[mythtv-users] Misc problems, ideas and general thoughts

[homer]

Hello,
	I've been playing around with MythTV for a while now and although I've
had my fair share of problems, I think I have just about got myself a
pretty sweet system.
	Just a quick run down on my setup:
	ASRock P2i65G mother board with 2gb cpu (could be better)
	2Gb ram (does the job nicely)
	1x 120GB hdd (for the system)
	1x 80GB hdd (for the video capture)
	1x 640Gb external USB hdd (for backup)
	Fedora 9 (fully updated)
	1x DVT1000 (remote not set up... too lazy)
	1x bttv card (for foxtel/austar)

	I'm using my Myth box as my local network server aswell, (eg wireless
broadband through Tel$tra, samba, apache, squid etc)

	Had tried a DTV2000H rev j but compatibility issues forced me to buy an
older card and recycle my bttv card for Foxtel/Austar.  Was hoping to
only need the one capture card but hey, what do you do?

	The problems I'm having at the moment are probably very trivial to most
people but they are driving me insane.

	1) viewing/recording in MJPEG mode is unwatchable (ie: plays 1 sec out
of every 5)
	2) viewing/recording in rtjpeg mode is perfect but results in 2gb files
for 30mins of normal viewing
	3) sound through bttv/Foxtel/Austar ok, but still a little crackly even
with mp3 setting on high( value=0)
	
	If I had a choice of only 1 problem to fix, it would definately be #1.
I (at some point but no idea how to return to this mode) had it
recording/playing fine in mpeg mode which was good because an episode of
the Simpsons came in at about 500mb.
	
	As I have mentioned in another thread, I think it would be cool if
while in normal viewing (eg Watch TV) that the system could break the
files up into 30 minute blocks and delete those that are older than say,
2 hours.  This would prevent the hdd from being filled up when left on
"Watch TV" for hours at a time.
	Just got word that MythTV is supposed to do this but for some reason it
is not working on my system,

	Generally, I think that MythTV is a very cool system and if I had the
time would love to contribute to the source code.

	If anyone has any thoughts on how I could improve my system, I would be
very grateful.

Thanks,
John