[mythtv] choose recording profiles for live tv

Isaac Richards ijr at po.cwru.edu
Thu Aug 12 19:18:18 EDT 2004


On Thursday 12 August 2004 06:58 pm, Hendrik Wouters wrote:
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> Op donderdag 12 augustus 2004 19:52, schreef Isaac Richards:
> > On Thursday 12 August 2004 01:28 pm, Hendrik Wouters wrote:
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> > > Hi,
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> > > I have some suggestions for watching live tv.
> > >
> > > I have a lot of non-master myth-backends running and they are all
> > > connected to one master mythtv-backend. The problem is that I have
> > > nonmaster-backends with only 300 mhz cpu and other non-master backends
> > > with 1500Mhz cpu. It would be nice to choose a Live-TV recording
> > > profile with a lower resolution and lower bitrate for the 300 Mhz
> > > backend, and choose a Live-Tv profile with a higher resolution and
> > > higher bitrate for the 1500 mhz backend. I think the recording profile
> > > should be chosen in the playback section, where you also can choose the
> > > video filters.
> > >
> > > If two clients backends matches  channel and recording profile, they
> > > should watch the same LiveTV video-ringbuffer-stream (or what ever you
> > > call it).
> >
> > You can already create recording profiles (and live-tv profiles) on a
> > per-backend basis.  This functionality has existed for a very long time.
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> Anyway, I can't find the option to make my first non-masterbackend-X use
> the LiveTv-X profile and my other non-masterbackend-Y usr the LiveTV-Y
> profile. Can you tell where I can find that options into the menu's? Or do
> I have to change it in mysql?

All you have to do is create a new profile group, then set the hostname of the 
backend you want it on in the profile group options.

Isaac


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