On Friday 24 February 2006 02:04, Carlos E. R. wrote:
It does download the tv guide info for your stations. Some sources may well keep up with scheduling changes. Not even trying to use guide data makes MythTV fairly pointless. Might as well use one of the simple TV apps like kdetv etc.
Of course I would like to use a much simpler application, but I want one thing that they don't do: while watching TV, pause viewing while the software keeps recording it, and later, continue watching from that same point while recording the program some point ahead. I was told here to use mythtv for that.
Hmmm. I'm fairly certain kdetv allows you to pause/timeshift/record shows. So long since I used it now, that I can't be completely sure, but it was definately an app that came with 9.3
The other thing I want to do is to digitalize video tapes, erase the commercials and other interruptions, and finally record the result in a dvd. I read that mythtv does that, but if it needs exact timetables it will not work, as the programs are already in tape: ie, I'll have to mark the commercials manually, I suppose.
No, it doesn't have to have exact timetables for that. You set up a manual record on the appropriate video source. You can then use the MythTV interface to add cutpoints, and then transcode the show, which will delete the unwanted commercials.
So! What do I do, do I hit it with a hammer? I didn't guess that watching and recording TV would be so damn difficult! :-/
The only advice I can give here is to persevere. When you finally get it all working it is a revelation. Never miss programs, skip all the ads etc.
I did, and it works... more or less. Now I have to learn how to tell it the frequencies of the channels I want to watch; I thought I did, but it is obvious I did it wrong.. Also I would like to have it in a window, not in full size. Didn't see any thing to resize clicking or something.
Watch out for the channel frequencies. They are in Hz, so lots of zeros!!! i.e. With DVB Multiplex's (multiple channels on a single frequency) the multiplex has a frequency of 505833333 Hz. This is the figure I have to enter. 505 (MHz) or 505833 (kHz) won't work. If you're using an older analougue card, you should be able to scan for channels though. As long as the signal is strong enough, it should lock on. The setting for windowed mode is somewhere in the appearance settings menu of the mythfrontend application.
One final suggestion. If you're having trouble doing it all yourself, try the RPM's available from: http://folk.uio.no/oeysteio/apt/suse/ I tried them once, but I must be a masochist, as I still chose to do the whole build myself.
Building it was no big problem, I did it myself. Using it is! :-)
"That which does not kill us, makes us stronger." I'm a much stronger guy since getting MythTV to work ;-) -- Steve Boddy