Mythtv Jamaica

dessaliness · Posted: Thu May 15, 2003 10:16 am Post subject: Mythtv Jamaica

I am having some problems recording with mythtv. When I try to go to the program guide to schedule a recording I get:

You don't have any channels defined in the database
This isn't going to work.
Segmentation fault

Now the problem is there is no such service provided here in Jamaica to give that kind of listing where one gets the kind of info on programs that I think mythtv wants before it can schedule recording. Is there a way to work around this so I can record withouth the info? Everything else seems to work fine but I cant record.

nightcanton · Apprentice Joined: 26 Feb 2003 Posts: 249

What TV Tuner do you have?

I'm trying to get myth TV working as well...but my card won't install properly....
works in windows just fine....but not gentoo....

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=51106&highlight=

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=53515&highlight=

These are a few I have started....

But I'm just having a hard time getting the card to work...TV Wonder VE from ATI

dessaliness · Posted: Fri May 16, 2003 12:07 am Post subject:

So far I have figured how to use my xawtv channel settings to get something in my program guide. I can only see the names of the channels and the order they are in as listed by the xawtvrc file. The problem now is that I dont see any option to record specific programs. Is this done by a command form the terminal or something? How do you record?

nightcanton · Apprentice Joined: 26 Feb 2003 Posts: 249

Myth TV and FREEVO are much better....it gives you a listing of all your TV channels that are available to you.
http://www.mythtv.org/
http://freevo.sourceforge.net/

If you look at those you will like them a lot better than just using XawTV...

You can schedule recordings....that is what I'm trying to work on....But I'm having trouble setting up my ATI card. If you go to the other links from my previous posting....

dessaliness · Posted: Sat May 17, 2003 5:57 am Post subject:

My probelm with both is that they depend on tv listings. Here in Jamaica our cable service providers dont provide listings for the American channels they take their feed from. There is no way of downloading a listing like you do and knowing what will be in in the next hour or anything like that.. Is it possible to get MythTv to record a program without a listing?

nightcanton · Apprentice Joined: 26 Feb 2003 Posts: 249

I'm not sure...but I'll post here when I get mine up and running.

But it does list the channels...so I would assume it would.

jay · l33t Joined: 08 May 2002 Posts: 980

From the MythTV documentation (Gentoo specific setup):
http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-5.html#ss5.5
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