Mythtv questions

Snagarelle · n00b Joined: 11 May 2003 Posts: 23

After being away from computers for like 6 months i am gonna start using them again. I want to put mythtv on a spare computer but really understand what i have to do. I have installed gentoo before so i know how to do it. also
FIrst is there a portage for Mythtv0.11?
For mythtv does an x window manager have to be installed and is kdebase good enough? what should i watch out for when installing mythtv. the goal of this box is to be stand alone and be a samba/nfs multimedia box. Has anybody written for gentoo instrustions/scripts to get mythtv to start up automatically?

thanks for the help.

handsomepete · Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2003 1:18 am Post subject:

- I believe mythtv 0.11 went into portage today
- an x window manager and kdelibs both need to be installed
- there is now a startup script for the backend to mythtv. After installation it can be done just like the others: rc-update add mythbackend default. You'll have to put root in the audio and video groups, though.
- Installing mythtv is the easy part, getting all of your ducks in a row with TV/alsa/i2c/etc. modules from the kernel is what gets frustrating.
- Nothing to watch out for, except make sure that you add the appropriate sql information to mysql and go through all of the sections in the setup section of the main menu. Have fun!

chrispy · Apprentice Joined: 10 Nov 2002 Posts: 228 Location: Tokyo

I'll take the opportunity of this thread to ask a question to Handsomepete :

I've been running Mythtv on Gentoo since 0.9 and I pretty much got everything working fine (except that I don't have EPG because no xmltv grabber for Japan yet). One thing bugs me though; Mythmusic plays the mp3 ok, but the small visualization is choppy : plays fast for 2 seconds, and then slows down, then fast again, etc.
I monitored no peaks with top, but cpu usage of X is rather high (40%) but that's only for MythMusic. The rest of the apps are running happily on the celeron 2.3ghz 768mb of ram (i.e. no drops, nor slow downs)

But sometimes, the visualizations are playing smoothly, and the cpu usage goes in more reasonnable levels... it all depends on the day I run mythmusic, so it seems !

Anything I should look out for ? mplayer was built with SDL, glxgears reports a standard 860 fps on an radeon 7500...

otherwise, the ebuilds for 0.11 are really great, it went far more smoothly than my previous experiences with the cvs ebuild

cheers and thanks for any reply in advance

Snagarelle · n00b Joined: 11 May 2003 Posts: 23

So all i will have to do is set my USE variables correctly and then do an
emerge mythtv
and then it will automatically install everything i need? such as X and kdebase

also what about a script to get the graphical frontend to startup automatically? can you do the same rc-update mythtv frontened default?

chrispy · Apprentice Joined: 10 Nov 2002 Posts: 228 Location: Tokyo

Mythtv is the main TV program, then you can emerge MythMusic, Mythvideo, Mythdvd, Mythgame, Mythgallery (you can do a emerge -s myth to get all the modules list)
each one carries a specific task. and the according button will appear in mythfrontend.

You cannot have an init script for the frontend, but you can have a special user autologin and launch startx at startup, and in the user's ~/.xinitrc you can put mythfrontend so it's the program that launches on X startup.

It's a really neat program once you get it running, and I believe worth the efforts of making it work. good luck !

P.S. btw, since the mythtv stuff is masked, you need to do a
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge mythtv
to be able to emerge it.

handsomepete · Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2003 6:46 pm Post subject: Re: other MythTV questions

chrispy · Apprentice Joined: 10 Nov 2002 Posts: 228 Location: Tokyo

xcham · Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2003 11:12 pm Post subject:

Tried to emerge mythtv again today, 0.11, and lookie.

Roy · n00b Joined: 15 Apr 2002 Posts: 55 Location: Australia

I get exactly the same error.

Does anyone know how to fix it?
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packersthor · Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2003 2:31 pm Post subject:

Okay, I completed an

ubercheez · n00b Joined: 05 Jul 2003 Posts: 10 Location: Ohio

If I remember correctly, the setup command is now in one of the system directories. Basically what I did to find it was just type in "myth" and then use command completion to find the file. (Logged in as root.) If that doesn't do it, then check the bin directories for files with myth and setup in the name.

packersthor · Posted: Thu Sep 04, 2003 8:32 pm Post subject:

Thankyou,

I found mythsetup in /usr/bin... It just was different than the mythtv.org setup instructions.

These forums are great for help

Darrell

xcham · Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2003 11:58 pm Post subject:

Once again, anyone know how to fix the annoying problem associated with the "access violations" or whatever, described above?

Roy · n00b Joined: 15 Apr 2002 Posts: 55 Location: Australia

xcham · Posted: Sun Sep 28, 2003 12:14 am Post subject:

Time to start bugging the people in the portage forum, I guess...

silux · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 24 May 2003 Posts: 92

I'm not sure if I shoudl post here or not but I figured it was better than making a bunch of mythtv threads....

Got the picture and everything working fine except....
none of the keys work.... aka I can't change the channel or anything.... the only key that works is ESC

meowsqueak · Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2003 10:52 pm Post subject:

To solve those access violations, try adding '-sandbox' to the FEATURES variable in /etc/make.conf. That fixed them for me when I was trying to get dvdrip emerged.

a3ulafia · n00b Joined: 12 Sep 2003 Posts: 4

chammel · Posted: Fri Oct 10, 2003 4:24 pm Post subject: