[mythtv-users] State of mytharchive in .24-fixes

Ian Evans dheianevans at gmail.com
Wed Jun 1 10:35:09 UTC 2011


On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 6:12 AM, Alex Butcher <mythlist at assursys.co.uk> wrote:
>> 2) The font on the DVD menu is jaggy and unreadable.
>
> Try a different DVD theme, make sure you have all the necessary fonts
> installed (just FreeSans.ttf, I think).

/usr/share/fonts/truetype/freefont/FreeSans.ttf
/usr/share/mythtv/fonts/FreeSans.ttf are already there.

>> 3) Even though I created a cutlist and saved it, commercials were
>> still there. Does projectx not follow the cutlist?
> It will, if you tell MythArchive to use the cutlist. Press the 'c' key to
> enable use of the cutlist for each of the selected recordings.

Will try that on my next attempt.

> There have been various bugs introduced in various versions of MythTV with
> respect to the cutlist. You may need the changes from the second ticket I
> licked to.

How do you apply the changeset?

>> 4) Strangely, MythTV's "Play DVD" didn't appear to work. It said
>> "Please wait" and went back to the Optical Menu.
> I think that usually means you're missing libdvdcss, libdvdnav or libdvdread
> (I'm not sure which one(s)).  Or, conceivably, the path to the DVD drive
> isn't properly configured in MythFrontend.

Strange. I have played a commercial DVD on there before.

Thanks.


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