I've read all the Docs, FAQs, and mail lists I can find. Due, I suspect, to MythTV's "in development" status, the issues and topics discussed seem to be mostly bugs and work-arounds. My questions are more "general" and "use" oriented.
My MythTV box has a Hauppauge 350 PVR for capture, etc. and a Matrox 400 video card (which is NOT used for TVout).
I will be using MythTV mostly as a "super VCR;" ie., it'll be used to time shift. It's very unlikely I'll save any programs for more than a week or so.
(1) Should I be using transcoding? If so, what will be the savings from the approximate 2 Gig / per hour I get now? Are there any advantages other than reduced file size? Does it really take about ten hours to transcode a one hour TV show (my MythTV box has a 2.26 GHz Pentium)?
(2) How can I have the commercials flagged and removed automatically? Can this be done without the full transcoding process? I want to select
programs from the Program Guide, then go back later to find them recorded and the commercials gone. Is this possible?
(3) What is XvMC MPEG Decoding? Do I need it? It appears as a Matrox user, not NVidia, that I don't need it. But I'm not sure.
(4) How can I go directly to the Program Guide (the time vs program matrix) without going thru the menu which includes Program Guide, Enable Browse Mode, Previous Channel, .....? If I change channels on it, ie., move to a different show and press OK, it goes to that show. If I decide to stay where I was and press OK while on the currently playing program, it goes to black. I can only make it work by pressing esc a couple of times. How can I make this work better?
Thanks for any and all answers!
Joe Henley
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