Re: [ubuntu-uk] MythTV

2009-11-24 Thread Norman Silverstone
< snip > > Sounds like either the mythbackend has started up and been unable to use the > capture cards, or something weird has happened with the backend. > > Give mythbackend a restart and try again, if that does work try clearing out > your capture cards and re-add them to the video source,

Re: [ubuntu-uk] MythTV

2009-11-24 Thread Andrew Williams
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 04:39:00PM +, Norman Silverstone wrote: > When I try to run a TV programme I get an error message:- 'MythTV is > using all inputs, but there are no active recordings?' I cannot recall > ever seeing this message before I changed to Ubuntu 9.10 and I would be > grateful if

Re: [ubuntu-uk] MythTV

2009-11-23 Thread Neil Perry
Have you ran mythtv backend setup to double check the inputs are all correct? If something never works, try re-configuring. Neil Perry 2009/11/23 Norman Silverstone > When I try to run a TV programme I get an error message:- 'MythTV is > using all inputs, but there are no active recordings?' I

[ubuntu-uk] MythTV

2009-11-23 Thread Norman Silverstone
When I try to run a TV programme I get an error message:- 'MythTV is using all inputs, but there are no active recordings?' I cannot recall ever seeing this message before I changed to Ubuntu 9.10 and I would be grateful if someone could suggest a solution. I have looked on Google but do not unders

Re: [ubuntu-uk] mythtv

2009-08-23 Thread Norman Silverstone
< snip > > > Last time I played with setting MythTV up, I purged all the packages, > and re-installed all the MythTV stuff. I followed a guide I found > on-line, and configured it to use the transmitted guide instead of the > Radio Times. It worked much better this time. The previous time, I had

Re: [ubuntu-uk] mythtv

2009-08-22 Thread Philip Stubbs
2009/8/22 Rob Beard : > Norman Silverstone wrote: >> >> Thanks for the pointer to the MythTV mailing list I will follow it up. >> Incidentally, the changes to my local transmitter has meant that >> digiboxes etc have also had to be re-set. >> >> Norman >> > No problem, I haven't used MythTV in a wh

Re: [ubuntu-uk] mythtv

2009-08-22 Thread Rob Beard
Norman Silverstone wrote: > > Thanks for the pointer to the MythTV mailing list I will follow it up. > Incidentally, the changes to my local transmitter has meant that > digiboxes etc have also had to be re-set. > > Norman > No problem, I haven't used MythTV in a while since the PC it was runnin

Re: [ubuntu-uk] mythtv

2009-08-22 Thread Norman Silverstone
> > Television in my area has now become digital only and MythTV needs to be > > re-set to the new transmission. When I try to access the setup from > > Administration -> MythTV Backend Setup the process starts by asking for > > any mythbackend processes to be closed. I click OK, enter my password

Re: [ubuntu-uk] mythtv

2009-08-22 Thread Rob Beard
Norman Silverstone wrote: > Television in my area has now become digital only and MythTV needs to be > re-set to the new transmission. When I try to access the setup from > Administration -> MythTV Backend Setup the process starts by asking for > any mythbackend processes to be closed. I click OK,

[ubuntu-uk] mythtv

2009-08-22 Thread Norman Silverstone
Television in my area has now become digital only and MythTV needs to be re-set to the new transmission. When I try to access the setup from Administration -> MythTV Backend Setup the process starts by asking for any mythbackend processes to be closed. I click OK, enter my password, the closing pro

Re: [ubuntu-uk] mythtv

2009-05-28 Thread Tony Travis
norman wrote: > Thank you Mark and thank you Tony for both your patience and advice. I > followed the instructions and the magic worked. Hello, Norman. I'm glad that we were able to help :-) Bye, Tony. -- Dr. A.J.Travis, University of Aberdeen, Rowett Institute of Nutrition and Health, Gree

Re: [ubuntu-uk] mythtv

2009-05-28 Thread norman
Thank you Mark and thank you Tony for both your patience and advice. I followed the instructions and the magic worked. Norman -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] mythtv

