Configuring Frontend
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This page is up-to-date to MythTV version 0.20, the current release is 34.0
Note: Some of the menus have changed since this guide was written. Any explanations should still be correct but some settings have moved and/or had their names changed
The frontend process is responsible for anything that requires interaction such as Watching Recorded Programs or Watching TV. It provides the GUI you use on your TV or monitor as well as the LIRC, keyboard, or other input handling for Frontend Navigation.
You may also find it useful to read about MFD/MFE the Myth Frontend Daemon
The frontend can be configured by going to the 'Utilities and Setup' menu of the frontend. The following sections describe the available configuration options.
Contents
- 1 Music Tools
- 2 Edit Keys
- 3 Setup
- 3.1 General
- 3.2 Appearance
- 3.3 Screen Setup Wizards
- 3.4 TV Settings
- 3.5 Media Settings
- 3.6 Info Center Settings
- 3.7 System Event Handlers
Music Tools
Edit Keys
Setup
General
Database Configuration 1/2
Database Configuration 1/2 | |||
Setting | Default Value | Settings Page's Description | Additional Comments |
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Hostname | 127.0.0.1 | The hostname or IP address of the machine hosting the database. This information is required. | If you are running a single combined backend and frontend, then leave this at its default value of 127.0.0.1. This is often referred to as the local loopback IP address. If you have multiple frontends connecting to this backend then you will need to set this address to the same address as the real IP address eg 192.168.2.11 as it appears on your network. If you have a DNS Server running on your network you can just put the hostname eg "MythBackend". Your DNS Server will translate this to its real IP address. |
Database | mythconverg | The name of the database. This information is required. | This is the name of the database the MythTV backend uses to store information. Normally you should not need to change this. However, you may choose to have different databases for different reasons, for example, a test database so you can check out configurations, and then put this back to mythconverg later, or a different database depending on user so each user can set an independent look and feel. |
User | mythtv | The user name to use while connecting to the database. This information is required. | You should not have to change this from its default. |
Password | mythtv | The password to use while connecting to the database. This information is required. | Change this to suit your system. |
Database type | MySql | The database implementation used for your server. | MySql is an Opensource database used by MythTV to hold all of its internal information. |
Database Configuration 2/2
Database Configuration 2/2 | |||
Setting | Default Value | Settings Page's Description | Additional Comments |
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Custom Identifier for Frontend Preference | Unchecked | If this frontend's hostname changes often, check this box and provide a network-unique name to identify it. If unchecked, the frontend machine's local hostname will be used to save preferences in the database. | This is the meat of the subject |
Enable Database Server Wakeup | Unchecked | If checked, the frontend will use database wakeup parameters to reconnect to the database server (Mythbackend) | Database Server Wakeup is an ACPI option that allows your machine to power up based on activity on the network. You need to make sure that your machine supports ACPI correctly for this to work. You can use this to remotely activate your machine (for instance when you are at work). (The following additional options are only displayed if this option is checked.) |
Reconnect time | 0 | The time in seconds to wait for the server to wake up. | |
Retry attempts | 1 | The number of retries to wake the server before the frontend gives up. | |
Wake command | (blank) | The command executed on this frontend to wake up the database server (eg. sudo /etc/init.d/mysql restart) |
Settings Access
Settings Access | |||
Setting | Default Value | Settings Page's Description | Additional Comments |
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Require Setup PIN | Unchecked | If set, you will not be able to return to this screen and reset the Setup PIN without first entering the current PIN. | MythTV setup can be locked so that you don't have tampering fingers change things while you are out. This tells the system that a PIN will be required to access the configuration screen. |
Setup Pin Code | blank | This PIN is used to control access to the setup menus. If you want to use this feature, then setting the value to all numbers will make your life much easier. Set it to blank to disable. | Tell the system what the security PIN is here. Don't forget to write it down somewhere so you don't forget. Or back up your database before you set the PIN so you can restore in case you forget. |
Audio System
Audio System | |||
Setting | Default Value | Settings Page's Description | Additional Comments |
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Audio output device | ALSA:default | Blank | This is the sound card that you want to use.
To specify an ALSA device, use the format ALSA:device (where device is a valid ALSA device such as spdif; iec958; default; hw::0,0; plughw:0,0; etc.). For example, ALSA:spdif.
