[mythtv-users] Tvtime instead of mplayer?

[Sapan Ganguly]

I must be a little bit dumb, I don't understand any of those posts.  I
tried uncomenting the stuff at the bottom of tvmenu.xml but I don't
see any change on my menus.

I also tried putting the following into mainmenu.xml under the "Watch
TV" section -

EXECTV tvtime -m -D %s

This stopped the menu option doing anything at all.

Is there a full explaination of what files I need to edit and what I
need to put in them?  Does anyone have a proper example?

Thanks very much,
Sapan


On Tue, 1 Mar 2005 21:01:45 -0800 (PST), Joe Votour <joevph at yahoo.com> wrote:
> http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-1.html#ss1.6
> 
> Searching for just "tvtime" presents plenty of
> results.
> 
> -- Joe
> 
> --- Sapan Ganguly <sapan.ganguly at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > OK, this may be a silly question but how do you
> > search the archives
> > effectively?  I went here -
> >
> > http://mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-users/
> >
> > But I couldn't find what you mentioned, I would like
> > to make a new
> > menu option for TV time.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Sapan
> >
> >
> > On Tue, 1 Mar 2005 15:11:12 -0800 (PST), Joe Votour
> > <joevph at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > > MythTV doesn't use mplayer for the Live TV mode,
> > it
> > > uses it's own internal player.
> > >
> > > You can make a menu option to use tvtime instead
> > of
> > > the internal player, please search the archives,
> > this
> > > has been asked (and discussed) before.
> > >
> > > Not using the internal player for Live TV
> > basically
> > > negates the PVR functions of MythTV, and if I
> > recall
> > > correctly, may even mess up the scheduler.
> > >
> > > -- Joe
> > >
> > > --- Sapan Ganguly <sapan.ganguly at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Can I use tvtime instead of mplayer to watch TV
> > on
> > > > my mythtv box?  If so, how?
> > > >
> > > > I've found that tvtime works much better for me.
> > > > When I use the
> > > > "Watch TV" menu option in mythtv the picture is
> > > > jerky and not as sharp
> > > > as it is with tvtime.
> > > >
> > > > My machine is only a Dell Optiplex GX1 450MHz
> > > > machine with 256Mb of
> > > > RAM.  I use an old analogue TV card.  I mostly
> > use
> > > > the "composite1"
> > > > input to take in the output from my freeview box
> > and
> > > > just use that to
> > > > change channels.  I'm not too concerned about
> > being
> > > > able to pause or
> > > > record live TV.  The only other stuff I use is
> > under
> > > > the "Optical
> > > > Disks" menu, I've configured the DVD player to
> > be
> > > > xine, which works
> > > > nicely.
> > > >
> > > > One thing I would like to see is a menu option
> > for
> > > > web radio and a
> > > > bluetooth remote control option would be good, I
> > can
> > > > use my phone to
> > > > control media player on windows, it would be
> > great
> > > > if I could do the
> > > > same with mythtv.
> > > >
> > > > By the way, I am using Fedora Core 3 and I used
> > yum
> > > > to install the
> > > > "mythtv-suite" so I should be right up to date.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > >
> > > > Sapan
> > > > >
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