[mythtv-users] vmware and per-program commercial skip

[Tim Litwiller]

knoppmyth works fine in vmware running on a windows xp host -  I was 
only using it as a client - so i don't know what the capture card stuff 
would have done.

Chad Coulliette, Ph.D. wrote:

> Has anyone tried running mythtv inside of linux vmware client, running 
> a windows xp host?  Should that work, or would there be problems 
> with various drivers? 
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> I liked the idea that Jeff suggested earlier for a per-program 
> commercial skip.  A while back, Chris suggested putting a small box up 
> in the corner that displays the length of the predicted commerial 
> break sounds great. And, somehow allow the user the turn auto skip on 
> and off sounds good.  Several people have mentioned (and so did some 
> other people in various threads) that auto commercial skip works great 
> on some shows and not so great on other shows.  How about combining 
> Jeff's and Chris' suggestion? For example, how about letting the user 
> decide on a per show basis which of the shows should use auto skip and 
> which should display the counter, or no skip at all.  The defaults 
> would be set in the main menu, and that would apply if the user did 
> not enter anything on a per show basis.  But, if they specified no 
> skip on CSI, then it would do that.  Or, if they specified mid level 
> (the new grey box you described) for Enterprise, then that would 
> override the default.  There are different ways the user could enter 
> this information.  On the list of recordings, it could have a small 
> dot, for example, green, red and yellow, for auto skip, mid skip and 
> no skip, respectively.  The user could change the skip setting on a 
> per show basis there.  Or, perhaps it could also be done from the TV 
> guide screen.  There are already red dots on the guide to indicate 
> when a show which shows will be recorded once (single dot) or daily 
> (two dots).  Possibly, the color of the dots could be change to green, 
> red, or yellow, based on the commercial skip method chosen for that 
> show. 
>  
> It would also be great if the data for skipping per show was saved on 
> the backend, so that it could be used no matter which front end was 
> used.  The only problem with this is if different users typically use 
> a different front end (like in each bedroom), then they would be 
> changing each others skip settings per show all the time.  Well, 
> ultimately there would need to be a way to enter your user name so 
> that the data base would change over to your skip settings when you 
> watched.  UltimateTV allowed users to enter their names on the TV 
> guide so that they can completely customize the guide on a per user 
> basis, even filtering which stations they want to see in the guide, 
> so having a per user set up or data base for various settings would 
> not be that far off from currently available technology. 
>  
> BTW, this may not be the best place to ask this question, but since 
> there are a lot of linux guru's out there, and I was doing a new linux 
> installation specifically to have a better place to run MythTV, I 
> thought maybe I could ask you guys.  I have been trying to install 
> Redhat 9.0 on a box I just built with an MSI 875P Neo mobo, 3.0 GHz 
> P4, 2GB SDRAM, an 80 GB IDE drive, and  2x160 GB SATA drives in RAID 0 
> via the built-in Promise Fastrak 378 RAID controller.  But, no matter 
> what options I seem to choose, during the very first step of the 
> install, when linux is just booting of the CD, it gets to the disk 
> check, and then fails as it tries to read the what I believe is the 
> SATA drives.  The only chance I have to enter anything or change any 
> options is at the initial "boot:" prompt.  I tried entering "noprobe", 
> but the same problem still occured, so it is not just a hardware probe 
> problem.  I am thinking that Redhat 9 must not have included support 
> for SATA drives, or else no support for the Promise controller.  I 
> thought Promise Technologies had released Linux drivers (binary, no 
> source) for most of their controllers back in July... I saw some 
> annoucement to that effect.  But, when I looked on their 
> support/download web page, the Promise 378 was not even listed on 
> their devices.  Any suggestions?  Does any distrobutions (Mandrake, 
> Suse, Debian, Gentoo, etc.) have built-in support for SATA drives and 
> Promise controllers?  More specifically, a Promise SATA Raid 0 disk 
> config?
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> Thanks for your help.
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