Re: [mythtv-users] Where is Jarod's guide to automatic shutdown and restart?

2005-03-16 Thread John Andersen
On Tuesday 15 March 2005 21:43, Jarod Wilson wrote: > On Monday 14 March 2005 04:21, Phill Edwards wrote: > > I went looking for this as nvram-wakeup's not working for me any more > > for some reason, and I remembered that Jarod uses wake-on-lan from > > another machine. > > I think you may have me

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Energy Usage of MythBoxes

2005-03-20 Thread John Andersen
On Thursday 17 March 2005 05:59, Charles Choukalos wrote: > Hi John, > > Actually I'm in Texas (makes Jersy look like Paradise) > and during oh what 9 months out of the year its hotter > then hells kitchen (brown and ugly too). ÂWhen I lived > in New England electricity was a lot more expensive > b

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Energy Usage of MythBoxes

2005-03-20 Thread John Andersen
On Sunday 20 March 2005 09:24, Rich Hall wrote: > William wrote: > >Your typical 19 inch CRT monitor draws about 500 watts. They draw close to > >1000 watts at startup (mostly due to filiment startup current and the > >degausing coil). Your newer lcd displays draw less than 150 watts so there > >is

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Energy Usage of MythBoxes

2005-03-20 Thread John Andersen
On Sunday 20 March 2005 14:33, Brad Templeton wrote: > The power is growing. ÂEven the CPUs are taking up to 80 watts to run. ÂBut > anyway, 100 watts is over $120 a year in California, less in some places, > more in others. The whole thread has been about debunking that myth. California prices a

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Energy Usage of MythBoxes

2005-03-20 Thread John Andersen
On Sunday 20 March 2005 17:20, Thor Johnson wrote: > I mostly agree with what you're saying but I figure I'll thow a few > logs in the fire; except:  Most US power supplies are ~50% efficient, > so you can draw up to 700 KW (mine says 750 KVA), but the power factor > for these puppies is terrible (

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Energy Usage of MythBoxes

2005-03-20 Thread John Andersen
On Sunday 20 March 2005 19:40, Brad Templeton wrote: > Well, no, that is indeed what many always-on servers with 3 disk drives > and a high speed processor and a fancy graphics card and various other > cards do indeed draw, all day long. Â No its not. Measure it and you will find out. > > > with

Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV .18 impending release? If so, what's in it?

2005-03-25 Thread John Andersen
On Friday 25 March 2005 14:29, Maverick wrote: > > Wow! That's pretty quick. 0.17 isn't THAT old yet. > > I for one am glad that the releases are (maybe going to be?) more > frequent, I think it encourages users to test new features they > wouldn't otherwise bother to pull CVS and test. My sentim

Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV .18 impending release? If so, what's in it?

2005-03-25 Thread John Andersen
On Friday 25 March 2005 15:04, Stephen Boddy wrote: > On Friday 25 March 2005 23:42, John Andersen wrote: > > On Friday 25 March 2005 14:29, Maverick wrote: > > > > Wow! That's pretty quick. 0.17 isn't THAT old yet. > > > > > > I for one am gla

Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV build problem on Suse 9.2

2005-03-28 Thread John Andersen
On Sunday 27 March 2005 7:16 pm, Earl Gooch wrote: > Having no luck at all here with Suse 9.2. I built and ran MythTV with no > problems on Suse 9.1, but on 9.2 (on same hardware) am getting errors when > Does this "SSE instruction set not enabled" indicate a config file > somewhere is not propel

Re: [mythtv-users] "Feature Idea - P2P" Bad Idea

2005-04-06 Thread John Andersen
On Wednesday 06 April 2005 9:54 am, dean collins wrote: > I don't know if I'm explaining this well, or if I am, if what I'm > thinking > is possible, but if it were, the idea of being able to increase the > number > of channels you have available to could be quite exciting. The last two words of

Re: [mythtv-users] "Feature Idea - P2P" Bad Idea

2005-04-06 Thread John Andersen
On Wednesday 06 April 2005 11:37 am, John Andersen wrote: > On Wednesday 06 April 2005 9:54 am, dean collins wrote: > > I don't know if I'm explaining this well, or if I am, if what I'm > > thinking > > is possible, but if it were, the idea of being abl

