Re: [mythtv-users] TV won't play unless you run mythbackend manually from a console (Success)

2005-06-29 Thread chris
On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 12:40:12AM +0100, Nick wrote: > > Is there a correct way to load the module WAY earlier? I'm thinking there's > > a more correct way to get it to load first.. before any of the /etc/init.d > > stuff runs. > I run the modprobes (2 cards) and start mythbackend from rc.local (

Re: [mythtv-users] MythWeb & Gentoo

2005-06-29 Thread chris
On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 08:54:18PM -0700, Drew Tomlinson wrote: > I used portage and built MythWeb but can't for the life of me, figure > out what files were installed where. I am familiar with configuring > Apache and assume I need to set up Apache to point the the php files > that make MythWe

Re: [mythtv-users] Another commercial MythTV box

2005-06-29 Thread chris
On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 04:27:40PM -0700, Mike Myers wrote: > Yet another commercial MythTV system has hit the > market. Again, no mention of Myth in it's marketing > materials. What really worries me is whether or not these commercial MythTV boxes are using labs.zap2it.com for their listings or

Re: [mythtv-users] Another commercial MythTV box

2005-06-30 Thread chris
On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 02:37:22PM +1200, Nick Rout wrote: > > What really worries me is whether or not these commercial MythTV boxes > > are using labs.zap2it.com for their listings or not. The folks at > > zap2it provide free listings for NON-COMMERCIAL use only, and have > > noticed some for-pr

[mythtv-users] XBox questions

2005-06-30 Thread chris
I have picked up a used XBox and will be installing Linux and the XBox MythTV frontend. I have a few questions: 1) Does the XBox version of Linux/MythTV support HDTV output? I know some games are capable of HD output, but don't know if that requires extra hardware or if it's just a matter of adj

Re: [mythtv-users] building my first MythTV box

2005-07-03 Thread chris
On Sun, Jul 03, 2005 at 10:32:15AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Second, I don't have HD but I'd like to beat the "broad cast flags" issue, in > case it ever comes up again, I'm thinking about the pcHDTV HD-3000. From the > looks of http://www.pchdtv.com/ this card won't work with my existin

Re: [mythtv-users] Mythfrontend and frontend only

2005-07-04 Thread chris
On Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 03:10:40PM +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > I use Gentoo and I compiled mythtv-0.18 with the "frontendonly" flag and > when it's done, each time I try to execute mythtv-setup or mythfrontend, > I get thrown into a setup screen to put my mysql db particulars. > > It's a front-en

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: MythTV and DVD ISO files?

2005-07-06 Thread chris
On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 09:34:46AM +1200, Nick Rout wrote: > heres a tip. If you have another linux machine you can run mythfrontend > over the network. I assume you have ssh set up on your mythbox. On your > desktop box do: Another possibility is to run VNC on the backend machine. That keeps all

Re: [mythtv-users] XBox questions

2005-07-07 Thread chris
On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 12:25:38PM -0400, David Barr wrote: > On 6/30/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have picked up a used XBox and will be installing Linux and the XBox > > MythTV frontend. I have a few questions: > Are you sure that OS and Dashboard version on your Xbox

Re: [mythtv-users] mythfilldatabase shows No Data for some channels

2005-07-07 Thread chris
On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 09:08:29AM -0700, Cameron Dale wrote: > How do other people deal with this? Or is this something specific to my > listings area (Vancouver, Canada)? I have noticed that different channels have different amounts of data available all the time. I use the Vancouver non-digit

Re: [mythtv-users] Network traffic causing pre-buffering pauses...

2005-07-10 Thread chris
On Sun, Jul 10, 2005 at 10:24:10PM -0400, Mark Woodward wrote: > When ever there is network traffic (i.e. file transfer to/from the > mythbox) I get pre-buffering pauses. I'm running the frontend as suid > but I don't think it's the frontend. It doesn't take much to saturate a low-latency networ

Re: [mythtv-users] ivtv problems with latest upgrade

2005-07-11 Thread chris
On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 12:44:03PM -0500, Tim Vruwink wrote: > Reloaded the IVTV drivers/module from ATRPMS. Did a depmod -a and then a > modprobe ivtv only to get the following error message: > FATAL: Error inserting ivtv (/lib/modules/2.6.11-1.35_FC3/updates/drivers/ > media/video/ivtv.ko): Inval

Re: [mythtv-users] problems installing mythtv

2005-07-11 Thread chris
On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 08:54:00PM +0200, Paul de Vries wrote: > Q2: is it possible to install mythtv directly on debian, following the > wilson guide, or are more appropriate guides available? Installing MythTV on Debian is quick and painless. A message at http://www.luci.org/luci-discuss/2004

Re: [mythtv-users] ivtv problems with latest upgrade

2005-07-11 Thread chris
> > That's not the only ivtv problem. I was just about to post a warning > > under a separate Subject: saying that ivtv-0.2.0-rc3j won't compile > > under the 2.6.12 kernel because the i2c module has changed and the > > references to client->id in ivtv's saa7115 module are no longer valid. > > We'

[mythtv-users] Input number zero into power search?

