Re: [mythtv-users] TV Overscan

2005-03-20 Thread Stutty
On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 19:21:58 -0600, Aran Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I wrote a huge (too big) article on overscan and sent it to the list > just a little while back. Thanks found that a very useful read, probably worth putting on the MythTV wiki (not that I use it!) - any further depth and

Re: [mythtv-users] [Slightly OT] Via EPIA, Unichrome, TV-out: Interlacing?

2005-03-31 Thread Stutty
On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 18:10:10 -0800 (PST), Michael Carland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Go into > >'Setup - TV Settings - Playback' and check 'Deinterlace playback' then > >select 'Bob (2x framerate)' from the dropdown menu. > --- Jon Whitear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have a Via EPIA M10K f

Re: [mythtv-users] 0.18's available

2005-04-16 Thread Stutty
Can someone confirm that they have this working on an EPIA using XvMC VLD video out? Having some problems, not sure they are to do with a recent upgrade of libXvMCW (which was working against 0.17+abit) or my jump to 0.18. Ta, Paul ___ mythtv-users mail

Re: [mythtv-users] 0.18's available

2005-04-16 Thread Stutty
On 4/17/05, Curtis Stanford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes, I have 0.18 working on M10K with XvMC VLD Thanks Curtis, Discovered I had not updated: /etc/X11/XvMCConfig I'd only changed: /usr/lib/X11/XvMCConfig Not sure why it worked under 0.17 but not under 0.18 though! Paul _

Re: [mythtv-users] Remote stops working for 1-3 minutes

2005-04-16 Thread Stutty
Does the sun come out when it stops working? Try closing the curtains/blinds :-) P ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

Re: [mythtv-users] 0.18's available

2005-04-17 Thread Stutty
Yeah me neither until yesterday! Apparantly it tells the XvMC Wrapper library which lib to open, defaults to NVIDIA_dynamic.so or something, rather than viaXvMC.so. I had recently done an re-install of the Unichrome bits, using some gentoo ebuilds, I suspect they nobbled the file.

Re: [mythtv-users] [OT] ATI Remote Wonder II BOB

2005-07-05 Thread Stutty
I would recommend using irrecord, its relatively painless! I found that other peoples conf files did not work with my remote anyway. Paul ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

Re: [mythtv-users] UK Freeview compatible tuner

2005-07-05 Thread Stutty
I'm using a Visionplus DVB-T (Basically a Twinhan Mini-Ter), seems to work okay with the latest Gentoo Kernel (2.6.11-r11) & Mandrake (Mandriva) kernel (2.6.11-6mdk). Got mine here: http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/ProductInfo.asp?WebProductID=103057 (I don't use the remote though, so can't vouch

Re: [mythtv-users] UK Freeview compatible tuner

2005-07-06 Thread Stutty
On 7/6/05, Greg Cope <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Paul, > > What load do you get with myth idle with your card? > > Greg > Not sure I understand your question :), but for info, 'top' reports the following % idle on my EPIA MII 12k: 98%..Completely Idle 93%..Recording BBC1 = 15Mb 2

Re: [mythtv-users] UK Freeview compatible tuner

2005-07-07 Thread Stutty
On 7/7/05, James Stembridge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 7/6/05, Stutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > BBC1 is the highest quality channel on Freeview I think, I haven't > > tried changing the recording profile from the default (as installed) > > setti

Re: [mythtv-users] MythMusic does not tag MP3's?

2005-07-07 Thread Stutty
On 7/7/05, Matt Hannan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just noticed that all of the mp3's that I am creating via MythMusic do > not have ID3 tags on them. > They are probably there, just not in a version your tools/software can read - try installing id3lib It has a convert utility. >From mythmu

[mythtv-users] [contrib] CD Cover grabber perl script

2005-07-17 Thread Stutty
Done a simple script based on imdb.pl script to grab a CD cover from Amazon website, currently configured to use amazon.co.uk, change url_locale to match your location. Usage: amazon.pl This will dump a the album cover jpg of Amazon's best guess at the Artist/Album in the directory specified.

Re: [mythtv-users] [contrib] CD Cover grabber perl script

2005-07-18 Thread Stutty
On 7/18/05, Donavan Stanley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Doesn't perl have an id3tag interface? Then you could just be passed > the file name of a song.. > Feel free to update it ;) But bear in mind, that this may add extra dependencies, and you'll have to handle ogg, aac, mp3, wav, etc. files

Re: [mythtv-users] UK: Getting strange audio track on BBC 1

2005-07-19 Thread Stutty
On 7/19/05, Ivan A. Beveridge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been getting odd sound & video *only* during Eastenders (BBC1, > BBC3). This has been for the last month, and seemed to conside (or nearly > coincide) with my upgrade from 0.17 to 0.18.1. > > The oddities are very glitchy sound (stop-

Re: [mythtv-users] ITX vs ATX for dual-DVB system

2005-10-09 Thread Stutty
I originally went this route, but I'll never be completely satisfied until it is completely silent, and it isn't there yet (The 3.5" HD hums just too loud). I've have finally decided to bite the bullit and built a server in my loft. This solves all sorts of problems (loads of space for disks, loads

Re: [mythtv-users] ITX vs ATX for dual-DVB system

2005-10-10 Thread Stutty
On 10/10/05, Jules Bean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In principle, given enough memory the livetv could be without hard disk, > couldn't it? Just put the ringbuffer on a tmpfs filesystem? (How big is > the ringbuffer) And then sort out the ACPI stuff so it can turn off the > disks. Which hard disk

