Comments on: HowTo: Build a MythTV box from scratch using Ubuntu Jaunty 9.04

By: Lilo

Lilo — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 08:25:52 +0000

Configured for jaunty using the info beautifully. Great Post.

By: HyRax

HyRax — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 02:32:01 +0000

Hahaha – you’re using Norton’s – ’nuff said.

By: Doug

Doug — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 19:54:08 +0000

Hi,
I just thought I’d let you know that my Norton Utilities reports that your site contains a Trojan Horse virus.

Thanks for putting up this data. It was a big help last weekend. Now I just need to get my NVidia stuff going…

By: HyRax

HyRax — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 11:50:48 +0000

Heya Sootie,

Your “legally acquired” shows will either be on DVD or in a compressed downloadable format. Neither of which will be regarded by MythTV as a “recorded show” because it isn’t.

What you can do is use MythTV’s in-built DVD player or install the “MythVideo” plugin which will allow you to browse a specified directory of video files and play them back with your favourite player (which by default is MPlayer).

As a side note, MythTV can handle almost any type of consumer-available tuner and that includes Satellite and Cable TV cards too. You could happily tune into worldwide TV shows that are broadcast via Satellite and even natively decode Foxtel or Austar with the appropriate hardware and decoder cards.

By: Sootie

Sootie — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 10:31:58 +0000

Hey mate great write up I will be setting up soon and this is of great help (and its for aussies yay) just a question about mythtv, can it play your erm legally acquired TV shows that arent broadcast in australia? if so do you just put them in with your other TV recordings or something?

By: Olaf

Olaf — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 04:22:42 +0000

Doh! Thanks for the help. Will try it out tonight. Hadn’t heard of ‘xev’. So I’ve learned a few new things today!

By: HyRax

HyRax — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 01:21:05 +0000

Re-read my article, especially the “Using MythWeb” part. The Digitech generic remote does not use LIRC. It’s seen by the system as a generic USB keyboard.

What you need to do is reconfigure MythTV to use the generated keystrokes from the USB receiver.

If you need to determine what other key combinations the remote generates, use the “xev” tool in a terminal and start punching keys on the remote to see what they generate.

By: Olaf

Olaf — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 01:08:43 +0000

Great write up. Thanks!

Can you post your lirc configuration files?

I initially got a Antec box with a IMON remote and it is just a PITA (non-IR standard, etc…). So I bought a Digitech generic MCE remote. I don’t want to reinstall Myth, but just copy in the /etc/lircd.conf and ~/.mythtv/lircd files and be done with it. Can you help?

By: dono

dono — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 10:37:17 +0000

Brilliantly described, many thanks