[mythtv-users] Missing DVB channel scan for ASTC Air2PC cards

2005-04-18 Thread Trey Boudreau
Howdy all, I've spent some time recently trying to bring up a pair of Air2PC cards without much luck. Turning on some verbose debugging yields this: Starting up as the master server. 2005-04-18 22:31:22.751 New DB connection, total: 2 2005-04-18 22:31:22.755 SIParser: About to do a reset 2005-04

Re: [mythtv-users] Missing DVB channel scan for ASTC Air2PC cards

2005-04-19 Thread Trey Boudreau
On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 11:04:26AM +0100, John Pullan wrote: > > On 4/19/05, Trey Boudreau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Prior to 0.18, it seems that the recommended action involved scanning > > for the channels in mythtv-setup. Unfortunately, CVS (as of

[mythtv-users] DVB channel won't scan [Was: Missing DVB channel scan for ASTC Air2PC cards]

2005-04-22 Thread Trey Boudreau
On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 05:39:27PM -0500, Aran Cox wrote: > > However, when I upgraded to 0.18 I nuked my channel information with > the intention of re-scanning. But I didn't have the scan option any > more! I was sure configure had reported dvb yes, just like it had > previously. I ended up d

Re: [mythtv-users] VGA to Component adaptors

2005-04-26 Thread Trey Boudreau
On Tue, Apr 26, 2005 at 04:42:00PM -0400, Tom Dombrosky wrote: > > > Ah yes, forgot about that one. I may just end up getting an nvidia > > 6200GT card with component out. > > > > Tom > > I'm pretty sure the component out is not working yet in linux. I > "could" be wrong though. > I don't thin

Re: [mythtv-users] DVB Channel setup

2005-04-26 Thread Trey Boudreau
On Tue, Apr 26, 2005 at 08:09:07PM -0400, Kyle Rose wrote: > > > If I go into Advance --> DVB Transport Editor, I get all the Transport > > freqs but I don't know which channel they are for and don't know how > > to set it manual. Even if I set it up manual, will Zap2it still push > > old channel

Re: [mythtv-users] SATA Drive Failure

2005-06-24 Thread Trey Boudreau
On Fri, Jun 24, 2005 at 07:54:06PM -0700, Kelly wrote: > > Think I've found a source of my constant crashing. I have a Maxtor > SATA 250GB drive. I started poking around google and came up with the > hdparm test. I ran it and got > > Timing cached reads: 816 MB in 2.01 seconds > > A respecta

Re: [mythtv-users] SATA Drive Failure

2005-06-25 Thread Trey Boudreau
On Sat, Jun 25, 2005 at 12:06:14PM +0100, Allan Stirling wrote: > > Here's the results from my array, which is a 8 disk RAID5, spread over 2 > SATA controllers on a PCI-X dual Xeon (yes, I believe overkill _is_ just > a word): > Sweet setup. I don't believe you've reached overkill yet ;-) > h

Re: [mythtv-users] Mozilla/Firefox search plugin for MythTV Mailing Lists now available

2005-10-17 Thread Trey Boudreau
On Sun, Oct 16, 2005 at 10:23:09PM -0400, Michael T. Dean wrote: > > I got tired of going to the Gossamer Threads MythTV page ( > http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv ) every time I wanted to > search the mailing list archives, so I created a Mozilla/Firefox > (Mycroft) search plugin fo

Re: [mythtv-users] Capturing legacy VHS tapes

2005-10-19 Thread Trey Boudreau
On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 03:10:21PM -0200, Manuel Lemos wrote: > > Right, I know that MythTV was made mainly to record scheduled programs. > It seems superb for that purpose although it is not my main interest > right now. > > The page with Linux drivers of this card recommends MythTV, but what

Re: [mythtv-users] Is gentoo the way to go?

2005-11-03 Thread Trey Boudreau
On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 10:26:17AM -0500, Myth Lists wrote: > > A little bit of time? Don't you mean alot of time compiling? I have > tried Gentoo and the compiling of *everything* takes forever. I have > yet to find a pre-compiled install that at least gets me going with the > basic xwindows

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Is gentoo the way to go?

2005-11-03 Thread Trey Boudreau
On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 10:36:11AM -0500, Michael T. Dean wrote: > > Mike Frisch wrote: > > >The whole 'advantage' of Gentoo is being able to customize it to your > >system, > > > I thought it was "bragging rights." > Gentoo (portage, really) makes it easy to put only what you need on a particul

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Is gentoo the way to go?

2005-11-03 Thread Trey Boudreau
On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 11:55:48AM -0500, Mike Frisch wrote: > On Thu, November 3, 2005 10:50 am, Trey Boudreau said: > > I really like my gentoo setup (I have five systems, currently), but then > > I've managed UN*X boxen since 1991. A distcc-enabled portage chews > &

Re: [mythtv-users] Re:Is gentoo the way to go?

2005-11-04 Thread Trey Boudreau
On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 08:00:22AM -0500, Bryan Halter wrote: > > I have 3 Gentoo boxen and wondered the same thing. I've taken the > approach of sharing the tree over NFS. This doesn't give me the cache > updates so searches take forever on the remote boxes but I can do updates. > My boxes sh

Re: [mythtv-users] Mac Mini Frontend - HDTV Capable?

