[mythtv-users] 0.25 Music & Videos Questions
Michael Watson
michael at thewatsonfamily.id.au
Sat Apr 14 09:33:35 UTC 2012
On 14/04/2012 7:29 PM, Paul Gardiner wrote:
> Michael Watson<michael at thewatsonfamily.id.au> wrote:
>
>> On 14/04/2012 1:46 PM, Paul Gardiner wrote:
>>> Scott& Nicole Harris<snharris99 at live.com> wrote:
>>>> This is a standalone frontend, which I (and more importantly the
>> wife)
>>>> views
>>>> as nothing more than an appliance. You turn appliances off when
>> you're
>>>> not
>>>> using them, preferably with the remote that came with it...no
>> different
>>>> than
>>>> a TV. You don't need to be "special" to turn the TV off, you simply
>>>> press
>>>> the power button. I'd think most people would expect to be able to
>>>> "press
>>>> the power button" (exit and reboot) from the appliance's on screen
>> menu
>>>> and
>>>> have it do what ever it is it's supposed to do, properly.
>>> This is one of the nice things about using minimyth. It runs on a
>> readonly file system, with unionfs and tmpfs layered on top. Every
>> night, I just turn it off at the power switch, without needing to
>> shutdown, knowing that the underlying file system will be unaltered
>> ready for a clean boot the next day.
>>> _______________________________________________
>>>
>> Its the database that is not being updated, due to MythFrontend not
>> exiting properly. Nothing to do with the filesystem of the frontend..
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> Oh right. I only caught part of the thread. I know the problem: you create a playlist and the next day you find its empty. Is that the one? That is a bit of a pain. I bet that's not hard to fix. I may have a go when I've upgraded to 0.25.
> _______________________________________________
>
Yeah, thats it. Unless you exit the Frontend "cleanly", the playlist
remains, but the contents is gone (or modifed contents of an existing
playlist).
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