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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Has anyone tried running mythtv inside of linux
vmware client, running a windows xp host? Should that work, or would there
be problems with various drivers? </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I liked the idea that Jeff suggested earlier
for a per-program commercial skip. A while back, Chris
suggested</FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2> putting a small box up in the
corner that displays the length of the predicted commerial break sounds
great. And, somehow allow the user the turn auto skip on and off sounds
good. Several people have mentioned (and so did some other
people in various threads) that auto commercial skip works great on some shows
and not so great on other shows. How about combining Jeff's and Chris'
suggestion? For example, how about letting the user decide on a per
show basis which of the shows should use auto skip and which should display the
counter, or no skip at all. The defaults would be set in the main menu,
and that would apply if the user did not enter anything on a per show
basis. But, if they specified no skip on CSI, then it would do that.
Or, if they specified mid level (the new grey box you described) for Enterprise,
then that would override the default. There are different ways the user
could enter this information. On the list of recordings, it could have a
small dot, for example, green, red and yellow, for auto skip, mid skip and no
skip, respectively. The user could change the skip setting on a per show
basis there. Or, perhaps it could also be done from the TV guide
screen. There are already red dots on the guide to indicate when a
show which shows will be recorded once (single dot) or daily (two
dots). Possibly, the color of the dots could be change to green,
red, or yellow, based on the commercial skip method chosen for that show.
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>It would also be great if the data for
skipping per show was saved on the backend, so that it could be used
no matter which front end was used. The only problem with this is if
different users typically use a different front end (like in each bedroom), then
they would be changing each others skip settings per show all the time.
Well, ultimately there would need to be a way to enter your user name so that
the data base would change over to your skip settings when you watched.
UltimateTV allowed users to enter their names on the TV guide so that they can
completely customize the guide on a per user basis, even filtering which
stations they want to see in the guide, so having a per user set up or data
base for various settings would not be that far off from currently
available technology. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>BTW, this may not be the best place to ask
this question, but since there are a lot of linux guru's out there, and I
was doing a new linux installation specifically to have a better place to
run MythTV, I thought maybe I could ask you guys. I have been trying
to install Redhat 9.0 on a box I just built with an MSI 875P Neo mobo, 3.0
GHz P4, 2GB SDRAM, an 80 GB IDE drive, and </FONT> <FONT face=Arial
size=2>2x160 GB SATA drives in RAID 0 via the built-in Promise Fastrak 378
RAID controller. But, no matter what options I seem to
choose, during the very first step of the install, when linux is just
booting of the CD, it gets to the disk check, and then fails as it tries to
read the what I believe is the SATA drives. The only chance I have to
enter anything or change any options is at the initial "boot:"
prompt. I tried entering "noprobe", but the same problem
still occured, so it is not just a hardware probe problem. I am
thinking that Redhat 9 must not have included support for SATA drives, or
else no support for the Promise controller. I thought Promise Technologies
had released Linux drivers (binary, no source) for most of their
controllers back in July... I saw some annoucement to that effect.
But, when I looked on their support/download web page, the Promise 378 was not
even listed on their devices. Any suggestions? Does any
distrobutions (Mandrake, Suse, Debian, Gentoo, etc.) have built-in support
for SATA drives and Promise controllers? More specifically, a
Promise SATA Raid 0 disk config?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thanks for your help.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Chad</FONT></DIV>
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