[mythtv-users] 0.25 Music & Videos Questions

[Michael Watson]

On 14/04/2012 8:09 PM, Paul Gardiner wrote:
> On 14/04/2012 10:39, Mike Perkins wrote:
>> On 14/04/12 04:46, 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.
>>>
>> Actually, minimyth does the right thing if you select "Exit and
>> Shutdown" from the pop-up menu. It doesn't take very long either...
>
> Yes it does, but if you are used to just pulling the plug every night,
> you have an awkward choice every time you change a playlist: do I trust
> myself to remember to shut down properly tonight, or should I do it now
> and then have to reboot before I can continue? It would be handy if
> minimyth had a "restart the frontend process" option.
>
I cant see how Minimyth will do it properly, when its a "Feature" of 
MythFrontend.  As I understand it, Minimyth is the same code, just 
packaged as a Netboot image.  Unless of course it is distribution specific.

I personally dont have the issue, as I have my frontend configured to 
shutdown itself when it is idle, part of my shutdown script exits the 
frontend properly, waits for the frontend process to disappear, then 
shutsdown.   I do see the issue, when I create a playlist on frontend #1 
(or mythweb), then go and try and play that playlist on frontend #2.

Strikes me as odd, that MythMusic (and I think MythVideo) cache its 
relative contents when starting Mythfrontend, not when starting the 
actual plugin, and then (in mythmusic's case), not bother to update the 
DB until Mythfrontend is closed, what happened to user friendly stuff 
like autosave.....