Tuesday, June 27, 2006

More mythjunk part 3

Playback was starting to show skips I knew weren't in the recordings -- because those skips were also during live TV and DVD playback. IRC chatting with Myth experts indicated that it was probably interference from commercial flagging jobs on previous recordings. They suggested telling Myth not to run flagging jobs immediately after recordings, and to use mythtv-setup to set a specific time (e.g. 3 AM) to run those.

They were also kind enough to tell me that my two suggestions were already in development:
  • Frontend utility for selecting a DVD's worth of recordings and exporting a DVDstyler/DVDauthor XML project file
  • VLC-based streaming to web interface to make mythfrontend not 100% necessary

More mythjunk

Playback was starting to show skips I knew weren't in the recordings -- because those skips were also during live TV and DVD playback. IRC chatting with Myth experts indicated that it was probably interference from commercial flagging jobs on previous recordings. They suggested telling Myth not to run flagging jobs immediately after recordings, and to use mythtv-setup to set a specific time (e.g. 3 AM) to run those.

They were also kind enough to tell me that my two suggestions were already in development:
  • Frontend utility for selecting a DVD's worth of recordings and exporting a DVDstyler/DVDauthor XML project file
  • VLC-based streaming to web interface to make mythfrontend not 100% necessary