Re: [mythtv-users] LVM RAID 5 partition schemes

2005-04-06 Thread John Andersen
On Wednesday 06 April 2005 10:32 am, Milan Andric wrote: > I'm basically stuck on the RAID.  Since I  do not have enough data > *right now* to use the 3 x 300G RAID 5,  I'd like to just buy two > drives now and use mdadmin to > setup a RAID 5 with 2 missing drives and add drives as time goes Bad

Re: [mythtv-users] LVM RAID 5 partition schemes

2005-04-06 Thread John Andersen
On Wednesday 06 April 2005 12:00 pm, Schlomo Schapiro wrote: > PATA disks consume only about 9w power whereas other (faster, bigger, > better) drives consume 15-20w, which results in a huge difference in > temperature output. How could it? Assuming the total difference went to heat, at worst c

Re: [mythtv-users] Myth-TV SUSE 9.1 Pro X86_64 LAME

2005-04-06 Thread John Andersen
On Wednesday 06 April 2005 3:09 pm, herminio wrote: > I have LAME installed, but this RPM won't detect it, and won't install. > Any idea how to fix this? > > rpm -ivh mythtv-0.17-8.i586.rpm > > warning: mythtv-0.17-8.i586.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 3a8f0245 > error: Failed dependencie

Re: [mythtv-users] Myth-TV SUSE 9.1 Pro X86_64 LAME

2005-04-06 Thread John Andersen
On Wednesday 06 April 2005 6:34 pm, Pete Buelow wrote: > > > Actually, for this, just do > >  > rpm -qa | grep lame > > to see if lame is installed via rpm. Just checking for it doesn't help > because rpm just queries the db for presence of packages, not the FS for > the file. Actually, you ha

Re: [mythtv-users] Myth-TV SUSE 9.1 Pro X86_64 LAME

2005-04-07 Thread John Andersen
On Wednesday 06 April 2005 9:44 pm, herminio wrote: > John Andersen wrote: > > >On Wednesday 06 April 2005 3:09 pm, herminio wrote: > > > > > >>I have LAME installed, but this RPM won't detect it, and won't install. > >>Any idea how t

Re: [mythtv-users] Samba or NFS?

2005-04-09 Thread John Andersen
On Saturday 09 April 2005 8:52 am, Tony Godshall wrote: > Perhaps cfs? ÂIt's encrypted nfs, and security is a concern > if on wireless even more than wired because it does not > require physical access. Oh for pete's sake. Someone is worried about efficiency enough to think about abandoning S

Re: [mythtv-users] Samba or NFS?

2005-04-09 Thread John Andersen
On Saturday 09 April 2005 4:10 pm, Brent McGuire wrote: > I did some reading up on this a while back and everyone I talked to > sugjestted if you connecting Linux to Linux, you want NFS.  If your > connecting to a linux box from a windows box, you want Samba. Yes, that's the often mouthed platit

Re: [mythtv-users] Samba or NFS?

2005-04-10 Thread John Andersen
On Sunday 10 April 2005 5:06 am, Henk Poley wrote: > Op zaterdag 09 april 2005 12:03, schreef David Morrison: > > Apologies first if this has been asked before but I couldn't find it > > in my archives. > > > > Which would be best from a performance viewpoint to stream MythVideo > > to my remote fr

[mythtv-users] Mythvideo: No Videos Found ?

2005-03-02 Thread John Andersen
Mythvideo installed and working since .16 came out. I moved a new video (.avi) into the directory, and went in to mythtv / Videos screen to check it out and while my fingers were dancing on the keyboard, all the videos disappeared from mythvideo. They are still in the directory, but they do not

Re: [mythtv-users] Mythvideo: No Videos Found ?

2005-03-03 Thread John Andersen
. > > Good luck > > > On Wed, 2 Mar 2005 00:37:23 -0900, John Andersen > > They are still in the directory, but they do not appear in the > > database. > > I googled up a few hits on "no videos found" but nothing helpfull. -- __Jsa_

Re: [mythtv-users] Mythvideo: No Videos Found ?

