[mythtv-users] mytharchive
John Pilkington
J.Pilk at tesco.net
Fri Jun 1 09:54:07 UTC 2007
norman wrote:
>> You said you saw nothing in the log window. Mine starts immediately,
>> but the iso file appears (with some luck) perhaps an hour later. Do
>> you, as user mythtv, have permission to write to your var directory? I
>> don't.
>
> Thank you for your patience and help. You were right about access to the
> var directory. I put a folder on the desktop, put in the path and now
> everything seems to work as it should. Even the vertical indicator. It
> is a pity that computers can't speak and tell us what is wrong or, even
> better, put it right themselves. (Perhaps they do tell me but I cannot
> understand).
>
> One last question, I hope. I believe it is possible to use the computer
> while the DVD recording and .iso formation go on in the background. Does
> this mean that mythtv may be exited to provide a clear monitor?
>
I run my frontend in a window, so can just collapse it. But you should
be able to exit from the FE while the BE does the work, if you want to.
Cheers,
John P
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