User:Gregturn/FAQ
From MythTV
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- ACPI Wakeup - Many MythTV users leave their backend (recording) servers running 24X7 and only power their front ends on and off.
- AMD64 Experience - Johan's excellent page led me here, and I wanted to put in my 0.02c about getting an AMD64 system running.
- ATI All-in-Wonder HowTo (English) - For the German version, please check ATI All-in-Wonder HowTo (German).
- ATI All-in-Wonder HowTo (German) - For the English version, please see ATI All-in-Wonder HowTo (English).
- ATI Remote Wonder II - No introductory sentence for this article.
- AVerMedia DVB-T 771 Pass-Thru - The AVerMedia DVB-T 771 has an antenna out socket, however, it is not accessible with the standard face plate.
- Adding QAM Channels For HDTV Tuner Cards - Jason Beck wrote a great writeup to the mythtv-users list on this topic.
- Archiving Recordings to DVD - No introductory sentence for this article.
- Avidemux - This is PVR350 specific.
- Btaudio - btaudio is a kernel module for reading the audio directly from Brook Tree bttv supported TV-cards.
- Bttv - BTTV is a kernel module device driver used to support a set of TV tuner cards using the Brooktree chipset.
- Building DEBs from SubVersion - How to build Debian packages from Subversion.
- Building RPMS from SubVersion - No introductory sentence for this article.
- Change Power Button Action - With the modern linux kernel's ACPI functions the user can map the power button to perform any function they would like.
- ComponentOut - No introductory sentence for this article.
- Configuring DVB-T in the UK - Major change to DVB Drivers occurred between the 2.6.9 kernel and the 2.6.10 to the point that a lot of the DVB-T drivers were broken.
- Configuring DataDirect (obsolete) - No introductory sentence for this article.
- Configuring Digital Sound - No introductory sentence for this article.
- Configuring HDTV - No introductory sentence for this article.
- Configuring PCHDTV card for ATSC - This guide assumes you are using the pcHDTV card available from http://www.pchdtv.com.
- Configuring TV output - This is still very much a work in progress.
- Configuring Xine - No introductory sentence for this article.
- Controlling DirectTV D11 via USB - No introductory sentence for this article.
- Cooling Quietly - No introductory sentence for this article.
- Creating a DVD with a menu - No introductory sentence for this article.
- Creating a cutlist - While MythTV is very good at skipping commercials, usually, sometimes it doesn't do so well.
- Custom Recording - Creating Power Search rules with Custom RecordMythTV's "Custom Record" feature gives you unlimited control for creating specialized search recording rules to meet your needs.
- DEC2000-T Install Guide - No introductory sentence for this article.
- DVD to DVD Backup Script - No introductory sentence for this article.
- DVICO-Ultraview Install in Australia - No introductory sentence for this article.
- Diskless Frontend - This page describes the various methods for creating diskless frontends on a variety of Linux distributions.
- Diskless Mac-Mini Howto - No introductory sentence for this article.
- Displaying Unicode Characters in MythVideo - This is a short HOWTO to display Unicode Chars in MythVideo.
- Enabling nForce4 optical SPDIF output - No introductory sentence for this article.
- Enabling power saving for the KT600 - The http://www.daniel.nofftz.net/linux/Athlon-Powersaving-HOWTO.html page describes setpcihacks for different chipsets.
- FireWire - No introductory sentence for this article.
- Frame display timing - No introductory sentence for this article.
- Frontend Auto Login - Part of a proper frontend system is having it automatically login as the mythtv user and loading mythfrontend.
- Frontend Loading Script - There are a few methods to load mythfrontend depending on your setup.
- Getting Support - This is a (preliminary, at best) page describing how to get support.
- Importing Old Database - No introductory sentence for this article.
- Installing MythTV SVN on Debian Sid - This is a Tutorial to installing MythTV on a new installed Debian SID Machine.
- Installing MythTV SVN on Fedora Core - No introductory sentence for this article.
- Installing MythTV SVN on Ubuntu Breezy - This is a Tutorial to installing MythTV on an Ubuntu Breezy Badger machine.
- Installing MythTV on Fedora Core - No introductory sentence for this article.
- Installing MythTV on Kanotix - Kanotix is one of the many Debian based Live CDs, which itself is based on the popular Knoppix Live CD, except Kanotix has the ability to be easily installed on to a harddrive, from which a fully working easy to maintain Debian system is had.
- Installing MythTV on Vector - As my 1st attempt at Wiki entry, this may be a little rough around the edges.
- Installing MythTV on an Athlon64 using Fedora Core - This documents my experiences installing MythTV on a full 64-bit version of Fedora Core 3.
- Installing MythTV on an Intel Mac Mini using Ubuntu - If you dont have a HD or widescreen display, dont want to watch hd material, and dont want ac3 passthrough (you still need a digital receiver, since analog out doesnt work) it is really much the same as every other x86 box.
- Installing Mythtv - Firstly, make sure your hardware is supported by Myth.
- Keybindings - No introductory sentence for this article.
- LIRC - LIRC stands for Linux Infrared Remote Control.
- LVM on RAID - This article shows how to setup LVM file storage partitions on top of multiple disk drives configured as redunant RAID arrays.
- Log File Rotation - Running MythTV's frontend and backend with logging can help diagnose any problem that may arise.
