[00:58] <levander> I'm running the Mythbuntu LiveCD.  I need to boot into safe graphics mode (because I'm only hooked up via TV out) and I need to use the noapic kernel option.  Anyone know how to do both?
[00:58] <levander> By pressing F6 I can edit the boot options and add noapic.
[00:58] <levander> By selecting "safe graphics mode" from Mythbuntu boot menu, I can boot into X with safe graphics mode.
[00:58] <levander> But, I don't know how to do both.
[01:00] <levander> Is there a kernel option to tell the kernel to boot into safe graphics mode?
[01:02] <Daviey> levander: not sure - try #ubuntu, it'll be the same
[01:02] <levander> I'm trying it, but those guys never know anything.
[01:03] <Daviey> heh
[01:03] <Daviey> I've never need both :(
[01:03] <Daviey> needed*
[01:03] <rhpot1991> I've never had help in there either
[01:04] <rhpot1991> there was some way to display boot options and modify the line by hand, might be able to try that
[01:05] <Daviey> could boot into console/recovery then edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf then change to vesa?
[01:05] <Daviey> AIUI safe graphics mode = vesa
[01:05] <rhpot1991> live cd though
[01:06] <Daviey> that way you could run noapic
[01:06] <Daviey> hope that helps!
[01:06] <rhpot1991> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BootOptions
[01:06] <Daviey> the other option would be to install ubuntu using the alternate cd, then convert to mythbuntu
[01:06] <levander> I just found out if you hit F6, you can use the up and down arrows to highlight a boot option from the menu.  Whichever boot option is highlighted, the kernel options are displayed on the screen.
[01:07] <Daviey> of course!  sily me
[01:07] <levander> It looks like the safe graphics mode menu item was using the cevesa boot option to boot into safe graphics mode.  I'm waiting now to see if it worked.
[01:07] <Daviey> doh.. /me didn't know cevesa existed!
[01:08] <Daviey> beats manually editing xorg.conf
[01:08] <levander> It worked!
[01:08] <Daviey> anyway, nn
[01:08] <Daviey> yah
[01:08] <levander> I never heard of cevesa either.
[01:08] <levander> No, the question is, since I have to pass some funky noapic kernel option to get this brand new motherboard to boot, do I live with it, or return the thing?
[01:09] <Daviey> hmm.. i had a mobo that needed it for livecd - but worked once installed..
[01:09] <Daviey> worth a try
[01:10] <Daviey> anyway, need sleep - ttfn
[01:44] <levander> Is there any easy way I can check to see if my sound card is working from within the LiveCD?  I haven't installed myth yet.
[03:11] <jamesd> i wonder why this distro hasn't including the patch to make the kworld 110 and 115 remote work...
[03:20] <morphios2> I have a question hope someone can answer me when scanning signal/noise should we get something more than 0?
[03:20] <jamesd> i do on my kworld 115 card...
[03:24] <morphios2> i can never get signal/noise other than 0 but i get the signal strenght part ok
[03:33] <jamesd> morphios2, what card are you using?
[03:36] <morphios2> nexus-s
[04:11] <hansoffate> hi
[04:11] <hansoffate> for some reaosn, my frontend/backend that i just built .... can't find the backend
[04:19] <hansoffate> anyone here?
[04:42] <Helvasca> hey
[04:47] <hansoffate> hi
[05:15] <Xenocide> hey guys i can't get my frontend to see my backend
[05:15] <Xenocide> it connects to database fine
[05:15] <Xenocide> but thats about it
[05:16] <Xenocide> any ideas?
[05:17] <Xenocide> superm1?
[05:36] <Xenocide> got it, no permissions on /var/lib/mythtv
[06:28] <kr00l> hello?
[06:37] <morphios2> ok what dvb card works well with mythtv ...i think nexus has its problems
[06:43] <foxbuntu> morphios2, dvb cards in general with linux right now arent great..
[06:56] <kr00l> hello?
[08:45] <Helvasca> hey
[12:41] <FallenHi1okiri> hi is lirc_serial working out of the box or do I have to compile it (modules) by myself?
[15:08] <Ethan> Hi everyone, on my ATI Radeon Xpress 200 video card (onboard), kaffeine plays DVB-S video smoothly (almost perfect), but mythtv is quite choppy, as if it werent using XV. How can I check if Myth is using XV and correct that if not?
