[mythtv] Interesting Comparison

mythtv at zacglen.com.au mythtv at zacglen.com.au
Fri Mar 3 10:43:30 UTC 2006


>
>Does mplayer let you skip between channels?
>Or at least choose another channel while watching one?

Why would you choose another channel while you are watching one?
Wouldn't that mean that you aren't watching that one?

But I think I know what you are getting at.
Yes, the Perl scripts will preempt a current recording.
There would be a couple of seconds worth of interruption however.

But normally you wouldn't want to be browsing channels
becaused the whole point of a pvr is to eliminate the crap
and preserve what you really want to watch.

>
>Can it display info about the current show in its OSD?
>

That depends on the player you use.
My version doesn't dictate anything, you can specify the player
depending on hardware.  For example, I have a DXR3 card which does
all the MPEG2 decoding in hardware.

So in my config file for certain recording hardware I can add:

    play = "mplayer -ao oss:/dev/em8300_ma-0 -vo dxr3 -monitoraspect 5:4 -fixed-vo $FILES"

If you arrange to put detailed program information in subtitle
(using corresponding "record = xxxxx ${TITLE} xxxx ${DESCRIPTION} xxxx" config)
then you have your osd program information.



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