[mythtv-users] I got my Ceton InfiniTV 4 working in 0.24-fixes (compiled with custom code)

[Ronald Frazier]

On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 10:39 AM, Tom Bongiorno <two.bits.11 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Is it really this simple? I don't know. If you'd like, I could try and
>> give it a shot on my dev box and see how it works. I'm assuming it
>> won't be too much work for me to do a very basic install of Mythbuntu,
>> and that I can just get the installer started, let it do its thing,
>> and then do the patching. I've already taken my Ceton card out of my
>> dev box and put it in my production system, so I won't be able to do a
>> full test, but I can compile in the code and see if I get the new code
>> in mythtv-setup and get the appropriate errors in the backend log
>> about not being able to connect to the card."
>
> Tom Bongiorno wrote:
> "If you can fit it in, that would be great.  One thing I don't have is time
> to tinker.  My wife and three kids make sure of that.  That is why I use
> Mythbuntu.  Even though I am a programmer, anything making this more turn
> key is appreciated.  Should we move this to another thread for the sake of
> others trying to find this info or avoid it."

Well, good news Tom. I'm watching The Daily Show in HD right now on a
freshly built MythBuntu 11.04 box. Those basic instructions I gave you
earlier were about 90% of what you needed to know. It was just a
matter of trial and error figuring out the rest (and lots of google
searching to figure out the meaning of the errors I encountered). And
it would have helped if I had remembered to follow my own instructions
for configuring it properly...that would have saved me about an hour
of debugging.

I even managed to do something really cool in the process...I don't
actually have my Ceton card installed in this mythbuntu box, yet I'm
watching TV off it. I put together some very crude perl client/server
scripts that actually transport the video from one system to the
other. This is something I knew would be possible, and for a while
I've been meaning to figure out a way to accomplish it. This mythbuntu
test project was just the inspiration I needed to get it done. Well,
not quite done....they're pretty crude and need a lot of polishing,
but the basics are there.

Anyway, I'm gonna try and finish up the basic instructions and post
them on my blog ( http://mythtvblog.blogspot.com ). Yesterday I posted
some general info about my development process. Either tonight or
tomorrow, I'm gonna try to get the second post done with instructions
for a general install from git, and then after that I'll put up the
Mythbuntu instructions in part 3.

-- 
Ron Frazier