[mythtv-users] Gee, I THOUGHT I was a linux fan.

[Richard Bronosky]

Joe Barnhart wrote:

>--- Richard Bronosky <mythtv at bronosky.com> wrote:
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>>I chose KnoppMyth for
>>it's
>>illusion of simplicity, but was made to feel like a complete idiot. 
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>This is harsh.  I wouldn't criticize KnoppMyth too heavily until you've
>tried installing Myth on your own using another distro.
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I'm not being harsh, or criticizing KnoppMyth.  I've never tried to
install any other MythTV, I would have no basis on which to criticize. 
I don't feel that any open source project is ever responsible for my
personal inadequacies.  Quite the contrary, I'm a conservative.  I
believe in personal responsibility.  I'm simply saying that hearing
KnoppMyth described as a bootdisk install for MythTv and an OS, gave me
this grand vision of a quick and easy Macintosh style software install. 
And what I learned is that I'm not the big Linux Hustler I thought I
was, again, NOT KnoppMyth's fault.  Because I program 10 hours a day
using VIM and I can write RegEx patterns with my eyes closed, I thought
I was big stuff.  I got humbled.  I was made to feel like an idiot. It
happens.  A good developer accepts it, learns something new, and is
better because of it.

>>2.  I now have my network working.  (I know because I used a text
>>based
>>browser to hit Yahoo.com.)  But, I cannot get the DataDirect
>>"Retrieve
>>Listings" button to do anything.
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>Logs are your friends.  Something left a message somewhere, you just
>need to find it.
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>>3.  I did setup my PVR-500 as 2 cards, /dev/video0 tuner0 &
>>/dev/video1
>>tuner0, and associate my "Comcast Cable" source to each.  But when I
>>go
>>to Watch Live TV, I get a black screen.  I know I'm not locked up
>>because I can Crtl+Alt+F1-F6 to get to other tty's.  But to get that
>>session (tty7) back I must reboot.  What am I doing wrong here?  Is
>>there a log I can check?
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>There is a log for mythbackend.  The mythfrontend log must be enabled
>"manually" by starting mythfrontend from a window and giving it a debug
>flag.  I suspect your problem is the database isn't initialized for
>some reason.
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Good idea, I'll figure out how to get the MythFrontend to log too. 
Thanks for the tip.

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>>4. I tried watching a DVD from my NEC 16xDL-DVD-RW but the Xine
>>screen
>>flashes for a second and then I'm back to the MythTV GUI.  I tried
>>ripping a DVD but it keeps telling me there are no jobs.  What am I
>>doing wrong here?  Is there a log I can check?
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>You're trying to watch an encrypted DVD which Hollywood lawyers
>consider illegal.  You need to install libdecss.  Check out the
>Knoppmyth forum for hints -- SEARCH the forum, don't bother asking this
>question, you'll just get spanked.
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Yeah, I wouldn't bother asking how to do something as commonly asked as
installing libdvdcss (I chose that one instead, BTW)  But to find out
that I needed it at all was a valid request I think.  (Oh, and it
worked, BTW. "apt-get update; apt-get install libdvdcss;" No problems.)

>>Feel free to to kick, troll, and insult me, but please offer
>>assistance too.
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>I recommend you head over to the Knoppmyth forum at
>http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/ and search for answers, plus ask
>questions.  Regardless of your opening statement, KnoppMyth *IS* the
>easiest way to get a Myth box up and running, and Cecil, Dale and the
>others have worked very hard to make it that way.  (Just because it's
>"easiest" it doesn't make it "easy.")  When you come to the forum,
>please respect the hard work others have done to make the process
>simpler for those of us who follow.
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No disrespect.  Just being real.  I'm not one of those geeks that feels
the need to inflate their abilities.

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