[15:09] <Ethan> I'm using mythbuntu 7.10
[17:05] <Ethan> ok now i've found out that xine plays the video well, i'll try to use that as the video play command from myth
[17:06] <rhpot1991> I use xine for mythvideo
[17:06] <rhpot1991> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/MythVideo
[17:06] <rhpot1991> info there about setting it up
[17:08] <Ethan> i just put "xine -f %s" in the setup/setup/mediasettings/videosettings/playersettings field and it works much better already
[17:11] <Ethan> hm but still not as nice as in kaffeine... i wish i could see the parameters that kaffeine uses
[17:15] <Ethan> i still get only abaout 10-15fps
[17:21] <Ethan> and mythfrontend is only using 40$ cpu
[17:21] <Ethan> 40%
[17:27] <Ethan> whats the easiest way to sort and rename and weed-out the 50 channels i want, out of the 1000 that were detected?
[17:44] <rhpot1991> you could try something like xvmc ic you use nvidia to cut down that cpu
[17:45] <rhpot1991> 1000 channels seams like a lot, why so many?
[17:46] <rhpot1991> in mythtv-setup you can modify the channels I believe
[17:48] <Ethan> i'm not worried about cutting down the CPU, quite the opposite, i want it to use another 40% and give me better framerates... unfortunately not using nvidia (yet) so no xvmc... but like i said, kaffeine runs BEAUTIFULLY doing the exact same thing, all i need to do is make myth do it the same way :-)
[17:49] <Ethan> on the Astra 19.2E satellite, there are almost 1000 channels
[17:50] <Ethan> so the 20-30 i'm interested in are scattered in channel numbers between 5 and 60000 (dont ask me why... the mythtv scan doesnt work so i had to scan using dvb-apps and then import the channels.conf into myth)
[17:55] <CarlFK> ubuntu net install has a mythtv option, but errors with Jan  7 15:57:59 in-target: Couldn't find task mythbuntu-desktop
[17:56] <CarlFK> I am guessing there is a package, but it isn't spelled like that?
[17:56] <Ethan> AHA finally found something (i kinda expected) in the console: "videooutputXV: could not find suitable xvidoe surface, falling back to shared memory"
[18:01] <Ethan> that was using mplayer
[18:01] <rhpot1991> mythbuntu-desktop - The Mythbuntu standalone system
[18:01] <rhpot1991> did you apt-get update?
[18:01] <CarlFK> what is  mythbuntu-meta ? https://code.launchpad.net/~mythbuntu/mythbuntu/mythbuntu-meta
[18:02] <CarlFK> rhpot1991: I am in the alternate installer, so no.
[18:03] <CarlFK> no hits: http://packages.ubuntu.com/cgi-bin/search_packages.pl?keywords=mythbuntu-meta
[18:05] <rhpot1991> why are you looking for that?
[18:05] <CarlFK> to see if there there is really a mythbuntu-desktop.deb
[18:06] <directhex> http://packages.ubuntu.com/gutsy/metapackages/mythbuntu-desktop
[18:06] <rhpot1991> there is
[18:06] <directhex> believe it or not, to find mythbuntu-desktop, you have to search for mythbuntu-desktop
[18:07] <directhex> or do a SOURCE search for mythbuntu-meta
[18:07] <directhex> http://packages.ubuntu.com/gutsy/source/mythbuntu-meta
[18:10] <CarlFK> oh, sorry, should have mentioned: ubuntu *hardy* net install...
[18:10] <CarlFK> -desktop isn't in the hardy repos
[18:10] <CarlFK> but I somehow didn't find the gutsy one either.
[18:10] <Ethan> also, my video preview in the channel browser doenst work, i see the area where it should be in the top right, but instead there is a black area in the top left which is trying (but failing) to display the video
[18:11] <rhpot1991> CarlFK: just do the ubuntu install first, then install mythtv after you have a working system
[18:11] <rhpot1991> then you can update your sources and all
[18:11] <rhpot1991> though I can't promise that there isn't some dependency problem there
[18:12] <CarlFK> rhpot1991: ill file a bug report.  somone can either fix it or remove the option
[18:12] <rhpot1991> its on the gutsy repos, I checked my system when you nentioned it
[18:12] <CarlFK> right.  not in hardy
[18:12] <rhpot1991> its prob more of a discrepancy within apt right now cause hardy isn't stable yet
[18:13] <rhpot1991> while people are working on packages sometimes dependencies break
[18:13] <CarlFK> ack.  it is in hardy.
