Re: [mythtv-users] HDTV Playback Questions

2005-04-22 Thread Daniel Kristjansson
On Wed, 2005-04-20 at 09:08 -0500, Mat Kyne wrote: > The first problem concerns the way the recorded program shows up on my > screen. When I watch a program recorded on NBC, WB, or CBS, The image I can't help with this. > became distorted. If I turned the volume WAY up, I could hear the backgrou

Re: [mythtv-users] NVIDIA 1.0.7667 and XvMC

2005-06-24 Thread Daniel Kristjansson
On Fri, 2005-06-24 at 02:32 -0400, Egeekial wrote: > Please be sure that your kernel > module and all NVIDIA driver files have the same driver version. Try running: locate libXvMCNVIDIA Delete anything that has a different version number. If locate doesn't work try using the much slower find i

Re: [mythtv-users] configure did not detect my cpu

2005-10-12 Thread Daniel Kristjansson
On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 18:58 -0400, Steve Adeff wrote: > model name: AMD Turion(tm) 64 Mobile Technology ML-28 Heh, I wonder if they know the English definition of "Turion" over at AMD HQ: "A growing thick fleshy rod". Of course, they do have penis parades in Japan. Perhaps this is just another

Re: [mythtv-users] All of the sudden: HD3000 + QAM - "Off Air" messages

2005-10-22 Thread Daniel Kristjansson
On Sat, 2005-10-22 at 13:19 -0400, Byron Poland wrote: > All of the sudden my HD3000 which is fed by my cabe (comcast)'s QAM > feed is not able to tune to channels in Myth (after several months of > working flawlessly). > 2005-10-22 13:04:53.473 DVB#0 DVB signal 394 | snr fd71 | ber0 | unc

[mythtv-users] FYI How to get Dell 2405FPW LCD to work with DVI

2005-10-27 Thread Daniel Kristjansson
Just in case someone wants to get this working you should know that not all Single Link DVI is created the same. In particular my nice fanless GeForce FX5200 had a maximum pixel lock of 135Mhz over DVI: (--) NVIDIA(1): DFP-0: maximum pixel clock: 135 MHz (--) NVIDIA(1): DFP-0: Internal Single Link

Re: [mythtv-users] No sound from HD-3000 sometime after svn 7031,

2005-11-01 Thread Daniel Kristjansson
On Tue, 2005-11-01 at 13:35 -0800, Shermann Min wrote: > being 7651. Watching and recording HD programs on my > HD-3000 tuner no longer has sound (playing the recorded > .mpg directly using xine is silent, too). Anyone else > have this issue? Or is this user error (new feature/ Hmm, are you using

Re: [mythtv-users] Scaling HD output

2005-11-07 Thread Daniel Kristjansson
On Mon, 2005-11-07 at 21:37 -0500, Dave wrote: > > [1920x1088 vs. 1920x1080 for 1080i broadcasts] > > Thanks, Seth > I'm not 100% sure on the details, but I believe the extra 8 lines are > overscan or other data (ie, not picture data). I had the same issue > with the resolutions not being switched

Re: [mythtv-users] OTA HD Antennas??

2005-11-08 Thread Daniel Kristjansson
On Tue, 2005-11-08 at 07:53 -0800, Chris Trown wrote: > So I guess this means there is no signal strength meter utility > under Linux? MythTV has a signal strength meter when it's scanning > channels, but that doesn't stay on the screen. Not too usefull for > adjusting antennas. You ca

Re: [mythtv-users] Standard cable, QAM, PCHDTV-3000 vs Air2PC

2005-11-13 Thread Daniel Kristjansson
On Sun, 2005-11-13 at 17:00 -0500, Dale Pontius wrote: > So, the perennial question: PCHDTV-3000 or Air2PC > The PCHDTV-3000 has built-in NTSC, which saves me a little money, but > not that much. While it is built in, currently with MythTV you can only use the card as either a HDTV or a NTSC card,

Re: [mythtv-users] ATSC Station Changed Its Name

2005-11-20 Thread Daniel Kristjansson
On Sun, 2005-11-20 at 16:18 -0600, Mercury Morris wrote: > > It isn't rocket-science to see that changes like this at WCCO-TV are > very likely to happen again - and soon. I mean, come on WCCO Chief > Engineer! "Service"?? You can't be serious!! It was late Friday when > the change was made and we

Re: [mythtv-users] configure did not detect my cpu

2005-11-20 Thread Daniel Kristjansson
On Sat, 2005-11-19 at 12:39 +, David Raine wrote: > Getting this message when compiling cvs rev 7931 on a via mini-itx, c3-2. > version 0.18 detected the cpu OK. > model name: VIA Nehemiah This should have been picked up by line 1259 of the ./configure script, what command line options did yo

