mythfrontend (1)

NAME

DESCRIPTION

MythFrontend is the primary playback application for MythTV. It is used for playback of scheduled and live recordings, and management of recording rules.

Misc. Options: -d OR --disable-autodiscovery Prevent frontend from using UPnP

autodiscovery.

--noupnp Disable use of UPnP. -O OR --override-setting Override a single setting defined by a

key=value pair.

--override-settings-file Define a file of key=value pairs to be loaded

for setting overrides.

-p OR --prompt Always prompt for backend selection. -r OR --reset Resets appearance settings and language. -h OR --help OR --usage Display this help printout, or give detailed

information of selected option.

--version Display version information.

User Interface Options: -display Specify X server to use. -geometry OR --geometry Specify window size and position (WxH[+X+Y]) --mouse-cursor Force visibility of the mouse cursor. --no-mouse-cursor Force the mouse cursor to be hidden. -nw OR --no-windowed Prevent application from running in a window. -w OR --windowed Force application to run in a window.

Logging Options: --enable-dblog Enable logging to database. --loglevel Set the logging level. All log messages at

lower levels will be discarded.

In descending order: emerg, alert, crit, err, warning, notice, info, debug defaults to info

--logpath Writes logging messages to a file in the

directory logpath with filenames in the

format: applicationName.date.pid.log. This is typically used in combination with --daemon, and if used in combination with --pidfile, this can be used with log rotators, using the HUP call to inform MythTV to reload the file

-q OR --quiet Don't log to the console (-q). Don't log

anywhere (-q -q)

--syslog Set the syslog logging facility.

Set to "none" to disable, defaults to none.

-v OR --verbose Specify log filtering. Use '-v help' for level

info.

Startup Behavior Options: --jumppoint Start the frontend at specified jump point. --runplugin Start the frontend within specified plugin.