[mythtv-users] Slashdot HTPC Article

2005-04-07 Thread Brian C. Huffman
I'm surprised that I haven't seen it mentioned yet, but there's a pretty comprehensive slashdot article on HTPCs / PVRs and reviews 4 different platform / applications of which MythTV is one. Check it out! http://www.2cpu.com/articles/113_1.html ___ my

[mythtv-users] Fast Forward Oddity

2005-04-26 Thread Brian C. Huffman
All, When sticky keys are enabled and you're watching live-tv, I notice strange behavior when fast-forwarding. I would expect that once fast-forward catches up with livetv, it would automatically "pop out" of fast-forward mode and start playing. In actuality, it just stays in fast-foward mode an

Re: [mythtv-users] OT: Comcast with 6200

2005-06-15 Thread Brian C. Huffman
On Wed, 2005-06-15 at 15:28 -0700, Doug's Junk wrote: > Peter Judge wrote: > > >On Mon, 2005-06-13 at 14:25 -0400, John Kuhn wrote: > > > > > >>OT again here.. but i have to ask since i'm about to take the same > >>step.. when using the firewire input.. does that only get me digital and > >>HD

[mythtv-users] FC2 Myth can't rip CDs

2005-08-02 Thread Brian C. Huffman
All, I'm running Fedora Core 2 and I also run latest CVS snapshots. However, I think this has something to do with Fedora (kernel) more than mythmusic. Lately, I'm having trouble ripping music CDs. When I put the CD in the drive, I see messages in my /var/adm/messages like the following: Aug

[mythtv-users] CD Copy protection?

2005-08-05 Thread Brian C. Huffman
This doesn't look good for those of us that legitimately buy CDs, but then would rather rip them to mythmusic and keep the library there... http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050804/tc_nm/media_copyprotection_dc ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@myth

Re: [mythtv-users] CD Copy protection?

2005-08-05 Thread Brian C. Huffman
Jim Reith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 09:39 AM 8/5/2005, you wrote: > >This doesn't look good for those of us that legitimately buy CDs, but then > >would > >rather rip them to mythmusic and keep the library there... > > > >http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050804/tc_nm/media_copyprotection_dc > >

Re: [mythtv-users] CD Copy protection?

2005-08-05 Thread Brian C. Huffman
James Oltman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > if it can be read, it can be cracked. > There are two issues: 1) technical, 2) philosophical (the priciple of the idea). ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman

[mythtv-users] Firewire source and channel changer

2005-10-25 Thread Brian C. Huffman
All, Is there anyone that is successfully using Firewire as both a source as well as a method to change channels on the DCT6200 (using another source). I'm trying to setup Firewire to handle the analog channels and then use a PVR-250 w/ the 6200ch contributed program to change channels on the oth

Re: [mythtv-users] Firewire source and channel changer

2005-10-25 Thread Brian C. Huffman
On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 13:05 -0600, Curtis Stanford wrote: > On Oct 25, 2005, at 12:01 PM, Brian C. Huffman wrote: > > > All, > > > > Is there anyone that is successfully using Firewire as both a > > source as > > well as a method to change channels on t

Re: [mythtv-users] Seattle Comcast firewire not working as of today -- 5C?

2005-10-25 Thread Brian C. Huffman
On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 13:30 -0700, Andy Alsup wrote: > Correct, none of the digital channels work, including the locals. The > locals is an obvious problem, but I think even some or most of the > digital chanels should be open too. I think what we really need is > full disclosure of what will be

Re: [mythtv-users] Firewire source and channel changer

2005-10-26 Thread Brian C. Huffman
On Wed, 2005-10-26 at 11:05 -0500, Alex Brekken wrote: > Anyway, I realize you're having other issues with FireWire but I just > thought I'd see if you were seeing this choppy video stuff on non-HD > content as well. > I do not see this choppy video with SD content through the firewire. Brian

Re: [mythtv-users] An LVM'd drive died! What do I do...

