Well, I've spent the better part of two days trying to combat multiple small problems I've been having with Myth and I don't seem to be any better off after trying MythDora (I can't stand KDE), KnoppMyth (couldn't figure out how to do anything outside of Myth, like mount my three drives worth of media!), and finally going back to Ubuntu Edgy and the .20 debs from the repos. Here's where I am now:
<br><br>1) I set up Myth as per the Ubuntu install wiki. Everything seems to go fine with the setup, after some struggles I can get the output of my Comcast digital SD box to show up on the coax input of my PVR-150. I downloaded the serial channel change script from the Ubuntu wiki and tested it as noted and it will return the current channel number and I can get it to change channels from a terminal window. When I call the script from within Myth (in the External Channel Change field in mythtv-setup -- either as "channel" or "/usr/local/bin/channel") nothing happens. I tried changing the owner of the file from me to the mythtv user and I am in the mythtv group and mythtv is in my user group. I was previously using analog cable, so none of this was an issue, but I moved last week and RCN doesn't offer service where I moved and Comcast didn't have an analog only option listed.
<br><br>2) I still cannot get Myth to play mp4 files. They play OUTSIDE of Myth
(any player, you name it and it'll play these files) but Myth will not
play them. I've asked here a couple of times but to no avail.<br><br>I've spent the past 5 hours this morning googling and trying everything I can think of, but no dice. Any help would be greatly appreciated.<br>
<br>Thanks!<br>