2005-07-12 Thread chris
A while ago I missed an episode of "The 4400" and there weren't any others in the schedule I could use to set up repeat captures the usual way. I figured I would create a rule in the power search screen and was surprised to find out that whenever I typed a number (using a USB querty keyboard) I wo

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Controlling Myth via scripts

2005-07-13 Thread chris
The OP just wanted to be able to capture a show every night and then loop it endlessly the next day. Scripting Myth is a good idea, but overkill for that problem. If the front-end machine is just displaying video and nothing else, then he could skip the whole MythTV frontend (and X11 for that mat

Re: [mythtv-users] Question about program scheduling rules in mythtv

2005-07-14 Thread chris
On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 06:36:33PM +1000, ffrr wrote: > If I set a rule, say by selecting a show in the program guide, and > telling it to record one copy of that show each day, it happily > schedules that show each time it sees it in the guide. > > But, if there are no episodes of that show in

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: IVTV, FC4 & PVR-250 broken?

2005-07-14 Thread chris
On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 08:24:24AM -0400, Jeff volckaert wrote: > > Is IVTV broken under FC4 with a PVR-250? Anyone got it working? If > > so, can you post what version and your modprobe.conf? Also, what > > firmware are you using? > > Did kernel 2.6.12 change something? I saw replies to your

Re: [mythtv-users] [OT] ivtv troubles

2005-07-15 Thread chris
On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 07:31:55AM +0200, Rudy Zijlstra wrote: > The 2.6.12 kernel has changes in the i2c interface. ivtv 0.2 has not yet > been patched to support this (or the version is not yet easily > available). Take one of the latest 0.3 which should support this. > Considering its gentto,

Re: [mythtv-users] Myth won't scheduling multi-part episodes

2005-07-15 Thread chris
On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 09:12:08AM -0500, Robert Kulagowski wrote: > If you're in MythWeb and pull up the scheduled recording for Dr. Who, > you can change the duplicate check method from "Subtitle and > Description" to "None", which should then record all of the episodes > even though they have

Re: [mythtv-users] ex-freevo user trying mythtv

2005-07-16 Thread chris
On Sat, Jul 16, 2005 at 08:32:28PM +1200, Dudely Smith wrote: > however all the mplayer keybindings dont work anymore. Launching > mplayer from a regular X11 session works fine. I had the same problem. Although mplayer would start and run, all of the keystrokes were being passed back to Myth and

Re: [mythtv-users] hijack?

2005-07-16 Thread chris
On Sun, Jul 17, 2005 at 01:12:34PM +1000, ffrr wrote: > >would you please STOP hijacking threads. > Sorry, I was completely unaware that I was. I just replied to an > existing message, but changed the subject and all the text. Looks OK in > my email client, but if it causes problems for others,

Re: [mythtv-users] Power failure caused some odd errors...

2005-07-17 Thread chris
On Sun, Jul 17, 2005 at 09:45:22AM -0700, Howard Cokl wrote: > > We'll yesterday we got hit by a big storm here in > > Waterloo,on (canada) and > > the power (as it often does) went out a bunch of > > times. > Sounds like you have a corrupt table in the database. > Try mysqlchk -r mythconverg.

[mythtv-users] nuvimport?

2005-07-18 Thread chris
I set up my back end several weeks before I had a workin frontend, and at the time I only had a single hard drive (I've since moved to RAID5), so i used nuvexport to convert a lot of shows into mpegs to save space. Now that I have two working front ends I'm slowly catching up, but it's just plain i

Re: [mythtv-users] N00b question about video playback

2005-07-20 Thread chris
On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 09:26:30AM -0400, Erich Beckmann wrote: > When I try to playback a lot of my movie files, the playback is very > jerky. Is there somewhere I can look to tweak the settings of Mplayer to > get the playback to be smoother? OR What is the recommended way to go > about conf

Re: [mythtv-users] recording live TV

2005-07-21 Thread chris
On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 06:57:48AM -0700, Ricardo Kleemann wrote: > I setup my DataDirect subscription a couple of months ago, and I am certain > I'm using the correct username/pw, but for some reason it doesn't seem to be > working. Where exactly do I go again, to check the subscription details?

