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

matt stirfrey at gmail.com
Sat Apr 15 01:42:18 UTC 2006


Matt Mousseau wrote:
> Once upon a time, I built and ran a mythTV box. I loved & hated myth, 
> mostly for what amounted to things that I simply didn't understand. 
> Outlined below are the main concerns I have with returning to myth:
>  
> 1. Firewire recordings over the DCT6200: They regularly would crash 
> the frontend. I believe it had something to do with the whole sync 
> byte being messed up at the beginning of the transport stream, but I 
> could never figure out a way to automate fixing it.
>  
> 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.
>  
> 3. DVD ripping. I didn't get real far with this...and I didn't spend 
> *that* much time with it either. I'd basicly like to rip dvd's, 
> keeping the primary movie (throw away extras, etc) and the surround 
> sound track. I don't even care about compressing them, I can get 
> plenty of HD space. For whatever reason, however, I just never got 
> this working.
>  
> 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.
>  
> I'm sitting on a great computer, with tons of HD space, 2 DCT-6200's, 
> and a 50" plasma...somebody PLEASE help me put this stuff together!
>  
> Thanks!
>  
> Matthew Mousseau
> AMSVans, Inc. Webmaster
> matt at amsvans.com
>  
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2 cents on myth and itunes.

While this would be a pretty nifty feature it seems a little backward to 
me to have to have a win or mac on in order to play music in myth. It 
seems to make more sense to me to store my music on my myth box and 
share it with samba. Then have my win box connect to it with a mapped 
drive or something. That way you can use itunes to add music and keep 
things in order, but its stored where myth can use it. Besides that I'm 
more likely to have my myth box up 24x7 than windows.

With that said I do see an advantage in being able to connect to itunes. 
It would be nice for my buddy to come in, hook up his laptop to the 
network and be able to play his playlists. Or to make my playlists in 
itunes and have access to them in myth. There may be a way to export 
them from itunes and import them into myth that may be a little easier 
to hack together. Not to mention apple could change their protocol on a 
whim and break myths ability to connect. They have done similar before, 
and that was just between different versions of itunes. At least their 
playlists are in plain text.

Matt


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