2005-03-03 Thread John Andersen
irectory without realizing? > > If all else fails, check that the mythtv user account has read > permissions to the directory where your videos are stored. > > Good luck > > > On Wed, 2 Mar 2005 00:37:23 -0900, John Andersen > > They are still in the directory, but th

Re: [mythtv-users] Live TV viewing blocked by non-existent recordings

2005-03-15 Thread John Andersen
On Tuesday 15 March 2005 17:59, Justin Gombos wrote: > MythTV is already using all available inputs for recording. ÂIf you > Â want to watch an in-progress recording, select one from the playback > Â menu. ÂIf you want to watch live TV, cancel one of the in-progress > Â recordings from the delete m

[mythtv-users] Re: PVR350 remote not working in mythvideo

2005-11-30 Thread John Andersen
On 11/30/05, Sdk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Sounds like your MPlayer was compiled without LIRC support. > > > > Mike > > I got mplayer through Atrpms and I built my machine using Jarod's > guide. Is there an mplayer on Atrpms that has lirc support built-in? I wonder if the OP has an lircr

Re: [mythtv-users] Xbox Lirc not working on new install

2005-11-30 Thread John Andersen
On 11/30/05, Mlists <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi there,Had to re-install my config so decided to compile myth rather theninstall the debs so that I could use a newer svn version to match myback-end.Lirc is installed.  Running irw shows that I'm getting keys but for some reason the keys aren't work

Re: [mythtv-users] cd ripping slow? -> What's to be expected.

2005-12-05 Thread John Andersen
On 12/1/05, Ronald Wielink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Dear all, I've recently put together a setup with fairly decent specifications, see below. As far as I can judge right now everything works ok. However, ripping CDs (to mp3) takes quite a while, about 10 minutes.  Intel Celeron D 325J 2.53 GHz,

[mythtv-users] Re: remote control unresponsive

2005-12-06 Thread John Andersen
I bet the Kernel recompile hozed your lircd. You need to recompile it after setting it up properly again for your remote. On 12/6/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > After a kernel recompile my remote control has become extremely > unresponsive. > Sometimes working and sometimes n

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: remote control unresponsive

2005-12-07 Thread John Andersen
On 12/6/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wednesday 07 December 2005 07:49 am, John Andersen wrote:> I bet the Kernel recompile hozed your lircd.  You need to recompile it > after setting it up properly again for your remote.>Are we talking about /etc/conf.

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

2005-12-08 Thread John Andersen
On 12/8/05, Raphael Pooser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:  Um, linux isn't really that bad with wifi as people seem to think.  Allyou need is a good chipset.  ANYTHING RALINK WILL DO.  Why? because theyhave provided the source for their drivers to the linux community and now there are good high quality

[mythtv-users] Slave Backend Configuration obscure

2005-12-08 Thread John Andersen
I have my Master Backend & Frontend working quite nicely with .18.1 and wanted to add another machine.  This second machine works fine as a remote frontend.  But I wanted to slap another tuner in this remote machine and use it also as a slave backend (I'd put both cards in the Master If I had th

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

2005-12-08 Thread John Andersen
On 12/8/05, Todd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:  Not to fan the flames here...but...1.  MAC filtering is a joke, any bored 12 year old kid can spoof a trustedMAC.  So is thinking you are hidden by turning off broadcast SSID..etc.  Ifyou have a machine talking to your AP, the snoop can see all they need

Re: [mythtv-users] Use of the Rerun flag?

2005-12-10 Thread John Andersen
On 12/9/05, Michael Freeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This ought to be considered...the XMLTV feed has a rerun flag (thelistings say when something is a rerun)...so why isn't there an option to "Record only new episodes of this show"? Be carefull about that rerun flag.  I've seen it set and even seen t

[mythtv-users] Should be local only query: IsReallyRecording -- Filling my Logs

2005-12-10 Thread John Andersen
What is this, and why is it filling my myth backend log? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

[mythtv-users] Re: Should be local only query: IsReallyRecording -- Filling my Logs

2005-12-10 Thread John Andersen
On 12/10/05, John Andersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What is this, and why is it filling my myth backend log? > > Ok, found the source of the "Should be local only query: IsReallyRecording" message in logs. For the google crowd: If you get this message streaming int

Re: [mythtv-users] Need to prioritise cards/inputs for live tv

2005-12-10 Thread John Andersen
On 12/4/05, Bruce Markey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > W.Kenworthy wrote: > > I am not at the machine to try this: is it possible to just renumber the > > cards within the database? e.g, the cardid field in a number of tables. > > What else? > > Yes, in the capturecard and cardinput tables only. Ho

Re: [mythtv-users] A good quiz game for those party nights, for linux??

