<div class="gmail_quote">On 20 May 2011 18:44, John Pilkington <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:J.Pilk@tesco.net">J.Pilk@tesco.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">On 20/05/11 18:15, Fluf wrote:<br>
> On 20 May 2011 14:53, Simon Hobson <<a href="mailto:linux@thehobsons.co.uk">linux@thehobsons.co.uk</a><br>
</div><div><div></div><div class="h5">> <mailto:<a href="mailto:linux@thehobsons.co.uk">linux@thehobsons.co.uk</a>>> wrote:<br>
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> Wouldn't help. Myth doesn't deal with "this mux isn't tuning so I'll<br>
> try another" - you just get empty recordings if a transmitter is off<br>
> (not that it happens all that much).<br>
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> DOH!!!<br>
> Are you sure?<br>
> >From the last couple of days, I've got as far as thinking myth did the<br>
> "I have 4 copies of channel 4, so starting with the lowest, can I have<br>
> this one?" ... So if it couldn't (no signal) ... I'd of thought it would<br>
> go on to the next? In which case, the theoretical best for me would to<br>
> have all the channels laid out from all the receivers, numbered with the<br>
> lowest being the strongest signal options.<br>
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> If yer right ... then there's no point ever having a duplicate, because<br>
> if it picks a dud first I'll get a blank recording anyway?<br>
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</div></div>I think that's right. Myth expects a good signal and records the<br>
programme. If you just use a piece of damp string for an aerial in the<br>
expectation that an unpredictable one of your collection of transmitters<br>
might give an acceptable signal for a few minutes I suspect that your<br>
frustration will only increase. :-)<br>
<br></blockquote><div>I get very good signals from three transmitters thanks.<br>So. Myth. It's a pain getting it to tune in. It skips recordings with no mention in the logs. It can't figure out if it's got a no-signal event. (what happens if a tuner gets unplugged? Does it blindly record dead tuners as well?). I read people who say they had it working, but then upgraded their flavour of Linux and it's never worked since. A lot of the online documentation is out of date or incomplete. But what it does do .. in theory .. if I ever get it all working glitch free .. is store everything it records in a mysql database that has some nice features in remembering what you've already recorded, and the scheduling is allegedly quite good. If it records what's scheduled.<br>
<br>I think I might try freevo.<br><br><br></div></div>