[mythtv-users] A Pair of Feature Requests (long)...

[Seth Lake]

howdy.

been using myth for a couple weeks now.  very excellent program.  before i found out about mythtv (from /. i think) i had a pair of windows machines, 1 98 and 1 xp.  now i have a single xp machine and 2 linux boxes (a router/firewall/http/mysql-box and a mythbox).  thanks mythtv crew! =).  i'm still having problems watching live tv (think it's an ivtv problem) and with lirc (haven't really looked into it, trying to get live tv working) but those are minor issues.  anyways...

one of the main things i do with mythtv is record shows for my 3 year old son, mostly sponge bob square pants.  these shows, being all fairly simple animation, don't require much bandwidth at all to look good.  transcoding them to an ~800 mpg4 stream seems to be more than adequate to make my boy happy.  on the other hand, stuff that my wife wants me to grab is all larger bandwidth stuff, but we only intend to watch it once then delete it for the most part, i don't care to transcode it at all since would be a waste of time and not look very good at ~800.  it would be nice if mythtv had the option, when you set the box to record, of auto-transcoding per record setting instead of as a global flag...and to take it a step further, auto-transcoding to a particular set of settings.

again, with sponge bob square pants, nickelodeon seems to vary the start/end time of the show (it doesn't start right at the top of the hour all the time), so when i see a recording has been cut-off i delete it hoping it will be recorded right the next time around.  also, when playing around with transcode settings to find something that worked i simply deleted programs i had messed up.  after a week or so i realized that myth would only record a program once...oops!  i had read that it will only record a program once, but i had assumed that it looked at the directory for duplicates, not that it actually kept track of them in the DB.  well, i can get around that one alright (but kind of a pain) by install phpMyAdmin and manually deleting the recordings that went awry.  it would be nice though, when your trying to collect every episode of a show, if there was a toggle that looked in the physical directory for duplicates instead of checking the DB.

keep up the good work, mythtv crew.  it is appreciated.
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