[mythtv-users] disabling unused parts

[Boyd II, Willy]

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>Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2004 1:44 PM
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>Subject: [mythtv-users] disabling unused parts
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>Hello All,
>
>This is my first post and I've searched through the archives, 
>but was unable to find an answer to my question.  So here goes:
>
>I've been looking for a good player for music files.  I want 
>to build a box that will basically just be a jukebox for mp3s. 
> So I looked around at the different distributions and such 
>that do this and MythTV was the only one that perfectly 
>matches what I'm looking for.  The only problem is I'm not 
>interested in the TV aspects of it.  I know this is the whole 
>point to MythTV so I hope I don't start a flame war.  But I've 
>been having troubles getting it up and running (I've been 
>following the Fedora Myth(TV)ology
>HOWTO) and suspect that my problems might be because I can't 
>get it setup without a capture card.  I have an old $30 one 
>that I suppose I can install just to get past the setup, but I 
>was wondering if there was a way to disable all the TV related 
>functionality.  As far as I can tell I don't even need MySQL, 
>but unless I'm doing something wrong, MythTV has a problem 
>running w/o one.
>
>Any advice on how to disable certain parts of MythTV?  Or 
>should I just install a capture card, go through the entire 
>setup, and ignore the parts I'm not interested in?

I think others have mentioned you need a capture card... I'm not sure
about disabling this, or building only portions for mythmusic.  However,
in any case you will still need mysql.  The mythmusic stores it's music
metadata and playlist information in the database.  In fact any settings
related to Myth (save for one, the ip address of the database), are in
the database.

If music is all you want, there might still be other, faster, options
out there for you.  I looked for a bit, but couldn't find anything that
was strictly server-centric.  Most were just jukeboxes for streaming to
separate clients.  Mythmusic is (hopefully) slated to get much better
with the UI rewrite and the new mfd, but I've not personally looked at
either yet.


>
>Thanks!
>
>matt.
>
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