[mythtv-users] MythTV 0.19 on XBox
Joe Silver
devils.taco at gmail.com
Tue Feb 21 01:46:11 UTC 2006
I just set up an xbox as a mythfrontend last night. Here's my story. My
original xbox hard drive kicked the bucket a long time ago, so I replaced it
with a 2.5GB drive I had lying around. I'm using it solely for mythtv and
don't care about xbox games, so i flashed the tsop with the most recent
version of raincoat. I downloaded xfedora test 4 from:
http://www.not404.com/cgi-bin/trac.fcgi/wiki/XFedora4
and installed in the nogames, interactive mode. Since I'm using quite a
small drive, I installed only the most basic options I thought were
necessary and worth the space: X11, sound and video, mysql (i don't know if
it was necessary), network servers. Maybe a couple others. Total install
was about 1.5GB. I made sure to not install kde or gnome or any development
tools to save space on the install. The installation went very smooth,
though I was using the http source so it took a while.
once it was up and running, i had to do a few things. added mythtv user and
set password. changed /etc/inittab to start in runlevel 5 instead of 3 so X
loads automatically. I installed WindowMaker with "yum install
WindowMaker", and then as mythtv "switchdesk WindowMaker" to use it by
default. Once that was done, I switched to runlevel 5 "init 5" to load X,
logged into X as mythtv and ran gmdsetup to setup autologin for mythtv.
Then I added the atrpms and freshrpms yum repos as posted on Jarod's
Mythtvology page:
cd /etc/yum.repos.d/
wget http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/atrpms.repo
wget http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/freshrpms.repo
After that I tried to install mythtv-suite with "yum install mythtv-suite".
This gave me a little hangup. I needed to change the
/etc/yum.repos.d/fedora.repo so the gpg key line was "gpgkey=
file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY" instead of "gpgkey=
file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora". After that the mythtv-suite
install went smooth and then a "yum upgrade" to update all the packages also
went smooth. I did run out of disk space during the yum upgrade so I moved
the downloaded packages directory (/var/cache/yum) to an NFS mount on my
master backend to free up some space for the upgrade.
After the yum upgrade, I made sure to change the /boot/grub/grub.conf to
load the xbox.kernel by default instead of the newer one yum installed just
to be safe. I don't know if that was necessary; maybe the new kernel is
good enough for the xbox. I ran mythtvsetup manually once from within X to
make sure it was setup appropriately and then tried mythfrontend. I think
mythtvsetup was unnecessary, because the mysql stuff is all I setup there
(making sure not to change any of the capture card or channel settings as
that affects the back end). I noticed that the mysql stuff is also in the
configuration on mythfrontend. After this I quit myth and changed to
runlevel 3 to kill X (init 3), and I followed the instructions on a page
from Jarod's site about how to setup windowmaker to run mythtv
automatically:
http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/windowmaker.txt
I was inspired by the recent posts to the list about VNC and installed
x11vnc so i can control the xbox remotely. I used a package found at:
http://ftp.belnet.be/packages/dries.ulyssis.org/fedora/fc4/i386/RPMS.dries/x11vnc-0.7.2-1.2.fc4.rf.i386.rpm
Now the xbox loads X and mythtv automatically after a reboot. A few
configurations in mythfrontend and it looks like its working sweet. I did
most of this remotly after installing x11vnc so I haven't actually tried to
view any recorded video or tried watching tv but I'm pretty optimistic.
I hope this is helpful to other xbox frontend users.
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