 6200 STB

2006-01-09 Thread Curtis Stanford
On Jan 9, 2006, at 3:21 PM, Steve Adeff wrote: > On Monday 09 January 2006 16:58, Curtis Stanford wrote: >> On Jan 9, 2006, at 2:49 PM, Steve Adeff wrote: >>> On Monday 09 January 2006 16:35, Kevin Kuphal wrote: Adam Propeck wrote: > Here is some more detail. ( Xrog.conf and some hdparm

Re: [mythtv-users] question about RAID

2006-01-09 Thread Steve Adeff
On Monday 09 January 2006 15:59, James C. Dastrup wrote: > >?On Monday 09 January 2006 14:53, James C. Dastrup wrote: > >> >All RAID0 does is join (or grow) partitions together. It is very > >> > useful if you have, for example, three 100GB disks about like them > >> > joined into a 300GB partitio

Re: [mythtv-users] Phoenix AZ Cox QAM DVB HD-3000 and Basic Cable

2006-01-09 Thread Wylie Swanson
Hi Mike,First, thanks for your channels.conf note for Cox in Phoenix, and disclosing that Cox doesn't broadcasts PID's.  I have an Air2PC HD5000 with QAM256 support working.  I am able to successfully utilize the card for ATSC Over-The-Air signal with an antenna, but have been unsuccessful in decod

Re: [mythtv-users] Watch Videos

2006-01-09 Thread Kevin Kuphal
David Abrahams wrote: >It appears that the Watch Videos feature only looks on the frontend's >local filesystem for files, but a record of all the recorded videos is >kept in the backend's database, causing it to complain about all the >missing videos that were recorded on other machines every time

Re: [mythtv-users] Fwd: Sempron 3100 lag when viewing HD from 6200 STB

2006-01-09 Thread Steve Adeff
On Monday 09 January 2006 16:58, Curtis Stanford wrote: > On Jan 9, 2006, at 2:49 PM, Steve Adeff wrote: > > On Monday 09 January 2006 16:35, Kevin Kuphal wrote: > >> Adam Propeck wrote: > >>> Here is some more detail. ( Xrog.conf and some hdparm info) I'm > >>> wondering if livetv isn't playing we

Re: [mythtv-users] Fwd: Sempron 3100 lag when viewing HD from 6200 STB

2006-01-09 Thread Steve Adeff
On Monday 09 January 2006 16:55, Adam Propeck wrote: > On 1/9/06, Steve Adeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Monday 09 January 2006 16:35, Kevin Kuphal wrote: > > > Adam Propeck wrote: > > > > Here is some more detail. ( Xrog.conf and some hdparm info) I'm > > > > wondering if livetv isn't playi

Re: [mythtv-users] Import existing video file?

2006-01-09 Thread James C. Dastrup
>I don't think the video manager is what I want. First of all, it's >apparently only designed for using an external player, not for playing >within the MythTV frontend. Secondly, the video manager seems >completely messed up when you are running multiple frontends, since >they are recorded in the

Re: [mythtv-users] DVB-T and DVB-S on same box

2006-01-09 Thread Michael Cowell
James Pattinson wrote: > I've now added a Freecom DVB-S adaptor, which is also working well. > However I thought I would be able to "integrate" the two systems as > there is a lot of channel overlap, but not all channels on -T are > available on -S and vice versa. > > How can I tell MythTV that, fo

Re: [mythtv-users] Backend / Frontend advise

2006-01-09 Thread Fred Squires
I'm hoping to do HD since I've got a handful of HD chanels.  I've beenhearing that the Nvidia card should be able to do it if I enable XvMC. If you're doing HD the frontend should be the more powerful machine.  All the backend has to do to record HD is write the stream to disk.-- I probably still h

Re: [mythtv-users] Import existing video file?