[18:14] <rhpot1991> if you install the base first then at least you can see why its failing
[18:17] <CarlFK> logs from the install  http://dev.personnelware.com/carl/temp/Jan07/b/log - syslog has:  in-target: Couldn't find task mythbuntu-desktop
[18:17] <CarlFK> ill do a nomall install
[18:17] <CarlFK> should I do desktop or just server?
[18:17] <rhpot1991> is this a mythbuntu cd or ubuntu?
[18:18] <rhpot1991> that seems like it might be something other than a package problem
[18:18] <rhpot1991> it normally says "package blah depends on package x so package blah cannot be installed"
[18:18] <CarlFK> net, so just the kernel and initrd.gz - the rest gets pulled from the repos
[18:18] <Ethan> does this in my Xorg.0.log already mean I can use XV and XVMC ?
[18:18] <Ethan> (II) Loading extension XVideo
[18:18] <Ethan> (II) Loading extension XVideo-MotionCompensation
[18:19] <Ethan> xvinfo says "no adaptors present"
[18:19] <rhpot1991> xvmc is only on nvidia
[18:19] <Ethan> great, so those lines mean nothing... aparently XV isnt working either :(
[18:20] <directhex> xv is broken on ati
[18:20] <directhex> in general
[18:20] <directhex> most things are
[18:20] <rhpot1991> ya I switched to nvidia when xv was 2/3 too large on my ati card
[18:20] <rhpot1991> 18 month old (then) bug that still wasn't fixed
[18:21] <rhpot1991> there were work arounds, but it required eating cpu and junk
[18:23] <CarlFK> Im doing just server.  I can add u-desktop on top of that if I need to
[18:33] <FallenHitokiri> hi i try to install mythbuntu on my system conected to a tv using a ati radeon 9000 (composite out) - after booting (no problems here) I get a message that my system is running in low graphics mode - I confirm and after that nothing happens. black screen, white cursor blinking in top left
[18:33] <FallenHitokiri> any ideas?
[18:35] <Ethan> when booting, pass a vga= parameter
[18:35] <Ethan> look that up in google to see some possible params
[18:35] <FallenHitokiri> Ethan: I'll try. thanks
[18:36] <Ethan> i'm no expert but thats what i'd try first... i think i had to do something similar
[18:40] <FallenHitokiri> hm. doesn't work :(
[18:41] <Ethan> aha, after installing the prop.ATI driver instead of the Ubuntu drivers, I have an XV capable display
[18:41] <Ethan> fallen: how far do you get when booting?
[18:42] <FallenHitokiri> Ethan: X-Server is starting and I get the message "running in low graphic option" I can configure my screen and test it -> works, after I press okay i get a black screen with the blinking cursor
[18:43] <Ethan> hmmm
[18:43] <Ethan> sorry no great idea just offhand
[18:43] <FallenHitokiri> no problem, thanks for your help
[18:44] <Ethan> sigh, with the ATI driver the myth menus are all messed up...
[18:49] <FallenHitokiri> safe grafic's work
[18:50] <FallenHitokiri> how much space should I use for /  with frontend and backend? (i want a separate data partition [lvm])
[18:51] <rhpot1991> Ethan: messed up how?
[18:52] <Ethan> mom
[18:59] <Ethan> hm after a few re-runs i guess it's cleared up... i had "random theme" enabled so it kept doing "prescaling images" every time... not a good idea when debugging :)
[19:04] <Ethan> wow okay now xv is working, even the scrolling text on NTV looks ok
[19:07] <Ethan> hm but now (since i rebooted) for some reason, sasc-ng isnt working anymore, it was running perfectly
[19:10] <CarlFK> rhpot1991:  "mythbuntu-desktop: Depends: mythbuntu-control-centre but it is not going to be installed"
[19:11] <CarlFK> want me to file a bug?
