[mythtv-users] No audio after transcode on PVR-350

2005-11-19 Thread Brad DerManouelian
Sorry if this has been discussed (I have a feeling it has), but I wasn't able to find anything about it either on the list or elsewhere. I'm using my TV-Out on my PVR-350 (no display, just TV). Everything works perfectly (X and MythMusic through my Soundblaster card, LiveTV and Recorded pro

[mythtv-users] PVR-350 and PVR-500

2005-11-21 Thread Brad DerManouelian
I've currently got everything running VERY nicely (except transcoding) on my FC4 box with a PVR-350. I was thinking about adding a PVR-500 into the same box. I would continue to use the 350 for watching Live TV and playing back recordings, but would use the 500 for scheduled recordings and

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-350 and PVR-500

2005-11-22 Thread Brad DerManouelian
Thanks for the responses. Will I be able to use PIP with the 350 and the 500 together through the 350's TV-out? I think that will seal the deal for me.On Nov 22, 2005, at 12:29 AM, mrwester wrote:On 11/21/05, Brad DerManouelian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I've currently got everyth

Re: [mythtv-users] kudos

2005-11-25 Thread Brad DerManouelian
My remote works like a charm. Here's my modprobe.conf. My lirc conf is a bit big to include on the list. If you'd like to see it, let me know and I can post it or email it to you. My only issue was that I am using the 350's TV-Out for audio (as well as my sound card) so I wanted to map the

[mythtv-users] No DVD video until I transcode something

2005-11-26 Thread Brad DerManouelian
I've recently installed xine-lib to enable DVD playback. Before xine, I got purple/green blocks for video. Now I've got a strange issue that feels like a permissions problem, but I'm not sure where to check. When I reboot the machine (something I've been doing a lot more than I like, lately

Re: [mythtv-users] NuppelVideo container format

2005-11-27 Thread Brad DerManouelian
They're not. They have a .nuv extension, but are in mpeg-2 format. Try working with them as mpeg-2 files and you won't have a problem.On Nov 27, 2005, at 11:02 AM, Felix Rubinstein wrote:Let's make it clearer, for instance, I use WinTV-PVR-150, it has MPEG-2 encoder, right? So why files stored on h

Re: [mythtv-users] kudos

2005-11-27 Thread Brad DerManouelian
If I had something better than an old SoundBlaster Live sound card, I would route my audio as Mike described. However, my sound card only takes mono input and sounds absolutely terrible. So I simply send both the PVR-350's audio out and my sound card's audio out to a hardware mixer which se

Re: [mythtv-users] Auto login as user and start Myth.

2005-11-28 Thread Brad DerManouelian
In KDE Control Center -> Login Manager -> ConvenienceClick the auto-login box. The other settings you need are obvious there.Then, make sure you have it set to start your session from saved session, launch Myth (back end if needed and front end definitely). Then save your session. Now when you boot

[mythtv-users] Re: No audio after transcode on PVR-350

2005-11-28 Thread Brad DerManouelian
the video/audio), but leave it in mpeg2 format (that my PVR-350 TV-out requires) and still have myth automatically do it when I tell it to transcode? Thanks, Brad On Nov 15, 2005, at 9:28 PM, Brad DerManouelian wrote: Sorry if this has been discussed (I have a feeling it has), but I

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: No audio after transcode on PVR-350

2005-11-29 Thread Brad DerManouelian
closer look at my software mixer settings and see if I just screwed something up in there. Do you know what channel that audio should be coming through? On Nov 29, 2005, at 4:43 AM, Ant Daniel wrote: On 29/11/05, Brad DerManouelian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Quick update on this..

Re: [mythtv-users] OT:? GeForce MX4000 and TV Out oddness

2005-11-29 Thread Brad DerManouelian
This may sound obvious, but make it bigger until your border is gone. :) It would be nice (hint, hint developers) if we could define margins for the GUI and OSD so we wouldn't have to choose between borders and info getting cut off. I have a happy balance between those options after a bunch

Re: [mythtv-users] Feature suggestion / discussion - record button behavior

2005-12-02 Thread Brad DerManouelian
I don't think this would be all that necessary once the LiveTV Record is changed such that hitting record will record the entire program (pulling from buffer as needed). Why would you want to Record a later showing if you've got it right now? It would be cool to optionally have the scheduli

Re: [mythtv-users] Feature suggestion / discussion - record button behavior

2005-12-02 Thread Brad DerManouelian
Yes, hitting M, then selecting Program Guide, then I, then choosing FindOne is much better than optionally popping up this screen after hitting record. I clearly didn't think that through at all. Thanks. On Dec 2, 2005, at 1:48 PM, Bruce Markey wrote: Brad DerManouelian wrote: I

Re: [mythtv-users] Multiple directory locations for Music, Videos, Recordings etc.

