Re: MythTV frustration.

        Some updates on the MythTV setup.

I figured it'd be neat to see how easy MythTV's setup was to distribute.
  The answer is pretty easy. I added in the Myth 0.20 repos for Dapper
from the:
http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Ubuntu_Dapper_Installation#MythTV_0.20_Packages
site

The biggest thing I had to do was edit the my.cnf in /etc/mysql and tell
MySQL to not lock itself to loopback on my backend machine. A quick
restart later (and entering the username/password on my Myth front end,
which wouldn't start without it!), and all was well. I could do
everything that my MythTV computer can do on my desktop.

One annoyance was that my desktop PC is not a TV box, and has other
things going on. Adding "-geometry 1024x768" to the mythfrontend
command line allowed me to watch it in a window, without using the
horrible interface to customize the size (they won't let you type in the
dimensions :/).

It's nice to be able to do everything I want on my desktop. I'm tempted
to see about setting up a copy of the backend for transcoding jobs :)

The Xbox mythtv frontend hasn't made any progress yet. It requires a
bit more involved setup (the backend's raw mpg files must be shared via
smb), and is mainly made up of Python scripts that run in the XBMC
Python environment. I haven't been able to get them to do anything useful.

Scott noticed the flicker on my actual MythTV box, and mentioned the
nvidia readme file. It was a bit of a red herring, as the real way to
fix it is to run a program called nvidia-settings which ships with the
glx driver, and customize the settings via a gui. It makes a file
called .nvidia-settings-rc which sets up the actual flicker fixes.
Received on Wed Nov 15 00:37:51 2006