[mythtv-users] I set up my MythTV system the hard way!

[Darryl Hirschler]

And you are right when you said:
> Because it's good to learn things by doing them?

I know deep down I wanted to do this so I would have a thorough
understanding of this software (and learn a thing or two about Linux as
well).

I am printing your email out.  You gave me lots of good direction and I
plan on making use of it.  Thanks!


Darryl

-----Original Message-----
From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org
[mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Dan Ritter
Sent: Monday, March 24, 2008 10:28 AM
To: Discussion about mythtv
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] I set up my MythTV system the hard way!

On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 10:01:09AM -0400, Darryl Hirschler wrote:
> I am a Linux and MythTV newbie.  I fooled around with Mythbuntu, and
not
> really sure why I decided to do this, but I decided to abandon
Mythbuntu
> and go at it from scratch.  So I did the following:

Because it's good to learn things by doing them?

> And I still have things I need to work out such as:
> 
> - I still have to configure LIRC for my remote

Should be well-documented.

> - I have to figure out permissions between "mythtv" user, "darryl"
user,
> and "root".  I am still a little confused by some of this.  Currently,
> "darryl" can launch myth-backend and start mythtv, but "mythtv" user
> cannot.

I would look at group membership and permissions.

> - disable the screen saver

In the HowTo

> - make it auto-login (to the "mythtv" user?)

In the HowTo

> - make it auto-launch MythTV

In the HowTo

> - figure out why digital TV is stuttering

Might be source, might be playback. If it's playback, using XVMC
on an NVidia card might help.

> - find out if it is at all possible to configure Myth to use the
> HVR-1600

Sorta. http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Hauppauge_HVR-1600

Isn't it fun when you can see how it works?

-dsr-

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