To enable JACK output, use the format JACK: |
Speakers configuraion | Stereo | Set your audio configuration: Stereo or Surround. | |
Advanced Audio Configuration (checkbox) |
unchecked | Enable extra audio settings. | The following additional options are only displayed if this option is checked. |
Override SRC quality (checkbox) |
unchecked | Override audio sample rate conversion quality. | |
Aggressive Sound card Buffering (checkbox) |
unchecked | If enabled, MythTV will pretend to have a smaller sound card buffer than is really present. Should be unchecked in most cases. Enable only if you have playback issues. |
Audio Mixer
Audio Mixer | |||
Setting | Default Value | Settings Page's Description | Additional Comments |
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Use Internal Volume Controls | On | MythTV can control the PCM and master mixer volume. If you prefer to control the volume externally (like your amplifier) or use an external mixer program, disable this option. | Disabling this option may lighten the CPU load if the sound device has no hardware mixer. You may also want to disable this if you are using AC3 output as volume control will be done by your surround amplifier or receiver. |
Mixer Device | /dev/mixer | Setting the mixer device to "software" lets MythTV control the volume of all audio at the expense of a slight quality loss. | Your system will have a Mixer device that combines multiple channels of audio input and controls the volume independently on each of these. There will also be a master volume that controls the output of all the inputs at the same time.
If you choose an ALSA device for output, you must also specify an alsa mixer name, for example ALSA:default. |
Mixer Controls | PCM | Changing the volume adjusts the selected mixer. | Options are: PCM, Master, or any other named mixer control. |
Master mixer volume 0-100 (selects volume level) | 70 | Initial volume for the Master Mixer. This affects all sound created by the sound card. Note: Do not set this too low. | This will control the overall sound level output from your sound card. |
PCM mixer volume 0-100 (selects volume level) | 70 | Initial volume for PCM output. Using the volume keys in MythTV will adjust this parameter. | The Pulse Code Modulation (PCM) input is where MythTV will send the audio from your TV Card. This sets the initial volume level for this. |
Independent muting of left and right audio channels | Off | Enable muting of just the left or right channel. Useful if your broadcaster puts the original language on one channel, and a dubbed version of the program on the other one. This modifies the behavior of the Mute key. | Broadcasters in Europe often will use the left and right channels to send simultaneous language audio on the same transmission. You will often see this on Eurosport for instance, where German and English are sent at the same time. Muting one or the other channel will select the language you want to hear. |
General (page 6)
General (page 6) | |||
Setting | Default Value | Settings Page's Description | Additional Comments |
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Use Arrow Key Accelerators | On | If enabled, Arrow key accelerators will be used with LEFT performing an exit action and RIGHT selecting the current item. | An intuitive way of navigating through the MythTV menus. Right is considered enter while left is considered exit or back. Much like navigating through a menu tree. |
Screen Shot Path | /tmp/ | Path to screenshot storage location. Should be writable by the frontend. |
Media Monitor
Media Monitor | |||
Setting | Default Value | Settings Page's Description | Additional Comments |
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Monitor CD/DVD (checkbox) |
Unchecked | This enables support for monitoring your CD/DVD drives for new disks and launching the proper plugin to handle them. | You can set the system up to auto launch DVD or CD playback on insertion. Many new distributions as of 2006 will have this feature. (The following options are only displayed when this option is checked.) |
Use new media (checkbox) |
Unchecked | This will cause MythTV to jump, to an appropriate plugin, when new media is inserted. | |
Ignore Devices | (blank) | If there are any devices that you do not want to be monitored, list them here with commas in-between. The plugins will ignore them. |
Program Exit
Program Exit | |||
Setting | Default Value | Settings Page's Description | Additional Comments |
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System Exit Key | ESC (Escape) | MythTV is designed to run continuously. If you wish, you may use the ESC key or the ESC key + a modifier to exit MythTV. Do not choose a key combination that will be intercepted by your window manager. | Possible values are:
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Confirm Exit (Checkbox) | On | When enabled, MythTV will prompt for confirmation when you press the System Exit key. | If enabled, MythTV will ask you whether you really want to exit the frontend if you press the system exit key at the main menu. |
Customise exit menu options | Autodetect | By default, only remote frontends are shown the shutdown option on the exit menu. Here you can force specific shutdown and reboot options to be displayed. | Choices are:
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Remote Control
Remote Control | |||
Setting | Default Value | Settings Page's Description | Additional Comments |
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LIRC Daemon Socket | /dev/lircd | UNIX socket or IP address[:port] to connect in order to communicate with the LIRC Daemon. | |
LIRC Keypress Application | blank | External application or script to run when a keypress is received by LIRC. | |
Enable Network Remote Control interface | Off | This enables support for controlling mythfrontend over the network. | |
Network Remote Control Port | 6546 | This specifies what port the Network Remote Control interface will listen on for new connections. |
Appearance
Theme
Theme | |||
Setting | Default Value | Settings Page's Description | Additional Comments |
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UI Theme | Terra | (none) | You can find more about themes on this page: Category:Themes |
Theme cache size: | 1 | Maximum number of prescaled themes to cache. | |
Paint Engine | Qt | This selects what Myth uses to draw. If you have decent hardware, select OpenGL. | The frontend interface can be drawn using OpenGL if you have a powerful enough video card. This allows for additional visual effects. Do not change this if you have integrated video or are using PVR-350 S-video out. |
Menu theme | Default | (none) | This gives you two choices on how the menus are laid out in the MythTV user interface. The content of the two choices is the same, but the terminology (ex. "Optical Disks" vs. "DVD") and organization of the menus is different.