2005-12-03 Thread Brad DerManouelian
Use colons, not semi-colons. On Dec 3, 2005, at 3:57 AM, Michael Jones wrote: I've looked through the archives and can't seem to find anything on this.. I haven't scoured the docs.. But a cursory look.. Is there a way to specify multiple disconnected directory locations for things like vi

Re: [mythtv-users] RE: STAY AWAY FROM WI-FI !!!

2005-12-08 Thread Brad DerManouelian
For the record, I have an encrypted 802.11g network consisting of a Linksys game adaptor on my MythTV box, a D-Link one on a Mac mini, and 802.11g on my laptop. I can watch streams from both remote front ends as well as on my MythTV box without much problem. Kick down my bitrate a bit and i

Re: [mythtv-users] Unable to initialize video

2005-12-10 Thread Brad DerManouelian
This is the guide I used and it worked like a charm with my 350 using Fedora Core 4. http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/fcmyth.php On Dec 9, 2005, at 7:15 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know I've seen this discussed before, and I've both read and searched through the threads. I'm having a few proble

[mythtv-users] DVD Transcode doesn't work after kernel upgrade.

2005-12-11 Thread Brad DerManouelian
Hoping someone can help. I used to be able to transcode DVD's except it was insanely slow. Luckily, I was using a dual processor motherboard with a single processor in it, so I bought a matching pair and upgraded my kernel to 2.6.14-1.1644_FC4smp #1 SMP Sun Nov 27 03:39:31 EST 2005 i686 i68

Re: [mythtv-users] Media Library - Watch Recordings jump key

2005-12-11 Thread Brad DerManouelian
There's a nice interface in mythweb.http://yourmythtvbox/mythweb/settings_keys.phpOn Dec 11, 2005, at 10:05 PM, Nathan Allen Stratton wrote:I have looked all through Edit Keys and I can't find a jump key for MediaLibrary - Watch Recordings. Is there any way to make one? I want to setuplircrc with a

Re: [mythtv-users] TiVo remote on KnoppMyth

2005-12-12 Thread Brad DerManouelian
While not directly in response to your post, I hope this helps you or someone else looking around. I modified the .lircrc file in Jarod's guide for the Hauppauge Grey remote to get xine remote functions to match MythTV's internal player more closely. Note that I use the volume on external a

Re: [mythtv-users] PAL tv output PVR350; X display screen size is to small

2005-12-12 Thread Brad DerManouelian
Manually set your GUI size. Utilities/Setup->Setup->Appearance->Next I have the same setup as you, but using NTSC. I set my GUI to: width 642 height 455 X offset 34 Y offset 15 I got these numbers through trial and error and these work best for me. I had to choose an OSD theme that didn't cut

Re: [mythtv-users] Xine audio output through PVR350 tv-out

2005-12-12 Thread Brad DerManouelian
That certainly is the solution. The reason is because the Hauppauge cards don't handle the audio stream of anything that's been transcoded. It needs to go through the sound card. The solution below makes it easy by piping all the audio (one way or another) through your sound card so you don

Re: [mythtv-users] Hard disk access

2005-12-12 Thread Brad DerManouelian
Beat me to it. I was just going to suggest that. Might be easier on the eyes to run a lsof -p (probably in your /usr/ sbin dir) on each PID you've got running to see exactly what files it has open. On Dec 12, 2005, at 5:45 PM, Andrew Wilson wrote: You can track which process is reading/writ

Re: [mythtv-users] Instalation problems.

2005-12-12 Thread Brad DerManouelian
He said KnoppMyth, not Knoppix. I would also recommend KnoppMyth for a beginner and experienced users who are tired of fiddling with this and that until it works exactly as you want it to. :) It walks you through the whole setup relatively effortlessly. Just remember to set up your Zap2It account (

Re: [mythtv-users] Instalation problems.

2005-12-12 Thread Brad DerManouelian
do when I want to run the frontend on my PC), you also have the option of KnoppMyth installing itself on your harddrive. On 12/12/05, Brad DerManouelian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: He said KnoppMyth, not Knoppix. I would also recommend KnoppMyth for a beginner and experienced users who are t

Re: [mythtv-users] Xine issues

2005-12-13 Thread Brad DerManouelian
These work for me. -V xshm got rid of my shaky playback. --no-splash and --no-logo do what they look like they do. DVD: xine -pfhq -V xshm --no-splash --no-logo dvd://%s Video: xine -pfhq -V xshm --no-splash --no-logo %s On Dec 13, 2005, at 2:59 AM, Peter Osterberg wrote: I use XINE for pla

Re: [mythtv-users] Instalation problems.

