James Harrell schreef:
No scaling is best. If you record 720x480 set the output resolution to 720x480Hi folks,
Spent the last week getting myth to run on my box with a PVR350, remote, X11 direct to my TV etc. I've done lots of reading, submitted a patch for the native LIRC support, and have a generally good technical feel for the product. :) Pretty cool toy! (Just upgraded to 0.17 btw)
Now onto the "easy" stuff- which either I can't find in the docs or I've just read too many pages to remember where to find this type of stuff. So hopefully you won't mind too much if my questions are covered already somewhere else and I haven't found the answers yet:
Setup / frontend Configuration Q's:
1) PVR350: What's the best/proper UI resolution?
- NTSC appears to be 720x480 ?
- Seems TVs are generally 640x480 ?
- Looks decent on my monitor at 800x600
This is indeed overscan. You have to make ui size smaller to compensate. You can do this in the settings screen. If resolution is set to 720x480 set the ui to be 680x440 and x and y offsets of 20 (these numbers are just an example, play around 'till you get it right)2) Portions of screen not visible: Whether I run in a window or full screen on my monitor or X through the TV OUT, the window is too small. Some configuration screens are chopped to the point that I can't even see the "Back/Next" buttons. I think this is something about overscan, but can't find how to fix this. Recommendations? Note: screen resolution from Q1 doesn't seem to change this behavior.
That is because of your dpi settings. Myth themes are setup to use 100 dpi. You can control this by using displaysize parameter in the monitor section of your xorg.conf file. This is a value in mm so if your hor. res is 720, displaysize is 720dots/100*25,4mm/in = 183mm3) Button Text chopped off: The text in the buttons seems to be larger than the button display area. Any letter such as 'j' or 'y' isn't displayed fully (the lower half of the letter is chopped off). How do I fix this?
So Displaysize 183 x137 for a 4:3 screen or 183x103 for 16:9 would give you 100 dpi
there is the guide you can access from live tv. pressing the x button there will change the channel (reading trough keys.txt in the mythtv source folder might help you for things like this)Usage Q's:
1) Programming Guide: Seems it's only useful for scheduling
recordings rather than channel-surfing. I'd like to find
a TV show in the guide, and click "OK" to watch it live.
Is this not supported? Can I (easily) add this to the
menu?
2) If I hook up my (external) DVD player to the s-video & audioYou would have to create a second video input source in mythtvsetup and setup a channel that uses this videosource.
in of my PVR350, how do I add a "button" to the frontend
to switch from TV to DVD input mode?
3) Front-end on separate box: Can I stream the audio & videoIt will use myth streaming format by default unless you nfs-mount the folders. (only true for live-tv and recordings, not for video or music files)
in raw format rather than setup file sharing?
4) Remote-contexts / Key bindings: I've found the SQL database containing many context-references for what the key mappings are. But it doesn't seem all contexts are represented. For example, there is no context for the guide. I'd like to re-map the keys for the guide so they work differently than in live-tv mode. Do I have to do this in the source?
Guide is the same context as live-tv.
Hardware Questions:
1) Anyone sell a "myth-frontent" embedded-style box? ie: Something like a nice little Via-EPIA with a PVR150, or some other cool little device? I've considered just buying parts and making one, doesn't seem I can do this for under $400 though.
Why do you need a pvr150 in a frontend machine?
You could use the Hauppauge mvpc device. That will give you access to your recordings for about 80$2) Anyone aware of other very-low-cost off-the-shelf hardware (preferably with a hardware decoder) that would make a good mythfrontend? I've seen some references saying an old Tivo or ReplayTV can't be used for this... but surely it's possible! :)
Many thanks for a cool product, and thanks for your time if you've gotten this far.
No prob.
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