[mythtv-users] I Strayed! Now I want to come back, but with caveats

[Matt Mousseau]

bug with the linux firewire drivers and some limitations in Myth caused
stream glitches that mythfrontend choked on. 0.19 should ignore these errors
now iirc. I believe the kernel bug is being worked on, and I think some
recent commits to SVN has fixed the myth side of things.  Jim Westall would
know better.
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Well that would just be great news!



> 2. Resolutions problems with my HDTV. I have a Philips 50" Ambilight 
> PDP with a native resolution of 720p. And I had one HELL of a time 
> getting X to use the right resolution, it always ran over the edges! I 
> think there may have been some sort of overscanning issue, or perhaps 
> I just wasn't holding my tongue right while working on it. Either way 
> I could use some serious help here, since getting X's resolution right 
> is key to getting things to look properly.

technically HDTV's should not have overscan, but they still do, ~5%. That
said its a problem with the TV and your picture from Myth for TV should look
the same as if it came from a cable box/internal tuner. Myth 0.19 has
overscan provisions though that you can use to "shrink" the output to fit
your TV. Ideally you should get your TV tuned so you are seeing the full
1280x720 instead of losing 5-20% per edge.
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I guess my biggest issue here is not once I launch myth, because I did find
ways to adjust the size / position of the GUI, but rather that I couldn't
really effectivly use the computer outside of myth, since all the edges (and
hence menus) were constantly obscured


> 4. MythMusic. It is...well just plain klunky. What I did in the past 
> was to have a second computer hooked up running windows & 
> itunes...just for music. If I could get myth to play shared iTunes 
> playlists from my network...that would be AMAZING. Is this possible? I 
> don't want myth to share its library...i want it to read OTHER 
> computer's shared itunes libraries.

sadly, noone is really working on MythMusic AFAIK. I'm hoping to convince my
apt-mate to take up this task.
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They'd have a new friend if they did ;-)

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Steve
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