2005-12-13 Thread Brad DerManouelian
AIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Brad DerManouelian wrote: The last I knew you can't run it as a Live CD. Only install to your drive. I'm 99 44/100% sure that's still correct. With Knoppmyth you can run a remote frontend from CD (handy for watching from your Windows box) - just configure n

Re: [mythtv-users] Instalation problems.

2005-12-13 Thread Brad DerManouelian
AIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Brad DerManouelian wrote: The last I knew you can't run it as a Live CD. Only install to your drive. I'm 99 44/100% sure that's still correct. With Knoppmyth you can run a remote frontend from CD (handy for watching from your Windows box) - just configure n

[mythtv-users] Xine Crash

2005-12-13 Thread Brad DerManouelian
I suppose this is xine-specific and not myth-specific, but since I'm using the PVR-350 TV-Out and FC-4, I thought maybe someone here could help. I just switched over to xine from mplayer for watching dvds and videos. After about half an hour into a video (ripped from DVD at Perfect qualit

Re: [mythtv-users] Xine issues

2005-12-13 Thread Brad DerManouelian
I am using PVR-350's tv out. I can play using the Xv driver, but it's jumpy with some DVDs, so I switched to xshm and never thought much more about it. On Dec 13, 2005, at 9:01 PM, Michael T. Dean wrote: Mark J. Small wrote: On December 13, 2005 08:31 am, Brad DerManoue

Re: [mythtv-users] Need help / suggestion for building a myth box

2005-12-14 Thread Brad DerManouelian
I have about 7,000 tracks in my library. I got excited and copied it all to my mythtv box, but I don't use it because it's a pain. I don't know C at all, but I was considering writing something in Perl or PHP that would allow some easy browsing/playlist selection stuff and add it to my Myth

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Multiple questions from a mythtv newbie...

2005-12-14 Thread Brad DerManouelian
For the record, I also have an issue with this, but I don't play games much, so I let it go after a couple of hours of playing with settings and looking up info about it. I'm running 0.102 as well.On Dec 14, 2005, at 8:20 PM, El Burro wrote:On 12/14/05, El Burro wrote: 1.

Re: [mythtv-users] Need help / suggestion for building a myth box

2005-12-14 Thread Brad DerManouelian
nals with keyboard input.  On 12/14/05, Brad DerManouelian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have about 7,000 tracks in my library. I got excited and copied itall to my mythtv box, but I don't use it because it's a pain. I don't know C at all, but I was considering writing som

Re: [mythtv-users] Please explain

2005-12-15 Thread Brad DerManouelian
I think it might be beneficial to keep a certain amount of LiveTV when your limit is reached. Suppose I'm watching LiveTV and have 2GB free. I'd much rather delete a program set to auto-expire from months ago to make room for another LiveTV show. If LiveTV keeps x MB and starts forcing olde

Re: [mythtv-users] Glitches in firewire capture from DCT-6200

2005-12-17 Thread Brad DerManouelian
Are you having networking issues?On Dec 17, 2005, at 9:19 PM, Alex Brekken wrote:Thanks guys, yes I changed the speed setting in mythtvsetup to 400 mbps.  Now, plugreport shows that the data_rate=2 and stays there.  However, it didn't seem to fix my display issues.  It's not a stuttering necessair

Re: [mythtv-users] Glitches in firewire capture from DCT-6200

2005-12-17 Thread Brad DerManouelian
f it was a network thing, rather than intermittantly.  My "network" consists of a D-Link 802.11G router connecting a 40 ft. run of cat-5 cable to my basement where the slave-backend lives.  The master backend/frontend box is right next to the router.  On 12/17/05, Brad DerManouelian <[

Re: [mythtv-users] Having fun with OSD

2005-12-18 Thread Brad DerManouelian
That's the best thing ever. Although, I find that scrolling text is more effective. Now you've got me thinking about using a news web service and scrolling it along the bottom of my screen while watching TV On Dec 18, 2005, at 5:08 PM, Support [ Ian Ward ] wrote: I thought I would sha

Re: [mythtv-users] Having fun with OSD

2005-12-18 Thread Brad DerManouelian
You inspired me. I just wrote this quick script to display my MythNews headlines. Anyone know if it's possible to trigger an external script while watching TV? I set it to run every hour, but I'd much prefer it to run when I hit a button on my remote and feel like being depressed. Use/mod

