[mythtv-users] MythTV review from a long-time TiVo user

[Bob Cottingham]

Donavan Stanley said:
> On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 14:07:19 -0500, Ben Giddings
> <bg-mythtv at infofiend.com> wrote:
>> Another minor thing I miss from my TiVo is the "screensaver".  If you
>> didn't hit a button for a while on the TiVo it would by default go back
>> to monitoring Live TV after a while.
>
> Myth will allow your existing screensaver to kick in as needed,
> provided you have one of course.

This doesn't appear to be entirely accurate to me. I believe that Myth
only supports DPMS. If you turn on screensavers in KDE or use
xscreensaver, the screensaver will kick in regardless of whether you are
watching a show or not. I tried this again last night just to be sure and
it started up 10 mintutes into our TV show.

This is something I've wanted for quite some time, so if there is some
other way to do this I would be very interested in hearing it.

Bob C