Re: [mythtv-users] configure did not detect my cpu

2005-11-20 Thread Daniel Kristjansson
On Sun, 2005-11-20 at 11:38 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > model name: AMD Hammer Family processor - Model Unknown > This is on a Sempron 2800+ (socket 754) Please resend this message when the model name message changes. It looks like the Linux kernel doesn't know about your processor yet... -

Re: [mythtv-users] Large-scale myth farm

2005-10-03 Thread Daniel Kristjansson
On Mon, 2005-10-03 at 15:31 +0100, Illtud Daniel wrote: > Anybody out there with experience of DVB subtitle capture on mythtv? > Does mythtv only do 'live' subtitle decoding from the stream as it > plays With DVB it saves the DVB subtitle data directly in the recording, then decodes the proper lang

Re: [mythtv-users] Large-scale myth farm

2005-10-05 Thread Daniel Kristjansson
On Tue, 2005-10-04 at 11:15 +0100, Illtud Daniel wrote: > Daniel Kristjansson wrote: > > > A note on the DVB subtitles, these are almost always images not > > text. > > Damn. Anybody know if that's the case in the UK, specifically? I've read this is the case

Re: [mythtv-users] Broadcast flag thrown out

2005-05-12 Thread Daniel Kristjansson
On Fri, 2005-05-06 at 08:34 -0700, Wendy Seltzer wrote: > The DC Circuit has ruled in our favor, unanimously throwing out the > FCC's broadcast flag -- the rule that would have prevented pcHDTV and > Air2PC from making HDTV tuner cards in the US after July 1. Congratulations are very much in orde

Re: [mythtv-users] XvMC in preview?

2005-05-15 Thread Daniel Kristjansson
On Sat, 2005-05-14 at 18:24 -0500, Michael Carland wrote: > Howdy. > > I'm running .18 with XvMC (EPIA), mpeg2 all the way through. When I > watch live TV, cpu usage is about 15-20%, and all is well. Live TV in > the EPG and prerecorded TV is the same. > > But when I am seeing a video preview u

Re: [mythtv-users] XvMC output not working

2005-05-31 Thread Daniel Kristjansson
On Mon, 2005-05-30 at 11:30 -0400, Michael Haan wrote: > On 5/29/05, Mario Limonciello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Michael Haan wrote: > > > > > > > >It looks like there are two different versions of XvMC in there. How > > >can I tell which version myth is using? I'm just wondering if maybe

Re: [mythtv-users] XvMC output not working

2005-06-04 Thread Daniel Kristjansson
On Tue, 2005-05-31 at 19:29 -0400, Michael Haan wrote: > > > > > XvMCConfig is only used if MythTV is linked to XvMCW. To see what > > > > > MythTV > > > > > is linked to you can use ldd. > > > > > ldd /usr/local/bin/mythfrontend | grep XvMC > > > > > It may be linked directly to libXvMCNVIDIA.

Re: [mythtv-users] Playback problem on M10k - Unable to create XvMCBlocks

2005-06-07 Thread Daniel Kristjansson
On Tue, 2005-06-07 at 22:46 +0100, Simon G Haslam wrote: > 2005-06-07 22:18:58.629 Found a suitable XvMC surface 0 > XvMC found and using MC surface You should be using a VLD surface not an MC surface with the Epia M9000. If you have a video card installed, then maybe it is using it instead of the

Re: [mythtv-users] HD3000 recording problem in Mythtv- signalStrengthATSC_v4l2(), error: Invalid argument

2005-11-29 Thread Daniel Kristjansson
On Tue, 2005-11-29 at 13:22 -0800, Brad Fuller wrote: > Mercury Morris wrote: > > So, here's a question: Did you complete a successful scan of > > available channels during mythtv-setup? > It's greyed out. Is it grayed out because I chose "no" at the beginning > of mythtv. I just didn't want i

Re: [mythtv-users] XvMC / xrandr

2005-12-07 Thread Daniel Kristjansson
On Wed, 2005-12-07 at 09:02 +0100, Marius Schrecker wrote: > I compiled Mythtv from svn yesterday with no major problems. I'm > using > an X300 graphics card with the fglrx driver (sorry aboiut the closed > source nature of this). I thought I had understood that this supports > XvMC, and enabled

Re: [mythtv-users] How to obtain serviceids and atscsrcid

2005-12-09 Thread Daniel Kristjansson
On Thu, 2005-12-08 at 21:26 -0800, Mitko Haralanov wrote: > I am trying to set up my channel table (I was missing the > mplexid, serviceid and atscsrcid) but I having trouble getting the > serviceid and atscsrcid. > The Full Scan in mythtv-setup left the fields empty when doing > the sc

Re: [mythtv-users] Only two HD compatible cards: HD-2000/3000?