Re: [mythtv-users] Having fun with OSD

2005-12-18 Thread Brad DerManouelian
On Dec 18, 2005, at 10:17 PM, Support [ Ian Ward ] wrote: Brad DerManouelian wrote: You inspired me. I just wrote this quick script to display my MythNews headlines. Anyone know if it's possible to trigger an external script while watching TV? I set it to run every hour, but I&#

Re: [mythtv-users] video podcast on mythweb? (and other questions)

2005-12-19 Thread Brad DerManouelian
On Dec 18, 2005, at 11:09 PM, Michael Freeman wrote:Has anyone ever considered making a "video podcast" option for use with mythweb? I could see that coming in handy if you own an ipod with video capability...have mythbackend automatically transcode a copy of your recordings to 320x240 (or whatev

Re: [mythtv-users] Having fun with OSD

2005-12-19 Thread Brad DerManouelian
On Dec 19, 2005, at 2:07 AM, Phill Edwards wrote: On 19/12/05, Brad DerManouelian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: You inspired me. I just wrote this quick script to display my MythNews headlines. Anyone know if it's possible to trigger an external script while watching TV? I set it t

Re: [mythtv-users] Gray-OSD change font?

2005-12-19 Thread Brad DerManouelian
On Dec 19, 2005, at 9:52 AM, Greg Estabrooks wrote: As usual, Great work, like I said before a great match for the Grayhem theme, thanks for all your hard work! Thanks, actually it was fun to work on and learn more about how myth handles it's themes. I had rarely dug around that portion

Re: [mythtv-users] Gray-OSD change font?

2005-12-19 Thread Brad DerManouelian
On Dec 19, 2005, at 6:43 PM, Phill Edwards wrote: Also, if you could add scrolling text to it by default, it would save me the trouble of adding it in the event of upgrades. :) 0,434,640,40 0,440,640,40 settings yes -3,0 Out o

[mythtv-users] Re: DVD Transcode doesn't work after kernel upgrade.

2005-12-20 Thread Brad DerManouelian
On Dec 11, 2005, at 8:12 PM, Brad DerManouelian wrote: Hoping someone can help. I used to be able to transcode DVD's except it was insanely slow. Luckily, I was using a dual processor motherboard with a single processor in it, so I bought a matching pair and upgraded my kernel to 2

Re: [mythtv-users] Having fun with OSD

2005-12-20 Thread Brad DerManouelian
ters: Add after use DBI; use HTML::Entities (); and just before the last line, add $sNews = HTML::Entities::encode($sNews); Cheers, -- Graeme Hilton On Mon, 19 December, 2005 3:03 am, Brad DerManouelian wrote: You inspired me. I just wrote this quick script to display my MythNews headlin

Re: [mythtv-users] Current time of day?

2005-12-20 Thread Brad DerManouelian
On Dec 20, 2005, at 1:39 PM, Al Mcintosh wrote: You could make a small shell script that calls mythtvosd to display the current time and map the script to a button on your remote. mythtvosd --template=alert --alert_text=$(date) This was my first impulse but thought I would check before

Re: [mythtv-users] Having fun with OSD

2005-12-21 Thread Brad DerManouelian
On Dec 21, 2005, at 4:07 AM, Phill Edwards wrote:You inspired me. I just wrote this quick script to display myMythNews headlines. Anyone know if it's possible to trigger anexternal script while watching TV? I set it to run every hour, butI'd much prefer it to run when I hit a button on my remote an

Re: [mythtv-users] Gray-OSD change font?

2005-12-21 Thread Brad DerManouelian
On Dec 21, 2005, at 11:38 AM, Greg Estabrooks wrote: display. Works with recordings, but displays the token for live tv. Not sure if there's a way around this, but wanted to mention it. I'll take a look at that. Haven't looked at this one yet, but I'll check it out tonight. (no livetv w

Re: [mythtv-users] Interesting false match

2005-12-21 Thread Brad DerManouelian
Doesn't sound false to me. You asked to record "House" on any time, any channel. That's exactly what it did. :) On Dec 21, 2005, at 10:32 PM, Allan McIntosh wrote: Hey, I have a record schedule for new episodes of the series House, which is set to record at any time on any channel. There i

Re: [mythtv-users] Having fun with OSD

2005-12-22 Thread Brad DerManouelian
Do you have the URL to the feed causing the error? It's more likely that the RSS feed doesn't conform to the standard than your library being wonky. On Dec 22, 2005, at 11:10 PM, Phill Edwards wrote: Yeah, sorry about that. I wasn't handling some HTML entities that the shell doesn't like.

