2012-05-27, 06:17
Well I've got my 11.10 box talking to MythTV now. I'm still having some issues with Myth, but that's Myth. Near as I can tell they haven't fixed any of the transcoding problems that I saw before, as in it's real crappy and can only support 2-channel mp3 audio and it doesn't really compress the files to a reasonable size without reducing quality significantly. I'm going to attempt to have it call handbrake once I can get all the details worked out, perhaps add in commercial removal too.
Anyways, the only issue I ran into was that the channels came in all wrong. After I looked at it a bit I figured out that it just renumbered them, so I started poking around in the options. I saw that it was set to use the backend's numbering, but that mentioned that it only works with one backend. So then I remembered that I had noticed both myth add-ons being enabled. Once I disabled the other myth add-on and did a reset on the epg data it worked fine.
On that note, anyone have any recommendations on the best way to remove a lot of channels? Should I do it in XBMC or on Myth? I swear I removed them all from mythweb yesterday, but they showed back up. I need to remove hundreds, probably somewhere around 500. I removed a small block from mythweb today and it seemed to take, but I'm worried they'll come back. Myth has been behaving strangely in this regards. Earlier this week while trying some stuff with it I deleted all channels (in Myth) and rescanned, and Myth kept crashing. I gave up on it, and a few days later looked at the backend and all the channels were back. So it may be rescanning and re-adding channels on its own for all I can tell, which means it may wipe out my changes once again.
Anyways, the only issue I ran into was that the channels came in all wrong. After I looked at it a bit I figured out that it just renumbered them, so I started poking around in the options. I saw that it was set to use the backend's numbering, but that mentioned that it only works with one backend. So then I remembered that I had noticed both myth add-ons being enabled. Once I disabled the other myth add-on and did a reset on the epg data it worked fine.
On that note, anyone have any recommendations on the best way to remove a lot of channels? Should I do it in XBMC or on Myth? I swear I removed them all from mythweb yesterday, but they showed back up. I need to remove hundreds, probably somewhere around 500. I removed a small block from mythweb today and it seemed to take, but I'm worried they'll come back. Myth has been behaving strangely in this regards. Earlier this week while trying some stuff with it I deleted all channels (in Myth) and rescanned, and Myth kept crashing. I gave up on it, and a few days later looked at the backend and all the channels were back. So it may be rescanning and re-adding channels on its own for all I can tell, which means it may wipe out my changes once again.