2005-10-27 Thread Brian C. Huffman
On Thu, 2005-10-27 at 11:42 -0400, Bryan Halter wrote: > Well to start with for RAID you need to have disks that are all the same > size (preferably the same model). I believe Linux supports growing > software RAID volumes and I'm sure someone will correct me if it > doesn't. Personally I'd go o

Re: [mythtv-users] Development update

2005-10-28 Thread Brian C. Huffman
On Fri, 2005-10-28 at 11:09 -0400, Jesse Guardiani wrote: > I think the problem that many of us have with trying SVN is that we only > have one mythtv system, > and while we'd love to try SVN, we have family that expect Myth to be > reliable. :) So all we have > left is curiosity... > Dump your

Re: [mythtv-users] SVN mythplugins compile error

2005-11-09 Thread Brian C. Huffman
On Wed, 2005-11-09 at 12:50 -0600, Paul Leppert wrote: > Now I'm stuck on a missing mp4ff_int_types.h file for mythmusic. > Based on another email on this list it sounds like maybe this should > have been copied from the faad2 package into /usr/include but that the > package is incorrect. I'll hav

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Motorola DCT-5100

2005-11-22 Thread Brian C. Huffman
On Tue, 2005-11-22 at 09:35 -0600, Jason Sharpe wrote: > > Sweet! When they showed up they gave me a DCT-6208. > (http://broadband.motorola.com/dvr/dct6208.asp) > > Hopefully that will make life easier. It has 2 firewire ports on the > back of it. I know I am probly pushing my luck, but any ide

Re: [mythtv-users] Analog Cable and OTA HDTV Together? - ???

2005-02-15 Thread Brian C. Huffman
Blammo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Discussion about mythtv wrote: > On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 05:51:39 -0500 (EST), Cory Papenfuss > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The first card that is defined in my setup is the PVR-250, so when I hit > > > Watch Live TV in Myth, I will start watching TV on one of m

[mythtv-users] OT: FC4 and Nvidia / ATRPMs

2005-08-29 Thread Brian C. Huffman
All, Following Jarod's new Fedora Myth(TV)ology for FC4, I had a slight problem with the nvidia packages from ATRPMS. I don't know if this was something I did wrong or not, but I had to make a symbolic link to get the NV-GLX extension to load. Something like this: (I'm not at home) ln -s /usr/X

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: OT: FC4 and Nvidia / ATRPMs

2005-08-29 Thread Brian C. Huffman
On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 02:22 +0200, Axel Thimm wrote: > On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 10:28:48AM -0400, Brian C. Huffman wrote: > > All, > > > > Following Jarod's new Fedora Myth(TV)ology for FC4, I had a slight > > problem with the nvidia packages from ATRPMS. I don&#x

[mythtv-users] MythTV CVS / FC4

2005-09-01 Thread Brian C. Huffman
All, I've just upgraded to FC4 and used Jarod's documentation. Following the upgrade, I built mythtv from CVS and I'm having some problems. Hopefully either some developers or users with similar experience can shed some light: 1) I'm using the minimalist theme and am running 480p (actually the

Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV CVS / FC4

2005-09-01 Thread Brian C. Huffman
Donavan Stanley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Minimalist was designed for 720p (1280x720), since you're running at a lower > resolution the fonts get scaled (way) up. Running at 100dpi should help > though. > Hmmm...I didn't know that 720p was a common resolution? Is this for an LCD or P

Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV CVS / FC4

2005-09-01 Thread Brian C. Huffman
Discussion about mythtv wrote: > Brian C. Huffman wrote: > >Hmmm...I didn't know that 720p was a common resolution? Is this for an LCD or > >Plasma? Is there a theme that would work better for me? I know that the Blue > >theme did *not* look good as the buttons whic

[mythtv-users] OT: How to calculate displaysize

2005-09-02 Thread Brian C. Huffman
Ok...so I found that my display is running at 75dpi (bad for fonts). However, the howto up on mythtv.info is very vague: http://www.mythtv.info/moin.cgi/DisplaySize Does anyone have advice to give on how to accurately determine and specify your displaysize in xorg.conf? Thanks, Brian _

[mythtv-users] OT: The Death of Public Domain

2005-09-02 Thread Brian C. Huffman
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=3176 ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

Re: [mythtv-users] OT: How to calculate displaysize

2005-09-02 Thread Brian C. Huffman
Discussion about mythtv wrote: > > 2) You can calculate the appropriate "DisplaySize" based on the > resolution you're using: > > Given 1 inch = 25.4millimeters > DisplaySize is specified in millimeters > You're using a resolution of X x Y: > > DisplaySize should be set to the truncated integ