Re: [mythtv-users] OSD Now/Next information from database?

2005-12-22 Thread Brad DerManouelian
On Dec 22, 2005, at 11:35 PM, Kevin Kuphal wrote: Isn't that what browse mode is for? Press "o" while watching LiveTV to enter browse mode. Then, to see what's on next, use the right arrow. And, with browse mode, you can get Next-next and Next-next-next and ... ;) If you really like

Re: [mythtv-users] Having fun with OSD

2005-12-23 Thread Brad DerManouelian
.= " - $item->{'description'}" if ( $item->{'description'} );         $sNews .= "          " if ( $item->{'title'} && $item->{'description'} );     }}$sNews = HTML::Entities::encode($sNews);`mythtvosd --template=scrol

Re: [mythtv-users] Interesting false match

2005-12-23 Thread Brad DerManouelian
On Dec 23, 2005, at 12:14 PM, Al Mcintosh wrote: Well, I am not going to get into the specifics right now as the details surrounding the patent are still unclear. I will mention the biggest problem will be powering the time machine as it requires a tremendous amount of power obtained from p

Re: [mythtv-users] Help!! My system has crashed (maybe OT?)

2005-12-24 Thread Brad DerManouelian
Probably not. Most likely MySQL was being accessed when you lost power which resulted in a head crash on the platter killing those sectors. Hard to avoid that sort of thing without a UPS. On Dec 24, 2005, at 11:27 AM, Dave Ansell wrote: Thanks. I ran Maxtor diag and it found and "repaired"

[mythtv-users] Disabling IRQ

2005-12-24 Thread Brad DerManouelian
After about half an hour of watching a video, I get this message. (Xine dies immediately and mplayer continues on for a few minutes more, then eventually dies, as well). It only happens when watching a DVD directly or ripped using either perfect or compressed. Message from [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [mythtv-users] Disabling IRQ

2005-12-25 Thread Brad DerManouelian
On Dec 25, 2005, at 7:10 AM, Marko Nurmenniemi wrote: Brad DerManouelian wrote: After about half an hour of watching a video, I get this message. (Xine dies immediately and mplayer continues on for a few minutes more, then eventually dies, as well). It only happens when watching a

Re: [mythtv-users] Windows and Fedora Core

2005-12-25 Thread Brad DerManouelian
It's easier to install Windows first since grub (FC4 default) will get installed over the Windows boot manager and is much more accommodating of Windows than the other way around. When you boot your machine after the linux install, you'll have the option of booting into a specific linux ker

Re: [mythtv-users] (no subject)

2005-12-25 Thread Brad DerManouelian
I thought I was having a problem when I first tried this, but it turned out to be a lot of excess in/outputs turned on that didn't need to be causing insane amounts of noise. I also didn't have my capture level high enough so I was blasting my receiver to compensate. Once I turned off anything I di

Re: [mythtv-users] Eh - unrequested recording of live TV?!

2005-12-28 Thread Brad DerManouelian
Search the forums. Are we really talking about this again? On Dec 28, 2005, at 7:11 AM, Chris Picton wrote: Greg Estabrooks wrote: schedule, etc. It would be an absolute ballache to have to delete all the mini recordings. You don't have to. Myth will auto expire them after I think a c

Re: [mythtv-users] Samba 3 better than NFS 3 for recording over Ethernet

2005-12-28 Thread Brad DerManouelian
On Dec 28, 2005, at 10:30 PM, Yeechang Lee wrote: To make a long story short, my 2.8TB JFS-on-LVM2-on-software RAID 5 array has certain mysterious performance bottlenecks that result in 7.5-10MB/s local write speeds, despite eight spindles and two 3Ware 7506 controller cards in JBOD mode and on

Re: [mythtv-users] Samba 3 better than NFS 3 for recording over Ethernet

2005-12-29 Thread Brad DerManouelian
On Dec 28, 2005, at 10:51 PM, Jarod Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 28 December 2005 22:37, Brad DerManouelian wrote: On Dec 28, 2005, at 10:30 PM, Yeechang Lee wrote: To make a long story short, my 2.8TB JFS-on-LVM2-on-software RAID 5 array has certain mysterious performance bottlenecks that

