Wednesday, December 10, 2008

More myth nonsense

The ability of Myth to burn DVDs quietly disappeared some time back and more recently for people using the Medibuntu repository. Apparently several ffmpeg-related libraries in Intrepid no longer work with Medibuntu's version of ffmpeg, and alternates had to be installed to get it to work.

I had foolishly believed that the PVR-150s could not capture closed-captioning based on several forum posts, when I tripped across something which pointed out that NTSC-capable tuners are legally required to decode this VBI information. As it so happens, all I had to do was go into Myth's preferences and tell it from now on to capture VBI CC. On this note, the maintainers should point their caption fonts at the default install's fonts directory instead of copying just two fonts to the Mythtv directory.

The bedroom slave backend needs to have its tuner assigned to something other than /dev/video0 in order to avoid conflicting with the master backend's tuner, but supposedly once this is done the MBE should be able to tune while recording.