[19:12] <rhpot1991> dunno, not really up to me, I don't do anything with the packages
[19:12] <rhpot1991> what happens if you try to install MCC first?
[19:13] <rhpot1991> does it not exist or does it have a dependency issue?
[19:13] <rhpot1991> also why are you using hardy?
[19:13] <Ethan> ah okay it was just a keychange... i guess it was only by accident that it stopped working at the same time
[19:13] <CarlFK> rhpot1991: hardy - just testing things, like the installer
[19:14] <CarlFK> mythbuntu-control-centre: Depends: mythbuntu-common but it is not installable
[19:14] <CarlFK> E: Broken packages
[19:14] <CarlFK> E: Package mythbuntu-common has no installation candidate
[19:14] <directhex> there's no hardy mythbuntu stuff yet
[19:15] <directhex> mythbuntu preparedness will be stated on http://mythbuntu.org/ as and when
[19:15] <CarlFK> directhex so don't bother reporting this?
[19:15] <directhex> it's not going to be news for anyone involved
[19:17] <Ethan> how can i change the style of the OSD bar at the bottom?
[19:20] <Dr_willis> thats in the mytytv-setup themes setting i think.
[19:21] <Dr_willis> Hmm.. I dont recall a site with screenshots of all the different themes.. anyone seen one?
[19:21] <directhex> the official wiki?
[19:22] <Dr_willis> lets look.. i dont recall seeing one there.. but i aint been there in a few months
[19:22] <directhex> http://mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Category:Themes
[19:25] <Dr_willis> There we go. :) I tend to set up the themes i like... then leave them alone.  i forget the names of the ones i even use. Looks like its  Isthmus, and g.a.n.t
[19:26] <Ethan> i know where to change the themes in general, but they all seem to use the same OSD bar at the screen bottom
[19:26] <Ethan> i always get the blue trapezoid with the red tab on top
[19:27] <Ethan> but the channel name never fits in right, and i'd like something transparent
[19:27] <directhex> Ethan, so change the OSC
[19:28] <directhex> OSD
[19:31] <Ethan> okay *searching menu structure for that point* :)
[19:34] <Daviey> CarlFK: if you want bleeding edge - use the weekly builds trunk repo
[19:35] <Ethan> ahaaaaa finally found it: setup/Setup/Tv settings/Playback/page 5 or so :-)
[19:38] <Dr_willis> I wonder how many pages of settings there are in  the setup tool.
[19:38] <Ethan> way too many... over 100 (maybe 200)
[19:39] <Ethan> one thing I might actually contribute after digging deep enough (only been using myth for 3 days now) is an intuitive menu structure
[19:43] <Ethan> i wish the TV stations would correctly label the audio tracks (language)...
[19:44] <Ethan> I always watch movies in english where available (but here in germany, the default adio track is alwaays german, and the others are not labelled at all)
[19:58] <Ethan> thanks guys, i love this OSD :)
[20:00] <Ethan> so... now all i need to do.. is configure remote and sort my channels
[20:46] <Ethan> now, if only i could get mythtv's channel scan to work... *sigh*
[20:49] <Dr_willis> I get "Scanning Channel" For all my channel Names. :(
[20:49] <Dr_willis> heh..
[20:49] <Dr_willis> wonder where to fix that at manually. I only got 60 channels.
[20:50] <rhpot1991> Dr_willis: do you use SD?
[20:53] <Dr_willis> I just use the normal SD tv signal from the cable. Yes.. channels 1-60
[20:53] <Dr_willis> Wife took the STB
[20:53] <Dr_willis> Plus all i watch is on the Low channels anyway. :) i dont need the stb
[20:57] <rhpot1991> well SD as in Schedules Direct
[20:58] <Dr_willis> OR SD card. :)
[20:58] <Dr_willis> i do use SchedulesDirect.
[20:59] <Dr_willis> I wasent using it for a while.. then tried it again yestarday.  some how my channels got out of order with them.. but they fixed that  :)
[20:59] <Dr_willis> I just dont have the proper names. or icons for the channels
[20:59] <Dr_willis> Which is a trivial annoyance.. but still annoying
[20:59] <rhpot1991> I had problems where it would randomly not get names for the channels, I fixed it by removing the channels/sources and readding till it worked (don't remember the correct combo)
[21:00] <rhpot1991> icons is another tough area
[21:00] <Dr_willis> Heh.. Yea. I am still  usingthe old listing - i havent tried removing them.