Re: [mythtv-users] HD Television, Multiple NICs

2005-07-22 Thread chris
On Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 12:02:55AM -0500, Mike Green wrote: > My > solution is to plug directly into the backend via a crossover cable between > the ethernet ports on the laptop and the backend. The only problem is that > by doing this, my backend will now need to work on two separate IP > a

Re: [mythtv-users] Query for the scheduled recording

2005-07-22 Thread chris
On Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 05:28:54PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have made some pretty good progress but now I need to find out the time of > the next recording from the database. Do you feel like parsing some html? Myth has a self-contained web server that gives the system status on port

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Fixing my "no data" problem in EPG

2005-07-23 Thread chris
On Sat, Jul 23, 2005 at 02:19:49PM -0700, Brad wrote: > Data is already present for Fri Aug 5 2005, skipping > Adjusting program database end times... > 0 replacements made. Some of us Canadians have noticed that many of our listings only have 11 days worth of data while the rest have 14. (Speci

Re: [mythtv-users] Consecutive recordings misses the second recording pvr 250

2005-07-23 Thread chris
On Sat, Jul 23, 2005 at 11:49:27PM -0500, Christopher Isip wrote: > For example, show A 10:00-11:00. Show B 11:00-12:00. Both are > scheduled for the pvr 250 to record. However, Show B doesn't get > recorded because mythtv complains that the tuner is already busy. Are you using early-start

Re: [mythtv-users] HDD Temp

2005-07-25 Thread chris
On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 12:58:22PM -0700, Eric Gilbert wrote: > right now from hddtemp I get > /dev/hda: ST340014A: 39 C > /dev/hdb: ST3400832A: 40 C > and yesterday during the hottest part of the day I was getting > /dev/hda: ST340014A: 45 C > /dev/hdb: ST3400832A: 47 C I am using a 3-drive brac

Re: [mythtv-users] mplayer still not in focus

2005-07-26 Thread chris
On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 06:58:44AM -0400, Cory Papenfuss wrote: > >Of course you are absolutely correct. Now I will have to figure out how to > >completely disable all aspects of a completely new window manager :) The problem with MythTV and mplayer is probably with window managers that use the "

Re: [mythtv-users] [OT] directory structure for myth backend / storage server

2005-07-26 Thread chris
On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 01:38:49PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm putting together a storage server for my house. I'd like to > integrate it with the mythbackend, since that seems logical. I would > like some advice on how to logically set up the directory structures. > I'm not too familia

Re: [mythtv-users] Backend hang after ivtv error

2005-07-26 Thread chris
On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 08:44:10PM -0400, Petersen Curt wrote: > Has anyone had any problems with: > 1) ivtv giving a DMA error in the log, and then > 2) mythbackend fails to record using that tuner until restarted, and > 3) frontends/web stop responding and repeatedly logs "waiting for > thread" f

Re: [mythtv-users] Backend hang after ivtv error

2005-07-26 Thread chris
On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 09:40:17PM -0400, Petersen Curt wrote: > Thanks Chris! I'll give that a shotjust have to try and figure > out which slot to try first. I wish motherboards would come with IRQ > labels, or it would be in the manual, or maybe just come with > schema

Re: [mythtv-users] [OT] UPS's and 24x7 MythBoxen...

2005-07-27 Thread chris
On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 11:18:58AM -0500, Andrew Close wrote: > so, i was wondering what types of UPS systems are other MythUsers > using? and what would you recommend? I am using an APC "Back-UPS ES 725". It talks to the Linux box via USB cable so that the box is always aware of the UPS batter

Re: [mythtv-users] [OT] UPS's and 24x7 MythBoxen...

2005-07-27 Thread chris
On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 11:45:15AM -0500, Andrew Close wrote: > On 7/27/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am using an APC "Back-UPS ES 725". It talks to the Linux box via USB > > cable so that the box is always aware of the UPS battery capacity and > > will automatically perfo

Re: [mythtv-users] HDD Temp

2005-07-27 Thread chris
On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 09:20:51AM -0700, Eric Gilbert wrote: > On 7/25/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am using a 3-drive bracket that has a single cooling fan and slides > > into a full-height 5.25" bay. It has a WD1600 on the bottom, and two The one I mentioned can be fo

Re: [mythtv-users] [OT] UPS's and 24x7 MythBoxen...