- Matrox G450 - No introductory sentence for this article.
- Modeline Database - Database of standard modelines as well as user created modelines for specific HD Televisions.
- MythTV in Framebuffer - No introductory sentence for this article.
- MythWeb ssh tunnel howto - No introductory sentence for this article.
- NxTV EPG howto - This How-To describes a procedure to harvest EPG data for MythTV using the nexTView protocol.
- Operating system - MythTV was originally built on linux, but has been extended to some a couple other platforms, including Macintosh OS X and FreeBSD.
- Optimizing Performance - This HOWTO aims to collect the multitude of tips regarding optimizing performance of your system for use with MythTV.
- PVR150 Remote - The IR receiver on the PVR150 is supported by the lirc_i2c module.
- Powernowd - PowerNowd uses the CPUFreq sysfs interface to set the frequency of the processor depending on the system's current condition.
- Programming Remotes as Keyboards - No introductory sentence for this article.
- RAID - RAID or Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks is a mechanism for using multiple disk drives to provide redundant file storage.
- Recording Profiles - The most important part of MythTV configuration is probably choosing good parameters for recording and transcoding programs.
- Removing Commercials - No introductory sentence for this article.
- Running MythTV Dual Headed - This little 'HowTo' lets you run two instances of Myth on the same machine.
- SKY channel changer script - Here's a channel changer script for Sky in the UK.
- SKY dog remover script - Sky has a habit of putting red dots and other annoyances on-screen.
- Scheduling Recordings - The MythTV frontend allows you schedule recordings on the master backend which is responsible for managing the schedule for all TV tuner cards on the master and any slave.
- Securing MythWeb - This assumes you have decided to open your web server to the internet, and now you need to secure it.
- Setting up MythNotify - MythNotify is an add-on program which sends notifications, like caller-id information, to a running mythfrontend.
- Shutdown Wakeup - This is a basic tutorial on using the shutdown and wakeup features of MythTV as described here [1].
- Software Suspend - I thought I'd share my experience with using swsusp2 (can be found at http://swsusp.sf.net/ ).
- StatusMonitoringHowTo - So, for whatever reason, your Myth processes have occasional crashes that you haven't diagnosed yet (you are trying to diagnose them aren't you?) and you'd like it to restart when it does...
- Stream mythtv recordings from mythweb using flash video - No introductory sentence for this article.
- Submitting Bug Fixes - No introductory sentence for this article.
- Suse Howto - No introductory sentence for this article.
- Synchronizing Sound - No introductory sentence for this article.
- TV Wakeup Timer - I perfer to have the TV wake me up instead of an alarm clock.
- TV channels in Austria - No introductory sentence for this article.
- TV-Out and OpenGL with ATI 9000/9100 IGP - No introductory sentence for this article.
- Telnet socket - Release 0.19 of MythTV introduced the ability to control mythfrontend via a socket interface.
- Twinhan Mini Ter Ubuntu Breezy Install - 1.
- Twinhan Mini Ter on Ubuntu Breezy and modules required - No introductory sentence for this article.
- Ubuntu Breezy Installation Guides - No introductory sentence for this article.
- Ubuntu Installation - No introductory sentence for this article.
- Unichrome How-To - I'm not going to wiki-fi this page, I find it easier to just jot my notes down, and then later wiki-fi it, feel free to 'wiki-fi' this page if I haven't.
- Upgrading To SVN - This article will explain how you can best upgrade from a release version to the most current development version retrieved from the Subversion server.
- Upgrading from 0.18.1 to 0.19 on Fedora 4 from ATrpms - WARNING: This guide assumes that you're running Fedora Core 4 along with a PVR-350 using S-Video out.
- User Jobs - User Jobs are programs which can act on MythTV recordings.
- Using System LEDs for Recording Status - No introductory sentence for this article.
- Using an IR Blaster with MythTV - No introductory sentence for this article.
- Using mod gzip to improve MythWeb performance - NOTE: This guide is for apache 1.x, if you're using apache 2.x you will want to look into mod_deflate.
- Using playback filters - No introductory sentence for this article.
- Working with Modelines - OK, so you want to generate a modeline for X for your HDTV / Projector...
- XMLTV - No introductory sentence for this article.
- XMLTV Myth Channel Setup - Here in Denmark (Non North American PAL country), I had been struggling with this "can't change channels" business for a while, and I finally figured it out.
- XV on PVR-350 - This How-To outlines how to get the X Driver (with xv extensions) working on the TV-Out of the Hauppauge PVR-350 in various distributions of linux.
- Xbox Frontend - An Xbox makes a wonderful standard definition MythTV front end due to its reasonably powerful CPU and graphics subsystem.
- Xbox Frontend Compile with SVN - No introductory sentence for this article.
- Xbox Frontend on Xebian stable - No introductory sentence for this article.
- Xbox Install using E Images - The Xebian frontend environment was setup using the instructions at http://www.xbox-linux.org/wiki/MythTV_on_Xebian_HOWTO which installed xebian on a gamesave partition.
- XvMC - X-Video Motion Compensation, or XvMC, is a part of The X Window System which allows video programs to offload motion compensation and iDCT (Inverse Discrete Cosine Transform) portions of MPEG2 decoding to the GPU hardware.
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