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After reading all you guys singing the praises of Myth TV, I decided to try it.
I have installed it via Synaptic and tried to configure it. All that happens is I get a series of menus that take me round and round in circles with no obvious result.
After spending most of today I gave up and went into Kaffeine to watch TV. Surprise, surprise the TV option was no longer available.
After uninstalling Myth TV I was able to use Kaffeine again.
Can anybody help me or should I leave it alone?
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Well, there a few gotchas, when installing, it asks you for usernames and passwords for Mysql don't enter any!
You need to install MySQL
Best is to install Mythbuntu control centre, and use that to configure it.
Is your TV card supported?
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If you get it installed, you have to set up in this order:
TV capture cards
video source(this is where you set country, EPG settings etc)
inputs (this is where you scan for channels)
The mouse does not work in the setup, you have to use the arrow keys enter and escape.
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wyliecoyoteuk (29/07/2008)
You need to install MySQL
Best is to install Mythbuntu control centre, and use that to configure it.
Is your TV card supported?
It found the card and located the TV/Radio stations, but didn't do anything else.
I will give it another try when I have more time.
Thanks for your help.
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Some other considerations:
If you have a seperate / and /home partition, the recordings, live TV cache etc, are stored in /var by default.
If the / partition is too full, it will not work.
try looking at the logs in /var/logs/mythTV
Also you have to be part of the mythTV group.
EDIT: by far the easiest thing is to install Mythbuntu, and DON'T TOUCH any settings you are not sure of.
Mythbuntu sets most of it up for you, down to the remote control and where things are stored by default.
As an example, if you try to set up storage directories, they must exist and must be accessible to the mythTV user, or TV will just fail, and the logs are the only place to find out why..
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Thank you. I have had another try and all I succeeded in doing was to screw up my Ubuntu system.
I will have another try when I am a little calmer. (My keyboard has come in for a great deal of physical abuse).
Thanks again for your interest.
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I am actually working on a MythTV feature for MM, and I am slowly finding out how to fix what I have broken
It is useful to have 2 PCs with it on, so I can compare settings
It is a great package, but it is a little TOO configurable. Maybe it should have an "expert" and "user" view
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