Or a more network bandwith friendly way (after the first run of course):

Put the above into a bash script and make it a nightly cron job.
At least this is how I do it...

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My Hardware Profile

Thanks for the command lines! Off hand, do you know if they preserve comflagging, too?

I'd like to see the following feature/program added to R6:
unclutter

I think the addition of feature/program would be beneficial because:
This would remove the mouse cursor when not in use, so that if you open an external program from within the Frontend, e.g. xine, the mouse cursors will not get displayed. This would then extend the look of a true appliance as you won't see the mouse cursor, whilst still allowing people that need access to the mouse for it to still work.

Feature/program X can be found at(please provide a link):
(to install binary) apt-get install unclutter
(to add to fluxbox) add the following line to /home/mythtv/.fluxbox/apps
[startup] {/usr/bin/unclutter -idle 2 -root -jitter 10}


Program X has the following dependencies and can be found(please provide a link):
Nil

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The command will only copy the files. If you want to take the relative portion of the db with, take a look at the mythtv docs. If you wish to care this discussion further, start another thread.

Maybe we should consider something like what is mentioned in this thread: http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic. ... highlight=

Add in my vote for this feature....


DaveJ45

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I'd like to see /myth be installed as the xfs filesystem by default, because I've found that using my Dragon2, the standard ext3 filesystem is sometimes too slow when recording two programs back-to-back and the filesystem starts to get more fragmented.

I would also suggest that xfs_fsr by installed by default and cron'd to run once a a day to keep filesystem fragmentation within the /myth volume under control. I find that it typically takes less than 10 minutes per day to run xfs_fsr.

xfs is installed by default. You'd only have to change the mkfs.ext3 to mkfs.xfs and change the entry in /etc/fstab to use xfs:

/dev/sda3 /myth xfs defaults,noatime 0 0

xfs_fsr is part of xfsdump_2.2.38-1_i386.deb, which has a dependency of libdm0_2.2.4-1_i386.deb. Both packages can be obtained through the standard stable Debian repository:

http://packages.debian.org/etch/xfsdump
http://packages.debian.org/etch/libdm0

co-signed.

Another vote for XFS by default

I'd like to see the following feature/program added to R6:

http://www.knoppmythwiki.org/index.php? ... erverToDvd

I think the addition of feature/program would be beneficial because:

i actually havent tried this above wiki page, but it if "works a treat" i think it'd be great to ghost everything after a successful install. im a tinkerer.. it'd be great to just copy over a ghost partition and be back were i started.

Feature/program X can be found at(please provide a link):
just the wiki page.

How about adding a script that lets the user select the "family" of Nvidia card in use, which in turn loads the appropriate driver version.

Would solve all of the reversion hoops and jumps required with some cards commonly in use.

And of course, supply the appropriate drivers on the install CD...

DaveJ45

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Actually the current system is an _automated_ version of that.

The problem is the mapping from card type/model to "appropriate" driver. This uses data provided directly by Nvidia, but it's not perfect and will occasionally select a driver version that doesn't work with a given card or blacklist a card which works just fine with a given driver version.

I would like to see a script with r6 that "kicks" my motorola cable box before each recording to ensure that the firewire is working.

This would be beneficial to every motorola cable box user because currently only about 25% of my firewire shows are actually recorded because the fire wire needs to be reset.

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Additionally, I would like to see support for new nvidia cards to enable as much post processing on the card as possible.

This would be helpful for those users that are running into load issues while trying to ffmeg too many HD shows at the same time.

I would like the addition of gens (genesis emulator) to R6

Here's a site with source code for a version patched specifically for mythtv:
http://mythtv.wbond.net/

This addition would be useful for people who want to play genesis and segacd games, and would round out the selection of emulators already included (zsnes, fceu, mame). While the included xe emulator works with sega, I've found it doesn't work as well as gens.

I love this idea. I just put a laptop up in our bedroom as a front end only system. It doesn't need much space, and the laptop is plenty powerful enough for SD programs. I'm thinking about putting something in the kitchen and maybe even creating a digital picture frame with KM as the interface.

A FE only option would make adding more systems even easier than it is.

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LinHES 8.4
HDHR3
BioStar A770, AMD X2 4050e, 2GB RAM
GigaByte GeForce 8400, Chaintech AV710
USB-UIRT