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Mythtv Tweaks Mythbuntu 8.1

Posted by tom on April 25, 2009
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Mythbuntu 8.1 tweaks

Run Mythfilldatbase automatically.

In mythtv frontend menu.

  • Utilities/Setup -> Setup ->  General. On the 6th screen enable “Automatically run mythfilldatabase”. In arguments it is a good idea to use –refresh-all to force a refresh today or two days (or every day) from now, to catch the latest changes

Commercial Skipping

In myth frontend menu:

  • Utilities/Setup –>Setup -> TV Settings -> Playback and select “Automatically Skip Commercials”. on the 8th Screen

Reduce Latency in Channel Changing

In mythtv frontend menu:

  1. Utilities/Setup –>Setup –> TV Settings –> General. On the first screen select “Change channels immediately without select”.
  2. Utilities/Setup –> Setup –> TV Settings –> Playback OSD deselect “Always use Browse Mode”

Disable DPMS screen power saver:

prompt$ vi ~/.xsessionrc

prompt$ cat ~/.xsessionrc

xset s noblank

xset s off

xset -dpms

Now restart desktop so changes take effect

$ sudo /etc/init.d/gdm restart

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