2005-07-27 Thread chris
On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 07:50:35PM -0300, Paul Pick wrote: > BTW: I'll second the opinion that apcupsd is better than the > apc power* software. Heh. I didn't even know that APC had their own Linux software. The only complaint I have with the apcupsd package is that I have a laser prin

Re: [mythtv-users] Archiving Shows to DVD

2005-07-28 Thread chris
On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 07:16:31PM +0100, Dave Ansell wrote: > Is there a straightforward way to transfer shows to DVD in a sensible > format for viewing on DVD players, etc.My recordings are from DVB-T in > TS format. I have tried transcode, but it fails to run with the out-of-the > b

Re: [mythtv-users] xine and mythtv

2005-07-29 Thread chris
On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 06:57:40PM +0200, Sim wrote: > Perhaps what i have been asking for ages about jerky pictures is what is > being > called dropped frames here. I've been thinking it might be an encoding issue > and that I needed a hardware encoder even though I have a celeron 2ghz. But

Re: [mythtv-users] question about Channel Recording Priorities

2005-07-30 Thread chris
On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 11:48:46PM -0400, Robert Tsai wrote: > If channel recording priorities are adjusted, does that mean for a > given showing, the scheduler will prefer to use one channel over > another? Or does it mean that for a given time slot, the scheduler > will prefer a show on one chann

Re: [mythtv-users] A few minor issues

2005-08-01 Thread chris
On Mon, Aug 01, 2005 at 11:57:06AM +0100, Jo Shields wrote: > * In MythWeb, under the Music section, clicking on a track title returns > me to the same page, with all images/stylesheets missing, and a funny > URL which includes most of the path to the file in question. What is the > correct beha

Re: [mythtv-users] Putting the Computer to sleep (low-power)

2005-08-01 Thread chris
On Mon, Aug 01, 2005 at 01:16:49PM +0200, Marius Schrecker wrote: > I would also love to know how to get this to work in Linux. It's not so > much putting the disk to sleep as keeping it there. I've never managed to > get a HD to powerdown (using hdparm) for more than half a second without > being

Re: [mythtv-users] Delete upcoming schedules

2005-08-02 Thread chris
On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 09:51:15PM -0500, Kevin Kuphal wrote: > >Maybe I missed something. Can someone tell me how I can delete > >upcoming recordings? > If you want to stop specific episodes, add an override for that show > from the Upcoming Recordings screen and set it to Never Record or Don't

Re: [mythtv-users] Disable screen blanking

2005-08-03 Thread chris
On Wed, Aug 03, 2005 at 09:35:38PM +0100, Darren Coleman wrote: > I have a script which starts mythfrontend after doing "xset s off" and "xset > -dpms off" etc and despite this the screensaver always kicks in, even on > "Blank Screen Only". If I move the mouse or presses a key it asks me to > ente

Re: [mythtv-users] [OT] Xbox Frontend/Xebian 1.1/Alsa

2005-08-04 Thread chris
On Wed, Aug 03, 2005 at 08:22:11PM -0400, Dave wrote: > Does anyone have Myth .18 running on Xebian 1.1? If so, can you > please post your alsa related settings? (MixerControl, MixerDevice) I don't know if my Xebian is 1.1 or not. What I did was I installed Xebian from an ISO that I downlo

Re: [mythtv-users] Mythtv backend not starting

2005-08-05 Thread chris
On Fri, Aug 05, 2005 at 04:23:21PM -0700, Nathaniel Homier wrote: > debian:/home/usr# /etc/init.d/mythtv-backend start > Starting MythTV server: mythbackendSession management error: > Authentication Rejected, reason : None of the authentication protocols > specified are supported and host-based aut

Re: [mythtv-users] suqare boxes for all the characters for mythfrontend

2005-08-06 Thread chris
On Sat, Aug 06, 2005 at 05:48:09PM +1000, Paul Andreassen wrote: > X-windows should find a suitable font for you even if the requested one isn't > installed. If the chosen font isn't scalable and the requested size is smaller than the smallest available rendering then you will get square boxes as

Re: [mythtv-users] Why does LiveTV look horrible?

