[mythtv-users] mythtv on osx problems

[scram69]

On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 3:59 PM, ivo welch<ivowel at gmail.com> wrote:

> ok, my main goal is to get TV watching to work first.  First, how do I get
> MythTV to detect the channels that it can tune to?

AFAIK, it doesn't for digital (i.e. the signal going into an HDHR in
the US).  You have to set them up manually.  I use phpmyadmin to
access the database.

>
> second, when I start the frontend and I just want to watch TV, nothing
> happens.  it waits a few secs, then blinks briefly, then I am again at the
> frontend view:

I've never been able to get live TV to work on the OS X frontend.  If
live TV is a priority, look to a linux frontend.