This document is based on the "Default" setting. |
Screen settings
Screen Settings | |||
Setting | Default Value | Settings Page's Description | Additional Comments |
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GUI width (px) | 0 | The width of the GUI. DO not make the GUI wider than your actual screen resolution. Set to 0 to automatically scale to fullscreen. | Width in pixels of window that myth uses.
A normal TV (without MythTV) has a 5%-10% overscan. In other words, 5%-10% of the image is past the visible edges of the screen. If you adjust your MythTV box's output to overscan your display device, and uncheck "Use GUI size for TV playback" (below), you can use this and the following 3 GUI size and position settings to shrink the GUI so that the GUI is not overscanned (and you can see all of it). |
GUI height (px) | 0 | The height of the GUI. DO not make the GUI taller than your actual screen resolution. Set to 0 to automatically scale to fullscreen. | see Gui width(px) |
GUI X offset | 0 | The horizontal offset the GUI will be displayed at. May only work if run in a window. | see Gui width(px) |
GUI Y offset | 0 | The vertical offset the GUI will be displayed at. | see Gui width(px) |
Use GUI size for TV playback (checkbox) |
Checked | If enabled, use the above size for TV, otherwise use full screen. | see Gui width(px) |
Hide Mouse Cursor in MythTV (checkbox) |
Checked | Toggles mouse cursor visibility. Most of the Myth GUI does not respond to mouse clicks. Use this option to avoid "losing" your mouse cursor. | |
Use window border (checkbox) |
Unchecked | Toggles between windowed and border-less operation. | |
Use fixed window size (checkbox) |
Checked | When disabled the video playback window can be resized. |
Video Mode Settings
Video Mode Settings | |||
Setting | Default Value | Settings Page's Description | Additional Comments |
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Separate video modes for GUI and TV playback (checkbox) |
Unchecked | Switch X Window video modes for TV. Requires "xrandr" support. | The following additional options are only displayed if this box is checked. |
GUI | 640x480 | Resolution of screen when not watching a video. | |
Video Output | 640x480 | Default screen resolution when watching a video. | |
Rate | Any | Default refresh rate when watching a video. Leave at "Any" to automatically use the best available. | |
Aspect | Default | Aspect ratio when watching a video. Leave at "Default" to use ratio reported by the monitor. Set to 16:9 or 4:3 to forca a specific aspect ratio. | |
In X | 0 | Horizontal resolution of video which needs a special output resolution. | |
In Y | 0 | Vertical resolution of video which needs a special output resolution. | |
Output | 640x480 | Screen resolution when watching a video at a specific resolution. | |
Rate | Any | Refresh rate when watching a video at a specific resolution. Leave at "Any" to automatically use the best available. | |
Aspect | Default | Aspect ratio when watching a video at a specific resolution. Leave at "Default" to use ratio reported by the monitor. Set to 16:9 or 4:3 to forca a specific aspect ratio. |
Localization
Localization | |||
Setting | Default Value | Settings Page's Description | Additional Comments |
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Language | English | Your preferred language. | Choices are:
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Guide Language #1 | English | Your #1 preferred language for Program Guide Data and captions. | |
Guide Language #2 | English | Your #2 preferred language for Program Guide Data and captions. | |
Date format | Sat Jan 31 | Your preferred date format. | Choices are:
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Short Date format | 1/31 | Your preferred short date format. | Choices are:
