[mythtvnz] lirc and myth

[Barry Clearwater]

I think I had missed the i <info> button, thats helped heaps. Is it a
must to set transcode to happen before the record, or can it be
scheduled for say 2am?
I'm reasonably up with mysql, so knew it wasn't lost. I'm stuck on
setting up the DVD, in fact I was hoping mythtv simplified the whole dvd
authoring thing with disk menus and the like.

Mythtv has just saved our bacon with the 2yr old, our 29" Sony has
chosen now to drop its lopti and is probably either heading for a repair
or its lcd 22" replacement time. Having TV available via mythtv frontend
on the laptop was brilliant.

I had the remote working at one point but it had killed the driver (or i
thought it had) for the ivtv (Wintvpvr350) pci card and the tv receive
had failed.  The whole installation has been interesting, but I cant
really find a good explanation of how lirc and its modules work so as to
understand what Im doing.  I can compile and install the modules ok, and
they show up in lsmod, but nothing happens at the irw command and I
don't think I have the device setting right in the hardware.conf.

Regards
Barry 

On Tue, 2007-06-19 at 08:51 +1200, Steven Ellis wrote:
> Criggie wrote:
> > Robin Gilks wrote:
> >   
> >>> When I've made a recording it seems a good idea to want to transfer a
> >>> movie over to video library so I can watch it over again, but I cant
> >>> figure how to move it.
> >>>       
> >
> >   
> >> All the metadata (epg etc) associated with the file is held in the mysql
> >> database and relates to just that one file in its original location -
> >> moving the file doesn't change anything in the database so the metadata
> >> doesn't move with the file.
> >>     
> >
> > Correct
> >
> >   
> >> If you want to keep it, why not just go into the Watch Recordings screen
> >> and press 'i' (info) and select to Preserve it and turn off Autoexpire.
> >> That way it stays there until *YOU* decide to delete it.
> >>     
> >
> > Bad - un-transcoded recordings take more disk space, and its disk space
> > from your Recordings store.  I transcode mine to XviD then put the files
> > either onto CD/DVD or onto another NFS server.  Transcoding also removes
> > the ads, provided they are correctly marked.
> >
> > I can't advise re lirc - never used it.
> >
> >   
> Transcoding is Ok if
> 
> 1. You have a digital signal
> 2. You have a standard CRT of 29" or below
> 
> I've found that my customers with large LCD and Plasma sets never
> transcode. In fact they have quality issues with the TV1 and TV2
> freeview feeds when compared with the higher bitrate TV3 + C4.
> 
> Just my 2c
> 
> Steve
> 

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