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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>ok, I will try and do an installation walk thru.
This is all coming from memory, so hopefully I wont forget anything. Im
using plain YDL 5.0 and I installed plain 0.20 from mythtv.org (the website
source tarballs).</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Installing YDL:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Terrasoft has made the process extremely painless.
Go here:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><A
href="http://www.terrasoftsolutions.com/support/installation/">http://www.terrasoftsolutions.com/support/installation/</A></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Download the 5.0 pdf. You need to download 2 image
files, throw them on some removable media. You also need the YDL 5.0 image,
which is located here:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><A
href="http://ydl.osuosl.org">http://ydl.osuosl.org</A> (save this mirror
for use with yum)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The above PDF should walk you thru the entire
setup.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Post YDL installation setup:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>-fix yum. The above image has yum disabled. Edit
the /etc/yum.repos.d/*.repo files. Uncomment out the baseurl line. I went ahead
and put in the above mirror as my yum repo.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>-once you have yum up and running, install the
following packages. I just went ahead and installed a bunch of
them:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>qt-devel </FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>qt-MySQL
</FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>libXv-devel </FONT><FONT face=Arial
size=2>libXvMC-devel libXxf86vm-devel </FONT><FONT face=Arial
size=2>libXmu-devel </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>-the above qt package doesnt have the qt source,
which is needed to compile myth. I think the qt installed above is
qt-x11-free-3.3.6. What I did was install qt 3.3.6 source on my ps3. I
configured it and compiled it, then i made sym links from the yum installed
package back to the soruce. Specifically, i linked the src and the tools
directory. An alternate method would be to just make and install qt from source,
rather than do a hybrid yum/source setup as I did.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>-setup your video output. Use this as a
reference:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><A
href="http://www.terrasoftsolutions.com/support/solutions/ydl_5.0/video-config.shtml">http://www.terrasoftsolutions.com/support/solutions/ydl_5.0/video-config.shtml</A></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Basically, go into your kboot and make sure the
correct video mode is selected. Seems like this is the only way to configure
your video, anything set in xorg.conf gets ignored. Also, its not mentioned on
the page, but by adding 128 to the id, it does the video in full mode, which is
nice if you dont like having the black border bars. For example, I run 720p,
which is mode 3, but I run it in full mode, so i use mode 131. There is a bit of
overscan, but this can be corrected in the frontend by positioning it inside
your tv.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>-make the following changes to your
xorg.conf:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Load glx in the module section</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Comment out DRI and DPMS lines</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I added a DisplaySize to my monitor section (<A
href="http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Display_Size">http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Display_Size</A>).
Unfortunately, this doesnt seem to address the aspect issues I get during
playback</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>-this is optional, but I went ahead and compiled
x11vnc and setup my ssh dsa keys and trusted hosts. This allows me to scp and
ssh freely between my boxes and to interact with the ps3 over vnc.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Compiling myth:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><A
href="http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-4.html">http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-4.html</A></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>-Go ahead and do steps 4.2, 4.3, 5.1, and 5.4.
Thats it, your done!</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>-To configure, I ran the following:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>./configure --enable-proc-opt</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>-I went ahead and used plain 0.20 because thats
what im running as my backend. I compiled and tested the .20fixes off the
svn and that worked as well.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>mythfrontend setup:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>To get audio to work, change the audio device from
/dev/dsp to ALSA:default and change the mixer to default.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I think thats it, im pretty sure I missed a step,
so just let me know if you get stuck. As I stated above, right now im running
into performance issues. Video playback is the main one, but some themes can
also bog you down. Maybe someone can recommend some good video tweaks to address
this. YDL uses a plain frame buffer to output video, no GPU. This means
everything is done on the cell cpu. I think its very possible to have the cell
push out video, this is what it was made for. It runs at 3.2ghz and has 6
available cores on YDL. Someone just needs to figure out how to do it
:) Either that or get some basic video support from the nvidia
gpu.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Reza</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><A
href="mailto:rezmang@yahoo.com">rezmang@yahoo.com</A></FONT></DIV>
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