2005-12-10 Thread John Andersen
On 12/10/05, Sami Röppänen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, Just a thought... I dont know if you people know these touchscreen quiz machines laying around the service stations and restaurants... I admit I am a bit addicted to the quiz part of those machines, and can't understand why nobo

Re: [mythtv-users] Need to prioritise cards/inputs for live tv

2005-12-10 Thread John Andersen
On 12/10/05, Bruce Markey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > John Andersen wrote: > > On 12/4/05, Bruce Markey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> W.Kenworthy wrote: > >>> I am not at the machine to try this: is it possible to just renumber the > >>>

Re: [mythtv-users] Need to prioritise cards/inputs for live tv

2005-12-10 Thread John Andersen
On 12/10/05, Keith C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Dec 10, 2005, at 6:00 AM, John Andersen wrote: > > > On 12/4/05, Bruce Markey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> W.Kenworthy wrote: > >>> I am not at the machine to try this: is it possible to just >

Re: [mythtv-users] Need to prioritise cards/inputs for live tv

2005-12-10 Thread John Andersen
On 12/10/05, Keith C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Dec 10, 2005, at 6:00 AM, John Andersen wrote: > > > On 12/4/05, Bruce Markey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> W.Kenworthy wrote: > >>> I am not at the machine to try this: is it possible to just >

Re: [mythtv-users] Need to prioritise cards/inputs for live tv

2005-12-10 Thread John Andersen
On 12/10/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> For live, by default it chooses an available card with the same > >> hostname as the requesting frontend. If none, it chooses the lowest > >> numbered cardid that is available. > > > > Yet this is clearly not the case in my example. Th

Re: [mythtv-users] Video distortion/fracturing at top quarter of screen

2005-12-10 Thread John Andersen
On 12/10/05, Hallous <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > The problem is that after viewing live tv for a while (anywhere from 5 min > to 5 hours) the top quarter of the screen becomes fractured/distorted, it's > I'm pretty sure this is a recording issue either associated with the PVR > card or M

Re: [mythtv-users] Fast-forward/rewind does not work after 50 minutes over remote frontend

2005-12-10 Thread John Andersen
On 12/10/05, Andrew Freeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > Like the subject line says, it just doesn't work. It will change the > displayed time index but the running video does not change at all, apart > from some artifacting. Isn't that about the time the ringbuffer approaches 2gig?

Re: [mythtv-users] Fast-forward/rewind does not work after 50 minutes over remote frontend

2005-12-10 Thread John Andersen
On 12/10/05, Andrew Freeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I see where you're going > with this and no, I don't see how it could be a file size limitation > problem. I was under the impression that ext3 was ext2 under the skin and was 2gig max. But the last time I used it was a gazillion years ago

Re: [mythtv-users] Hard disk access

2005-12-10 Thread John Andersen
On 12/10/05, Mike Grusin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been wondering this myself ever since I got my FE+BE box running. The > hard drive light blinks approximately every second when it's "not doing > anything" (which doesn't happen much anymore ;) According to system > information in Myth, a

[mythtv-users] Slave Tuner not used ?

2005-12-15 Thread John Andersen
Ok, I don't get it,,, I set up a second backend with a tuner, and got that all running just fine. Can watch live TV while another show is recording, can watch PIP etc. Today I was watching live TV at the Master (using the master's tuner), when a scheduled recording came due. It popped up and as

Re: [mythtv-users] Hard disk access

2005-12-15 Thread John Andersen
On 12/12/05, Mike Grusin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nah, I like blinky lights. ;) My probably naive concern is that hopefully > Myth (and the underlying distro) would minimize disk access to maximize the > lifetime of the drive(s) (I do know that Linux configuration is my > responsibility ;). O

Re: [mythtv-users] Slave Tuner not used ?

2005-12-15 Thread John Andersen
On 12/15/05, Michael T. Dean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > John Andersen wrote: > > >Ok, I don't get it,,, > > > >I set up a second backend with a tuner, and got that all running > >just fine. Can watch live TV while another show is recording, > >can

Re: [mythtv-users] Building first MythTV back end box...

2005-12-16 Thread John Andersen
On 12/16/05, Kirk Grell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I could bump down to PVR-150. Main thing is that I > really want as high quality of video as I can get > before transcoding. In terms of MPEG2, does output > from the PVR-150 look as good as output from the > PVR-350? I have one of each. I t

Re: [mythtv-users] nuvexport and ffmpeg-CVS

2005-12-16 Thread John Andersen
On 12/16/05, Chris Petersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > yeah. --transcode, or just set it up in the nuvexportrc file. > > The difference is that it runs transcode instead of ffmpeg. Different > encoder, different quality. For whatever reason, ffmpeg is faster at > encoding mpeg1/mpeg2 data (ff

Re: [mythtv-users] Building first MythTV back end box...