Re: [mythtv-users] Samba 3 better than NFS 3 for recording over Ethernet

2005-12-30 Thread Brad DerManouelian
On Dec 29, 2005, at 12:33 PM, Yeechang Lee wrote: Brad DerManouelian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> says: Yeechang, what kind of drives are in your RAID 5? ATA-133? 7200 RPM? = 8MB Cache? They are Seagate Barracuda.8 400GB PATA drives (I got a fantastic price on 'em a year ago, the month

Re: [mythtv-users] frontend setup (NFS ?) need clarification

2005-12-30 Thread Brad DerManouelian
On Dec 30, 2005, at 11:01 AM, Franco wrote: Hello, Hi How should I set up things so that I can play all my video, music, etc. from all the frontends? I believe the answer is "NFS", but should I setup things so that the paths look the same from every machine? I see that if I try to brows

Re: [mythtv-users] Samba 3 better than NFS 3 for recording over Ethernet

2005-12-30 Thread Brad DerManouelian
On Dec 30, 2005, at 3:11 PM, Yeechang Lee wrote: Brad wrote: Are you sure you don't have a drive failure? RAID 5 will continue on = normally but your speed will sink fast if a drive fails. I am well aware of how mdadm handles drive failures and how to monitor the array's and drives' health

Re: [mythtv-users] WinTV PVR-350 - Do I still need a video out card?

2005-12-31 Thread Brad DerManouelian
You can use the 350 to handle all your X output as well. Jarod's guide tells you how to do it in Fedora. The only problem is the overscan. You will lose the edges of your desktop area since the TV (deliberately) cuts it off. If you're using your computer for more than Myth, it would get ann

Re: [mythtv-users] Serious concerns about LiveTV Ringbuffer chang es - a Q for develo pers

2005-12-31 Thread Brad DerManouelian
On Dec 31, 2005, at 12:29 PM, Steve Adeff wrote: I'd still think it would be worth paying the $500 for a UPS for that system, save yourself the hassle of a power outtage destroying some of those drives. Happened to me once and thats why I use a UPS now =) Speaking of APC... I might have a j

Re: [mythtv-users] audio out on a Hauppauge pvr-350

2005-12-31 Thread Brad DerManouelian
Do you get an error from Myth when you watch something? How are you hooking up your audio? Out from your 350 and into your sound card or direct from your 350 to speakers/receiver? On Dec 31, 2005, at 6:21 PM, Matt Price wrote: hi folks, trying to get audio out to work on a hauppauge pvr-35

Re: [mythtv-users] audio out on a Hauppauge pvr-350

2005-12-31 Thread Brad DerManouelian
guessing it's part of the ivtv driver), but it might help to look through it. On Dec 31, 2005, at 7:08 PM, Matt Price wrote: On Sat, Dec 31, 2005 at 06:26:13PM -0800, Brad DerManouelian wrote: Do you get an error from Myth when you watch something? How are you hooking up your audio? O

[mythtv-users] Single quote breaks myth2ipod script

2006-01-02 Thread Brad DerManouelian
Just got myth2ipod working. However, the test show I was using had a single quote in the name which broke the script. Had to s/\'/_/g on the title and subtitle. There may be other invalid characters I haven't run across yet, as well. Just wanted to let the author know so the change could be

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

2006-01-02 Thread Brad DerManouelian
On Jan 2, 2006, at 2:05 PM, Matt Hannan wrote: Well, count me as a rare insane person! I can't for the life of me figure why people like iTunes. It seems so kludged together and will not let me do what I want it to do. NEVER LET SOFTWARE BOSS YOU AROUND. Anyway, thanks for the reply, but I w

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

2006-01-02 Thread Brad DerManouelian
On Jan 2, 2006, at 2:31 PM, Matt Hannan wrote: My setup has the Mini in the living room. I am trying to get it to the point where I do not have to leave Myth in order to listen to music. There currently is, to the best of my knowledge, no plugin for music in MythTV for OSX. This is one of th

Re: [mythtv-users] Redirecting PVR-350 audio to soundcard for live TV / playback

2006-01-02 Thread Brad DerManouelian
On Jan 2, 2006, at 3:05 PM, Joe Votour wrote: You have two options here: 1. Don't use the PVR-350 MPEG-2 decoder for watching shows. Use Xv that is provided with the newest drivers (0.4.x). 2. Put in a second sound card and use it for looping the sound. -- Joe His CPU speed won't support op

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

2006-01-02 Thread Brad DerManouelian
On Jan 2, 2006, at 3:25 PM, Matt Hannan wrote: The goal is a dedicated MythTV system running in the living room. That being said, MythMusic should be along for the ride, ie: auto boot into MythTV and just run from there. I agree. iTunes has MANY down sides. I no longer have it running ev