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Time format | 6:56 AM | Your preferred time format. You must choose a format with "AM" or "PM" in it, otherwise your time display will be 24-hour or "military" time. | Choices are:
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QT
QT | |||
Setting | Default Value | Settings Page's Description | Additional Comments |
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"Small" font | 12 | Default size is 12. | |
"Medium" font | 16 | Default size is 16 | |
"Big" font | 25 | Default size is 25. | |
Fine tune font size (%) | 0 | Fine tune all font sizes by this percentage. Font sizes should be the correct relative size if the X11 DPI (dots per inch) is set to 100. | |
Use Transparent Boxes (checkbox) |
Checked | If enabled, the Watch Recording and Delete Recording screens will use transparency. Disable if selecting the recordings is slow due to high CPU usage. | |
Popup Background Shading Method | Fill | "Fill" is the quickest shading method. "Image" is somewhat slow, but has a higher visual quality. No shading will be the fastest. |
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Use line edit virtual keyboards | Checked | Allows you to use a virtual keyboard in Myth line edit boxes. To use, hit OK/Select while a line edit is in focus. (This only works if your OK/Select is set to send a Return rather than a space) | This feature allows you to use your remote with an on screen keyboard to fill out text boxes. This allows you to operate MythTV without a keyboard. |
LCD device display
LCD device display | |||
Setting | Default Value | Settings Page's Description | Additional Comments |
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Enable LCD device (checkbox) |
Unchecked | Use an LCD display to view MythTV status information. Need to restart mythfrontend to (de)activate it. | The following additional configuration items appear only when this box is checked. |
Display Time (checkbox) |
Checked | Display current time on idle LCD display. | Need to restart mythfrontend to (de)activate it. |
Display Menus (checkbox) |
Checked | Display selected menu on LCD display. | Need to restart mythfrontend to (de)activate it. |
Display Music Artist and Title (checkbox) |
Checked | Display playing artist and song title in MythMusic. | Need to restart mythfrontend to (de)activate it. |
Items | Artist - Title | Which items to show when playing music. | Available items:
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Display Channel Information (checkbox) |
Checked | Display tuned channel information. | Need to restart mythfrontend to (de)activate it. |
Display Recording Status (checkbox) |
Checked | Display current recordings information on LCD display. | |
Display Volume Information (checkbox) |
Checked | Display volume level information. | Need to restart mythfrontend to (de)activate it. |
Display Generic Information (checkbox) |
Checked | Display generic information. | Need to restart mythfrontend to (de)activate it. |
Backlight Always On (checkbox) |
Checked | Turn on backlight permanently. | Need to restart mythfrontend to (de)activate it. |
HeartBeat Always On (checkbox) |
Unchecked | Turn on the LCD heartbeat. | |
Display Large Clock (checkbox) |
Unchecked | On multiline displays try and display the time as large as possible. | |
LCD Key order | ABCDEF | Enter the 6 Keypad Return Codes for your LCD keypad in the order in which you want the functions up/down/left/right/yes/no to operate. | |
Menu Pop-up Time | 5 | The time (in seconds) that the menu will remain visible after navigation. |
Screen Setup Wizards
Follow the on screen directions to adjust the size and position of your GUI display.