2005-12-17 Thread John Andersen
On 12/16/05, Kirk Grell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You guys are awesome!! Thanks for helping me with > this. > > I'll definitely go with the 150 (probably the MCE > version). Smaller board, less heat, cheaper, easier > to setup, yet good quality. And It didn't even dawn > on me that I'd be usi

Re: [mythtv-users] recording every day....

2005-12-17 Thread John Andersen
On 12/16/05, Maurizio Salvadeo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi, is my first time in the list. i'd like to record a program every day, > also saturday and sunday, and for a long period. my mythtv schedules only > weekdays for 2 weeks. someone know how to do it? > -- Just tell it to record one showi

Re: [mythtv-users] Building first MythTV back end box...

2005-12-17 Thread John Andersen
On 12/16/05, Kirk Grell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You guys are awesome!! Thanks for helping me with > this. > > I'll definitely go with the 150 (probably the MCE > version). Here is a comparison shot someone did of a 250 and a 150. You can see what I mean when I said the 150 was softer. http

Re: [mythtv-users] nuvexport and ffmpeg-CVS

2005-12-17 Thread John Andersen
On 12/17/05, Matt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yea, I got it to finally work by installing transcode from source > rather than the ubuntu package, although I think the error had to do > with something else, but I do realize that it's slow as John said. I > kicked off 12 half hour shows last night

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-150

2005-12-17 Thread John Andersen
On 12/17/05, Wylie Swanson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Unfortunately, cold power cycle has not seemed to do the trick. I even took > the machine out of the cabinet, removed the cards, hung out, put them back > in, and still no luck. I have the problem with two PVR-250's. The PcHDTV > 3000 and A

Re: [mythtv-users] 150MCE remote quetion

2005-12-17 Thread John Andersen
On 12/17/05, Don Sheehan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can anyone tell me which remote this is? I have tried Jarod's howto and many > others from the archives but none seem to make this work. I have tried it in > Gentoo to no avail and have fallen back to Knoppmyth. > > Any help appreciated! > > Abo

Re: [mythtv-users] Playing dvb nuv files with vlc

2005-12-17 Thread John Andersen
On 12/17/05, Mike Ryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > May be of interest/use to this list. I finally got vlc to compile. I've > documented everything here http://www.londoncrime.org/blog > > If I get the thing to work fully with myth file I'll document it all > and post an update > > Cheers > > Mike

Re: [mythtv-users] 150MCE remote quetion

2005-12-17 Thread John Andersen
On 12/17/05, Carl Fongheiser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It's a Windows MCE remote. It works great with the mceusb2 lirc driver. > It's a really nice remote, too. Oh, and it is a Hauppauge-specific remote, > in the sense that it's laid out a little differently from other MCE remotes > I've se

Re: [mythtv-users] mythtv-setup?

2005-12-17 Thread John Andersen
On 12/17/05, Kevin Kuphal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jeremiah Jester wrote: > > > I'm at the point in my setup where i can go ahead and start the > > 'mythtv-setup' but am unable to locate this file anywere. My setup is > > debain and I've compiled from source. > > If I remember correctly, this f

Re: [mythtv-users] nuvexport and ffmpeg-CVS

2005-12-17 Thread John Andersen
On 12/17/05, Matt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The output file size is slightly different (350095580 vs 349024640) > > and the transcode version is indeed a little better, but not 5 times > > better. > > > > Thats right it took transcode 3 hours and 45 minutes to > > transcode a 1 hour show, and

Re: [mythtv-users] LIRC weirdness

2005-12-17 Thread John Andersen
On 12/17/05, Marty Ravell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In following the troubleshooting pages on lircsetup.com I tried the > test_script.sh idea. This works fine from within MythTV. i.e. I get the > output log produced. > > > > Next test I tried was to put the line which writes the test log entry

Re: [mythtv-users] Thoughts please

2005-12-18 Thread John Andersen
On 12/18/05, Marty Ravell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have a hidden MythTV box. The wife was pissed > MythTV box ... custom built cabinet under the floor (timber frame house). > Any ideas? I suppose Wife in custom built cabinet under the floor in out of the question ? -- -

