I would like to announce the start of a new asterisk user group here in Kansas City. Right now it's primarly just a mailing list, but if there is enough interest we will probably start doing meetings and the like. You can find information about the group at http://www.kcaug.net/. If you are completely unfamilier with Asterisk here's a snippet from asterisk.org:
Asterisk is a complete PBX in software. It runs on Linux, BSD and MacOSX and provides all of the features you would expect from a PBX and more. Asterisk does voice over IP in many protocols, and can interoperate with almost all standards-based telephony equipment using relatively inexpensive hardware. Features
Asterisk provides Voicemail services with Directory, Call Conferencing, Interactive Voice Response and Call Queuing. It has support for three-way calling, caller ID services, ADSI, SIP and H.323 (as both client and gateway). Check the Features section for a more complete list.
Go ahead and sign up on the list if you are at all in running asterisk at home or where you work!
Thanks, Kyle
So I have an AverTV Stereo TV Tuner card (the bttv driver works fine for it). It is sitting inside: Debian 3.1_r2, PIII-600Mhz, 256MB RAM, 8MB nVidia TNT2 M64. 17" NEC MultiSync E700. I want to *watch* TV, I have no interest in using this setup to *record* TV.
I have xawtv installed (I've tried tvtime too) and I'd like to get a fullscreen which gives me the largest possible TV picture. I'm trying to replace an old 13" TV which has a fading picture, and I thought "gee, why spend money when you have all this computer equipment lying around?"
The problem is that the TV picture on the 17" monitor is coming in at about 10" diagonally, which is one inch diagonally smaller than the approx 11" diagonal picture size on the 13" TV. While it is neat to have a PC set up to be the TV, radio, and jukebox (and once I get HelixPlayer running, a streaming video player too), I was hoping for a picture a couple diagonal inches longer than the old TV.
I've been googling for about an hour and all I can come up with is "xawtv config files for PVRs" without an explanation of what the changes do, and people who have asked the same question I'm asking, without getting a response.
Has anyone else had a similar problem and been able to make their TV application give you a real fullscreen? I'm getting tired of the 2" black border around the "fullscreen" TV picture.
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1. Don't hijack threads!!!! If you want to start a new topic about TVs, start a new topic; don't reply to a KCAUG announcement!
2. Tried MythTV? It has a nice UI...
Ouch, didn't know all the headers remained intact.
All I want is to watch TV, not install a MythTV box in which 80% of the TV-stuff won't be used. Heck, I'm not even using the TV Card as a tuner, its just accepting the input from the VCR which in turn does all the channel changing.
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On Wed, 2006-07-12 at 16:46 -0700, Leo Mauler wrote:
Has anyone else had a similar problem and been able to make their TV application give you a real fullscreen? I'm getting tired of the 2" black border around the "fullscreen" TV picture.
Sounds like your video driver was unable to allocate a YUV scalar. Try checking to ensure that XVideo extention is loaded properly by checking your video driver's man page and also the /var/log/Xorg.log.0
--- "Jason D. Clinton" me@jasonclinton.com wrote:
On Wed, 2006-07-12 at 16:46 -0700, Leo Mauler wrote:
Has anyone else had a similar problem and been able to make their TV application give you a real fullscreen? I'm getting tired of the 2" black border around the "fullscreen" TV picture.
Sounds like your video driver was unable to allocate a YUV scalar. Try checking to ensure that XVideo extention is loaded properly by checking your video driver's man page and also the /var/log/Xorg.log.0
Well I did manage to figure out how to get the "v4l" XVideo extension loaded into XF86Config-4 (XVideo doesn't let you do video capturing but I won't be doing that), but getting rid of the black border requires a 1024x768 Modeline in the new XFree4 and I haven't done any modelines since XFree86 3.3.6. Debian autoprobed everything and set up all the Modelines as 800x600 and 640x480. I can see my future: way too much reading of documentation over the next few days.
Naturally my wife preferred the old larger image on the 13" TV, and, of course, the 13" TV gave out shortly before I unplugged it. So now I have to make the darn thing work or there will be much complaining until another TV can be afforded for the basement computer room.
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--- "Jason D. Clinton" me@jasonclinton.com wrote:
On Wed, 2006-07-12 at 16:46 -0700, Leo Mauler wrote:
Has anyone else had a similar problem and been able to make their TV application give you a real fullscreen? I'm getting tired of the 2" black border around the "fullscreen" TV picture.
Sounds like your video driver was unable to allocate a YUV scalar. Try checking to ensure that XVideo extention is loaded properly by checking your video driver's man page and also the /var/log/Xorg.log.0
Well I did manage to figure out how to get the "v4l" XVideo extension loaded into XF86Config-4 (XVideo doesn't let you do video capturing but I won't be doing that), but getting rid of the black border requires a 1024x768 Modeline in the new XFree4 and I haven't done any modelines since XFree86 3.3.6. Debian autoprobed everything and set up all the Modelines as 800x600 and 640x480.
I set up a 24-bit 1024x768 mode line in XF86Config-4. I added a Load "x4l" line to XF86Config-4. I set the 1024x768 screen to Default. Debian boots up into 1024x768 XFree4.
I edited xawtvrc and added the Global line "fullscreen = 1024 x 768".
I run xawtv, and select F (fullscreen mode). I still get all the video in a small window in the center of the screen.
Is it just not possible to get a an actual full screen in Linux XFree4? The last time I used this AverTV Stereo TV Tuner card in a Windows machine, I could get 100% fullscreen video.
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Most of the world uses X.org now, not XFree. What video card (to the monitor) are you using? Can you play regular video files at fullscreen?
On Wed, 2006-07-12 at 23:01 -0700, Leo Mauler wrote:
Well I did manage to figure out how to get the "v4l" XVideo extension loaded into XF86Config-4 (XVideo doesn't let you do video capturing but I won't be doing that),
v4l has nothing to do with providing XVideo, at all. V4L and V4L2 are the video capture protocols used to get the digital bits from your tuner card or web cam -- in this case, probably V4L2. Once those bits have been obtained, the XVideo extension is responsible for scaling them. That's why I said to look at your video hardware man page.
but getting rid of the black border requires a 1024x768 Modeline in the new XFree4 and I haven't done any modelines since XFree86 3.3.6. Debian autoprobed everything and set up all the Modelines as 800x600 and 640x480. I can see my future: way too much reading of documentation over the next few days.
A mode line will not help you. The problem is that scaling does not work.
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