Ubuntu Breezy Installation Guides
From MythTV
This is a collection of internal and external links to help set up MythTV on an Ubuntu Breezy machine.
| See Ubuntu Installation Guides for installing on other Ubuntu versions. |
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Internal Installation Guides
- Installing MythTV SVN on Ubuntu Breezy
- Twinhan Mini Ter Ubuntu Breezy Install
- Install Lirc on Ubuntu Dapper should work on Breezy too
External Installation Guides
There are multiple installion guides available for Ubuntu.
- abarbaccia.com - Home of Ubuntu MythTV
- Installing MythTV on Ubuntu 5.10 (Breezy) with a Hauppauge PVR-150/250/350/500
- The Official Ubuntu Wiki MythTV guide
- Howto:Ubuntu - for help with IVTV on Ubuntu
- MythTV w/PVR-150 Setup on Ubuntu Linux Breezy Badger (5.10)
- MythTV 0.19 on Breezy - with DVB and MCE remote.
- MythTV Ubuntu Installation Guide Part 1
- MythTV Ubuntu Installation Guide Part 2
Minor Guides
The blog post here shows how to build an ffmpeg package capable of decoding/encoding DivX and Xvid, which is useful for nuvexport and MythStreamTV.
The guide available here also includes information on getting nuvexport to work properly by fixing ffmpeg. It also provides information on how to enable DVD ripping if you live outside the US.
For those wanting to install SVN on Ubuntu Breezy the page Installing MythTV SVN on Ubuntu Breezy may be useful to you.
Notes
Mixing ivtv & DVB tuners on some kernels can be somewhat troublesome in Ubuntu, as can mixing other tuner types. Cards may appear at different device nodes apparently randomly - this can be worked around by either making new udev rules or blacklisting modules to prevent them autoloading & then loading them 'manually' with lines in /etc/modules
Users sometimes experience problems with database access - i.e. being unable to enter mythtv-setup, seeing 'QMySQL database' errors. This is possibly caused by the mythtv-database package setting a random (!) password for the MythTV mysql user during installation. The password is stored in /etc/mythtv/mysql.txt Changing the mythtv mysql user's password to something more memorable and updating all mysql.txt files is one workaround that can be applied.