2005-08-06 Thread chris
On Sat, Aug 06, 2005 at 01:09:01AM -0700, Christopher Robbins wrote: > I was wondering if anyone could possibly explain this - I moved into a brand > new apartment, with brand new everything. Hell, I even threw in a brand new > coax cable (6') for the MythBox. The adventure wasn't complete - my n

Re: [mythtv-users] Mythtv backend not starting

2005-08-06 Thread chris
On Sat, Aug 06, 2005 at 12:09:44PM +0100, Jo Shields wrote: > Here's a test: SSH in from a different machine, and try to start > mythbackend. That one used to work for me, for whatever reason. You get a different operating environment when you launch from the CLI as opposed to a cron job or init

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR 350, closed captioning, commercial detection

2005-08-08 Thread chris
On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 08:57:28AM -0400, Scot L. Harris wrote: > On Mon, 2005-08-08 at 01:05, Jesse D. Guardiani wrote: > > Also, what about commercial detection? Is that supposed to work with > > PVR-x50's, or not? If it is, then I'd love to figure out what I need > > to change to make it work on

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR 350, closed captioning, commercial detection

2005-08-08 Thread chris
On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 10:51:06AM -0500, Robert Kulagowski wrote: > >What release of which piece enables this? That would be great > Since it's not touted in the release notes of .18 or .18.1, I'd say svn > only at this time. I am running 18.1-3 (Debian) and it has a check-box on the 5th or 6th

Re: [mythtv-users] Max number of recordings - unexpected episode deletions

2005-08-08 Thread chris
On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 02:01:34PM -0400, Pat Vaughan wrote: > When I change the episode limit, > Myth should apply that to ALL the recordings. If you want more, than make > it unlimited, and let Myth manage it by free disk space instead of number > of recordings. > > Though, there should be an

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR 350, closed captioning, commercial detection

2005-08-08 Thread chris
On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 01:46:20PM -0400, Scot L. Harris wrote: > This is in 18? That is very neat. Does this increase the overall load > on the CPU? I know the current process pegs the CPU during the 10 or 12 > minutes it takes to flag an hour show on my system. During the recording phase the

Re: [mythtv-users] Removable storage with MythTV

2005-08-08 Thread chris
On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 10:45:55AM -0700, Fedor Pikus wrote: > This way, you pull the disk out of source computer, life goes on. You > plug it into destination, RAID reconstructs, now you have your > destination disk updated. You take the drive out of destination, it > stays as the mirror of the so

Re: [mythtv-users] Max number of recordings - unexpected episode deletions

2005-08-09 Thread chris
On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 06:56:47AM -0400, Timothy G. Schaefer wrote: > The real issue is with it set to "stop recording when at max recordings" it > would occasionally record back to back episodes, go over the limit, then > delete to get back within the limit. With it leaving them in the database

Re: [mythtv-users] RTFM?

2005-10-08 Thread chris
On Sat, Oct 08, 2005 at 10:04:13PM -0700, Frank Simorjay wrote: > The deal is that the backend is also a racked server I > plan on leaving in my server room (currently running a fresh install of > Fedora3). So with this in mind do I still have to equip this box with a > decoder > (video card)? Can

[mythtv-users] mythweb on PDA says "Empty beers" ?

2005-10-11 Thread chris
I haven't started digging into the PHP (nor have I been drinking, although this might drive me to start :-P). For some reason, when I use my PDA running the Pocket PC version of Internet Explorer and connect to the mythweb/status.php page, the text navigation bar has replaced "Scheduled Recordings

Re: [mythtv-users] mythweb on PDA says "Empty beers" ?

2005-10-11 Thread chris
On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 11:05:09PM +1000, David Whyte wrote: > Q: Crikey, 10 acres, how long does it take to mow this lawn? > A: Aww, about 2 six-packs. Well, I did manage to find the Australian translation package for mythweb so I knew that my system wasn't hacked, but now that leaves me wonderin

Re: [mythtv-users] OT: MythTV Home Automation

2005-10-11 Thread chris
On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 10:12:04PM +0100, John Harvey wrote: > I once considered whether we should just look at adding a GUI to something > like misterhouse (http://www.misterhouse.net ) rather than re-inventing > everything. I looked at it briefly a while ago and it looked like it could > do most

Re: [mythtv-users] seperate frontend settings for different machines?

2005-10-12 Thread chris
On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 09:48:03PM -0400, Steve Adeff wrote: > I just got myth compiled on my laptop to use as a frontend and I'm noticing > that its using the same settings as the frontend on my backend. is this > supposed to happen? It's optional. Go to "Utilities/Setup", "Setup", "General",

Re: [mythtv-users] scheduled recording only works while watching tv?

