[mythtv-users] I set up my MythTV system the hard way!
Dan Ritter
dsr-myth at tao.merseine.nu
Mon Mar 24 14:27:49 UTC 2008
On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 10:01:09AM -0400, Darryl Hirschler wrote:
> I am a Linux and MythTV newbie. I fooled around with Mythbuntu, and not
> really sure why I decided to do this, but I decided to abandon Mythbuntu
> and go at it from scratch. So I did the following:
Because it's good to learn things by doing them?
> And I still have things I need to work out such as:
>
> - I still have to configure LIRC for my remote
Should be well-documented.
> - I have to figure out permissions between "mythtv" user, "darryl" user,
> and "root". I am still a little confused by some of this. Currently,
> "darryl" can launch myth-backend and start mythtv, but "mythtv" user
> cannot.
I would look at group membership and permissions.
> - disable the screen saver
In the HowTo
> - make it auto-login (to the "mythtv" user?)
In the HowTo
> - make it auto-launch MythTV
In the HowTo
> - figure out why digital TV is stuttering
Might be source, might be playback. If it's playback, using XVMC
on an NVidia card might help.
> - find out if it is at all possible to configure Myth to use the
> HVR-1600
Sorta. http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Hauppauge_HVR-1600
Isn't it fun when you can see how it works?
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