TV Settings
General
General (Basic)
General (Basic) | |||
Setting | Default Value | Settings Page's Description | Additional Comments |
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Channel Ordering | channel number | (blank) | Possible values are:
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Channel Format | number callsign | Your preferred channel format. | Possible values are:
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Long Channel Format | number name | Your preferred long channel format. | Possible values are:
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Change channels immediately without select (checkbox) |
Unchecked | When a complete channel number is entered MythTV will switch to that channel immediately without requiring you to hit the select button. | |
Avoid conflicts between live TV and scheduled shows (checkbox) |
Unchecked | If enabled, live TV will choose a tuner card that is less likely to have scheduled recordings rather than the best card available. | |
Allow live TV to move scheduled shows (checkbox) |
Unchecked | If enabled, scheduled recordings will be moved to the other cards (where possible), so that live TV will not be interrupted. |
General (AutoExpire)
General (AutoExpire) | |||
Setting | Default Value | Settings Page's Description | Additional Comments |
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Auto Expire Method | Oldest Show First | Method used to determine which recorded shows to delete first. LiveTV recordings will always expire before normal recordings. | Possible values:
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Auto-Expire Default (checkbox) |
Checked | When enabled, any new recording schedules will be marked as eligible for Auto-Expiration. Existing schedules will keep their current value. | |
Re-record Watched (checkbox) |
Checked | If set, programs that have been marked as watched and are auto-expired will be re-recorded if they are shown again. | |
Watched before UNwatched (checkbox) |
Unchecked | If set, programs that have been marked as watched will be expired before programs that have not been watched. | |
LiveTV Max Age | 1 | Auto-Expire will force expiration of LiveTV recordings when they are this many days old. LiveTV recordings may also be expired early if necessary to free up disk space. | |
Priority Weight | 3 | The number of days bonus a program gets for each priority point. This is only used when the Weighted Time/Priority Auto-Expire Method is selected. | |
Extra Disk Space | 1 | Extra disk space (in Gigabytes) that you want to keep free on the recording file systems beyond what MythTV requires. | |
Auto Expire Instead of Delete Recording (checkbox) |
Unchecked | Instead of deleting a recording, move recording to the "Deleted" recgroup and turn on autoexpire. | (The following items are only displayed if this box is checked.) |
Expire in deleted order (checkbox) |
Unchecked | Expire Deleted recordings in the order which they were originally deleted. | |
Deleted Max Age | 0 | When set to a number greater than zero, AutoExpire will force expiration of Deleted recordings when they are this many days old. |
General (Jobs)
General (Jobs) | |||
Setting | Default Value | Settings Page's Description | Additional Comments |
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Commercial Flagging Method | All Available Methods | This determines the method used by MythTV to detect when commercials start and end. | Possible values are:
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Strict Commercial Detection (checkbox) |
Checked | Enable stricter Commercial Detection code. Disable if some commercials are not being detected. | |
Default Transcoder | Autodetect | This is the default value used for the transcoder setting when a new scheduled recording is created. | Possible values are:
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Deferral days for Auto-Transcode jobs | 0 | If non-zero, Auto-Transcode jobs will be scheduled to run this many days after a recording completes instead of immediately afterwards. | |
Run commercial flagger (checkbox) |
Checked | This is the default value used for the Auto-Commercial Flagging setting when a new scheduled recording is created. | |
Run transcoder (checkbox) |
Unchecked | This is the default value used for the Auto-Transcode setting when a new scheduled recording is created. | |
Run User Job #1 (checkbox) |
Unchecked | This is the default value used for the 'Run User Job#1' setting when a new scheduled recording is created. | |
Run User Job #2 (checkbox) |
Unchecked | This is the default value used for the 'Run User Job#2' setting when a new scheduled recording is created. | |
Run User Job #3 (checkbox) |
Unchecked | This is the default value used for the 'Run User Job#3' setting when a new scheduled recording is created. | |
Run User Job #4 (checkbox) |
Unchecked | This is the default value used for the 'Run User Job#4' setting when a new scheduled recording is created. |
General (Advanced)
General (Advanced) | |||
Setting | Default Value | Settings Page's Description | Additional Comments |
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Time to record before start of show (in seconds) | 0 | This global setting allows the recorder to start before the scheduled start time. It does not affect the scheduler. It is ignored when two shows have been scheduled without enough time in between. | |
Time to record after end of show (in seconds) | 0 | This global setting allows the recorder to record beyond the scheduled end time. It does not affect the scheduler. It is ignored when two shows have been scheduled without enough time in between. | |
Category of shows to be extended | (blank) | For a special category (e.g. "Sports event"), request that shows be autoextended. Only works if a show's category can be determined. | |
