[mythtv-users] Myth in 20 hours!

[Pierre-Olivier Bouchard]

Jon Waite wrote:

I already did it in ~8 hours compiling _everything_ from source using 
gentoo, but I was only reformatting my current setup (no messing around 
to find what to configure and how, all the config files were backed up).

The thing was only a Celeron 1100A (rebranded P3, has the same amount of 
cache - so not fast, but not slow either). I'm still surprised 
everything was compiled and running so quick!

Pete

> Hi all,
>
> Just thought I'd drop a note in here to let you know my experience 
> with setting up MythTV for the first time...
>
> At 12:00pm yesterday the last bit of hardware I'd been waiting for (a 
> molex to SATA HD power adapter of all things) arrived, so I began 
> constructing my MythTV backend box. I thought I'd start out with 
> something that could be expanded later if needed, or reused for other 
> stuff if necessary so the hardware was:
>
> Lian-Li PC9320B desktop microATX case / 230W SFX PSU.
> Asus P4P800-VM microATX motherboard
> Pentium IV / 800MHz / HT / 2.8GHz
> Dual 256Mb Samsung PC3200 (400MHz) DIMMs installed as Dual DDR
> Seagate ST120.7 7200rpm / SATA / 8Mb cache HD
> Hauppauge WinTV PVR-350 Capture Card
> Sony DVD-ROM drive
>
> For the software I'd already downloaded Fedora Core and aimed to use 
> Jarod's atrpms guide to get the thing up and working.
>
> At around 4pm I finished getting the hardware put together, and run 
> through some basic diagnostics to check heat output, memory 
> configuration / timings etc. all looked OK.
>
> By 7pm I'd installed Fedora Core 1, and started configuring the 
> backend services - mysql et al.
>
> By Midnight I'd followed Jarod's guide through and finished the apt 
> updates, and grabbed the mythtv-suite package.
>
> By 2am I was having fun with ivtv trying to work out how to capture 
> and check recordings, hit a bit of a deadend with xawtv until I read 
> the stuff saying why it wasn't going to work with the PVR-350, plodded 
> on...
>
> By 4am Video capture was working (from the composite input anyway, no 
> luck as yet with the tuner) and I started to try and figure out why I 
> couldn't get any sound captured from the PVR-350.
>
> By 6am I'd got everything working! Sound was being recorded, the tuner 
> now worked (although not yet with MythTV), I could schedule recordings 
> and play them back, started to do some configuration of other MythTV 
> modules. IR was also now working from the Hauppauge remote.
>
> By 7am I finally sorted out enough hacks to get the channel 
> information into the database (the mythfilldatabase --manual process 
> seemed to keep barfing asking for the channel details and I'm in New 
> Zealand so that was the only way to do it I think), and everything 
> looked good.
>
> So here I am at 7:20am, having spent the best part of 20 hours solid 
> on this thing and it rocks! Next bits to sort out will be the TV-out 
> from the PVR-350 (I'm saving that one for when I'm awake a bit more), 
> possibly add in another capture card I've got kicking around (WinTV 
> 2000XP Deluxe) and to build an IR sender or figure out the serial port 
> to change channels on the satellite box once I move it from my desk to 
> the living room - WAF allowing.
>
> So *many* thanks to Jarod for the hard work he's put into the install 
> guide, certainly paid off for me, although I did have fun trying to 
> figure out the differences for a PAL B/G tuner / installation and New 
> Zealand TV channels, but would have taken me MUCH longer without the 
> guide.
>
> Jon.
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