[mythtv-users] [PATCH]MythMusic case sensitive & leading "The"

2005-02-15 Thread Stutty
Someone produced a patch to ensure that the artists are sorted regardless of case and ignoring any leading "The", which I found really useful - Hate having all my music archived under the "T" section! Anyway in case anyone else prefers this format, I've re-attached the patch, thanks to the origina

Re: [mythtv-users] Importing CDs

2005-02-23 Thread Stutty
This has always been broken for me, I have to use TAB to move off the radio buttons - keep meaning to map one of my remote buttons to TAB, but never got round to it. Paul On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 11:28:14 -0600, Jason Kraftcheck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Minh Duong wrote: > > Okay this might seem

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Long pause when launching mythfrontend

2005-09-05 Thread Stutty
On 8/26/05, Greg Grotsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Has anyone had this issue, or know how to fix it?  It's definetly aproblem in mythmusic because I can build and install mythpluginswithout mythmusic and the frontend loads very quickly, if I build andinstall it with mythmusic, then it pauses for 2

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Long pause when launching mythfrontend

2005-09-05 Thread Stutty
On 9/6/05, Greg Grotsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Paul, thanks for the response. I tried out cdrecord --scanbus, it completes > right away and it finds both my hard drives (SATA) but there are no CD > drives. If I point it specifically at my cddrive (/dev/hda) it also > completes immediatel

Re: [mythtv-users] Automatic downloading of album art

2005-09-15 Thread Stutty
On 9/15/05, Kevin Kuphal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Pete Clarke wrote: > > >Hi all, > > > >Does Myth support automatic downloading of album artwork for entries in > >MythMusic or do I have to provide the artwork seperately? > >I know that it can/will retrieve track listings etc. for ripped CD's,

Re: [mythtv-users] Automatic downloading of album art

2005-09-17 Thread Stutty
On 9/15/05, Brandon Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 11:47:19PM +0100, Stutty wrote: > > I use this perl script and patch to automatically grab the cover art > > from amazon.co.uk, post CD rip. Resent to list (not just brandon): (curse on gmai

Re: [mythtv-users] Current state of a HushPC frontend?

2005-05-09 Thread Stutty
I'm currently using a Hush PC (the smaller one - not extended) with EPIA MII 12K, and a PVR 350, and have no issues with overheating. I'm using the EPIA's TV-Out, which have to say is not a clear as that of the PVR350, but then I'm not using the NoScale patches as I'm only using the released Unich

Re: [mythtv-users] Hard disk access

2005-12-11 Thread Stutty
Is the Myth transcoding daemon running: process - 'mtd' ? Paul ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

Re: [mythtv-users] High mythtv CPU usage on EPIA SP8000

2006-01-05 Thread Stutty
Just to add that I am also using this board (but as backend only - PCI DVB card) and am seeing mythbackend CPU load sometimes being sustained at over 30% whilst recording programs. However most of the time it stays around the Myth 0.18.1 levels of 2-5%. Have not had time to look into it unfortunat

Re: [mythtv-users] List of vendors that sell Myth boxes

2006-01-15 Thread Stutty
On 1/15/06, David Whyte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > An Australian company started to sell them. www.d1.com.au is the URL, > though I haven't been in a while. > > Whytey > Cheeky sods, from their website: "Issue 6: I want to build my own media centre based on my own hardware. Can I buy the Home

Re: [mythtv-users] Problems with detecting duplicate recordings due to subtle detail changes

2006-01-16 Thread Stutty
On 1/16/06, Tom Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I've patched tv_grab_uk_rt to remove the episode number from the > >> subtitle and output them as proper episode numbers in the XML instead > >> which resolves these problems (though there are others with the > >> Radio Times data). > The patch

Re: [mythtv-users] UK Listings

2005-01-14 Thread Stutty
Does this show up on the web interface? Seems fine on mine, tv_grab_uk_rt grabbed from CVS around about Oct 2004, Myth TV CVS around the same time. Anyway, thanks for making me check, spotted "Near Dark" was on Sunday 23rd - been trying to catch that for a while now! Paul On Fri, 14 Jan 2005

[mythtv-users] [UTILS] Download Album Cover Art

2005-02-06 Thread Stutty
Hi, Been playing with the Amazon Web Services API, and wrote a couple of functions to enhance MythMusic as a couple of learn-in projects. So no guarantees I'm afraid, but I like having all the album art, thought others might too. *The first utility goes through every album in the MythMusic databa

Re: [mythtv-users] [UTILS] Download Album Cover Art

2005-02-07 Thread Stutty
Hi, I said no guarantees! It should be saving the file "folder_large.jpg" directly into your music folders, e.g.: /myth_media/music/Artist_Name/Album_Name/folder_large.jpg I assume php isn't throughing up loads of warnings, so permissions must be right & directories must exist. To check: next

Re: [mythtv-users] Script to check for POP3 mail and display From and Subject via mythtvosd

2005-02-09 Thread Stutty
I don't use Myth News but, gmail does support atom feeds, I've not managed to get it to work with bloglines but if you get a URL along the lines of: https://username:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/gmail/feed/atom In your browser or with wget, it will display the content of your Inbox as an XML feed. Worth a

Re: [mythtv-users] Is MythTV so slow?

2005-01-13 Thread stutty forums
I found that myth runs cdrecord -scanbus on startup which on my systems took a good few seconds, you might want to disable this or do a little hacking if your system setup never changes. e.g. see: http://www.salts.plus.com/blog/mythbox/2004/09/mythfrontend-quickstart.html Paul On Wed, 12 Jan