[mythtv-users] MythVideo database resetting itself afteraddingsecond frontend

Ian Forde ian at duckland.org
Tue Mar 15 04:08:33 UTC 2005


On Mon, 2005-03-14 at 20:30 -0700, Darren Richards wrote:
> Upon double-checking mysettings, it seems that one frontend was
> pointing to /video/dvds, and the other was pointing to /mnt/hdb1/dvds.
>  While physically they were the same place, they had two different
> names.  Now that both are pointing to /video/dvds, the problem with
> the database getting overwritten has been resolved, but I have a new
> problem: I can no longer set unique player commands for each frontend.
>  The settings I make on one frontend take affect on the other.  This
> won't work for me because I have different hardware.  On one frontend,
> I want to play the ac3 sound through my optical output (using the -ac
> hwac3 flag on mplayer), but I don't want this on my other frontend...
> 
> How can I have different settings for the different frontends?

Ah - that's an easy one.  If the mythfrontend users on each box have
separate homedirs, you can set the ac option in ~/.mplayer/config for
each box.

Example:
AC3-enabled frontend has ~/.mplayer/config with:
ac=hwac3,

other frontend has ~/.mplayer/config leaves the option empty.

Of course, if both frontend users share a homedir, you'll be better
served by using a script to autodetect on the fly.

	-I




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