[mythtv-users] mythmusic CD ripping and Accuraterip

2005-09-06 Thread Brian C. Huffman
All, Is there any way in linux to guarantee the quality of a ripped CD such as the Accuraterip database does? I have already experienced one song (that I've found) that ripped w/ a skip in it. Installing dbpoweramp under Wine makes me cringe Thanks, -b ___

[mythtv-users] FC4 CD ripping

2005-09-11 Thread Brian C. Huffman
All, Numerous people including myself have hit the "bug" where FC4 prefers to complain about the buffer overflow that exists in the libcdaudio libraries. I didn't have much hope that this would be resolved quickly, so I took some time today to clean the rust off of my C skillz and tracked this do

Re: [mythtv-users] Problems with Myth_Music

2005-09-16 Thread Brian C. Huffman
On Fri, 2005-09-16 at 04:04 -0500, Javier Perez wrote: > Hi > How come I can Rip a CD with Grip but I cannot do it from within > MythCD. > Mythfrontend crashes as soon as I just try to do it. Has this problem > been solved? It did not look like it > from googling around. I'm going to take a stab i

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: mplayer audio sync issues

2005-06-08 Thread Brian C. Huffman
Discussion about mythtv wrote: > ALSA 1.0.9 uses the dmix plugin by default on all soundcards that lack > hardware mixing support (previous versions required you to explicitly > request dmix). So, what does this mean? Well, if you play any audio > via an ALSA driver whose soundcard doesn't

[mythtv-users] OT: SVCD mono in mplayer or xine

2005-06-09 Thread Brian C. Huffman
All, My roommate has some VCDs that are made in Hong Kong and apparently have two channels - 1) Mandarin and 2) Cantonese. Apparently you can select which channel you'd like to use in modern DVD players, but I can't seem to figure out how to do this in either mplayer or xine. Does anyone know ho

[mythtv-users] OT: Comcast with 6200

2005-06-13 Thread Brian C. Huffman
All, I've just successfully setup my mythtv to use the firewire input with the Motorolla 6200 and I see that I can view any non-premium channels. It doesn't see as though the box has been setup to allow premium channels to output through the firewire. I'm using Comcast. Has anyone had a similar

Re: [mythtv-users] OT: Comcast with 6200

2005-06-13 Thread Brian C. Huffman
On Mon, 2005-06-13 at 14:25 -0400, John Kuhn wrote: > OT again here.. but i have to ask since i'm about to take the same > step.. when using the firewire input.. does that only get me digital and > HDTV recordings from Comcast.. can i also get all the analog stations as > well? > Analog works

[mythtv-users] OT: Nvidia to Mitsubishi projection

2005-06-13 Thread Brian C. Huffman
I have an older (probaby 10 years) mitsubishi projection television. Since I've gotten myth setup over 1 1/2 years ago, I've always had about 2 inches at the bottom of the screen that is blank. It's not uniform around the edges, so overscan is not quite the right solution. Has anyone else experie

[mythtv-users] [OT] Dish Network and DVB

2006-01-28 Thread Brian C. huffman
All, I don't want to create a huge off topic thread. However, I would like to know if it's possible in the US to use DVB-S cards to access dish network streams (legally). I've been searching for a while now and can't find a definitive answer. I currently have a Dish Network subscription and a

[mythtv-users] Tuners with different channel lineup and EPG

2005-01-23 Thread Brian C. Huffman
All, Currently I have two tuners in my mythtv .16 box. One tuner has a channel lineup that is "digital TV" and therefore has channels above 125. It is being fed through S-video from a cable box. The other tuner is just doing analog cable (up to 125) and is being fed through coax. The probl

Re: [mythtv-users] 0.17 Scheme Update Error! Please help?

2005-02-11 Thread Brian C. Huffman
Maverick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Discussion about mythtv wrote: > I did both backups recommended on list earlier: > > mysqldump -umythtv -pmythtv -hlocalhost mythconverg | bzip2 -9 > > mythtv16.backup.bz2 > > mysqldump --opt --allow-keywords --all-databases -uroot > mysqldump-0.16.sql > > I