2005-12-18 Thread Daniel Kristjansson
On Sun, 2005-12-18 at 14:26 -0800, Jeremiah Jester wrote: > I was reading on the myth website that there are only two HD > compatible cards/drivers with linux and myth. Is this true? It looks > like the HD-3000 only has HD software decodingsounds slow. Anyone > have expereience? There ar

Re: [mythtv-users] Only two HD compatible cards: HD-2000/3000?

2005-12-18 Thread Daniel Kristjansson
On Sun, 2005-12-18 at 18:37 -0800, Dennis Lou wrote: > My Sempron 2800+ (754 pin) is just fine for both 720p > and 1080i > at around 40-50% CPU usage including kernel > de-interlace. I won't dispute that, I was giving a spec for trouble free HDTV. I've run on lesser machines and it would work 95%

Re: [mythtv-users] Choppy hd live tv playback with HD3000

2005-12-19 Thread Daniel Kristjansson
On Mon, 2005-12-19 at 15:42 -0800, Mark Johannessen wrote: > I have been able to install mythtv/mythweb sucessfully (after about a > weekend of work) on the following box: > > Intel Celeron 2.66 gHz > 768 ram > Nvidia e-GeForce MX4000 AGP card > Soundbalster audio card > The system is hooked up t

Re: [mythtv-users] Choppy hd live tv playback with HD3000

2005-12-19 Thread Daniel Kristjansson
On Mon, 2005-12-19 at 19:44 -0800, Mark Johannessen wrote: > On 12/19/05, Daniel Kristjansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The audio can often be addressed by turning on "Extra Audio buffering" in > > the frontend settings, but sometimes requires the purchase of

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Choppy hd live tv playback with HD3000

2005-12-19 Thread Daniel Kristjansson
On Mon, 2005-12-19 at 21:40 -0500, Boleslaw Ciesielski wrote: > Brandon Beattie wrote: > > If you want to use IDCT hardware acceleration (Also known as XvMC > > Hardware decoding), see the same setup->tv-settings->playback->page 1. > Is IDCT really the same as XvMC? I thought IDCT (inverse discret

Re: [mythtv-users] HDTV Over firewire (HAVI)

2005-12-21 Thread Daniel Kristjansson
On Mon, 2005-12-19 at 20:01 -0500, Matt Harris wrote: > Is there any ability (now or planned) to use a mythTV server as a HAVI > hard disc device? For those who don't know what this is, HAVI is > basically a device control protocol that some TVs use to control and > transport MPEG streams. AFA

Re: [mythtv-users] XvMC, GF6200, FC4, and a black screen....

2006-01-15 Thread Daniel Kristjansson
On Sun, 2006-01-15 at 03:23 -0700, Blammo wrote: > Any secrets to getting a 6200 happy with XvMC under FC4? Pulled out a > working-for-more-than-a-year-GF5200 from a frontend, replaced it with > a 6200. Unfortunately the GeForce 6xxx & 7xxx cards don't provide very good XVideo support. I have a Ge

Re: [mythtv-users] DVICO Fusion HDTV 5 Lite vs HD3000

2006-01-18 Thread Daniel Kristjansson
On Wed, 2006-01-18 at 10:04 -0800, Jarod Wilson wrote: > MBE). The other caveat is to have solid backup power, because XFS's > aggressive caching might lead to random data corruption if your machine > suddenly loses power. All file systems will give you data corruption if your machine suddenly lo

Re: [mythtv-users] DVB Analogue teletext

2006-01-26 Thread Daniel Kristjansson
On Thu, 2006-01-26 at 12:56 +0100, Marco Coli wrote: > Hello, > > I read several times on dev list that handling of DVB teletext > (including analogue one, that one used in Europe) in now part of SVN. > > So, maybe I am missing something, because I use current SVN, but I am > unable to see any

Re: [mythtv-users] Guide data setup for mixed ATSC/QAM & NTSC backend? Multiple xmltv feeds needed?

2006-01-29 Thread Daniel Kristjansson
On Sun, 2006-01-29 at 14:19 -0500, Michael T. Dean wrote: > On 01/29/2006 01:59 PM, Todd Ignasiak wrote: > > I am trying to clean up my MythTV configuration a bit. Part of that > > effort is to use a single Zap2it / xmltv guide account, so I can deal > You have two Myth video sources, one for SD

Re: [mythtv-users] Guide data setup for mixed ATSC/QAM & NTSC backend? Multiple xmltv feeds needed?

2006-01-29 Thread Daniel Kristjansson
On Sun, 2006-01-29 at 19:40 -0700, Chad wrote: > On 1/29/06, Daniel Kristjansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What about the option for "TV Format" where ATSC and NTSC appears? > I've got one big, new HDTV and the rest of my TV's are all old school > 32&q