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Saturday, March 01, 2008

Tip #6: mythtv-users on Gossamer Threads

This is really more of a 'quick' tip, but for folks who might not be aware, there is an awesome searchable archive of mythtv-users (and mythtv-dev for that matter) mailing lists hosted by Gossamer Threads. The mythtv-users mailing list is perhaps the worlds single greatest knowledge base for all things mythtv.Check it out: http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/
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Sunday, December 10, 2006

Tip #5: Minimizing the risk of Disk Failure

Mythtv recordings use a lot of disk space One thing that us mythtv users use is a *lot* of disk space. Especially those of us who record HDTV, and what that means is (usually) a lot of disks. The more disks, the more often there are disk failures. Some ways to keep your data safe There are a couple ways to keep disk failure from being a major headache. 1) backups. nice idea, but when you have
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Friday, June 02, 2006

Tip #4: Transcode profiles for HDTV

The Problem I was having transcoding HDTV One of the biggest issues with recording HDTV is that the files are huge. Also, mythtranscode's ability to transcode HDTV was spotty prior to 0.19. My old solution was to use ProjectX to demux the Transport Stream and transcode (with ffmpeg) to resize, convert to MPEG-4 (XviD) and remux. If I wanted to maintain the best quality, I would use two passes,
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Friday, June 02, 2006

Tip #3: Importing downloaded TV shows into MythTV

Situation Last week, I upgraded my kernel. Unfortunately, after a re-boot, my DVB drivers failed to load. The net result is I went three days without recording a single show. Now my only option is downloading the TV shows, and watching them manually, somehow (usually mplayer). WAF definitely goes down.
How to Get the Shows Into MythTV It turns out, that importing the shows into MythTV is
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Friday, June 02, 2006

Tip #2: How to Customize MythTV's Menus

The fact that MythTV has so many features can be both a strength, and a weakness. With so many features, the menu structure can be quite difficult to navigate, and it's almost certain that there are some features you will *never* use.
Wouldn't it be nice to trim the MythTV menus to just what you use. Or, how about simply re-ordering them to suit your preferences? The good news is that you can
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Friday, June 02, 2006

Tip #1: MythTV's New Edit Keys Feature (0.19)

New to MythTV version 0.19 is the Edit Keys feature. As with any new feature in MythTV, there is little documentation on how to use it. I decided to take a look at it and see just how it works, and I was quite pleased with how easy and intuitive it was to use.
What is Edit Keys? The Edit Keys screen allows you to remap any of the keyboard/remote control keys in all of the MythTV contexts.
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Friday, June 02, 2006

Introduction to MythTV Tips

Hello and welcome to MythTV Tips. I'm kicking off this blog after assembling several questions (both mine, and from others) about how to actually use MythTV. There are SOOOOO many features in MythTV, some documented well, and some.. not so much. I am going to use this site to publish my personal tips, tricks, tutorials for MythTV.
Feel free to comment with any questions you have, and I'll do
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Thursday, May 04, 2006

Tip #3: Importing downloaded TV shows into MythTV

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Monday, April 24, 2006

Tip #2: How to Customize MythTV's Menus

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Monday, April 24, 2006

Tip #1: MythTV's New Edit Keys Feature (0.19)

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Friday, April 21, 2006

How to Customize MythTV's Menus

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Friday, April 21, 2006

Introduction to MythTV Tips

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Friday, April 21, 2006

MythTV's New Edit Keys Feature (0.19)

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