[Klug-general] The Wonders Of MythTV

[Stuart Brand]

OK, so it hasn't gone as smooth as I first said...

The first problem was infuriating as no matter what I tried nothing worked. the Internal player is rubbish so I wanted to use xine, under player settings and the command to run videos I tried everything to use xine and still it was reverting back to the Internal player, I found that there is another option screen called "file types" and this was the reason. in this menu there are file type specific options, so I scrolled through and found .vob, then I was able to set xine, success FYI xine -pfhq --no-splash

well nearly, the next problem I had was the video would pause every 10 seconds, so I launched mythfrontend from a terminal and watched the out put, NVP:prebuffer pause, the fix for this was to disable DRI and GLX in xorg.conf (which I had to create), now I have a super faster menu and instant videos with no pausing :)

one more thing...

ripping from the frontend is very slow as it needs to traverse the network, so a little xinetd hack redirects port 2442 to the backend server, this gives the same menu when ripping however you are actually controlling the backend drive, so a 2 hour film went from 40 minutes to rip to 10 minutes

Good luck to everyone else

P.S. - what remote controls does anyone recommend?

Stuart

 
On Monday, April 27, 2009, at 10:07AM, "Paul Littlefield" <paul.littlefield at bigfoot.com> wrote:
>On Sun, 2009-04-26 at 21:06 +0100, Stuart Brand wrote:
>> Well I'd like to say that it all went perfectly, but it didn't...
>> 
>> I've never really liked Ubuntu for its lack of support for drivers
>> and  
>> speed, and it shows with Mythbuntu, oh except for the speed part, if  
>> the basic installer had support for my vga card then I could tell you.
>
>Bummer.
>> 
>> Mythdora on the other had worked perfectly, all my drivers were
>> there  
>> without the need to compile and I had 2 systems, a front end from an  
>> old laptop and a server for the backend, and it was all running and  
>> ripping in less then an hour, very nice.
>
>Well, now that is very interesting. I am not opposed to using something
>else that gets the same job done in the end.
>
>In fact, I am just switching from Mint to Sabayon... so maybe this is
>the time to switch everything!
>
>(Hell, I am even typing this message in Evolution!)
>
>I am really glad you have a working front and back MythTV setup. It's
>really nice. Only this morning, I decided to record a few programs I
>hadn't seen in ages just 'for the hell of it'...
>
>...Kojak, Space 1999, The Saint - all on today.
>
>:-)
>
>Paully
>
>
>
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