2009-05-28 Thread norman
> > [...] > > I find it easier in cases like this to simply rename 70-persistant-cd.rules > > as > > 70-persistant-cd.rules~ and reboot, Ubuntu will create a new set of rules > > when > > it discovers the file missing. > > Hello, Mark. > > Good advice - I should have thought of suggesting that

Re: [ubuntu-uk] mythtv

2009-05-28 Thread Mark Fraser
On Thursday 28 May 2009 12:03:16 norman wrote: > > > [...] > > > I find it easier in cases like this to simply rename > > > 70-persistant-cd.rules as 70-persistant-cd.rules~ and reboot, Ubuntu > > > will create a new set of rules when it discovers the file missing. > > > > Hello, Mark. > > > > Good

Re: [ubuntu-uk] mythtv

2009-05-28 Thread norman
> > [...] > > I find it easier in cases like this to simply rename 70-persistant-cd.rules > > as > > 70-persistant-cd.rules~ and reboot, Ubuntu will create a new set of rules > > when > > it discovers the file missing. > > Hello, Mark. > > Good advice - I should have thought of suggesting that

Re: [ubuntu-uk] mythtv

2009-05-28 Thread Tony Travis
Mark Fraser wrote: > [...] > I find it easier in cases like this to simply rename 70-persistant-cd.rules as > 70-persistant-cd.rules~ and reboot, Ubuntu will create a new set of rules when > it discovers the file missing. Hello, Mark. Good advice - I should have thought of suggesting that, becaus

Re: [ubuntu-uk] mythtv

2009-05-27 Thread Mark Fraser
On Wednesday 27 May 2009 21:53:16 Tony Travis wrote: > norman wrote: > >>> [...] > > > > I suppose it would help if I understood what it was all about. Forgive > > me but I am not very bright about these things. However, let's assume > > that something has changed but the software I am using doesn'

Re: [ubuntu-uk] mythtv

2009-05-27 Thread Tony Travis
norman wrote: >>> [...] > I suppose it would help if I understood what it was all about. Forgive > me but I am not very bright about these things. However, let's assume > that something has changed but the software I am using doesn't know that > and, therefore, is still looking for the old /dev/dvd

Re: [ubuntu-uk] mythtv

2009-05-27 Thread norman
> > > > On the face of it you must be correct. I have been reading to find a > > solution and opened a terminal and tried ls -l /dev/dvd. There was no > > response so I tried with /dev/dvd1 with the following result:- > > > > nor...@gruber:~$ ls -l /dev/dvd1 > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 2009-05-

Re: [ubuntu-uk] mythtv

2009-05-27 Thread Tony Travis
norman wrote: what happens if you try to PLAY a DVD? >>> It plays, no problem. >> Surely then the device must exist? > > On the face of it you must be correct. I have been reading to find a > solution and opened a terminal and tried ls -l /dev/dvd. There was no > response so I tried with /dev

Re: [ubuntu-uk] mythtv

2009-05-27 Thread James Milligan
From my limited knowledge as well, the lwrx business is the permissions for that drive. I think that that string means you have full permissions. Sorry if I'm wrong lol James On 27 May 2009, at 20:04, norman wrote: > what happens if you try to PLAY a DVD? >>> >>> It plays, no problem

Re: [ubuntu-uk] mythtv

2009-05-27 Thread norman
> >> what happens if you try to PLAY a DVD? > > > > It plays, no problem. > > Surely then the device must exist? On the face of it you must be correct. I have been reading to find a solution and opened a terminal and tried ls -l /dev/dvd. There was no response so I tried with /dev/dvd1 with the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] mythtv

2009-05-27 Thread Rob Beard
Sean Miller wrote: > On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 5:32 PM, norman wrote: > >>> what happens if you try to PLAY a DVD? >>> >> It plays, no problem. >> > > Surely then the device must exist? > > Sean > Does normal DVD burning work (for instance in K3B or Brasero) work okay? I take it y

Re: [ubuntu-uk] mythtv

2009-05-27 Thread Sean Miller
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 5:32 PM, norman wrote: >> what happens if you try to PLAY a DVD? > > It plays, no problem. Surely then the device must exist? Sean -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] mythtv

