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Alright, I am back at it and getting closer to being satisfyed. First of all I would like to give a line to a new site I have found thanks to a comment left on one of my other posts. Mythpvr is one of my new favorites for searching, news, and setup of mythtv....
Read more →I recently was poking around the Knoppmyth wiki when I found a artical about webadmin for knoppmyth. The webadmin is really useful for setting up samba shares, managing RAID, and a whole bunch of other stuff I didn’t know knoppmyth could do. There is even a quick how to on watching your recordings on...
Read more →Now that I have Knoppmyth up and running for more than .78 days I have had a chance to mess around with some of its features. I must say I definatly underestimated it. Anyway the thing I have today is how to install a new theme in MythTv. The one I chose is ProjectGreyhem...
Read more →Mythstream allows you to stream your recordings (and if you can get it to work) and live tv a-la slingbox replacement. I am having my own problems just getting it to play my recordings for more than 3-4 seconds at a time unfortunately. For some reason it will play the stream just fine for...
Read more →I am back at it. I decided to install my PVR-150 tuner into my frontend and install Knoppmyth to make things easy on myself. Knoppmyth came out with a update (R5E50) recently which adds mythtv 0.20 with all the plugins I could ever want. Sure I had mythtv 0.20 installed under Ubuntu but I...
Read more →Mythtv 0.20 is working great with Ubuntu Edgy 6.10 right now! Here is the trick, HD takes a lot of processing power!!! I tried with a couple of P4 2.4 boxes but I could not get things to tune and I could not get things to play. Here is a tutorial that I have...
Read more →This is yet another post for myself to be able to replicate this setup at another time. The background to this is that I used to always use xbox connect to play halo 1 online. It is a great system made by a great guy (woot Todd!). I was involved with the community for...
Read more →Whenever I grab Mythtv source I need to have certian flags set. Here are the flags I use –enable-xvmc –enable-xvmc-pro –enable-dvb –enable-proc-opt I hope to find out what all of these do (in more detail than I know now) and when I find out I will put that here. Until then here are the...
Read more →I started my Mythtv building with a Haugpauge 500 tuner card, 20 gb hard drive, and knppmyth. at the time the ivtv drivers for hauggpauge tuner cards was not very mature and could not handle the haugepauge 500 cards very well. The haugepauge tuner also did not fit in the computer that I wanted...
Read more →I have been working on Mythtv for over a year. I am making a worklog of what I have done to get the installation working. I will start this series of posts with what hardware I will making my Mythtv box with. The computer I will be using is a HP Evo D510 My...
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