Using MythTV - Beginner's Questions
Hello forum,
After trying various video capture programs for different Linux distributions, I finally got up enough nerve to try MythTV in Fedora Core 6. I am very pleased with MythTV as well as the quality of the recordings. It is by far the best TV/record software I have tried yet. I now have more respect for Linux than ever before.
I have a couple of questions concerning the operation of MythTV that I could not find using a search engine.
Question 1 - If I hit the "r" key on the keyboard while watching live TV, I understand that the live recording will then be flagged so it will not expire as quickly. My question is, will it ever expire? I am interested in making recordings that will be permanent. Is hitting the "r" key the proper (or best) way to do that?
Question 2 - When live TV is playing, the recordings in the storage folder never get over 1.1 gigabytes until a new mpeg is created, picking up where the old one stopped. Is there a way to make MythTV make one continous mpeg, like if I wanted to record a full length movie that would be about 5 gigabytes total in one single file? I am using the ext3 file system.
Question 3 - I am using MythTV in windowed mode, a nice little window on my desktop so I can still have room on my desktop to do other things while the TV is running. Is there a keyboard shortcut that will toggle the small window into full screen (and back again)? I would really rather not go through the setup configeration to do this.
I will appreciate anyone's help.
Thanks,
Roy
Last edited by rrrssssss; 05-14-2007 at 03:23 PM.
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