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On Thursday 17 October 2002 09:48 am, John Tapper wrote:
> I'm running a PII 400 MHz box, and it seems to be a bit too slow to use the
> power of mythtv's live pausing etc. features. Is there a way to completely
> disable the live capturing of the tv stream and simply watch television
> normally?
>
> I'd still like to use mythtv for movies/music and the program guide, and if
> I can still get the tv working through it (without the pausing/recording)
> that would be great.
>
> any optimization tips appreciated

There's no way to do that with the current setup. Someone could add it, if
they so desired. but it'd require a little reworking of the some things.

Isaac

>>>>> mythtv-dev@snowman.net writes:
> On Thursday 17 October 2002 09:48 am, John Tapper wrote:

>> Is there a way to completely disable the live capturing of the tv
>> stream and simply watch television normally?

> There's no way to do that with the current setup. Someone could add
> it, if they so desired. but it'd require a little reworking of the
> some things.

You could make the watch tv menu button exec xawtv in fullscreen mode.
The remote keys would probably even "just work". Myth would probably
need a "video source in use by external program" flag keyed from an
xml attribute on the exec tag, but even without it ought to be close.


Unrelated question - was there a bug fixed in the past week or to
whereby watching until a recording actually ended caused myth to
crash? I've got this behavior now.

My snap is from just after "Grants high load/double playback fix" or
whatever that comment is, and I don't see any fatal crash fixes since
then in the commit list...

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On Thursday 17 October 2002 02:42 pm, Grant Taylor wrote:
> You could make the watch tv menu button exec xawtv in fullscreen mode.
> The remote keys would probably even "just work". Myth would probably
> need a "video source in use by external program" flag keyed from an
> xml attribute on the exec tag, but even without it ought to be close.

Yeah -- and you really wouldn't need that as long as you're not doing any
recording..

> Unrelated question - was there a bug fixed in the past week or to
> whereby watching until a recording actually ended caused myth to
> crash? I've got this behavior now.
>
> My snap is from just after "Grants high load/double playback fix" or
> whatever that comment is, and I don't see any fatal crash fixes since
> then in the commit list...

I can't reproduce that with current CVS, can I get a backtrace when you've got
a chance?

Isaac