2005-10-16 Thread chris
On Sat, Oct 15, 2005 at 02:15:34PM -0700, Ricardo Kleemann wrote: > Does recording only work while watching TV? No. > Why can't I simply schedule, and go away without going into watch tv? Your problem is somewhere else. Maybe you forgot to "save settings" while in the schedule window? I usuall

Re: [mythtv-users] not expiring

2005-10-16 Thread chris
On Sat, Oct 15, 2005 at 07:18:54PM -0400, perlguy9 wrote: > Is there something else I need to do to make this happen? A cron job I'm > missing or something? Auto-expire is supposed to be controlled entirely by the back-end. No cron jobs required. What file-system are you using? Make sure the sp

Re: [mythtv-users] apt-get upgrade = borked mythtv

2005-10-16 Thread chris
On Sat, Oct 15, 2005 at 08:08:08PM -0500, Kevin Kuphal wrote: > >Hello. I did an apt-get update; apt-get upgrade today and now my > >system is borked. I'd love to know the etymology of that word. Wikipedia says "possibly" related to the Swedish Chef (which was the first thing I thought of), al

Re: [mythtv-users] Static on One Channel

2005-10-16 Thread chris
On Sat, Oct 15, 2005 at 11:09:24PM -0400, M Smith wrote: > I guess it's some sort of frequency issue, but I'm not really sure what > to enter for the 'finetune' field in mythweb or even how that field works. This might be a dumb question, but did you enable "auto tuning" on the backend mythtv-se

Re: [mythtv-users] Kernel panic :-(((((

2005-10-23 Thread chris
On Sun, Oct 23, 2005 at 01:33:37PM +0200, Warpme wrote: > I want to use USB-Eth adapter for second Eth interface. Billionton > adapter is working OK when inserted AFTER system boot. > Unfortunately when I first insert adapter to USB socked with system > switched off, and next boot system with ins

Re: [mythtv-users] Frontend freeze when deleting recording

2005-10-23 Thread chris
On Sun, Oct 23, 2005 at 10:34:33AM -0500, Mercury Morris wrote: > My guess is that there are quite few MythTV folks that are not aware of the > "delete-a-recording-while-recording" I/O bottleneck. They, and I, will be > most > interested in the results you might observe regarding filesystem stabi

Re: [mythtv-users] FC4 & MythTV - Computer powering down... sort of! - FRUSTRATION!!

2005-10-24 Thread chris
On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 01:26:20PM +0900, David Bennett wrote: > Excuse my ignorance, but how should these be screwed? I am not sure What he's talking about are the hexagonal brass stand-offs that have a threaded pin on one end and a threaded socket on the other. You're supposed to screw them int

Re: [mythtv-users] audio/video stutter

2005-10-25 Thread chris
On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 03:11:22AM -0700, tgate wrote: > -Within myth the HD audio/video go into a play-pause cycle. Different > timings based on the settings, but it never goes away. > > I'm wondering if it could have something to do with the ring buffer? I did some package updates on my syst

Re: [mythtv-users] FC4 & MythTV - Computer powering down... sort of! - FRUSTRATION!!

2005-10-25 Thread chris
On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 07:33:00AM -0400, Matt Mossholder wrote: > With regards to running the hard drive in a different system, yes, you > generally can. There are a few things to be careful with (raid, "special" > controllers", etc.) which might make this more difficult, but typically it is > OK.

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

2005-10-26 Thread chris
On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 01:41:28PM +0900, David Bennett wrote: > I have seen the same article about reducing the size on LVM... I guess > I'm just unclear about what I would lose if I lost an LVM'd drive > (stemming from the fact i dont know how LVM data is stored.) Are bits > of one file stored ac

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

2005-10-27 Thread chris
On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 11:30:07AM -0400, Steve Adeff wrote: > noone has yet mentioned S.M.A.R.T. yet. After I went through a stint of > loosing 2 hd's in a week's time (due to powersupply problems) I looked into > things and found smartctl, which monitors the smart status of drives and can > ev

[mythtv-users] Dumb question about guide

2005-10-28 Thread chris
I just notices that when I'm watching live TV and I call up the schedule, one of the channels has asterisks on either side of the channel number. It's not the channel I'm watching. What's that all about? -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-post

Re: [mythtv-users] Window Managers - Success with "ratpoison" instead of kde

2005-10-29 Thread chris
On Sat, Oct 29, 2005 at 08:55:25AM -0400, Cory Papenfuss wrote: > Exactly. Ratpoison is the closest thing you can do to run without > a window manager while still running a window manager. It doesn't draw > any decorations on the screen. All it does is manage the focus of any > applicat

