[mythtv-users] MythVideo database resetting itself afteraddingsecond frontend

Darren Richards darren.richards at gmail.com
Tue Mar 15 04:49:56 UTC 2005


On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 20:08:33 -0800, Ian Forde <ian at duckland.org> wrote:
> 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

Thanks for the suggestions.  This will work in about 95% of the cases,
but there are certain dvd's which require special options (like -aid
128).  But specifying -aid 128 for all dvd's cause most of them to not
play in dolby digital, even though I also specify ac=hwac3.  So I need
to specify separate options on a per-movie basis.

I suppose I could make the script smart enough to supply different
arguments based upon the filename.  Perhaps I'll try that.

Thanks again guys,
-darren


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