[mythtv-users] Freevo, Tivo & MythTV

[Michael T. Dean]

On 11/22/2006 07:38 PM, William Kenworthy wrote:
> Would it be possible to swap out the American LiveTV mode and replace it
> with something like a simple mplayer wrapper that the rest of the world
> could use?  Stream rewind etc are not needed for flicking through
> channels - I just want to be able to channel surf to the spped my
> hardware is cxapable of.

Edit your tvmenu.xml file 
(/usr/local/share/mythtv/themes/DVR/tvmenu.xml, 
/usr/local/share/mythtv/themes/classic/tvmenu.xml, or 
/usr/local/share/mythtv/tvmenu.xml depending on your chosen menu theme) 
to use the EXECTV approach to start an external app--like xawtv or 
MPlayer--as shown in the commented out EXECTV action.

This is the /only/ way to do "no-buffering" LiveTV with Myth (and, in 
fact, it's doing "no-buffering" LiveTV by *not* using Myth).  Note, 
though, that it /only/ works on a combined frontend/backend machine 
(i.e. your capture devices must be local to the frontend that's 
EXECTV'ing).  When you EXECTV a capture card, Myth is told not to use 
that card, so if a scheduled recording is supposed to start while you're 
watching LiveTV in xawtv and all your other capture cards are in use, 
you'll miss the showing.

Mike