[mythtv-users] Lots of bits and pieces...
Tupshin Harper
tupshin at tupshin.com
Sat Jun 21 16:40:58 EDT 2003
Working on getting my ideal myth setup going, and I have a variety of
comments and questions, so I'm going to lay them out all together
instead of sending mail after mail
1) Went to Fry's this weekend because of specials on two things of
interest to Myth folk. Got a Maxtor 160GB 7200RPM 8MB cache drive.
Normal Fry's price: $199, in store price, $159, $70 mail in rebate, for
a total cost of $89. Also got a PNY GeForce4 440 MX with tv-out,
normally $89, in store $79, and $40 mail in rebate, for a total cost of
$39. Two great deals. Outpost.com(Fry's online site) is offering the
same rebate on the drive, but charging $169 instead of $159, but at $99,
post-rebate that's still a great deal.
2) GeForce4 440 MX card works great, except for non-optimal
over/underscan. Yes, it's configurable in the driver, but only a single
setting effects vertical and horizontal, and there is no offset
adjustment for either axis. I get essentially the same issues whether I
drive it at 640x480, 800x600, or 1024x768. For me, it's either too
short, or too wide, though not by a huge amount. I'm aware of Myth's
overscan and offset settings, but I haven't had a chance to tweak them
yet. I'm not sure at what level they function, and whether they affect
the output of the interface as well as the output of the video. Can
someone provide a semi-technical description of what these settings
actually do?
3) Does anyone know of a good source for a cheap atx case that can
easily hold many (10+) 3.5" internal drives? Those are basically the
only requirements, with cheap being quite important.
4) Since front-end almost, but doesn't quite, work acceptably over
802.11b wireless, I'm curious if anybody has opinions on how well it
could work over 802.11a/802.11g.
5) Adjusting settings through mythfrontend seems to somewhat randomly
work or not. Sometimes it won't work the first time, and will the
second, other times, I can't get it to work at all, and I've had to edit
the db directly. Any idea why?
6) I haven't tried the CVS version yet, so this may be addressed there,
but are there plans to organize all plug-ins configuration options
within a single setup interface? Right now, you can configure some stuff
from the top level setup, others through setup with the plug-in's
screen(e.g. mythvideo), and mythweather and mythgallery are odder still.
7) If there is a problem with mythfrontend, mythbackend can refuse
future connections. One example is if my audio is misconfigured on
frontend machine, it can cause mythfrontend to segfault, after which I
need to restart backend. Is this backend issue a known/resolved problem?
FWIW, I'm running debian sid on front and back, with the 0.9.1-1 debian
packages.
-Tupshin
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