[mythtvnz] time-lapse video

[Nick Rout]

Run mythfrontend with logging.

I find the easiest way to do this is:

1. Sit in front of the TV with a laptop;

2. ssh into your mythmachine as the user that runs mythtv;

3. run

export DISPLAY=:0

4. run

mythfrontend -v help

to get a list of available logging options. You probably want "playback"

5. Run

mythfrontend -v playback

The beauty of this is that you can watch the log messages on the
laptop and the normal TV screen at the same time. If it all spins past
too fast you can direct the log to a file (-l logfilename)

You can then run in another ssh session "tail -f logfilename"

Then you get a permanent record and the scrolling view :-)




On Jan 16, 2008 12:42 AM, Noel & Di <noel at igrin.co.nz> wrote:
> Live TV has become jerky - like it's time lapse.  Previously recorded
> playback is fine - even if both encoders are currently recording
> something else.  catch- up playback is also jerky.  Any suggestions
> where to start looking?  3GHz processor, 2Gb RAM & 250Gb HDD - 113Gb
> free.  The max load average is 1.2.
> Thanks for any help.