2005-04-28 Thread Trey Boudreau
On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 10:42:45AM -0400, Jeff Simpson wrote: > > "All it would take is for their video hardware to support HD size > MPEG2 acceleration". That's like saying "All it would take is to have > the processor speed become irrelevant, and it would work". If you read > the rest of my post

Re: [mythtv-users] VGA to Component adaptors

2005-04-28 Thread Trey Boudreau
On Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 12:20:22PM -0500, Jonathan Watmough wrote: > > On 4/28/05, Tom Dombrosky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > I don't think the Linux drivers (up to 7174, at least) support Xv *or* > > > XvMC for the NV43-based cards. I tried with a 6600GT. I couldn't get > > > usa

Re: [mythtv-users] record in HD, but watch in analog ?

2005-05-09 Thread Trey Boudreau
On Mon, May 09, 2005 at 03:24:38PM -0400, David George wrote: > > On 5/9/2005 3:19 PM, Mudit Wahal wrote: > > >I'm building a backend where I'm going to put one HD3000 card. My > >frontend is still up in the air (several variables). In the meantime, > >I still want to connect a basic frontend wit

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

2006-01-09 Thread Trey Boudreau
On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 12:26:18PM -0800, Yeechang Lee wrote: > James C. Dastrup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> says: > > 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? > > People generally consider 3Ware's 7xxx (ATA) and 8xx

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

2006-01-09 Thread Trey Boudreau
On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 07:42:28PM -0500, Steve Adeff wrote: > On Monday 09 January 2006 17:36, Trey Boudreau wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 12:26:18PM -0800, Yeechang Lee wrote: > > > James C. Dastrup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> says: > > > > Is anyone aware of

Re: [mythtv-users] Revised MythTV Subversion ebuilds for Gentoo available

2006-01-11 Thread Trey Boudreau
On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 01:46:28PM -0500, Preston Crow wrote: > On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 10:43 -0800, Scott Alfter wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Chad wrote: > > > On 1/10/06, Scott Alfter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> The MythTV Subversion ebuild I obtained

Re: [mythtv-users] Performance from a different perspective

2006-01-22 Thread Trey Boudreau
On Sun, Jan 22, 2006 at 05:42:50PM -0700, Brian Wood wrote: > > Nobody ever complained about having too much CPU, or RAM, I'd go for > the best I could afford. > Sometimes "all the CPU you can afford" choice gets you into the "more fan noise than you can stand" configuration. As to RAM, you'd d

Re: [mythtv-users] Performance from a different perspective

2006-01-22 Thread Trey Boudreau
On Sun, Jan 22, 2006 at 06:32:27PM -0700, Brian Wood wrote: > On Jan 22, 2006, at 6:03 PM, Trey Boudreau wrote: > > > > As to RAM, you'd do well to follow my First Law of Computing: > > > > Thou shalt not swap. > > Perhaps, but if you find yourself with unu

Re: [mythtv-users] Sports events, LiveTV or Watch Recording?

2006-01-27 Thread Trey Boudreau
On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 11:54:01AM -0700, Greg Woods wrote: > Some sports, such as baseball and football, lend themselves to using > the time stretch as well. With a time stretch of about 1.2 and fast > forwarding through all the ads and halftime, I can watch a football > game that takes about 3 1/

[mythtv-users] How do I remove a video source?

2005-01-10 Thread Trey Boudreau
Howdy all, I've made a mistake and have a duplicate video source defined. I'd like to remove it, but I didn't find any way to do so from within setup or mythfrontend. Google'n for "MythTV remove video source" or "delete video source" didn't turn up anything. The online documentation only tells

Re: [mythtv-users] Air2pc / Air2LAN

2005-02-01 Thread Trey Boudreau
On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 12:26:28PM -0800, Joe Barnhart wrote: > > --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > http://mythic.tv/product_info.php?products_id=33 > > > > > > > Hummm. > > I cant find it on the first reference, and on the 2nd I get into an > > endless loop while trying to pay for it with a

Re: [mythtv-users] Air2pc / Air2LAN

2005-02-09 Thread Trey Boudreau
On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 04:37:30PM -0600, Trey Boudreau wrote: > > I ordered two Air2PC cards from them this morning and paid via PayPal. > The confirmation emails came promptly enough. We'll see about the > cards. > The cards arrived Feb 09. I asked after I ordered if I cou

Re: [mythtv-users] Air2PC vs. pcHDTV HD-3000? getting into HDTV.

2005-02-10 Thread Trey Boudreau
On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 10:32:14AM -0800, Brad Templeton wrote: > > In your case, can the card be used to receive signals from a > transmitter in another state? Perhaps in Hawai`i or Alaska you could safely > claim otherwise, but not in the 48. > Heh. I bet we could find a place or two in centr

Re: [mythtv-users] Air2pc / Air2LAN

2005-02-10 Thread Trey Boudreau
On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 02:11:39PM -0500, Magnus Meinfretr wrote: > > On Tue, 1 Feb 2005 14:47:31 -0600, Lane Schwartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > - In the future, it will be able to record multiple HDTV channels at once > > Source? I'm having trouble confirming this. Trying to decide how