[mythtv-users] mythweb performance: windows vs. linux

Chris Petersen lists at forevermore.net
Thu Mar 16 08:56:44 UTC 2006


> It is not that easy. I guess the problems is in old recordings that were
> broken because of the broken MPEG4->MPEG4 transcoding in MythTV 0.18.1.
> These recordings are still playable in MythTV, but I can not export them via
> nuvexport or play them via dsmyth. Some of them are my kids favorite
> recordings, so I can not just dump them. I have tried to transcode them with
> 0.19, but it failed to do so.

Have you tried:  mythcommflag --rebuild   ?

> Actually there are thumbnails for all my shows in MythWeb. For some reason
> MythWeb in 0.19 just want to create new thumbnails for all the shows, so one
> day when I have plenty of time, I will just find that functionality and turn
> it off.

Mythweb creates requests thumbnails when the backend tells it that there 
is a new one to grab (unfortunately, this happens each time a show is 
watched).  If you want to turn off thumbnails, just set 
show_recorded_pixmaps to false in config/conf.php

-Chris


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