[21:00] <Dr_willis> I saw a bunch of shows i wanted to record this week.. so letting the box just record them for now.
[21:00] <rhpot1991> I messed with that for a while, both with trying to grab from the SD listings and with mastericon file
[21:01] <rhpot1991> can't tell you what I ended up doing to get them working, but I have almost all of them so I stopped messing
[21:01] <Dr_willis> got another bug where the video playbackis garbled. :) but aparently thats a ubuntu/nvidia issue i hear. I tend to watch the recordings on a diffrent machine. So its not a big issue either
[21:02] <Dr_willis> next step is to figure out how to auto-reencode the recordings and zap the comercials.
[21:02] <Dr_willis> But i think my days of watching videos at work are over.. :( they are rearanging the whole factory/boss's and so forth.
[21:04] <rhpot1991> I had a script that autoremoved the commercials
[21:04] <rhpot1991> problem was that a lot of times the commercial flags weren't 100% accurate
[21:05] <rhpot1991> Dr_willis: do you watch on a computer at work or something else?
[21:05] <rhpot1991> ipod/psp/etc
[21:06] <Dr_willis> yea - on a laptop.. i may have to go back to watching them on my GP2x  it can do xvid 320x240 res. :)
[21:06] <Dr_willis> Brother took my psp. :)
[21:07] <Dr_willis> Been looking at getting a smaller video player. but not seen any i like.
[21:07] <Dr_willis> Plus i watch a lot of anime with subtitles.. so i cant read them on a 2 inch screen
[21:10] <rhpot1991> what about ipod touch/
[21:16] <Dr_willis> I aint buying *&@&@# from apple. :)
[21:16] <rhpot1991> heh, why not?
[21:16] <Dr_willis> id rather get an Asus EEE for that kindof $$
[21:16] <Dr_willis> Apple can... well.. i wont go on...
[21:16] <Dr_willis> 100% mark up price for one..... :P
[21:22] <directhex> for a while the imac was good value
[21:22] <Dr_willis> Value and Apple. :) Heh heh.
[21:22] <rhpot1991> I love my ipod
[21:23] <rhpot1991> had an rca lyra before it
[21:23] <Dr_willis> That appletv, or mac mini. would be nice to have.. but i donthave the $$.
[21:23] <rhpot1991> thing was the size of a brick, and swelled up when it charged
[21:23] <Dr_willis> I dont even want/need a mp3 player. - Its just more noise to me. dont get me started on the RIAA either. hehheh.
[21:23] <Dr_willis> I do like my Van's Sirus radio. but the Free Year is almost up on it.
[21:24] <rhpot1991> I was saying the ipod touch cause thats wide screen, subs might be readable on it
[21:24] <rhpot1991> and chapter skipping can simulate commercial skipping (when I ever get it working)
[21:24] <Dr_willis> Yea.. well. the subtitles videos are not tv recordings.
[21:24] <Dr_willis> so no comercials in them.
[21:25] <Dr_willis> Cheapest way to do all this is just get a portable dvd player that can do divx i guess.
[21:25] <Dr_willis> They are getting decent in the cost/value/addons now a days
[21:27] <rhpot1991> just run mythtv on a small laptop
[21:27] <rhpot1991> with your videos in mythvideo
[21:27] <rhpot1991> or even any OS can play them
[21:28] <rhpot1991> might have a problem with the cost though
[21:28] <Dr_willis> Yep. thats why i was looking at the EEE. But  its all on hold for now. tilli see what Boss I have at work now. I dont want to get fired for watching videos at work.
[21:28] <Dr_willis> So for now - im recording/archiving my fave shows. Thas why i would like to auto-remove comercials/recncode to somting a bit smaller.
[21:29] <Dr_willis> but no hurry there either.. I got a 300gb hd for $40 - over the weekend . just for recordings
[21:29] <Ethan> oh man... now all of a sudden i have this problem mit Xorg using 100% CPU and everything very very slow (hitting arrow down, to go from one menu item to the next, takes 10 seconds (!!!)
