Archive for 2007

Front Row Tips

To disable the iTunes trailers, etc..

defaults write com.apple.frontrow EnableITMS -bool NO

Then

killall "Front Row"

Automount in OS-X 10.5

In /etc/fstab

<IP or Name>:/TV x url net,automounted,url==cifs://<User Name>:<Password>@<IP or Name>/TV 0 0

From what I can find out, the third field (x) is where you want the share mounted. However, this doesn’t seem to work. All shares default to /Network/Servers/<IP>/TV

Stop firefox from asking if you want to restore your last session

Go to about:config in your browser
Search for browser.sessionstore.resume_from_crash
Set to false

Setting up your RSS feed for BeyondTV

HOW TO SET UP RSS FEEDS FOR BEYOND TV:

The base URL

http://<IP>:8129/RssToday.aspx?Display=RU&Links=N

The options for the different RSS feeds are as follows:

D – Disk space
R – Recent recordings
U – Upcoming Recordings
B – Blocked Recordings
S – Show Squeeze and
Links is Y or N.

Examples -

Upcoming and recent recordings with no embedded links – http://<IP>:8129/RssToday.aspx?Display=RU&Links=N
All the info, with embedded links – http://<IP>:8129/RssToday.aspx?Display=DRUBS&Links=Y

Set BeyondTV to showsqueeze HD recordings

DESCRIPTION:

When Automatic ShowSqueeze is enabled via the ViewScape (SETTINGS –> SHOWSQUEEZE AND SMARTSKIP SETTINGS), high-definition (HD) recordings are not affected.

ARTICLE:

This is by design, because HD recordings are in such high quality, and so large, that it takes significantly longer for them to complete. In testing, this resulted in an accumulating backup of ShowSqueeze / SmartSkip jobs on heavily used machines. ShowSqueeze for HD recordings must therefore, by default, be initiated on a per-recording basis.

The user can override this setting to force HD ShowSqueeze to comply with the “Automatic” setting, but this should be used with care. This modification is recommended only for advanced users as it involves altering Beyond TV’s SETTINGS.XML file.

To change this setting, first exit Beyond TV from its system tray icon. Then open SETTINGS.XML, which is located in “\documents and settings\all users\application data\snapstream” on the system drive, in a text editor. Insert the following text between a </Property> and a <Property> tag:

<Property><Name>AutoTranscodeHD</Name><Value>1</Value></Property>

To undo this change, either change the “Value” to 0, or delete the entry.