Re: [mythtv-users] LIRC with Myth and Mplayer = interference

2005-12-18 Thread John Andersen
On 12/18/05, Dr. C Mythology <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > I'm wondering if it's possible to use MythTV's native LIRC support , and > still be able to control mplayer without affecting MythTV: > > Example: > (entry in my .lircrc file) > begin > prog = mythtv > button = Pause > config =

Re: [mythtv-users] LIRC with Myth and Mplayer = interference

2005-12-18 Thread John Andersen
On 12/18/05, John Andersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It has been my expierence that myth wants its lircrc in > the ~./mythtv directory but all other programs expect it > in ~.lircrc Should have been ~/.mythtv/lircrc -

Re: [mythtv-users] mythtv kde autostart

2005-12-18 Thread John Andersen
On 12/18/05, Rick van der Mieden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm a bit lost with the startup sequence of X and kde. > I use gentoo and start with kde as the displaymanager (/etc/rc.conf) > I configured kde with kcontrol to login automatically to the mythtv user. In > /home/mythtv/.kde/Autostart

Re: [mythtv-users] New IVTV 4.1 Stable issues

2005-12-22 Thread John Andersen
On 12/22/05, Curtis Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2005-12-22 at 16:08 -0500, Jeff volckaert wrote: > > I was having a problem with periodic clipping of long shows. A 2 hour > > movie might cut out at 50 minutes for some reason. Hopefully the new > > driver will fix it. If not, then

Re: [mythtv-users] Hauppauge NOVA-T - MCE vs. non-MCE

2005-12-22 Thread John Andersen
On 12/22/05, Shanon Mulley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm doing a little research into DVB cards that are available, as I > want to add a second card to my mythtv machine. > > One thing I noticed is that for the Hauppauge NOVA-T, the price > fluctuates wildly, from $170AUD, to $350AUD+. I have fo

Re: [mythtv-users] Newbie's Hardware any problems?

2005-12-23 Thread John Andersen
On 12/23/05, Matt - MythTV Users Group List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Should I be worried about anything here? > Memory – 512 GB Well, for starters you should be worried about your wallet and how you are going to fit 512 GB of memory on that mobo... /smirk ... -- --JSA-

Re: [mythtv-users] Newbie's Hardware any problems?

2005-12-23 Thread John Andersen
On 12/23/05, Dewey Smolka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > All things considered I'd probably go first for WD or Seagate, second > for Maxtor. I can't recommend Samsung. Well, nowdays (or very soon) Maxtor will BE Seagate... I've also had really good luck with the Ex-IBM Hitachi drives even tho ther

Re: [mythtv-users] 2005 MCE REMOTE

2005-12-23 Thread John Andersen
On 12/23/05, Phill Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Now, I have everything installed and working great… except the remote in > > MythTV. When I run /usr/bin/irw I get the output I can see the remote is > > working. An lsmod shows the the remote drivers are loaded. I have a > > .lircrc file

Re: [mythtv-users] Slave Backend woes

2005-12-25 Thread John Andersen
On 12/25/05, Kyle Gordon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm in the process of setting up a Slave Backend, using the exact same type of > card that's in my Master Backend. So far MythTV has been exemplary. > > I've set up the database connection, along with the (hopefully) relevant bits >

Re: [mythtv-users] ide controller advice

2005-12-25 Thread John Andersen
On 12/16/05, Jon Whitear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My research indicated that 'cheap' IDE RAID controllers aren't worth it > - they do the RAID in software (the driver) anyway, so you might as well > use Linux software RAID. If you want RAID in hardware, the 3ware > controllers are well support

Re: [mythtv-users] barebones MSI Hetis 865GV-E questions

2005-12-26 Thread John Andersen
On 12/26/05, travis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm looking at MSI Hetis 865GV-E for my mythtv box. > > http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16856101227 > > This will be a front and back end, stand alone. I might turn it into a > front end later and build a bigger backend. But for no

Re: [mythtv-users] iptables and MythTV

2005-12-27 Thread John Andersen
On 12/27/05, Doug Bunger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You turn off the firewall during instalation, because > you are often using software like apt, yum, up2date, > synaptic, etc to resolve dependancies. During > operation the open ports will depend on you hardware > deployment: > > database needs

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

2005-12-29 Thread John Andersen
On 12/28/05, Mike Frisch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At least the following NFS mount options should be used if not already: > > mount -o rsize=32768,wsize=32768,nfsvers=3,tcp server:/nfs/export / > local/mountpoint On my slave I mount nfs with read/write sizes of 8192, which I think I got from

[mythtv-users] nuvexport: Ok here Bad over there?