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

2006-01-02 Thread Brad DerManouelian
On Jan 2, 2006, at 4:14 PM, Matt Hannan wrote: Ok, so nothing specific. Just a general "I don't like it because I don't like it" or "I don't like it because I didn't read enough to figure out how to become the 'ultimate master' of my data files with iTunes". I can accept that. No, I pla

Re: [mythtv-users] Frontend - Backend : Connectivity

2006-01-02 Thread Brad DerManouelian
On Jan 2, 2006, at 5:25 PM, R wrote: Will this work? In THIS house, the Backend is connected to Comcast cable. It is also connected to Comcast internet behind a firewall. My relative lives across the street. We could put a Frontend in THAT house behind that firewall. Make the appropriate chan

Re: [mythtv-users] OSD Font has overlapping lines

2006-01-02 Thread Brad DerManouelian
On Jan 2, 2006, at 10:32 PM, Byron Poland wrote:I'm playing around with different OSD themes.  I'd been using blueosdfor a while but the program info was always cut off when I pulled itup on screen.  most of the other OSD's all have this differentproblem.  No matter what I size the font as in the s

Re: [mythtv-users] access denied for remote frontend

2006-01-05 Thread Brad DerManouelian
On Jan 5, 2006, at 11:54 AM, Eric Sharkey wrote: Thanks for the reply, Steve. On Thursday 05 Jan 2006 16:16, Eric Sharkey wrote: You need to change mysql's startup file... /etc/sysconfig/mysqld I assume you mean /etc/mysql/my.cnf. eg... # (oe) Remove --skip-networking to enable network

Re: [mythtv-users] color adjustments to pvr-350

2006-01-05 Thread Brad DerManouelian
Try turning off your xV picture controls. Or better yet.. adjust them. :) On Jan 5, 2006, at 1:49 PM, Matt Price wrote: hi folks, myth is running great, but the recordings look funny when played on my pvr-350 (kinda green and a little washed out). Tried copying one of the files to another

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

2006-01-05 Thread Brad DerManouelian
Thanks, Justin! I don't use Widescreen, but I'm glad to know that when I do one day, I won't have to change themes. I have lots of Photoshop experience and a little design experience and was considering whipping one up myself. Any idea how much time it took for your first theme? That will

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

2006-01-05 Thread Brad DerManouelian
On Jan 5, 2006, at 4:08 PM, Mike wrote: Chris Ribe wrote: Prefering MythMusic to iTunes takes a rare kind of insanity, perhaps. Other than that, why? You seriously don't know why he'd want MythMusic instead of iTunes? Have you ever used brand name iTunes on linux? (HA HA) Have you ever use

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

2006-01-05 Thread Brad DerManouelian
On Jan 5, 2006, at 6:34 PM, Matt Hannan wrote: Mike wrote: Chris Ribe wrote: Prefering MythMusic to iTunes takes a rare kind of insanity, perhaps. Other than that, why? You seriously don't know why he'd want MythMusic instead of iTunes? Have you ever used brand name iTunes on linux? (HA H

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

2006-01-05 Thread Brad DerManouelian
On Jan 5, 2006, at 9:09 PM, Matt Hannan wrote: Brad DerManouelian wrote: On Jan 5, 2006, at 6:34 PM, Matt Hannan wrote: Mike wrote: Chris Ribe wrote: Prefering MythMusic to iTunes takes a rare kind of insanity, perhaps. Other than that, why? You seriously don't know why he&#

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

2006-01-06 Thread Brad DerManouelian
On Jan 6, 2006, at 12:30 AM, Mike wrote:Brad DerManouelian wrote: On Jan 5, 2006, at 4:08 PM, Mike wrote: Chris Ribe wrote: Prefering MythMusic to iTunes takes a rare kind of insanity, perhaps.Other than that, why? You seriously don't know why he'd want MythMusic instead of iTunes?  Have you ever u

[mythtv-users] MythMusic AlbumArt

2006-01-06 Thread Brad DerManouelian
I was trying to find a script to automatically add album art to my MythMusic directories. I came across the one in this thread: http:// www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/140895 but it only adds art as you RIP a CD. I have way too many albums already ripped so this wasn't going to w

Re: [mythtv-users] MythMusic AlbumArt

2006-01-06 Thread Brad DerManouelian
All the free ones I found have links that don't resolve. Luckily, I don't need them any more. On Jan 6, 2006, at 7:43 PM, Kevin Kuphal wrote: Brad DerManouelian wrote: I was trying to find a script to automatically add album art to my MythMusic directories. I came across the o

Re: [mythtv-users] MythMusic AlbumArt

2006-01-07 Thread Brad DerManouelian
On Jan 7, 2006, at 5:45 AM, Andrew Wilson wrote: Is it possible to use album art to select which music to play? - ie click on the album cover to play the album... I couldn't see how to do this in myth music (or any other linux music program) No. ___

Re: [mythtv-users] Problems with Mounting DVDs

2006-01-08 Thread Brad DerManouelian
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 would be playing them. How does everyone else have their DVD drives setup (in /etc/fstab and Myth)? /dev/hda

Re: [mythtv-users] OSX frontend mouse?