2006-01-09 Thread Isaac Richards
On Monday 09 January 2006 17:12, David Abrahams wrote: > Brad DerManouelian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Jan 8, 2006, at 6:35 PM, David Abrahams wrote: > >> I have an existing video recording in a format already supported by > >> MythTV playback. How can I add it to my backend's list of reco

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

2006-01-09 Thread Al McIntosh
Niels den Otter wrote: >Al, > >Al McIntosh wrote: > > >>The last few occurances have been in the evening or night. >> >>mythfilldatabase has been running around 11am. >> >>I do have mythcommflag set to run when the recording starts. >> >> > >Are you using MythTV SVN? I had a similar problem

Re: [mythtv-users] Import existing video file?

2006-01-09 Thread David Abrahams
Brad DerManouelian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Jan 8, 2006, at 6:35 PM, David Abrahams wrote: > >> >> I have an existing video recording in a format already supported by >> MythTV playback. How can I add it to my backend's list of recordings? >> >> Thanks in advance, >> Dave > > Drop it in y

Re: [mythtv-users] Backend / Frontend advise

2006-01-09 Thread N Dugas
Steve Adeff wrote: > On Monday 09 January 2006 14:00, N Dugas wrote: > >>After having Myth running for about 6 months, I and thinking of changing >>how I have it set up. Right now, both the front and back ends are on >>the same box which has a PVR-350 tuner. What I'd like to do is this: >> >>Mak

[mythtv-users] Watch Videos

2006-01-09 Thread David Abrahams
It appears that the Watch Videos feature only looks on the frontend's local filesystem for files, but a record of all the recorded videos is kept in the backend's database, causing it to complain about all the missing videos that were recorded on other machines every time I fire it up. Is this fe

Re: [mythtv-users] Fwd: Sempron 3100 lag when viewing HD from 6200 STB

2006-01-09 Thread Kevin Kuphal
Adam Propeck wrote: > Ok, so does anyone have an Nvidia card they'd like to trade for an ATI > Fire GL X1 - 128MB? hehe. I can hope. :) have you tried using libmpeg2 playback instead of the regular playback? Sometimes that can help lighten the load a little bit if you are just at the edge.

Re: [mythtv-users] Playback performance [all platforms]

2006-01-09 Thread David Abrahams
Greg Estabrooks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> AFAICT, there's no processor-specific optimization in playback at all. >> So if performance is bad on PPC/Darwin, it's probably bad (compared to >> what's possible) on x86/Linux as well. > > The differences is that scalling/display through XV is hard

Re: [mythtv-users] Fwd: Sempron 3100 lag when viewing HD from 6200 STB

2006-01-09 Thread Curtis Stanford
On Jan 9, 2006, at 2:49 PM, Steve Adeff wrote: > On Monday 09 January 2006 16:35, Kevin Kuphal wrote: >> Adam Propeck wrote: >>> Here is some more detail. ( Xrog.conf and some hdparm info) I'm >>> wondering if livetv isn't playing well because of the specific >>> firewire port/driver? I'm using t

Re: [mythtv-users] Fwd: Sempron 3100 lag when viewing HD from 6200 STB

2006-01-09 Thread Adam Propeck
Ok, so does anyone have an Nvidia card they'd like to trade for an ATI Fire GL X1 - 128MB? hehe. I can hope.On 1/9/06, Steve Adeff < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:On Monday 09 January 2006 16:35, Kevin Kuphal wrote: > Adam Propeck wrote:> > Here is some more detail. ( Xrog.conf and some hdparm info) I'm

Re: [mythtv-users] OT: ntp won't synchronize

2006-01-09 Thread Steve Adeff
On Monday 09 January 2006 16:20, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 02:54:46PM -0500, Michael T. Dean wrote: > > "outrageous synchronization distance" -- did you ever set your > > clock to be closer to the real time than 15 minutes off? NTP will > > refuse to synch if the delta is