Re: [mythtv-users] Mythweb problems - missing thumbnail causes backend to crash

2005-10-30 Thread chris
On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 04:07:26PM +, Alexander Fisher wrote: > After I ran mysqlcheck, all new recordings were fine again. The Debian version of MySQL does a mysqlcheck as part of the boot sequence, so when recovering from a power failure (or crash) that's one less thing to worry about. I'

Re: [mythtv-users] basic mythvideo question

2005-10-30 Thread chris
On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 11:58:44AM -0500, Paul McKellar wrote: > So i have everything working. But i'm confused as to the intent of > mythvideo. Is it meant to stream files to multiple FEs or just play > whatever you have locally. It can do one or the other, but not both. The MythVideo and Myth

Re: [mythtv-users] Mythweb problems - missing thumbnail causes backend to crash

2005-10-30 Thread chris
On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 07:24:32PM +, Alexander Fisher wrote: > I run Debian and have noticed that when it boots it displays 'Checking > for crashed MySQL tables in the background' when starting mysql. I''m > guessing this is the mysqlcheck you're referring to. But it didn't > seem to fix my

Re: [mythtv-users] Killing all known channels, dead

2005-10-31 Thread chris
On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 10:28:11AM +, Jo Shields wrote: > Is there a way to make removed DVB channels stay removed, rather than > coming back from the grave like a plague of zombies? Rather than deleting them, try turning on "show favorites" and then select only the channels you want to see.

Re: [mythtv-users] Mythtv on Xbox

2005-10-31 Thread chris
On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 07:32:56AM -0800, Ben Dash wrote: > I'm just finishing off a gentoo mythfrontend xBox and > am running into problems with lirc for the DVD remote. I'm starting to wonder if maybe there isn't different versions of the dongle floating around. I bought just the dongle (loose)

Re: [mythtv-users] No data in mythweb program listings?

2005-10-31 Thread chris
On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 01:21:17PM -0500, Al Puzzuoli wrote: > Is there any other way to verify the integrity of the data, or to just > rebuild the database altogether that doesn't involve using mythfrontend? You can at least check your dd subscription by logging into the back-end box and doing '

Re: [mythtv-users] Watch TV sends audio to PVR-350 audio-out, but recordings don't---any clues?

2005-10-31 Thread chris
On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 04:04:07PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Should I run mythtv-setup on the SBE (aka the FE, aka the machine that > has the 350 physically installed in it)? As I understand it: you must run BE software on both machines, and configure them in a master/slave pair. THEN yo

Re: [mythtv-users] No data in mythweb program listings?

2005-10-31 Thread chris
On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 05:04:21PM -0500, Al Puzzuoli wrote: > Chris, the local URL you provided yields the following: > > Last mythfilldatabase run started on 2005-10-31 07:14 and ended on > 2005-10-31 07:15. Successful. > There's guide data until 2005-11-14 03:12 (14 days).

[mythtv-users] Xorg driver for XBox?

2005-11-01 Thread chris
I tried to rip a CD-Rom on my XBox last night and found out that lame (or some other neccessary component) wasn't installed. My machine hadn't been updated in so long the only way to get *any* new packages was to dist-upgrade (as libc6 was updated and my old packages were orphaned). Linux is

Re: [mythtv-users] Debian problems

2005-11-01 Thread chris
On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 08:55:42PM -0500, George Nassas wrote: > Cristian rearranged the archive over the summer. Take what's > appropriate from these lines: > > # unstable > deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ sid main > deb-src ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ sid main > # testing >

Re: [mythtv-users] Mythtv on Xbox

2005-11-01 Thread chris
On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 09:49:30PM -0500, Tom Lichti wrote: > Can you post your /etc/apt/sources.list please? I can't seem to get all > dependencies met, specifically libqt3c102-mt. That package has caused me no end of grief. Debian ("testing", I think) has decided to drop support for the XFree

Re: [mythtv-users] Tuner card label - patch in progress but assistance requested

2005-11-02 Thread chris
On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 09:44:20AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > So, during setup there are tuners 1, 2 and 3, but which is which? You need to > know, > and it's not obvious, and at the beginning it depends upon the order that > MythTV finds > them, and that is determined by which card slot

Re: [mythtv-users] Nuvexport Question: using a custom crop dimension

2005-11-02 Thread chris
On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 11:34:08AM -0700, Greg Grotsky wrote: > How would I go about cropping a specific amount from each side of a video > while > transcoding it with nuvexport? The crop amount is hard-coded at 2% in both directions. You would have to edit ffmpeg.pm to specify new global values

Re: [mythtv-users] Mythtv on Xbox

2005-11-03 Thread chris
On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 10:47:56AM -0500, Tom Lichti wrote: > Well, the packages installed correctly, but something went wrong with > the video drivers. When I got home and checked it was constantly > recycling the X server with a message about an unknown video device id, That's exactly what ha

Re: [mythtv-users] Is gentoo the way to go?

