[mythtv-users] Bad sound quality with Plextor M402U

2005-11-09 Thread Nathan Allen Stratton
I just setup my first mythtv box 0.18.1 with 2 plextor M402Us, video quality is great, but audio quality even with highest MP3 quality sucks. Any ideas? ><> Nathan Stratton nathan at robotics.net http://www.robotics.net ___ mythtv-users mailing list my

Re: [mythtv-users] Plextor ConvertX - Dropped frames watching live tv

2005-11-11 Thread Nathan Allen Stratton
On Thu, 10 Nov 2005, EC wrote: > Hi, > >I don't have a good answer for you, but, as a Plextor ConvertX user > myself (I use 2 PX-TV402U boxes, MythTV 0.18-1 too), I thought I'd note > that it CAN work very well - though at times it seems a bit touchy. I agree, I have 2 ConvertXs as well and t

[mythtv-users] -lXmu errors

2005-11-12 Thread Nathan Allen Stratton
Ok, so I have looked at the archives and searched google, I found some ideas, but they are all for much older version of myth and don't seem to work for 18.1 or cvs. I am using SUSE 10.0 with CVS (also tried 18.1) and get the following error: /usr/lib/qt3/include/private/qucomextra_p.h:65: warni

RE: [mythtv-users] Attractive cases

2005-11-12 Thread Nathan Allen Stratton
> >I think the advantages of the Silverstone cases is they have so > >many options when it comes to size, expansion, and looks. For > >example, Silverstone offers the only HT-style case I found that > >supports 3 full-height expansion slots (1xAGP, 2xPCI) in a low-profile > >design, such as the LC

Re: [mythtv-users] Capturing 5.1 audio

2005-11-12 Thread Nathan Allen Stratton
On Sat, 12 Nov 2005, Michael T. Dean wrote: > If you really want 5.1 channel, though, you'll have to go to a digital > video broadcast technology (like HDTV (US) or DVB). My current myth box uses 2 convertx boxes, but I just bought a HD-3000 card and monday should have my antenna. Do I need to do

[mythtv-users] Greater then 2 TB of storage with myth

2005-11-12 Thread Nathan Allen Stratton
I currently have a 3ware card with 8 160 gig drives in it giving me just over 1 TB. I am thinking about getting a new 12 port serial ATA card with 400 gig drives (cost different between 400 and 500 is crazy). Has anyone worked with this much storage with myth? I dont want to spend the money on thi

Re: [mythtv-users] Capturing 5.1 audio

2005-11-12 Thread Nathan Allen Stratton
On Sat, 12 Nov 2005, Michael T. Dean wrote: > On 11/12/05 17:15, Nathan Allen Stratton wrote: > > >My current myth box uses 2 convertx boxes, but I just bought a HD-3000 > >card and monday should have my antenna. Do I need to do anything special > >to get 5.1 channel soun

Re: [mythtv-users] Capturing 5.1 audio

2005-11-12 Thread Nathan Allen Stratton
On Sat, 12 Nov 2005, Michael T. Dean wrote: > Nope. ATSC (US high-definition TV) is broadcast already encoded using > the MPEG-2 system. The audio is encoded in an AC-3 stream within the > transport stream. So, it's just there. Hmm so since I setup the mp3 audio encoding on the video profiles

Re: [mythtv-users] Cannot Record VCR

2005-11-14 Thread Nathan Allen Stratton
On Mon, 14 Nov 2005, Mercury Morris wrote: > I have a PVR350, too. In mythtv-setup, I found Composite 0 corresponded to > the composite inputs on the card. > > The following may be incomplete, it's from my notes of October 2004 - > thirteen months ago. > > In mythtv-setup, I defined a Video Source

[mythtv-users] Unofficial plugin list?

2005-11-14 Thread Nathan Allen Stratton
Is there a list anywhere of unofficial myth plugins? I have found: MythStream lets you play internet audio streams MythStreamTVtranscode and play video from mythweb MythLCD libs to write to LCD (anyone doing anything with this?) ><> Nathan Stratton nathan at robotics.net http:

Re: [mythtv-users] LiveTV Broken or Bad Permissions?