Record past end of show (in minutes) | 30 | For the specified category, an attempt will be made to extend the recording by the specified time. It is ignored when two shows have been scheduled without enough time in between. |
General (Channel Groups)
General (Channel Groups) | |||
Setting | Default Value | Settings Page's Description | Additional Comments |
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Remember last channel group (checkbox) |
Unchecked | If enabled, the EPG will initially display only the channels from the last channel group selected. Pressing "4" will toggle channel group. | |
Default channel group | All Channels | Default channel group to be shown in the EPG. Pressing GUIDE key will toggle channel group. | Possible values are:
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Browse/Change channels from Channel Group (checkbox) |
Unchecked | If enabled, LiveTV will browse or change channels from the selected channel group. "All Channels" channel group may be selected to browse all channels. |
Program Guide
Program Guide 1/2
Program Guide 1/2 | |||
Setting | Default Value | Settings Page's Description | Additional Comments |
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Display Genre Colors (checkox) |
Checked | Colorize program guide using genre colors. (Not available for all grabbers.) | |
Display the channel icons (checkbox) |
Checked | Display the icons/logos for the channels in the guide. See section 9.5 of the Installation Guide for how to grab icons. | |
Show the program guide when starting Live TV (checkbox) |
Unchecked | This starts the program guide immediately upon starting to watch Live TV. |
Program Guide 2/2
Program Guide 2/2 | |||
Setting | Default Value | Settings Page's Description | Additional Comments |
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What to call 'unknown' programs | Unknown | (none) | |
What category to give 'unknown' programs | Unknown | (none) | |
Guide starts at channel | 3 | The program guide starts on this channel if it is started from outside of Live TV mode. | |
Record Threshold | 16 | Pressing Select on a show that is at least this many minutes into the future will schedule a recording. | |
Allow channel jumping in guide (checkbox) |
Unchecked | If enabled, you will be able to press numbers and jump the selection to whatever channel you enter. |
Playback
General Playback (1/8)
General Playback (1/8) | |||
Setting | Default Value | Settings Page's Description | Additional Comments |
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Enable realtime priority threads (checkbox) |
Checked | When running mythfrontend with root privileges, some threads can be given enhanced priority. Disable this if mythfrontend freezes during video playback. | Realtime requires special privileges - either running as root, suid binary, permissions from limits.conf, or the realtime kernel module. (suid binary seems broken in 0.20). See the realtime thread information in the HOWTO for more details. |
Extra audio buffering (checkbox) |
Checked | Enable this setting if MythTV is playing "crackly" audio and you are using hardware encoding. This setting affects digital tuners (QAM/DVB/ATSC) and hardware encoders. It will have no effect on MPEG-4 or RTjpeg video. MythTV will keep extra audio data in its internal buffers to work around this bug. | |
Jump to Program OSD (checkbox) |
Checked | Set the choice between viewing the current recording group in the OSD, or showing the "Watch Recording" screen when "Jump to Program" is activated. If set, the recordings are shown in the OSD. | |
Clear bookmark on playback (checkbox) |
Checked | Automatically clear the bookmark on a recording when the recording is played back. If disabled, you can mark the beginning with rewind then save position. | |
Alternate clear and save bookmark (checkbox) |
Checked | During playback the Select key (Enter or Space) will alternate between "Bookmark Saved" and "Bookmark Cleared". If disabled, the Select key will save the current position for each keypress. | |
Automatically mark a recording (checkbox) |
Unchecked | If set, when you exit near the end of a recording it will be marked as watched. The automatic detection is not foolproof, so do not enable this setting if you don't want an unwatched recording to be marked for expiration. | |
Continue Playback When Embedded (checkbox) |
Unchecked | This option continues TV playback when the TV window is embedded in the upcoming program list or recorded list. The default is to pause the recorded show when embedded. | |
Live TV idle timeout | 0 | Exit LiveTV automatically if left idle for the specified number of minutes. 0 disables the timeout. | |
Always stream recordings from the backend (checkbox) |
Unchecked | Enable this setting if you want MythTV to always stream files from a remote backend instead of directly reading a recording file if it is accessible locally. | |
Enable OpenGL vertical sync for timing (checkbox) |
Unchecked | If it is supported by your hardware/drivers, MythTV will use OpenGL vertical syncing for video timing, reducing frame jitter. | |
Enable picture controls (checkbox) |
Unchecked | If enabled, MythTV attempts to initialize picture controls (brightness, contrast, etc.) that are applied during playback. |
General Playback (2/8)
General Playback (2/8) | |||
Setting | Default Value | Settings Page's Description | Additional Comments |
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Vertical scaling | 0 | Adjust this if the image does not fill your screen vertically. Range -100% to 100%. | |
Scan displacement (y) | 0 | Adjust this to move the image vertically. | |
Horizontal scaling | 0 | Adjust this if the image does not fill your screen horizontally. Range -100% to 100%. | |
Scan displacement (x) | 0 | Adjust this to move the image horizontally. | |
Video Aspect Override | Off | When enabled, these will override the aspect ratio specified by any broadcaster for all video streams | Possible values are:
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Zoom | Auto Detect (Default ) | When enabled, these will apply a predefined zoom to all video playback in MythTV. | Possible values are:
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Letterboxing Color | Black | By default MythTV uses black letterboxing to match broadcaster letterboxing, but those with plasma screens may prefer gray to minimize burn-in. Currently only works with XVideo video cards. | Possible values are:
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PIP Video Location | Top Left | Location of PIP Video Window | PIP=Picture In Picture
Possible values are:
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Action on playback exit | Just exit | If set to prompt, a menu will be displayed when you exit playback mode. The options available will allow you to save your position, delete the recording, or continue watching. | Possible values are:
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Prompt at end of recording (checkbox) |
Unchecked | If set, a menu will be displayed allowing you to delete the recording when it has finished playing. |
Playback Profiles (3/8)
Playback Profiles (3/8) | |||
Setting | Default Value | Settings Page's Description | Additional Comments |
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Current Video Playback Profile | CPU+ | (none) | Selection of any of the possible profiles, will display a list of the rules associated with that profile. Possible values are:
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Add New | Add a new profile to the list. | ||
Delete | Delete the current profile from the list | ||
Add New Entry | Create a new rule for the current profile. |
View Recordings (4/8)
View Recordings (4/8) | |||
Setting | Default Value | Settings Page's Description | Additional Comments |
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Episode sort orderings | Sort all sub-titles/multi-titles Descending | Selects how to sort show episodes. Sub-titles refers to the episodes listed under a specific show title. Multi-title refers to sections (e.g. "All Programs") which list multiple titles. | Possible values are:
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Sort Episodes | Record date | Selects how to sort a shows episodes. |
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Generate preview image remotely (checkbox) |
Unchecked | If you have a very slow frontend you can enable this to always have a backend server generate preview images. | |
Time offset for thumbnail preview images | 64 | MythTV will use this offset to make a thumbnail image this many seconds from the beginning of the recording, unless this offset happens to be between cutpoints or inside a flagged advertisement. | |
Display live preview of recordings (checkbox) |
Checked | When enabled, a preview of the recording will play in a small window on the "Watch a Recording" menu. | |
Use HW Acceleration for live recording preview | Unchecked | Use HW acceleration for the live recording preview. Video renderer used is determined by the CPU profiles. Disable if playback is sluggish or causes high CPU | |
Start in group list | Checked | If enables, the focus will start on the group list, otherwise the focus will default to the recordings. |
Recording Groups (5/8)
Recording Groups(5/8) | |||
Setting | Default Value | Settings Page's Description | Additional Comments |
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Password required to view all recordings | (empty) | If given, a password must be entered to view the complete list of all recordings. | |
Default group filter to apply | All Programs | Default group filter to apply on the View Recordings screen. | Possible values are:
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Always prompt for initial group filter (checkbox) |
Unchecked | Always prompt the user for the initial filter to apply when entering the Watch Recordings screen. | |
Save current goup filter when changed (checkbox) |
Checked | Remember the last selected filter instead of displaying the default filter whenever you enter the playback screen. | |
Show filter name instead of "All Programs" (checkbox) |
Unchecked | Use the name of the display filter currently applied in place of the term "All Programs" in the playback screen. |
View Recordings (6/8)
View Recordings (6/8) | |||
Setting | Default Value | Settings Page's Description | Additional Comments |
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Sort Titles | Alphabetically | Sets the Title sorting order when the view is set to Titles only. | Possible values are:
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Include the "Watch List" group (checkbox) |
Checked | The "Watch List" is an abbreviated list of recordings sorted to highlight series and shows that need attention in order to keep up to date. | The following menu items are only displayed when this box is checked. |
Start from the Watch List view (checkbox) |
Unchecked | If set, the "Watch List" will be the initial view each time you enter the Watch Recordings screen. | |
Exclude recordings not set for Auto-Expire (checkbox) |
Unchecked | Set this if you turn off auto-expire only for recordings that you've seen and intend to keep. This option will exclude these recordings from the "Watch List". | |
Maximum days counted in the score | 60 | The "Watch List" scores are based on 1 point equals one day since recording. This option limits the maximum score due to age and affect other weighting factors. | |
Days to exclude weekly episodes after delete | 2 | When an episode is deleted or marked as watched, other episodes of the series are excluded from the "Watch List" for this interval of time. Daily shows also have a smaller interval based exclude time. |
Seeking (7/8)
Seeking (7/8) | |||
Setting | Default Value | Settings Page's Description | Additional Comments |
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Smart Fast Forwarding (checkbox) |