2006-01-08 Thread Brad DerManouelian
On Jan 8, 2006, at 6:13 PM, David Abrahams wrote: Within the MythTV frontend on my mac the mouse becomes invisible and inoperable. At first I thought that was just how MythTV worked, but then I happened to access the frontend over VNC from a Linux box, and the mouse worked! Can anyone tell me

Re: [mythtv-users] Problems with Mounting DVDs

2006-01-08 Thread Brad DerManouelian
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 would be playing them. How

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

2006-01-08 Thread Brad DerManouelian
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 your mythvideo directory and go to Utilities/Setup>Video Manager (

Re: [mythtv-users] OSX frontend mouse?

2006-01-08 Thread Brad DerManouelian
On Jan 8, 2006, at 9:03 PM, David Abrahams wrote: Brad DerManouelian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: On Jan 8, 2006, at 6:13 PM, David Abrahams wrote: Within the MythTV frontend on my mac the mouse becomes invisible and inoperable. At first I thought that was just how MythTV worked, bu

Re: [mythtv-users] OSX frontend mouse?

2006-01-10 Thread Brad DerManouelian
On Jan 9, 2006, at 11:03 PM, Todd Houle wrote: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 w

Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV w/ Mac OS X Frontend

2006-01-10 Thread Brad DerManouelian
It sounds like your MySQL database isn't accepting remote connections. Do you have any other remote front ends successfully connecting? On Jan 10, 2006, at 1:35 PM, Matt Jordan wrote: > Hi all, > > I currently have a MythTV (on Ubuntu) box that is working well but I > wanted to try to run the

Re: [mythtv-users] MythWeb Thumbnail Errors

2006-01-10 Thread Brad DerManouelian
On Jan 10, 2006, at 10:43 AM, Kichigai Mentat wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hello. The MythTV system is fully functional, but one thing I've > noticed is that in MythWeb, I get errors like the following: > > Warning at /usr/share/mythtv/mythweb/includes/mythbackend.p

[mythtv-users] i2c_adapter i2c-0: sendbytes: error - bailout.

2006-01-10 Thread Brad DerManouelian
I've been running without issue for a couple of months on 0.18.1, but last night and again just now while watching a recorded program (I was also recording just now, I don't know if it was recording anything last night) my machine locked up. I see this error scattered throughout /var/log/mes

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

2006-01-10 Thread Brad DerManouelian
On Jan 10, 2006, at 7:02 PM, Matt Hannan wrote:David Snider wrote: On Jan 9, 2006, at 9:24 PM, Matt Hannan wrote: Well, sir, you may want to check that build of the frontend. Idownloaded it twice and they both seem borked up.Are there any other locations to get frontend with the plugins? I'mlooking

Re: [mythtv-users] KnoppMyth and suggestions?

2006-01-10 Thread Brad DerManouelian
On Jan 10, 2006, at 7:30 PM, Bret Schuhmacher wrote: > Does KnoppMyth do suggestions natively? Do I need a new plug-in? I > can't find any settings for suggestions, thumbs up/down, etc. > > Thanks, > > Bret > If you go to a costume party at your boss's house, wouldn't you > think a > good > co

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

2006-01-10 Thread Brad DerManouelian
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 presses) they're left

Re: [mythtv-users] KnoppMyth and suggestions?

2006-01-10 Thread Brad DerManouelian
dogs ever take over the world, and they choose a king, they > don't > just go by size, because I bet there are some Chihuahuas with some > good > ideas. > -- Deep Thoughts, by Jack Handey > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL

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

2006-01-10 Thread Brad DerManouelian
On Jan 10, 2006, at 8:09 PM, Matt Hannan wrote:Brad DerManouelian wrote: As much as it pains me to help you after the treatment I received from you... I do hope you are joking. The problem is that you aren't able to connect to the MySQL database. Actually, it turns out that the MySQL stuff is fine.

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: >>>>

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