On 5/8/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">matt mead</b> <<a href="mailto:m-mythtv@goof.com">m-mythtv@goof.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I'm curious if anyone besides me would find this useful:<br><br>Support in frontend for caching db information and recordings in ~/.mythtv such<br>that you can select a subset of recordings and the frontend will store the
<br>recorded data and enough information from the mythconverg db that they can be<br>played without contacting the backend.<br><br>This would allow you to select a set of shows you might want to take on the<br>road with you using your laptop, perform a synchronization, and then
<br>browse/playback those shows while away from your backend server.<br><br>Typically I do similar things with the data from the recordings directory - I<br>just manually copy the files and open them with something like VLC. However in
<br>particular for recordings from my PVR-350, if I seek within them using VLC, it<br>starts stuttering on audio and will not recover. Having these available via<br>the standard myth interface, with capability for skipping commercials,
<br>recording the start position, etc. would be really nice. It might also be nice<br>to have the synchronization perform a local transcode, too, since in most cases<br>while I'm away from my 9' screen, I can tolerate a lower resolution and bitrate
<br>for watching recorded programs.<br><br>Thoughts?</blockquote><div><br>Currently I do something similar with nuvexport. If I go on vacation and want a couple of recordings on my notebook, I export with nuvexport as "nuv+sql". Usually I append the name of the movie to the filename of the nuv file, so that I know which file is which movie without opening the .txt file.
<br>The nuv files are playable without the frontend on both Windows and Linux, so that works fine for me, but an integrated solution would be nice.<br>Maybe the xml+nuv archive format from MythArchive could be used as "to-go" format ?
<br><br>Niels Dybdahl<br></div></div><br>