RE: was Introductory Message - now MythTV

["Alex Monaghan" <ha@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm trying to find the time to finish the setup, my desired setup is
as
follows

Quad LNB dish
Existing 24/7 Linux server with big disk running Myth backend (just serves
a
few music files via upnp at present)
Revo for TV in lounge
On-demand PC to (hopefully) wake up as and when a tuner is required, desire
is to save recordings to main server, not locally.


Anyone done a similar build and has written it up to share?

-----Original Message-----
From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Mark Gardner
Sent: 03 February 2011 12:17
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] was Introductory Message - now MythTV

Hello,

I too am experimenting with MythTV having, like Lee, abandoned it about
4 years ago :-)

I have recently installed MythBuntu, and mine also worked out of the
box, with a couple of exceptions. I have subsequently installed a full
Ubuntu 10.10 and MythTV on top in a BE/FE config. The problems I had
with MythBuntu persist in the new build too. I don't initially intend to
watch anything through the front end (the box is physically in a
cupboard!) but am using it for testing purposes. I intend to watch
recorded material through other means, mainly XBMC. So mine will really
be just a BE in due course.

I have Myth running on Ubuntu Desktop 10.10 64bit on a Revo 3610, with
for now just one USB DVB-T tuner, EIT is used for EPG data. More tuners
are planned once I get it working properly.

The main niggle I have is that the EPG does not get populated with data
for a number of channels, notably ITV and Channel 4 and their
derivatives.  Anyone else seen this?

Re Lee's issues,
1) before the box went into a cupboard I did have it hooked up to a LCD
TV over HDMI - I didn't notice the audio hiss.
2) I have had one crash. I can't remember the exact circumstances but it
was also when BACKing out of an operation. Myth didn't strictly crash,
it just hung. Full reboot of the box seemed to be the only way out for
me (probably because I know diddly squat about Linux :-))

For those running Myth successfully, is there a definitive config guide
that you could perhaps point us all at? Naturally I have googled and
found loads of good stuff and am still working through some of it, but a
definitive config guide would be great!

Cheers
MArk


-----Original Message-----
From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Vargster
Sent: 03 February 2011 11:23
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: [ukha_d] was Introductory Message - now MythTV

> Anyway, I'm also running MythTV, with Acer Aspire Revos as frontends
> and backends. It really does work *very* well, and doesn't take much
> of my time now it's all setup.

Ian/everyone,

I'm also running MythTV (well MythBuntu) on a Revo, but as a combined
frontend/backend.
As you say, it is fantastic, it worked first time straight off the
install CD, (unlike my first attempt 4 years ago, which worked great but
only after six weeks of tinkering practically every night with it).

I just have two outstanding niggles -

1) The audio is sent over the HDMI cable with the video, but there is a
slight background audio hiss, that can be heard when the soundtrack is
quiet. It's not there when the TV uses it's internal FreeView tuner, so
I don't think it should be there on Myths FV tuners either. And it's
there when Myth plays (non-FV) video files, which play fine on my
laptop. So it would seem to be coming from the Revo or the software on
the Revo?

2) Very occasionally, when I press the BACK button of the remote, to
stop watching a program and jump back to the menu, MythFrontend
crashes/aborts and I'm dumped back to the desktop. Not a showstopper as
I can just restart it and everythings fine, just annoying.

Do you have these issues? Or any ideas how to fix them? I've spent a
good while searching, but no-one else seems to have these issues.

Lee


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