[mythtv-users] New install and my problmes.

David Watkins watkinshome at gmail.com
Thu Feb 1 11:33:45 UTC 2007


On 01/02/07, Damian Surr <damian at gingermagic.com> wrote:
>
> > Well you could run xmltv by hand in a terminal window.  I presume
> > you're using tv_grab_uk_rt?
> >
> > I think it's:
> >
> > tv_grab_uk_rt --configure
> >
> Thanks for that David, I'll try it later.
> > to choose which channels you want to grab, and then just run it and
> > see what comes up on the screen.  You could then set it to capture to
> > a file and manually run mythfilldatabase on that file.
> >
> Hmm, not sure how to do that. I'll do a search for mythfilldatabase and
> try to figure out how to use it.

tv_grab_uk_rt --output filename
mythfilldatabase --file 1 -1 filename

>
> I also need to figure out how to stop the backend and restart it so that
> I can go into mythtv-setup again.


Well if the backend has been started automatically as a service then
it would normally be:

/etc/init.d/mythbackend start/stop/restart

(Not quite sure if that's true for Ubuntu though)


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