2005-11-03 Thread chris
On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 09:07:24PM +0800, William Kenworthy wrote: > There seems to be a lot of gentoo users here! And maybe one of them can help me. I have a Xebian/Debian mix on my xbox right now and effectively can't use it for anything until the Xorg driver issue is resolved and/or MythTV is

Re: [mythtv-users] Simultaneous recordings fail spectacularly [SOLVED!]

2005-11-03 Thread chris
On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 09:48:08PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > (b) I only -just- discovered that Tab will move from one field to a > later field. But what does Alt-Tab do? It pops up an xterm, for > god's sake? WTF? Can I move backwards without uparrow? Who > knows? Why *wou

Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV Installer Usability: An Analysis

2005-11-04 Thread chris
On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 09:55:53AM -0500, Dewey Smolka wrote: > The fact is that vi is included, as is nano. It is not difficult to > use, and anyone who has trouble opening, altering, and saving a file > using vi has no business attempting a MythTV setup. I don't want to wade into the editor wars

Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV Installer Usability: An Analysis

2005-11-04 Thread chris
On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 11:33:41AM -0500, Dewey Smolka wrote: > One of these is that the ring buffer is not a standard recording, so > that when you change channels, for example, the ring buffer is erased > and restarted. I know the question has been asked before, but it begs repeating: WHY? Why

Re: [mythtv-users] checkboxes in Mythweb not sticking

2005-11-05 Thread chris
On Sat, Nov 05, 2005 at 03:38:15PM -0400, Rick wrote: > The Mythweb checkboxes in Scheduled Recordings no longer stick between > sessions for me. I don't know whether I've fooled up a setting somewhere > but I don't recall doing anything. The last entry in the search window > also used to stick

Re: [mythtv-users] checkboxes in Mythweb not sticking

2005-11-05 Thread chris
On Sat, Nov 05, 2005 at 07:04:50PM -0800, Chris Petersen wrote: > >I suspect the cookie problem would fix > >itself if I specified all of the legal server names in an apache config > >file somewhere. > No, again. Read the config file. There's a setting called > s

[mythtv-users] MythTV on Xebian

2005-11-06 Thread chris
Just to save some wasted effort for anyone who may be lurking here and thinking of putting MythTV on a Xebian XBox -- don't. The repository at nerim.net was the "official" source for Myth packages for Xebian, but they have deleted all of the stable branch and now only have unstable. The unstab

Re: [mythtv-users] remote frontend problems

2005-11-06 Thread chris
On Sun, Nov 06, 2005 at 02:33:01AM -0800, Lonnie Borntreger wrote: > I'm not sure I understand why NFS, mplayer, and totem even come up for > watching prerecorded shows on a frontend. I put the frontend on a > laptop, told it where the backend was, didn't mount anything, and watch > prerecorded (a

Re: [mythtv-users] OverScan / Vertical alignment

2005-11-06 Thread chris
> >Can any one suggest a way to move projected image down on TV-Out for > >playback of recordings and videos? I think the crop/zoom/displace stuff in Myth only applies to what portion of the recording Myth will play, not where on the TV it will be played. To move the actual output around on your

Re: [mythtv-users] MythDVD no ripping

2005-11-06 Thread chris
On Sun, Nov 06, 2005 at 08:00:52PM -0700, Chad wrote: > > > This bit me too. What's it's meaning to say is 'Hit 0 to process > > > selected', > > > not '0 processes selected'. So hit the '0' key. > Heh, got me too a while back, but didn't want to tell anyone :D Particularly not in the middle of a

Re: [mythtv-users] checkboxes in Mythweb not sticking

2005-11-08 Thread chris
On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 10:26:42AM -0800, Chris Petersen wrote: > >The reason I originally turned off UseCanonicalName was because (1) > >it forces a redirect to the FQDN and therefore requires > >authenticating twice, > huh? read what the term does. All it does is tell the

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