Re: [mythtv-users] Fwd: Sempron 3100 lag when viewing HD from 6200 STB

2006-01-09 Thread Steve Adeff
On Monday 09 January 2006 16:35, Kevin Kuphal wrote: > Adam Propeck wrote: > > Here is some more detail. ( Xrog.conf and some hdparm info) I'm > > wondering if livetv isn't playing well because of the specific > > firewire port/driver? I'm using the single port that comes with the > > audigy 2 PCI

Re: [mythtv-users] I can't get my HDD to spindown when idle

2006-01-09 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks everyone - it looks like fuser was the command I was looking for. I've found the culprit, and moved it to my OS' drive. Now the disk is sleeping (After running almost continuously for the last year or so) ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-

Re: [mythtv-users] Backend / Frontend advise

2006-01-09 Thread Steve Adeff
On Monday 09 January 2006 14:00, N Dugas wrote: > After having Myth running for about 6 months, I and thinking of changing > how I have it set up. Right now, both the front and back ends are on > the same box which has a PVR-350 tuner. What I'd like to do is this: > > Make my current Myth box a b

Re: [mythtv-users] Fwd: Sempron 3100 lag when viewing HD from 6200 STB

2006-01-09 Thread Kevin Kuphal
Adam Propeck wrote: > > Here is some more detail. ( Xrog.conf and some hdparm info) I'm > wondering if livetv isn't playing well because of the specific > firewire port/driver? I'm using the single port that comes with the > audigy 2 PCI card I'm using. Also, I guess I was wondering if I need

Re: [mythtv-users] QMYSQL3 Error on Fedora FC4 x86_64

2006-01-09 Thread R. G. Newbury
e squid2 wrote: > I don't think there is a multithreaded RPM for Fedora. Don't see > anything on the updates sites and the spec file for qt-MySQL mentions > threading support. > > I have the same issue basically (qt3.3, mysql4.1, AMD64 bit playing > nicely). Even recompiled qt against mysql-4

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

2006-01-09 Thread Eyal Lebedinsky
Phill Edwards wrote: > My DVB-T recordings in Sydney all seem to be 704 x 576. I thought SD > was supposed to be 720 x 576. What am I misunderstanding here? As you can see below (in Canberra) most SD is 720x576 but WIN is 704x, SBS EPG is 480x, one Prime is 544x... it seems to vary. SC10 Canber

Re: [mythtv-users] question about RAID

2006-01-09 Thread Brian Wood
Given that this must be taken with a bit of a grain of salt: hdparm -tT /dev/hda Timing cached reads: 2820 MB in 2.00 second = 1409.91 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 200 MB in 3.02 seconds = 66.31 MB/sec hdparm -tT /dev/MD0 Timing cached reads: 2804 MB in 2.00 seconds = 1401.91 MB/sec Timing

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

2006-01-09 Thread Niels den Otter
Al, Al McIntosh wrote: > The last few occurances have been in the evening or night. > > mythfilldatabase has been running around 11am. > > I do have mythcommflag set to run when the recording starts. Are you using MythTV SVN? I had a similar problem recently (after LiveTV changes) which was sol

Re: [mythtv-users] LIRC with a laptop's native IR blaster?

2006-01-09 Thread Dan Wilga
This is a common misconception. The IR port built into many laptops uses the IRda protocol, which has a different IR LED frequency from the kind of LED used in remote controls. The hardware is physically incapable of generating a signal compatible with that sent by most remote controls. It's de

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

2006-01-09 Thread Michael T. Dean
Chris Gardner wrote: > I am running mythtv with a separate video server. I currently have it > connect with a smb share. The only problem is a quick pause in movies > every 5 minutes or so. Not really a bother, but is a tweek to smb > available or would nfs do better? Most "real world" obse

Re: [mythtv-users] OT: ntp won't synchronize

2006-01-09 Thread matthew . garman
On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 02:54:46PM -0500, Michael T. Dean wrote: > "outrageous synchronization distance" -- did you ever set your > clock to be closer to the real time than 15 minutes off? NTP will > refuse to synch if the delta is large. Yes, I forgot to mention that, indeed, I start ntpd *after

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