[mythtv-users] Current State of CentOS Support

2005-11-13 Thread Michael Starks
I am considering moving from Fedora Core 2 to Centos 4, since we already use Red Hat Enterprise at work and that's what I'm most familiar with. I prefer RPM over source installs. Anyone running successfully on CentOS 4? Are atRPMs for CentOS 4 about as timely as support for Fedora? How about iv

Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV Presentation

2005-09-18 Thread Michael Starks
Mike Ryan wrote: > It'll only be a short presentation (10 minutes or so probably), so there's > only > a limited amount of high-level information I'll be able to get across. > However, > there's a QA session afterwards as well. If I may make a suggestion.. Make a statement or two about the free

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Another Bug in mythtv-suite?

2005-05-24 Thread Michael Starks
Axel Thimm wrote: Thanks, yes, I uploaded the fixes ~10h ago and verified them working on FC3/i386 and FC3/x86_64 (finally ...). I am still experiencing the problem on FC2/i386. Is this still supported and if so, I would appreciate it if you could let me know if it should be working. _

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Another Bug in mythtv-suite?

2005-05-25 Thread Michael Starks
Axel Thimm wrote: Yes, it is. Please send in more details (perhaps better on bugzilla.atrpms.net and a link to the bug here). Thanks. As requested: http://bugzilla.atrpms.net/show_bug.cgi?id=528 ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org ht

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Another Bug in mythtv-suite?

2005-05-26 Thread Michael Starks
Axel Thimm wrote: Thanks, that's indeed a different issue, it just hadn't been scheduled to be built. It will appear in a couple of hours. Thank you, everything works now. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bi

[mythtv-users] PVR350 Audio Question

2005-06-12 Thread Michael Starks
I have the audio out of my PVR350 going into the sound card. The output of the sound card is sent to the stereo. This allows me to watch TV and listen to music and works great. What I wonder about is 5.1 surround. I don't have digital cable. Is digital cable required to receive 5.1? I hav

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR350 Audio Question

2005-06-13 Thread Michael Starks
Nick wrote: The PVR-350 card records and ouputs stereo analog audio That is helpful, thank you. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

[mythtv-users] Restoring Select Database Files

2005-12-18 Thread Michael Starks
Hello Mythers. I had a drive go south on me and eventually decided to rebuild the system from scratch on different hardware. During the process of the drive failing, the database was corrupted. I *do* have backup but not as far back as I need to get a good, clean copy of the database, so the bac

Re: [mythtv-users] Thoughts please

2005-12-18 Thread Michael Starks
Marty Ravell wrote: > I have a hidden MythTV box. The wife was pissed at my collection of > homebuilt amps and cables all over the place so I replaced most of it > with a MythTV box and moved this, along with my power amp, to a custom > built cabinet under the floor (timber frame house). The only

Re: [mythtv-users] ssh attack

2006-01-01 Thread Michael Starks
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >You've missed the point. These types of packages don't look for >multiple attempts at a single user name. They simply watch the auth >logs and match failures to IPs. Once an IP has accumulated a certain >number of failures within a specified time period, that IP addres

[mythtv-users] Turtle Beach/CM8738 Live TV Sound Not Working

2006-01-15 Thread Michael Starks
(Fedora Core 4) -Sound works with Mythmusic and recorded shows. -I have an .asounrc file in /home/mythtv which is suitable to the sound card. -The audio out from my PVR350 is patched to the line in on the sound card. -I have muted and unmuted various settings in alsamixer, but haven't found that ma

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

2006-01-16 Thread Michael Starks
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In any event---yes, in addition to the archives. Searching archives > is a poor substitute for organized information in a central place. > The archives are huge (2400 messages/month! 14 meg/month!); poorly > organized (threads often wander); and invariably contain large

Re: [mythtv-users] Turtle Beach/CM8738 Live TV Sound Not Working

2006-01-18 Thread Michael Starks
Michael Starks wrote: > (Fedora Core 4) > -Sound works with Mythmusic and recorded shows. > -I have an .asounrc file in /home/mythtv which is suitable to the sound > card. > -The audio out from my PVR350 is patched to the line in on the sound card. > -I have muted and unmuted v

[mythtv-users] Laptop CPU in Desktop Mainboard

2006-01-24 Thread Michael Starks
I have been thinking of using a laptop CPU to save power on a new MythTV system. Basically, I'd like to be able to use the cpuspeed daemon to drop the CPU speed when there isn't a lot going in. Has anyone done with with a full-size mainboard? Any other tips? __

Re: [mythtv-users] Laptop CPU in Desktop Mainboard

2006-01-24 Thread Michael Starks
> The power savings are so small as to not be meaningull in a desktop. > I'm sure the unstated goal here is heat and fan noise reduction. Actually, I don't care too much about heat and noise since the server is in the basement. I truly am interested in energy conservation but at the same time h

Re: [mythtv-users] Laptop CPU in Desktop Mainboard

2006-01-29 Thread Michael Starks
John Andersen wrote: \> In that case you are truly on a fools errand. > > You will NEVER save enough energy with this CPU to recover > your costs. Vastly more power could be saved by huge passive > heat sinks and getting rid of fans. That may be true, however I have observed (measured) that a mo

[mythtv-users] Idea for faster channel surfing

2004-12-02 Thread Michael Starks
I had an idea about how the delay might be reduced when changing channels. In a 2+ tuner system, can one tuner "leapfrog" the other and start buffering the next or previous channel, depending on the direction the user is surfing? For example, I start at channel three. Tuner two starts buffering

RE: [mythtv-users] Live TV- Operation Not Permitted

2004-12-10 Thread Michael Starks
On Fri, 2004-12-10 at 21:32 +, John Harvey wrote: > You should be reading from /dev/video0 and writing to /dev/video16. > It looks like somewhere in the setup stuff it has /dev/video0 as your input > device? Looking in mythtvsetup I had inadvertently configured /dev/video0 and /dev/video16. I

