I decided two weeks ago to build my own MythTV box and I've been
working through all the little details since then. Overall, I'm
quite happy. Most of the time when I think "why doesn't it work
like this instead" I find that there is a setting to do what I
want. But here are a few questions that I haven't been able to
figure out...<br>
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1) I've been using the IR port on my PVR-150. It worked great
with the Hauppauge remote but then I came to find out (after spending
way too much time on this) that it only understand "RC-5"
remotes. I was hoping to use my TiVo remote for this
machine. What is the cheapest way to put in an IR port that will
work with the TiVo remote?<br>
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2) I have a PVR-150 and an old WinTV card (bttv drivers). Picture
is pretty bad on the WinTV card even though both tuners are getting the
same signal. Is there anything I can do to try and punch up the
signal quality for bttv?<br>
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3) There seem to be lots of recording options but one that I really
miss from TiVo is the wishlist option. Yes, I can use regular
expressions to search the guide, but is there a way to get it to record
based on patterns? It has a few options to use the title of the
selected program, but that isn't quite good enough. For example,
I want to record the Detroit Pistons' games. But the title is
always "NBA Basketball" or "NBA Playoffs". The "Pistons" part is
always in the description. Can this be done?<br>
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4) On the TiVo, it is constantly keeping the ring buffer filled.
This is kinda nice. Is there any option for this in MythTV?<br>
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5) I read somewhere that MythTV should be smart about DPMS stuff.
It would be nice if it was at a menu if it could go into powersafe mode
(but obviously I don't want it doing that while it is playing).
Is there a way to do this?<br>
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6) The commercial skip features sometimes works and sometimes
doesn't. One that would be nice is if the timeline for the
program (the thing at the bottom that says things like "1:29:22 of
2:59:55" had vertical lines to show the points that the advance button
will jump to. I didn't see anything like this. As it is
now, I just skip ahead but if it say "11:15" for the amount skipped
then I have to go back. It would be nice if I could see this
before hand. It would also be nice if, in the case where the
program hasn't been marked for commercials yet, it the advance button
simply reverted to 30 second skip.<br>
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7) I've created a couple of recording groups. But I haven't been
able to find a way to organize recorded programs by these groups under
"Watch Recordings".<br>
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8) Is there a way to setup multiple transcoding profiles? In
other words, it would be nice if when you say "Transcode" you could
specify things like "LowQuality", "RemoveCommercials",
"HighQualityMPEG4", etc. I didn't see anyway to set such profiles
up. Did I miss something?<br>
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9) MythMusic doesn't seem to include basic browsing options like "by
Genre", "by Artist", etc? Did I miss something? How do you
build playlists in MythMusic?<br>
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10) When I pause, it would be nice if either play or pause caused it to
start again. It is a bit odd that play causes it to mark the
position.<br>
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Well, that is probably enough for now (although I'm sure I could easily
think of 10 more questions). I apologize in advance if you don't
think I've RTFM but really, I've waded through quite a bit.
Thanks for any help.<br>
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--<br>
Mike<br>