I've always thought that the automatic screen saver on XBMC was really good. It dims the screen image down to about 10% of normal brightness, when there is nothing happening on screen. I'd like to know how to get Myth to do this, I'm a bit worried about the long term effects on my plasma screen, when kids leave the main Gant screen on for hours on end
Cheers David M On Mon, 2005-08-08 at 18:41 -0500, Gavin Haslett wrote: > Pausing live TV isn't an issue anyways, is it? I was under the impression > that the pausing would only continue until the ring-buffer looped... > therefore at PVR-250 rates of about 1.2Gb per hour, over a 3Gb ring buffer I > couldn't pause it more than about 2.5 hours... not enough time to burn a TV. > > Oh, and in answer to your questions directly, I really don't like (2). I > leave my Mythbox on TV overnight as I often start transcode schedules before > I go to bed... this frees up my CPU cycles for transcoding and commflagging. > I also tend to run mkmovie or nuvexport jobs for the same reason at night. > Jumping to live TV would just eat up CPU cycles for no benefit. > > Of course, I'm running a relatively slow Mythbox... YMMV. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Andrew Palm > Sent: Mon 8/8/2005 5:04 PM > To: Discussion about mythtv > Cc: > Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] burn-in. Should I be worried? - Dev Idea? > > > > Hi Guys, > > Maybe the dev people can steal an idea from TiVo land... which are > > 1. If the tivo is paused for x amount of time it blanks the screen. > 2. If left in a menu for x amount of time it returns to livetv. > 3. for MythMusic and other static stuff, maybe have it so either the > visualization goes full screen after x amount of time or the screen > blanks after x amount of time. > > Screen burning is a issue on all types of monitors, regardless of age. > Yes that includes LCD, plasma and the good old CRT. I have LCD's at work > on KVM's that have been left on 'nt4' login screen, which is burnt in. > I have read the LCD will loose its burn in, but to do this is need equal > time off for time on! (and turning it off for 12 months anit a option) > > Andrew > > > > > mail2 wrote: > > Hello Jesse > > Press "5" (or "6") in mythmusic will black the screen. > > Pascal. > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jesse Guardiani" <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]> > > To: "Discussion about mythtv" <[email protected]> > > Sent: Monday, August 08, 2005 8:27 PM > > Subject: [mythtv-users] burn-in. Should I be worried? > > > > > >> Hello, > >> > >> I have a "normal" NTSC TV. Medium quality and nothing fancy. > >> Should I be worried about burn-in? > >> > >> Particularly, mythmusic scares me, as only the small visualization > >> window is actively updated, and I don't want to run the vis. > >> full screen as it burns too much CPU. > >> > >> Pausing LiveTV concerns me too, and any of the MythTV menus > >> scare me, as they're completely static. :) > >> > >> I started reading a MythTV screensaver thread that I found > >> via google, but I got frustrated after about 10 iterations of > >> people arguing for or against a screensaver without any > >> clear resolution. > >> > >> So I guess the second part of this question is: Was there a > >> resolution? Is a screensaver widely accepted as a good thing, > >> or not? Is there any work being done to that end? > >> > >> But ultimately, should I be careful (and tell my wife to be > >> careful) to avoid burn-in on this TV? > >> > >> Thanks! > >> > >> -- > >> Jesse Guardiani > >> Programmer/Sys Admin > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> mythtv-users mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > >> > > _______________________________________________ > > mythtv-users mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > > > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
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