2005-12-30 Thread John Andersen
I use nuvexport to convert to Xvid (using transcode) with the same settings on two machines. One is an older celeron 1.3ghz, the other a 3.0ghz P4. The machines are running the same software load (SuSE 9.3 Myth .18.1, etc), and nuvexport is using the same settings on both machines, Using the sam

Re: [mythtv-users] nuvexport: Ok here Bad over there?

2005-12-30 Thread John Andersen
On 12/30/05, Chris Petersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Using the same .nuv file the on exported on > > the celeron is smooth, The one exported on the > > p4 has occasional jerkeyness. (obvious > > in the CNBC scroller across the bottom of > > the screen). For something I want to time shift t

Re: [mythtv-users] nuvexport: Ok here Bad over there?

2005-12-30 Thread John Andersen
On 12/30/05, Jarod Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Another possibly-relevant data point... I recently transcoded a bunch of shows > off a network mount using ffmpeg (via myth2ipod) on an smp machine, each > using only one cpu, and the resulting transcodes are flawless. Was that with real cpus

Re: [mythtv-users] nuvexport: Ok here Bad over there?

2005-12-30 Thread John Andersen
On 12/30/05, Chris Petersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Just to be fair and complete in this test > > I'm going to reboot with hyperthreading turned on again and > > try it again. That way each test will start from the clean state. > > When you're done with that, can you do me a favor and disabl

Re: [mythtv-users] nuvexport: Ok here Bad over there?

2005-12-30 Thread John Andersen
On 12/30/05, Chris Petersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Awesome. Same with my test. I've commented these out and posted a new > version of nuvexport. Does the new version have any additional fixes other than the above changes? -- --JSA- __

Re: [mythtv-users] nuvexport: Ok here Bad over there?

2005-12-30 Thread John Andersen
On 12/30/05, Wendy Seltzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > When you're done with that, can you do me a favor and disable lines > > > 83-86 of export/transcode.pm and test again (I'm doing the same, just > > > wanted a bigger test group).. Should now look like: > > > > > > # Take advantage o

Re: [mythtv-users] LAN bandwidth consumption

2005-12-31 Thread John Andersen
On 12/31/05, Larry's Club Cars <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Newbie here. > > I have a 100Mb LAN. > I plan to have 1 Myth backend and 2 frontends. > > Assuming that the 2 frontends are running simultaneously. > How much of the 100Mb LAN will be used? According to my quick glance at gkrellm, I'm pu

Re: [mythtv-users] Adding a slave to existing MBE

2005-12-31 Thread John Andersen
On 12/31/05, A JM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would like to add a slave to my master backend how do I do this? Do I do a > full install of Myth and is there a checkbox somewhere that tells the master > there is now a slave? > > Does anyone have a quick how-to? > > My master has a tuner and my s

Re: [mythtv-users] Lost Sound on PVR-350 After Upgrade to IVTV 0.4.1

2006-01-01 Thread John Andersen
On 12/31/05, Kirk Bocek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think I will try rolling back the driver though. > I'll post my results. > > Kirk Every time this has happened to me (more often than I care to admit) it was one or more of the modules from my distro getting loaded in preference to the ones I

Re: [mythtv-users] Do I really need a mouse on the frontend?

2006-01-01 Thread John Andersen
Along similar lines. Does Larry REALLY need 43 blank lines after EVERY two line message? On 12/31/05, Larry's Club Cars <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > With a wireless keyboard and wireless mouse > in the frontend, do I really need a remote control? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >

Re: [mythtv-users] can't read superblock

2006-01-01 Thread John Andersen
On 1/1/06, Brian Donaldson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am running FC4 with MythTV 0.18.1. I have a Windows 2003 Server with MS > Services for Unix 3.5 installed (this includes a NFS server). I keep my > divx movies on this server and access them over the network using NFS from > my MythTV box.

