[mythtv] (newbie) my experience so far...

[Isaac Richards]

On Wednesday 06 November 2002 03:39 am, Shawn Rutledge wrote:
> I got through the installation of 0.6 up to the point of running mythtv.
> It says "Couldn't find Xv support, exiting."  However my XFree86.0.log
> contains
>
> (II) Loading extension XVideo
> (II) Loading extension XVideo-MotionCompensation
>
> and I'd think that's what it's wanting?

Saying the extension is loaded doesn't mean that support's there.
If you run 'xvinfo', you'll get something of the same message -- 'no adaptors 
present' or something like that.  Basically, your video card (or at least the 
driver) doesn't support the output method mythtv uses.

> xawtv works too.
>
> A second question (less important): how do you change mysql permission
> so another user can read the database?  I installed myth as root but
> want to run as another user.

That doesn't matter.  Creating the database creates a mythtv user, which 
anything that has access to the mysql.txt settings file can connect to it.

> Anybody using gcc 3.2 yet?  It might result in some optimizations.

You'd have to recompile Qt (and anything else that depends on it) if you're 
using Debian and wanted to compile mythtv using gcc 3.2.

Isaac