[mythtv-users] Commercial releases of MythTV?

[Andrew Jamieson]

> Hi Andrew.
>
> As the instigator of the thread, I thought I'd say hello. :-)
>
> My main gripe wasn't with Development 1 selling a prepackaged MythTV
> solution. I was annoyed by the fact that neither the article published
> in Australian Personal Computer nor Development 1's website acknowledged
> the origins of the code.
>
> Scott Le Brun
>

Hi Scott,

We had very little input to the review - we we're not given a copy at all,
and had to buy the magazine like everyone else; indeed some of the magazines
subscribers saw it before we did.  There are some errors in the review that
I wish I had been able to rectify before it was printed - this includes the
part where it refers to a 'proprietry' interface.

The website is not under my direct control, but I will investigate putting
an acknowledgement to mythTV up.

From: "Brian May" <bam at snoopy.apana.org.au>
To: "Discussion about mythtv" <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
Sent: Saturday, March 20, 2004 6:01 PM
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Commercial releases of MythTV?

> In Australia, you can get XMLTV data, but it lacks details (unless you
> don't mind 1200+ hits on the remote server...) and accuracy. The
> servers were simply not designed for non-interactive downloading of
> the entire program guide for the week.
>

Our guide has detail information, so you'll get that as soon as the grabber
is integrated into myth proper.

> As a work around for some of the problems, I have tried using manual
> recoding, so I can record a number of programs as "one". This prevents
> having to work out start/stop times for each one, which are prone to
> be wrong anyway. However, I haven't been able to work out how to tell
> MythTV "record from xx:xx to yy:yy every weekday", instead it appears
> I must manually configure it for each day(?).
> --

In the advanced recording menu (press 'i' twice in the EPG - I think :)  you
can set a minutes before / after for the recording.  I like to use 15 mins
for Aus, for the very reasons you talk about.  If you want to record a whole
block of programs every X night, just set the first one to record as per the
recording profile that suits, and then add 60/120/180 minutes after to get
the rest.

Also, someone mentioned instant recording (in another thread?).  We're
looking into this, but an easy work around at the moment is EPG - record
from Live TV (ie 'm' and 'r' - again I think).  This will commence recording
the program you are watching.  Pressing 'm' again will take you back to the
recording.


Andrew Jamieson


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