2009-05-27 Thread norman
> could it be duff media? I don't think so. > > what happens if you try to PLAY a DVD? It plays, no problem. > Norman -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] mythtv

2009-05-27 Thread Sean Miller
could it be duff media? what happens if you try to PLAY a DVD? Sean -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] mythtv

2009-05-27 Thread norman
> > I have just tried to make a DVD recording for the first time in about a > > year and have hit a snag and I wonder if someone could give me a hint or > > two, please. The recording process gives up near the end with an error > > message saying it cannot find /dev/dvd and, on checking, there is

Re: [ubuntu-uk] mythtv

2009-05-27 Thread Rob Beard
norman wrote: > I have just tried to make a DVD recording for the first time in about a > year and have hit a snag and I wonder if someone could give me a hint or > two, please. The recording process gives up near the end with an error > message saying it cannot find /dev/dvd and, on checking, ther

[ubuntu-uk] mythtv

2009-05-27 Thread norman
I have just tried to make a DVD recording for the first time in about a year and have hit a snag and I wonder if someone could give me a hint or two, please. The recording process gives up near the end with an error message saying it cannot find /dev/dvd and, on checking, there is no such directory

[ubuntu-uk] Mythtv- adding my media files!

2007-11-30 Thread Javad Ayaz
Hi, Im trying to add a movie to my mythtv setup but how do i find out the location of the file. For example right clicking and properties on my media tells me: /media/sdb1/Pictures yet when i put this in my myth location finding thingy nothing comes up! sorry for being vague!!! :) -- ubuntu-u

Re: [ubuntu-uk] mythtv

2007-10-22 Thread LeeGroups
> For some time now I have been getting undue hard drive activity at half > hourly intervals whether my computer is in use or just ticking over. I > believe that this is due to some search or other carried out by mythtv > and stops when the mythtv-backend is closed down. In the backend setup > 'It

[ubuntu-uk] mythtv

2007-10-22 Thread norman
For some time now I have been getting undue hard drive activity at half hourly intervals whether my computer is in use or just ticking over. I believe that this is due to some search or other carried out by mythtv and stops when the mythtv-backend is closed down. In the backend setup 'Item 3, Video

Re: [ubuntu-uk] MythTV Hardware

2007-09-27 Thread Anders Jacobsen
Darren check out the following websites: http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php/Video http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2176025602905109829&hl=en http://fiire.com/ Kind regards, Anders On 9/27/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello all, > > I've consulted the MythTV wiki an

[ubuntu-uk] MythTV Hardware

2007-09-27 Thread Darren.Mansell
Hello all, I've consulted the MythTV wiki and got some ideas but I was wondering if anyone else had any experience with getting a MythTV 'house' set up. I'm going to be moving very soon and I've got a 50" Samsung plasma planned with a MythTV front end set-top-box type PC connected to it. Then I

Re: [ubuntu-uk] MythTV with Nova-T 500 Dual card [was: Dells with Ubuntu]

2007-05-31 Thread Eamonn Sullivan
On 5/31/07, Pete Ryland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 31/05/07, Eamonn Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 5/30/07, Pete Ryland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > contains a Hauppauge Nova-T 500 Dual card which is not 100% working in > > > Linux yet. > > > > Interesting point. I was looking

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Mythtv installation help?

2006-10-25 Thread STONE COLD
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: British Ubuntu Talk >To: ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com >Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Mythtv installation help? >Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 20:13:46 +0200 > >STONE COLD wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Now that i have tvtime working i thought it was maybe

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Mythtv installation help?

2006-10-24 Thread Michael Hoertnagl
STONE COLD wrote: > Hi, > > Now that i have tvtime working i thought it was maybe a good idea to move on > to Mythtv. > I have scouted the web and uunfortunately have been unable to find anything > that helps someone like me ( i have no knowledge of linux, ubuntu is my > first try at linux). >

[ubuntu-uk] Mythtv installation help?

2006-10-22 Thread STONE COLD
Hi, Now that i have tvtime working i thought it was maybe a good idea to move on to Mythtv. I have scouted the web and uunfortunately have been unable to find anything that helps someone like me ( i have no knowledge of linux, ubuntu is my first try at linux). Therefore can someone please help