[mythtv] dev and release builds on same machine?

[Paul Mason]

On 06/11/2007, Roo <roo.watt at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 06/11/2007, Mark Rafn <dagon at dagon.net> wrote:
> <snip>
> > Are there instructions somewhere for setting up the "standard"
> development
> > system alongside a production system, including maybe how to set up a
> > dummy tuner (or "steal" a tuner from production only when not needed),
> and
> > how to clone and upgrade your production data (including symlinks to the
> > video files, so deletes won't affect production)?
>
> Hi Mark,
>
> It is possible to setup a dummy file based tuner, I am not sure if
> there are instructions available though.
>
> You can create a dummy recorder with some mysql-fu shown below. You
> have to have compiled mythtv to support MPEG recorders and you will
> get various warnings in the log files. But it works.
>
> mysql> INSERT INTO capturecard (cardtype, hostname, videodevice)
> VALUES ('MPEG','myhostname','file:/mythstore/tmp/dummy.mpg');
>
> This creates a new capture card that will tune dummy.mpg on a loop.
>

That's really cool. What do you do about channels and listings? Import a
channels.conf and then run mythfilldatabase in the normal way?


-- 
Paul Mason
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