[21:30] <rhpot1991> if you just go in and edit the commflags you can check  them then tell them to transcode
[21:30] <rhpot1991> isn't much work
[21:30] <rhpot1991> though if you have a lot of shows it may be
[21:30] <Dr_willis> Yea. it gets a bit confusing :) of course I really should set up this on a faster machine.
[21:30] <Dr_willis> gotta track down a howto on it.
[21:32] <Ethan> i think i've read about this problem somewhere but now i cant find it
[21:33] <rhpot1991> Ethan: give your ati card a hug
[21:34] <directhex> which theme are you using? switch to iulius and see if it fixes it
[21:36] <Ethan> okay i'll try that... i think it may have started when i turned opengl on somwhere deep in the myth setup menu
[21:36] <Ethan> man, it'll take me 15 minutes to get there at this rate :-(((
[21:37] <rhpot1991> I'd turn off opengl
[21:37] <rhpot1991> unless you are sure you have support for it
[21:37] <rhpot1991> especially if stuff was working well before you turned it on
[21:38] <directhex> it MIGHT be an opengl problem, if the theme you use has a bugged animated element
[21:39] <Ethan> after reading this (http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/293314) i'm pretty sure thats what the problem is, the fading in/out of mnenu text takes like a minute (no shit!)
[21:39] <rhpot1991> my understanding is that opengl just gets you animations going from menu to menu, functionality wise they are all the same
[21:40] <Ethan> any way i can turn off opengl manually, without going through the myth menus?
[21:42] <rhpot1991> its in the db somewhere
[21:43] <Dr_willis> i though gl was required for most of the themes? or is it just some features of the themes.
[21:43] <rhpot1991> don't ask me where though
[21:43] <Dr_willis> :0
[21:43] <rhpot1991> Dr_willis: opengl is off by default
[21:43] <Dr_willis> One of these days i need to learn more MythTV.
[21:43] <rhpot1991> Ethan: might be able to change it in mythweb if you have that setup
[21:43] <directhex> -O ThemePainter=Qt
[21:45] <rhpot1991> directhex that just applies for the current session right?  He would still need to go in and disable it for other sessions?
[21:45] <Ethan> you mean in http://mythtv/mythweb/settings/settings ? thats where i was just looking, but cant find "theme" or "paint"
[21:45] <Ethan> or "gl" for that matter
[21:46] <Ethan> aha, i have to select a host, not "global"... now i found it
[21:47] <Ethan> the theme is "titivillus" by the way
[21:47] <Ethan> Titivillus
[21:49] <Ethan> yaaaaaay that was the trick :-) changed the painter to "qt" and hit ctrl-alt-backspace and now my mythmenus are usable again :-D thanks!!!
[21:50] <Ethan> now, back to that transponder scan... i think i had just experienced a breakthrough when my girlfreind called...
[22:01] <Ethan> why do the theme images need to be prescaled EVERY TIME i start myth???
[22:03] <javatexan> so converting mpeg to h.264....mencoder or ffmpeg...is one better than the other?
[22:04] <Dr_willis> I need to learn todo that better javatexan  :) My videos i recoded looked like poo.
[22:05] <javatexan> lol....how do you tell them to do a h.264 mpeg file...it wants to do divx or something
[22:11] <Ethan> has anyone tried using phpmysql on the mythbackend yet, to edit the channel list?
[22:12] <Ethan> with over 1000 channels in the list after a scan, editing within myth or even the mythweb is pretty slow
[22:16] <directhex> i do that a fair bit
[22:16] <directhex> for channel icons, mostly
[22:22] <Ethan> coooool apt-get installed phpmyadmin, logged in, table channels.... *happy*
[22:23] <Ethan> at least i can bilk delete easier this way
[22:29] <Ethan> and make a backup of the channels list :)
[22:33] <lime4x4> which setting should i use for a mce remote model 1039
[22:33] <lime4x4> the bottom is black and the top is silver
[22:42] <rhpot1991> javatexan: h.264 is extremely slow in gutsy
[22:42] <rhpot1991> what are you encoding for your tv screen or some other device?
[22:43] <TazgodX> so how do i connect to samba on my mythbox in windows? anyone know?