2005-11-16 Thread Nathan Allen Stratton
On Tue, 15 Nov 2005, Dustin Nicholas Jenkins wrote: > Hello all, > > I've been using the Subversion build of MythTV for the past couple of > weeks now, and the 'Watch TV' (LiveTV) link hasn't worked at all (i.e. > the link text flashes and does nothing, no log entry or anything). > Does anyo

Re: [mythtv-users] Cannot Record VCR

2005-11-16 Thread Nathan Allen Stratton
On Tue, 15 Nov 2005, Peter Darley wrote: > Nathan, > > Since your card does the encryption for you, you could just make > sure that the backend doesn't have any scheduled shows, or shut down > the backend, then just do the 'cat video0 > file.mpg' trick that > people use when testing their ca

Re: [mythtv-users] Which is the best HDTV Tuner Card

2005-11-17 Thread Nathan Allen Stratton
On Thu, 17 Nov 2005, Steve Adeff wrote: > the website never gets updated, the HD3000 DOES support QAM, I've been using > it this way for about 2 months now. > > QAM is used by cable companies, so if you recieve your HDTV via a cable line > then you would use QAM(most likely QAM256). You only get

[mythtv-users] Free air antenna and rotor control

2005-11-17 Thread Nathan Allen Stratton
I just installed a free air antenna with rotor and get a lot of channels but I need to move the antenna at times. Would be cool if there was a hack to control the antenna. It would need to setup and do a 360 scan to find all the channels then it would be easy to turn right/left and find best signa

RE: [mythtv-users] Free air antenna and rotor control

2005-11-17 Thread Nathan Allen Stratton
On Thu, 17 Nov 2005, Buechler, Mark R wrote: > There's already support in Myth for Diseqc motor control via diseqc 1.2 & > 1.3. I've tried both and am having trouble with both but at this point I'm > wondering if it has something to do with my setup. > > Note, in svn versions of Myth there seems t

RE: [mythtv-users] Free air antenna and rotor control

2005-11-17 Thread Nathan Allen Stratton
On Thu, 17 Nov 2005, Buechler, Mark R wrote: > There's already support in Myth for Diseqc motor control via diseqc 1.2 & > 1.3. I've tried both and am having trouble with both but at this point I'm > wondering if it has something to do with my setup. > > Note, in svn versions of Myth there seems t

Re: [mythtv-users] Capturing 5.1 audio

2005-11-22 Thread Nathan Allen Stratton
On Tue, 22 Nov 2005, Bob wrote: > I think this obsession with 5.1 sound isn't entirely healthy, I for one, > only have two ears. Uh your kidding right? -nathan ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/

[mythtv-users] QWERTY remotes

2005-11-22 Thread Nathan Allen Stratton
Anyone know of any small QWERTY remotes that can be used with myth? I have seen lots of wireless keyboards, but I want something much smaller. You don't need to type a lot, so something shaped lime my treo 650 would be very coo. ><> Nathan Stratton nathan at robotics.net http://www.robotics.net

Re: [mythtv-users] QWERTY remotes

2005-11-22 Thread Nathan Allen Stratton
On Tue, 22 Nov 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > One option, of course, would be to simply use the Treo 650 as the > remote, assuming you didn't need to leave something behind for WAF when > you're out. > > http://www.palminfocenter.com/view_story.asp?ID=7905 > > The NoviiRemote addition costs $35,

Re: [mythtv-users] QWERTY remotes

2005-11-23 Thread Nathan Allen Stratton
On Wed, 23 Nov 2005, Nick wrote: > > If you're in the UK, > > > > http://www.sky.com/skycom/skynavigator > > > > Is very nice. Works well with lirc - Myth doesn't understand case (UPPER / > > lower) from the remote, though). > > I'm a big fan of my Navigator remote - I do miss the skip buttons tha

Re: [mythtv-users] Filename confusion - .nuv and .mpg

2005-11-23 Thread Nathan Allen Stratton
On Wed, 23 Nov 2005, Joseph A. Caputo wrote: > The now reflects the container format of the recording. > Files recorded from a DVB source, or from a hardware MPEG encoding > card, will be named "*.mpg". Files recorded using software encoding, > or transcoded recordings, will be named "*.nuv". >

[mythtv-users] Myth RTSP support?

