[mythtv-users] 0.25 Music & Videos Questions

[Mike Perkins]

On 14/04/12 11:21, Michael Watson wrote:
> On 14/04/2012 8:09 PM, Paul Gardiner wrote:
>> On 14/04/2012 10:39, Mike Perkins wrote:
>>> On 14/04/12 04:46, Paul Gardiner wrote:
>>>> Scott& Nicole Harris<snharris99 at live.com> wrote:
>>>>> This is a standalone frontend, which I (and more importantly the wife)
>>>>> views as nothing more than an appliance. You turn appliances off when
>>>>> you're not using them, preferably with the remote that came with it...no
>>>>> different than a TV. You don't need to be "special" to turn the TV off,
>>>>> you simply press the power button. I'd think most people would expect to
>>>>> be able to "press the power button" (exit and reboot) from the
>>>>> appliance's
>>>>> on screen menu and have it do what ever it is it's supposed to do,
>>>>> properly.
>>>>
>>>> This is one of the nice things about using minimyth. It runs on a
>>>> readonly
>>>> file system, with unionfs and tmpfs layered on top. Every night, I
>>>> just turn
>>>> it off at the power switch, without needing to shutdown, knowing that the
>>>> underlying file system will be unaltered ready for a clean boot the next
>>>> day.
>>>>
>>> Actually, minimyth does the right thing if you select "Exit and
>>> Shutdown" from the pop-up menu. It doesn't take very long either...
>>
>> Yes it does, but if you are used to just pulling the plug every night,
>> you have an awkward choice every time you change a playlist: do I trust
>> myself to remember to shut down properly tonight, or should I do it now
>> and then have to reboot before I can continue? It would be handy if
>> minimyth had a "restart the frontend process" option.
>>
> I cant see how Minimyth will do it properly, when its a "Feature" of
> MythFrontend. As I understand it, Minimyth is the same code, just packaged as a
> Netboot image. Unless of course it is distribution specific.
>
It's nothing to do with Mythfrontend. You're not net booting mythfrontend, 
you're net booting an operating system. If you actually bothered to take the 
"Exit and shutdown" option you'd clearly see the shutdown sequence on your 
display, where it closes down mythfrontend and then (as it should) closes down 
everything else that's running before issuing "powerdown".

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Mike Perkins