[22:43] <rhpot1991> \\ip\sharename
[22:44] <rhpot1991> provided you have the share setup correctly
[22:44] <TazgodX> i connect with linux easily
[22:44] <rhpot1991> ip can be substituted for the computer name if windows can resolve it
[22:44] <javatexan> rhpot1991: yes for screen
[22:44] <TazgodX> what would sharename be tho?
[22:45] <javatexan> i don't want to lose a whole lot of quality,
[22:45] <directhex> TazgodX, whatever you set your share up as
[22:45] <TazgodX> got it
[22:45] <TazgodX> thanks
[22:45] <directhex> also, if you want name resolution, ensure windows and samba are in the same workgroup
[22:45] <TazgodX> yeah i got that set up
[22:46] <javatexan> these are mpeg2 files f
[22:46] <javatexan> is there a better way to go...I am only going to watch these in mythtv
[22:46] <javatexan> I am really just trying to get some of the hd back
[22:48] <javatexan> the h.264 I was using on windows was dropping the sizes pretty far..
[22:49] <rhpot1991> I think mythtv can transcode to xvid, poke around at that cause you can set up a transcode to happen automagically
[22:50] <TazgodX> i never got mythtv to transcode to work
[22:50] <rhpot1991> other than that I use ffmpeg to do mpeg4/xvid/h.264 ipod encodes fairly reliably, something like that can be setup to run in a user job automagically too
[22:50] <rhpot1991> strange, I thought transcode worked out of the box
[22:51] <javatexan> even from just a folder...I am hoping to transcode the mpeg2 and move it into the mythtv video folder
[22:51] <rhpot1991> I'll look at transcoding on my box, I know I've done lossless mpeg2
[22:51] <rhpot1991> I gotta run, I'll hop on here later tonight
[22:52] <javatexan> well lossless mpeg2 are big files....I would like to move them to mpeg4 or avi to save HD
[22:54] <directhex> avi is a container, not a codec
[22:54] <directhex> put pcm wav and rgb video into an avi container, and you're looking at some fairly chunky file sizes
[22:54] <TazgodX> divx and XviD are main codecs for avi files
[22:55] <directhex> divx and xvid are mpeg4 part 2 codecs which have some popularity in the pirate video scene
[22:55] <TazgodX> use them with VBR MP3 and you get decently small
[22:56] <TazgodX> is that the only use? pirate video scene? is that why there are DivX support being added to DVD players?
[22:56] <TazgodX> couldn't be because its a good backup codec could it?
[22:56] <directhex> largely
[22:59] <TazgodX> i personally back up most of my movies in XviD, because it is a nice codec, and mythtv can play them
[22:59] <directhex> part 2 codecs aren't space-efficient compared to part 10, but there's an enormous volume of content available using them. not things people make themselves - imovie uses part 10, windows movie creator uses vc-1
[22:59] <directhex> so it's not things people make themselves, and it's not stuff they buy (since that's drm'd vc-1)
[22:59] <directhex> so that leaves a pretty small pool of content
[23:01] <flami> humm , even though I think Im a bit wrong here .... Im trying to find out what kernel module i should compile for lirc , none of the drivers in ./configure seem to be right one ... I have this http://lirc.sourceforge.net/remotes/pinnacle_systems/PCTV_USB_STICK remote .
[23:01] <directhex> flami, the module isn't related to the remote, it's related to the receiver
[23:02] <flami> yes
[23:02] <flami> well its easy
[23:02] <flami> my reciever is the PCTV_USB:STICK
[23:02] <flami> and i cant find that in the ./configure
[23:02] <directhex> flami, plugged into what?
[23:02] <flami> USB ^^
[23:03] <directhex> usb tuner, or usb ir receiver?
[23:04] <flami> usb tuner ( for dvbt )
[23:04] <directhex> i2c.
[23:06] <flami> what you eman with i2c ? :P
[23:06] <flami> mean........ ^
[23:06] <directhex> i mean configure lirc to use an i2c receiver
[23:08] <lime4x4> Do u still have to go thru the whole process of downloading the lirc module for the mce remote that uses the lirc_mceusb2 module? Running the latest mythbuntu with all updates
[23:09] <flami> <--- debian  /hides
[23:26] <The_Rebel> yo
[23:38] <Xenocide> hey guys is anyone able to help me with a remote wonder II?
[23:47] <Xenocide> no one?
[23:53] <Xenocide> r487ff28