2005-11-24 Thread Nathan Allen Stratton
Any plans to support RTSP with MythBackend? It would be nice to use some of the new MPEG4 boxes out there like the AmiNET124. http://www.aminocom.com/products/ipstb/aminet124.html ><> Nathan Stratton nathan at robotics.net http://www.robotics.net ___ m

[mythtv-users] Changing MPEG4 bitrate with Plextor ConvertX

2005-11-24 Thread Nathan Allen Stratton
Anyone able to change the bitrate with the Plextor ConvertX in myth? I go to the prefs for and started with Live TV, no matter what the bitrate was 100 - 6000 it always used the same. I also have tried changing Default and file size still is about 1 gig an hour no matter what bitrate I select. ><

Re: [mythtv-users] Converting shows to PDA suitable format

2005-11-26 Thread Nathan Allen Stratton
On Fri, 25 Nov 2005, Paul V. Gratz wrote: > I have a treo 650 and I've encoded a few shows for it. I have been > using mencoder to encode it to the built-in lavc endcoder for divx. > In my understanding divx is an early implementation of mpeg4 (prior to > the release of the standard). Xvid is ano

Re: [mythtv-users] Converting shows to PDA suitable format

2005-11-26 Thread Nathan Allen Stratton
On Sat, 26 Nov 2005, Paul V. Gratz wrote: > Yeah this is the same player I'm using on my Treo. I haven't tried > mythstream though. I don't think that player has the ability to pick > up a stream via TCPIP. Even if it did, my only internet access on > that phone is through SprintPCS's vision pla

[mythtv-users] MPEG-4 [EMAIL PROTECTED] and MPEG2 to MPEG-4 AVC H.264 transcoding

2005-11-29 Thread Nathan Allen Stratton
I am using two Plextor MPEG-4 hardware boxes connected to my cable TV set top boxes. The first problem I have is that if I go into Recording Profiles and select USB MPEG-4 Encoder and edit the bit rate and save the recordings still look the same and take up same amount of space. It does not matter

RE: [mythtv-users] MPEG-4 [EMAIL PROTECTED] and MPEG2 to MPEG-4 AVC H.264transcoding

2005-11-30 Thread Nathan Allen Stratton
On Tue, 29 Nov 2005, Mike Grusin wrote: > > I am using two Plextor MPEG-4 hardware boxes connected to my cable TV > > set top boxes. The first problem I have is that if I go into Recording > > Profiles and select USB MPEG-4 Encoder and edit the bit rate and save the > > recordings still look the s

Re: [mythtv-users] Adding movies to MythTV

2005-12-01 Thread Nathan Allen Stratton
On Thu, 1 Dec 2005, Phill Edwards wrote: > > I'd like to add external movies in different formats, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, etc. > > to MythTV. > > The same goes for mp3 and photos. > > I couldn't find any documentation related to how can I do it. > > For music you need to use the MythMusic application. Fo

[mythtv-users] Mythbackend on AMD 64 issues

2005-12-04 Thread Nathan Allen Stratton
I am working on upgrading my myth box from a standard x86 to AMD64 box and running into a few problmes. System: AMD Athlon(tm_ 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 38000+ Suse 10.0 1) Get the "QSqlDatabase: QMYSQL3 driver not loaded" error when I try to run mythtv-setup. I have installed qt-mysql off the S

Re: [mythtv-users] Pluto!

2005-12-10 Thread Nathan Allen Stratton
On Sat, 10 Dec 2005, Joshua Lewis wrote: > Back story: > I am building a house in KY (insert Red Neck Joke Here!) and am designing > the house around homeentertainment. > > quad CAT6 drops in every room > Dual AV jacks in every room > Built in speakers in lots of rooms > > MythTV in the basement >

[mythtv-users] MythPlugins on SUSE AMD64

2005-12-10 Thread Nathan Allen Stratton
I am having some big issues compiling all of the mythplugins on SUSE 10 AMD64. I get -lXmu errors with music and gallery and -lkhtml for browser. They both are on my box: opie:/usr/local/src/mythplugins # find / -name libkhtml.so -print /opt/kde3/lib64/libkhtml.so opie:/usr/local/src/mythplugin

