[mythtv-users] Running Mythtv without capture device.

[Matthew Bellizzi]

Can anyone tell me how mythmusic deals with album art.  Also is there any
way of handling lyrics and artist bios?  Thanks.

On 2/7/07, Dewey Smolka <dsmolka at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 2/7/07, Matthew Bellizzi <matt.bellizzi at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello
> >
> >
> > Is it possible to run MythTV without a capture device?    You see right
> now
> > I have a ReplayTV unit DVD playerr and a laptop hooked up to my
> stereo.  I
> > use the laptop to access a gallery website and music streaming
> site.    I
> > would like to be able to test out the slideshow, music and other
> > functionality before buying a capture device.    TIA
>
> Yes. I originally had my system running for around six months before
> adding TV capture capability.
>
> When you're setting up, you'll still need to define a tuner, channel
> source, input source, data source, etc, and run mythfilldatabase. It
> doesn't matter that you have no tuner, but this step is necessary for
> properly setting up MySQL, upon which everything else depends.
>
> The picture display and slideshow is easy enough to set up, but you'll
> need to have your picture direcory (-ies) available to your Myth
> frontend -- meaning they'll have to be mounted locally on your Mythbox
> with Samba or NFS.
>
> The same thing applies for MythMusic -- the directory holding your
> music files has to be mounted locally on the Myth box with Samba/NFS.
> The setup menus on the frontend (Setup -> Setup -> Media settings, I
> believe) will let you point to the right directory for pictures and
> music. Pictures should work as soon as you have the directory set (I
> believe) but you'll also need to Scan for New Music after you've set
> your directory.
>
> I'm not sure how much luck you'll have with online streaming services,
> but any music you have stored should work without problem. I'm not
> sure about AAC support, but mp3, ogg, flac, wma (*), and other formats
> are readily supported.
>
> (*) - There are a few kinks with wma, but on the whole it works.
> Nonetheless, it isn't a particularly good format, both because it is
> less than optimal in terms of quality/compression ratio and because it
> is so encumbered with MS baggage and nonsense. You're much better off
> with ogg, FLAC, and/or mp3. There are some very small and useful tools
> available on Linux to batch-convert wma to more useful formats
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