Great review. Which hdtv card did you use?
Jim On Wed, 9 Feb 2005 15:29:06 -0800, Brad Templeton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have written up the story of my 3rd annual Superbowl Commercials > party, this year featuring MythTV driving to different HDTV displays > on two floors. It also includes some broadcast flag info. > > The blog introduces it at: > > http://ideas.4brad.com/archives/000178.html > > and the full story with photos is at: > > http://www.templetons.com/brad/myth/superbowl-commercials.html > > (There's still some chance of an Associated Press story on this, since > the idea of using a PVR to skip the show and watch the commercials is > quite against the normal image one sees.) > > On this list, let me add some Myth related technical notes > > a) This was my biggest stress test of Myth, having a backend record > HDTV and two frontends playing the recording while it is still on in > independently, all in HD at 720p. I don't know if it would have worked > at 1080i, fortunately Fox is 720p. The HDTV and projector were both > native 720p anyway. > > Generally it worked quite well, no major problems. > > b) The remote frontend was poor at fast forwarding compared to the local > frontend. I was not using NFS mount since I have been experiencing > NFS problems and the Myth protocol streaming generally works fine. FF was > very jerky. We mostly used 10x, 20x and sometimes 30x speed. I think > even the most recent CVS has some improvements on this. > > c) As has been noted elsewhere, there is only one bookmark per program, not > per frontend, so when the folks upstairs set a bookmark in the Simpsons > episode (they got far ahead of the downstairs by skipping the halftime) > it caused the downstairs folks to think it has missed recording it. > > d) During my first test of dual watching, I managed to crash the master > backend with only this diagnostic: > > 2005-02-06 01:11:14.294 Slave backend: myth has left the building > Mutex destroy failure: Device or resource busy > > However, it never repeated this problem and so I can't give much more > information. This was CVS from about Feb 1. > > e) You have to relearn your reflexes about commercial skipping to do the > reverse. Having a fast-forward-compnensator that only applies at the high > speeds and not at the 5x speed would be a big plus for quick repositioning. > > f) A lot of the commercials were in HDTV, or at least widescreen, quite > a bit different from regular HDTV watching. > > g) I deleted the game by reflex too, earlier than I wanted. I notice in > CVS plans are already underway for deletes to just mark items as ready for > delete when space is needed, which will allow undo, which is great. > > h) Generally people were quite impressed with Myth and the fact that it > was free. Being able to call up firefox in the middle of the game to > watch the godaddy ad also impressed people > > i) The minor bug that causes the OSD to display the program as much longer > than > it is after it has finished recording during semi-live watching (ie. watching > a show that is not finished recording) was noticed by the partygoers, that's > about the only one that was noticed, along with jerky FF over ethernet. > > > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > > >
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