Re: [mythtv-users] MythPlugins on SUSE AMD64

2005-12-11 Thread Nathan Allen Stratton
On Sat, 10 Dec 2005, Nathan Allen Stratton wrote: > I am having some big issues compiling all of the mythplugins on SUSE 10 > AMD64. I get -lXmu errors with music and gallery and -lkhtml for browser. > > They both are on my box: > > opie:/usr/local/src/mythplugins # find /

Re: [mythtv-users] Cannot compile MythTV 0.18.1 on Athlon 64 Suse 10

2005-12-11 Thread Nathan Allen Stratton
On Sun, 11 Dec 2005, Paul A. Bennett wrote: > Hello! > > Now that I've finally managed to get my Hauppauge PVR-150 MCE working, > I'm wondering if I'm the only guy on the planet who has yet to figure > out how to get MythTV 0.18.1 to compile on my system. Thus, I would > like to ask: > > *

[mythtv-users] Media Library - Watch Recordings jump key

2005-12-11 Thread Nathan Allen Stratton
I have looked all through Edit Keys and I can't find a jump key for Media Library - Watch Recordings. Is there any way to make one? I want to setup lircrc with a key that jumps right to Watch Recordings page. ><> Nathan Stratton nathan at robotics.net http://www.robotics.net _

Re: [mythtv-users] Media Library - Watch Recordings jump key

2005-12-12 Thread Nathan Allen Stratton
11, 2005, at 10:05 PM, Nathan Allen Stratton wrote: > > > > > I have looked all through Edit Keys and I can't find a jump key for > > Media > > Library - Watch Recordings. Is there any way to make one? I want to > > setup > > lircrc with a key that jum

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Anybody working on Nokia 770 front end?

2005-12-12 Thread Nathan Allen Stratton
On Mon, 12 Dec 2005, Mike Frisch wrote: > On 12-Dec-05, at 8:03 PM, Isaac Richards wrote: > > > On Monday 12 December 2005 13:50, Mike Frisch wrote: > >> Is anybody working on a port of the MythTV front end to a Nokia 770? > > > > I'm considering it. Well, not a frontend port, but more of a smart

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Re: Anybody working on Nokia 770 front end?

2005-12-13 Thread Nathan Allen Stratton
On Tue, 13 Dec 2005, Mike Frisch wrote: > On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 10:13:19PM -0500, Nathan Allen Stratton wrote: > > Why not use mythstream to transcode it to 3GPP H.264/AAC at CIF > > resolution? I would like to do this on my treo, but so far the only H.264 > > player I f

Re: [mythtv-users] 64bit IDE RAID options?

2006-01-09 Thread Nathan Allen Stratton
On Mon, 9 Jan 2006, James C. Dastrup wrote: > Is anyone aware of a PCI-X 64bit / 133MHz capable IDE RAID HBA? > > Or, how about a PCI 64bit / 33 Mhz MHz capable IDE RAID HBA? > > All the ones I'm seeing are 32-bit / 33mhz. I am using 9500S-12 with 12 320 gig disks and it works like a charm in m

[mythtv-users] Import DVD audio sync issues

2006-01-10 Thread Nathan Allen Stratton
Uh.. I am running latest SVN and having major audio sync issues with MythVideo. I have about a hundred DVDs I want to import, and so far the first dozen all have audio sync problems. ><> Nathan Stratton nathan at robotics.net http://www.robotics.net ___

[mythtv-users] SUSE 10 GNOME screen blank

2006-01-10 Thread Nathan Allen Stratton
I have power manamgment turned off and have the following in xorg.conf: Section "ServerFlags" Option "NoPM" "1" Option "blank time" "0" Option "off time" "0" Option "standby time" "0" Option "suspend time" "0" EndSection In GNOME I have screensaver turned

Re: [mythtv-users] SUSE 10 GNOME screen blank

2006-01-10 Thread Nathan Allen Stratton
On Tue, 10 Jan 2006, Matt Hannan wrote: > Nathan Allen Stratton wrote: > > I have power manamgment turned off and have the following in xorg.conf: > > > > Section "ServerFlags" > > Option "NoPM" "1" > > Option