Re: [mythtv-users] a few questions about startup process

2004-12-13 Thread Michael Starks
On Mon, 2004-12-13 at 22:20 -0500, Noel Murphy wrote: > I have been following Jarod's guide for setting up my FC3 mythbox. > > I have 1 sort of working, however not 100%. > > First off, I've added the lines: > > # ivtv modules setup > alias char-major-81 videodev > alias char-major-81-0 ivtv

Re: [mythtv-users] a few questions about startup process

2004-12-14 Thread Michael Starks
On Tue, 2004-12-14 at 08:41 -0500, David George wrote: > Interesting. The only problem with this is, at least in FC3, rc.local > runs after all the other init scripts. Which means if you are > automatically starting mythbackend with the mythbackend script the ivtv > module won't load until aft

Re: [mythtv-users] Security concerns for my myth box

2004-12-15 Thread Michael Starks
On Wed, 2004-12-15 at 16:16 -0500, Craig Partin wrote: > What security measures do others have in place? I do not believe security is a primary design consideration with Myth and as such, I treat it as untrusted. As to MythWeb, access is controlled via IP filtering and SSH tunneling. __

[mythtv-users] Live TV- Operation Not Permitted

2004-12-10 Thread Michael Starks
I had live TV working at one point and now it just gives me a black screen. It was working, I went into setup and played around with the offsets, and when I went back it didn't work. I can't think of anything else that changed, yet I can't see the connection. I can capture and play a test MPG th

Re: [mythtv-users] a few questions about startup process

2004-12-15 Thread Michael Starks
On Tue, 2004-12-14 at 08:41 -0500, David George wrote: > Interesting. The only problem with this is, at least in FC3, rc.local > runs after all the other init scripts. Which means if you are > automatically starting mythbackend with the mythbackend script the ivtv > module won't load until aft

Re: [mythtv-users] Security concerns for my myth box

2004-12-16 Thread Michael Starks
On Wed, 2004-12-15 at 21:23 -0500, Craig Partin wrote: > Is SSH the only software people trust to listen for network > connections? What's wrong with apache and SSL? And does myth > (backend or frontend) listen for anything? Are there dangers in just > having one machine running myth also runnin

[mythtv-users] Chaging hostname to fully qualified

2004-12-19 Thread Michael Starks
If I change my hostname to a fully qualified name (such as host to host.domain.com), will I have to follow the procedure as if I changed the hostname from host to host2? Thanks. ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/

Re: [mythtv-users] is it possible to copy a myhtconverg db to a system with a different tuner

2004-12-19 Thread Michael Starks
On Sun, 2004-12-19 at 10:14 -0800, Bruce McKenzie wrote: > MySQL can be "moved" by moving the database files (usually in > /var/lib/mysql). They're just regular files. Be sure to stop mysqld first. This is what I did. I moved everything from /var/lib/mysql/mythconverg to the new system. It didn

Re: [mythtv-users] pcHDTV.com defaced AGAIN

2004-12-22 Thread Michael Starks
On Wed, 2004-12-22 at 15:56 -0500, Anthony Vito wrote: > ]# ftp pchdtv.com > ]# ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ]# telnet pchdtv.com > ]# finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] > # Now we know pchdtv is a valid user on the server.. And of course you obtained permission before fingerprinting and enumerating this re

Re: [mythtv-users] TAO Linux?

2004-12-30 Thread Michael Starks
On Thu, 2004-12-30 at 16:16 +0100, Hugo van der Kooij wrote: > Hi, > > How much of the packages are ready to go for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0? > > I started of with FC3 only because Jarod's guide made it look like a > jiffy. > > However I am not that big a fan of the short lifespan of Fedora

[mythtv-users] Second Tuner Not Working

2005-01-01 Thread Michael Starks
I have a system (Fedora Core II) with a PVR350 and a PVR250. The first tuner works OK, but the second does not. Here are the relevant logs and config info: When trying to enable PIP, the menu freezes on the screen and I get this in mythbackend.log: Error setting format VIDIOC_S_FMT:: Device or r

Re: [mythtv-users] Second Tuner Not Working

2005-01-01 Thread Michael Starks
On Sat, 2005-01-01 at 13:44 -0800, Yan-Fa Li wrote: > You do know that you're actually just talking to a single card right ? > Look at the minor device numbers. There's your sign. Thanks for your response. I suspected the device file(s) since I had to mess with them in the beginning to get thing

[mythtv-users] Myth not obeying upcoming recording preference.

2005-01-17 Thread Michael Starks
Myth 0.16 Fedora Core 2 I recently ran into a situation where Myth was set to record two things simultaneously (I have two tuners). I was watching LiveTV and, as expected, the dialogue came up asking if I wanted to record it, watch tv, or watch it while it records. I chose to just watch TV. Str

Re: [mythtv-users] Slightly OT: 802.11G video stutter - not fast enough?

2005-02-05 Thread Michael Starks
On Sat, 2005-02-05 at 14:19 -0800, CrAzY mAD wrote: > I just installed Myth on a remote machine and have it > connected via a Netgear 802.11G bridge. MythTV and > recorded TV shows play fine, but my avi movies in > MythVideo stutter every 2 seconds. How is the signal strength? The speed will d

Re: [mythtv-users] Cable Modem == Free Basic Cable.

2005-02-08 Thread Michael Starks
> Well Theft would be climbing the pole and connecting or disconnecting > something, but if the cable company neglected to place a filter on > your line, is it stealing? I dont think it is IANAL, but I do know that if someone sends something to you in the mail unsolicited they cannot expect or req