Re: [mythtv-users] Watch different live TV channels on each frontend

2006-01-02 Thread John Andersen
On 1/2/06, R <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Just a few hours ago I learned about MythTV. > So please excuse my igonorance. > > With 1 backend and its 1 TV Tuner card > and multiple frontends - Can each frontend > watch a different live TV channel? No. In fact only one frontend can watch liv

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

2006-01-03 Thread John Andersen
On 1/2/06, Jan Kat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2006-02-01 at 17:20 -0700, Jan Kat wrote: > > > I just noticed that, although there is no place to install a CD-ROM on > > this PC (no opening in the front bezel -- I had to open the case to > > attach one and install Gentoo), there is a CD au

[mythtv-users] nuvexport --> ASF

2006-01-04 Thread John Andersen
Trying to do nuvexport to asf (with ffmpeg). Failed everytime with "Error while opening codec for output stream #0.0 - maybe incorrect parameters such as bit_rate, rate, width or height" Running with --debug caused this line to be barfed up in step 3: [msmpeg4 @ 0x403ab290]multi threaded en

Re: [mythtv-users] no audio during livetv

2006-01-05 Thread John Andersen
On 1/5/06, Rick van der Mieden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi there, > Strange situation here. I've had a perfectly running myth setup (hauppauge > pvr500, gentoo) All of a sudden I don't have any sound anymore during > recording or watching LiveTV, Playing audio is fine and I have audio and > v

Re: [mythtv-users] no audio during livetv

2006-01-06 Thread John Andersen
On 1/6/06, Rick van der Mieden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm stubled again. It's working now. Shutdown the system during the night, > started it up this morning to able to login from work. Several on the ivtv list stress the need to power off the hauppage cards all the way to full discharge to

Re: [mythtv-users] Adding a slave to existing MBE

2006-01-06 Thread John Andersen
On 1/6/06, A JM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "You have to setup the new tuners on the slave backend." > > I've got a question about adding the tuners on the Slave. The Master Backend > has a tuner in it set to /dev/video0 and all is fine. The Slave Backend has > 2 tuners in it but I only have the o

Re: [mythtv-users] Cannot Change channels in Myth, Can with ivtv-tune

2006-01-07 Thread John Andersen
On 1/7/06, linux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > After spending a week to get my IVTV drivers running with firmware I deciced > to downgrade to 0.4.0. This worked. > > My next challenge is changing channels. > When I use ivtv-tune I can tune the card to any station, however when I > start the myth

[mythtv-users] Single Instance Howto?

2006-01-07 Thread John Andersen
Is there a way et set mythfrontend to only allow a single instance to be launched on any given machine? Via a comedy of errors I've found on a couple of occasions that more than one instance was running. I wondered where the memory went. Often after a power failure, KDE will try to re-establish t

[mythtv-users] mythtv-setup for slaves...

2006-01-07 Thread John Andersen
I've noticed a number of questions on the list and a few instances of confusion on my part all of which were due to the fact that mythtv-setup on slaves shows some settings that pertain to the master backend. It would seem that these should be hidden when mythtv-setup is run on a slave. It would

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

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

[mythtv-users] Video Database Protection needed

2006-01-13 Thread John Andersen
Is there any way to keep a remote frontend from deciding that videos in the database should be deleted (from the database) simply because it can't see them (such as a temporary NFS unavailability)? My video collection was off line when the kid decides to surf the videos, and seeing none, goes into

Re: [mythtv-users] Live TV recording as if it was a scheduled recording

2006-01-14 Thread John Andersen
On 1/13/06, Steve Adeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I do feel that an option 'Delete LiveTV Recordings when changing > > channel' would be useful for many people. > > > > Chris > > Theres no need for it, all those little files can be hidden from view by > default and get deleted when room i

Re: [mythtv-users] Use remote machine to control Myth frontend?

2006-01-14 Thread John Andersen
On 1/14/06, Footer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have an older machine that I'm using as a Myth box configured as > both a frontend and backend hooked up in my entertainment center. > Since it's old, it has limited storage so what I'd like to do, is use > a remote machine (another Linux box) to st

Re: [mythtv-users] Setting up an FAQ for LiveTV changes

2006-01-15 Thread John Andersen
On 1/15/06, Tom E. Craddock Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jens Baumeister wrote: > > Hi, > > > > since the LiveTV changes seem to lead to questions again and again > > (and sometimes to flamewars), I volunteer to write an FAQ about it. > > You mean besides the archives at gossamer-threads for t

Re: [mythtv-users] Mythweb schedule recordings - possible to add a new type "weekday"?

2006-01-18 Thread John Andersen
On 1/16/06, obscure information. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was wondering about too, for instance: > > I'm trying to record old Simpsons reruns off of Fox Monday - Friday, but > there doesn't appear to be an option for this type of recording... > > Then again, it might just be another time for

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