Re: [mythtv-users] Import DVD audio sync issues

2006-01-11 Thread Nathan Allen Stratton
On Tue, 10 Jan 2006, Nathan Allen Stratton wrote: > Uh.. I am running latest SVN and having major audio sync issues with > MythVideo. I have about a hundred DVDs I want to import, and so far the > first dozen all have audio sync problems. Would fmpeg solve t

Re: [mythtv-users] cut commercials only, no transcoding

2006-01-14 Thread Nathan Allen Stratton
On Sat, 14 Jan 2006, Robin Gilks wrote: > Silly question, but what is your source of mpeg4 stuff? I've not seen any > capture cards that output anything other that mpeg2. I use 3 Plextor 402Us it offers hardware mpeg4 directly. -nathan ___ mythtv-users

[mythtv-users] HAI OmniPro Home Automation via Myth

2006-01-23 Thread Nathan Allen Stratton
Has anyone looked at adding support for HAI OmniPro Home automation system to Myth? Chuck Cannon has GCC library that supports HAI over Ethernet or Serial, you can find it at: http://home/austin.rr.com/ccannon7/downloads.htm Anyone interested in making this happen? I would be willing to help pa

Re: [mythtv-users] HAI OmniPro Home Automation via Myth

2006-01-23 Thread Nathan Allen Stratton
On Mon, 23 Jan 2006, Big Wave Dave wrote: > Looks like you meant: > http://home.austin.rr.com/ccannon7/downloads.htm > > The URL didn't show up right in my email Sorry about that. > Dave > > On 1/23/06, Nathan Allen Stratton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >

Re: [mythtv-users] HAI OmniPro Home Automation via Myth

2006-01-23 Thread Nathan Allen Stratton
On Tue, 24 Jan 2006, Johan [ISO-8859-1] Kihlström wrote: > Check out pluto (http://www.plutohome.com) or MisterHouse > (http://www.misterhouse.org) if you feel the need for home automation... Yep, I am aware of others, but I have HAI OmniPro installed already : ) HAI also has most of the share of

[mythtv-users] HAI OmniPro Home (not shed, pluto, etc) Automation via Myth

2006-01-23 Thread Nathan Allen Stratton
On Mon, 23 Jan 2006, Mark Johannessen wrote: > There is also XTension (www.shed.com) on the Mac OSX side. I will > also be looking at integrating Myth into HA, but only as a slave to > the HA system. Interesting, but again I have HAI OmniPro installed in my house. I went with HAI because of the

Re: [mythtv-users] How much storage do you have for MythTV?

2006-01-23 Thread Nathan Allen Stratton
On Mon, 23 Jan 2006, Yeechang Lee wrote: > Ross Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> says: > > My MythTV box is now at around 600gb and that seems like just about > > enough storage for me for now with non-HD recordings, > > Indeed. A FireWire capture of a non-HDTV cable channel takes about > 19MB/minute.

Re: [mythtv-users] How much storage do you have for MythTV?

2006-01-23 Thread Nathan Allen Stratton
On Mon, 23 Jan 2006, Yeechang Lee wrote: > Precisely. I already had a 2.8TB RAID 5 array in a dual Xeon server, > and frankly neither wanted nor needed more computing capacity (or > accompanying administrative hassle). I also highly value a single > filespace (yes, yes, I know you can do much of t

[mythtv-users] VCR Manual Record

2006-01-25 Thread Nathan Allen Stratton
I am trying to manually record Video from my VCR. I went into mythtv setup and setup a video source called VCR and then manually created a channel and for good measure added a year long program guide entry. However when I go to manually record I get the following error. I think the following will

Re: [mythtv-users] VCR Manual Record

2006-01-26 Thread Nathan Allen Stratton
On Thu, 26 Jan 2006, Michael T. Dean wrote: > Set your input to start on channel 1000. Same problme, the issue I think is that it is trying to change the channel, but it is a VCR on that input, there is no channel to change to. -Nathan ___ mythtv-user

[mythtv-users] IVTV_IOC_G_CODEC:: Bad address

2006-01-27 Thread Nathan Allen Stratton
I just installed a WinTV card using the bttv drivers on Suse 10. I can watch tv on the card via SUSE TV apps, but have issue on Myth. The card setup without issue and mythtv-setup even was able to correctly scan the channels. However when I goto watch that input I get the following on the mythbac