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I was preparing myself<\/a> to deal with the “pain” of moving to a multimedia system that didn’t have all the feature tweaks I need. MythTV<\/a> has surprised me in that after only a week, and I’ve solved almost all my issues through just finding the right configuration options. <\/p>\n

As of about Tuesday (2 days after the initial “commitment”), I was ready to call it “better than my existing system”. It had a few glitches that bugged me, but overall, it had many many more features than I was expecting. After watching Smallville Thursday night, I’m a total freak for MythTV. Smallville was basically the first “Production” show MythTV recorded for me. I had recorded “Medium” earlier in the week, and that served as a good way to feel out the interface. Smallville is the real test because it’s at position 1 in my TiVo (and MythTV) recording priorities. I had no irritations while watching it. Nicely done, MythTV.<\/p>\n

Rewind to Saturday. Bryce<\/a> and I spent about 12 hours straight digging through KnoppMyth both on his new system and my machine that I brought over to his place. By the end of it, I had entirely reinstalled my system with Debian Sid, and installed the most current ivtv drivers<\/a>, with the apt-able myth binaries<\/a>. We had figured out how to get KnoppMyth<\/a> running with the newer tuner chip<\/a>, but Bryce’s HD audio card<\/a> wasn’t supported in that version of the kernel. Let me just say, everyone should just start<\/em> with the latest ivtv driver. It detected everything correctly right off the bat. On Sunday, Bryce installed Gentoo, and got the latest ivtv, etc, everything was happy.<\/p>\n

Early this week I toyed with the remote control settings<\/a>, and discovered a whole mess of MPlayer commands<\/a> I didn’t know about that let you control playback speed (including fast audio!), OSD text (so I can have a visible indication that I’m paused), etc. After restoring my other MPlayer defaults (16M cache, readable font, etc), MPlayer stuff was in great shape again, including DVD playback. I also programmed my spare TiVo remote to control my stereo power and volume. I’m down to 1<\/strong> remote finally! (I was surprised that the TiVo remote programming codes aren’t online anywhere. The only guide seems to be in the TiVo itself.)<\/p>\n

Yesterday I discovered MythWeb<\/a>. I must have been blind to miss it before. That’ll teach me not to read the entire EFF MythTV guide first<\/a>. Full scheduling, guide data, recorded show lists<\/a>, and most importantly, the ability to adjust the keybindings for the various MythTV modules. In the MythMusic module, I was infuriated that “PgDn” would skip to the next song, instead of (wait for it) paging down in the list of songs. I just can’t understand why such a massively counter-intuitive setting is the default.<\/p>\n

The commercial detection system is greate so far. It’s already painful for me to go back to using my TiVo where I have to press the “skip 30 seconds” button ten times to get past all the commercials.<\/p>\n

Current issues:<\/p>\n