[mythtv-users] Media MVP Setup Guide

[Brad Benson]

On 9/6/05, Josh Owen <josh_o_1 at yahoo.com> wrote:
I'm running FC3, but I assume these parts should still be relevant:

1.) in Fedora Core 4 there is no dhcp.conf in the /etc
> directory. If I create a new one my dhcp server will
> not start. Where is this file located or what am I
> doing wrong here


The file should be called /etc/dhcpd.conf. If you can't find that, try ls -l 
/etc/dhcp* and see what files show up. Failing that, stop and restart your 
dhcp server and look in /var/log/messages for output from the server. That 
might give you some hints as to where it's looking for a config file. If 
that still doesn't help, try 'man dhcpd' or 'man dhcp'.


2.) Fedora always sets the tftp server to be a default
> of off. Where is the file to turn the default to "on"


If you installed tftp from an rpm I believe it gets set up to run under 
xinetd. Look in /etc/xinetd.d. There should be a file called tftp (maybe 
tftpd). There should be several lines in this file that set various things. 
One of those lines should look like this:

disabled = yes

Change that yes to a no and restart xinet (/etc/rc.d/init.d/xinetd restart)


3.) I have both the donble.bin and the dongle.bin.conf
> in the /tftpboot directory so if my tftp server is
> running I should have to configure anything else.
> Correct?


Correct, that should be all you need to do assuming that your DHCP and tftp 
servers are set up correctly. 

4.) Which dongle.bin.conf way are you using
> NFS configuration:
> rdate -s 192.168.10.50 <http://192.168.10.50>
> mkdir /var
> mkdir /var/myth/
> mount -t nfs -o
> nolock,rsize=4096,wsize=4096,nfsvers=3
> 192.168.10.50:/var/myth/ /var/myth/
> mvpmc -f /etc/helvR10.fnt -s 192.168.10.50 <http://192.168.10.50>
> -r /var/myth/video &
> 
> Or standard configuration:
> rdate -s 192.168.10.50 <http://192.168.10.50>
> mvpmc -f /etc/helvR10.fnt -s 192.168.10.50 <http://192.168.10.50>
> &


I'm using the standard configuration. My reasoning for this is that I read 
somewhere that mvpmc sometimes has A/V sync issues during playback and I 
believe it mentioned something about this being related to NFS. So I figured 
I'd just avoid the NFS mount and stream the video straight from the backend. 
I haven't been using it long enough to tell if it's having A/V sync issues 
or not so YMMV.

Brad Benson
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