Hi,
I recently set up a mythTV backend using Ubuntu 5 AMD64, and it seems to be working OK. Bit of background - the backend is in Canada. I am on the other side of the world in Japan, and I want to be able to see Canadian hockey and maybe some local programming. The problem is that I can't use mythTV via the frontend (since I don't have physical access to the machine) and I would like to manipulate it via the command line if possible. I have mythweb set up, but it only allows me to schedule recordings and not alter settings. (Note - I DID set up a vnc server, and it worked when I was home recently, but I can't get in now for some reason, so that isn't an option.) Does anyone else do this kind of thing? I can't find any information online about how mythtv is set up behind the scenes. I had assumed that settings would be stored in some config files.... but I can't find any. ARE there config files or not? I have come to the conclusion that all of the settings must be stored in a mySQL database. Is that correct? I checked out the mythconverg database using phpmyadmin last night, but don't yet have a good handle on it. Specifically, I am trying to figure out how to change settings concerned with commercial detection and deletion, automatic transcoding after recording and perhaps video card settings. (I have a Hauppauge PVR-150 and thought I read somewhere it could record directly to MPEG4 rather than MPEG2.) Also, my aspect ration seems to be off. The picture is tall, but narrow relative to a normal TV screen. Can anyone tell me how to view and adjust these settings without using mythtv-frontend? Craig _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