Unchecked | If enabled, then immediately after rewinding, only skip forward the same amount as skipping backwards. | |
Fast forward/rewind reposition amount | 100 | When exiting sticky keys fast forward/rewind mode, reposition before resuming normal playback. This compensates for the reaction time between seeing where to resume playback and actually exiting seeking. | |
Reverse direction in fast forward/rewind (checkbox) |
Checked | If enabled, pressing the sticky rewind key in fast forward mode switches to rewind mode and vice versa. If disabled, it will decrease the current speed or switch to play mode if the speed can't be decreased further. | |
Seek to exact frame (checkbox) |
Unchecked | If enabled, seeking is frame exact, but slower. |
Commercial Skip (8/8)
Commercial Skip (8/8) | |||
Setting | Default Value | Settings Page's Description | Additional Comments |
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Automatically Skip Commercials | Off | Automatically skip commercial breaks that have been flagged during Automatic Commercial Flagging or by the mythcommflag program, or just notify that a commercial has been detected. | Possible values:
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Commercial Skip Auto-Rewind Amount | 0 | If set, MythTV will automatically rewind this many seconds after performing a commercial skip | |
Commercial Skip Notify Amount | 0 | If set, MythTV will act like a commercial begins this many seconds early. This can be useful when commercial notification is used in place of automatic skipping. | |
Maximum commercial skip (in seconds) | 3600 | MythTV will discourage long manual commercial skips. Skips which are longer than this will require the user to hit the SKIP key twice. Automatic commercial skipping is not affected by this setting. | |
Merge short commercial breaks (in seconds) | 0 | Treat consecutive commercial breaks shorter than this as one break when skipping forward. Useful if you have to skip a few times during breaks. Applies to automatic skipping as well. Set to 0 to disable. | |
Skip blank frames after commercials (checkbox) |
Checked | When using Blank Frame Detection and Auto-Flagging, include blank frames following commercial breaks as part of the commercial break. |
Playback OSD
On-screen display
On-screen display | |||
Setting | Default Value | Settings Page's Description | Additional Comments |
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OSD Menu Editor
OSD Menu Editor | |||
Setting | Default Value | Settings Page's Description | Additional Comments |
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Playback Groups
Select the appropriate playback group (usually Default) to see the following menu.
Playback Groups | |||
Setting | Default Value | Settings Page's Description | Additional Comments |
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Title match (regex) | (blank) | Automatically set new recording rules to use this group if the title matches this regular expression. For example, "(News¦CNN)" would match any title in which "News" or "CNN" appears. | |
Skip ahead (seconds) | 30 | How many seconds to skip forward on a fast forward. | Press the "Right" key to cause this action. |
Skip back (seconds) | 5 | How many seconds to skip backward on a rewind. | Press the "Left" key to cause this action. |
Jump amount (in minutes) | (default) | How many minutes to jump forward or backward when the jump keys are pressed. The "default" value is usually 10 minutes. | Press "Down" to jump forward, and "Up" to jump backward. |
Time stretch (speed x 100) | 100 | Initial playback speed with adjusted audio. Use 100 for normal speed, 50 for half speed and 200 for double speed. |
Channel Groups
Channel Groups | |||
Setting | Default Value | Settings Page's Description | Additional Comments |
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Recording Profiles
Recording Profiles | |||
Setting | Default Value | Settings Page's Description | Additional Comments |
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Recording Priorities
Set Recording Priorities
Scheduler Options
Scheduler Options | |||
Setting | Default Value | Settings Page's Description | Additional Comments |
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Set Channel Recording Priorities
Channel Recording Priorities | |||
Setting | Default Value | Settings Page's Description | Additional Comments |
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Custom Priority Rules
Custom Priority Rules | |||
Setting | Default Value | Settings Page's Description | Additional Comments |
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Media Settings
Music Settings
Videos Settings
General Settings
General Settings (1/2) | |||
Setting | Default Value | Settings Page's Description | Additional Comments |
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Directory that holds videos: | This directory must exist, and the user running MythVideo only needs to have read permission to this directory. | Several directories may be entered as a colon separated list. | |
Directory that holds movie posters: | This directory must exist, and the user running MythVideo needs to have read/write permission to this directory. |
Player Settings
Player Settings | |||
Setting | Default Value | Settings Page's Description | Additional Comments |
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Default Player: | Internal | This is the command that is used for any file that the extension is not specifically defined. You may also enter the name of one of the playback plugins such as 'Internal'. | Possible values:
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File Types
File Types | |||
Setting | Default Value | Settings Page's Description | Additional Comments |
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DVD Settings
Images Settings
Info Center Settings
Weather Settings
News Settings
Web Settings
Phone Settings
System Event Handlers
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