[mythtv-users] Question on Recordings background
Stephen Worthington
stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz
Thu Nov 21 23:53:07 UTC 2013
On Thu, 21 Nov 2013 11:24:03 -0600, you wrote:
>Are you using the Mythcenter-Wide theme? That is my theme of choice,
>but I have modified recordings-ui.xml to address all the points you
>brought up.
>
>1) removed transparent background fanart images.
>2) removed stock coverart thumbnail and replaced with preview thumbnail
>from actual recording.
>3) changed start and end times to reflect actual recording instead of
>scheduled start end times.
>4) changed scrolling to allow upward reverse wrap, A back to Z, in both
>windows
>
>No other settings changes in Mythtv are required for these to work, you
>just need to replace the original recordings-ui.xml in Mythcenter-Wide
>1.7 with the modified recordings-ui.xml. If you are using a different
>theme then all bets are off.
>
>Note this file will probably get overwritten when updates are applied,
>so either keep a copy somewhere else. Alternatively, you can duplicate
>the theme, rename it, select it in the Theme Chooser and it will never
>get overwritten (that was my approach).
>
>If you would like a copy of my modified recordings-ui.xml contact me off
>list and I'll send it to anyone who is interested.
>Ziggy
Just remember that you may still need to turn off the downloading of
metadata, otherwise it will be filling up your hard disk and costing
you on your Internet connection. On the day I did my 0.27 upgrade,
due to the bug that prevented the disable option from working, I had
over 1 Gibyte of metadata downloaded into /var/lib/mythtv, and it was
nowhere near finished with all my recordings. Fortunately, I had some
of the artwork appear in Mythfrontend and noticed what was happening.
Filling up your system partition never does good things!
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